Joya Mukerjee Logue

Cincinnati — Painting

Mukerjee Logue gathers visual cues from lived experience and collected imagery, developing scenes shaped by light, tone and the subtle charge of being together. Her figures hover at the edge of clarity — held together by light more than line — as if the surrounding air were drawing them into being. Edges soften, attention slows, and what emerges is the quiet choreography of human interaction: the fragile circuits of connection that make social life feel both staged and alive. Her practice is deeply informed by her mixed heritage — raised in Ohio with yearly visits to her ancestral home in Ambala, Haryana, India, where her family settled in 1845. This dual inheritance — American Midwest and northern India — runs through her choice of subjects: women in saris, domestic interiors, family gatherings, the warm haze of diffused sunlight and faded colour. Rather than painting from photographs, Mukerjee Logue works from memory and imagination, treating her scenes as atemporal — assembled from jumbled recollections of faces, dispositions and places rather than fixed moments in time. Her artistic formation developed through sustained, largely self-directed study, drawing on the observational discipline of her scientific education — degrees in biology, chemistry and psychology — and the perceptual acuity those disciplines demand. She is represented in India by Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi and in the United States and Europe by Ruttkowski;68.