Salman Toor: There’s a boy I know January 9, 2021 12:52 pm
Salman Toor,
The Star, 2019
By Laurie Fendrich / Critics have been lavish in their praise of the Brown, queer-themed figurative paintings by the Pakistani-born Brooklyn artist Salman Toor, currently on view in the Whitney Museum’s first-floor lobby gallery (free of charge to the public). And rightly so. Toor’s pictures touch the heart, and his audacious drawing and sensitive paint handling satisfy our aesthetic longings.
Salman Toor, Man with Face Creams and Phone Plug, 2019
Curated by Christopher Y. Lew and Abrika Trasi, “How Will I Know” – the title comes from the eponymous Whitney Houston song – is Toor’s first solo museum show, and likely not his last. With fifteen fairly small oil on panel paintings