{"id":12399,"date":"2025-05-21T10:30:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T14:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=12399"},"modified":"2025-05-21T08:27:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T12:27:39","slug":"salman-toor-wish-maker-at-luhring-augustine-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/21\/salman-toor-wish-maker-at-luhring-augustine-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Salman Toor, &#8216;Wish Maker&#8217; at Luhring Augustine Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stony-faced men in paintings titled \u2018Angry Dads\u2019 or \u2018Uncles\u2019 contrast images of young men with distant looks or softly downcast gazes in Salman Toor\u2019s tour de force character studies in the Tribeca venue of his solo debut at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.luhringaugustine.com\/exhibitions\/salman-toor2#tab:thumbnails\">Luhring Augustine Gallery<\/a>\u2019s New York locations.\u00a0 Ever present in both shows is the uncomfortable coexistence of the artist\u2019s traditional upbringing in Lahore, Pakistan, and the life he has made for himself in New York\u2019s queer diasporic south Asian community.\u00a0 This pairing of a defiant youth with a wall of disapproving older men encapsulates the drama, frustration, and absurdity of the conflict.\u00a0 (On view in Chelsea and Tribeca through June 21<sup>st<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 2573px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/6653076e-78ff-f612-b5a7-438cfe6e9d96.jpg\" width=\"2573\" height=\"2410\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Salman Toor, \u2018Boy, Dads,\u2019 pencil, charcoal, and gouache on paper, 10 1\/8 x 10 \u00bd inches, 2024.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stony-faced men in paintings titled \u2018Angry Dads\u2019 or \u2018Uncles\u2019 contrast images of young men with distant looks or softly downcast gazes in Salman Toor\u2019s tour de force character studies in the Tribeca venue of his solo debut at Luhring Augustine Gallery\u2019s New York locations.\u00a0 Ever present in both shows is the uncomfortable coexistence of the &hellip; 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