Anne Libby

Aug 22

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INSIDERS

The window has long been a foundational source of inspiration for sculptor Anne Libby, who appreciates its duality. Like a vessel, windows hold something in, but their transparency also allows for passage. She describes window blinds, the element used to both obscure and reveal what lies outside our domains, as an ephemeral gesture, or “barely an object,”1 that she transfers into a static, opaque, distorted representation of itself various materials like quilted textile, glass, and metal. Her These Days wall sculptures are dramatically long and appear caught in distorted movement. Their captured fleetingness creates sur- real perspectives that aim to reflect on the more inward aspects of the human condition like loneliness, impermanence, and personal boundaries. Alternatively in the round, Libby’s Inner Echo pieces employ stacked louvered glass panes meant to open and close like jalousie windows but seemingly stuck halfway in between. A closer look reveals puddles of slumped glass on their steel structures, an exploration of the spectrum between transparent and opaque.

From different vantage points the work invites a unique, disorienting experience of look- ing through multiple window-like planes at once; the effect evocative of infinity mirrors, which reflect yourself to the nth degree. In an age of endless gaze on social media and the blending of the public and the private, Libby’s works are an astute reconceptualization of perception, privacy, and envy, concepts always fluctuating and relative to us all.

B. 1987, Los Angeles, CA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

@annelibby