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Srijon Chowdhury: The Coldest Night

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Wednesday, 28 February 2018 to Saturday, 31 March 2018

Srijon Chowdhury’s second solo exhibition with Upfor includes thirteen new oil paintings occupying the threshold between fairytale and realism, rich in references to literature, art history and the artist’s personal history. Having spent several months in 2017 creating Revelation Theater, a series of large-scale paintings about the apocalypse, the intimate-scale works in The Coldest Night are, Chowdhury says, evidence of "the residue of immersing myself in that story and now trying to get back out of it.”

Consciously situated in the anxiety of the contemporary moment, Chowdhury hopes to help us “find beauty in darkness and see the darkness that frames all beauty.

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Srijon Chowdhury (b. 1987 in Bangladesh) received his MFA from Otis College of Art and Design (2013). Intended to act in the space between knowledge and emotion, his dream-like oil paintings consider the present moment as part of a larger, intuited (perhaps mythic) history. Chowdhury frequently uses repetition to examine the changes and removal that occur with each re-telling of history, a concept rooted in the experience of overlap and disjunction. He has exhibited in Los Angeles at Klowden Mann, The Torrance Art Museum, Jaus, Launch Gallery and Helen Bolsky Gallery; at Vox Populi in Philadelphia, in Chicago at Sector 2337, in Miami at Fredric Snitzer Gallery, and at The Gallery in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He was recently awarded a 2018 Individual Artist Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission and co-runs an alternative exhibition space, Chicken Coop Contemporary.

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1-503-227-5111
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929 NW Flanders Street, Portland, OR 97209

Upfor Gallery , Portland

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