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Libby Black’s work deals with issues of class and expectations of perfection. With Louis Vuitton, Hermes, Gucci and other purveyors of luxury as my inspiration, she explores the outward appearance of the good life by extracting and recreating status symbols and high-end consumer goods. Her drawings, paintings, and paper sculptures are about surface, desire and distraction. She is drawn to this subject matter because of her uneasiness and ambivalence about what these status symbols mean to her, and how they function in society. Libby earned her BFA at the Cleveland Institute of Art and took an MFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts in San Francisco. Libby shows with Marx & Zavattero in San Francisco, and with the Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles. Images courtesy of Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.