Entropia (review)

Julie Mehretu

2004

Color screenprint and lithograph on Arches 88 paper

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Painter and printmaker Julie Mehretu finds inspiration for her imagery in the complex infrastructure of the constructed world. Entropia (review) typifies Mehretu's longstanding interest in using architectural language to express ideas of power, particularly how power is conveyed in public spaces. Visually complex, her print combines decontextualized elements of maps, diagrams, plans, and architectural drawings of socially-charged spaces--streets, plazas, airports, government buildings, schools, and parks--with Mehretu's personal language of signs and symbols. She refers to these layered, multidimensional compositions as "psycho