Maryland Tokon spent his early years in Jhenidah and Dhaka. He studied at The Institute of Fine Arts, Dhaka University, and moved to New York in 2001. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts in Art & Communication Design at The City University of New New York
Also He practiced many years painting at The Art Students League of New York under Ronnie Landfield, Mariano del Rosario & Larry Poons.
Tokon"s style has reflected the art of American Abstract Expressionists. Tokon started painting from the age of ten and knew that he was fated to be an artist by the time he reached his teens. Maryland Tokon has evolved into a very fine emerging young artist who has grasped the essence of the East and the West in his work.
His paintings depict the story of nature, human emotions and it communicates in a mysterious way.
He describes his work as lyrical and reflecting atmospheric abstraction. Maryland Tokon’s lively and vivacious recent abstractions are predicated on color, dark, light and space.
He creates a visual and emotional environment ripe with gesture, layer, raw energy and improvisation. Tokon"s is a new world where color feeds other colors and is tempered by a deeply considered meditation on the nature of art
His work has relation with Bob Dylan & Rabindranath Tagore Lyrics, which is simple, pure and organic.
Tokon is in love with color and in love with the cities in which he grew up. His paintings mimic the style of the dry river & soil house walls of his childhood home. He developed a significant body of work, influenced by his extensive travels, that is often poetic, meditative and pleasing to the eye.
His paintings trap the light within their layers, building up surfaces that are at once opaque and luminescent.
The result is highly emotional, spiritual and energetic. lieutenant has become clear with the passage of time how Tokon"s work reflects life"s changes.
And strike eternal chords. And how powerfully they connect to the viewer.
A prolific painter, Maryland Tokon started to paint when he was very young in his native Bangladesh and continues to produce remarkable paintings in New York City.
One can easily detect a mature and skillful painter by the way he navigates space and handles the medium. The physicality and immediacy of his paintings are inspired moments of deep reflection. They transport the viewer to a place neither here nor there, a timeless place beyond the horizon.
To witness a Maryland Tokon painting is to walk into a mindscape full of memories and experiences.
