EXTRA SPECIAL ALERT: Online bidding is closed. Bidding continues at Lennon, Weinberg all day Saturday and through the Gala. Highest bid at the close of the Gala wins. Absentee bids will be taken until 7:00pm on Saturday before the start of the Gala. Call Morgan at 646.319.4413 or email at morgan@fluxfactory.org.
This week, the venerable Lennon, Weinberg gallery in Chelsea will be hosting Flux Factory’s first-ever Benefit Auction! Auction proceeds will go directly to our 2006 programming. Flux Factory infrastructure, and the Flux dream of collective/collaborative art. And let me tell you, we have some really great shows coming up. This is a wonderful opportunity to purchase works from the likes of artists such as Sol LeWitt, Royal Art Lodge, Cory Arcangel, Ian Burns, and Stephen Westfall while hobnobbing over delicious hors d’oeuvres, glancing at people more attractive than yourself, drinking free hooch, and most importantly, supporting your favorite little art collective in Queens.
We urge you not to miss this exciting event.
Tickets are $25 and can be purchased by clicking the button below (and tickets will be $35 at the door so it would really be prudent to go ahead and take care of this)
or sending a check to:
Flux Factory
ATTN: Benefit Auction38-38 43rd Street
Long Island City, NY 11101
WORKS WILL BE ON VIEW FROM JANUARY 28th UNTIL THE GALA ON THE 4TH.
YOUR $25 TICKET TO THE GALA CAN BE USED TOWARD THE PURCHASE OF WORK
Time & Location: Sat Feb 4th - 7:00 pm
Lennon Weinberg Inc.
514 West 25th Street
New York, NY 10001
T 212.941.0012
For the art buyer on a budget and lover of works on paper, Flux Factory
will also be hosting a sister auction Works On Paper at our space in Queens in late May
AUCTION COMMITTEE
Stephanie Theodore, Annie Washburn, Melanie Franklin Cohn, Jill Weinberg Adams, Thomas Adams, Steve Carofalo, Radoslav Petkov, Mary Hardcastle, Lawrence Edmonds, Robert Kostrzewa, Arthur Danto, Fritz Johnson , S. Abbas Raza, Honey Dresher, Richard Lappin, Howard and Joan Golberg, Robert Forbes and Renée Suaid
CURRENT PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Cory Arcangel, Josef Astor, Aya and Fumiha, Jean Barberis, Briony Barr, Laura Battle, Simon Boudvin, Jason David Brown, Ken Buhler, Paul Burn, Ian Burns, Ciou, Brody Condon, Mark Dagley, Daupo, Andrea Deszo, Rodney Dickson, Mark Divo, Kerry Downey, Jim Drain, Matthew Draper, Meg Duguid, Stephen Ellis, Agnes Eperjesi, Shepard Fairey, Jane Fine, Matthew Fisher, Nathan Fox, Melanie Gilligan, Dan Gluibizzi, Stefany Anne Golberg, Brenda Goodman, Melody Goodwin, Mary Hambleton, Ellen Harvey, Roman M. Hrab, Brenda Hutchinson, Michael Joo, Aya Kakeda, San Keller, Miwa Koizumi, Wendi Koontz, Daniel Levine, Sol LeWitt, Jeanne Liotta, Medrie MacPhee, Jennifer Marshall, Amanda Means, Melissa Meyer, Mikry3, miwa et marco, Andrew Mockler, Cindy Moore, Yuji Mori, motomichi, Laura Newman, Nick Normal, Leah Oates, Frank Olive, Joe Pacheco, Eun-Ha Paek, Robert Rhee, The Royal Art Lodge, Zon Sakai, Hiroshi Shafer, Rudy Shepherd, Skewville, Shawn Spencer, Jeff Stark and The Amateurs, Mark Stockton, Fumiha Tanaka, Penelope Umbrico, Juana Valdes, Miss Van, Stephen Westfall, Tammy Wofsey, Saya Woolfalk, Lisa Young
CURRENT AUCTION ITEMS:
BE ADVISED THAT THIS WEBSITE WILL BE UPDATED WITH A FEW MORE WORKS STILL COMING IN BEFORE THE GALA.
Mark Dagley
“During the 1980s, Dagley exhibited frequently in Amsterdam, Madrid, Düsseldorf, Milan and many other European cities. In 1993, Dagley had his first museum exhibition at the Kunstverein St. Gallen, Switzerland. ”
framed inkjet print, 9″ X 11″.
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Melissa Meyer
This is a book called “Melissa Meyer Sketchbooks 1993-1995.” It is a Limited Edition Book printed in Verona, Italy by Stamperia Valdonega. Number 401 of 500.
