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🎟 Early bird tickets are live for the 2026 Flux Factory Annual Art Auction & Gala!

November 7, 6:30-9:30
Flux IV, 56-21 2nd Street

Join us for an evening of art, silent auction, food, and community. This year marks 20 years since the first Flux auction and we're pulling out all the stops.

Swipe for a preview of some of the works up for auction, full artist list drops October 15.

$50 through October 15 - $75 after. Get in early 🪱.

Link in bio → https://pools.events/t/xqxm8nvp/

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Slide 2: Richard Garet: Color Studies #3: Untitled 21, 2001. Oil paint on Bristol vellum paper, 17 x 14 inches. @garet_ny

Slide 3: Dana Sherwood: Fly Trap Cakes, 2016. Screenprint, 8 x 12 inches. @danasherwoodstudio

Slide 4: Natalia Nakazawa: Sakura Cut-Out vase, 2025. Ceramic, 7.5 x 4 x 5 inches. @nakazawastudio

Slide 5: Tod Seelie: Rooftop Crowd, 2006. Archival Digital Print, 8 x 12 inches. @todseelie

Slide 6: Angela Washko: Heroines with Baggage, 2013. Cyanotype, 11 x 14 inches. @angelawashko by @flux_factory

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𝗔 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗻𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗿𝘀: 𝗥𝗵𝗶𝘇𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟮𝟲
Oct 1 - 25, 2026
Opening: Oct 1, 6:00 - 9:00 pm with remarks at 7:00 pm
😷 Timed masking (provided at door): 6:00 - 7:30 pm
📍 Flux IV (56-21 2nd St, LIC)

Join us for the opening reception of 🌱 𝗔 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗻𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗿𝘀: 𝗥𝗵𝗶𝘇𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟮𝟲 next Thursday, Oct 1! Please note, timed masking will be in place from 6 - 7:30 pm to accommodate immunocompromised guests.

The exhibition’s title, 🌱 𝗔 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗻𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗿𝘀, stems from the interview that prompted Octavia Butler’s essay, “A Few Rules for Predicting the Future” (2000), in which she explained that the problems of the future have no silver bullet but “thousands of answers,” at least. Inspired by this call to the pluriversal, 🌱 𝗔 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗻𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗿𝘀 brings together dré jacome and Zella’s work engaging collective intelligence.

jácome presents 𝙀𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙝𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙙 (2022–present), a site-specific storytelling installation that houses and encodes oral history interviews onto seed sculptures. In collaboration with Ayni Herb Farm’s founder Amara Ullauri, this iteration turns toward those whose hands tend the land, and speculates on housing living archives off screen and in relationship.

Zella’s intermedia installation and library is situated within Experimental School for Black Imagination, a collective they helped initiate. A new volume of Experimental’s publication series, 𝙒𝙚 𝘽𝙚 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙁𝙧𝙚𝙚, titled “Noticing,” considers how collective practices of attention can become forms of creative sovereignty.

Details on 🌱 𝗔 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗻𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗿𝘀: 𝗥𝗵𝗶𝘇𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟮𝟲 at the link in bio 🔗 
@cocarosa_ @zellanealehurston @ayniherbfarm @experimental.schoool by @flux_factory

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𝙅. 𝙋𝙖𝙫𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙎𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙀𝙣𝙨𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙡𝙚 + 𝙌𝙞𝙪𝙟𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙜 𝙇𝙚𝙫𝙞 𝙇𝙪 & 𝙇𝙚𝙨𝙡𝙚𝙮 𝙈𝙤𝙠 𝙙𝙪𝙤 + 𝘽𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙨𝙪 𝙋𝙖𝙧𝙠
Oct 4, 6:00 - 9:00 pm
📍 Flux IV, 56-21 2nd Street
$15 suggested donations at the door, 100% of funds go to musicians!

𝘼𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙅. 𝙋𝙖𝙫𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙎𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙀𝙣𝙨𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙡𝙚
Violist and composer Jessica Pavone premieres a new work for string trio, Stalling Tumble, joined by violinists Charlotte Munn-Wood and Mazz Swift. Formed in 2017, the ensemble performs music that moves fluidly between traditional notation, improvisational instruction, metered passages, and time-based scores.

