Flux Factory Inc.

New York Times October 13, 2002. Real Estate:
Artists Canvassing for Space
...Morgan Meis, president of a not-for-profit arts collective called Flux Factory, which includes 13 members who live communally, found a 7,500-square-foot loft in Long Island City seven months ago for which they pay $6,800.
"You have to find a place where there is not so much demand, but you don't want to be so marginalized that you are completely out of touch with the more established art world," he said. "You want people to come see your work, and you want to be connected to a community, so you don't want to jump three neighborhoods out to a community that may never get developed or will do so so far down that line that it becomes irrelevant to your work." . . . (click for entire article)

The New York Times October 3, 2002,The Arts/Cultural:
For Art: Destination, Queens; The Modern's Relocation Energizes Long Island City...
"There are tons of artists here, and their studios are everywhere," said Mr. Dorsky, the gallery owner. Among them is Flux Factory, an artists' collective, which has an installation at the "Queens International" exhibition at the Queens Museum of Art.
Last March, Morgan Mies, a founder of the group, and his fellow artists moved from Williamsburg into studio space on 43rd Street in Long Island City formerly occupied by an air-conditioning company. "What attracted us was something of what had originally attracted us to Williamsburg," Mr. Mies said, "a place where you can still get large space that no one has yet cut up into apartments, but which at the same time is not so marginal that you are isolated."
"Hearing that MOMA was coming seemed to show that this was an area that people were really thinking about," he added. ...(see article)