Assume Vivid Astro Focus: Always Vacationing Among Flamingos / Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami

Coinciding with Art Basel Week 2024, Fredric Snitzer Gallery in Miami just opened “always vacationing among flamingos”, a solo exhibition by the artist collective assume vivid astro focus (avaf). The show features eight new, vibrantly colored paintings that immerse viewers with their scale, texture, and dynamic hues. Founded in 2001, avaf explores themes of gender, politics, and cultural codes through multimedia projects, often breaking down boundaries between the viewer, space, and artwork. In this exhibition, avaf shifts focus to painting, a medium they've explored for over a decade, emphasizing color as a universal language for healing and energy. The new works integrate botanical motifs, particularly from subtropical environments, adding organic elements like orchids into their signature abstract style. The paintings also play with texture, layering materials to create a sense of dimensionality that challenges the boundaries of the rectangular canvas.

Avaf’s works are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Museum of Art São Paulo (MASP); Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome; National Museum of Art, Architecture, and Design, Oslo; and Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL, among others. Currently, the artist collective has also a solo exhibition titled “XI” at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach.

Assume Vivid Astro Focus: Always Vacationing Among Flamingos / Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami. December 1, 2024.

PS: Also on display at Fredric Snitzer Gallery is SPORE, an outdoor sculptural work by Troy Simmons.