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Untitled, 2011

  • Artist

    Julie Mehretu

  • Title

    Untitled

  • Date

    2011

  • Medium

    Graphite and collage on paper

  • Dimensions

    22 × 30 in. (55.9 × 76.2 cm) Frame: 24 1/2 × 32 5/8 in. (62.2 × 82.9 cm)

  • Credit line

    The Studio Museum in Harlem; gift on the artist on the occasion of the Romare Bearden (1911–1988) Centennial and The Bearden Project

  • Object Number

    2012.4

Julie Mehretu’s work often implies a sense of history, a poignant visualization of macro and micro influences that result in a displacement of places, people, and communities. Drawing on the intense nature of change, each of her works is specific in identity, tone, and mood yet reveals neither cause nor consequence of change. In Untitled, Mehretu’s characteristic vocabulary of dynamic lines over deconstructed geometries solicits the question, “What’s happening here?” but evades a definitive response, except to note that something is changing.


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Artworks

Untitled, 2011

  • Artist

    Julie Mehretu

  • Title

    Untitled

  • Date

    2011

  • Medium

    Graphite and collage on paper

  • Dimensions

    22 × 30 in. (55.9 × 76.2 cm) Frame: 24 1/2 × 32 5/8 in. (62.2 × 82.9 cm)

  • Credit line

    The Studio Museum in Harlem; gift on the artist on the occasion of the Romare Bearden (1911–1988) Centennial and The Bearden Project

  • Object Number

    2012.4

Julie Mehretu’s work often implies a sense of history, a poignant visualization of macro and micro influences that result in a displacement of places, people, and communities. Drawing on the intense nature of change, each of her works is specific in identity, tone, and mood yet reveals neither cause nor consequence of change. In Untitled, Mehretu’s characteristic vocabulary of dynamic lines over deconstructed geometries solicits the question, “What’s happening here?” but evades a definitive response, except to note that something is changing.


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