#ROBERT OVERBY

[syntesthetic]

[glass-chalice]

Carol Overby, Robert Mapplethorpe, 1979

[shortnasties]

2803. Class Clown At Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrow

This is called "Class Clown At Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrow." Tgif is too bad.

I was unfairly punished many times as a student at Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrow.

It was usually because I was pranking someone. Usually because I was pranking Old Garf. Garf was the runt of his prestigious, sprawling family. Anchored by everything you could be anchored by at twelve years old. Horrible youth for Poor Old Garf.

I'd call him up numerous times, pretending to be a doctor or police officer and having to inform him of his parents' demise, usually in some ill-fated excursion or random chance encounter of morbid violence. I was excellent at making them up! My imagination was like a knife. Everything around me, the butter.

And poor Old Garf, everytime, on the other end of the phone, sobbing like an alleycat with nobody to push away. Old Garf, always believing me.

So you see what I mean? Unfairly punished. Unjustly! Garf believing the same story (or variation of the story). Imbecilic! Dunce! Old Garf... I can't stay mad at him. After all these years...

You've heard about him no doubt, very recently, in the news. Having achieved the highest status in some acronymed company that has great influence over public policy.

[mariaangels]

Robert Mapplethorpe. Carol Overby, 1979

[archie-blog]

Norty Blues Episode 11

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-xiig2-14006c4 An hour of Blues featuring Lil Johnson, Furry Lewis, Robert Petway, Big Mama Thornton, Nina Simone, King Oliver, Gerry Joe Weise, Don Overby, 12BBB

[mentaltimetraveller]

Robert Overby Untitled (#3), 1986

[jokeanddaggerdept]

[alaspoorwallace]

Robert Overby (American, 1935-1993), B&W, 1981-1983. Oil on canvas, 213.5 x 195.5 cm

[theories-of]

ROBERT OVERBY No Title (ref #35), 22 March 1989, 15 Jan 89 Gouache, graphite, ballpoint ink and masking tape on acetate on Polaroid

[fliesunderchalk]

[koerperlich]

Robert Overby One Eyed-Grid, 1975 offset lithograph on paper on plywood each: 47 x 37.5 cm; total: 47 x 98.7 cm

[thunderstruck9]

Robert Overby (American, 1935-1993), Sky Plane, 1972. Oil on canvas, 36.2 x 46 cm.

[syntesthetic]

Robert Overby

Black Hands, 1977

[architectureandfilmblog]

Villa Överby, John Robert Nilsson, 2009

This house in the Stockholm Archipelago appeared in THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (US) (2011). David Fincher helmed the english-language adaptation of the Swedish novel, but sadly the two intended follow-up films never materialised. While it’s an engrossing thriller, anyone familiar with the tradition of modernist architecture in fiction knew immediately where to look for the villain (spoiler): in the film’s (and book’s) one austerely beautiful minimalist residence.  The cinematic device of a spotless, contemporary lakeside house with a sinister concealed basement was also used in the series Top of The Lake, this time in New Zealand. The show took the familiar metaphor one step further, by providing a residence for the most trustworthy male character that was the absolute antithesis of that sleekly extravagant modernist lair: a tiny 2-man tent.

Villa Overby appears with violent associations once again as the location for the JOHN WICK INTRODUCTION trailer/short film for game PAYDAY 2. (Which I won’t link here because of said violence.) Like so many pieces of cinematic modernist architecture before it, the building ultimately succumbs to an explosive death. (Image via pinterest)

[moma-prints]

Gender II, Robert Overby, (1992), MoMA: Drawings and Prints

The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift Size: 7 3/4 x 6 1/4" (19.7 x 15.9 cm) Medium: Watercolor and pencil on paper

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/96886

[rob-art]

Robert Overby