CM Addams
CM Addams
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  • Home
  • About
    • FAQ
    • The Artist
    • Updates
  • Gallery
    • Digital
    • Traditional
    • Merchandise
  • Commission
    • Terms and Conditions
    • Commission Inquiry
  • Store
    • Etsy
    • Ko-Fi
    • Patreon

About CM's Art

CM Addams is a freelance artist in Los Angeles, California who has a passion for drawing and painting "Symbolic Guro". CM has been creating art since they learned how to pick up a pencil. They began their artistic journey in their teen years as an escape outlet, frequently posting in online art communities. During this time, CM discovered "Guro Art", a Japanese artistic genre that began in 1929 during the Great Depression. She resonated quickly with it, finding it a moving way to express pent up emotions like pain, grief, helplessness, fear, and shame.

CM later attended and graduated from Auburn University of Montgomery, with a bachelors in Visual Arts; Minoring in Graphic Design and Creative Writing. There, CM was educated on the 
19th century Symbolism Art and the 20th Surrealist Movement. They began resonating deeply with using symbols, dream like consciousness, and metaphorical images to predict deeper meaning.

Somewhere down the road these three themes combined into what we call CM's work. Where they take the gritty concepts of the humans struggle and twists them into a story through grotesque symbols. To find beauty behind that darkness. Pleasure behind pain. Relief from fear. To unleash that pent up darkness is how we finally come to understand it.

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Various artists that inspire me: Salvador Dali, Odilon Redon, Junji Ito, Kago Shintaro, Saccstry, and Drawkill
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CM Addams has a face, I guess

What About CM?

When CM is not drawing, they enjoy music, reading, horror, occultism, video games, yoga, and spending time with loved ones. When out enjoying the LA scene, you will see them often associating with the Gothic, Witchcraft, and Nerd communities. Feel free to say hi and have a nice chat. They love deep conversations. Their primary gallery is The Hive Gallery in Los Angeles.

In addition, CM Addams is working on many other projects, but is keeping them tightly under wraps for now. If you'd like to get up close and personal, you can follow them on social media linked above, or subscribe to their Patreon for private content.

Education

  • BA in Visual Arts from Auburn University of Montgomery 2019​. Minor in Graphic Design and Creative Writing​
  • Apprenticed under Mona Dunson from 2006-2012

Publications & Clients


  • Created logo for Gorilla Rock Taco, 2021
  • Featured in Clown Girl Magazine Holiday Issue, 2019 & 2021
  • Featured as guest artist for The Last Page Grand Opening, MS 2018
  • Created illustration for Starship Sound & Recordings, 2018​​​

Exhibits

  • "Monster Mash" Exhibit, Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2022
  • "Night of the Witches", Women of Horror, Los Angeles, CA, 2022
  • "Hive Tarot XIII" Exhibit, Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2022
  • "Batteries Not Included" Exhibit, Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. 2021
  • ​"Argh!! Cartoon Art Show", Birmingham,  AL, 2020.
  • "Artists on Tap Art" Show, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL.  2018-2019.
  •   Various Battle&Brew's Art Show Exhibits, Sandy Springs, GA, 2018-2019.
  • Solo exhibit featured at KRUonMtMeigs, Montgomery,AL. 2018
  • "808 Heady: Art of Noize Art and Music Exhibit", Wetumpka, AL 2017
  •  "Exploding the Canon: An Exhibition of Women's Art" at the AUM Gallery, AL 2017

Interviews

  • "Meet CM Addams", CanvasRebel, September 2022
  • "Life and Work of CM Addams", VoyageLA , September 2021
  • "Meet CM Addams: Illustrator and Graphic Novelist", Shoutout Atlanta , April 2021
  • "Meet CM Addams" by VoyageATL , February 2020
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