Open Studio From Home:
Julie Mehretu
Sat, June 26, 2021
11 am–12 pm
Julie Mehretu, Mogamma (A Painting in Four Parts) Part 3, 2012. Ink and acrylic paint on canvas, 180 × 144 1/8 in. (457.2 × 366.08 cm). Tate, purchased with funds provided by Tiqui Atencio Demirdjian and Ago Demirdjian, Andreas Kurtz and the Tate Americas Foundation 2014. Photograph © White Cube, Ben Westoby. © Julie Mehretu
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You are invited to Open Studio From Home, free weekly online art classes with Whitney educators! Participants will experiment, create, and learn together with at-home art materials.
Julie Mehretu makes large-scale artworks that are built up through layers of paint, pencil, pen, and ink. She takes her visual vocabulary from maps, urban planning grids, and architectural forms. These are combined to make dynamic works that blur the line between abstraction and figuration.
Together, we will think about places that are important to us. Then, we will make our own compositions inspired by maps.
Materials:
- Paper
- Pencil
- Color options:
- Markers
- Colored pencils
- Watercolor paints
- Crayons
