Join Anthony Meier on Saturday, November 22, at 4 PM for a conversation between Bay Area artist Libby Black and Oakland Museum of California Senior Curator of Art Carin Adams as they discuss Tracing Time, Black’s solo exhibition now on view at Anthony Meier.

Carin Adams is Senior Curator of Art at the Oakland Museum of California. Her work at the museum is focused on the intersection of contemporary art, craft, and the diverse cultural communities of Oakland. She led the 2023 exhibition Into the Brightness, celebrating the artists of Creative Growth Art Center, Creativity Explored, and NIAD Art Center; the 2022 special exhibition Hella Feminist; the 2019 re-installation of Mildred Howard’s immersive artwork Tap: Investigation of Memory; and the 2016 exhibition Yo–Yos & Half Squares: Contemporary California Quilts, which featured the work of Rosie Lee Tompkins alongside other San Francisco Bay Area quilters from the Eli Leon Collection.

Libby Black (b. 1976, Toledo, OH) lives and works in Berkeley, CA. Her multidisciplinary practice spans painting, drawing, and sculpture, exploring memory, identity, and desire through meticulous recreations of everyday objects. Black holds a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and an MFA from California College of the Arts. Black is an Associate Professor at San Francisco State University.

Recent exhibitions include Tracing Time, Anthony Meier, Mill Valley (2025); In Flux, Koumi-machi Kogen Museum of Art, Japan (2025); Fight and Flight: Crafting a Bay Area Life at the Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco (2023); The Way Things Also Are at The David Ireland House, San Francisco (2022); and Ways of Seeing: Sports and Games, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham (2022) and many more.

Event Details:

In conversation: Libby Black & Carin Adams
Saturday 22 November, at 4 pm

The gallery will be open from 3:00 to 5:30 pm on November 22.
This event is free and open to the public—no RSVP required.