Julie Mehretu: Eye of the Storm

April 29 – May 29, 2008

Julie Mehretu, Untitled, 2007, watercolor on paper

Julie Mehretu, Untitled, 2007, Watercolor on paper

Julie Mehretu, Untitled (2005 drawings), 2005, Watercolor on paper

Julie Mehretu, Untitled, 2006, Watercolor on paper

Julie Mehretu, Untitled (2005 drawings), 2005, ink, graphite, gouache, and watercolor on paper

Julie Mehretu, Untitled, 2006, Watercolor on paper

Julie Mehretu, Untitled (2005 drawings), 2005, Watercolor on paper

Julie Mehretu, Untitled (2005 drawings), 2005, Watercolor on paper

This exhibition features work created during Mehretu's time as a MacArthur Fellow in 2005. Her elaborate compositions  reflect the fractured nature and constant flux of contemporary life, with elements of architecture, maps, graphs and figurative references coexisting in interconnected layers throughout her work. Tracking motions through space and time, the artist combines the whirling energy akin to weather phenomena, such as storms, with contrasting, human-imposed order, encoded in a system of symbols. 

Mehretu is the 2008 Honorary Degree Recipient and Commencement Speaker of Montserrat College of Art.