Toba Khedoori, Untitled (doors), 1995 (detail). The Museum of Modern Art, New York, gift of Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg, 1996, © Toba Khedoori, photo © Joshua White/JWPictures.com, courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles and David Zwirner, New York/London

Miami, FL – April 19, 2017 – Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) invited Museum Circle members to preview the museum’s latest special exhibition, Toba Khedoori. Guests enjoyed cocktails and hors d’oeuvres as they celebrated this exhibition, the first major museum presentation of Khedoori’s new paintings and her first survey in fifteen years. It was a special night for the museum, as the exhibition marks the first time PAMM has presented a show curated by Director Franklin Sirmans, in a collaboration between the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and PAMM. 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.

Toba Khedoori, Untitled (doors), 1995 (detail). The Museum of Modern Art, New York, gift of Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg, 1996, © Toba Khedoori, photo © Joshua White/JWPictures.com, courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles and David Zwirner, New York/London

Toba Khedoori, Untitled (mountains 2), 2011–12. Oil on linen, 27 1/2 × 40 7/8 in., Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, permanent loan to the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, © Toba Khedoori, photo © Tim Nighswander, courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London and Regen Projects, Los Angeles

Toba Khedoori, Untitled (black fireplace), 2006 (detail). The Broad Art Foundation, © Toba Khedoori, photo © Douglas M. Parker Studio, courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles and David Zwirner, New York/London

Toba Khedoori, Untitled (clouds), 2005. Oil and wax on paper, 129 1/2 × 80 in., Sender Collection, © Toba Khedoori, photo © Douglas M. Parker Studio, courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles and David Zwirner, New York/London

Toba Khedoori, Untitled (hole), 2013. Oil on linen, 44 1/4 × 47 5/8 in., Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, permanent loan to the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, © Toba Khedoori, photo by Brian Forrest, courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles and David Zwirner, New York/London