"Drawing is very central to the way that I work because it can be blown up, taken apart.... You can just keep on pushing it, like this infinite machine...."
"Stadia II" (2004)
"Stadia II," 2004
Ink and acrylic on canvas, 108 x 144 inches
Collection of Carnegie Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, Gift of Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, Nicolas Rohatyn, and A.W. Mellon Acquisition Endowment Fund
Photo by Richard Stoner
© Julie Mehretu
Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery
Ink and acrylic on canvas, 108 x 144 inches
Collection of Carnegie Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, Gift of Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, Nicolas Rohatyn, and A.W. Mellon Acquisition Endowment Fund
Photo by Richard Stoner
© Julie Mehretu
Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery
"Some days I’ll be engaged in painting, and make great headway, and then the next day I’ll come in and I have no access. You can have the whole day just feel like you’re spinning your wheels. But I think that’s part of the work—being in the studio, just looking at the work for a long time, and realizing the painting."
-Julie Mehretu
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