Flux Factory

Swoon, Klank House 8/20, 2024Archival inkjet print on Hahnemuhle Albrecht Durer Fine Art 210 gsm paper, 17 x 11 in, signed

Swoon: Klank House 8/20

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>

Sara Jimenez: Schism (7), 2015,&nbsp;Paper, inkjet print, metal paint, patina, rust, 9 x 12 inches, Unique, signed on versoThis collage is made from reprinted American colonial photos about the Philippines, combined with steel and copper paint with patinas.Bio: My work materializes invisible histories and a kaleidoscopic connectedness I have to my ancestors and their land. I work in installation, sculpture, collage, and performance to create visual metaphors through fantastical environments and otherworldly, biomorphic objects. Most of my research and inspiration comes from learning about the landscape and narratives from my genealogical roots in Southeast Asia, the Pacific, and the UK. My practice uses poetic abstraction and color to disorient and trouble dominant ideas about people, places and time. Each project or series of works is sited in a specific set of historical narrative threads. Alongside my practice of researching ancestral intersectional histories, I also create site specific installations that grapple with the legacies and landscapes of their particular locations.Jimenez received her BA from the University of Toronto and her MFA from Parsons the New School for Design in Fine Art. Selected solo exhibitions include Rachel Uffner Gallery (NYC), Smack Mellon(NYC), and Morgan Lehman Gallery (NYC). Selected commissions include Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), Wave Hill (NYC), and MadArt Studio (Seattle). Jimenez has also exhibited in exhibitions at museums including El Museo del Barrio, The Brooklyn Museum, and The Bronx Museum. Her work is part of the permanent collection of the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice. Selected awards and grants include NYFA’s Canadian Women's Artist Award, Canada Council for the Arts’ Explore and Create and Travel Grants, and BRIC’s Colene Brown Art Prize.

Sara Jimenez: Schism (7)

Sarah Dahlinger: Halloween,&nbsp;2023, 4 color lithograph on Zerkall paper, 20 x 16 inches, Limited Edition 2 of 5, signedPreviously exhibited on Governors Island in 2023 and at Cooper Union in 2024.Bio: Sarah Dahlinger is a multimedia artist originally from Wyoming, based in Queens. Her project-based practice involves printmaking, video, performance, food, installation, mask making, costume and prop design. In addition to her individual practice, Sarah co-directs Springboard Collective, a collaboration that creates interactive installations and events.She received her MFA in Printmaking from Ohio University and works as a printmaking technician at the Cooper Union. Her work has shown at 334Broome (NYC), Flux Factory (Queens, NY), Governors Island (NYC), London Biennale (Las Vegas, NV, Berlin, Germany, &amp; Manila, Philippines), Gallery 5 (Richmond, VA), ARoS Museum (Aarhus, Denmark), Practice Gallery (Philadelphia, PA), Knockdown Center (Queens, NY), Greenwood Cemetery (Brooklyn, NY), Little Berlin (Philadelphia, PA), Danube Video Art Festival (Grein, Austria), International Film and Video Festival (Athens, OH). She has an upcoming residency at Ucross (Wyoming) and has completed residencies at Governors Island, ARoS Museum (Aarhus, Denmark), Flux Factory, and International Ceramic Studio (Kecskemét, Hungary). Recent awards include the Queens Art Fund: New Work Grant and the Flushing Town Hall Grant for Artists in Queens.<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://www.sarahdahlinger.net">www.sarahdahlinger.net</a>

Sarah Dahlinger: Halloween

Space Invader: Invasion of New York City, Print on Paper, 16.5 × 23.75 inches, unknown, unsignedIn the late 1990s, anonymous French artist Invader began cementing and gluing ceramic mosaic Space Invaders—pixelated characters from the eponymous 1978 video game—across the streets of Paris. He expanded his roster to include Pac-Man ghosts and other popular 8-bit characters, and his works now adorn cities around the world, from Los Angeles to Kathmandu. Along with these clandestine works of <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.artsy.net/gene/street-art">street art</a>, Invader has produced mosaics on Perspex panel, plywood, and book covers. He has also created paintings, drawings, and screen prints in his signature pixelated style. These works regularly sell for six figures on the secondary market. In 2019, astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti brought one of Invader’s works to the International Space Station, about 248 miles above Earth. Invader has exhibited internationally, with shows in Los Angeles, Paris, Brussels, and Hong Kong, among other cities.

