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Born in India and based in Los Angeles, Mukherjee ('96) has exhibited at UCLA's Hammer Museum, Pomona College's Museum of Art, MOCA/L.A., Sister, LA and BravinLee Programs, N.Y.
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"In fields of glowing color," writes Rebecca McGrew of Pomona College Museum of Art, "Mukherjee draws exquisitely rendered figures and forms that hover and float through an enigmatic space." She notes that Mukherjee "conflates Asian landscape painting conventions with a postmodern image of subjectivity as presented through shifting figure/ground relationships and the poetic ambiguity of the narrative content. [He] explore[s] phenomenological relations among light and space, to question traditional notions of representation, and to alter profoundly our expectations of art and consciousness."
Known for his mesmerizing, nuanced, ethereal, minimalist figurative works, Mukherjee fuses Indian techniques with his own sensibilities of fleeting spatial relationships punctuated by various materials and juxtaposed textures. His recent abstract work continues to explore the idea of the hybrid object - part painting, part drawing, part sculpture and part environment; grafts that create hybrid varieties.
"The result is an ecstatic abstraction," writes Christopher Knight of the LA Times about his recent show at Sister, LA "built from color, line, movement and light. Like the dance done by a whirling dervish, who positions himself between material and cosmic worlds, Mukherjee's mural is rapturous." Physics, cosmology and the relationship between matter and energy are ideas that currently inform Mukherjee's pictorial space. "Comprehending infinity," writes Nizan Shaked about the current abstactions for X-Tra, "a goal that can be articulated but never directly obtained, is here made visible in a series of powerful pictorial gestures, sophisticated in their simplicity and relevant in their preoccupation with art historical concerns."
Mukherjee’s many group exhibitions include "DRAW•ING (dro'ing) n.," at BravinLee programs, New York, "Symmetry" at the MAK Center at the Schindler House and "Conversations," curated by Connie Butler at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. His work has garnered favorable reviews in the Los Angeles Times, Artforum, Artweek, Art in America, and X-Tra.
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