Rina Banerjee

Rina Banerjee (born 1963) is an Indian-American artist and sculptor.

[2] In 1963, Banerjee was born in a Bengali family in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in the Indian state of West Bengal.

[3] She grew up in London and Queens, New York,[4][5] and has lived in the United States ever since.

Banerjee has mentioned in interviews that the inspiration for her art comes from her childhood memories of visiting her grandfather during his homeopathic treatments.

Many of the images and visuals from her visits with her grandfather have stayed with her and can be seen in her art work.

Lady of Commerce - wooden. Hers is a transparent beauty, her eager sounds, her infinite and clamorous land and river, ocean and island, earth and sky...all contained, bottled for delivery to open an hole, a commerce so deep while large her arms fool stretched too wide and her sulfurous halo - a ring of glass, metal, stone retire to a sun of fire (2012), National Museum of Women in the Arts , Washington, D.C.