The Odyssey: Crossroads of Dreams and Memories, is artist Md Tokon’s exclusive solo exhibition. It will be held from 21st January, 2023 to 16th February 2023 at Edge Gallery, Bay’s Edgewater, Gulshan North Avenue.
The exhibition’s theme is the artist’s struggles and celebrations during his journey from rural Jhenaidah to New York city. Born in Jhenaidah, he started painting at the age of 10, and continues to paint large canvases as well as works on paper in New York.
Md Tokon’s lives and works in the United States, where he has attended the prestigious Art Students League of New York – an institution which counts the likes of Mark Rothko and Cy Twombly in its alumni. His work has also deep roots in Bangladesh’s long tradition of abstract painting, of which Tokon singles out the work of the late Mohammad Kibria as an influence.
His singular voice as a painter, his originality, and his fearless and dogged pursuit of a distinctive and personal style and genre regardless of changing trends, positions him to emerge as one of New York City’s leading painters of South Asian origin. The exhibition in Dhaka will undoubtedly resonate among art lovers, students and the younger generation of painters and multi-disciplinary artists.
