As the first comprehensive mid-career survey of San Diego artist David Adey, this exhibition traces more than 25 years of a creative practice defined by a persistent exploration of what it means to inhabit a human body in an era of perpetual image culture and accelerating technology. 

Curated by Mark Quint of Quint Gallery in La Jolla, the exhibition brings together Adey’s most iconic works alongside rarely seen experiments—revealing an artist who continually adopts emerging technologies only to subject them to intense discipline and constraint.

As a full-time professor of Art & Design at Point Loma Nazarene University with a background in graphic design, Adey’s approach has been described as a hybrid of a mad scientist and engineer. His early work utilized craft punches and laser cutting to dissect advertising and celebrity imagery, while more recent pieces have incorporated 3D scanning, custom electronics, and digitally altered corporeal forms. The results are sculptures that are visually seductive and unsettling, yet intellectually probing, hovering between the material and the metaphysical.

Across decades of work, Adey returns persistently to themes of identity, fragmentation, transcendence, and the body’s dual status as sacred vessel and cultural commodity. His sculptures embody the tension of contemporary life: the pull between intimacy and spectacle, the personal and the universal, technological precision and human vulnerability.