artists & neighbors
we love our AAD community! get to know a few of them below!
SARAh SWILLUM
Sarah Swillum is a well-rounded creative, Detroit native living and working in Atlanta. Her textured paintings and wearable works use wordplay to express simple moments and fleeting emotions in a surreal way. Having been featured on several compilations, her self-produced dada beat, pop-chant music expresses Earthly emotions with unearthly sounds.
KRISTAN WOOLFORD
Atlanta native Woolford is a commission-based Hip Hop visual artist. His work seeks to synthesize the original pillars of Hip Hop with Social Justice themes. His background in documentary filmmaking inspires video collages of Afrofurist narratives that are presented as projection art.
META GARY
Meta Gary’s work explores that which is everyday, but often overlooked. This multi-disciplinary work manifests in paintings, drawings, video, and audience-inclusive installations. Meta is an Atlanta-based artist, designer, and professor with a background in
studio art, graphic design and art history.
MICHAEL LAMB
Michael Lamb is a local artist that has been working and creating in Atlanta for seven years. Their practice focuses on the relationship between human experience and information processing through the form of found object collage. Lamb’s abstract compositions address both the conscious and unconscious affects information has on our behavior through strict methodology and a healthy amount of humor.
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mike germon
Mike is an artist, graphic designer, props person, soccer enthusiast, beer drinker, and collector living in Atlanta, GA. He creates collages that use symbolism to suggest narratives that range from science fiction to mythology and builds installations that reflect his book hoarder aesthetic.
ERIKA GAUVIN
I grew up in a multicultural household in which my mother is Japanese, and my father is American. When I was young, I struggled with imposter syndrome due to being biracial. It is important to me that my work be visually beautiful by using materials and subject matter that reflect my Japanese heritage as a means to feel belonged and appreciate my identity.
AMIE ESSLINGER
Using motifs from microbiology, I experiment with material, scale, and replication to create abstract biomorphs of vivid color, hyper-texture, and dedicated detail. I stress the physicality of the world through a labor-intensive process of painting, drawing, cutting, stacking, and aggregating a variety of materials. By mimicking cellular and microbial structures and processes, my practice conflates randomness and mutation with order and life-generation.