Libby Black
Biography
"My work deals with issues of class and expectations of perfection. With Louis Vuitton, Hermes, Mercedes Benz, and other purveyors of luxury as my inspiration, I explore the outward appearance of the good life by extracting and recreating status symbols and high-end consumer goods. My drawings and paper sculptures are about surface, desire, and distraction. I am drawn to this subject matter because of my uneasiness and ambivalence about what these status symbols mean to me and how they function in society."
Libby Black earned her BFA in painting at the Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH (199499) and an MFA at California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco (199901). She was an artist-in-residence at Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, California (2005) and was awarded the Cultural Equity Grant by the San Francisco Arts Commission (2003), as well as The Goldie Award by the San Francisco Bay Guardian (2002). She has shown at Marx & Zavattero, San Francisco; Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles; Broad Street Gallery, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas; Lyons Wier Gallery, New York City; and more.
