She moved from Kenya to NYC in order to study anthropology and fine art at Cooper Union. After that she got her MFA in sculpture from Yale. Her paintings/collages are made on Mylar, incorporating collage and ink to create idealized female figures our of fragmented parts. Her work is read as racial
Janine Marie holds a Bachelors of Fine Arts focused in printmedia, Bachelors of Arts in Visual and Critical Studies both received from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She also has an Associates in Fine Arts Photography, from Delaware College of Art and Design. She basically really liked s
Julie Mehretu makes large-scale, gestural paintings that are built up through layers of acrylic paint on canvas overlaid with mark-making using pencil, pen, ink and thick streams of paint. Mehretu’s work conveys a layering and compression of time, space and place and a collapse of art historical re