"At this time in my life, I’m ready to accept or own a kind of romance and melancholy or melodrama that I wasn’t ready to reveal before. It was always there in my inner life as an artist, but I was too afraid to share it."
"System" (2002)
"System," 2002
Ink and acrylic on canvas, 39 x 51 inches
Collection of Mehretu-Rankin
Photo by Erma Estwick
© Julie Mehretu
Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery
Ink and acrylic on canvas, 39 x 51 inches
Collection of Mehretu-Rankin
Photo by Erma Estwick
© Julie Mehretu
Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery
"The investigation of making is illuminating towards that moment rather than the other way around, a reversal of the way that I would approach making a painting before. I think that it gets to a richer illumination of the moment, which is what I was trying to do at the beginning but going about it a little backwards."
-Julie Mehretu
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