development of space || fall 2014
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  • curatorial explorations
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angie reisch

Toba Khedoori

11/30/2014

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Khedoori's works often fill the spectator's entire field of vision; a 'typical' Khedoori painting combines elements of drawing, painting, and art installation. Some of Khedoori's best-known paintings feature architectural renderings surrounded by a vast expanse of white or blank space. In recent years, Khedoori has incorporated natural imagery and landscape into her work. Additionally, her most recent output has moved from wax-on-paper into oil and canvas, with subject matter drawing influence from geometric sequences


Thoughts:
I often struggle with feeling the need to fill the entirety of a canvas, page, or any space. Khedoori's work shows the possibilities that arise when blank space is left alone. Sometimes the emptiness can be as powerful and purposeful or even more so than filling it up with colors/textures/images. There is a beautiful simplicity to her work. An objective yet memorable and personal look into objects we encounter on a daily basis. With space comes power.

Inspiration in My Own Work:
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Klaus Kemp

11/6/2014

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Diatoms are tiny single-cell algae encased in jewel-like shells that are among the smallest organisms on Earth of which there are an estimated 100,000 extant species.

The first diatom arrangements date back to the early 1800s, but the art form reached its peak in the latter part of the century. It was a period of intense interest in the natural world and also a time when the arts and sciences were more closely aligned. Diatom arrangements are a stunning example of that particularly Victorian desire to bring order to the world, to display nature in a rational way.

Diatoms range in size from 5 microns to 200 microns. A micron is one-thousandth of a millimeter. A diatom arrangement of 100 forms would fit inside a punctuation mark of average-size text.

"I love seeing the hand of man display the work of nature so beautifully,"

"Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."


The diatomist video
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