“As the art duo Hella More Funner, Adam Gray and Sam Fuchs make abstract pieces that reveal themselves at a distance, but it’s impossible not to get your nose right up in them. No, the brushstrokes aren’t the story. It’s the icons. The pair compose their work using a bl... Read more
“As the art duo Hella More Funner, Adam Gray and Sam Fuchs make abstract pieces that reveal themselves at a distance, but it’s impossible not to get your nose right up in them. No, the brushstrokes aren’t the story. It’s the icons. The pair compose their work using a blizzard of digitally rendered tiny shapes, which thematically touch on subjects like drugs, capitalism, and a wide swath of pop culture. Usually the images are densely piled atop one another, such as in Octopus of a Thousand Babies, in which thousands of cartoon bodies are swept together to create an eight-tentacled beast, the Nickelodeon threat made real. Other times the icons float alone, with each skull, star, and needle clearly delineated. The duo often throws photos into the mix, especially on the hip-hop pieces — in one, Lil Wayne blows the history of rap out of his mic. Tonight, the S.F.-born artists throw a one-night-only show with an appropriately bold name, given the ever-changing reputation of digital art: “Undisputed Champions (Bored of the Rings).”
–Michael Leaverton
Adam Gray
was born in San Francisco in 1984. After working for Professor Greg Niemeyer on the Organum project and studying art and architecture at Berkeley, he relocated to Los Angeles and graduated from the Art Department at UCLA in Jully 2007. As time and school would allow he worked with S-E-R-V-O LA (architecture group run by Professor David Erdman UCLA) and Professor Jim Welling (head of the photo department, UCLA). Adam is going to grad school! He will start studying Media Design at the Rhode Island School of Design in the fall of 2009
Sam Fuchs
was born in San Francisco in 1984. He graduated from the UCLA Design|Media Arts program in early 2007. He has worked for Artist’s Space Gallery in New York City, Homestead Technologies in the Bay Area, and Bent Concepts in Los Angeles. He currently works in San Francisco for Gap Inc. as a Digital Artist.
With such fantastic individual talent, the duo set their artistic egos aside and have been collaborating harmoniously since Fall 2006. Using their high tech wizardry, Adam Gray and Sam Fuchs are on a quest to define new forms of digital art through use of lenticular image, photo illustration, and graphic poster.
