Chicago's forthcoming Obama Presidential Center will feature an 83-foot-tall stained work by Julie Mehretu ... To create the work, Mehretu will draw on the oeuvres of three Black artists: the ...

Ethiopian American artist Julie Mehretu, known for her work in abstract ... are covered in broad washes color cut through with broad black streaks and lines. “In the studio where I had the ...

It can be hard to know where exactly to look at a Julie Mehretu piece ... part of a triptych from Mehretu that explores nationalism and revolution. The thin, curved, black lines indicate a ...