Echo Dry pigment and charcoal on paper
74”x55”
2020 Daybreak 3 Dry pigment, charcoal and ink on paper
55”x48”
2021 White caps Dry pigment and ink on paper
55”x48”
2021 Daybreak 1 Dry pigment, charcoal and ink on paper
55”x48”
2021 The guardians Dry pigment and charcoal on paper
72”x72”
2021 Breeze Dry pigment and charcoal on paper
55 “x 75”
2021 Aurora Dry pigment and charcoal on paper
55”x70”
2021 Cloud Forest dry pigment on paper, 72" x 72", 2019 Far Away dry pigment on paper, 60" x 55", 2019 Clearing dry pigment on paper, 92" x 55", 2019 Opening charcoal and pigment on paper, 44" x 55", 2018 Morning Light charcoal and pigment on paper, 44" x 55", 2018 Mist charcoal and pigment on paper, 90" x 55", 2018 Sunlight dry pigments on paper, 51" x 64", 2017 Twilight dry pigment and ink on paper, 55" x 70", 2018 Rustle pastel and ink on paper, 68" x 59", 2017 Ultraviolet dry pigment and ink on paper, 81" x 55.75", 2017 Wild Oats 2 dry pigment and gloss medium on paper, 40" x 88", 2017 Liquid Sky pastel on paper, 80" x 40", 2013 Red Sky dry pigments and ink on paper, 36" x 34", 2016 Clear Path charcoal, dry pigments, and ink on paper, 59" x 37", 2016 Mirror dry pigments on paper, 72" x 72", 2016 Hidden Gold dry pigment on paper, 44" x 95", 2016 Wild Oats dry pigment on paper, 55" x 74", 2016 First Light dry pigments on paper, 55" x 55", 2016 Desert Gold pastel and ink on paper, 55" x 55", 2016 Silence charcoal and ink on paper, 52" x 72 " Second Nature Exhibition 2014 Second Nature Exhibition 2014 Second Nature Exhibition 2014 Night Vision pastel and acrylic on paper, 70" x 34 "
Artist Biography
Mila Libman was born in Minsk, Belarus and immigrated to the US in 1988. She studied graphic design at Montclair State University, continued her art training at the New York Studio School, and received her MFA in 1997 from Yale University. Mila currently lives in works in San Jose, CA.
Libman begins her process by taking photographs in the Sierras, and then distorts the photographs until she arrives at the images that she wants to recreate in her drawings. Ultimately allowing the drawing process to take its own form of representation. Libman creates her works using a subtractive process. Evolving her medium from pastels and charcoal, most of her drawings are made with dry pigments rubbed over large sheets of paper and erasing a pattern into the medium; lifting pigment and revealing the paper to create a pattern of light.
“My ultimate goal is to arrive at the place when the drawing leaves me with a sense of wonder, the same feeling that I have when I take photographs of nature in the first place. I’m not trying to imitate reality, but to create reality from within.”
In 1993 Libman was awarded The Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship. Mila’s work has been exhibited at various venues in the Bay Area, including Berkeley Art Center, SJICA, Art Ark Gallery, 01 San Jose Biennial, Red Ink Gallery and Los Altos Museum. She’s also exhibited in New York, NY, Belfast, ME, and New Haven, CT.
