David Adey is a multimedia collage artist residing in San Diego, California. He began his career doing graphic design work for highly renowned companies such as Hasbro and Pepsi, and eventually ventured out more towards physical media. Most of his current work revolves around collage and unification of differing parts. He places emphasis on contrast and unification; In his artist’s statement, he explains “An experienced designer learns that the more distinct the elements are from each other, the more effectively they work together. Unity then is not achieved through uniformity but through juxtaposition.” Adey creates juxtaposition within his work by collecting a variety of colors, textures, and shapes, and incorporating them all into a single coherent piece. Another concept explored throughout Adey’s work is the relation between the human body and the digital world, as seen in his works Hide and Gravitational Radius (view below) which tie back to his roots in the world of marketing and consumerism.
Adey’s work has been exhibited in multiple galleries around the globe, including the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Orange County Museum of Art.
Description: “Fashion and celebrity images are collected from various online sources via Google
image search. Digital prints are laser-cut and pinned to a foam panel.”
Description: “A permanent public commission for The County of San Diego, installed at the pedestrian entrance to the parking structure at Cedar and Kettner Blvd. in downtown San Diego. Approximately 3,300 hand made clay impressions of various tire treads are glazed in over 500 unique colors.”
Description: “Three dimensional scan of artist’s body containing over 75k triangulated faces is unfolded and flattened in one piece, then divided into a diptych.”
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drawing into space 