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Robert Gober

1954

SculpturePost-ImpressionismContemporary

Representation

None documented

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Works in Collection

206

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• Post-Impressionism
• Contemporary

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PLEIN AIR | Matthew Marks Gallery

Matthew Marks Gallery

About

Why this artist matters now

Robert Gober makes sculptures from cast plaster, wood, and found domestic objects, transforming everyday items like sinks, doors, and disembodied legs into unsettling formal investigations. His practice mines the psychological territory between the ordinary and the uncanny, treating humble household fixtures as sites of psychological projection. Working from Wallingford, Connecticut, Gober has sustained a deliberate focus on the familiar made strange, rarely departing from his core vocabulary of plumbing, carpentry, and the human body fragmented.

Source: Christies Artsy · Trust score: 100% · Updated 1mo ago

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Post-Impressionism

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Sculpture

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Museum Collections

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Cleveland Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago The Metropolitan Museum of Art Tate Whitney Museum of American Art

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Artworks (91)

Untitled

2017 · Graphite and pastel on vellum

11 3/4 × 8 7/8" (29.8 × 22.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Brokeback Mountain

2012 · Wood and polymer engraving printed on archival paper, in artist's frame

2 × 1 5/8" (5.1 × 4.1 cm); frame: 11 × 9 1/8 × 1" (28 × 23.2 × 2.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

2012 · Multiple of glazed porcelain with imbedded pigments, brass, and paper in artist's frame

overall (frame): 8 5/8 x 8 11/16 x 1 9/16" (21.9 x 22 x 3.9 cm)

Sheet (sight): 12 × 8 1/2 in. (30.5 × 21.6 cm) Image (sight): 12 × 8 1/2 in. (30.5 × 21.6 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

Untitled

2011 · Potato print in artist's frame

composition: 9 3/8 x 4 13/16" (23.8 x 12.3 cm); sheet: 12 x 8 1/2" (30.5 x 21.6 cm); frame: 19 11/16 x 16 1/16 x 1 7/16" (50 x 40.8 x 3.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Monument Valley

2007 · Wood engraving in artist's frame

sheet: 3 5/8 x 1 3/4" (9.2 x 4.4 cm); frame: 13 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 1 1/2" (34.3 x 26.7 x 3.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Urology Appointment

2007 · Wood engraving, polymer engraving, and letterpress in artist's frame

sheet: 2 x 3 1/2" (5.1 x 8.9 cm); frame: 11 x 12 3/16 x 1 1/2" (28 x 31 x 3.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

September 12

2005 · Pastel and graphite, over photolithograph, on ivory wove paper

55.9 × 67.3 cm (22 × 26 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Representation & Collections

Gallery

Matthew Marks Gallery

In collection

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

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Cleveland Museum of Art

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Art Institute of Chicago

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Tate

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Whitney Museum of American Art

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Background

Education

Middlebury College

Visual Arts

Tyler School of Art

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Exhibitions and timeline

Solo Exhibition PLEIN AIR | Matthew Marks Gallery