Untitled 1985
Graphite on paper
10⅞ × 14 inches; 28 × 36 cm
Signed and dated in graphite (lower verso): Gober 85
“For the most part, the objects that I choose are almost all emblems of transition; they’re objects that you complete with your body, and they’re objects that, in one way or another, transform you. Like the sink, from dirty to clean; the beds, from conscious to unconscious; rational thought to dreaming.”
—Robert Gober
The Inverted Sink 1985
Plaster, wood, steel, wire lath, semi-gloss enamel paint
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, Sarah Norton Goodyear Fund, 2003 and by exchange, Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr. and the Stevenson Family, 2004