Julie Mehretu

The investigation of making is illuminating towards that moment rather than the other way around, a reversal of the way that I…

— Julie Mehretu

The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you can feel…

— Julie Mehretu

When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you can't do…

— Julie Mehretu

I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction.

— Julie Mehretu

People look at film in a gallery, and if they walk out after two minutes they know they haven't seen the whole…

— Julie Mehretu

That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that…

— Julie Mehretu

I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it.

— Julie Mehretu

The earlier, more analytic impulse was to use very rational but kind of absurd techniques or tendencies—mapping, charting, and architecture—to try and…

— Julie Mehretu

I'm not trying to spell out a story. I still think you feel the painting, and the reason you read the mark…

— Julie Mehretu

You're not just this person who's from your own specific experiences, but the collective experience of what makes you who you are…

— Julie Mehretu

Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.

— Julie Mehretu

I don't ever work in a way where something is an illustration of an event, but when something is occurring at the…

— Julie Mehretu