If you’ve been to a house concert in the 405 area code within the past five years, there’s a good chance that Kansas City-based, Oklahoma-bred artist Olivia Gibb helped get you there. Her work — ranging from playfully crude drawings to sophisticated, intricate collage pieces — is a perfect, Xerox-friendly match for Oklahoma City’s DIY music and art scene: a little fun, a little dark, and always clever and attention grabbing. Her designs have graced everything from Glow God’s House of Distractions cover to flyers for everyone from Seattle grunge rockers Weed to local punk outfit American Hate, a body of work as integral to that world as anyone else’s.
Gibb is also a participating artist in Everything Is Not Ok, a three-day festival — for “true freaks, punks, skins, hardcores, art enthusiasts, rejects, failures, lonely people, estranged minds, free thinkers and the like” — happening March 13 through March 15. It features dozens of bands and artists from across the country to be showcased at The Conservatory, Tall Hill Creative, and The Shop. She just happened to put together the poster for the event, too.
Here’s even more of her work:
To see more, visit Gibb’s website, follow her blog, and you can even buy clothing adorned with her work.
