LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- Flux Factory presents Opolis: a Comix Fluxture - A giant-scale miniature city in 13 blocks by 15 artists, on view through August 5th, 2006 . OPOLIS is the third manifestation of Flux Factory's annual "Comix Fluxture" exhibit. These exhibits have brought cartoonists into the gallery to create comics narratives that also function as installation art. The ongoing objective of the series is to create works of art that can be read intimately---as a comic strip---but also contribute to an overall installation spectacle.

OPOLIS presents Comix-Fluxture-as-city. A street plan of Opolis, an imaginary city, has been laid out on the floor of the Flux main space. Individual city blocks have been claimed by individual artists. They have designed the buildings and environments that fill the city blocks (apartment buildings, libraries, factories, parks, junkyards, skyscrapers, bars, office buildings, theaters, etc), and have invented characters to populate these environments. The artists have created the work in such a way that as the viewer walks around the block, the buildings (or images in or on the buildings) function as comic strip panels that resolve into a story.

What they've created is a Liliputian city, with the viewer playing Gulliver. It falls somewhere between an exhibit of architectural models and Red Grooms's "Ruckus Manhattan", with the added dimension of thirteen engaging cartoon narratives.