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Immense Miniatures by Jerry Saltz Three facts of biography seem pertinent to Toba Khedoori's giant, space-filled drawings.

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First, she lives in Los Angeles, although she was born and raised in Australia. Second, she is an identical twin her sister is Rachel Khedoori, an artist who also lives and works in Los Angeles. A distant but fascinating third and -- like the other two -- one the artist might find objectionable is that her family is originally from Iraq. Her cultural heritage includes the Persian miniature, fine of line and exquisite of detail.

Khedoori's second solo show at David Zwirner is better than her first, which was already more than good enough. The drawings here are of a more consistent level, although unfortunately Khedoori has cut back on her color -- hopefully only momentarily. Hopefully, because color adds a note of needed seductiveness to her spare, cerebral art. Khedoori is a visionary minimalist -- an artist who depicts minimalism's three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface.

She draws on enormous sheets of paper that have the effect of immense miniatures, or mirages, shimmering in and out of sight: you do a lot of blinking and eye rubbing around her work. Her subjects are man-made places and things: doors, rooms, furniture and buildings; all of them strikingly devoid of any sign of life. Although her pared-down images can be likened to the big, empty space of Ed Ruscha without the irony , or the uninflected expanses of Vija Celmins, she is emerging as something like her generation's Agnes Martin: an artist of metaphysical refinement and restraint.