Abraham Cruzvillegas & Julie Mehretu

A conversation about identity through abstraction and the exploration of colors and materials and their underlying meanings. Our guest, Julie Mehretu is a world-renowned artist based in New York. Her work is informed by a multitude of sources including politics, literature, and music. Through her abstracted large scale paintings, drawings, and prints, she engages in a dynamic visual articulation of our contemporary experience, social behavior and the psychogeography of space.Abraham Cruzvillegas is an artist who is deeply influenced by his surroundings. Many of his projects are linked by the idea of autoconstrucción: a concept that draws from the ingenious, precarious and collaborative building tactics implemented by the people living in the Colonia Ajusco, his childhood neighborhood in Mexico City.FUTURE DIALOGUES, a series of conversations between artists and creatives organized and hosted by kurimanzutto and supported by Casa Dragones.