Gallery Espace presents Lava April 20, 2010

Gallery Espace is proud to present Lava, bronze sculptures by one of India’s most senior artists Mrinalini Mukherjee. Her current body of work has taken three years to complete and includes over 30 sculptures.



Born in 1949, Mumbai, Mrinalini Mukherjee is the daughter of renowned artists Benode Behari and Leela Mukherjee. She studied painting at M S University of Baroda between 1965 and 1970. From 1970 to 1972, she did her post-Diploma in mural design under Prof. K G Subramanyan. Her artistic experimentations have traversed the mediums of natural fiber, wax, ceramic and more recently metal. Her works are well collected world over, featured in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford England, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, U.K, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, NGMA, New Delhi and the Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhawan, New Delhi, besides other prominent private collections.