Art Exhibitions

DON'T BE A SQUARE
A Group Show
Curated by Ellen Stagg

Opening Reception 
6-8pm Friday, September 19th

Artists on View - Sept 19, 2025 - Jan 3, 2026
Agatha / Amanda Heck / Ames Robin
Chris Daze Ellis / Dee Lee / Ellen Stagg
Isa McMullen / Jeff Faerber / Joe Borzotta
Lara Scotton / Leo Brooklyn / Marianne Carlina
Martina Secondo Russo / Michael Paul
Peekaboo Pointe / Porkchop / Chris Smith
Susannah Breslin / Sy Rivers / Trixie LaPointe
Tom Tapit / William Thompson 

Curatorial Statement:

“To Be Square: means to be old-fashioned, conventional, or uncool” 

Erotic art is never square, but I asked the artists of this show: “How do you see outside a box when you put yourself in one?”

Making art in a square is not typical, but it can be done.  Most canvases are rectangles in Landscape or Portrait, but a square is the same on all sides, creating a canvas for all the artists to be the same, but expressing themselves in their own way, fully and freely. 

The artists in this show exemplify just that - all different. From color to black and white, and through the use of media from Photography, Collage, Drawings, Sculpture, Paintings, Video, and Multimedia, they all have a common ground - the square - and their own way of thinking outside their own constraints.  By expressing themselves fully with the theme of Eroticism and what it means to them to be boxed into four walls, they are thus exposing their own deepest desires of sexuality and sensuality.  

The work flows so well together because of their common canvas, but they are all so different in a playful, sexy, and thought-provoking way.  If we are forced to be boxed into a square, how do we test the limits of our sexuality? Stop putting yourself in a box with conventions and don’t be a square. 

Ellen Stagg, Curator:

Ellen Stagg has been an Artist in photography since she was 16 years old. She moved to New York City in 1996 from Connecticut to attend the School of Visual Arts to get her BFA in Photography in 2000. Stagg has done Commercial photography for 26 years working in Advertising, Fashion, Erotic and Portraiture, shooting for all kinds of magazines, look books, stock photography, and celebrities. She has also created fine art that has showcased at Galleries around the world, published three books, had documentary web series done on her and has even moved into Directing Video/Film and Production, being in film festivals around the world. She has won awards in Film and Photography.  EllenStagg.com or staggstreet.com  

@EllenStagg