Raised in the United States with yearly visits to her ancestral home in Ambala, artist Joya Mukherjee Logue’s exhibition named ‘Those who walk before me’ is an ode to her childhood exploration of identity and culture.
As an Indian-American, her annual gaze at Ambala from Ohio consisted of a fluid sepia-toned tapestry of women in saris, night bazaars, and parties at the ancestral home from five generations ago.
Her first solo show opened this week at the contemporary space of Vadehra Art Gallery in Defence Colony. The exhibition consists of around 30 oil and watercolour paintings. Following the movement of the army cantonment to Ambala in 1845, her great-great-grandfather built this home named Rajovilla and set up his homoeopathy practice. Mukherjee, whose father emigrated to Ohio, US, had her first visit as a baby in 1977.
