Srijon Chowdhury at Ciaccia Levi and Foxy Production at Independent
A figurative painter who was born in Bangladesh and currently lives and works in Portland, Oregon, Srijon Chowdhury captures everyday scenes from his life and times using a symbolic style of painting. Expressing profound emotions and secretive states of mind, he paints poetic pictures that are equally personal and visceral—combining realism and symbolism while applying a mythical edge to domestic stories. For his solo show at the shared booth of Ciaccia Levi and Foxy Production, Chowdhury presented two large canvases of allegorical subjects inspired by Medieval manuscripts and a series of small paintings of bodies in moments of rawness and introspection—including the 2023 canvas Eye, which captures his hands holding a cellphone with an image of his wife reflected in his eye—attached to a fascinating arched steel fence that incorporates text from a William Blake poem.