“Between Surface And Depth" An Exhibition of Paintings By Bharti Verma, Ruchi Chadha in Jehangir Art Gallery

Bharti Verma

 

Bharti’s figurative practice unfolds as a quiet, resonant inquiry into the emotional life of the human body. Her paintings are not portraits of individuals but threshold spaces where the figure becomes a vessel for memory, vulnerability, endurance, and inward reflection. Faces are often veiled or absent, and gender dissolves into ambiguity, allowing the body to stand for a shared human presence rather than a fixed identity. The personal opens into the collective, and the figure becomes a bridge between private emotion and universal experience.

Artist - Bharti Verma

 

Surface is central to her language. Scraped, layered, and washed grounds recall ancient, weathered walls marked by human touch, evoking the primal lineage of cave painting as witness to existence. Figures seem to emerge from and recede into these terrains, shaped by memory, erosion, and return. In works with multiple bodies, forms overlap and merge, suggesting shared emotional states, intimacy, shelter, burden, and co-existence. Gesture becomes an emotional syntax: bowed backs, folded limbs, and weighted postures carry feeling.

 

Rendered in restrained greys, ash, umber, and muted blues, her palette creates a hushed, contemplative atmosphere. These works meditate on the body as a psychic landscape quietly resilient, grounded in acceptance rather than retreat.

 

 

Ruchi Chadha

 

Ruchi Chadha is a Delhi-based visual artist and a graduate of the College of Art, New Delhi. With over three decades of dedicated practice, she draws profound inspiration from nature’s quiet strength, resilience, and transformative power. A painter and ceramist, Ruchi moves fluidly across mediums, expressing organic rhythms and evolving forms that reflect her deep engagement with the natural world.

 

In this exhibition, she presents her ongoing series of lotus paintings from a distinctive underwater perspective. By shifting the viewer’s gaze beneath the surface, she reveals the hidden ecosystem that sustains the lotus—murky waters, drifting weeds, and subtle aquatic life. Water becomes both environment and metaphor, its ripples, reflections, and diffused light creating a sense of depth, movement, and introspection.

 

Delicate leaves and slender stems ascend through shadow toward illumination, symbolizing hope, courage, and perseverance. Rooted in silt yet reaching for light, the lotus emerges as a powerful emblem of resilience and renewal. Through layered textures and tonal contrasts, Ruchi invites viewers into an immersive, contemplative space. Her works evoke stillness and inner strength, leaving a lasting impression of harmony, endurance, and the quiet triumph inherent in nature’s cycles.

 

This show will be inaugurated on 3^rd March 2026 at 5.30pm by Hon.Guests Ms. Nidhi Choudhari, Director National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, Ms Sapna Kar(Director, Curators.art), Ms Rajneeta  Kewalramani(Director, thecurators.art), Mr. Rajendra Patil(Founder, India Art Festival).

 From: 3^rd to 9^th March 2026

“Between Surface And Depth"

The Inner Landscapes

An Exhibition of Paintings

By 

Well-known artists - Bharti Verma, Ruchi Chadha

 

VENUE:

Jehangir Art Gallery

AC Gallery No. 2

161-B, M.G. Road

Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400001

Timing: 11am to 7pm.

Contact: +91 9899986042, +91 9599944430

“ATHAHA” Solo Show of Paintings by well-known artist Alka Bhrushundi in Jehangir Art Gallery

Alka Bhrushundi’s ‘Athaha’ does not merely contemplate infinity; it constructs it.

In her works, blue is not a backdrop to devotion but a spatial field in which matter, energy, and consciousness appear suspended. The paintings move between vortex and void, between cellular intricacy and cosmic scale. Spirals open like primordial galaxies. Orb-like forms hover as if embryonic worlds. Vein-like calligraphic tracings pulse across surfaces, suggesting neural networks, river deltas, or unseen cosmological diagrams. The language is abstract, yet unmistakably organic.

Artist: Alka Bhrushundi

The artist’s earlier engagement with devotional figuration has not disappeared; it has evolved. What once required an image now unfolds as vibration. The divine is no longer personified but diffused, circulating through colour, texture, and atmosphere. Blue dominates, but it is not singular. It deepens into indigo, fractures with rusted orange, glows with quiet gold. It carries both immersion and combustion.

There is a compelling tension in these works: density and lightness coexist. Feathers drift across turbulent grounds. Gold fissures cut through planetary masses. Mist veils intricate structures beneath. The compositions feel simultaneously microcosmic and macrocosmic; as if we are witnessing the inside of a cell and the birth of a universe in the same breath.

‘Athaha’ proposes infinity not as escape, but as interior expansion. These paintings ask the viewer to recalibrate scale, to consider that vastness may reside within the smallest pulse of awareness. In an era of distraction and speed, this work insists on sustained looking. It resists narration and instead offers immersion.

Infinity here is not decorative mysticism. It is a disciplined exploration of energy, stillness, and threshold. Stand before these works long enough, and the boundary between outer cosmos and inner landscape begins to thin.

The Exhibition will be inaugurated on 3^rd March 2026 at 5 pm by Honourable Guests Shri Rajendra Patil (President -The Bombay Art Society, Founder – India Art Festival), Prof. Dr. Ganesh Tartare(Sir, J.J. School of Art, Mumbai), Shri Rishiraj Sethi (CA, CFA; Director – Aura Art eConnect Pvt.Ltd)

 “From: 3^rd to 9^th March 2026

“ATHAHA”

Beyond the Boundaries

Solo Show of Paintings by well-known artist Alka Bhrushundi

 

VENUE:

Jehangir Art Gallery

AC Gallery -1,

161-B, M. G. Road, Kala Ghoda,

Mumbai 400001

Timing: 11am to 7pm.

Contact: +91 7703880130