There will be an opening reception for the artist on Saturday January 31, 3-5 pm at Beyond Baroque, 681 N. Venice Blvd, Venice CA 90291. Gallery & Bookstore are open Fridays & Saturdays from 12 - 6 p.m.

Mukherjee’s installation is a fiberglass head, made by rotating in a 3D printer his own profile horizontally 360 degrees. The translucent fiberglass is lit from within. The light is reflected and refracted in many pieces of irregularly broken mirrors affixed to all five surfaces of the proxy gallery. The idea harkens distantly to the 1915 perceptual experiment by Edgar Rubin, the face/vase illusion, where the shapes of two identical profiles facing each other form the shape of a vase in the negative space between them. The concept became very important in gestalt psychology, showing how the human brain organizes information about figure and ground.

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