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Jevijoe Vitug: “A Life Imagined”, 2015Oil on Canvas, 24 x 24 x 1.5 inches, Unique"A Life Imagined" is part of a series exploring the experiences of immigrants of color who came to the United States as nurses in the 1960s. The painting is rendered in textured brushstrokes that echo indigenous Southeast Asian patterns, while AI-aided tools create a portrait that feels simultaneously digitalized and deeply “indigenized.” The work reflects on the often-overlooked history of Asian American labor and examines the identity, intimacy, and resilience inherent in acts of care, connecting these narratives to the American Dream—the hope and imagination of a better life, and the pursuit of opportunity and belonging in a new land.Bio: Jevijoe Vitug is a Philippine-born painter based in New York City whose work bridges labor, migration, and identity within contemporary and digital culture. Using AI-aided painting and drawing from indigenous traditions, he reimagines everyday labor as a creative and transformative act. He is also part of the artist duo Abang-guard with Maureen Catbagan, exploring collaboration, community, and the politics of visibility through performance and social practice.Vitug has exhibited in the United States, the Philippines, Japan, Denmark, Singapore and Germany, including venues such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Queens Museum, Socrates Sculpture Park, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum and Cultural Center of the Philippines. He is a Flux Factory artist-in-residence and member since 2017, contributing to its collaborative and experimental art community. Vitug holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, and his practice engages with digital technology, cultural heritage, and creative experimentation.Instagram: @jevijoe

Jevijoe Vitug: “A Life Imagined”

Flux Factory’s Art Auction is back! You can bid on works by over 50 Fluxers and friends.The auction will culminate with our <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://withfriends.events/event/8G1IGCy5/flux-factory-2025-art-auction-gala/">Gala</a> on October 23, from 6:30 to 9:30 PM at 55 Suffolk. Join us to see the artworks in person, enjoy a catered open bar, and take in the lovely view of downtown Manhattan.Bidding will remain open throughout the evening and officially closes at 9:00 PM, so make sure to get your final bids in on time!This annual Auction &amp; Gala supports Flux’s free public programs and affordable artist residencies.<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://withfriends.events/event/8G1IGCy5/flux-factory-2025-art-auction-gala/">Buy Gala Tickets Here</a>

Farrah Karapetian: Load, 2024,&nbsp;Cyanotype on cotton rag, 35 x 19 inches, Unique, signed and dated in ink verso &nbsp;Project focuses on personal narratives of cotton laborers, using cyanotype on cotton rag, supported by residencies and exhibition cycle.Bio:&nbsp;Farrah Karapetian is an artist, writer, and professor based in southern California. With artwork in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others, and fellowships such as the Fulbright, the Pollock Krasner, the Warhol Writers Grant, and the Investing in Artists grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation, Karapetian works globally to unpack default constructs in photography and representation at large. She has exhibited as far afield as the Garage Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia; the Bienalsur in Cúcuta, Colombia; and the Border Art Biennial in El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico. Her artwork has been discussed in Artforum, Art in America, and textbooks such as Global Photography: A Critical History (Routledge, 2020.) Her writing has been published broadly, from The Brooklyn Rail to The Los Angeles Review of Books. She holds a BA from Yale University and an MFA from UCLA and is an associate professor at the University of San Diego, leading the photography area in the Department of Art, Architecture + Art History, and affiliate faculty in Africana Studies. In her writing and artwork, she dwells on materiality, public space, and the agency of people in situations seemingly beyond their control.2024, Photography, cyanotype on cotton rag, 35”h x 19”w Unique, signed and dated in ink verso &nbsp;Other info: Project focuses on personal narratives of cotton laborers, using cyanotype on cotton rag, supported by residencies and exhibition cycle.Bio: Farrah Karapetian is an artist, writer, and professor based in southern California. With artwork in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others, and fellowships such as the Fulbright, the Pollock Krasner, the Warhol Writers Grant, and the Investing in Artists grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation, Karapetian works globally to unpack default constructs in photography and representation at large. She has exhibited as far afield as the Garage Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia; the Bienalsur in Cúcuta, Colombia; and the Border Art Biennial in El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico. Her artwork has been discussed in Artforum, Art in America, and textbooks such as Global Photography: A Critical History (Routledge, 2020.) Her writing has been published broadly, from The Brooklyn Rail to The Los Angeles Review of Books. She holds a BA from Yale University and an MFA from UCLA and is an associate professor at the University of San Diego, leading the photography area in the Department of Art, Architecture + Art History, and affiliate faculty in Africana Studies. In her writing and artwork, she dwells on materiality, public space, and the agency of people in situations seemingly beyond their control.

Farrah Karapetian: Load

Flux Iron Chefs: Iron Chef Dinner Party, 2012-ongoingPerformance: contents of your kitchen, 5 of your friends, yourself, UniqueOur renowned Flux Iron Chefs are up for the ultimate test of Fluxiness: preparing an incredible dinner party for you and 5 of your favorite people in the comfort of your own home, utilizing whatever ingredients and tools are available there. Flux Iron Chefs have been trained in the Flux Kitchen to cook under sever time pressures, without any fancy ingredients, and without the proper culinary tools. L Magazine agrees that Flux Iron Chefs have “the creative cojones required to make do with what you have.“ (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://www.thelmagazine.com/newyork/cooking-with-cajones">http://www.thelmagazine.com/newyork/cooking-with-cajones</a>)Our Flux Iron Chefs cannot wait to create culinary art within your kitchen canvas, while you enjoy a glass of wine with your guests, acting as our muse for the evening.

