Julie Mehretu
Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1970
"I’ll do a whole bunch of marks, and then I’ll take away all the ones that I feel are too self-conscious or just don’t feel right. So there’s selection, and dismissal or erasure, and then conjuring again."
—Julie Mehretu
Julie Mehretu
Among the Multitude VI, 2020–22
Ink and acrylic on canvas
48 × 60 in. (121.9 × 152.4 cm)
Promised Gift to the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
© Julie Mehretu; courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery
Photo by Tom Powel Imaging