UNCLOSED by Julie Mehretu (2007)

Julie Mehretu American, born Ethiopia, born 1970 UNCLOSED (2007) Color hard-ground etching with spit bite aquatint and drypoint on paper Des Moines Art Center Julie Mehretu's work is rooted in a process of mark making through which she both builds up and obscures meaning. In her etchings, Mehretu prints multiple plates onto a single page. "A mark could be a marker of some kind of behavior, a…