| Robert
J. Lobe (1945 - )
The art of Robert Lobe fuses the
realms of nature and fabrication. His aluminum sculptures, aggregates
of mineral and arboreal form, are emphatically linked to specific
sites. Their hollow shells insist on the sheer volume and surface
of the rocks and trees that inspired them, yet Lobe's creations
are not mere tracings of contour, or imitations of found objects.
In his sensitive attention to the potential of his materials,
and in his selection of compelling sculptural situations from
nature, Lobe lifts these objects out of the terrain of the overly
familiar. Grafting a metal skin onto fragments of landscape,
he transforms solid substance into seemingly weightless membranes.
Much of the power of his work resides in paradox, as when he
relocates nature in an austere interior, or transforms ponderous
mass into shells embracing empty space, or renders natural textures
in industrial material. Often teasingly anthropomorphic, these
suggestive forms also play on their relationship to the human
body. Lobe's works invite a broad range of associations, without
ever abandoning their clear and simple relation to the site of
their discovery. For all of their considerable abstract beauty,
the sculptures demand our recognition of their origin in nature's
syntax.
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| 1945 |
Born: Detroit Michigan |
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| EDUCATION |
| 1963-67 |
B.A. Oberlin College, Ohio |
| 1967-68 |
Hunter College, New York |
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| One Person Exhibitions |
| 1974 |
Zabriskie Gallery, NU |
| 1977 |
Hammarskjold Plaza Sculpture Garden, NY |
| 1980 |
Willard Gallery, NY |
| 1981 |
Willard Gallery, NY |
| 1982 |
Texas Gallery, Houston |
| 1984 |
Willard Gallery, NY |
| 1986 |
Willard Gallery, NY |
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Marian Locks Galllery, Philadelphia |
| 1987 |
Anderson Gallery, VA |
| 1989 |
BlumHelman Gallery, NY |
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| Selected Group Exhibitions |
| 1969 |
Whitney Museum, NY |
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Detroit Institute of Art, Michigan |
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Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY |
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Richard Feigen Gallery, NY |
| 1970 |
Whitney Museum, NY |
| 1971 |
Whitney Museum, NY |
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Bykert Art Galery, NY |
| 1972 |
LoGuidice Gallery, NY |
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Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana |
| 1973 |
Whitney Museum, NY |
| 1974 |
San Francisco Museum of Art, CA |
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Storm king Art Center, Mountainville, NY |
| 1975 |
Museum of Moder Art, NY |
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Kansas State College, Kansas |
| 1976 |
Institute of Art and Urban Resources, NY |
| 1977 |
Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania |
| 1978 |
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY |
| 1979 |
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffaloe, NY |
| 1981 |
Galerie Gillespie-Laage-Salomon, Paris |
| 1982 |
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY |
| 1983 |
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA |
| 1984 |
Mathews Hamilton Gallery, PA |
| 1985 |
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1986 |
Wilson Commons Atrium, Rochester, NY |
| 1987 |
Barbera karkow Gallery, Boston, MA |
| 1988 |
Katzen Brown Gallery, NY |
| 1989 |
Brooklyn Museum, NY |
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| Public Collection |
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Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
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Detroit Insitute of Fine Arts, Detroit, Michigan |
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Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, CA |
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York |
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Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
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Whitney Museum of American Art |
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