Atlanta, GA | www.erindrakeford.com | @erindrakefordart
Erin Drakeford graduated from the University of Georgia with a BFA in painting and drawing in 2003. After graduation, she spent over 15 years in the service and beauty industries in Atlanta and New York, started a small gallery, and worked as a flight attendant. She began painting in earnest in 2018 and joined MINT gallery as a studio artist, creating significant abstract and figurative works. In addition to painting, she manages, teaches, and curates at ArtsBeacon gallery in Atlanta and moderates a monthly feminist art critique group. Erin's artwork is a whirlwind of bright colors and figures on canvas. Most days, she will tell you the vibrancy is about positivity and always looking for hope and goodness in the world, but some days it's about the futility and superficiality of it all. As a mother with two young kids and limited studio time, she is fueled by emotions and a desperate sense of urgency to paint. Her new work has a frenetic energy that has evolved during these strange and trying days. Paintings start from feelings of emotional disturbance; sadness, desolation, anxiety, fear, or anger. Then she gains inspiration from the daily abundance of visual and auditory information she encounters, from the preciousness of nature to mass consumerism and the absurdity of the beauty industry. The bright neon colors and gold leaf pay homage to opulence and decadence and a nod to her eighties and early nineties childhood. She has a particular fondness for oddities, atypical aesthetics, and counterculture, leaving her figures and landscapes altered, abstracted, and somewhat grotesque at times.
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