Living in his native Lahore, Toor became deeply knowledgeable about the works of modern Pakistani and Indian painters. Parallel to this, he studied old European masters, avidly copying works by Caravaggio, Peter Paul Rubens, Titian, Jean-Antoine Watteau, and others. Painting distinct hybrid compositions using his brilliant textural brushstrokes and bold ‘Emerald Green’ palette, Toor explores his experiences as a Queer diasporic South Asian man, creating imaginative new worlds for the 21st century. For his first solo exhibition in New England, Indigenous Mexican artist Noé Martínez invokes his Huastecan forebears, histories, and traumas using body, sound, and movement, offering shamanistic healing for past and present wounds. Poignant portraits of young men recur throughout your work. Did you, as a youngster, imagine the life and career you’d have today?

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The Rose Art Museum will host a reception, open to the public, on Thursday, November 16, at 6 p.m. to celebrate the exhibition. A robust slate of programs, including an artist talk, will activate the show during its presentation. Currin looked at Toor. “I have bad news,” he said. “You use a lot of green, and there are guys’ asses. Learn now to hang drywalls is all I’ve got to say.”

Salman Toor (born 1983) is a Pakistani painter based in the United States. His works depict the imagined lives of young men of South Asian-birth, displayed in close range in either South Asia and New York City fantasized settings. [1] Toor lives and works in New York City. Salman Toor: No Ordinary Love is organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art and curated by Dr. Asma Naeem, Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director of the Baltimore Museum of Art. The Rose Art Museum presentation is organized by Dr. Gannit Ankori, Henry and Lois Foster Director and Chief Curator and Professor of Fine Arts and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University, with contributions by Dorian Keeffe, Collections Care and Exhibition Production Assistant.

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Alessandrini, Christopher (2019-05-18). " 'Boys Do It Better': The Paintings of Louis Fratino". The New York Review of Books . Retrieved 2019-06-13. A vital part of Hawaiʻi’s cultural landscape, HoMA is a unique gathering place where art, global worldviews, culture and education converge in the heart of Honolulu. In addition to an internationally renowned permanent collection, the museum houses innovative exhibitions, an art school, an independent art house theatre, a café and a museum shop within one of the most beautiful, iconic buildings in Hawaiʻi. Toor said that when he was an art student “there were only four or five people doing what you do”—meaning figurative paintings of real people. “There was you, and—” Toor makes much of his dual identities: growing up as a queer youth in Lahore, Pakistan, and later moving to New York City. While his work has plenty of softness and whimsy, there are undercurrents of strangeness that verges on the unsettling. Clown noses, marionette strings, and ill-fitted theatrical costumes suggest alienation and the tragic-comic. Figures occasionally stand alone in crowded rooms or are isolated by color and lighting from their fellows. This sense of isolation in one of the most recent works in the show and one of the only works that eschew the human figure: Cemetery with Dog, 2022. The loping, smeared white dog in Cemetery with Dog evokes Francis Bacon’s Study for a Running Dog, c. 1954. Bacon’s mangy dogs also emerged at a moment of cross-cultural alienation, emerging after a trip to South Africa. In both works, the dogs suggest the uncanny realization that the benign and familial can take on an ominous quality when removed from its happy, familiar context.

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As part of the Met's Open Access policy, you can freely copy, modify and distribute this image, even for commercial purposes. API Stone, Julia (2016). "Reimagining His Roots, East and West". Ohio Wesleyan University . Retrieved 2021-10-20.In addition to his paintings and works on paper, Salman Toor: No Ordinary Love also showcases two of Toor’s sketchbooks, providing a glimpse into his creative process. These sketchbooks offer a behind-the-scenes look at how Toor develops his ideas and brings them to life on canvas. By including this element in the exhibition, viewers can gain a deeper understanding of Toor’s artistic journey and the inspiration behind his captivating works. Toor’s art explores his experiences as a Queer diasporic South Asian man, weaving together historical motifs and contemporary moments.

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The Rose Art Museum fosters community, experimentation, and scholarship through direct engagement with modern and contemporary art, artists, and ideas. Founded in 1961, the Rose is among the nation’s preeminent university art museums and houses one of New England's most extensive collections of modern and contemporary art. Through its exceptional collection, support of emerging artists, and innovative programming, the Museum serves as a nexus for art and social justice at Brandeis University and beyond. Located just 20 minutes from downtown Boston, the Rose Art Museum is open Wednesdays–Sundays, 11 AM–5 PM. Admission is free. It was a warmish night in early May. The house has five floors, and there are Currin paintings on almost every wall. A larger-than-life sculpture by Feinstein, of the Italian clown Punchinello and his family, fills the entrance hall. When Toor arrived, wearing a loose, saffron-colored linen shirt over matching pants, Feinstein showed him around. “These are portraits of the kids that John’s been doing over the years,” she said. “This is one of me when I was thirty—before the kids. Now my portraits look like I’m angry.” Toor recognized almost every painting by name, from reproductions he’d seen. Currin joined us in the sitting room, and shook hands with Toor. They sat down near a blazing fire. “John wants the drama of fires even when it’s a thousand degrees outside,” Feinstein explained. “He turns up the air-conditioning beforehand.” I am an aspirational minimalist, and I fail at it, but I keep trying. I’m a hoarder, but I like to organise. I actually cleaned last night, and I’m in a very organised apartment right now – it’s just giving me shivers of pleasure to walk around it. Stop Play Pause Repeat, Lawrie Shabibi Gallery, Dubai Letters to Taseer II, Drawing Room Gallery, Lahore 2010 [28] Toor said, “ I like these… bodies of color inhabiting familiar, bourgeois, urban, interior spaces… Sometimes they can look like lifestyle images. They are also fantasies about myself and my community.”

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Salman Toor was born in Lahore, Pakistan in 1983 and currently lives and works in New York. He studied painting and drawing at Ohio Wesleyan University and received his Master of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Salman Toor: How Will I Know, the artist’s first institutional solo exhibition, was recently presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2020-21). I was interested in having both a sense of outer perception and an inner self-portrait. It’s about another threshold: that feeling that I still have – coming from one part of the world into this, the English-speaking world, or Europe, or whatever – that those two things are sometimes at war with each other. I guess I want the viewer to become the immigration officer and decide who should be let in – and why. The Rose Art Museum is thrilled to present Salman Toor: No Ordinary Love to its audiences. Dr. Gannit Ankori, Henry and Lois Foster Director and Chief Curator of the Rose Art Museum, describes Toor as a stellar painter and virtuoso draftsman. The exhibition showcases Toor’s deep art historical knowledge, spanning European, American, and South Asian traditions. Works like Boys in Bed (2021), recently acquired by the Rose Art Museum, demonstrate Toor’s ability to imbue sensuality, vulnerability, and humor into his art. No Ordinary Love promises to be a riveting exhibition that will leave a lasting impact on all who experience it.