Born in 1968 and growing up in Memphis, Tennessee as a Jewish woman, Darryl witnessed and experienced the ugly realities of racism, antisemitism, and class and gender inequality yet these experiences instilled in her a passion for art. She was nurtured by an inspiring high school art teacher who entered her work in a Scholastic Competition, and she was awarded a full scholarship to The Rhode Island School of Design Pre College-Program. This shaped the direction of her life. She went on to receive a BFA in painting from RISD. During the four years at RISD she fell in love with New York City’s Lower East Side and spent much time immersed in the art scene, punk scene, and underground film world. She did two internships in New York during those years as well at The Pace Gallery and The Gracie Mansion Gallery. She was lucky to work, learn from, and have incredible experiences with the likes of Gracie Mansion, Sur Rodney Sur, and Al Hansen who was exhibiting at the time. She visited studios and was inspired by artists such as Leon Golub, Nancy Spero, Donald Baechler, John Chamberlain, Clayton Patterson, James Romberger, and Marguerite Van Cook just to name a few. She became involved romantically with Nick Zedd and appeared in three of his films; Ecstasy In Entropy, Why Do You Exist, and Eye Of Canine. She then met her husband Scot-Free who was working at Anthology Film Archives where she spent much time watching films and being inspired by Jonas Mekas, MM Serra and others and acted and collaborated with Scott in his three short films Strange Love, Fabulous Disaster, and Gentrifucked. 

She worked as an artist assistant to Donald Baechler, The Guggenheim Museum, taught art at The Children’s Workshop Grammar School on East Twelfth Street and has done various other non-art related jobs while always painting and exhibiting her work and raising two children.