Robert Gober
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| Robert Gober | |
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 Untitled, 1992, mixed media, Collection of the Artist |
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| Born | September 12, 1954 Wallingford, Connecticut |
| Nationality | American |
| Field | Sculpture |
| Training | Middlebury College, Vermont, Tyler School of Art in Rome |
Robert Gober (b. September 12, 1954) is an American sculptor. His work is often related to domestic and familiar objects such as sinks, doors, and legs.
Life and work[edit]
Gober was born in Wallingford, Connecticut and studied at Middlebury College,[1] Vermont and the Tyler School of Art in Rome. He lives and works in New York City and is represented by the Matthew Marks Gallery. He is best known for his sculptures, but also has made photographs, prints, and drawings and has curated exhibitions. Most recently, in the Whitney Biennial 2012, he curated a room of Forrest Bess's paintings and archival materials dealing with the artist's exploration into hermaphrodism. He also curated “Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield” at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles in 2009 (which traveled to the Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York in 2010). He has had exhibitions of his work in Europe, North America and Japan. One of his most well known series of works of sculptures of sinks.
His work is often related to domestic and familiar objects such as sinks, doors, and legs, and has themes of nature, sexuality, religion, and politics. The sculptures are meticulously handcrafted, even when they appear to just be a re-creation of a common sink.
His work is in many museum collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art,[2] The Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Menil Collection, the Tate Modern and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. He represented the United States at the 2001 Venice Biennale[3] and has had several one-person museum exhibitions including at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Jeu de Paume, Paris, and Dia Art Foundation, New York. His work has also been included in five Whitney Biennials, including the 2000 Whitney Biennial with Sarah Sze, Doug Aitken, Cai Guo-Qiang, Louise Lawler and Richard Tuttle. In 2007 there was a retrospective exhibition of his work at the Schaulager in Basel. The exhibition was accompanied by a comprehensive book of his sculptures entitled Robert Gober. Sculptures and Installations 1979-2007. (ISBN 3865214738) Gober participated in the group show Lifelike that originated at the Walker Art Center in 2012.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ "San Francisco Museum of Modern Art : Robert Gober: Sculptures and Drawings". Traditional Fine Arts Organization. Retrieved 29 May 2011.
- ^ "Robert Gober". Whitney Museum of American Art. Retrieved 29 May 2011.
- ^ "La Biennale di Venezia - National Pavilion of USA". OneArtWorld. Retrieved 29 May 2011.
- ^ Sheets, Hilarie M. (April 19, 2012). "Use Your Illusion". ARTnews. Retrieved May 3, 2013.
