#julie mehretu

Julie Mehretu’s Black City

“Ghosthymn (after the Raft),” 2019-21, during its creation. 

It references “The Raft of the Medusa” by Théodore Géricault but also “levels of precarity exposed by the pandemic and the embodied anxiety during those early months.”

By Julie Mehretu, in the New York Times

julie mehretu, stadia ii. ink + acrylic on canvas. 2004