Salman Toor: No Ordinary Love

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At London’s the Perimeter last year, viewers will have seen your Immigration Men ; figures standing with their personal affairs laid out on a table in front of them. It’s a composition you return to again and again. Are they political? Wilkin, Karen (March 2021). "Salman Toor at the Whitney by Karen Wilkin". newcriterion.com . Retrieved 2021-10-20.

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No! I had a show in New York called Time after Time, and then I used a Sade title for my show at the Baltimore Museum: No Ordinary Love. I’ve done Sade, I’ve done Whitney… Maybe I should do Mariah? Actually, for the Chinese show they wanted me to do another song title, and I said: I’m done. So it’s just called New Paintings and Drawings. Murphy, Peter (2021-02-02). "Salman Toor: How Will I Know". The Brooklyn Rail . Retrieved 2021-10-20. Salman Toor: No Ordinary Love is an extraordinary exhibition that will be on display at the Rose Art Museum from November 16, 2023. This exhibition brings together more than 45 recent paintings and works on paper by the Pakistan-born artist, Salman Toor. Through his art, Toor explores his experiences as a Queer diasporic South Asian man, creating imaginative new worlds that challenge traditional notions of power and sexuality. The exhibition also features Toor’s sketchbooks, offering a unique glimpse into his creative process. Exploring Themes of Desire, Family, and Tradition a b c d e f g "The Self as Cipher: Salman Toor's Narrative Paintings". whitney.org . Retrieved 2022-02-17. THE CULTURE: HIP HOP & CONTEMPORARY ART IN THE 21ST CENTURY GREGORY R. MILLER & CO./BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART/SAINT LOUIS ART MUSEUM ISBN: 9781941366547Salman Toor’s sumptuous and insightful figurative paintings depict intimate, quotidian moments in the lives of fictional young, brown, queer men ensconced in contemporary cosmopolitan culture. His work oscillates between heartening and harrowing, seductive and poignant, inviting and eerie.

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Salman Toor was born in 1983 in Lahore,Pakistan. He attended Aitchison College. [2] Toor came to the United States to attend school at Ohio Wesleyan University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2006. [3] He then obtained his MFA degree from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in 2009. [4] Toor’s art explores his experiences as a Queer diasporic South Asian man, weaving together historical motifs and contemporary moments. Leo Kalyan earned his undergraduate degree in England, at King’s College London. Toor stayed with him when he went to London in the summer of 2004. He spent his days at the National Gallery and other museums, but his nights, he said, were “like a crash course in mainstream gay culture.” Kalyan, Sethi, Aijazuddin, and Toor were all dating, but they weren’t dating one another. This changed six years ago, when Sethi and Toor realized that they belonged together. Although they live in different New York apartments, the bond between them is very deep. “I knew I had found the person I wanted to be with for good,” Toor told me. They have all done well in the world. Aijazuddin, who became an artist and a writer, now lives chiefly in New York; Sethi and Kalyan are both singers and songwriters, well known for their innovations in traditional South Asian music. (Sethi’s most recent single, “ Pasoori,” has drawn more than two hundred and ninety million viewers on YouTube.) The four friends continue to keep in touch, talking on the phone or the Internet nearly every day. 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 MFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. Salman Toor: How Will I Know, the artist’s first institutional solo exhibition, was recently presented at the Whitney Museum (2020–21).

Salman’s paintings are in my view a weird mixture of very retrograde, post-Impressionist handling,” Currin said. “What I like about them is that there’s a kind of easy glamour. This is me and my friends, and we have a cool life.”

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The Met's Libraries and Research Centers provide unparalleled resources for research and welcome an international community of students and scholars. Toor's work is included in such museum collections as the Whitney Museum of American Art [16] and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. [17] Work [ edit ] Toor’s art explores his experiences as a Queer diasporic South Asian man and challenges traditional art historical traditions. Preview our Fall 2023 catalog, featuring more than 500 new books on art, photography, design, architecture, film, music and visual culture.

For the Rose presentation of No Ordinary Love, the exhibition will be nestled within the museum’s permanent collection, creating formal and thematic dialogues between Toor’s paintings and drawings and other works of art. The Rose Art Museum is the final venue for Salman Toor: No Ordinary Love; previous venues included the Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii, and the Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida. The exhibition was organized by and debuted at the Baltimore Museum of Art and curated by Dr. Asma Naeem, Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director of the Baltimore Museum of Art. Acclaimed writers Evan Moffitt and Hanya Yangagihara contributed essays to the exhibition’s accompanying illustrated catalogue. Since May, Salman Toor’s “No Ordinary Love” has been on display at the Baltimore Museum of Art. The exhibit boasts more than 45 paintings as well as a selection of Toor’s sketchbook drawings, that blend historical motif, echo the impressionist works of Monet and van Gogh, and simultaneously take on a contemporary feel. Toor’s distinctive style combines historical motifs with contemporary moments to create imaginative new worlds for the 21st century. 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. 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.”

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The inclusion of a variety of works aligns with the museum’s mission statement, which says: “This belief is that art is at the heart of the BMA…with a commitment to artistic excellence and social equity in every decision from art presentation, interpretation, and collecting… creating a museum welcoming to all.” The title of your hit show at the Whitney stole from a Whitney Houston song. Should all exhibition titles be taken from Whitney songs? At Aitchison College, a boys-only institution, built by the British when Pakistan was part of India and Britain ruled the subcontinent, Toor’s femininity made him the butt of teasing and bullying. Every day, students followed him down the halls, talking in high voices and imitating his swinging gait—“sashaying,” as he calls it. There were a few occasions when he was pushed around and roughed up, but nobody ever hated him, and things improved in the middle school at Aitchison, when his ability to draw brought him respect and admiration. “A lot of kids completely changed their mind about who I was,” he said. Older students asked him to make nude portraits of their imagined girlfriends. The whole school became aware of Toor when he turned sixteen and took the O-level exams—an imperial tradition (they’re now officially known as I.G.C.S.E.s)—and earned world distinction, scoring in the one-hundredth percentile in art. “Salman was prodigiously talented,” Komail Aijazuddin, one of his schoolmates, told me. “He knew light and shape in a way that was almost irritatingly intuitive.”The discontinuities in a Toor slide show can be epic. I saw photographs of a burly, “really handsome” construction worker doing manly things in Lahore, and of Toor’s uncle’s wedding in the nineteen-sixties, also in Lahore. “This is a miniature from the nineteenth century, after the East India Company was established and the English were the lords and masters of India,” Toor explained. “A style of painting developed at that point, called Company Painting; it was done by local artists, and showed the overlords with their servants and possessions. There’s a power relationship here that I’m very interested in.” We looked at paintings of his friend Alexandra Atiya, and examples of ancient Gandhara sculptures, which, he said, have “a particular hair style I love—a bun in the center of the head, and the hair that cascades down—you also see that in Buddhist art.” On and on it went: an early painting by Philip Guston, and one by Alice Neel (“I just love the speed of it”); Nicole Eisenman’s rendering of a dinner party; Toor’s 2017 portrait of Ali Sethi, singing. 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 MFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. Salman Toor: No Ordinary Love, a solo exhibition of the artist’s work organized by and originally presented attheBaltimore Museum of Art, MD in 2022, is currentlyon atthe Honolulu Museum of Art, HI through October 2023, the show was previously on view at the Tampa Museum of Art, FL in spring 2023 and will travel to Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University,Waltham,MAin December 2023.A major solopresentation ofToor’sworkwas also recently on view atMWOOD inBeijingin Winter2023. 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.