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Toba Khedoori is a young artist whose large-scale drawings and paintings on paper appear to float in empty space. Unlike many contemporary artists who employ newer methods such as installations and video projections, Khedoori uses traditional materials—wax, oil paint, and pencil—to create immense but delicate drawings on vast stretches of unframed paper. Her imagery represents urban or architectural elements—such as rows of windows in a façade, a corridor lined with closed doors, or bricks in a dislocated wall—that define our living space. While the work is realistic in its detailed representation of images, it is abstract in the isolation in which the artist places these images. Her quiet, reticent works operate on both a cerebral and an emotional level. They can be likened to visual poems, conveying a sense of mystery and inviting the viewer to speculate on their meaning while appreciating their serene beauty.
Biography
Toba Khedoori received a B.F.A. (1988) from the San Francisco Art Institute and an M.F.A. (1994) from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has had solo exhibits at the Hirshhorn Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Walker Art Center, the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London, and the Museum fur Gegenawartskunst in Basel. She has taken part in group shows in venues such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen. Khedoori was the recipient of a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (1995).
Published on September 25, 2002
