Join us on Saturday, November 22, at 4 PM for a conversation between Bay Area artist Libby Black and Oakland Museum of California Senior Curator of Art Carin Adams as they discuss Tracing Time, Black’s solo exhibition now on view at Anthony Meier.

Carin Adams is Senior Curator of Art at the Oakland Museum of California. Her work at the museum is focused on the intersection of contemporary art, craft, and the diverse cultural communities of Oakland. She led the 2023 exhibition Into the Brightness, celebrating the artists of Creative Growth Art Center, Creativity Explored, and NIAD Art Center; the 2022 special exhibition Hella Feminist; the 2019 re-installation of Mildred Howard’s immersive artwork Tap: Investigation of Memory; and the 2016 exhibition Yo–Yos & Half Squares: Contemporary California Quilts, which featured the work of Rosie Lee Tompkins alongside other San Francisco Bay Area quilters from the Eli Leon Collection.

Libby Black (b. 1976, Toledo, OH) lives and works in Berkeley, CA. Her multidisciplinary practice spans painting, drawing, and sculpture, exploring memory, identity, and desire through meticulous recreations of everyday objects. Black holds a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and an MFA from California College of the Arts. Black is an Associate Professor at San Francisco State University.

Recent exhibitions include Tracing Time, Anthony Meier, Mill Valley (2025); In Flux, Koumi-machi Kogen Museum of Art, Japan (2025); Fight and Flight: Crafting a Bay Area Life at the Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco (2023); The Way Things Also Are at The David Ireland House, San Francisco (2022); and Ways of Seeing: Sports and Games, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham (2022) and many more.

Event Details:

In conversation: Libby Black & Carin Adams
Saturday 22 November, at 4 pm

Anthony Meier
21 Throckmorton Ave
Mill Valley, CA

The gallery will be open from 3:00 to 5:30 pm on November 22.
This event is free and open to the public—no RSVP required.

Koumi-machi Kogen Museum of Art will be holding an exhibition entitled "In Flux," in which five American artists and one Japanese artist will be working in Komi-machi.
Each artist will use materials that are considered non-artistic, such as plastic waste, industrial by-products, and animals exterminated as harmful birds and animals, which change and circulate in different ways. They will reinterpret the materials in the context of various social issues and personal histories, creating a space for us to notice the beauty and extraordinary nature of objects in our everyday lives. The idea that everything in the world is always changing, that it will continue to change forever and live forever, is the underlying attitude shared by each artist. The works contain memories and stories, and by empathizing with their basic beliefs and desires, we will be encouraged to reconsider our relationship with our ever-changing environment and objects, and to consider what it means to live.

Reshaping the Narrative: California Perspectives surveys the myriad ways artists represent and reflect our local communities. The featured artists offer unique and local perspectives on themes that resonate during this presidential election year, such as immigration, civil rights, labor activism, feminism, and cultural identity.

This exhibition features works by eleven contemporary artists from around the globe to explore how these individuals engage with topics such as resilience, strength, labor, women’s rights, and queer aesthetics through athletic imagery. It also queries preconceived notions of femininity through a range of conceptual approaches, be they celebratory, humorous, or critical.

Artists featured in this exhibition are Bianca Argimón, Libby Black, Zoë Buckman, Monica Kim Garza, Riikka Hyvonen, Sophie Kirchner, Eddie Lanieri, Hazel Meyer, Fay Sanders, Sheena Rose, and Kawita Vatanajyankur.

She’s a Knockout was guest curated by Caitlin Swindell, Chief Curator, Vero Beach Museum of Art.