Circulation | Yale University Art Gallery

2005

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

In Copyright

Additional information

Subject

African American artists Women artists

Edition

21 of 25

Inscriptions

Inscribed l.l., recto, in graphite: 21/25

Signed

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

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