Assume Vivid Astro Focus

assume vivid astro focus (avaf) is both an alias of Brazilian-born artist Eli Sudbrack, and the name of an international group of visual and performance artists. Sudbrack was born in 1968. avaf is normally referred to in lower-case letters, and this article adheres to this convention.

AVAF has been featured in Art Forum, Frieze, Flash Art, L'Uomo Vogue, V Magazine, W Magazine, and a catalogue was recently published by the Whitney Museum of American Art for the 2004 Whitney Biennial.

AVAF is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawing Collection.

avaf is currently based in New York and Paris, and is represented by John Connelly Presents, New York, and Peres Projects, Berlin/LA.

Upcoming Exhibitions

"assume vivid astro focus," Peres Projects, Berlin

Exhibitions

Recent avaf collective exhibitions include:

* Tropicália, curated by Carlos Basualdo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Barbican Arts Centre, London, UK, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York
* Trial Ballons/Globos Sonda, curated by Yuko Hasegawa, Agustin Pérez Rubio, and Octavio Zaya, MUSAC, León, Spain
* Infinite Painting, curated by Francesco Bonami and Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art, Codroipo, Italy.
*"absolutely venomous accurately fallacious (Naturally Delicious)," Deitch Projects, New York
*"In Living Contact," 28th São Paulo Biennial, curated by Ivo Mesquita, São Paulo, Brazil
*"FAUX DARK SHADA RUSTIC MONIQUES," Hiromi Yoshii Gallery. Tokyo, Japan
*"Destroy Athens," Athens Biennial, Athens, Greece
*"a very anxious feeling," John Connelly Presents, New York
*"Abra Vana Allucinete Fogo," Casa Triangulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
*"butch queen realness with a twist of pastel color," John Connelly Presents, New York, USA
*"Open Call," Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
*"The Garden Party", Deitch Projects, New York
*"absorb viral attack fantasy", Hiromi Yoshii, Tokyo, Japan
*"assume vivid astro focus XVI", Galeria Massimo de Carlo (project space), Milan, Italy
*"Panic Room" works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation Centre For Contemporary Art, Athens
*"Ecstasy: In and About Altered States," Museum of Contemporary Art, The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, California
*"Infinite Painting," Villa Manin Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Codroipo, Italy
*"assume vivid astro focus XII", Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England
*"assume vivid astro focus XIX", Hotel, London
*"assume vivid astro focus XX", Galerie Art: Concept
*"Off the Wall Series", Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis,
*"assume vivid astro focus XIV" (in collaboration with Elmgreen and Dragset), Galeria Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Fall/Winter, 2005
*"assume vivid astro focus XII", Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England

Sudbrack has had solo projects at:

* Massimo de Carlo Gallery, Milan, Italy
* Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
* Galeria Triangulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
* Deitch Projects, New York [peresprojects.com/artist-works/12/0/]

External links

* [http://www.peresprojects.com/artist-works/12/0/ avaf page at Peres Projects]
* [http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/exhibitions/avaf/default.shtm Tate Liverpool exhibition in 2005]
* [http://www.johnconnellypresents.com/avaf.htm avaf page at John Connelly Presents]