For over two decades, Libby Black has worked across drawing, painting, and sculpture to develop a tactile language that foregrounds the material, political, and emotional dimensions of the everyday. Best known for her sculptures—rendered in paper, paint, graphite, and hot glue—she transforms familiar objects into portals that reveal the intersections of personal memory and collective cultural meaning.

While her watercolors explore impermanence, Black first gained recognition for uncanny sculptural approximations of domestic and luxury objects, transforming the material world into reflections on desire, value, and representation. Through the portrayal of domestic objects, Black surfaces the interactions and narratives embedded within everyday life, encompassing cultural, historical, and personal realms. Black’s sculptural recreations of books and periodicals—a recurring thread first introduced in the artist’s life-size re-creation of a Kate Spade store, of which included an Andy Warhol book—extend the artist’s researched yet intuitive inquiry into the systems and symbols that shape our lives. Over the years, these hollow, hand-built volumes have evolved into an ongoing series, reanimating art history through a feminist perspective to foreground alternative knowledge-making, experimentation, and counter-histories.