The cumulative visual impact of Mukherjee’s drawings depends much on their engagement with light, space and perceptual illusion as it does on the artist’s precise labour – intensive handiwork. From a distance his vellum sheets look like glowing clouds of colored lights. Viewed from up close, his minutely rendered imagery appears to rise from somewhere beneath the surface of the paper like the consciousness breaking free of a dream.
INTERNATIONAL PAPER, Drawings By International Artists – Essay By Claudine Isé
Claudine Isé, International Paper, UCLA Hammer Museum, October 25, 2013
