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“Toor nods to the Baroque period with his own stark lighting, rich color, and dramatic poses, but his brushstrokes are often wide, long, and loose, resonating with the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings throughout the Cone galleries that house all but one of his works. There is a flatness to Toor’s landscape works within the 40-some paintings and drawings that comprise this show, reminiscent of panoramic South Asian compositions. But the overflowing abundance characteristic of the Rococo style is present in green-washed jumbles of limp limbs, rags, feather boas, shoes, black trash bags, and clown noses. These piles are a recurrent motif Toor affectionately names ‘fag puddles.’ (This joie de vivre has a dark sense of humor.)”
