Julie Umerle is a contemporary American artist known for her abstract paintings and works on paper. Umerle paints in series that are open-ended, exploring similarity, repetition and difference within ...

Over the past 50 years, artists including Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, Jenny Holzer and Robert Rauschenberg have been chosen by the luxury car company to use a BMW as their canvas, each adorning one of ...

BMW’s latest Art Car almost didn’t come into existence, says its creator, Julie Mehretu. “I actually tried to turn it down.” It’s not that she wasn’t interested. The abstract artist has long been a ...

In her 2021 documentary Julie Mehretu: Palimpsest, the abstract painter explains that news images have long fueled her art. “I’ve been working with news media images since the mid-90s when I was in ...

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