Over the last thirty years, Ranu Mukherjee has developed a multidisciplinary practice questioning Western and human-centric ideas about intelligence, resilience, and survival. The Long Middle, her sixth solo exhibition with Gallery Wendi Norris, features eight new paintings that merge the autobiographical with the political, ecological, and geological—linking the pressures of mid-life, motherhood, and personal transformation with climate crisis and species loss. Mukherjee's work explores transitional conditions through layered textile surfaces and geometric shards, built from pigment, crystalina, and ink printed on cotton jamdani and silk sari on linen. The paintings look to the plant and animal worlds as protagonists, depicting organisms that thrive through intimate sensitivity to their surroundings, while human figures recur throughout, proposing shared vocabularies of recovery and tenderness.