“Born in 1947, Melissa Meyer studied at New York University, receiving a B.S. in 1968 and a M.A. in 1975. She has received numerous grants including two NEA awards in painting (1983, 1993), a New York Foundation for the Arts award in 1992, and a Rome Prize Fellowship in 1980.” It’s 9″ X 12″ X 1″ -
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Andrea Dezso
is an artist represented by the Jack Tilton Gallery and a professor at Parsons School of Design in New York City.8″ X 8″
water color
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Ellen Harvey
has exhibited her art all over the world and created the well-loved project “Ellen Harvey: New York Beautification Project.”“Between 1999 and 2001, small old-fashioned landscapes painstakingly painted in oil started appearing on graffiti sites in New York City. The paintings were the work of well-known artist Ellen Harvey. Documented here are both the works and Harvey’s diary-like experiences of painting illegally throughout the city.”
Her piece is a 11″ x 3.5″ water color made specifically for flux
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The Royal Art Lodge
“Over a period of six years, The Royal Art Lodge members Michael Dumontier, Hollie Dzama, Marcel Dzama, Neil Farber, Drue Langlois, and Myles Langlois, along with former members Jonathan Pylypchuk and Adrian Williams, have together produced a remarkably large body of work including drawings, sculptures, videos, puppets, music, costumes and dolls. Their low-tech aesthetic and crude-yet-precise draftsmanship, combined with a perversely idiosyncratic sense of humor, have resulted in an outpouring of unforgettable hybrid creatures, absurd commentaries on the human condition, and an art of dynamic energy, whimsical charm, and expressive beauty.”
both of these works will only be available for bidding during the Gala on 2/4
“march 6th 2002″ water color on ink and paper, 18″ x 14″ -
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“jagermaestro” and is from july 17 2002. It’s ink on paper, 18″ X 14″ -
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Mikry3
spent a lovely residency at Flux during the Cute and Scary show.“powerdick”.
mixed media - 11″ X 3 1/2″
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“Beauty Set”
mixed media - 9″ X 14″
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Ciou
“Sad Princess” 2004.
acrylic and collage on canvas.
7″ X 9 1/2″
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Jean Barberis
is one of the, if not the, crucial figure in the art scene of SoNo (south of Northern blvd., Queens), New York City. He stopped working in cardboard robots some time ago so these pieces are one of a kind. He has played a major role in everything Flux Factory has ever done.“My Only Friend 1″ 2000
photograph on cardboard
13 1/2″ X 18″
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“My Only Friend 2″ 2000
photograph on cardboard
13 1/2″ X 18″
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“My Only Friend 3,” 2000 photograph on cardboard 13 1/2″ X 18″
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Sol LeWitt
is one of the most famous artists in the world. Everybody knows who Sol LeWitt is. The fact that we even have a Sol LeWitt is testament to how cool Flux Factory is. Of course, Sol LeWitt has probably never even heard of Flux Factory but let’s not get catty here.“Brushstrokes in all Directions”
Silkscreen on paper #259/500.
20″ X 20″
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Zon Sakai
spent some time with us here at Flux Factory. He carried an enormous inflatable black sculpture around on his back. Nice Guy.paper sculpture, 2004. 12″ X 7″
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His second work is called Untitled and it is a resin cast, roughly 6″ X 6″ X 5″. It looks kind of like the thing he carries on his back. We swear to you this man is absolutely unique.
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Skewville
is a collective and gallery doing urban art and secret experiments in New York City. Sometimes they put cardboard sneakers around.This work is a silkscreen on panel from 2004. 6″ X 9 1/4″
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Miss Van
makes amazing pictures of, for instance, liberated women and disturbing/titillating ways in which they fondle bunny rabbits.The work is acrylic on canvas
12″ X 16″
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Mark Divo
is a one-of-a-kind Swiss maniac/artist/genius/threat-to-himself-and-others. Mark has been a friend to Flux for a long time.“Sponge Painting”. 2004.
Found Frame, sponges, 17″ X 19″
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Jeff Stark and The Amateurs
recently did a show called paint ball by numbers here at Flux Factory. Jeff is a hell of a guy and a longtime friend of Flux. He’s surrounded by amateurs.This piece is a paint ball by numbers triptych, 2005. It’s acrylic and paintball paint on wood panels.
3 12″ X 12″ panels and a DVD.
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Amanda Means
“B.S., Cornell University; M.F.A., Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester. Represented by Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York. Internationally exhibited and collected. Contributing editor, BOMB magazine. Taught at New School for Social Research, International Center of Photography, SUNY Plattsburgh, among others.” You should be so active.
