Laurie Darby

Laurie Darby has loved making art since she was a small child growing up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Darby has taught at the Savannah College of Art and Design and at the Savannah Classical Academy. She has traveled throughout Europe including Italy, Spain, Czechoslovakia, France, the Caribbean and Austria. She has shown her art throughout the United States. In her work she explores the concept of capacity referencing African and animated forms. The shapes in her paintings push against the boundary in the pursuit of limitations. Darby holds several accolades and has many honors including a Georgia Individual Artist Grant, residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and sculpture and the Hambidge Center, a Pollock-Krasner Award, and inclusion in the Georgia Triennial; she maintains a studio in Savannah, Georgia where she lives and works.

Darby received her undergraduate degrees from Carnegie Mellon University in History and in Art and her Master in Painting from Temple University's Tyler School of Art (spending her first year in Rome, Italy).