Curated by Elizabeth Smith

Toba Khedoori’s spaces and objects are disturbingly empty and uneasy yet remarkably familiar: vast building facades with rows of not quite identical windows; fenced-in places containing nothing; bridges that simply trail off; strings of anonymous train cars floating in luminous space. MoCA curator Elizabeth Smith presents the first solo museum show of these uncanny oil-and-wax-on-paper pieces. Hung without frames, they also bear mute testament to the process of their creation: they’re smudged here and there, and come with stray dog hairs and bits of dust and dirt from the studio floor. The six large-scale works shown here (and reproduced in the accompanying catalogue) are new pieces by the up-and-coming artist.

— Mark Van de Walle