Julie Mehretu — Ethiopian Artist born on December 30, 1970,

Julie Mehretu is an artist, best known for her densely layered abstract paintings and prints. She lives and works in New York City. Mehretu shares her New York studio with her partner, the artist Jessica Rankin... (wikipedia)

I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction.
I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it.
That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.
People look at film in a gallery, and if they walk out after two minutes they know they haven't seen the whole work. But then people look at a painting for two minutes and think they've seen it. Certain paintings are made to be consumed fast. But some require a slowed-down time. You have to go back to them.
When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you can't do that when you have two children!