Julie Mehretu Paints Chaos With Chaos ? From Tahrir Square To Zuccotti Park

The Guardian:

Buildings, streets, and entire cities crash into one another. Countless urban details ? housing block windows, city maps ? overwhelm your field of vision. Black squiggles race across the surface surrounded by flashes of colour: a beam of yellow, a red parallelogram.

The world Julie Mehretu paints is bogglingly chaotic. Yet when I meet the American artist in her light-soaked workspace overlooking New York?s Hudson River (Martha Stewart has her office a few storeys below), the mood in the studio is the exact opposite: calm, collected, in total control. She is preparing for not one but two major solo exhibitions ? one in New York, one in London ? and a pair of assistants quietly help her apply the final painstaking touches to her latest paintings. Bird?s-eye views of cities in the Middle East are taped to the walls. The bookshelves groan with volumes on everything from French genre painting to Ethiopian history; her studio is as much a think tank as a laboratory. And Mehretu?s wife, the artist Jessica Rankin, has stopped by ? they?re preparing to leave town, and they have two sons? schedules to get in order.

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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/21/julie-mehretu-paints-chao_n_3478293.html

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