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Nick Normal
Nick Normal has been reproducing things with shoddy materials for years. He’s a flux factory artist and a person whose work it would behoove one to get ahold of now, right now.
This piece is called the “Jolly Hammer” and it’s made of cardboard, tape, hot glue, and photocopy.
It’s 32″ X 12″ X 6″.
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Shepard Fairey
has been dealing with the idea of obeying things for some time. And damn he has a good eye for graphics type crap in general. It’s the whole package.
We are lucky to have three pieces. They’re all 18″ X 24″ -
Bidding for all three will only be open during the Gala event 2/04/06, so get your tickets now.
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San Keller
is a tasty Swiss number famous in NYC for walking people home from Grand Central Station.
He has been kind enough to give us one of his limited edition (100) New York Crowns, 26″ X 5″ -
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Yuji Mori
We’re pretty sure that Yuji Mori donated this work. We were kind of drunk that week. He may be friends with Zon Sakai. Anyway, we really like the piece.
It’s untitled, plexiglass and wood and roughly 6 1/2″ cubed.
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Ken Buhler
Ken Buhler’s monotypes have recently been described as “unabashed expressions of beauty… characterized by layers of lush and luminous color, and a vocabulary of organic shapes, forms, and fields of color that waft across the sheet.”
This work is a monotype with frame, 2001 and is untitled, 17″ X 28″.
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Rodney Dickson
is a true and dear friend of Flux Factory. There are few people we like more than Rodney. He’s been fascinated with the art and culture of Vietnam for some time. This piece “A Flower” was done together with Nguyen Thi Chau Giang. It’s made with Elmers’ glue and water color and is an original, one of a kind, 16″ X 20″.
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Mary Hambleton
“As well as satisfying her apparently unquenchable passion for covering flat surfaces with color, Hambleton’s choice to place small polychrome sculptures on her paintings may also be a good-natured art-historical joke.”
This work is untitled/ pet piece for flux factory, 2006. It’s a digital image with gouache, 9″ X 11″.
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Matthew Fisher
This work is titled study for “The Adjutant” and is pencil on paper, 12″ X 13″.
He notes that “I thought it was funny – if you were going to have yourself painted all formally, why would you stand in the river and not the land behind you?”
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motomichi
motomichi once said, “A lot of my work is about exploring human nature. In particular, fear is something we all have. A lot of the time, I’m asking myself what is it that we are really afraid of?”
This piece is from the Monster series and it’s called “Scar Monster”. It’s acrylic on canvas and is 56″ X 74″
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Daniel Levine
was the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 1989 and a New York Foundation for the Arts grant in 1989. His work is represented in the collection of the Panza Collection, The Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland, and The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo. He proclaimed thusly about art, “I’m not motivated by objects, but by the idea of them. Nauman whistled into a darkened room to ‘fill it up’.”
His work is untitled and is laquer on cotton from 1993. The structure of cracking on it is amazing. It’s 12 1/4″ X 11 7/8″
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Frank Olive
is a top-notch human being who can often be found over at the Swiss Institute.
He recently published a book with Rudy Shepherd of which we couldn’t be more fond: “Frank Olive and Rudy Shepherd have been faxing drawings to each other for about a year. Usually jammed with junk, the fax machines at the Swiss Institute and the Drawing Center have been re-activated by Olive and Shepherd as an implement of their artistic exchange. Masked as a furry bear and a tinny robot we follow Olive and Shepherd through their daily work: an oscillation between fiery exasperation and elegant triumph.”
He presents us with a mixed media work entitled “100 Useful Things.” It’s a collection of objects with drawings of each in plastic bags.
It’s in an edition of 5, 12″ X 10″ X 5″ in a box.
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Mark Stockton
is represented by the Acuna-hansen Gallery in L.A. He says, “I have been creating miniature drawings for the last year and a half. I like compacting grand spectacles, such as wrestling, into a format that is almost unnocticeable.”
This piece is called “Face Punch” and it’s Graphite on BFK Rives, 5″ X 7″.
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Cindy Moore
says this about her latest work: “This is from a new series I’m just starting out, so I don’t have that much formulated yet - -I’m liking how totally outmatched the people are against the scale of the water though. They are these tiny lives - like if figures from train sets went on vacation.”
The work is called “Wading” and is Gouache on Colored Paper (framed), 12″ X 10″.
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Roman M. Hrab
Roman has donated to us the delightful “Rut No. 5 (Four Part Kalaidescopic),” and we are very pleased. It is an Archival Ink Jet Print on Kitikata paper, chine colle.
The print is 9″ X 11″ and the image size is 5″ X 7″. It’s the third of an edition of five.
