Julie Mehretu ~ New Drawings at the Kresge Art Museum

Written by Christian Saar Friday, 18 March 2011 00:24

 

EAST LANSING, MI.- The Department of Art & Art History at Michigan State University announced the visit of world-renowned artist Julie Mehretu. Mehretu will discuss her work in a public lecture on Tuesday, February, 5 at 7:00 p.m. in room 118 of the Psychology Building. Ethiopian-American artist Julie Mehretu spent much of her childhood in East Lansing where her father is on the MSU faculty. Her work has been featured internationally including at the Whitney Biennial and Carnegie Internal and is currently on display at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
 

She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship (2005) and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant. Mehretu has been described as a truly global artist whose large, abstract paintings explore issues of mobility, social organization, political entanglement, and global competition. The vocabularies of maps, urban planning, and architectural forms join together in her densely layered paintings and drawings. In addition to the lecture, Mehretu’s work will be on view from in Julie Mehretu – New Drawings at the Kresge Art Museum from February 1 – March 16, 2008. Both the lecture and exhibition are free and the public is encouraged to attend. Those seeking a more intimate look into Mehretu’s artistic process may be interested in attending a studio tour presented as a fundraiser by The Friends of Kresge Art Museum on Thursday, February 7 – 5:30 pm on Grand River Avenue in Okemos, MI.
 
Kresge Art Museum, founded in 1959, houses Michigan State University's collection of over 7,000 works of art. Portions of the collection are on continuous display, offering a rich diversity of style, technique and media. Objects on view span 5,000 years of human history and include representative examples of works of art from ancient Cycladic figures to contemporary mixed media installations.
 
Thanks to the generosity of alumnus Eli Broad and his wife Edythe, who made the largest cash gift from an individual in MSU's history, the new Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, which will focus on modern and contemporary art, is scheduled to open in 2010.
 
Visit The Kresge Art Museum at : www.artmuseum.msu.edu/ 

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