Ben Darby grew up in San Diego and Seattle, graduating from Cornish College in 1994. He has shown at many galleries around the United States, including Bryan Ohno and Linda Hodges in Seattle. In 2011 Darby was selected as one of the artists to have a piece installed in the San Diego International Airport. He was commissioned in 2014 to illustrate a scientific textbook on the subject of Microphages and his black and white drawings were spotlighted in the New Yorker.
The works shown here at Black Lab Gallery are from various points in his career. The medium is Acrylic based paint on canvas of panel. Many of the 3-D elements protruding from the paintings were poured into a mold, let harden, and then attached to the painting.
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