Sunset and Child mixed media on canvas 4x4 feet	I Understand acrylic on canvas 4x5
I Will Not Be Confined acrylic on canvas 4x5	Collage 1 mixed media on canvas 4x5
Awakened This Morning etching on canvas 4x5 Click Here To Hear This Painting's Performance	Black on White etching on canvas 4x5
Synesthesia 1 mixed media on canvas 4x4	From My Journals mixed media on canvas 4x4
Chamber Music mixed media on canvas 4x5	Goodbye  etching on canvas 4x5
I Am on the Threshold acrylic on canvas 5x6	Collage 2 mixed media on canvas 4x5
Waltz acrylic on canvas 6x6	Resurrection mixed media on canvas 6x8
This Moment mixed media on canvas 4x4	Piano Piece etching on canvas 4x5
Time mixed media on canvas 4x4	Symphony 13 mixed media on canvas 6x8
Symphony mixed media on canvas 6x8	Beethoven's 9th mixed media on canvas 10x12
Magic Quilt #2 mixed media on canvas 5x4	Magic Quilt #3 mixed media on canvas 5x4
Quartet on Wood wood collage on wood 4x4 (each)	Quartet on Wood wood collage on wood detail
Wood Collage #1 wood on wood 4x4	Wood Collage #2 wood on wood 4x4
Wood Collage #3 wood on wood 2x2	Wood Collage #4 wood on wood 2x2
Something Divine acrylic and paste on canvas 4x5	Serendipity mixed media on wood 4x4

Serpentine wood on wood 6x17 (wall size)

The following is an excerpt from a review by Susan Hilhouse, Curator, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA.   March 2001

The art of Lurie is individual and personal and, like all important art, universal.  In the work of this post-Shakespearian, pre-Rap artist, we hear echoes of the past and predict tones of the future.  Within his paintings, we find visual and philosophical connections in Kandinsky's Improvisations, Whistler's Nocturnes, and Miro's playful personages.

Lurie's approach is intellectual, physical and close to his spirit.  With graceful, free-form movements, he uses brushes, sponges and trowels to apply paint, paste and collaged elements to the canvas surface.  Seeking balance and harmony within a cacophony of themes, Lurie works instinctually through chance and opportunity as he scumbles, scrapes and etches into the work with chopsticks, fingers and the ends of his brushes.  Synthesizing sound, color and language, Lurie pours his soul into improvisational canvas scores that a musician could sit down and play.

Built with rubato-like compositions, often opening with  a staccato and finishing with a legato, Lurie's paintings frequently include previously painted canvases, journal pages and old musical scores.  Binding and cementing the work are warm/cool melodic hues of paint that sometimes blast and jitterbug off the canvas and sometimes decrescendo into a softer voice.  Integrated into the viewing experience is a sound system for recording music that allows us to hear the performance of the piece.

Toby Lurie's genius is manifested in his ability to create serenity through the controlled chaos of time-traveled interpretations of paint, language and music.  No matter how he arrives at this, from knowledge or wisdom, from head or heart, he makes sure we are invited along as an audience, participant and as member of the chorus--seeing, feeling and singing his joy.