"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...."
"Walkers with the Dawn and Morning" (2008)
"Walkers with the Dawn and Morning," 2008
Ink and acrylic on canvas, 96 x 144 inches
Ovitz Family Collection
Photo by Tim Thayer
© Julie Mehretu
Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery
Ink and acrylic on canvas, 96 x 144 inches
Ovitz Family Collection
Photo by Tim Thayer
© Julie Mehretu
Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery
"I’ve looked a great deal at Chinese calligraphy paintings. I haven’t studied them in the way art historians have but, in terms of that kind of mark-making, I think each mark has meaning because of the way that it was made. And that meaning is conveyed by the lean on the mark."
-Julie Mehretu
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