Libby Rosa

Thank you for the new portrait @chanelmatsunami and @oygprojects ❤️‍🔥 There are 4 weekends left to see my exhibition “The Matchbox.” I’ll be in-person at the gallery this Saturday, February 7 from 1-6 and would love to see you there! The Matchbox” @oygprojects Curated by Zahar Vaks and Annamariah Knox January 10 - February 28, 2026 Gallery hours: Saturday-Sunday 1-6pm and by appointment 📸 @gidrastudios @chanelmatsunami

I’ve been working hard on new embedded work to show at @springbreakartshow opening September 7-12 at 625 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10022 Todd Stong will also have his fantastic prints in our installation. Thank you @chris_lucius for curating us and special thanks to @nicologentile for helping me cut and assemble this new work! Come say hi at booth #1114 I’ll be there most days 🎉 #springbreakartshow #springbreakartshow2022 #armoryweek #contemporaryart #contemporaryinstallation #contemporarypainting #libbyrosa #toddstong

I was asked to create a small 4”x4” painting for The Olive Oil + Artist project by Materra, Cunat Family Vineyards in Napa, CA. Each harvest, a visual artist is invited to create a unique label for the estate grown olive oil. For this edition I wanted to feature a painting of a flower that grew on the vineyards grounds: Yamabuki flowers. This painting is now in their collection alongside the other artists work in the series. Libby Rosa Yamabuki, 2025 4 x 4 x 0.25 inches Flashe and pastel on cut wood Thanks you so much @amiecunat for inviting me to do this! 📸 @neenaheitz @materrawines You can get yourself a bottle here 🌱: /product/2025-olive-oil

Sam and I got married this past November on 11.9.2025. It was the absolute best day 🥹. Thanks to all our friends and family who helped. It took a village! Venue: Curtis Arboretum @curtisarboretumweddings Film and digital photos by: @harper.photo.co Cake Toppers: @adamledfordceramics and @toddstong Flowers: @katiejhubbell Vases: @vessel.garden Website and Invitations: @robinscameron Sam’s Suit: @davidhartnyc

Recent pin sculptures from my winter show “The Matchbox” @oygprojects 1. Pin (white head, stand-alone, twisted), 2026. Polished aluminum, wood, flashe, acrylic, 75” x 2” x 2” 2. Pin (white head, stand-alone, straight), 2026. Polished aluminum, wood, flashe, acrylic, 75” x 2” x 2” in the home of @anyaklepikovdesign

at what cost was here! @robrtwhitehead and i generated poems from the prompt enclosed and stunning answers we received at @libbyrosa ’s closing reception at @oygprojects . during deinstallation, we transcribed them on drywall panels where the embedded painting for “the matchbox” once lived, potentially never to be seen again. our words are our walls. thank you so much for having us!

Libby Rosa’s @libbyrosa work toys with fire, witches, and the impermanence of walls. Read Space On Space’s latest interview with the artist where we talk about growing her art practice in Philadelphia, how the scene has evolved, her latest solo show at @oygprojects in NYC and upcoming projects at @currentspace , @elsewhere.fair , and @fjord_ . Consider becoming a paid subscriber to get access to exclusive content to help grow your art practice. We’re working on a few interviews with curators and galleries that will be behind a paywall. You don’t want to miss. ⚡️⭐️⚡️ Image captions: Photo credit Chanel Matsunami. All images courtesy of the artist. Installation of Seeing Red at Blah Blah Gallery in 2023. Installation of The Matchbox at Ortega y Gasset Projects in 2026. Witch, 2023. Flashe, pastel, and colored pencil on canvas, 8 x 8 inches, 2023. Installation of BELL OUT OF ORDER PLEASE KNOCK at Bertrand Productions in 2024. Installation of False Alarm exhibition at Blah Blah Gallery in 2025. Detail of embedded flame in the modified wall in False Alarm exhibition at Blah Blah Gallery in 2025.

Three match sculptures are on display in my exhibition “The Matchbox” @oygprojects - up for two more weeks! Here are some behind-the-scenes moments from the (very messy but satisfying) making process. Burned matches are now scattered all over my studio... “…Through the window, a used match sculpture is visible, and the gallery’s columns have become striking surfaces with marks and abrasions from previous strikes, serving as evidence of the gallery’s conflagration. The other two oversized match sculptures in the show represent different stages of change and (dis)functionality; the red match is unused, and the blue one is broken.” 1. Burnt Match (Black), 2026. Acrylic, sand, epoxy, polyurethane, graphite, pastel, wood, foam, 77”x 8”x8” 2. Unused Match (Red), 2026. Acrylic, sand, epoxy, polyurethane, wood, foam, 77”x 8”x8” 3. Broken Match (Blue), 2026. Acrylic, sand, epoxy, polyurethane, wood, foam, 77”x8”x8”

Join us for a Covert Artifact Poetry Exercise @oygprojects Led by @scicchitano and @robrtwhitehead in collaboration with @libbyrosa during the Closing Reception of The Matchbox, February 28 | 1-4pm The closing reception for Libby Rosa’s The Matchbox will include a covert artifact poetry exercise in collaboration with the reading series @at__what__cost along with writers Jessica Scicchitano and Robert Whitehead. As part of the de-installation process, Rosa will repair the two holes she made in the gallery’s wall when embedding the barred-flame-window “untitled” artwork. During the closing reception, attendees are encouraged to contribute to collaborative poems that will be written on the original sheetrock pieces of the soon-to-be-reinstalled wall. These poems will serve as secret artifacts of the show and covert monuments to the present moment, reminding us of our ability to reshape and repair our surroundings thoughtfully and our capacity to change and grow. Created in 2023, At What Cost (https://atwhatcost.me/) brings together writers and artists to explore a burning question or idea and provides the platform to respond as they wish. This project is an attempt to make light of the dark through artists whose material—stunningly, and remarkably—remind us that discomfort is the point. Jessica Scicchitano is a graduate of the MFA program in Creative Writing at Syracuse University and lives in Philadelphia. After a ten year break in writing, she began At What Cost, a reading series and curatorial project that attempts to acknowledge the toll our emotional and political avoidance takes. You can learn more about her at atwhatcost.me (http://atwhatcost.me/). Robert Whitehead received his MFA in poetry from Washington University in St. Louis, and has been a resident at the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets, Ashbery Home School, and Vermont Studio Center. His work was awarded the 2022 Anne Halley Prize, and has appeared or is forthcoming from Massachusetts Review, Gulf Coast, Verse Daily, JERRY, Denver Quarterly, The Collagist, and elsewhere. He lives in Philadelphia, where he works as a writer and designer for a university hospital.

Libby Rosa Cool Flame (Pinned with Spark) 69” x 30” x 1” Flashe, acrylic, and pastel on wood, aluminum On view in “The Matchbox” @oygprojects Curated by Zahar Vaks and Annamariah Knox January 10 - February 28, 2026 Gallery hours: Saturday-Sunday 1-6pm and by appointment

Libby Rosa Warm and Cool Flame II 37” x 27” x 1” Flashe, acrylic, and pastel on wood On view in “The Matchbox” @oygprojects Curated by Zahar Vaks and Annamariah Knox January 10 - February 28, 2026 Gallery hours: Saturday-Sunday 1-6pm and by appointment

“Cool Flame,” 2026. Flashe, acrylic, and pastel on wood, aluminum, 43” x 20” x 1” On view in “The Matchbox” @oygprojects Curated by Zahar Vaks and Annamariah Knox January 10 - February 28, 2026 Gallery hours: Saturday-Sunday 1-6pm and by appointment 📸 @gidrastudios