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8 quotes by Julie Mehretu

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

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

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

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When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you can't do that when you have two children!

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

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I don't ever work in a way where something is an illustration of an event, but when something is occurring at the same time I see it as very... →

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People look at film in a gallery, and if they walk out after two minutes they know they haven't seen the whole work. But then people look at a... →

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Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.

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