Various Artists, Siah Armajani, Vija Celmins, Jasper Johns, Kerry James Marshall, Julie Mehretu, Wangechi Mutu, Gabriel Orozco, Edward Ruscha, Richard Serra, Ranjani Shettar, Sarah Sze, Xu Bing
The Met 150
2021
Twelve signed prints, housed together in a red linen clamshell box
Not on view
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Edward Ruscha
American, born 1937 254 works onlineOnce, when asked about the abundance of text in his work, Ed Ruscha explained, “I just happened to paint words like someone else paints flowers.
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Julie Mehretu
American, born Ethiopia 1970 53 works onlineJulie Mehretu made Empirical Construction, Istanbul to show at the Istanbul Biennial in 2003. She has called it a “portrait of a city,” and the painting pays homage to the Turkish cosmopolis that straddles Europe and Asia across the Bosporus Strait, but it is nowhere pictured as a place.
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Wangechi Mutu
Kenyan American, born 1972 14 works onlineBorn in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1972, the artist relocated to the US in the mid-1990s to study fine art. Her experience of migration and her diasporic identity have infused the artist’s creations with an expansive philosophy of belonging: “If a plant has just one root that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s going to stand straight and strong.
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