RIP Roc Raida

Toba Khedoori

I think I'm most interested in her work because it floats between realism and pattern. Saltz says that she is a minimalist. I buy that, but I don't see the idealized object in space sculptural implications that are usually identified as minimalism. Her surfaces are not minimalist enough for minimalists with the wax and fuzzies covering the surface. Her technique doesn't come across as literalist work-- one won't find the spatial interactions of Dan Flavin's neon tubes and her work is certainly not as sparse as Tony Smith's Black Box.

Her work pulls from quiescent moments. It brings the attempt to capture a moment or a visual effect in a two dimensional representation. She does not bring the object into being, but flattens and distorts the reality to fit a visual vocabulary that tricks the viewer into caring about what is being represented here.





More images here.