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An artists collective and residency program specializing in innovation in things since 1994.

10/12/2026

Soil and Sand: A Sonic Journey 🍁 Tuesday at Flux IV - https://mailchi.mp/fluxfactory/newsletter-september-15932791

10/12/2026

🍁 November Exhibitions at Flux IV - https://mailchi.mp/fluxfactory/newsletter-september-15932788

10/07/2026

Our second annual Friends of Flux trip is still underway with a cohort in Uzbekistan, but our Tbilisi, Georgia contingent was an incredible learning experience. Ellen Harvey and Kendal Henry both participated in the Tbilisi Architecture Biennial, Ellen’s “The Disappointed Tourist” pictured above.

Tamara Janashia and Mariam Shergelashvili, organizers of the biennial, were our gracious hosts. Mariam seen above giving a curator tour of an exhibition opening at State Silk Museum

NYC Public art curators in discussion with Lika Chkuaseli , founder of the Tbilisi Public Art Fund

New public sculpture commissioned by Tbilisi Public Art Fund

The Pirosmanashvili collection at the Georgian National Gallery

Irena Popiashvili gave us a tour of painter Karlo Kacharava’s home and archives

Matching Karlo Kacharava’s demeanor

Studio visit with Levan Mindashvili

Work of Levan Mindisvhili

Visiting xaraxura | ხარახურა risograph & print collective

In the studio with Tamuna Chabashvili

Visiting cave dwellings of Uplistsikhe

At the Kuoroti arts collective

Miles of the Tbilisi city center are under construction, rendering it nearly impassable - just months ago, large scale protests had taken place on these same streets but are now impossible.

10/06/2026

𝙎𝙤𝙞𝙡 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙎𝙖𝙣𝙙: 𝘼 𝙎𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙘 𝙅𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙮
Kino Benally, Tati Benally, and dre jàcome
Oct 13, 7:00 - 8:30 pm
📍Flux IV, 56-21 2nd Street

Join us next Tuesday, Oct 13, for a live sound performance with Kino Benally, Tati Benally, and Rhizome Fellow dre jácome! Audio collage, hypnotic percussion, and field recordings become the ground for world building, as the artists move between the recorded and the improvised to hold land and memory across space and time 🪐.

Schedule
7:00 pm — Doors / refreshments provided
7:30 pm — Tati Benally & dre jácome
8:00 pm — Kino Benally

dre bae waves 🌊

More details in the 🔗 in bio.

This event is programmed in conjunction with the exhibition, 𝘼 𝙏𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘼𝙣𝙨𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙨: 𝙍𝙝𝙞𝙯𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙁𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥 𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙨 2025/26.

Image: dre jàcome, 2026

10/02/2026

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 dré and Zella for bringing these worlds to life at Flux IV!

dre bae waves 🌊 Zella Vanié

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 Chashanovski

10/01/2026

🎟 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. Richard Garet

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

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

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

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

09/30/2026

2026 Art Auction & Gala Early Bird Tickets Now Available - https://mailchi.mp/fluxfactory/newsletter-august-28-15932740

09/30/2026

October at Flux IV ✨ - https://mailchi.mp/fluxfactory/newsletter-september-15932738

09/24/2026

🧵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.

Sunaina Bhalla

RSVP at the 🔗 in our bio.

09/23/2026

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
😷 Masking required (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 🔗 

dre bae waves 🌊 Zella Vanié Ayni Herb Farm Experimental School for Black Imagination

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