"Hibiscus" By Laurie Darby

15 x 16 Inch, color reduction print on paper (2019)

Bio:
Darby earned degrees from Carnegie Mellon University in both Fine Art and in History, she received a Master of Painting from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art spending the first year of study on the Temple Rome, Italy campus. She later earned a Master of Teaching from Georgia Southern University. Her work focuses on elements of the natural world using plant life to depict the fragility of life. Working in series, she uses biblical precepts, historical context, and literature to evoke her narrative. Darby has received several grants, including a Future Faculty Fellowship, Georgia Council for the Arts grant, Individual Artist Georgia Grant, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and a Dieu Donne Papermaking teachers grant. She has also been in residence at the Skowhegan School of Sculpture and Painting, Project Row Houses, and the Hambidge Center. Darby is an multidisciplinary artist and educator.

Artist Statement:
By looking into the natural world my intention is to use nature metaphorically for identity, memory and belonging.  By exploring the curvilinear structure of the flower and its organic counterparts I find myself looking into the past and the present simultaneously.  The flower becomes a metaphor for memory. Through depicting the temporal flower my intention is to pay homage to the ecological connections of the African American family, to spirituality, food, planting and place.  Having been raised in the north, Philadelphia, I now live in the south, Georgia, where my mother’s family lived for five generations.  I therefore hold rich cultural connections to the Georgia heritage and landscape. I am drawn to the ecology of the landscape, to its soil and waterways. I seek refuge in its beauty.   

I am a printmaker, papermaker, and book artist.  I draw upon these media to tell stories about the past and the present. In choosing subject matter I look to connect. Whether they be slave narratives, gardens, family homes, food, all the narratives reflect my theme of man’s desire to return to Eden. 

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