Alakananda Mukerji “A Splash of Thoughts and A Touch of Color”
Blue Mountain Gallery
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It has been suggested that the word religion is derived from the Latin referring to that which binds us to what is sacred or divine. For Alakananda, line and color are spiritual exercises; they are prayers and temples; they are invitations to see existence in all its holy grandeur. And like a true devotee, the artist spends time each day in contemplation, paintbrush or charcoal in hand, focusing on the infinite potential of a blank canvas.
Like the Ganges of her youth, or the Harlem and Hudson of her adulthood, Mukerji sees her art and herself as a river—a symbol of the transcendent in its ever-changing, changeless flow. Movement, tension, currents, force, these are the fluvial elements of her work — twistings, turnings, peaceful restlessness.
The objects and characters in the artist’s compositions are acolytes to the slow and careful revelation of subject — some figurative, others abstract, yet all incarnations of the concepts of form and colors. In both their familiarity and strangeness, they speak of various facets of the human experience: moods and mindsets; cultures, clashing or combining; being and becoming.
Alakananda Mukerji has made many stops along the pilgrimage that has been her life as an artist. This show is an itinerary of her journey, with images informed and inspired by the many devotional stops she has made along the way: the realistic, the baroque, the artisanal, the expressionistic, the impressionistic, the modern, the romantic and the primitive.
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Schedule
from November 25, 2014 to December 20, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-12-06 from 15:00 to 18:00