Your Presence Is Requested Joya Mukerjee Logue

Joya Mukerjee Logue (b. 1976 in Springfield, Ohio) presents Your Presence Is Requested, her first solo exhibition in the US and her first exhibition with Ruttkowski;68.

In Your Presence Is Requested, Joya Mukerjee Logue paints the hum of the social night—gatherings, glances, and fleeting exchanges that turn proximity into something magnetic. Her scenes glow with incandescent light and ambient noise. A cluster of friends mid-story. Soft clinks of ice against glass. Air thick with possibility. These are not grand events but charged moments, small theaters of attention and anticipation.

This new body of work deepens Mukerjee Logue’s exploration of evening, with several works set at a monumental scale that invites the viewer into the scene. Across large canvases and diptychs, she pares her compositions to their essentials. Figures hover at the edge of clarity, held together by light more than line, as if the surrounding air were drawing them into being. Within that softened plane, a signature restrained palette and an economy of form anchor the work in atmosphere rather than anecdote, placing Mukerjee Logue in a lineage of painters who treat space as a psychological field, where color and distance quietly shape how bodies appear to one another making perception itself the subject. From this restraint emerges a clear priority: mood over narrative, presence over description. Edges soften. Attention slows. Social space widens.

What unfolds is the quiet choreography of human interaction, the fragile circuits of connection that make social life feel both staged and alive. The paintings register the pleasure of being together, the memory of shared rooms and simple rituals that linger beyond the moment itself. Beneath that ease lies a tension between seeing and being seen, between noticing and being noticed. This ancient dance, rendered in paint, touches a deeper condition: the human need to belong, to be understood, to matter.

Your Presence Is Requested is both an invitation and an appeal—to enter a shared moment and to remain present in it.

 

Opening reception                  20/02/2026                  6 – 8PM

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