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Home>Yes No Maybe Introduction>Yes No Maybe No>Yes No Maybe Mehretu

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Exhibition Introduction

Note to the ReaderAcknowledgments

IntroductionKeithJohnLeslieSelf-Portrait

IntroductionTouched RedGreenCombinationHigh Green Version 1

Introduction17 Drawings by ThoreauSeven Day Diary (Not Knowing)Changes and DisappearancesWhere R=RyoanjiFireThe Missing Stone 75 StonesEninkaStonesWhere There is Where There

IntroductionAnne ApplebyPia FriesDarren AlmondSusan MiddletonJoel FisherBrad BrownTom Marioni

IntroductionMamma AnderssonSol LeWittFred WilsonRobert BechtleKiki Smith

IntroductionJulie MehretuWayne ThiebaudJockum NordströmTomma AbtsNathan OliveiraChris Ofili

IntroductionPat SteirLaura OwensWayne ThiebaudAmy Sillman

# Julie Mehretu

Julie Mehretu, Circulation, 2005
*Circulation*(working proof 9)2005color etching, spitbite aquatint, aquatint, and engravingwith graphite and wash additionsplate: 27 3⁄4 × 39 3⁄4 (70.5 × 101)sheet: 34 3⁄4 × 46 3⁄4 (88.3 × 118.8)Crown Point Press© Julie Mehretu

Julie Mehretu, Circulation, 2005
*Circulation*2005color etching, aquatint, and engraving with chine colléplate: 27 3⁄4 × 39 3⁄4 (70.5 × 101)sheet: 35 3⁄4 × 47 (90.8 × 119.3)National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Kathan Brown,2011© Julie Mehretu

Julie Mehretu, Circulation, 2005
Detail, *Circulation*(working proof 9)2005color etching, spitbite aquatint, aquatint, and engravingwith graphite and wash additionsplate: 27 3⁄4 × 39 3⁄4 (70.5 × 101)sheet: 34 3⁄4 × 46 3⁄4 (88.3 × 118.8)Crown Point Press© Julie Mehretu

Julie Mehretu, Circulation, 2005
Detail, *Circulation*2005color etching, aquatint, and engraving with chine colléplate: 27 3⁄4 × 39 3⁄4 (70.5 × 101)sheet: 35 3⁄4 × 47 (90.8 × 119.3)National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Kathan Brown,2011© Julie Mehretu

Less than three weeks after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana, Mehretu began work at Crown Point Press. Rather than addressing the hurricane specifically, she took on the dynamic patterns of storms in general. Fluid brushstrokes dominate the working proof for *Circulation*— they suggest cloudbursts, zigzag lightning, blasting precipitation — and create a tempestuous scene that evokes mythological storms or the biblical Deluge (see banner, above). In contrast, the crisper lines and radiating red parabolas added to the final print call to mind contemporary meteorological imagery: weather maps, Doppler radar, storm fronts, wind speeds, vectors, and so forth. Having pushed *Circulation*in one direction, Mehretu changed course, transforming a freely drawn, turbulent scene into a more precise, scientific, and modern view.

Julie Mehretu working at Crown Point Press, photograph by Kathan Brown, Courtesy Crown Point Press

Banner Image: Detail, Wayne Thiebaud, *River Edge*(working proof 26), 1997, color drypoint and spitbite aquatint, Crown Point Press, Art © Wayne Thiebaud / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

Next: Wayne Thiebaud

"Yes, No, Maybe: The Art of Making Decisions," lecture by exhibition curators Judith Brodie and Adam Greenhalgh (audio)Julie Mehretu, artist, in conversation with curator Judith Brodie, Diamonstein-Spielvogel lecture (audio)"An Insider's Perspective," lecture by Kathan Brown, founder of Crown Point Press (audio)

Exhibition tour by curators Judith Brodie and Adam Greenhalgh (audio)

Julie Mehretu in the collection of the National Gallery of Art

Crown Point Press prints in the collection of the National Gallery of Art

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