Roman says, “This is from a series of prints using stills from a video piece called “Rut”. “Rut” captures a pair of bucks going at it in front of my studio in upstate New York early one morning this past fall; the piece plays with the idea of being in the proverbial “rut”, studio-wise.”
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Jeanne Liotta
has had her work shown worldwide, including the New York Film Festival; the Rotterdam International Film Festival, the Netherlands; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She is also researcher and curator for the special collection of Joseph Cornell’s films at the Anthology Film Archives.
She gives to us “Blue With Distance.”
It’s an archival print, 6″ X 9″ framed and is from a long-term project called ‘Observando el Cielo’, which is taking place in a constellation of mediums including photography, film and paper, and which finds the artist observing, documenting and translating the cosmos from her own imperfect backyard.
Jeanne’s latest film ‘Eclipse” has been chosen for the 2006 Whitney Biennial.
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Jason David Brown
is something of a genius. Flux Factory would not exist without him. He makes work when, where, and how he damn well pleases. But when he does, it is always good.
This piece is called “Triptych from the series What I Thought I Saw in Denmark.”
They’re color photographs, C-Prints, and each is 4 3/4″ X 4 3/4″. The triptych is one of an edition of 15.
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Stephen Westfall
needs no introduction. This is what Jerry Saltz had to say:
“It is possible at first to think that Westfall’s paintings are primarily about translating certain fascinating atmospheric effects deftly into paint. But the longer one looks at these works the more one senses that they might be about much more than that. Westfall is never heavy handed or didactic in his attempt to open up abstraction and painting and allow it to reveal what it can of its own making as well as the person who made it. This is not to say that Westfall is the subject of these paintings. He maintains a dignified reticence and a knowing sense of humor about him. No clown, the paintings are somehow clown-like. And again we sense this once removed, hard-to-know inwardness - as if, in spite of all the painting’s best intentions and like to-get-to-know-you friendliness, they’re shy and a little private.”
This piece is called “Codex - Transfigured Night 2004.” It is 24″ X 24″ on Arches 88g paper. It’s an edition of 40.
This piece will only be available for bidding at the Gala on the 4th. Buy tickets above.
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Nathan Fox
is definitely an illustrator and more. He’s as busy as anyone we know, creating pages and covers for magazines and newspapers from the Voice to the New York Times Magazine to DC Comics.
He and his collaborators in Machismo produced the memorable 3-D wall mural for Flux’s “While You Were Playing Rubik’s Cube” exhibit that some of you may remember (by the way, we did it three years ago but, then again, imitation has oft been called a form of flattery).
This piece is called “Tin Toys and Leather Kittens.” It comes with 3-D glasses.
It’s 18″ X 22″ and is 74 in an edition of 100, silkscreen on paper.
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Simon Boudvin
Simon built our kitchen table. He’s also the mind behind the ever innovative Paris Project Room.
These two works are digital prints.
The first is 3 1/2″ X 4″ X 1″
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The second work is 4 1/2″ X 2″ X 1″
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Lisa Young
Lisa says, “My recent work utilizes forms of serial narrative, documentary practice, and the collaging, codifying and indexing of visual ‘fragments’. I often select images that mark the passage of time to explore the interconnections between transience and definitions of the sublime.
There are two digital prints here, both 11″ X 17″
The first:
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The second:
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Kerry Downey
Kerry is an extremely talented young artist and also a ninth degree fluxer. She curated the hugely successful book show, “What The Book?” here at Flux, which then travelled up to the Fisher Arts Center at Bard.
We have a hard time getting her to relax so someone should probably just buy this work outright
in the name of Downey mental health.
She’s an excellent thing.
There’s a set of four here, she calls it “S 1 through 4.” They are mixed media on cardboard and each one is 6″ X 18″.
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Leah Oates
has work in many collections including the Rochester Institute of Technology, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Yale University, the British Museum, the Walker Art Center, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Rhode Island School of Design.
This work is called “PARADURA 4 - Taipei.”
It’s a c-print and is 11″ X 14″.
It’s from an edition of 10.
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Brenda Goodman
Art in Amercia noted of a recent exhibition that, “This exhibition of recent paintings (all works 2003) captured Brenda Goodman at a decisive moment. For the first time in her 40-year career, she has incorporated collage into her production. The device enables her to expand her formal and expressive range while recalling her artistic beginnings.”
This work is untitled.
It’s ink, white-out, chalk, and pencil on paper and measures 4″ X 10″.
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Melody Goodwin
There’s been something of a connection between Bard and Flux over the last few years.
Anyone who knows Bard knows that Melody is a kind of genius/angel who is continuously able to square the proverbial circle and get things done for people.
Luckily, this has not kept her from producing her own work.
