Joya Mukerjee Logue harnesses identity and belonging at Vadehra Art Gallery

Artist Joya Mukerjee Logue grew up in the American midwest, though her life in Ohio was punctuated by occasional visits to an ancestral home in a busy marketplace in the city of Ambala, Haryana, in northern India. Her forefathers migrated from Behala in what is now suburban Kolkata to Ambala nearly two centuries ago, in 1845, to help build a cantonment town for India’s colonial rulers. Generations of grandparents and great-aunts continued to make the rambling house a home for Mukerjee Logue on occasional summer visits. In those who walk before me, a solo exhibition at Vadehra Art Gallery in New Delhi, she works between memory and imagination to record her impressions of home, family and the city in a series of oil and watercolour paintings.

3 September 2024