Visual Storyteller and Creative Producer

Daryl Newmark is a creative producer and visual storyteller with a practice rooted in close observation of both the tangible and the intangible. Working across visual art, writing, and food, she explores the narratives that emerge when we slow down and look more carefully at the world around us. From her conceptual Food Faces series—exhibited at the Art Students League of Denver—to her personal essays on life and transition, her work finds meaning in the everyday.

Her visual sensibility was shaped in the creative “hot seat” of production. As a producer for MTV and VH1, Daryl developed a sharp editorial eye for framing, pacing, and narrative through close collaboration with directors and editors in high-stakes, deadline-driven environments. That foundation was later refined at Miami Ad School, where she studied Art Direction and learned to distill expansive ideas into focused, high-impact visual stories.

Her work often moves beyond the plate to uncover personality, humor, and emotional resonance within ingredients themselves. This approach is most evident in Food Faces, a series of expressive portraits built from everyday foods, transforming the familiar into something quietly uncanny and alive.

Daryl’s understanding of culinary rigor is equally firsthand. A graduate of Emerson College, she pursued her passion for the kitchen through a stage at A.O.C. with Suzanne Goin and work as a culinary assistant for the Food Network. Combined with her time in institutions such as Kokkari Estiatorio, these experiences inform her belief that the frame—like the kitchen—is a stage. In her home-kitchen series Someone Else’s Recipe, she brings the visions of other creators to life by exploring the narrative power embedded in cookbooks.

Parallel to her visual practice, Daryl writes personal essays on life, transition, and attention under the title While the Fish Cooks. Across all mediums, her work is guided by a seasoned, strategic sensibility and a deeply observant approach to storytelling.

Ultimately, her perspective is best understood through the work itself.