Julie mehretu biography
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Julie Mehretu
American contemporary visual artist (born )
Julie Mehretu (born November 28, ) is an Ethiopian American contemporary visual artist, known for her multi-layered paintings of abstracted landscapes on a large scale.
Julie mehretu biography
Her paintings, drawings, and prints depict the cumulative effects of urban sociopolitical changes.
Early life and education
Mehretu was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in , the first child of an Ethiopian college professor of geography and a Jewish American Montessori teacher.
Her father is Ethiopian and her mother is Jewish American. They fled the country in to escape political turmoil and moved to East Lansing, Michigan, for her father's teaching position in economic geography at Michigan State University.[1][2]:&#;&#;
A graduate of East Lansing High School, Mehretu received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and did a junior year abroad at Cheikh Anta Diop University (UCAD) in Dakar,