Gemini G.E.L. is pleased to present an exhibition of new prints by Toba Khedoori, opening on Saturday February 22, 2025. This show features Khedoori’s latest collaboration with Gemini G.E.L., where she has continued to expand her printmaking practice. The exhibition will feature her newest works alongside a selection of previous prints created at Gemini, showcasing her meticulous engagement with drawing and print techniques.

Toba Khedoori is renowned for her precise and contemplative approach to image-making, often isolating objects or structures within vast, unoccupied backgrounds. Her works focus on singular subjects—branches, grass, architectural forms—rendered with a technical precision that underscores their physicality while also pushing toward abstraction.

Among the works on view is Untitled (large branches), 2025, a striking triptych lithograph that captures the complex intertwining of boughs, limbs, and twigs with painstaking detail. The lithograph is comprised of three sheets of beautiful handmade Japanese paper, and Khedoori’s drawings on three stones and six aluminum plates were carefully mapped out to meet up and match, both in tonal qualities and registration.

Also featured in the exhibition are four mezzotints, including Untitled, 2025, one of the largest works in this medium ever produced at Gemini. The labor-intensive technique, which begins with a fully darkened plate that is selectively burnished to reveal the image, allows for an extraordinary depth of tone and subtle luminosity. The plate for this monumental mezzotint took a vendor in New Mexico nearly ten weeks to deliver. To pull an impression, three printers ink and wipe the plate, rotating around it to achieve a uniform ink layer.

On view will also be past publications by Khedoori. One of the works, Untitled (grass), 2022, is one of the largest etchings to be printed at the work-shop from a single copper plate, and perhaps the largest chine collé Master Printer Case Hudson and his etching team had ever attempted.

Toba Khedoori was born in Sydney, Australia in 1964 and lives and works in Los Angeles. She received her M.F.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1994 and in 2002, Khedoori was awarded the MacArthur Foundation Grant. She has participated in the Venice Biennale (2009) and the Whitney Biennial (1995). Her work is found in prominent museum collections internationally including Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among many others. Recent solo exhibitions include the Fridericianum in Kassel, Germany (2021) and a major survey at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2016) that traveled to Pérez Art Museum Miami (2017).

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