Salman Toor “Wish Maker,” is on view at Luhring Augustine through June 21, 2025.
Visit our Chelsea gallery to view new paintings by Toor, and a presentation of drawings at our Tribeca gallery.
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Throughout his work Toor fuses and complicates art historical references with contemporary concerns, as he does with recurring motifs, such as his “fag puddles”—leaky and often perversely opulent heaps of limbs, clothing, and objects—and the way in which he attires his figures in fashions from across time and cultures. As curator Rachel Cieśla notes, the artist’s work “is a compilation of ‘things’ that mixes historical traditions with pieces of local history, popular culture, politics and his lived experience… [Toor] pulls from art history’s ‘pile of limbs’ to bring into being new bodies composed from part-bodies. After all, style is embodied knowledge and by specifically recounting the tradition of European painting in his compositions, Toor carries that history into this century and muddies the divisions of time, place and circumstance.” [i]
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Details of drawings by Salman Toor: 1. “Fag Puddle with Arch and Debris,” 2024; 3. “Fag Puddle with Books and Wire,” 2024; 4. “Fag Puddle with Hat,” 2024; 6. “Fag Puddle with Heads,” 2024; 2,5. Installation views of “Salman Toor: Wish Maker” at Luhring Augustine Tribeca.
[i] “Drawing is a being born.” “Salman Toor: New Paintings and Drawings.” Perth: Art Gallery of Western Australia, 2024.
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