Indigo+Madder is thrilled to announce the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami's acquisition of Shailee Mehta's painting Stray

Indigo+Madder is thrilled to announce the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami's acquisition of Shailee Mehta's painting Stray, which which is now a part of the Museum's permanent collection. The painting was presented in Mudbath, her first solo exhibition with the gallery.

Stray, the largest work in the exhibition, continues Mehta’s examination of the self through ideas of care and connectedness. Imbued with a theatrical quality, the composition takes inspiration from early South Asian Mughal and Pahari paintings. It features various figures in states of leisure, enacting imagined mythologies and narratives where animals and women are engaged in a dialogue - a wildness of the psyche suggested through companionship. For Mehta, the interdependence alluded to in these scenes, is a recognition of the value of vulnerability, social bonding and connectedness.