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Salman Toor is a Pakistani-born American painter. His works depict intimate moments in the lives of fictional young, brown, queer men ensconced in contemporary cosmopolitan culture. Toor's work is often dominated by a satuarted green palette, which he describes as having a nocturnal quality evoking poison and glamor. Toor explains, "I like these seemingly undernourished and hairy bodies of color inhabiting familiar, bourgeois, urban, interior spaces. I see these boys or men as well-educated, creative types discovering what it means to live an artist's llife in New York City and in the thick of changing ideas about race, immigration, and foreigness, and also what it means to be American."

Source:DMAC News Jan Feb Mar Apr 2023 


DimensionsCanvas: 36 × 30 × 3/4 in. (91.4 × 76.2 × 1.9 cm)
Accession Number 2022.48
Classificationspainting
SignedSalman Toor '21 (verso, u,c black ink)
ProvenanceArtist; (Luhring Augustine, New York); Des Moines Art Center [purchased from the previous, 2022]
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