Oxy Live! Presents: A Conversation with Julie Mehretu

Oxy Live! Presents: A Conversation with Julie Mehretu

Feb 21

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Occidental College, Choi Auditorium

1600 Campus Rd, Los Angeles California 90041

• In Town — Los Angeles and environs

Occidental College and OXY ARTS are pleased to announce the launch year of Oxy Live!, a conversation series highlighting a diverse lineup of cultural luminaries at the forefront of their fields. Hosted by acclaimed interviewer and cultural interlocutor Paul Holdengräber.

Julie Mehretu is a world-renowned painter who lives and works in New York City. Her art is featured in the Smithsonian, LACMA, MOMA, The Broad, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Guggenheim, the Met, the Tate, the Whitney, and many other leading museums. She is Sotheby’s Top-selling African Artist of all Time (2023), and Time magazine named her to its 100 Most Influential People in 2020. Mehretu’s paintings, drawings, and prints depict the cumulative effects of urban sociopolitical changes.

1600 Campus Rd, Los Angeles California 90041