North Carolina Museum of Art to exhibit Julie Mehretu " City Sitings "

Sunday, 08 June 2008 23:22

Raleigh, NC - Julie Mehretu: City Sitings brings this internationally acclaimed artist’s work to the NCMA for the first time. In her expansive canvases, Mehretu draws on a dynamic array of popular imagery accessible to diverse audiences—maps, urban grids, graffiti, calligraphy—and configures these into an unanticipated, irresistible personal visual vocabulary. Such diverse stylistic references correlate with contemporary urban and transnational realities, including the artist’s own mixed heritage as Ethiopian-American and her itinerant life history.

Mehretu’s compelling works reenvision the urban experience and rewrite narratives of exclusion, reconciling divergent histories through her expansive, dynamic compositions. Inspired by community action, historical events, and the built environment, she engages viewers in a new vision of the metropolitan landscape. On view 17 August through 30 November, 2008. Organized by the Detroit Institute of Arts in collaboration with Julie Mehretu. Support has been provided through generous grants from the Joyce Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

In December 2006 the Museum officially broke ground for the project, and the new building is scheduled to be complete in the fall of 2009 and open to the public in the spring of 2010. The new NCMA building has been designed by noted architect Thomas Phifer of Thomas Phifer and Partners, New York.  Local executive architect for the project is Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee Architects of Raleigh, N.C.   The landscape architect for the expansion project is Peter Walker of Peter Walker and Partners, Berkeley, Ca., which is working in collaboration with the local firm of Lappas + Havener, Durham, N.C.  Visit : The North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) at : www.ncartmuseum.org/

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