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The Suzanne Geiss Company
76 Grand Street
New York, NY

The paintings, hung on top of an original mural by the artists, range from visually explosive figurations to pared-down abstractions. The dichotomy is furthered by the exuberant features applied to the figures.

 Underlying the buoyancy of avaf’s characters, there is also a frenetic, spent quality inspired by the nonsustainability and failure of contemporary ideals. The bodies come in all states: curved, swelling, drooping, splintered and, occasionally, completely dismantled.

 These varied states of transformation infer contemporary life­styles supported by shaky systems of technology, drugs, and advertising. As avaf’s figures combust and blend in and out of their abstracted, networked backdrops, bodies become architectural fragments, cyborgs, and cogs.

 The possibility of fragmentation and degradation alludes to fallibility and transformation, but not to complete failure. Even as fragments, the forms are vibrant and resilient. Here, the artists restructure the language of portraiture and abstraction to create new icons of liberation.

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