Dreamlike oil paintings positioning our present era as part of a larger mythology

Vacillating between a highly stylized approach and startling realism, Portland-based Bangladeshi painter Srijon Chowdhury (born 1987) brings an uncanny contemporary twist to traditional genres like family portraiture and the vanitas still life. Accompanying his first solo museum exhibition, this volume provides an overview of Chowdhury’s burgeoning career.