PENNY W. STAMPS SPEAKER SERIES

March 13, 2008

Julie Mehretu

Julie Mehretu

Julie Mehretu is a painter and a 2005 McArthur Award winner. Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1970, Mehretu draws inspiration from numerous sources including social and political events and historical painting. Through the energetic tensions of a world spinning out of control, Mehretu also reveals a nostalgic impulse of utopian longing for a past that never was and a future of positive social agency.

Supported by the Chelsea River Gallery.

Video

• Watch/download the podcast of this lecture in iTunes.

Selected Bibliography

• A Conversation with Julie Mehretu | Ethiopian Passages: Dialogues in the Diaspora.
• Highpoint Editions | Julie Mehretu.
• Julie Mehretu.
• Julie Mehretu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
• Julie Mehretu | Magical-Secrets: A Printmaking Community.
• MUSEO 5 - JULIE MEHRETU.
• The Detroit Institute of Arts.
• White Cube — Julie Mehretu.
• Hirsch, Faye. Full-Throttle Abstract. Art in America 92, no. 6:170.
• Mason, Christopher. 2005. SHE CAN'T BE BOUGHT. New York 38, no. 8:29.
• Mehretu, Julie. 2006. Julie Mehretu: Black City = Ciudad Negra. Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz. Location: Fine Arts Library ND 237 .M459 A26 2006
• Mehretu, Julie. 2007. Julie Mehretu: Drawings. New York, N.Y: Rizzoli International Publications. Location: Art Architecture & Engineering Library - Basement | NC 139 .M437 A4 2007
• Mehretu, Julie, and Walker Art Center. 2003. Julie Mehretu: Drawing into Painting. 1st ed. Minneapolis, Minn: Walker Art Center. Location: Art Architecture & Engineering Library - Basement | ND 237 .M459 A25 2003
• Sheets, Hilarie M. 2007. Industrial Strength in the Motor City. The New York Times, November 11
• Campbell, Eric T. 2007. Julie Mehretu exhibit at DIA. Michigan Citizen, November 18