Wednesday, June 20, 7 – 9pm In conjunction with Flux Factory’s June exhibition Bionic Garden, we’ll present Reclaiming Vacant Land for Community Use with Paula Z. Segal of 596 Acres. The 596 Acres project focuses on identifying vacant City-owned property and working with communities on coalition building, political action, and ultimately, influencing the City to turn over control of this property for use as gardens and open spaces.
June 14, 8pm+ Brooklyn Grange, the greenest New Yorker Erik Baard, Jean Barberis and Elizabeth Larison, and the high school student curators of Project:Curate! will talk about their recent projects.
Opening reception: June 9, 1 - 4 pm Flux Factory is proud to present Bionic Garden, an exhibition that unveils how humans have adapted to grow plants in the most unlikely of ways and places. Works will be displayed in a range of environments that reflect the (often) limited environments that New Yorkers have to work with when it comes to exercising their own green thumbs.
Theodoros is researching how architecture can create sculptural objects questioning the boundaries between architecture and sculpture, interior and exterior space, private and public.
Flux Factory is pleased to present Wojciech Gilewicz, Residency Unlimited, a solo exhibition by our latest resident through Flux Factory's partnership with Residency Unlimited. For two months Gilewicz cleaned Flux Factory as a way to explore the overlap of immigration status and the paradoxes of artistic success.
Julia Kaganskiy moderates this firey debate over The New Aesthetic, while Greg Borenstein, Carla Gannis, Kyle McDonald, and Molly W. Steenson duke it out. It will be an epic discussion over a fairly recent movement in visual culture.
Date: March 8th, 8pm+ Location: Flux Factory, 39-31 29th Street, Long Island City 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 Alison Nguyen, Elisa Harkins, Angela Washko, Anders Bojen & Kristoffer Ørum, and Randi & Katrine.
Former Flux Artists-in-Residence Nick Cregor and Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen left a love note for Flux upon their departure, in the form of an awesome instructional dance video. Take a look at Fluxers dancing for joy...who's got the best moves?
The newly opened Oracle Club in Long Island City, Queens presents Irreversible Damage, a solo exhibition of works by Flux Factory Artist-in-Residence and New York Community Trust fellow, Alison Nguyen, from May 11th-18th.