Calcutta-born painter Kanishka Raja, in the past few years, has received attention for his images of interior landscapes, which blend a hard-edged illustrational style with Op art patterning, Indian miniaturist detail and American pop references. For his exhibition, Raja presents new and recent work in I.M. Pure. He draws inspiration from the public, though anonymous, interiors of hotels and airport lounges, as well as from the more intimate domains of bedrooms and family “rec” rooms. Although his paintings are empty of inhabitants, Raja fills them with resonant objects - crates of vinyl records, old exercise equipment, rifles, sneakers - that give clues as to who might reside in these fragmented worlds.

Raja was born in Calcutta, India in 1969 and has lived in the United States since he was 18. He received his MFA from Southern Methodist University in Dallas in 1995 and in 2000 he attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine. He has had solo exhibitions at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., Bellwether Gallery in Brooklyn, Allston Skirt Gallery in Boston and the ICA in Boston. He has also been included in group exhibitions in Boston, New York, Miami and Berlin.