𝘼𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙌𝙞𝙪𝙟𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙜 𝙇𝙚𝙫𝙞 𝙇𝙪 & 𝙇𝙚𝙨𝙡𝙚𝙮 𝙈𝙤𝙠
Mok is a New York City-based percussionist and sound artist. Lu is an experimental musician, composer, and creative technologist.

𝘼𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝘽𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙨𝙪 𝙋𝙖𝙧𝙠
London-based Korean artist Bongsu Park is a contemporary multidisciplinary artist, presenting a site-responsive audiovisual installation with scent, accompanied by original music by haihm and a live scent element passed among the audience.

Set Times
6:00 pm J. Pavone String Ensemble
7:00 pm Qiujiang Levi Lu & Lesley Mok duo
8:00 pm Bongsu Park’s site-responsive audiovisual installation with scent

Full program details at the 🔗 in bio.

@jjjessicapppavone @tt_nn_oo @mazzmuse @levi.lu1 @l.esley @bongsupark81

𝙅. 𝙋𝙖𝙫𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙀𝙣𝙨𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙡𝙚'𝙨 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙪𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙉𝙔𝙁𝘼 𝙌𝙪𝙚𝙚𝙣𝙨 𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙨 𝙁𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧 𝙈𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘 𝘼𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖. by @flux_factory

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Opening night of 𝘼 𝙏𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘼𝙣𝙨𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙨 ✨ featuring impromptu autotuned performances, Play-Doh, bubbles, and a ton of play in the library.

Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate with us tonight, and to dre and Zella for bringing these worlds to life at Flux IV!

@cocarosa_ @zellanealehurston

𝘼 𝙏𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘼𝙣𝙨𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙨: 𝙍𝙝𝙞𝙯𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙁𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥 𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙨 2025/26 is on view through October 25. Open Friday - Sunday, 2:00 - 6:00 pm at Flux IV (56-21 2nd St, LIC💫)

📸 Photos: @yann.chasha by @flux_factory

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Free Workshop this Saturday in Queens!

Join the J. Pavone String Ensemble this Saturday, October 3, from 12–3 PM at the Advance Masonic Temple in Astoria.

We’ll be opening up our rehearsal process as we prepare for Sunday’s concert at FLUX IV. Come watch us work, ask questions, and get a behind-the-scenes look at how a chamber music ensemble prepares for a performance.

You don’t have to stay for the whole workshop — feel free to drop in for as much or as little as you’d like!

Students of all ages are welcome — no musical background required!

FREE
Saturday, October 3 · 12–3 PM
Advance Masonic Temple
21-14 30th Ave., Astoria, NY
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Made possible with support from the Queens Arts Fund, a regrant program supported by the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and administered by NYFA, and a Chamber Music America Artistic Projects Grant. by @flux_factory

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Thank you to everyone who came and participated in “Urban Water Awareness Day: Hidden Systems, Shared Futures” a little over a week ago!

"Urban Water Awareness Day" consisted of an urban waterfront walk, panel discussion, workshop, and film screening presented in conjunction with New York Climate Week. The program brought together artists, architects, urbanists, environmental advocates, and community organizations, to examine water as a civic, social, and cultural framework, not merely a technical system. This program revealed how water continues to shape everyday life and how some of the city's most pressing environmental, social, and political challenges converge in the municipal waters of a warming New York City.

