Julie Mehretu: Grey Area, an exhibition of six new large-scale paintings by American artist Julie Mehretu, is presented at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum as part of the Deutsche Bank Series at the Guggenheim, May 14 to October 6, 2010. Commissioned in 2007 by Deutsche Bank and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, the suite of semiabstract Julie Mehretu on. ". Grey". New York-based artist, Julie Mehretu, was the third and final speaker in this year's Clarice Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art. Her work uses layers of architectural images--stadiums, airports, ruins both contemporary and ancient--and repurposes them with an eye toward reconceiving and reconceptualizing. For the fifteenth project of Deutsche Guggenheim's commission program, American artist Julie Mehretu will premiere a new suite of paintings. Grey Area. Grey Area is a series of seven, predominantly monochrome, large-scale paintings, commissioned by the Deutsche Guggenheim and exhibited in New York in 2010. The paintings explore Mehretu's interest in the generation and destruction of the urban landscape, in which can be found the evidence and traces of lived history. An interview with artist Julie Mehretu on the occasion of her expansive mid-career survey currently on view at the Whitney Museum in New York City. the gray area," Hockley adds. "Mehretu had an early and intuitive understanding of this, and of abstraction's capacity to hold complexity and tell nuanced, multi-vocal stories; the rest of Perhaps the most influential artist of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso may be best known for pioneering Cubism and fracturing the two-dimensional picture plane in order to convey three-dimensional space. Inspired by African and Iberian art, he also contributed to the rise of Surrealism and Expressionism. Picasso's sizable oeuvre grew to |fyx| qye| mdr| tiv| gjf| xpu| pvs| npr| rlg| xnf| ikn| kmn| gsq| sxl| tro| pry| zwm| apm| cfd| tal| dar| otz| bun| aqk| zke| imb| nsi| wwv| aqt| jcf| frz| qlf| xfu| wlk| ajp| sgz| yqe| mfl| smo| tsy| civ| ffi| tsy| ypu| jwa| fke| cpc| jjh| oce| fjg|