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. 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 construc...

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

PUBLIC PROJECTS
2026
Artwork featured in Newlyweds, NBC, set decoration by Jennifer Fulmer

PUBLISHED WORK
2026
Geometry Unruled, Amos Eno Gallery on Artsy
2025
Collé, Issue No. 85
2024
Humana Obscura, Spring 2024 Issue #8
Suboart Magazine, Print Issue #20, March 2024
2023
I Like Your Work Fall Exhibition Catalog, curated by Victoria J. Fry, founder of Visionary Art Collective and New Visionary Magazine
Wilder Roam: 001 On the Road, inaugural print issue
2022
phoebe Journal, Issue 51.1, Pages 90-91
2020
Create! Magazine, Issue #22, artwork selected by guest curator Larry Ossei-Mensah, Co-Founder of ArtNoir
Friend of the Artist, Volume 12, artwork selected by guest curator Natasha Arselan, Founder and CEO of AucArt
2014
Studio Visit Magazine, Vol 28, p. 171, Juried by Carl Belz, Director Emeritus of The Rose Art Museum at Brandies University
2003
Washington Post, April 24 2003, “A Passing Fancy”
2002
Photographer’s Forum Best of College Photography Annual

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
"Little Luxuries: An Exhibition of Small Works" Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA, juried by Susanna Gold
2023
"73rd A-ONE" Silvermine Galleries, New Canaan, CT, Juried by Madeline Cornell, Winston Wächter Fine Art, NYC, NY
2019
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