This piece is called “Charm of Tibet.” It’s an etching with chine colle, mixed media and gold leaf on Indian Village paper. It’s roughly 11″ X 14″.
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Matthew Draper
It’s been said that, “Matthew Draper creates portraits of synthetic reminiscence.
The works present images of individuals carefully and self-consciously posed, with expressions that are engaging but uncertain, eager to please but not entirely convinced of their own respective charm.”
Sounds right.
This painting is 12″ X 9 1/2″ and is entitled “Stacy.”
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Tammy Wofsey
Tammy is an emerging printmaker whose works recently boast of being acquired in the permanent collections at Yale University and The Library of Congress.
This work is called “Acid Rain.”
It’s Linocut and Chine Colle, measuring about 14″ X 20″.
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Dan Gluibizzi
Dan tells us that “These two drawings are part of a series of nightscapes inhabited by topiary figures and creatures born of inky brush strokes.”
They are both ink on paper and 14″ X 11″.
The first is entitled “Night Visitor.”
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The second is “Nightscape.”
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Meg Duguid
Meg says, “I am currently working on a project which is based on slapstick humor. I have been taking slapstick moments and re-performing them in public.”
This work has no title.
It is an original piece and composed of “clown nose, paint, cigar box, and love.”
It’s 5″ X 8″ X 2″ closed and 5″ X 8″ X 6″ open.
Did we mention that anyone who doesn’t like Meg is a moron?
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Stephen Ellis
claims that the Flux Factory Auction may have been responsible for giving him a cold. At the Cooper Union site it says that “Stephen Ellis is a painter whose primary interest has been in abstraction as a language of allusion.”
Fair enough.
Stephen has shown everywhere worth showing and won all kinds of art awards and so forth. It would be tiresome to list it all here. We’ll just note these: He has received the Purchase Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2004) and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (1991) and CAPS (now New York Foundation for the Arts, 1986).
Since he is so much more accomplished than you, we will be holding this piece for the Auction event on the 4th.
Please buy your ticket above.
The work is untitled.
It’s a lithograph, number five from an edition of twenty (published by Echo Press).
It’s 34″ X 26″ and the image is 24″ X 18″.
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Daupo
Daupo makes a touchy-feely kind of art that appeals to those whose boundless enthusiasm for life is only matched by their optimism about the human condition.
But seriously folks, he’s good, even if it makes you feel bad.
Plus, he is one of the most genuine and caring individuals we’ve ever known, despite his pessimism about the state of things.
The point is that Daupo is great and that he’s given to Flux again and again, no matter how painful or silly the request.
He’s doing so again now.
This piece is called “the Mixer.”
It’s ink and watercolour on paper and is a unique piece.
Daupo notes of it, “I think he likes the one on the left better.”
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Jennifer Marshall
gives us the following lovely piece.
It’s 12″ X 16″ -
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Andrew Mockler
is the Director and Master Printer at Jungle Press Editions, Ltd.
This piece is an untitled watercolor from 2005, 9″ X 9″.
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Jane Fine
said about her work in a recent show over at Pierogi, “These scenes of violence provide me with a less benign way to address the forces of entropy, as decay and destruction cause images to melt away. Ultimately the melting castles and burning tanks are a metaphor for the battles of the creative process and all its inherent pleasures and contradictions: trying to make something from nothing, intention from accident, illusion from flatness.”
This piece is called “Hoop-la.”
It’s a lithograph, number 22 of 40 from 2001, 22″ X 30″.
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Shawn Spencer
Shawn is one of our favorite people inhabiting the world now, in our time.
She’s represented at the Edward Thorp Gallery where she has had a series of amazing shows.
This piece is called “Eel.” It’s oil on masonite panel from 1998 and is 9 1/4″ X 6 3/4″.
Ken Johnson at the New York Times said, “Shawn Spencer makes large, cartoonish oil paintings of bizarre imaginary animals who act out semihuman dramas. A giant crowlike bird stands at the top of a telephone pole, its wings spread in what might be a parody of Jesus’ Ascension. In a series of romantic double portraits, sad-eyed birds and mammals seem caught in states of hopeless longing. Formally, it is the way brush strokes become feathers or fur, and glossy surfaces become sublime skies, that marks Mr[s]. Spencer’s slyly knowing play with Modernist tradition.
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Michael Joo
is described thusly by Eyestorm: Joo, “was chosen to represent South Korea in the 2001 Venice Biennale, [and] first gained international attention in 1994 when Damien Hirst included him in the groundbreaking exhibition, Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away” at London’s Serpentine Gallery. Joo has received the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1998) and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters’ and Sculptors’ Grant (2000), and has exhibited widely throughout Europe and Asia.”
‘Widely’ indeed, the guy is frickin huge.
