ART by Libby Rosa


Bewitched, 2024. Cracked mirror, shattered tempered glass from vandalized vehicle, foam, apoxie, epoxy, flashe, 36.5”x14.5”x5”. Photograph by Bertrand Productions.





Flick (Bee), 2024. Stainless steel, electrical tape, flashe, apoxie, foam, epoxy, whiskers from deceased cat, feathers, tubing, wire, motor, 10”x10”x5”.





Libby Rosa (b. 1993, Pittsburgh, PA) is an artist, curator, and teacher working in Philadelphia, PA. Rosa’s installations, paintings, and sculptures explore concepts of control and transformation, created from the artist's lexicon of symbols, characters, and places. She received her BFA from the University of Wisconsin - Madison (2015) and her MFA from Cornell University (2019). She has been featured in Artblog, David Zwirner’s Platform Gallerist Interview: One Day, New American Paintings: Issue # 141, Maake Magazine: Artist-run Interview, and Inertia: Studio Visit and Interview. She’s had solo exhibitions in Philadelphia at Bertrand Productions (Bell Out of Order Please Knock) in 2024 and Blah Blah (Seeing Red) in 2023. She participated in a two-person exhibition at SPRING/BREAK Art Show (A Cardinal’s Invitation) in 2022. She’s been included in group shows at MASS Gallery (Austin, TX), Hexum (Montpelier, VT), Icebox Project Space (Philadelphia, PA), blip blip blip (Moscow, Russia), Marquee Projects (Bellport, NY), and Proto Gallery (Hoboken, NJ). Rosa has attended residencies at Tongue River Residency (Dayton, WY), Trestle Art Space (NYC, NY), ASMBLY Session #1 (NYC, NY), and VCU SSP 2015 (Richmond, VA). She founded Peep Projects, a project/gallery space in North Philadelphia.