Chelsea, New York
Toba Khedoori
New Editions
Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant WeylToba Khedoori is renowned for her precise and contemplative approach to image-making, often isolating objects or structures within vast, unoccupied backgrounds. Her works typically focus on singular subjects—branches, grass, architectural forms—rendered with a technical precision that underscores their physicality while also pushing toward abstraction. Untitled (larges branches), 2025, is a striking lithograph 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. The accuracy of matching multiple stones and plates all the while using a 60-pound roller to apply ink to Toba’s delicately drawn imagery on the matrices is a highwater moment in Gemini’s long lithographic history. Also newly published are four mezzotints. The labor-intensive technique of mezzotint, 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. To pull an impression of Untitled, 2025, three printers ink and wipe the plate, rotating around it to achieve a uniform ink layer. Deep, deep blacks are achieved all the while revealing the delicate marks Khedoori made on the copper plate. Included in the exhibition are two past editions by Khedoori, the exquisite lithograph Untitled (branches) from 2020, and Untitled (grass), 2022, printed from a single copper plate and perhaps the largest chine collé the etching team has ever attempted.