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Salman Toor

Two Boys with a Dog, 2020

Description

Maker

Salman Toor, b. 1983, American b. Pakistan

Title

Two Boys with a Dog

Year

2020

Medium

Oil on panel

Dimensions

35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 inches)

Type

Paintings

Credit

Museum purchase: gift of Avo Samuelian and Hector Manuel Gonzalez

Object Number

2020.48

Exhibition History

Any distance between us

July 17, 2021 - March 13, 2022

“I like these seemingly undernourished and hairy bodies of color inhabiting familiar, bourgeois, urban interior spaces. I see these boys or men as well-educated creative types discovering what it means to live an artist’s life in New York City, and in the thick of changing ideas about race, immigration, and foreignness, and also what it means to be American. Sometimes they can look like lifestyle images. They are also fantasies about myself and my community. It’s incredibly empowering to share the comedy and disquiet of these narratives with Americans, and the world.”
–Salman Toor, 2021

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