“I like to play with the dignity of a brown person, especially a hairy brown body, in that 17th-century language, which is filled with smooth alabaster.'
and Martin Wong. Particularly inspired by the aesthetics of 17th- and 18th-century European portraiture, Toor has repurposed much of that Romantic vernacular for his loving take on queer bohemia, filled with plenty of couch side banter and drunken sashaying.
In one of his most recent paintings, a condo, three friends sit around a dinner table, one holding up his phone as a redhead across from him stares at it beguilingly. “I thought it was gossip,” Toor says of the phone’s contents. “Like, someone put a picture of themselves up, and this bitch thinks it’s really funny.”alongside a ’70s sweater-vest ad, the cover of a cheap romance novel above an ancient nymph sculpture.
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