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Libby Black

Selected Works

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Bio

Libby Black is a painter, drawer and sculptural installation artist living in Berkeley, CA. Her artwork charts a path through personal history and a broader cultural context to explore the intersection of politics, feminism, LGBTQ+ identity, consumerism, addiction, notions of value, and desire. Her sculptural works are to-scale re-creations of objects (some from her own life, some fictional) made of paper, hot glue, and acrylic paint. She arranges these three dimensional renderings of domestic objects, books, magazines, handbags, and shoes in still-life arrangements, creating hybrids that mix the real and the imaginary. Black also produces two dimensional paintings and drawings based on imagery culled from disparate sources like fashion magazines, newspapers, and books. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, with such shows as “California Love” at Galerie Droste in Wuppertal, Germany; “Bay Area Now 4” at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; “California Biennial” at the Orange County Museum of Art; and at numerous galleries in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Black has been an artist-in-residence at Headlands Center for the Arts; Montalvo Arts Center; and Spaces in Cleveland, OH. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, Art in America, ARTnews, Flash Art, and The New York Times. She received a BFA from Cleveland Institute of Art in 1999 and an MFA at the California College of the Arts in 2001. Libby is an Assistant Professor at San Francisco State University.

Media

The Build Up,

2021

Paper, Paint, Pencil, and Glue

24 x 19 x 15 inches

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Good Enough,

2022

Paper, Paint, and Glue

32 x 12 x 5 inches

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After Joe Brainard,

2020

Paper, Paint, and Glue

7 x 7 x 2.5 inches

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Call Me Sir,

2018

Paper, Paint, and Glue

9.5 x 5.25 x 6.5 inches

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Silver Lining,

2015

Paper, glue and acrylic paint

8.5 x 11 x 11 inches

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The Three Of Us,

2021

Paper, Paint, and Glue

20 x 9 x 9 inches

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Wear You Down,

2022

Paint, Pencil, and Paper

27 x 21 inches

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Feel Like A Good Scream Right Now?,

2022

Pencil and Paint on Paper

21 x 11.25 inches

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Girls Should Get Paid As Much As Boys,

2021

Pencil, Paint, and Paper

21 x 11.25 inches

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Happiness Won't Save You,

2021

Paint, Pencil, and Paper

21 x 11.25 inches

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Hello,

2022

Paint, Pencil, and Paper

21 x 11.25 inches

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How to wash your hands,

2022

Pencil on Paper

21 x 11.25 inches

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It's Not To Late,

2022

Pencil, Paint, and Paper

21 x 11.25 inches

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Let's Start Over,

2021

Pencil, Paint, and Paper

21 x 11.25 inches

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Moral Injury,

2022

Pencil, and Paper

21 x 11.25 inches

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Ralph Lauren,

2022

Pencil and Paper

21 x 11.25 inches

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Thank You,

2021

Pencil and Paper

21 x 11.25 inches

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The Truth Is Worth It,

2022

Pencil, Paint, and Paper

21 x 11.25 inches

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Things Will Not Be The Same, Because We Will Not Be The Same,

2021

Paint, Pencil, and Paper

21 x 11.25 inches

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The Show Has Been Canceled,

2021

Paint, Pencil, and Paper

21 x 11.25 inches

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Voting In A Pandemic,

2021

Paint, Pencil, and Paper

21 x 22 inches

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We Are Making The Ordinary Just A Bit Better,

2022

Paint, Pencil, and Paper

21 x 11.25 inches

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We Are The Inside, Looking Out,

2022

Paint, Pencil, and Paper

21 x 11.25 inches

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We Need To Put A Name To This Violence,

2021

Paint, Pencil, and Paper

21 x 11.25 inches

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We're Lingering Just A Little While Longer,

2022

Pencil and Paper

21 x 11.25 inches

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We're Trying So Hard To Be Good,

2022

Paint, Pencil, and Paper

21 x 11.25 inches

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Homosexuality Is Sin, Christ Can Set You Free,

2014

Pencil on Paper

4 x 5.75 inches

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Birth,

2012

Pencil on Paper

5 x 6.5 inches

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Get A Life,

2019

Pencil on Paper

Dimensions variable

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Standing,

1996

Pencil, Paint, and Paper

12 x 9 inches

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Jasper's Cup,

2012

Oil on canvas, on canvas

28 x 22" inches

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Carol Selter

Charles Linder

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Double Strength

Elliot Anderson

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Off Hours

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editions

exhibitions

Selected Works

Editions

Bio

Media

EXHIBITIONS

A Light That Never Goes Out

EPOCH

Returning To This Moment

The Build Up,

Good Enough,

After Joe Brainard,

Call Me Sir,

Silver Lining,

The Three Of Us,

Wear You Down,

Feel Like A Good Scream Right Now?,