{"id":9090,"date":"2017-08-09T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=9090"},"modified":"2023-10-30T14:22:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T18:22:27","slug":"publications-feature-julie-mehretu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/publications-feature-julie-mehretu\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times, Architectural Digest Feature Alumna Julie Mehretu"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9089\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9089\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9089 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/08\/julie-mehretu-for-news-and-events-300x438.jpg\" alt=\"Artist Julie Mehretu\" width=\"300\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/08\/julie-mehretu-for-news-and-events-300x438.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/08\/julie-mehretu-for-news-and-events-103x150.jpg 103w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/08\/julie-mehretu-for-news-and-events-548x800.jpg 548w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/08\/julie-mehretu-for-news-and-events-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/08\/julie-mehretu-for-news-and-events.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9089\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist and Kalamazoo College alumna Julie Mehretu is featured in the New York Times and Architectural Digest for her latest project.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A Kalamazoo College alumna is receiving attention from publications including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.architecturaldigest.com\/story\/julie-mehret-takes-ad-inside-her-new-studio\">Architectural Digest<\/a> and the New York Times for her latest artwork, a commission for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfmoma.org\/\">San Francisco Museum of Modern Art<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Artist Julie Mehretu \u201992, of New York City, has worked for the past 14 months at a deconsecrated Harlem church on two towering paintings measuring 27 feet by 32 feet that required a scissor lift to develop.<\/p>\n<p>Since graduating from K with a degree in <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.kzoo.edu\/art\/\">art and art history<\/a>, Mehretu has become one of the leading contemporary artists in the United States. She has received international accolades for her work, with her honors including the American Art Award from the <a href=\"http:\/\/whitney.org\/\">Whitney Museum of American Art<\/a> and the prestigious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macfound.org\/fellows\/767\/\">MacArthur Fellow award<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mehretu recently shared a testimonial of the liberal arts including her Kalamazoo College experience with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cic.edu\/Pages\/default.aspx\">Council for Independent Colleges<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe liberal arts experience gives you the opportunity to learn, to fail, to succeed, to really find out who you are,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen I reflect on how my artistic work has progressed, I think of those early years at Kalamazoo College. My artistic process takes both intense thought and impulse. Balancing this has taken time and evolved over the years. It happens in all kinds of different ways. I\u2019m making all these decisions, determining one thing at a time, and not even so much determining as understanding. I think that\u2019s what Kalamazoo College was for me: a place to begin to understand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The final products of her latest efforts will be on display at the San Francisco museum for more than three years beginning Sept. 2. Read more and take a sneak peek of the paintings at the New York Times and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.architecturaldigest.com\/story\/julie-mehret-takes-ad-inside-her-new-studio\">Architectural Digest<\/a> websites. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art also has a <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2vRXKCp\">news release<\/a> at its website.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Kalamazoo College alumna is receiving attention from publications including Architectural Digest and the New York Times for her latest artwork, a commission for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 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href=\"http:\/\/www.architecturaldigest.com\/story\/julie-mehret-takes-ad-inside-her-new-studio\">Architectural Digest<\/a> and the New York Times for her latest artwork, a commission for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfmoma.org\/\">San Francisco Museum of Modern Art<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Artist Julie Mehretu \u201992, of New York City, has worked for the past 14 months at a deconsecrated Harlem church on two towering paintings measuring 27 feet by 32 feet that required a scissor lift to develop.<\/p>\n<p>Since graduating from K with a degree in <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.kzoo.edu\/art\/\">art and art history<\/a>, Mehretu has become one of the leading contemporary artists in the United States. She has received international accolades for her work, with her honors including the American Art Award from the <a href=\"http:\/\/whitney.org\/\">Whitney Museum of American Art<\/a> and the prestigious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macfound.org\/fellows\/767\/\">MacArthur Fellow award<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mehretu recently shared a testimonial of the liberal arts including her Kalamazoo College experience with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cic.edu\/Pages\/default.aspx\">Council for Independent Colleges<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe liberal arts experience gives you the opportunity to learn, to fail, to succeed, to really find out who you are,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen I reflect on how my artistic work has progressed, I think of those early years at Kalamazoo College. My artistic process takes both intense thought and impulse. Balancing this has taken time and evolved over the years. It happens in all kinds of different ways. I\u2019m making all these decisions, determining one thing at a time, and not even so much determining as understanding. I think that\u2019s what Kalamazoo College was for me: a place to begin to understand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The final products of her latest efforts will be on display at the San Francisco museum for more than three years beginning Sept. 2. Read more and take a sneak peek of the paintings at the New York Times and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.architecturaldigest.com\/story\/julie-mehret-takes-ad-inside-her-new-studio\">Architectural Digest<\/a> websites. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art also has a <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2vRXKCp\">news release<\/a> at its website.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9090"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20952,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9090\/revisions\/20952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9090"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=9090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}