Julie Mehretu: Audio Guide
Hear directly from the artist and curator on selected works from the exhibition. The audio guide was produced by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and adapted for the Walker Art Center’s presentation.
Gallery I
Julie Mehretu, Untitled (yellow with ellipses), 1998. Private collection. Photo: Tom Powel Imaging. ©Julie Mehretu
Julie Mehretu, Retopistics: A Renegade Evacuation, 2001. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR. Photo: Erma Estwick. ©Julie Mehretu
GALLERY 2
Julie Mehretu, Stadia II, 2004. Courtesy the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, gift of Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn and Nicolas Rohatyn and A. W. Mellon Acquisition Endowment Fund 2004.50. Photo: courtesy Carnegie Museum of Art. ©Julie Mehretu
Julie Mehretu, Black City, 2007. François Pinault Collection, Paris. Photo: Tim Thayer. ©Julie Mehretu
Julie Mehretu, Untitled (yellow with ellipses), 1998. Private collection. Photo: Tom Powel Imaging. ©Julie Mehretu
Gallery 3
Julie Mehretu, Invisible Line (collective), 2010–11. Pinault Collection. ©Julie Mehretu
Julie Mehretu, Conjured Parts (eye), Ferguson, 2016. The Broad Art Foundation, Los Angeles. Photo: Cathy Carver. ©Julie Mehretu
Julie Mehretu, Of Other Planes of There (S.R.), 2018–19. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from Anna and Matt Freedman and an anonymous donor. Photo: Tom Powel Imaging. ©Julie Mehretu
Perlman Gallery
Julie Mehretu, Mogamma (A Painting in Four Parts) Part 1, 2012. Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. Photo: White Cube, Ben Westoby. ©Julie Mehretu
Julie Mehretu, Mogamma (A Painting in Four Parts) Part 2, 2012. Ink and acrylic on canvas, 180 × 144 in. (457.2 × 365.8 cm). High Museum of Art, Atlanta, purchase with funds from Alfred Austell Thornton in memory of Leila Austell Thornton and Albert Edward Thornton, Sr., and Sarah Miller Venable and William Hoyt Venable, David C. Driskell African American Art Acquisition Fund, Dr. Lurton Massee Jr. Endowment for Contemporary Art, the Blonder Family Acquisition Endowment Fund, Robert O. Breitling, Jr. Acquisition Endowment Fund, WISH Foundation Fund of the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta and through prior acquisition from Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Liberman, Anne and William J. Hokin through the 20th Century Art Acquisition Fund, Henry B. Scott Fund, Jean Cloupsy, Mrs. Elizabeth Fisher, Charles Green Shaw, Jean Gorin Estate, David Kenney, 20th Century Art Acquisition Fund, Judith Alexander, Dr. Milton Mazo to mark the retirement of Gudmund Vigtel, Sidney Singer, Mr. and Mrs. L. Slann, Southeastern Annual Exhibition Purchase Award, Patricia N. Whitlow, Doris Caesar, Mrs. Edith Flynn, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald D. Kohs, J. J. Haverty Memorial Fund for the J. J. Haverty Collection, Scientific-Atlanta, Inc., through the 20th Century Art Acquisition Fund, William Quinn, Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Allison, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Amisano, Mr. and Mrs. Overton A. Currie, Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Steed, and Mr. and Mrs. G. Kimbrough Taylor, Jr., Dr. and Mrs. Gilbert J. Rose, Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Hahn, Friends of Jon Carsman, Mr. Andrew J. Crispo, Dean Gardens, Wellington Management/ Thorndike Doran, Paine and Lewis Collection, Friends of Con- temporary Art, Bruce and Lisa Stein, Rich’s, Andres J. Escoruela, Lawrence Fox for the Ralph K. Uhry Collection, Friends of W. Dean Gillette, Benjamin Elsas, Glenys and Kermit Birchfield, Friends of Henry Toombs, Atlanta Watercolor Club Annual Purchase Award, Jose Pinal, Estate of Theresa B. Oppenheimer, Chester and Claudia Carter, Shirley and Victor Kramer through the 20th Century Art Acquisition Fund, James Twitty, through prior acquisition from Lewis Beck, funds from Kidder, Peabody & Co., Inc./GE Capital Corporate Finance Group through the Kidder, Peabody & Co., Inc. Regional Purchase Program, Dr. Lawrence Rivkin, Jova/Daniels/Busby in celebration of their 20th anniversary, and Joseph Felice Brivio 2013.31. Photo: White Cube, Ben Westoby. ©Julie Mehretu
Julie Mehretu was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, with major support provided by the Ford Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Lead support for the Walker Art Center’s presentation is provided by Martha and Bruce Atwater, Laura and John Taft, and Margaret VB Wurtele. Additional support is provided by Peggy and Ralph Burnet, Lisa and Pat Denzer, Miriam and Erwin Kelen, and the David and Leni Moore Family Foundation
