Mike Libby
Portland, ME USA
http://www.insectlabstudio.com

Mike Libby is a multi-disciplinary artist who makes highly detailed sculptures, models, collages and drawings. Through diverse materials and methodologies, Libby explores themes of science, nature, fantasy, history and autobiography.

By employing strategies of misinterpretation, reorganization and remediation to readymade and natural objects, Libby highlights illogical and acute correspondences between the real and unreal. Libby Graduated with a degree in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1999 and has since attended the Vermont Studio Center and was recently artist-in-residence at the University of Maine at Orono. He has been in many solo and group exhibits, throughout the US and Canada, including the Center for Maine Contemporary Art 2006 Biennial, with future shows in Boston, LA and New York. He has been published in Metro London, The New York Times and Playboy and is in collections worldwide.