Toba Khedoori
Australian American painter (born 1964)
Toba Khedoori (Arabic: توبا خضوري; born 1964) is an Australian-born artist, of Iraqi–Jewish heritage. She is known for highly detailed mixed-media paintings executed on large sheets of wax-coated paper. She moved to the United States in 1988 for university, and lives in Los Angeles, California.
Biography
Khedoori was born in 1964, in Sydney, Australia, of Iraqi–Jewish parentage and raised in Australia. She is the identical twin sister of artist Rachel Khedoori.
She received a BFA degree (1988), from San Francisco Art Institute; and a MFA degree (1994), from University of California, Los Angeles.
Artwork
Characteristically, Khedoori's works have comprised intricate details, models or architectural renderings set within the broad expanses of waxed paper or linen. This delicate combination frequently necessitates close viewing which results, then, in the works filling the spectator's entire field of vision. In recent years, Khedoori's works have introduced inversions of the more usual black detail on white expanse, incorporated natural imagery and landscape, and also taken the form of dramatically smaller-scale works than those hitherto produced. Her most recent output has also moved from wax-on-paper into oil and canvas, with subject matter drawing influence from geometric sequences.
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