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“Project
Series 21: Sandeep Mukherjee” Opens at Pomona College
Museum of Art
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“Project Series 21: Sandeep Mukherjee,” an exhibition of a
new, monumental drawing installation, will be on view from
January 20 through February 22 at the Pomona College Museum
of Art. An opening reception will be held at the Museum from
7 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday, January 24, with a music and
dance party provided by DJs DME beginning 8:30 p.m.
For the last several years, Sandeep Mukherjee has created
drawings and installations that extend figurative drawing
and minimalist painting to new realms. Mukherjee links
playful intent and sensuous materiality with an intellectual
rigor, exploring through evocative figurative abstractions
the illusive terrain of subjectivity, cultural specificity,
and hybridity. He brings together a multiplicity of
references—the Baroque, Pop Art, Minimalism, Pattern and
Decoration, Indian miniature paintings, illuminated
manuscripts, classical figurative sculpture—to explore
phenomenological relations among light and space, to
question traditional notions of representation, and to alter
profoundly our expectations of art and consciousness.
In fields of glowing color, Mukherjee draws exquisitely
rendered figures and forms that hover and float through an
enigmatic space. The artist creates these poetic visions
with a precise and painstaking process—sheets of Duralene (a
translucent vellum-like paper) are airbrushed with brilliant
hues, then the opposing surface is delicately drawn with
fine pencils, and both sides are embossed with
scribing/etching tools. The embossing breaks the plane of
the surface and creates a kind of linear relief sculpture.
Light striking the surface transforms the embossed line into
dimensional form and creates spatial relationships to the
painted and drawn elements.
Born in India and raised in Los Angeles, Mukherjee continues
to negotiate a wide range of cultures, genres and media. For
this exhibition, Mukherjee presents a new drawing
installation that further expands the scope of his project
by adding new layers of meaning and new devices of scale.
Using the same techniques as previously, the artist has now
shifted his content into an arena that conflates Asian
landscape painting conventions with a postmodern image of
subjectivity as presented through the shifting scale of the
figures and the poetic ambiguity of the narrative content.
“Project Series 21: Sandeep Mukherjee” is the twenty-first
exhibition in the Project Series. Organized by Museum
Curator Rebecca McGrew, the Project Series presents Southern
California artists in one-gallery exhibitions. The purpose
of the series, now in its sixth year, is to bring to the
Pomona College campus art that is experimental; that
introduces new forms, techniques, or concepts; or that may
be difficult to show in other venues. During each
exhibition, participating artists spend time on campus
working with faculty and students in relevant disciplines.
The Project Series is supported in part by the Pasadena Art
Alliance and Pomona College Museum of Art Advisory Committee
member Sarah Miller Meigs.
The Pomona College Museum of Art is located in the
Montgomery Art Center, 330 N. College Avenue, Claremont. The
Museum is open to the public free of charge Tuesday through
Friday, from noon to 5 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday from 1
to 5 p.m. For more information, call (909) 621-8283 or visit
the museum’s website at www.pomona.edu/museum.
The Pomona College Museum of Art collects, preserves,
exhibits, and interprets works of art. The Museum houses a
substantial permanent collection as well as serving as a
gallery for the display of temporary exhibitions. Important
holdings include the Kress Collection of 15th- and
16th-century Italian panel paintings; more than 5,000
examples of Pre-Columbian to 20th-century American Indian
art and artifacts, including basketry, ceramics, and
beadwork; and a large collection of American and European
prints, drawings, and photographs, including works by
Francisco de Goya, José Clemente Orozco, and Rico Lebrun. |
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