SANDEEP MUKHERJEE

when I went to see Sandeep Mukherjee's latest show at Margo Leavin Gallery to prepare this review, I was already influenced by a series of light-hearted conversations that he and I had on what it means to be a "subject of art". Admittedly, then, I experienced a serious lack of " critical distance". But it was a productive lack that I'll embrace here by way of mediating on the "subject" that Mukherjee's images give us to ponder. In the past, Mukherjee's work has experimented with the effervescent figure, one that shifts in afield of light and painted color as it is visually caught lost, and gleaned again by the viewer.