With 40 works on paper and 35 paintings, this mid-career survey is the Ethiopian-born artist’s most significant museum show to date. Two decades of work reveal Mehretu’s long-standing engagement with themes of war, displacement and colonialism, her continual experiments with scale, and her efforts to blur the line between the abstract and the figurative. Find out more from LACMA’s website.
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Epigraph, Damascus (2016), Julie Mehretu. Photo: © Museum Associates/LACMA; © Julie Mehretu
Haka (and Riot) (2019), Julie Mehretu. Photo: Tom Powel Imaging; © Julie Mehretu
Cairo (2013), Julie Mehretu. Photo: Tom Powel Imaging; © Julie Mehretu
Untitled 2 (2001), Julie Mehretu. Photo: Tom Powel Imaging; © Julie Mehretu
Invisible Sun (algorithm 4, first letter form) (2014), Julie Mehretu. Photo: Caroline Merlano; © Julie Mehretu
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