"Art making is a form of alchemy, in a way, because you are trying…to make gold from nothing. When it works very well is when you manage to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary."
"Untitled (2005 drawings)" (2005)
"Untitled (2005 drawings)," 2005
Ink, colored pencil and graphite on paper, 26 x 40 inches
Collection of Edward Nahem
Photo by Erma Estwick
© Julie Mehretu
Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery
Ink, colored pencil and graphite on paper, 26 x 40 inches
Collection of Edward Nahem
Photo by Erma Estwick
© Julie Mehretu
Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery
"At one point I just started to sand away all the color that came into the work. And when I’d finished sanding it, I turned around and looked at it and it was a finished painting. I called it a poltergeist in the work."
-Julie Mehretu
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