Robert Overby

 
Beginning in 1969, Robert Overby (1935-1993) produced an eclectic body of work that was rarely exhibited in his lifetime. Despite a diversity of mediums and an equally wide range of subject matter, Overby returned consistently to the human form. His polyurethane stretches and ghost-like latex casts of walls and doors belong to the history of late 1960s and early 1970s experiments in Anti-Form, Process art, and post-Minimalism. His 1980s image paintings are post-Pop combinations of figure and abstraction that explore similar issues of surface, decay, and the skin between the real and its incorporeal other.
Robert Overby had a retrospective at the UCLA Hammer Museum, and his work has been collected by the Art Institute of Chicago; Whitney Museum of American Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, LA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Los Angeles County Museum; and The Museum of Modern Art, NY.
 
Robert Overby - Works - 1969-1987
2014
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Reference monograph.
Robert Overby - 336 to 1 - August 1973-July 1969
2013
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
Facsimile reprint of the long-unavailable and much sought-after 1974 artist's book by Robert Overby (1935-1993), one of the most fascinating figures of the 1970s Californian art scene.


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