Libbie Masterson earned a BFA from the California College of Arts. Interested in landscapes, and traveling through Europe, Norway, Iceland, Alaska, and Antarctica, Masterson developed a series of photographs illuminated with light panels, scaling up to 70 feet in length, at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, the Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston and the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. In 2008 she created a stage set for the Dominic Walsh Dance Theatre and the Sarasota Ballet, The Mozart Trilogy, performed in Houston, Dallas, New York and Tokyo. She also created a stained glass installation for the Amazing Place Chapel , with Masterson Design In 2009, Masterson was awarded an Individual Artists Grant from the Houston Arts Alliance to develop a photographic essay of of evenings in Texas, exhibited in 2009-10. She continued this series in Provence, receiving a residency awarded by the MFAH at the Dora Maar House, in the South of France. This series NUIT, exhibited at Wade Wilson Art during Fotofest Biennial 2012. At that time Masterson created a second set design for Dominic Walsh, Claudel. She also created a photographic mural of 100 feet, installed at 2Houston Center building, downtown Houston. In April 2013 she produced a temporary installation of illuminated blossoms for the reflection pool at Hermann Park in concurrence with designing a set set for the Houston Grand Opera, HGOco. Titled Memory Stone, the opera is based on Japan and the Japanese Garden in the Park. Masterson is the Curator for the Houston Center for Photography and a designer for Masterson Design. The influence of working in Japanese themes will be seen in Water’s Edge (Mizugiwa) , an exhibition this summer of her latest work, at the Catherine Couturier Gallery (formerly John Cleary Gallery), Houston.