The program was presented in Partnership with ECO Solidarity (Polish Cultural Institute New York (@polishculturalinstituteny)), and Shared Grounds (Finnish Cultural Institute in New York (@thefciny) and Flux Factory (@flux_factory))

Program Partners:
Genspace @genspacenyc
Newtown Creek Alliance @newtowncreek
Interval Projects @interval.projects
Only If @onlyif_arch

Participants:
Hart Mankin @hart_mankin, Newtown Creek Alliance
Karolina Częczek @karolinaczeczek, Only If
#MarlisaWise, Interval Projects
Benedict Clouette @benedictclouette, Interval Projects
Paula Vilaplana de Miguel @paulavilaplane, MoMA
Sasha Huber @sashahuber, Artist
Petri Saarikko @petrisaarikko, Artist
Adelle Lin @adellelin, Artist
Anna Morgowicz @annamorgowicz, Artist

Cultural Partners:
WantedDesign @wanteddesign
Hunters Point Park Conservancy @licwaterfront

Photo credit:
Photos by Owise Abuzaid and Hany Osman. Courtesy of Polish Cultural Institute New York and Finnish Cultural Institute in New York

Thank you again to everyone who came and made this possible! by @flux_factory

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A glimpse of the eco-printing process from Through Roots and Land workshop @urban_soils @flux_factory taken in Flux Factory by @flux_factory

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See you tomorrow at the workshop on Governors Island! ⛴️🗽🏡

🌿 Through Roots and Land — A Memory-Sharing Workshop
📍 Swale House, Nolan Park, House 6B, Governors Is, New York
📅 Saturday, September 26, 2026
🕑 2:00 PM

Through scent, conversation, and collective storytelling, we’ll reflect on plants, landscapes, and places that hold personal or cultural memories.

The stories gathered during the workshop will contribute directly to the evolving installation and audiovisual presentation, creating a temporary archive of memories connected to place, movement, and community.

with
@flux_factory
@swalenyc @urban_soils @governorsisland taken in Governors Island, Nolan Park by @flux_factory

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The Tbilisi Architecture Biennial's theme this year is The Geography of Emptiness -- so I was thrilled to have the opportunity to present a small custom version of The Disappointed Tourist -- my on-going project for which I have been painting places submitted by the public in response to the question "Is there some place you would like to visit that no longer exists?" I couldn't transport all 300+ existing paintings to Tbilisi, so we made a wallpaper of a selection and hung the new Georgian paintings (along with the stories submitted, that normally just exist on the website) over the wallpaper. Thanks to Flux Factory and the Trust for Mutual Understanding for their support! @tbilisiarchitecturebiennial @flux_factory by @flux_factory

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CANCELED DUE TO COASTAL FLOODING. Guests who have RSVP’d will be contacted for a new date. Please join our mailing list for updates.

🧵𝙎𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙚: 𝙈𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙮, 𝙋𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙨, & 𝙄𝙣𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚
Artist Talk + Textile Lab with Sunaina Bhalla
Sept 27, 2:00 - 5:00 pm (Free to RSVP)
📍 Flux IV, 56-21 2nd Street

Last chance to RSVP! As the fall festival season approaches in Queens, artist Sunaina Bhalla invites participants to gather around the saree as a site of memory, politics, and inheritance. The event makes space to consider how textiles carry memory across generations of diasporic communities. What happens when we come together to reflect on the political and familial legacy behind such adornments?

In 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙟𝙚𝙘𝙩, Bhalla examines the saree not only as an emblem of beauty and tradition, but as a cultural text shaped by histories of gender, power, restriction, and control. Drawing from a personal archive of sarees inherited from her mother and mother-in-law, Bhalla considers how sartorial codes, ideas of modesty and ownership, colonial encounters, and changing forms of surface design and tailoring have shaped the garment and bodies that wear it.

This Artist Talk + Textile Lab combines a brief presentation with collective textile sharing and hands-on making. Participants will work with the saree, adding their mark to an evolving component of The Saree Project; and experiment with block printing, with fabrics provided by Bhalla. Participants are also invited to bring an ancestral textile, memory, or story associated with the politics of garments.

@bhalla.sunaina

RSVP at the 🔗 in our bio. by @flux_factory

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A detail of the version of The Disappointed Tourist at the Tbilisi Architecture Biennial. The iconic papier-mache horse at the Tbilisi Zoo on which generation of children were photographed -- there's a lovely story about this written by Vija S. that you can find on the Disappointed Tourist website. Thanks to Flux Factory for making this possible @tbilisiar @flux_factory by @flux_factory

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