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Robert Gober
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Beautiful Disaster
by Jenna Finwall Ryan
Robert Gober at Matthew Marks Gallery, North Orange Grove
January 19th - April 6th
Posted
3/28/13
Set your Instagram filter to "Surreal" and venture inside Matthew Marks Gallery’s Robert Gober: Sculpture Drawings Studies, on exhibit from January 19-April 6, 2013. This is the surrealist's first solo exhibition of new work in 4 years and marks Gober's long-awaited return to Los Angeles for a one-person show. The artist's sometimes polarizing work explores themes of religion, politics, power, and sexuality, and often represents objects from his childhood in distorted form. His current exh... [more]
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Please Enter
by Lee Ann Norman
Adel Abdessemed, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Francis Alÿs, David Altmejd, Mamma Andersson, Louise Bourgeois, Michael Brown, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Maureen Gallace, Isa Genzken, Robert Gober, Mona Hatoum, Toba Khedoori, Charles LeDray, Thomas Ruff, Gregor Schneider, Luc Tuymans, Jeff Wall, Rachel Whiteread at David Zwirner- 533 W. 19th
July 7th, 2011 - August 5th, 2011
Posted
7/17/11
Taking inspiration from Emily Dickenson’s poem of the same name, “The House Without the Door” considers the idea of home as emotionally complicated rather than safe, secure and comforting. Eighteen artists including Mamma Andersson, Louise Bourgeois, Philip-Lorca di Corcia, Luc Tuymans, and Rachel Whiteread use painting, sculpture, installation, and photography to examine the multiple meanings of home with the understanding that home is not only where the heart is, or where comfort and fami... [more]
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Warehouse Capsule
by Kirsten Bengtson-Lykoudis
George Condo, Robert Gober, Andreas Gursky, Keith Haring, Cady Noland, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Cindy Sherman, Rosemarie Trockel at Rubell Family Collection
December 1st, 2010 - August 26th, 2011
Posted
1/9/11
The Rubell Family Collection is housed in a modified, clearly marked former Drug Enforcement warehouse that was once a storehouse for confiscated narcotics straight out of Miami Vice. With low slung white couches and a sleek outdoor courtyard that could easily be found on South Beach, it lacks the rough industrial aura of the Margulies Collection, but presents a contemporary array of works with a personalized edge. At a mere 40,000-something square feet, it’s more manageable than its humongous... [more]
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Camera as Co-Conspirator
by Natalie Hegert
Eugène Atget, Herbert Bayer, Hans Bellmer, Constantin Brancusi, Brassaï, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Claude Cahun, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Robert Gober, David Goldblatt, Rachel Harrison, Hannah Höch, André Kertész, Bruce Nauman, Charles Nègre, Man Ray, Gillian Wearing, Fischli & Weiss, Hannah Wilke, Iwao Yamawaki at MoMA (Museum of Modern Art)
August 1st, 2010 - November 1st, 2010
Posted
8/15/10
MoMA's "The Original Copy: Photography and Sculpture" in a way feels more like a free-for-all mash-up of associations and juxtapositions than a focused thesis, a stream of consciousness collection of various intersections of photography and sculpture. There is a remarkable absence of a prescribed formulation to follow, and the subject is explored rather through various themes and practices, stirring groupings and somewhat abrupt shifts of logic. This lack results not in a confused o... [more]
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Oddities on Geary
by Franklin Melendez
Diane Arbus, Robert Gober at Fraenkel Gallery
January 7th, 2010 - March 6th, 2010
Posted
1/11/10
The premise of Christ in a lobby, and Other Unknown or Almost Unknown Works, currently on view at Fraenkel Gallery certainly resonates with the circumstantial awkwardness of some of Diane Arbus’ photographs. In 1976, Robert Gober made an untitled still-life that included an Arbus catalogue—this combined with some offhand remarks regarding the late photographer’s possible influence (which may or may not be as important as his dog’s or an anonymous mugger’s) was enough to war... [more]
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Burchfield at the Hammer
by Ed Schad
Charles Burchfield at Hammer Museum
October 4th, 2009 - January 3rd, 2010
Posted
10/12/09
Robert Gober’s presence looms large. I’m obsessed with his work. Thus, the draw of Gober pulls on my imagination in a way that Charles Burchfield (1893-1967), a curious figure in the history of American modernism, might not have otherwise. I can’t easily decide how productive it is to the work of Burchfield to have Gober curate a retrospective of his work.
This dilemma, for me, is written into the context of the show: How does Gober interpret and present this material? Why is Gober interes... [more]
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A Look at Robert Gober
by Keith Miller
Robert Gober at Matthew Marks Gallery - 526 W. 22nd St.
February 2nd, 2008 - March 29th, 2008
Posted
3/2/08
For over two decades Robert Gober has been using the language of the banal and screwing it up with prosthetics. Sinks and candles, legs and breasts, drains and cribs, all in an inchoate mix of elements with a floating body that seems to poke fun at us. But his body parts are not the hyper-realist artifacts of Ron Mueck (Dead Dad) Duane Hansen (Tourists) or even Charles Ray (Family Romance).
Gober’s appendages are clunky and silly and play with the perverse, even if only slightly. This awkwardness is per... [more]
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