Space Invader: Invasion of New York City

sTo Len: Queens Supports (Clean Streets Clean Beaches), 2023,&nbsp;water, oil paint, and screenprint ink on paper, 29 3/4 x 22 inches, Unique, signed on versoWhile Public Artist in Residence at the NY Department of Sanitation, sTo Len revitalized a screen printing sign shop in a sanitation garage in Woodside, Queens. Reusing the old equipment and leftover designs, Len created a series of mono prints on paper that remix old campaigns and symbols with his own marbling techniques.Each print is unique in an edition of one and has been hand silkscreened and printed with sTo Len’s personal marbling techniques that use various oil paints and inks with debris.Bio: sTo Len is an interdisciplinary artist whose work has centered on ecological place-based collaborations with diverse landscapes and co-creations with communities and municipal agencies. The cross-disciplinary nature of Len’s practice spans printmaking, video, sound, performance, installation, drawing, and social practice work, threaded together by a site-responsive process of making. Recent projects have included a Trash Museum in Kyrgyzstan, a community pirate radio show in New Mexico, and a series of plant-based printmaking while in residence at the Queens Botanical Garden in NY. Len was the first Artist in Residence at AlexRenew Wastewater Treatment facility in Virginia and the Public Artist in Residence at the NY Department of Sanitation from 2021-2023. Len has done extensive work with waterways including printmaking from surface pollution, underwater field recordings, and turning coastal clean ups into collaborative art events. sTo Len was most recently the Artist in Residence at the Grand Canyon where he was working with themes of embedded memory, deep time, and our relationship to visiting a site with an interactive video installation in the park’s main visitor center that hosts millions of people a year.Len has exhibited internationally, including exhibitions in New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Texas, Vietnam, Japan, Germany, Australia, Denmark, and Canada. In 2004, sTo Len co-founded the Brooklyn-based artist-run space Cinders Gallery and curated hundreds of exhibitions and performances until 2019. Len is currently based in Queens, NY, with over two decades of residence in NY and familial roots in Vietnam and Virginia, often incorporating these bonds by connecting issues of their history, environment, and traditions.&nbsp;

sTo Len: Queens Supports (Clean Streets Clean Beaches)

Tod Seelie: Bicycle Madonna, 2004,&nbsp;Archival Inkjet Print, 6 x 6 inches, unknown edition AP 1, Signed on Verso6" image on 8.25" paperBio: Tod Seelie is a photographer and photojournalist whose work often focuses on the fringe: artists and musicians, subcultures, and a strikingly different view of America. By turns somber and playful, striking, and densely layered with connections, Seelie shoots with a keen attention to light and a wry, sometimes melancholic visual language all his own. At times, Seelie has documented communities and projects that he’s also a part of, as with his astonishing photos of the Swimming Cities junk raft armada, pioneered by the artist Swoon. Seelie has photographed in 25 countries on five different continents and is currently loosely based in Los Angeles.He has exhibited work in many solo and group shows around the world, including at Mass MoCA and the Philadelphia Art Alliance, and presented his work at the Aperture Foundation and MUSUKU in Berlin. His work has also appeared in photography and art books, including The Vice Photo Book, Hijacked, Art &amp; Agenda: Political Art &amp; Activism, The Sense of Movement: When Artists Travel, Rock the Boat, Street World and Backyard Shakedown.In 2013, Seelie published his first book of photography, BRIGHT NIGHTS: Photographs of Another New York, with Prestel Publishing. The book chronicles 15 years of living and shooting in NYC, with accompanying essays by fellow collaborators and cultural observers

Tod Seelie: Bicycle Madonna

Trasonia: PortuMurica, 2024,Acrylic and spray paint and cellophane on found wood , 40 x 30 x 1.75 inches, UniqueTrasonia is a multi-disciplinary creative and organizer raised in Richmond, Virginia, currently based in Queens, NY. They are passionate about community building through arts and education. Their artistic practice centers poetic exploration of texture and color on page, canvas, and space. Aside from visual works Trasonia also curates in-person experiences including mutual aid resource giveaways, panel discussions, open mics, artist talks and more.

Trasonia: PortuMurica

Vadis Turner: Pearl Grid on Cutting Board, 2025,&nbsp;pearl earrings and cutting board, 10 x 7 x 1 inches, Unique, signed on backVadis Turner (b. 1977, Nashville, TN) creates textile-based sculptures and mixed media works that reframe traditional narratives of femininity. Through an abstract, material-driven approach, she subverts domestic materials like curtains and bedsheets—often pairing them with utilitarian objects, mineral wool—to challenge and elevate their roles. Turner’s practice embraces the “misbehavior” of these materials, transforming them into expressive, grid-based forms. Many of her works draw inspiration from misunderstood or maligned female figures in mythology, literature, and folklore, reimagining their stories through a feminist lens.Vadis Turner’s first solo museum exhibition was at the Frist Art Museum in 2017, followed by the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs in 2018; Huntsville Museum of Art in 2022 and the Abroms-Engel Institute for Visual Arts at the University of Alabama in Birmingham in 2023. Current and upcoming presentations are scheduled at LongHouse Reserve (NY), Zuckerman Museum of Art (GA) and Frist Museum of Art (TN). Selected collections included: the Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Arts and Design, Bunker Artspace, Hunter Museum, and 21C Museum Hotel. She has completed residencies at the Corporation of Yaddo and the Museum of Arts and Design, continuing to explore how domesticity, abstraction, and gender intersect in powerful and poetic ways.<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://www.vadisturner.com">www.vadisturner.com</a>

Vadis Turner: Pearl Grid on Cutting Board

Walker Tufts: Alibis and Ejected Wardrobe (Wholeness/Decadence, Same/Different), 2024Archival Inkjet Prints with Cut text, 13 x 19 inches, signed on verso

Swoon: Klank House 8/20

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