Untitled (Rocks)
2002
oil and wax on paper
12 x 15 feet (3.7 x 4.6 m)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Regen Projects

633 North Almont Drive

Los Angeles, CA 90069

Tel. (310) 276-5424

Fax. (310) 276-7430

TOBA KHEDOORI

September 9 – October 14, 2006

Opening reception: Saturday, September 9, 5:00 – 7:00 pm

Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10:00 am – 6:00 pm

Regen Projects is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Los
Angeles-based artist Toba Khedoori. Khedoori is best known for her
large-scale oil and wax on paper paintings of precisely rendered
interior spaces, structures, and other familiar forms that float within
the otherwise vacant space of the paper. In her new paintings, Khedoori
isolates her subject matter to different effect, alternating between
depictions of light and dark, forms that are solid or amorphous,
visions that are familiar yet disconcertingly distant.

Khedoori’s sense of structure and scale strives to reinvent a painting
that is as bold as it is quiet, as complex as it is understated, and as
elegant as it is gritty. Her paintings, singular in their look and
intent, have a resonance that is rarely achieved.

“…Khedoori’s pictorial antecedents may be the desolate fractured spaces
of Edward Hopper, Vija Celmins, or Edward Ruscha, but her sensibility
belongs elsewhere: to the metaphysical labyrinths of Jorge Luis Borges,
the infinite regression of Franz Kafka’s hierarchical universes, the
fantastic architecture of Italo Calvino’s invisible cities. Smuggled
into her deserted structures is the sadness of late summer’s
diminishing evenings…Withdrawn from the very worlds they seek to
describe, theirs is a seductive quietude which lives on in the mind as
if in a particular time now wholly their own.”

(Neville Wakefield, Artforum, October 1995)

Toba Khedoori’s work has been exhibited extensively in the U.S. and
internationally. She has had solo exhibitions at the St. Louis Art
Museum, St. Louis, Missouri; the Royal Hibernian Society, Dublin,
Ireland; Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland; Whitechapel
Art Gallery in London, England; the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.;
and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Her work will be
included in this year’s Seville Biennial in Spain. In 2002, Khedoori
was awarded the MacArthur Foundation Grant and she received the Louis
Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award in 1995.

Monographs of Khedoori’s work have been published by the Museum fur
Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland and the Museum of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles.

An opening reception for Toba Khedoori will take place on Saturday,
September 9, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. For further information or questions
please contact Julie Hough or Kristina Kite at (310) 276-5424.