The Museum of Modern Art, October 4, 2014–January 18, 2015

The works on view in this room were made by Anni Albers, Robert Beck, Cady Noland, and Joan Semmel; photographs by Nancy Shaver hang in the adjoining space. Gober brought these objects together for an exhibition he organized at the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York in 1999. Since the mid-1980s, Gober has regularly curated exhibitions, most recently organizing monographic presentations of the works of American artists Charles Burchfield and Forrest Bess. The contemporary artists included here share with Gober daring approaches to the representation of sexuality, violence, and American culture. A tapestry by Albers dates from her years at the Bauhaus, the German art institute that challenged the division between so-called fine art and domestic craft.