Robert Gober (Exhibition at Matthew Marks)

“Robert Gober at Matthew Marks in New York. And in classic Gober form, he’s also hung work by a few thrilling unknowns: John Folinsbee (1892–1972) and Harry Leith-Ross (1886–1973), members of a group of American painters known as the Pennsylvania Impressionists. “They met in 1913 at The Art Students League and became lifelong friends and colleagues.” They must have overlapped with my great-grandmother Helen Park Stockman, also part of that ASL crew studying with Robert Henri and the Ashcan School crew.”