
Corner of Lake and Minnehaha
2022
Corner of Lake and Minnehaha distills Julie Mehretu's signature visual language into a large-scale screenprint that crackles with layered energy and spatial tension. Completed in 2022, the work builds its composition through cascading marks, translucent washes, and gestural forms that seem to exist simultaneously at architectural and atmospheric scales. Mehretu's process, rooted in the accumulation and erasure of drawn systems, finds a natural counterpart in the screenprint medium, where each layer of ink carries its own weight while contributing to a collective visual field that rewards extended looking. The title's reference to a specific Minneapolis intersection grounds the work in geographic and cultural particulars without constraining its visual ambition. Mehretu has long engaged with sites of political upheaval and collective memory, and Minneapolis carries unmistakable resonance in the post-2020 American landscape. That specificity hums beneath the surface of the abstraction, giving the work a historical gravity that distinguishes it from purely formal exercise. The result is a piece that operates on multiple registers at once, as pure visual event, as cartographic thinking, and as a meditation on place and rupture. Signed by the artist and published by Highpoint Editions, this is a substantial example of Mehretu's printmaking practice at the height of her critical and institutional recognition, with the work held in numerous major museum collections worldwide. At 139 by 110 centimeters, the print commands real presence and brings the scale and intensity associated with her paintings into an edition format that offers collectors rare access to her vision.
- Medium
- Screenprint
- Sheet
- Signed
- Yes
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Highpoint Editions
For Sale — $60000
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