Flux Iron Chefs: Iron Chef Dinner Party

Gino Romero: draft_final_1, 2025,&nbsp;Color Pencil on Bolívar, 6 x 2.75 inches, Unique, Signed on versoPart of a previously displayed series, this unique work was made for the Flux Factory 2025 Auction.Bio:&nbsp;Gino Romero (b. 1997, Miami) holds an MFA from Parsons School of Design and BA from Florida State University. An ordained minister, archivist, and educator, currently based in Queens, NY. Exhibited internationally and part of major collections.<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.ginoromero.com/">https://www.ginoromero.com/</a>

Gino Romero: draft_final_1

Greg Stewart: Seedle Seedle Seedle Sweet Sweet Sweet, 2024,&nbsp;Pencil and Oil Stick on Vellum, 11 x 8.5 inches (Framed: 14.5 x 11 x 1.5 inches), Unique, signed on verso, framed Previously appeared in Jen de los Reyes's exhibition "Disappearing Birds of North America".Bio:&nbsp;Greg Stewart is an artist and educator living in Virginia for the past 22 years. Alongside his individual arts practice, he is a primary collaborator in the collective Kosmologym. Kosmologym is an art and game design collective combining art, science, and sports. Greg’s individual practice is inspired by the proliferation of citizen artists and scientists within local communities. It recognizes our backyards as places to study global diversity, embracing the role of the imperfect interpreter, or amateur, in all of us.Exhibitions include Tiger Strikes Asteroid: GVL; CEPA Gallery; MOCA, Arlington; Swale/Urban Soils Institute Governor's Island; Franconia Sculpture Park and Taft Nicholson Center for Environmental Humanities.

Greg Stewart: Seedle Seedle Seedle Sweet Sweet Sweet

Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow: Moon Garden, 2021,&nbsp;Ink on Paper, 10 x 8 inches (framed: 15 x 12.25 x 1.25 inches), Unique, signed&nbsp;Line drawing of bamboo inserted in a brick. Previously shown at Five Myles "Daughters of Lamb".Bio:&nbsp;Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow is a Jamaican-American interdisciplinary artist based in NYC who draws from nostalgia for her homeland, Caribbean folklore, fantasy, feminism, globalism, spirituality, environmentalism, and colonial narratives in works ranging from drawing, installation, and performance. She holds a BFA with honors from the University of Florida and an MFA from Hunter College.Lyn-Kee-Chow’s work has been exhibited in the Queens Museum, Who Takes Care of New York? Queens, NY (2019); The Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific Experience, Guilty Party, Seattle, WA (2020) as well as The James Gallery CUNY Graduate Center, Textures of Feminist Perseverance, New York, NY (2024). Solo exhibitions include Picnic Parade at the Chinese Historical Society of America, San Francisco, CA (2022) and Junkanooacome at Five Myles, Brooklyn, NY (2022). Lyn-Kee-Chow co-authored Living Histories of Sugar in the Caribbean and Scotland: Transnationalisms, Performance and Co-creation, a project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and presented in Kingston, JA, and Greenock and Edinburgh in Scotland (2022). She is the recipient of awards including the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (2012), Rema Hort Mann Artist in Community Engagement (2017), Franklin Furnace Fund (2017-18), Culture Push Fellowship for Utopian Practice (2018), and Queens Art Fund (2019, 2024). Lyn-Kee-Chow has also received the Bronx Museum AIM Fellowship (2024), KODA Residency on Governors Island, NY (2023), Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn, NY (2023), Wave Hill Winter Workspace (2022) and is an inaugural artist fellow of Triangle Arts, Brooklyn, NY (2022). Recent recognition includes being shortlisted for Creative Capital (2022) and nominated for Anonymous Was a Woman (2024). Publications include The New York Times, Hyperallergic, White Hot Magazine, and Artsy. Lyn-Kee-Chow’s work is in private and public collections including the Museum of Chinese in America, Wing Luke Museum, and the National Gallery of Jamaica.

Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow: Moon Garden

Joshua Goode: The Death Eater, 2023,&nbsp;Sculpture, bronze, 6 x 3 x 3 inches, Unique, signed on bottomBio: Joshua Goode is an interdisciplinary artist whose work reimagines pop culture relics from his youth as ancient artifacts, using alternate history and mythology to explore the construction and distortion of historical narratives. With a background in archaeology and an MFA from Boston University, Goode stages performative excavations around the world, collaborating with local communities to create site-specific interventions. These fictional digs blur the boundaries between fact and fiction, inviting viewers to question the authenticity of cultural memory and the mechanisms through which history is shaped.Goode’s work has been exhibited internationally at institutions such as the Razliv Museum (Russia), Capellades Museum (Spain), Himalayas Museum (China), Monchskirchein Museum (Germany), and The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (USA). His artifacts are held in public collections including Colección SOLO (Spain), Alfardan Collection (Qatar), and the U.S. Naval Academy Museum (USA). He has participated in artist residencies across Europe and the U.S. and contributed to archaeological research at the prehistoric Vogelherd Cave in Germany.Weight: 2lbs

Joshua Goode: The Death Eater

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Exclusive Public Art Tour with Kendal HenryLOT 2 OF 2 (5 of 10 slots)<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.basta.app/fluxauction/2025/kendal-henry-exclusive-public-art-tour-lot-1-of-2-up-to-5-of-10-slots">LOT 1 here</a>Join renowned curator and public art leader Kendal Henry for a one-of-a-kind, behind-the-scenes tour exploring some of New York City’s most compelling public artworks.This intimate experience is limited to just 10 participants and will last approximately 3 hours. Along the way, Kendal will share insider stories, curatorial insights, and the hidden histories behind iconic projects as well as unexpected gems scattered throughout the city.Don’t miss this chance to see the city’s art in a whole new light—through the eyes of someone who has spent decades shaping New York’s public art landscape.

Jevijoe Vitug: “A Life Imagined”

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