2011 – Flux Factory

Live Bidding Site!

Flux Factory's Not-So-Silent Auction & Gala is swiftly approaching! We've put together an auction website so that you can bid online, in case you can't make it to the event on December 20th. There are over 100 works available from an exciting group of artists. Bid like you vote: early and often.

Not-So-Silent Benefit

Tuesday, December 20th, 7 pm - 10 pm Center 548: 548 West 22nd Street, NYC Help us celebrate a colossal year at Flux Factory with a silent auction of over 100 works by artists from our extensive community, including SWOON, The Yes Men, Mark Dion, eteam, and Las Hermanas Iglesias. We will honor Nato Thompson of Creative Time and Paddy Johnson of Art Fag City for the lasting imprint their work has had on contemporary art.

Creative Reuse

Date: Thursday, December 1, 6 - 9pm Location: Materials for the Arts, 33-00 Northern Boulevard, Long Island City Materials for the Arts is pleased to present Creative Reuse in New York City, an exhibition of site-specific work by three of its nonprofit member organizations: Flux Factory, Local Project, and Free Style Arts Association, as well as work by Materials for the Arts teaching artists and workshop participants.

Astrid Nobel

Astrid Nobel is a multi-media artist from The Netherlands. She graduated from Minerva Academy of Fine Art Groningen in 2007 after which she attended the postgraduate program DNA in The Hague, where she still lives and works.

Christina Vassallo

Christina Vassallo has been involved with Flux Factory since 2010 and was appointed Executive Director in June 2011. She also has organized projects for a variety of non-profit and for-profit venues through her curatorial platform Random Number.

Joe Shaw

Joe is a training architect and writer from Manchester. His writing about his own city has been published by the tourist board in several languages and his zine 'Belle Vue' dishes out small printed nuggets of urban topophilia to proud Mancunians everywhere.

Fluxers in the World #3

Lots of updates from Fluxers around the world! This month there's action in the Bronx; Blue in Brooklyn; Paris Paula and Argentina, MB at WP; Daupo already finished 2012; connected in Berlin and a castle in Poland; and sweet sweet Sweden.

Sanaz Mazinani

Sanaz Mazinani is an artist whose practice intersects conceptual and formal boundaries of the two dimensional image in response to site, sight and sound. Born in Tehran, Iran, she holds her undergraduate degree from Ontario College of Art & Design University and her MFA from Stanford University.

How to Interview Like a Journalist

November 17th, 7:30 pm - 9 pm Learn how to conduct an interview with confidence, how to approach different kinds of subjects and how to ask good questions in this workshop taught by Pauline Pechin, freelance journalist and editor of All That We've Met.

Flux Thursday: November 10, 2011

November 10th, 8pm+ Flux Thursday is our monthly potluck dinner and art salon, where artists can present their recently completed projects or works-in-progress to a receptive audience. Join us for presentations by current and past Fluxers Nick Normal, Jesper Aabille, Douglas Paulson & Gretta Louw, Alex Wolkowicz, and Karol Radziszewski.