Our Story
The Stables was created by founders and co-owners Sarah Sandin and Ryan Lawrence. They had moved here from Los Angeles where creative spaces and community were ample. Upon arriving they realized it was pretty difficult to come across a well maintained building that was solely dedicated to professional artists so, they set out to create one.
Sarah Sandin, Co-Owner
“The only thing I’ve ever been is a creator.”
Sarah Sandin is a Savannah-based visual artist and co-creator of The Stables. Originally from Victoria, British Columbia, but raised in California, she had an extremely eccentric upbringing. Her parents nurtured creativity and expression and raised their family in an intentional community or on the road. Sarah is a classically interdisciplinary artist, drawing on the forms, techniques and strategies of many different art forms and expressing herself across a huge array of different mediums.
A former performance artist and art director from Los Angeles, Sandin got her start in the arts and entertainment industry at 18 as a professional dancer performing with artists including Madonna, Robin Thicke, Lady Gaga, Aerosmith, The White Stripes, Puscifer, Drake, Usher, The Black Eyed Peas and many others. Sarah’s practice straddles several distinct artistic disciplines, questioning the division between them and opening up new hybrid possibilities for artists. She draws on her abilities as a painter, performer, conceptual artist, dancer and industrial artist to blend together aesthetic elements encouraging the cross-pollination of audiences between forms. Sarah now works as a painter and contributor to The Stables aesthetic and conceptual production.
Sandin paints as if music were alive. Her visual art captures the energy and vibrancy that music and cinema bring to life with saturated, vivid colors. Her paint and ink splashes, sprays, and smears across the canvas as if she’s pulling the musical notes out of the air and committing them to the two-dimensional form.
Ryan Lawrence, Co-Owner
Ryan Lawrence is a Savannah-based artist, woodworker, and co-creator of The Stables. Originally from Brick, New Jersey, Lawrence has worked as a carpenter since he was 15. Learning from his dad and his uncles, he got an education in woodworking in all its forms. He worked as a journeyman carpenter in New York for a number of years before moving to Los Angeles and pursuing street art and woodworking full time starting in 2012.
Lawrence’s wall hangings draw on elements of collage and are heavily influenced by Najavo textiles incorporating sharp angles, chevron patterns, and tonal brown hues. He overlays his works with pop text and commissions wood block letters and signage.