But he too, is doing what he can for a group of lunatics tinkering around with dubious ideas in Western Queens.
Anywhoo…. This piece is a version of what Joo did for the “Monuments For the USA” exhibit at White Columns.
It’s called “Monument To Speculation On The Future In The Present.”
It’s the AP from an edition of 30, 9″ X 11″ (all three).
Bidding on this piece will only be possible at the Gala on the 4th.
Get your tickets now, buy them above.
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Aya Kakeda
Aya is a Flux trooper.
Aya is one of the best things that has ever happened to us.
Aya is pure and true and the rest of us are sullied.
Aya is also about to blow up so it would behoove you to grab something now.
She is exhibiting widely and doing illustrations for minor publications like The New York Times and The New Yorker and has a show coming up at a prominent gallery in Tokyo.
This piece is called “diamonds are pokemon’s best friend.”
It’s acrylic on panel and measures 8″ X 10″.
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Briony Barr
Briony is doing some interesting studies in temporality using the generally rather non-temporal medium of drawing.
She tries to draw time, in a way.
This piece is one of those studies, at a cafe.
It’s called “restaurant time lapse” and is color pencil on paper.
It’s 19″ X 24″.
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Miwa Koizumi
Miwa is one of those remarkably talented individuals who, inexplicably, keep giving and giving to everything we’re trying to do here at Flux.
We’re lucky to know her, as would you be.
For the Auction, she’s given us two sculptures, both untitled, both melted plastic from water bottles.
The first (3″ X 3″ X 4″):
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The second:
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Fumiha Tanaka
We know Fumiha through Aya and, indeed, as proof of that enduring friendship. we’ve included in our auction a collaboration between Aya and Fumiha.
But before we get to that, we present the work of Fumiha solo.
This piece is called “Time Coupsel.”
We suspect that she meant ‘time capsule’ but more and more ‘time coupsel’ feels right, so we’re sticking with it.
It’s 7″ X 7″
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Laura Newman
Laura has said, “I want my paintings to exist at the point where form takes on meaning–where a triangle can be read as a road in perspective, for example.”
This watercolor is certainly in keeping with that approach. Lots of stuff in there, in potencia.
The piece is untitled, 13″ X 10″.
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Josef Astor
is a ridiculously nice and likeable person.
He’s also a remarkably accomplished photographer.
As his bio will tell you, his work appears “in New York Times Magazine, New Yorker, Metropolis, Time, and Newsweek. [He is a] contributing photographer to Dance Ink and other publications. . . [and was p]rofiled in Graphis, British Journal of Photography, and Photo (France). [He is a] Recipient of the Infinity Award (1995) from International Center of Photography.”
This piece is called “Merce Cunningham,” for obvious reasons.
It’s a gelatin/silver photograph, number 4 of 12, 20″ X 20″.
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Penelope Umbrico
Penelope has exhibited all over the place, teaches all over the place, writes all over the place and is generally all over the place.
That’s because she is good (sometimes it works that way).
This peice is called “E” and it’s a ‘napkin’ from the monogram series.
It’s a one-of-a-kind and is made from house paint applied to a photograph.
It’s 8″ X 10″.
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miwa et marco
You’ve already heard about Miwa.
She happens also to be married to the wonderful Marco. If they hadn’t found one another they would have had to create each other. And, in a sense, that’s exactly what they’re always doing.
This piece is from the Kite Project. Marco says, “The idea was originally Miwa’s. Trash seems to have a life of its own always growing gathering seemingly from nowhere, always in the most unexpected places, unless you live in New York I guess then you expect trash to be everywhere, one of those unavoidable companions to your life in a big dirty city. . . . We are trying to harness the power of trash.”
The piece is a drawing and print on paper, 22″ X 30″.
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Paul Burn
How to describe the inimitable Paul Burn?
Well, we once watched him sculpt a block of tofu on our kitchen table for roughly an hour before he finally ate it.
Paul is a force and a person simultaneously.
And he created the famous/infamous Flux Factory Ice Cave. The Ice Cave will never be forgotten. Never.
This piece is called “Jesus, Santa.”
It’s ink on paper, 22″ X 28″ and otherwise pretty self-explanatory.
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Aya and Fumiha
You’ve already met both these artists above.
This piece is a collaboration between them.
It features one ‘person’ sitting on top of another ‘person’s’ head.
It’s perfect for your collection.
It is made of wood and paint, 4 1/3″ X 11 1/2″.
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Brody Condon
was part of our delightful While You Were Playing Rubic’s Cube show.
He’s recently been showing at Pace Wildenstein (which is just now doing a show rather like the Rubic’s Cube thing we did, . . . oh, must be three or four years ago now).
