Circulation Artist: Julie Mehretu (American, born Ethiopia 1970)
Publisher: Crown Point Press (San Francisco, founded 1962)

2005

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Duffy Study Room

This large, virtuosic intaglio belongs to a suite of three prints entitled Heavy Weather, which the artist completed in response to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. A virtual compendium of mark making with many squiggles, scores, and dashes, the image serves as a metaphor for the movement of bodies—including planets, humans, and particles—through time and across space. The title, Circulation, conflates the ebb and flow of global weather systems with the exchange and distribution of art-world print culture to make a witty, self-referential pun.

Medium

Color hard-ground etching with aquatint and engraving on Gampi paper chine collé

Dimensions

image: 70.5 × 101 cm (27 3/4 × 39 3/4 in.)
sheet: 90.2 × 118.8 cm (35 1/2 × 46 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Richard Brown Baker, B.A. 1935, Fund

Accession Number

2008.2.1

Geography

Made in United States

Culture

American

Period

20th century

Classification

Prints

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance
Crown Point Press, San Francisco CA
Bibliography

  • Pamela Franks and Robert E. Steele, Embodied: Black Identities in American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2010), 46, ill.

Object copyright
Copyright Julie Mehretu
In Copyright
Additional information

Subject

African American artists Women artists

Edition

21 of 25

Signed

Signed l.r., recto, in graphite: Mehretu 2005

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