Julie Mehretu. (Checkerboard Film Foundation)
Press Release
The Whitney Museum Presents The World Premiere of Julie Mehretu: Palimpsest
Julie Mehretu: Palimpsest, a new feature documentary by Checkerboard, follows the artist as she prepares for a mid-career survey, currently on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art (until August 8, 2021), co-organized with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The artist offers commentary on her work, process, and chronology of her career, from graduate work at RISD to current expansive, multi-layered canvases.
The screening will be introduced by the Whitney’s Rujeko Hockley, co-curator of the exhibition, and Checkerboard Film Foundation’s President, Edgar Howard.
Watch: Checkerboard Film Foundation presents “Julie Mehretu: Mid-Career Survey”
Checkerboard Film Foundation is a non-profit educational institution established in 1979 to document artists who are making unique and important contributions to the American arts. Checkerboard has produced over 70 films on influential painters, sculptors, photographers, architects, and writers.
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If You Attend:
Advance registration is required to the free screening. Registrants will receive an individual link via email to access the premiere screening on June 17 at 8PM. The film will be available for registrants to stream on demand from June 18-20.
June 17, 2021
This Whitney event is free, registration required.
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Related:
ART TALK: Julie Mehretu – A Decade of Printmaking at Gemini G.E.L. in NYC
ART TALK: Julie Mehretu Makes Art Big Enough to Get Lost In
Julie Mehretu’s Mid-Career Survey at LA County Museum of Art
Julie Mehretu’s Mid-Career Survey To Open at LACMA
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