Coordinated by Lissa McClure, Catherine Belloy, Katharine Abrams and Honey Luard
Designed by Tracey Shiffman and Alex Kohnke with James Ihira, Shiffman & Kohnke, Los Angeles
Text by Tacita Dean and TJ Demos

Printed by The Avery Group at Shapco Printing, Minneapolis
310 x 238 mm, hardback
127 pages, colour illustrations throughout
ISBN 978-0-9442192-2-5
Published by White Cube, London/Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, 2013

Published on the occasion of Julie Mehretu’s solo exhibitions at Marian Goodman Gallery, New York (May – June 2013) and White Cube Bermondsey, London (May – July 2013).

With large colour plates, full-bleed details and four gatefold pages, this publication provides an exacting and thorough overview of Mehretu’s intricate use of painterly surface. Featuring paintings created across the joint exhibitions, the publication places emphasis on the artist’s negotiation of political demonstration, architectural language and geographical space. A text by Tacita Dean reflects on Mehretu’s personal history and experience of displacement, while an extended essay by TJ Demos considers the artist’s exploration of ‘geoaesthetics’, situating the work with reference to the expressivity of abstraction and bodily gesture.

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Tacita Dean is a British European artist (b.1965, Canterbury, UK). She lives and works in Berlin and Los Angeles, where she was the Artist in Residence at the Getty Research Institute in 2014–15.

TJ Demos is an award-winning writer, art historian and cultural critic, as well as Professor of Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Director of its Center for Creative Ecologies. He writes widely about contemporary art, global politics and ecology.