Julie Mehretu creates towering glass mural for Obama Presidential Center in Chicago The artist's 83ft-tall work, “Uprising of the Sun”, is the most prominent of many art commissions for the centre ...

Chicago's forthcoming Obama Presidential Center will feature an 83-foot-tall stained work by Julie Mehretu, an acclaimed painter who has regularly worked at large scale, producing pieces that ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The FRONT Triennial project to have internationally renowned artist Julie Mehretu paint a soaring abstract mural on the 21-story Standard Building overlooking Public Square in ...

Mehretu’s artwork, painted on a BMW M Hybrid V8, was recently unveiled at the Pompidou Center in Paris and will be on the track at the 24 Hours of Le Mans race next month.

Julie Mehretu, born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1970, is a prominent contemporary artist known for her large-scale abstract paintings that explore themes of history, culture and geopolitics.

In Sydney, Julie Mehretu Challenges Our Engagement With Conflict and Devastation The works in "A Transcore of the Radical Imaginatory” at MCA Australia fold current events into abstract fields ...

Mehretu’s work, the latest in this series, will be painted on a BMW M Hybrid V8 race car, which will debut on the track at the Le Mans 24-hour race in June 2024. BMW taps artist Julie Mehretu to ...

Since last year, Julie Mehretu has split her time between New York City and upstate New York, in the Catskills. “It’s really beautiful, pristine, incredible land, right by a river,” she says ...

Mehretu was born in 1970 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to an Ethiopian father and an American mother. Seven years later, the family moved to the United States to escape a brutal civil war then-raging ...