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Installation view of the Robert Gober exhibition in the gallery. Various angles and artworks are captured in the frame.

Installation view of 'Robert Gober: Cows at a Pond'.

Installation view of the Robert Gober exhibition in the gallery. Various angles and artworks are captured in the frame.

Installation view of 'Robert Gober: Cows at a Pond' with Robert Gober, Untitled, 1980-1981.

Installation view of the Robert Gober exhibition in the gallery. Various angles and artworks are captured in the frame.

Installation view of 'Robert Gober: Cows at a Pond' with ACT UP Auction for Action, 1990, Front Text: Donald Moffett, Design: Bureau.

Installation view of the Robert Gober exhibition in the gallery. Various angles and artworks are captured in the frame.

Installation view of 'Robert Gober: Cows at a Pond' with Robert Gober's Bronze Street Drain, 1993-1994 and a back view of Jonathan Borofsky's Mom, I Lost the Election at 1,933,095, 1972.

Installation view of the Robert Gober exhibition in the gallery. Various angles and artworks are captured in the frame.

Installation view of 'Robert Gober: Cows at a Pond' with Artist Unknown, Portrait of George Washington.

Installation view of the Robert Gober exhibition in the gallery. Various angles and artworks are captured in the frame.

Installation view of 'Robert Gober: Cows at a Pond' with Stuart Davis, Clothes on a Line, 1910 above Robert Gober, Untitled, 1992.

Installation view of the Robert Gober exhibition in the gallery. Various angles and artworks are captured in the frame.

Installation view of 'Robert Gober: Cows at a Pond'.

Installation view of the Robert Gober exhibition in the gallery. Various angles and artworks are captured in the frame.

John F. Kennedy
Sailboat Sketch, c. 1961

Installation view of the Robert Gober exhibition in the gallery. Various angles and artworks are captured in the frame.

Installation view, works left to right: John Ahearn, Lazaro, 1991. Robert Gober, Untitled, 1992. Greystone Studios New York, Richard M. Nixon. George C. Ault, Provincetown, Mass. Boats., 1921. Rural, Possibly Itinerant, Baptismal Font, Painted wood, marble. George C. Ault, Untitled, 1922.

Installation view of the Robert Gober exhibition in the gallery. Various angles and artworks are captured in the frame.

Installation view of 'Robert Gober: Cows at a Pond'. 

Installation view of the Robert Gober exhibition in the gallery. Various angles and artworks are captured in the frame.

Installation view of 'Robert Gober: Cows at a Pond' with Robert Gober, Untitled, 2001-2023. Robert Gober, Untitled, 2017-2023 above John and Mary Cheever Charitable Donation, 1971. 

Installation view of the Robert Gober exhibition in the gallery. Various angles and artworks are captured in the frame.

Installation view of 'Robert Gober: Cows at a Pond' with Maud Falkner, Untitled, c. 1950 above Emergency No Parking Sign for January 5-6, D.C., 2021.

Installation view of the Robert Gober exhibition in the gallery. Various angles and artworks are captured in the frame.

Installation view of 'Robert Gober: Cows at a Pond' with Jacob Lawrence, Trappers, 1956, Rosa Bonheur, Studies of a Sleeping Dog, c. 1870 atop Robert Gober, Untitled, 1992. 

Installation view of the Robert Gober exhibition in the gallery. Various angles and artworks are captured in the frame.

Installation view of 'Robert Gober: Cows at a Pond' with Rosa Bonheur, Studies of a Sleeping Dog, c. 1870, atop Robert Gober, Untitled, 1992. 

Installation view of the Robert Gober exhibition in the gallery. Various angles and artworks are captured in the frame.

Installation view of 'Robert Gober: Cows at a Pond' with Robert Gober, Page 11, 1978-2000, Robert Gober, Page 12, 1978-2000, Robert Gober, Page 13, 1978-2000. 

Installation view of the Robert Gober exhibition in the gallery. Various angles and artworks are captured in the frame.

Installation view of 'Robert Gober: Cows at a Pond'.

Robert Gober
Robert Gober

Robert Gober: Cows at a Pond, September 7th through October 21st, is an exhibition of art, personal objects, and ephemera from the artist's collection, presented by Demisch Danant. In 2019, Gober and his partner Donald Moffett took part in the gallery’s exhibition A Specific Eye: Seven Collections, which presented seven personal collections of aesthetic objects, on loan from celebrated New York connoisseurs and members of the gallery’s extended circle. Four years later and as a follow up to their initial collaboration, Suzanne Demisch renewed the invitation to her longtime friends and gave them carte blanche to reimagine the gallery space. This time Moffett demurred, but for Gober the timing was right.

Robert Gober: Cows at a Pond, is a continuation of the gallery's ongoing exhibition program centered around the art of collecting. This series – which encompasses shows, publications, and panel discussions – delves into the nuances of connoisseurship, the transformative journey from 'buyer' to 'collector', and the impact of obsession, research, taste, and personal narratives on shaping collections.

Gober’s expertise in curatorial projects has been showcased at esteemed venues such as The Menil Collection in Houston, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Gober has had numerous one person exhibitions, most notably at the Dia Center for the Arts, New York, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Schaulager, Basel, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Fondazione Prada, Milan. In 2001 he represented the United States at the 49th Venice Biennale.

Gober's most recent endeavor was organizing the exhibition Lois Dodd "No one else can really help you…" Paintings + ephemera at Hopkins Wharf Gallery, in North Haven, Maine in cooperation with Alexandre Gallery.

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