Toba Khedoori
25 Sep 2016 - 19 Mar 2017
© Toba Khedoori
Untitled (clouds), 2005
Sender Collection
photo © Douglas M. Parker Studio, courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles, and David Zwirner, New York/London
Untitled (clouds), 2005
Sender Collection
photo © Douglas M. Parker Studio, courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles, and David Zwirner, New York/London
TOBA KHEDOORI
25 September 2016 – 19 March 2017
Toba Khedoori explores the artist’s nuanced and powerful body of work. Born in Sydney, Australia in 1964, Khedoori has lived and worked in Los Angeles since 1990. Her early works are notable for their precise draftsmanship and for their use of negative space—often at a very large scale.
Khedoori frequently depicts architectural forms from distanced perspectives, rendering commonplace objects and spaces familiar yet decontextualized. In recent years, she has transitioned from paper to canvas, producing smaller-scale works that hover between representation and abstraction. Like her earlier compositions, these works are enigmatic and acutely detailed; in an art world awash with rapidly moving images and saturated colors, Khedoori remains committed to the silent, slow, and exacting process of working by hand.
The exhibition is the first major museum presentation of Khedoori’s new paintings and her first survey in fifteen years. In addition to contributing to the rapidly growing recognition of the work of women artists, Toba Khedoori extends LACMA’s efforts to trace the recent history of art in Southern California. Buy the catalogue.
This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, in collaboration with the Pérez Art Museum Miami. The exhibition is supported in part by the Fellows of Contemporary Art.
Additional funding is provided by Regen Projects, David Zwirner, Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte, and Steven M. Sumberg.
All exhibitions at LACMA are underwritten by the LACMA Exhibition Fund. Major annual support is provided by Kitzia and Richard Goodman, with generous annual funding from Louise and Brad Edgerton, Edgerton Foundation, Emily and Teddy Greenspan, Jenna and Jason Grosfeld, and Lenore and Richard Wayne.
25 September 2016 – 19 March 2017
Toba Khedoori explores the artist’s nuanced and powerful body of work. Born in Sydney, Australia in 1964, Khedoori has lived and worked in Los Angeles since 1990. Her early works are notable for their precise draftsmanship and for their use of negative space—often at a very large scale.
Khedoori frequently depicts architectural forms from distanced perspectives, rendering commonplace objects and spaces familiar yet decontextualized. In recent years, she has transitioned from paper to canvas, producing smaller-scale works that hover between representation and abstraction. Like her earlier compositions, these works are enigmatic and acutely detailed; in an art world awash with rapidly moving images and saturated colors, Khedoori remains committed to the silent, slow, and exacting process of working by hand.
The exhibition is the first major museum presentation of Khedoori’s new paintings and her first survey in fifteen years. In addition to contributing to the rapidly growing recognition of the work of women artists, Toba Khedoori extends LACMA’s efforts to trace the recent history of art in Southern California. Buy the catalogue.
This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, in collaboration with the Pérez Art Museum Miami. The exhibition is supported in part by the Fellows of Contemporary Art.
Additional funding is provided by Regen Projects, David Zwirner, Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte, and Steven M. Sumberg.
All exhibitions at LACMA are underwritten by the LACMA Exhibition Fund. Major annual support is provided by Kitzia and Richard Goodman, with generous annual funding from Louise and Brad Edgerton, Edgerton Foundation, Emily and Teddy Greenspan, Jenna and Jason Grosfeld, and Lenore and Richard Wayne.