He notes that, “my life is a vast ghetto littered with neotolkien elves, eight-barrel rocket launchers and six-barrel chain guns…”
This piece is called “RAM check,” 21″ X 47″ and undubitably has something to do with checking your RAM.
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Melanie Gilligan
Melanie comes to us through a strange and intriguing worm hole that links the art world to teleprompting (long story).
Anyway, she was recently part of the Whitney’s Independent Study Program and has a performance piece coming up at Greene Nafatali that ought to be attended by one and all.
These two pieces are her ‘Wheels’. They are C prints, both 30″ X 30″. Of the Wheels she says, “These works came out of my longstanding interest in the concept of self-organization, i.e. order that emerges immanently in a system without outside control, as it has been developed in recent natural and social sciences and applied as a political tool by both the left and right.”
The first is called “Wheel of Authority.”
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The second is called “Wheel of Entertainment.”
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Juana Valdes
“was born in Cuba and came to the United States with her family in 1971. Ms. Valdes’ childhood/adolescent experience, which informs her work, is of leaving Cuba and growing up in the United States. One of her first experiences in the arts took place when she assisted the sculptor Christo with the installation of the Surrounded Island project in the Florida Keys.”
This piece is a silkscreen called “Sweetness,” 13″ X 17″.
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Eun-Ha Paek
Eun is one of the creators of the well-loved “Strindberg and Helium” along with a million other wonderful animations, illustrations, and designs.
She also does work with the collective Milky Elephant.
This piece is called “Study of Napoleon,” from 2006. It is a signed digital print on paper, 8 1/4″ x 10″.
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Laura Battle
Laura has a National Endowment for the Arts grant, has done a MacDowell Colony residency in painting, a Fulbright Scholarship (Cairo), and a Massachusetts Council on the Arts Fellowship.
She has shown her work in lots and lots of places.
This piece is untitled and is gouache, ink and pencil on paper, 11″ X 14″.
It comes to us courtesy of the Lohin Geduld Gallery.
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Hiroshi Shafer
Hiroshi notes that the titles of his shows can be very revealing.
For instance, from 2002: “Life is easy when mooching off others.
It is even better to mooch off two people or two creatures than just one.”
This piece is called “Remain an Unsolved Mystery #03.”
It’s epoxy resin and some kind of hair.
It measures roughly 4″ X 14″ x 14″ as the monster flies.
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Saya Woolfalk
When Saya puts on her furry cow-creature suit and manipulates various fuzzy objects you know that something right and something wrong is happening simultaneously.
She says, “I am interested in how visual media act as narrative technologies that shape perception. How they order symbolic language, integrate themselves into our daily landscape, and help inform the way we perceive the world.”
Turns out she also makes some very nice paintings and drawings.
This one is gouache on paper and is 7″ x 7″.
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Joe Pacheco
Joe is an award-winning photographer and a filmmaker. He’s a hell of a talented guy and dresses like Johnny Cash would have if he gave even less of a shit.
He’s gotten a lot of attention lately for the As Smart As They Are author project.
He’s also been known to get expelled from Southeast Asian countries with some other people we know.
This piece is a black and white photograph and it’s a digital archive print.
It 14″ X 20″ framed.
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Agnes Eperjesi
Agnes has a show up at the Hungarian Cultural Center on Broadway that we couldn’t encourage you more to see.
Indeed, Arthur Danto recently gave a talk that centered around an analysis of Eperjesi’s work.
We were there, it was good stuff.
Agnes has given us one of her tiles, about which the NY Times has said, “With the collapse of Communism in Hungary in 1989, Agnes Eperjesi, an artist there, began collecting packaging from household products newly imported from Europe or America. From her archive of thousands of sponge wrappers and detergent labels, she has excerpted images of hands cleaning and printed them on tiles made of plexiglass or ceramic.”
This tile is ceramic and measures 8″ X 8″.
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Robert Rhee
Robert is currently occupying on of our studios at Flux Factory.
He’s fast been seduced into participating in all things Flux.
But when he is in his studio, he fashions all manner of delicate semi-anthropomorphic objects from plastic and other bits of day to day stuff.
This collection of objects is called “No End in Sight, Part 1,” 23″ X 13″.
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Cory Arcangel
Cory has been a friend of Flux for five or six years now and first collaborated with us back in the Brooklyn space.
Since then, he’s pretty much exploded, which we’re always happy to see.
