Join us at the gallery for an evening of art to benefit Arizona’s Children Association, Friday, January 27, from 5:30-8:00 p.m. Thirty percent of all sales will be donated to this great organization.
We have adopted new hours of operation at Flux. We will now be open Tuesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. (Each Saturday, Plaza Palomino hosts a farmers’ market.) We will be closed on Sundays and Mondays. Come by and see us!
Flux will be hopping this fall with a variety of fun events. Watch for your invitation to our Second Anniversary Celebration on Friday, October 14, from 5 to 8 p.m. And mark your calendars for the following events—artist lectures, the Open Studio Tour, and our small works show—now through December. Hope to see you soon at Flux Gallery.
Mari Herreras of the Tucson Weekly interviewed our own Mary Vaneecke for the TQ&A column. To read more about Mary’s mixed-media textile work, click here. You can hear her artist talk, “Confessions of a Subversive Stitcher,” at Flux on December 3rd at 2:00 p.m. You can meet Mary and see her work at the gallery this Saturday. Stop by and say hello.
We have just finished repainting Flux, and rehanging it with work from our new and old artists. There are six of us now—Lee Roy Beach, Peter Eisner, and Lynne Yamaguchi, plus Sheryl Holland, C J Shane, and Mary Vaneecke. (A seventh artist will join us in October.) Please come by and check out the new work and our fresh face. Over the summer, we are open Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Flux Gallery is living up to its name this summer. Three more members are moving on—two to larger markets, one to another country. Carol Ann and Shirley Wagner will be refocusing their efforts on larger art markets outside of Tucson. Katherine Minott will be heading south to Mexico for a few months.
Although we will miss our sister artists, Flux’s future looks fine. We have three new artists to fill our space and your homes. Sheryl Holland, who was a guest artist at Flux in February, joined us as of June 1. Her colorful acrylic abstracts are already gracing the gallery.
"Wings of Desire" by Sheryl Holland
On July 1, CJ Shane and Mary Vaneecke will officially join us. Shane, as she likes to be known, paints abstract landscapes and makes prints and artists’ books. Mary is a fiber artist who uses surface design techniques such as paint and pencil on fabric, discharge dyeing, decorative stitching, and machine quilting to create fabric wall pieces.
"Kayenta" by CJ Shane
Each has her own web site, so click on their names in the previous paragraphs to link to their individual web sites and learn more about each of them.
"Wilderness Trails I" by Mary Vaneecke
This month, we say farewell to Maurice Sevigny as a member of Flux. He will be spending more time traveling and is turning his attention to jewelry making. We wish him well in his new endeavors.
Simpatico, by Katherine Minott
After having to bid adieu to three of our artists in 2010, Flux is adding a new artist with the new year: photographer Katherine Minott. Visitors to our small-works show in December got a preview of some of her work. As of January, she will join us full-time. Come by, welcome her, and see her work. Her official debut will be our benefits for the Primavera Foundation and the Ben’s Bells Project, Friday, January 21, and Saturday, January 22, respectively.
Learn more about Katherine at her web site: PhotoPoetics.
451 Degrees, by Katherine Minott
Flux Gallery will feature small works for sale on Friday and Saturday, December 10 and 11, 2010, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., in conjunction with Grey Dog Trading Company’s annual winter Zuni fetish show. Customers who present a same-day receipt from Grey Dog will receive a 10% discount on the small works at Flux, or Flux customers can present a same-day receipt from Flux at Grey Dog to receive a 10% discount on their fetishes.
In addition to the small works by member artists Carol Ann, Lee Roy Beach, Peter Eisner, Maurice Sevigny, Shirley Wagner, and Lynne Yamaguchi, we will also have work by incoming Flux member Katherine Minott, a photographer with a love of color and texture. Katherine won’t officially be joining Flux until January, but this show will give visitors a preview of what is to come.
Join us next weekend, and give your loved ones the gift of beauty this season. For further information, please contact us (520-299-5983) or Grey Dog (520-881-6888) directly.
We have decided to occasionally host weekend-long exhibitions of the work of guest artists at the gallery. Artists who are interested in being considered for such an exhibition will find information about the process here. If you have further questions, please contact Maurice Sevigny, Carol Ann, or Shirley Wagner.