Libby Saylor

I have been making art since I was very young, and used art-making as a way to manage my anxiety as a little girl. Around age five, I used to doodle on white mailing envelopes and coffee filters using bright Magic Markers. And I would take chubby wax Crayons, peel the paper off, and scrape the sides of them on the lip of a jar. Watching the colorful shavings drop into the jar, I would create a work of art with the layers of colors. I didn't realize it at the time, and just thought it was something fun and beautiful to do. But, this was the beginning of my obsession with color and beauty.

I went to art college in Philadelphia and studied painting, drawing, and photography. I fell in love with all of these mediums, but ultimately chose photography as my path of study. However, I was never satisfied with just a photograph, and always wanted to incorporate my love of paint and mark-making into my photographic work.

I created my first collage series in college as a way to manage and process the heavy emotions surrounding my relationship with my mother. To this day, that body of work is my most cherished. And this is how my love of collage began.

Currently, I am an artist, creating and working in the suburbs of Philadelphia. I cons...

University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
BFA in Photography, 2002.

2024
"Little Luxuries: An Exhibition of Small Works" Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA, juried by Susanna Gold
"Annual Small Works Show" FrameWorks Studio and Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2023
"73rd A-ONE" Silvermine Galleries, New Canaan, CT, Juried by Madeline Cornell, Winston Wächter Fine Art, NYC, NY
"CLOSE-UP" LoosenArt online exhibition, Rome, Italy
2020
"Global Pandemic: Works Created in the Reign of COVID-19" Cold Coffee Gallery
"Americas 2020: Paperworks" Northwest Arts Center, Minot State University, Minot, ND
2019
“215 | 610 CONTEMPORARY” Delaware County Community College, Juried by Jodi Throckmorton, Curator of Contemporary Art, PAFA
“Be. Long. I Like Your Work” Dutoit Gallery, Dayton, OH
"Artists Among Us" Second Annual uCity Square Employee Art Show, Quorum, Philadelphia, PA (award)
2018
"Abstraction at Large" Site: Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY - Juried by Eleanor Heartney, Contributing Editor for Art in America and Artnews
2015
“I Live Here Now” Sipma Contemporary, Cohen Gallery, Goggleworks Center for the Arts, Reading, PA
2014
“Windows and Doors” 1650 Gallery, Online Annex, Echo Park, Los Angeles, CA
2010
“Vox VI” Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
“I Made an Art Pop” I Made an Art Gallery, Red Hook/Br...