Sanchit Art and Dhoomimal Gallery came together to present Confluence at Shridharani Gallery, bringing together works by leading figures of modern and contemporary Indian art including F. N. Souza, M. F. Husain, Anjolie Ela Menon, Jamini Roy, Manjit Bawa, G. R. Santosh, Satish Gujral, Jogen Chowdhury, Rameshwar Broota, Thota Vaikuntam, Neeraj Goswami, and others.
The exhibition explored varied artistic vocabularies through portraiture, abstraction, landscape, and figurative studies. Anjolie Ela Menon’s portrait of a Brahmin boy revealed her characteristic layered surfaces and burnished treatment, while Krishen Khanna’s portrait from 2014 reflected his enduring engagement with colour, imagination, and human presence.
A work on paper by Ram Kumar embodied his meditative abstract landscapes and minimal aesthetic sensibility, described through shifting planes of time, space, and memory. Alongside this, self-taught artist Manoj Dutta presented delicate studies of lotus leaves and ducks rendered in pen, ink, and wash, capturing fleeting movements of nature with lyrical restraint.
The exhibition also highlighted Neeraj Goswami’s Moon Dot (Chandra Bindu), a layered abstraction filled with luminous colour and meditative spatiality, alongside Jogen Chowdhury’s expressive bird drawings that balanced movement, perspective, and landscape through fluid linearity.