Adam Martin Disbrow (American, b. 1986), known in NFT art as AD_AD, is an Expressionist painter based in Charlottesville, Virginia. His paintings explore relationships of opposition — life and death, the sacred and the profane, the seen and the unseen — built up in layers of colour, sheen, texture and recurring personal symbols such as a gold square and genuine silver leaf.
Disbrow studied art history, language arts and literature at the University of Virginia, graduating in 2008, and devoted himself to expressionist painting from 2014. His debut exhibition took place that July at Alexander Salazar Fine Art in San Diego, California. Around the same time he co-founded the Sperryville Artist Cooperative (SPAC), an artist community south of Washington, D.C. He describes the gold square that recurs throughout his work as open to interpretation, representing both the sacred and the profane. He also uses silver leaf, which tarnishes and oxidizes over time, to set the ephemerality of physical art against the unchanging nature of digital art.