New York Magazine named him the Best Emerging Artist for 2005, saying, “The revolution in digital and Internet technologies hasn’t had a major impact on art yet, but the geeks are hard at work. Not surprisingly, they often bring a Dada-like sense of play to their pop projects. The title of Cory Arcangel’s show at the gallery Team was ‘Welcome to my Homepage Artshow’, a sign of his move from the Internet into the art world. Arcangel first made a name working with hacked Nintendo cartridges but is now moving toward creating larger digital environments, often made in collaboration with other artists, that include video and music.”
Cory has produced a special work specially for our little auction. It’s called “assorted things from my desktop” and is a signed CD-R containing just that, stuff from his desktop, including such delights as ‘WAR GAMES’, ‘Harry Potter/Iran’, and ‘Elton John’.
This works will only be available for bidding during the Gala on 2/4.
Get your tickets above.
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Rudy Shepherd
does all kinds of lovely things. He says of his work that it, “explores issues of identity, shelter, and the idea of home. It is full of unanswered questions, special moments, and the humdrum of everyday life.”
And we’ve already mentioned his wonderful collaboration with Frank Olive above.
This drawing is called “Serge Gainsbourg” and it is ink on paper 8 1/2″ X 11″.
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Medrie MacPhee
Medrie MacPhee has been exhibited in over 20 solo exhibitions including shows at Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York; Baldacci-Daverio Gallery, New York; Phillipe Daverio Gallery, New York; Stadtische Galerie Haus, Siegen, Germany; the Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto; Espace 502, Montreal; Linda Generaux Gallery,Toronto; Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto; Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, B.C; 49th Parallel, New York; and the Concordia University Art Gallery, Montreal.
That’s right.
This piece is an untitled study.
It’s gouache and charcoal on paper and measures about 14″ X 9 1/2″.
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Wendi Koontz
first collaborated with Flux as part of our much loved Cartünnel show.
Her illustration work is top-notch and she’s also a person difficult not to like, unusual in the artworld.
This is a digital print with no title we’ve heard about, number 4 of twenty.
It’s about 6″ X 4 1/2″.
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Stefany Anne Golberg
or Shuffy as she’s known around Flux Factory is our heart and soul and brain and a few other things beside.
Shuffy is a musician and a sound artist and a writer and a curator and an organizer and a making-things-happener. And . . . she also happens to be a quite excellent seamstress.
This piece was made for the Open Stitch show at Location 1.
It’s a lovely apron in itself but also has the lyrics of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here stitched into the front.
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Brenda Hutchinson
Brenda is another of those quality people we so value here at Flux Factory.
It’s been said that her work, “has included performance and compositions for dance, opera, film, video and radio. She has built interactive exhibits and installations. Her work makes extensive use of language, stories, ambient and sampled sounds. She often acts as a catalyst for experiences involving other people whose stories and/or performances are recorded and shared with other audiences through Brenda’s work in performance and radio.”
This is a two CD set containing signed copies of VOYS and Long Tubes: Songs and Duets.
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Ian Burns
is another person who’s had a hell of a year.
His work will be appearing in all sorts of glorious places in the coming year too, keep an eye out.
This is what the Smack Mellon folks said about him, “Ian Burns investigates the act of observation and the cultural impact of the glowing screen. By exposing the carefully crafted lo-tech mechanics that create the images within his sculptures, his scenes do not seduce the eye; they instead activate a sense of curiosity and question the mind’s experience of illusion.”
Nicely put, if a touch fancy.
This piece was constructed especially for Flux Factory and our auction as the first of an edition of five.
It’s composed of wood and various gadgets and is called “Overhead.”
Bidding will only be open at the Gala, so get those tickets above.
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Jim Drain
recently won the Baloise Prize at Art Basel.
So he could basically have his own ass gilded at this point if that’s what he wanted to do.
But it isn’t what he wants to do . . . because you can take the boy out of Fort Thunder but you can’t take Fort Thunder out of the boy.
For Christ’s sake, the man used to call himself Gorgon Radeo, he’s not going to get all persnikety all of a sudden.
And so, he gives to us “Bone Bleach.”
It should fit nicely in our psychedelia section. Bone Bleach, meet Jesus Santa.
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Flux Factory’s 2006 Auction & Gala
would not be possible without the generous support of the artists who donated their work and the following sponsors:
Also many, many thanks to our committee members:
Stephanie Theodore, Annie Washburn, Melanie Franklin Cohn, Jill Weinberg Adams, Thomas Adams, Steve Carofalo, Radoslav Petkov, Mary Hardcastle, Lawrence Edmonds, Robert Kostrzewa, Arthur Danto, Fritz Johnson, S. Abbas Raza, Honey Dresher, Richard Lappin, Howard and Joan Golberg, Robert Forbes and Renée Suaid
GREATEST THANKS TO:
Jill Weinberg Adams, Tom Adams, and Amy Yee of Lennon, Weinberg
for their generosity and patience