Robert Overby (1935-1993) created an eclectic body of work which was rarely exhibited during 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 60s and early 70s experiments in anti-form, process art, and post-minimalism. His paintings of the same period as well as his mid-70s pornographic wood cut-outs, and 1980’s image paintings explore similar issues of surface, decay, and disintegration. His work is in the collections of several museums including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. |
