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7/11/2002

Assume Vivid Astro Focus

Peres Projects, San Francisco

peres projects is pleased to present the West Coast premiere of Assume Vivid Astro Focus, a.k.a. Eli Sudbrack with an installation of new works by the New York based, Brazilian artist. The entire gallery will be transformed into a Garden Paradise!

Sudbrack defies more traditional ethical concerns of appropriation and authorship and revels in the power of the found image and the computer age futility of copyright while exploiting the music of our own personal nostalgia. By recycling the graphic language of popular cultures detritus, lunch boxes, singles magazines, post cards, comic books, coloring books, National Geographic specials, album covers and video games, Sudbrack uses a gently parasitic eye and ear to create an amalgam of artist, fan, preacher, surrogate and rock star. Like the Anthropophagi artists of his native Brazil, Sudbrack proves that imported culture has, for better or worse, become the nourishment necessary to fully evaluate ones sense of self within a modern world. The result is often a defiant reclamation of the lost splendor in the banal and a boyish enthusiasm towards the true beauty in the world around us.

Assume Vivid Astro Focus V will present Sudbracks ongoing interest in cross generational positive thinking and popular culture with a sight specific installation featuring new and recent works including a new video, photographs, wallpaper, wall drawings, t-shirts, and stickers that will overwhelm the senses and please the palate. Sudbracks work has recently been seen in important New York venues for emerging contemporary artists including White Columns, Apex Art, and Bellwether Gallery and has been reviewed in the New York Times, Artforum and The New Yorker, among other publications. His work has have recently been shown at New Yorks New Museum and later this year will also be seen at the Centre National d'art et de Culture Georges Pompidou in Paris. Sudbrack is a 2002 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant recipient.

In the image: 'Private project', 1998, Postcards, 4" X 6"each

peres projects was founded to show the work of innovative international and US artists rarely seen in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Opening Reception: Friday, November 8th, 6 - 9pm with Special Guest VJ Bec
Gallery Hours: Wed -Sat, 12-6pm or by appointment (from HoneyGunLabs)

peres projects
1800 Bryant Street,
Suite 210 San Francisco,

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