Courtesy of David Zwirner
David Zwirner Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new and recent works by Toba Khedoori at its 537 West 20th Street location in New York. The showcase features the significant works created by Khedoori since 2019, following an extensive survey of her art at the Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany, in 2021–2022.
Khedoori employs a meticulous process blending painting and drawing to craft intricate compositions portraying façades, plants, grids, windows, and doorways. These compositions exude a sense of arrested time and space, existing in a liminal state. Utilizing immense sheets of waxed paper, her work embraces a neutral language of objecthood and natural forms rather than figurative or gestural expressivity. The artist's focus on fragmentary subjects reinforces associations with photography, embodying a specific form of abstraction.
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| ▲ Toba Khedoori, Untitled, 2021-2022, Oil, graphite, and wax on paper, 137 1/8 x 285 1/2 inches (348.3 x 725.2 cm), Courtesy of David Zwirner |
The exhibited works showcase Khedoori's characteristic exacting detail and methodical rigor, often depicting natural imagery like branches, leaves, vines, or palm fronds. The interplay between figure and ground creates a sense of movement, accentuating the bound energy within the compositions. Additionally, the exhibition includes recent large-scale geometric grid works, a motif recurrent in Khedoori's career, highlighting the tension between figuration and abstraction. The exhibition subtly explores the contrast between geometric and biomorphic abstraction in modern art.
One oil-on-canvas painting in the exhibition portrays a fragmentary view of partially collapsed buildings, based on a photograph of war-torn eastern Ghouta in Syria. Khedoori inverted the tonal values of the source imagery, emphasizing the interiors of the buildings and engaging with social and political themes.
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| ▲ Toba Khedoori, Untitled, 2021-2022 (detail), Courtesy of David Zwirner |
The exhibition at David Zwirner Gallery offers an opportunity to experience Khedoori's nuanced and contemplative compositions, reflecting her distinctive artistic style and three-decade-long career.
Toba Khedoori, born in 1964 in Sydney, is set to exhibit her works at David Zwirner Gallery, marking her seventh solo exhibition with the gallery. This will be her first solo exhibition in New York since 2012, following her inaugural exhibition with David Zwirner in 1994, just a year after the gallery opened on Greene Street in New York.
Khedoori pursued her MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, and gained recognition in 2002 when she was awarded the prestigious MacArthur Foundation grant.
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| ▲ Toba Khedoori, Untitled, 2023, Oil and graphite on canvas, 27 1/2 x 24 1/2 inches (69.8 x 62.2 cm), Courtesy of David Zwirner |
Throughout her career, Khedoori has had notable exhibitions globally. In 2019–2020, a substantial selection of her works was displayed in the group exhibition "Resonating Spaces" at Fondation Beyeler in Basel. In 2016, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art organized a significant solo exhibition of her work, the first museum survey in over a decade. This exhibition later traveled to Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) in 2017.
Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at esteemed institutions such as the St. Louis Art Museum, the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin, the Whitechapel Gallery in London, the Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, among others. Her first museum solo exhibition was in 1997, organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and later traveled to the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Additionally, Khedoori has participated in numerous international group exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale, Liverpool Biennial, São Paulo Biennial, and the Whitney Biennial.
Khedoori's work is held in major museum collections worldwide, including The Broad in Los Angeles, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, among others. She resides and works in Los Angeles.
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Renowned artist Toba Khedoori's meticulous and contemplative compositions on display in New York
Courtesy of David Zwirner
David Zwirner Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new and recent works by Toba Khedoori at its 537 West 20th Street location in New York. The showcase features the significant works created by Khedoori since 2019, following an extensive survey of her art at the Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany, in 2021–2022.
Khedoori employs a meticulous process blending painting and drawing to craft intricate compositions portraying façades, plants, grids, windows, and doorways. These compositions exude a sense of arrested time and space, existing in a liminal state. Utilizing immense sheets of waxed paper, her work embraces a neutral language of objecthood and natural forms rather than figurative or gestural expressivity. The artist's focus on fragmentary subjects reinforces associations with photography, embodying a specific form of abstraction.
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| ▲ Toba Khedoori, Untitled, 2021-2022, Oil, graphite, and wax on paper, 137 1/8 x 285 1/2 inches (348.3 x 725.2 cm), Courtesy of David Zwirner |
The exhibited works showcase Khedoori's characteristic exacting detail and methodical rigor, often depicting natural imagery like branches, leaves, vines, or palm fronds. The interplay between figure and ground creates a sense of movement, accentuating the bound energy within the compositions. Additionally, the exhibition includes recent large-scale geometric grid works, a motif recurrent in Khedoori's career, highlighting the tension between figuration and abstraction. The exhibition subtly explores the contrast between geometric and biomorphic abstraction in modern art.
One oil-on-canvas painting in the exhibition portrays a fragmentary view of partially collapsed buildings, based on a photograph of war-torn eastern Ghouta in Syria. Khedoori inverted the tonal values of the source imagery, emphasizing the interiors of the buildings and engaging with social and political themes.
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| ▲ Toba Khedoori, Untitled, 2021-2022 (detail), Courtesy of David Zwirner |
The exhibition at David Zwirner Gallery offers an opportunity to experience Khedoori's nuanced and contemplative compositions, reflecting her distinctive artistic style and three-decade-long career.
Toba Khedoori, born in 1964 in Sydney, is set to exhibit her works at David Zwirner Gallery, marking her seventh solo exhibition with the gallery. This will be her first solo exhibition in New York since 2012, following her inaugural exhibition with David Zwirner in 1994, just a year after the gallery opened on Greene Street in New York.
Khedoori pursued her MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, and gained recognition in 2002 when she was awarded the prestigious MacArthur Foundation grant.
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| ▲ Toba Khedoori, Untitled, 2023, Oil and graphite on canvas, 27 1/2 x 24 1/2 inches (69.8 x 62.2 cm), Courtesy of David Zwirner |
Throughout her career, Khedoori has had notable exhibitions globally. In 2019–2020, a substantial selection of her works was displayed in the group exhibition "Resonating Spaces" at Fondation Beyeler in Basel. In 2016, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art organized a significant solo exhibition of her work, the first museum survey in over a decade. This exhibition later traveled to Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) in 2017.
Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at esteemed institutions such as the St. Louis Art Museum, the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin, the Whitechapel Gallery in London, the Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, among others. Her first museum solo exhibition was in 1997, organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and later traveled to the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Additionally, Khedoori has participated in numerous international group exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale, Liverpool Biennial, São Paulo Biennial, and the Whitney Biennial.
Khedoori's work is held in major museum collections worldwide, including The Broad in Los Angeles, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, among others. She resides and works in Los Angeles.
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Maria Kim sayart2022@gmail.comer.com
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