The
collective assume vivid
astro focus (avaf)
was formed in New York City in 2001 by principal members are Eli Sudbrack and
Christophe Hamaide-Pierson. Avaf fuses drawing, sculpture, video, and
performance into carnavalesque installations in which gender, politics, and
cultural codes float freely. A study in visual adaptation and modification,
avaf’s work recycles and transforms imagery from one project to the next—often
in the form of densely patterned wallpapers and graphic signage.
the motivations behind the collective’s
use of masks during public events and installations. Originally created to
enjoy personal anonymity at openings, avaf have continued to use masks in their
work as a way to create equality between itself and the audience and to
encourage free personal expression.
Masks have had an important role in avaf’s numerous
projects including assume vivid astro focus XI at the Rosa
and Carlos de la Cruz Private Collection, Miami (2004), homocrap#1 at
MOCA, Los Angeles (2005), Super #3 at Maison des
Arts de Créteil, Paris (2008), absolutely venomous accurately
fallacious (naturally delicious) at Deitch Projects, Long
Island City (2008), and antonella varicella arabella fiorella at
Enel Contemporanea, Rome (2008).
Color Wheel: Muddy Water Runs Quicker
Medium: Paper, clay, tempera, ink, oil pastel
A class, some claiming to be white and privileged,
contemplate the idea of a color wheel as an ambiguous comment on sameness,
equality, and identity Making a color wheel is a ubiquitous project for
children. We thought to deconstruct the
color wheel project by considering other cultural aspects of color and how
color can become a binary signifier of identity. We considered the
impossibility of a total and complete blending of identity and history in a work
informed by abstract expressionist impulses multiple layers, and text. A bricolage of mismatched items, extra pieces,
skin paintings. Color blind, color
purists, or color boundaries; Is race a careless or aesthetic phenomenon,
unconsciously assumed, position? A color
wheel Illuminating then obscuring, nature, science and culture. The meaning of color.
Walter Rane
Anita Cralie Schley
Frank McEntire
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| Adam Thomas |
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