Bridging the intimate and the iconic, Libby Black creates a living collage from a constellation of references drawn from her personal archive, blurring the boundaries between biography, pop culture, and art history. Reimagined in watercolor, acrylic, ink, and graphite, her recreations of artist postcards, fashion ads, and personal ephemera reflect how the personal and political, the fleeting and the lasting, exist side by side—reframing the everyday as something worth a closer look.
Libby Black
“Kiss of Life”, 2026
Installation comprised of over sixty individual drawings, watercolor and paper sculptures. Materials include: watercolor, pencil, gouache, acrylic paint, paper, and glue
Dimensions variable with installation
Today marks 25 years with Jen! Time moves fast. That is scary. But the one thing that isn’t scary is I get to come home to Jen. Jen is my home, my love, and my family. We have done a lot of work on ourselves and with each other. And that never stops. Always coming back to each other. Thanks @jmlovvorn for the love, sticking with me, taking baths together, making our bed in the morning, and for Jasper!
Here’s to more trips to Japan, laughing when we cant breathe, walking together, and whatever life throws at us! #kissoflife #babyjeans #jenandlibby
Want to learn more about the artists featured in the auction?
Join us for an Artist Panel Discussion on April 4, 2–4 pm at Kala Gallery @kalagallery_berkeley Art Kala 2026 artists Ron Moultrie Saunders @ronmsaunders , Beth Fein @beth.fein , and Libby Black @libblack will share images, insights into their process, and stories behind their work in conversation with artist, educator, and curator Jan Wurm @janwurmcalifornia .
Don’t miss this opportunity to connect more deeply with the artists and their work!
#KalaArtInstitute #ArtKala2026 #ArtistTalk #BayAreaArt #ContemporaryArt #ArtAuction
Join us for a panel discussion at the Kala Gallery this Saturday to learn more about artwork in this year's auction!
Art Kala 2026 artists Ron Moultrie Saunders, Libby Black, and Beth Fein will be in conversation with artist/educator/curator Jan Wurm to share insight into their work and processes.
Date/Time: April 4, 2-4pm
Location: Kala Gallery, 2990 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley
Hope you can attend!
At FOG back in January.
In @anthony_meier_ booth.
Putting this on here to archive.
Thanks everyone that posted it and got into it the piece.
#postcards #libbyblack #anthonymeier
#joandidion #drawingandpainting
Congrats to Libby Black (@libblack )on the wonderful and insightful Artforum review by Maria Porges (@mfporges ) on her recent solo exhibition, “Tracing Time”, at Anthony Meier.
Link in bio to the full story.
Watch as Libby Black takes us through a constellation of images from her personal archive—postcards, flyers, portraits, fragments of pop culture—come together as a living collage. Her exhibition “Tracing Time” reveals how the everyday slips between the personal and the political, the ephemeral and the monumental.
“Every Libby Black exhibition is an invitation into the artist’s psyche, revealing her wide-ranging curiosity through deft reproduction of items singled out for examination and critique. Black’s expansive mind and busy hands must be in constant coordinated motion, working through the personal and cultural significance of favored objects and images, meticulously reproduced. Glorious watercolors celebrate the natural world. Paper, hot glue, and acrylic replicas of luxury goods form tableaux of desire. Loving facsimiles of artist monographs reveal aesthetic and intellectual influence. Come for the exquisite craft; share the obsession.” – Mark Taylor in SF Arts
Don’t miss your chance to view “Tracing Time” – on view through 19 December.
Two more weeks to see the show.
“Tracing Time” closes December 19th.
@anthony_meier_
Sparkle and Spin, 2009
Paper, hot glue, acrylic paint
25x33x20 inches
#anthonymeier #libbyblack #violin #goyard #milkcrate #sculpture #paperpaintglue
📸 @grunder
Don’t miss Libby Black in SF/Arts. Her newest exhibition, “Libby Black: Tracing Time”, brings together carefully crafted sculptures and new watercolors—work that transforms the everyday into resonant reflections on memory, identity, and value.
View the exhibition at the gallery through December 19th!
Special Saturday Hours!
We’ll be open this Saturday, 22 November, from 3–5 pm. Come see Libby Black’s new exhibition “Tracing Time”, on view through 19 December.
At 4 pm, join us for a free public talk with Libby and Carin Adams, Senior Art Curator at the Oakland Museum of California.
Don’t miss it!
