Original sentence: Her work incorporates the dynamic visual vocabulary of maps, urban-planning grids, and architectural forms as it alternates between historical narratives and fictional landscapes.Julie Mehretu was born in Ethiopia, raised in Michigan, educated in Senegal and Rhode Island, and now lives in New York.Mehretu combines a personal language of signs and symbols with architectural imagery to create her elaborate paintings.One of the artists featured in the Walker's 2001 exhibition Painting at the Edge of the World, Mehretu creates paintings that combine abstract forms with the familiar, such as the Roman Coliseum and floor plans from international airports.She inscribes her own narrative into these spaces through the layering of personal markings
Edited sentence: It is no surprise, then, that her work incorporates the dynamic visual vocabulary of maps, urban-planning grids, and architectural forms as it alternates between historical narratives and fictional landscapes.Julie Mehretu's biography reads a bit like an atlas.Mehretu combines a personal language of signs and symbols with architectural imagery to create her elaborate semi-abstractions.One of the artists featured in the Walker's 2001 exhibition Painting at the Edge of the World, Mehretu creates beautifully layered paintings that combine abstract forms with the familiar, such as the Roman Coliseum and floor plans from international airports.She inscribes her own narrative into these decontextualized, highly controlled spaces through the layering of personal markings.She was born in Ethiopia, raised in Michigan, educated in Senegal and Rhode Island, and now lives in New York.With paintings that blur the line between figuration and abstraction while constantly referencing the world around us, she creates perfect metaphors for the increasingly interconnected and complex character of the 21st century