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October 27 to December 15, 2007 Julie Mehretu Reflexive Drawings |
Opening Saturday October 27 3pm to 5pm (artist will be in attendance) Artist Talk Thursday October 25 7pm at Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design Noon hour talks Tuesday November 6 at 12:05 Wednesday November 7 at 12:35 |
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Julie Mehretu is a New York-based artist whose extraordinary paintings have been seen in recent exhibitions at MOMA, the Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst in Denmark and the Kunstverein Hannover. This exhibition, featuring 24 recent drawings and paintings, is her first in Canada. Mehretu works in what she calls "a complex drawn language of marks that behave, battle, migrate and civilize." She uniquely fuses contradictory elements of chaos and order, organized pattern and abstract but loose gestures. Mehretu's drawings conflate disparate spaces and historical timelines, as they investigate the construction of individual identity in the post-colonial urban context. Julie Mehretu was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and was raised in Michigan, where she obtained her BA from Kalamazoo College. She also studied in Dakar, Senegal, and went on to complete her MFA at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1997. Mehretu is a recent recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Award (2005). Opening: Saturday October 27, from 3 to 5pm At the SFU Gallery in Burnaby. Julie Mehretu will be in attendance. Artist Talk: Thursday October 25, at 7pm Julie Mehretu will present a talk about her work at the Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design, 1400 Johnston St., Granville Island, Vancouver (South Building Lecture Hall 301). Co-Sponsored by the SFU Gallery and ECI. Lunchtime talks and tours of the exhibition: Tuesday November 6 at 12:05 Wednesday November 7 at 12:35 Additional talks for classes or other groups may be scheduled by appointment. Contact us at 778.782.4266 or gallery@sfu.ca. Curated by Bill Jeffries. |
Untitled, 2006, watercolour on paper, 22" x 30" Courtesy of The Project (NY), Collection of Joy and David Schumeister. 
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