A recent recipient of the highly prestigious MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant," Julie Mehretu is an important American artist. With several major solo exhibitions in the last few years, including a traveling exhibition organized by the Detroit Institute of the Arts that debuts in fall 2007, Mehretu has captivated her audience with her ambitious large-scale wall installations that include a dizzying array of signs, symbols, and motifs worked into compositions that take as their point of departure architectural renderings and sketches. While known primarily as a painter, it is the artist's drawings that drive her work; she produces scores of major drawings a year (while her output of paintings generally never exceeds ten in a given year.) Concerned with how individuals come to understand their place in the world-both metaphorically and physically-through their identification with different communities or their experience of different places, Mehretu has created a body of work that is as dynamic as the subjects with which she is engaged. In this book-the most comprehensive study of her exquisite drawings-the fullness of her ideas and explorations of form are considered.
- ISBN10 0847829804
- ISBN13 9780847829804
- Publish Date 6 November 2007
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 13 May 2013
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Rizzoli International Publications
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 176
- Language English