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Julie Mehretu (born 1970 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) is an artist, best known for her densely layered abstract paintings and prints. She lives and works in New York City. Mehretu shares her New York studio with her partner, the artist Jessica Rankin. ==Life and work== Mehretu was born in Ethiopia, in 1970, the first child of an Ethiopian college professor and an American teacher. They fled the country in 1977 and moved to East Lansing, Michigan, for her father’s teaching position at Michigan State University.〔Hilarie M. Sheets (November 11, 2007), (Industrial Strength in the Motor City ) ''New York Times''.〕〔Calvin Tomkins (March 29, 2010), (Big Art, Big Money: Julie Mehretu’s “Mural” for Goldman Sachs ) ''The New Yorker''.〕 A graduate of East Lansing High School, Mehretu received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and did a junior year abroad at Cheikh Anta Diop University (UCAD) in Dakar, Senegal, then attended the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island, where she earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1997. She moved to New York in 1999.〔 Mehretu's mother-in-law is Australian author and poet Lily Brett. Mehretu is known for her large-scale paintings and drawings and her technique of layering different elements and media.〔(Fellow: Julie Mehretu ) American Academy in Berlin, Berlin.〕 Her paintings are built up through layers of acrylic paint on canvas overlaid with mark-making using pencil, pen, ink and thick streams of paint. Her canvases overlay different architectural features such as columns, façades and porticoes with different geographical schema such as charts, building plans and city maps and architectural renderings for stadiums, international airports, and other public gathering hubs,〔(Excavations: The Prints of Julie Mehretu ) Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University.〕 seen from different perspectives, at once aerial, cross-section and isometric.〔(Julie Mehretu ) White Cube, London.〕 Her drawings are preparatory to her large paintings, and sometimes interim between paintings.〔(Julie Mehretu — New Drawings, February 1 – March 16, 2008 ) Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University.〕 ''Mogamma: A Painting in Four Parts'' (2012), the collective name for four monumental canvases that were included in documenta 13, relates to 'Al-Mogamma', the name of the all purpose government building in Tahrir Square, Cairo which was both instrumental in the 2011 revolution and architecturally symptomatic of Egypt's post-colonial past. The word 'Mogamma', however, means 'collective' in Arabic and historically, has been used to refer to a place that shares a mosque, a synagogue and a church and is a place of multi faith.〔(Julie Mehretu: Liminal Squared, 1 May – 7 July 2013 ) White Cube, London.〕 A later work, ''The Round City, Hatshepsut'' (2013) contains architectural traces of Baghdad itself – its title referring to the historical name given to the city in ancient maps. Another painting, ''Insile'' (2013) built up from a photo image of Believers' Palace amid civilian buildings, activates its surface with painterly ink gestures, blurring and effacing the ruins beneath.〔(Julie Mehretu: Liminal Squared, May 11 - June 22, 2013 ) Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.〕 While best known for large-scale abstract paintings, Mehretu has experimented with prints since graduate school at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she was enrolled in the painting and printmaking program in the mid-1990s. Her exploration of printmaking began with etching. She has completed collaborative projects at professional printmaking studios across America, among them Highpoint Editions in Minneapolis, Crown Point Press in San Francisco, Gemini G.E.L. in Los Angeles, and Derrière L’Etoile Studios and Burnet Editions in New York City.〔(The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center presents the exhibition "Excavations: The Prints of Julie Mehretu," April 13 - June 17, 2012 ) Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie.〕 Mehretu was a resident of the CORE Program, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1997–98) and the Artist-in-Residence Program at the Studio Museum in Harlem (2001).〔(Julie Mehretu ) PBS Art in the Twenty-First Century, Season 5 (2009), Systems.〕 In 2003, the artist worked with thirty high school girls from East Africa in 2003 during a residency at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. In 2007, she led a monthlong residency program with 40 art students from Detroit public high schools.〔 In the spring of 2007 she was the Guna S. Mundheim Visual Arts Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Julie Mehretu」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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