Bio
Libby was born in
Youngstown, Ohio and attended the School of the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston where she earned her diploma and fifth year
certificate. She has lived in the New York/New Jersey area for many years.
Libby has exhibited in many local galleries and exhibits as well as
nationally. Most notable among these are the Mercer County Artists Exhibit
where she received honorable mention in 2017 and was a Cultural
Commission purchase in 2015 and 2021, the City of Trenton’s Ellarslie
Museum where she received Best in Show for drawing in 2015, the
President’s award for runner up in mixed media in 2019 and the Butler
Institute of American Art national Midyear show in 2012, 2015 and 2021.
Libby was the visual artist in a flamenco residency Finding Light Through Fire at the Arts Council of Princeton where she created projected art work for the choreographies as well as painted live on panels of Zen paper to musical performances. Libby has worked with the Arts Council of Princeton for many years as an exhibitor and an instructor of children’s classes, summer camps and after school programs. She created an award winning art program for the Princeton Nursery School as well as working on residency projects in the Princeton public elementary schools. She has also illustrated the children’s book One By One by Harlan Platt.
Artist Statement
My work is an elegy to all the ephemera in my life. I layer printed papers such as almanac pages, dictionary excerpts and cast off art work with my own drawing and painting. The materials and I are storytellers in a visual world. I include text to imply sound within the visual silence and express time by the type of font. In the last few years my work has taken on a biographical nature by using image transfers of old family photographs or the photographs themselves. Repeating images, shapes and colors in layers, I create a composition that floats through time and space. Recently I have been fortunate to have a print studio where I have been exploring the use of gel plates. I combine printed textures with collage to create demons to protect me from the world.