Julie Mehretu

Place: Addis Ababa

Born: 1970

Biography:

Julie Mehretu (born 1970 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) is an artist, best known for her densely layered abstract paintings and prints. She is best known for her large-scale paintings that take the abstract energy, topography, and sensibility of global urban landscapes as a source of inspiration. Mehretu was born in Ethiopia, in 1970, the first child of...