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curtisstage

Artist, Educator, Media Arts Professional | Member of @durdenandray | Chair of Arts, Media, & Performance at LA Mission College

WIP 🚧 ✍🏼 #contemporaryart #drawing #wip WIP 🚧 
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#contemporaryart #drawing #wip
Ink ✍🏼 in progress Ink ✍🏼 in progress
July photography… all shot on my handsome litt July photography… 

all shot on my handsome little FujiFilm XT50

#fujifilmxt50
New drawing ✍🏼 New drawing ✍🏼
TRYST ART FAIR 2025! Hope to see you all at Del Am TRYST ART FAIR 2025!
Hope to see you all at Del Amo Crossing!
JULY 11 - JULY 13

Come see LOCATOR a collaboration between myself and @ty.pownall 

Durden and Ray is among galleries from across the globe participating in the world’s largest international art fair dedicated to artist-run spaces and collectives. Durden and Ray’s booth, No. 10, focuses on the theme of “Test Pattern,” and includes collaborative works from Durden and Ray artists. It was a test of working together and seeing what our artists could create. Well, they created magic. A Mars’ environment inhabited by Gummi Bears, paintings merged and matched through palette and pattern, and sculptures that were traded, torn apart and reconstituted into a new form and meaning.

ARTISTS:
Carlos Beltran Arechiga and Hagop Najarian
Arezoo Bharthania and Vita Eruhimovitz
Dani Dodge and Stephanie Sherwood
David Leapman and Jenny Hager
Curtis Stage and Ty Pownall
Alexandra Wiesenfeld and Jenny Hager
Steven Wolkoff and Snezana Saraswati Petrovic

ORGANIZERS: Dani Dodge, David Leapman, Curtis Stage, and Steven Wolkoff.
VENUE: Del Amo Crossing
LOCATION: 21535 Hawthrone Blvd, Torrance, CA 90503
DATES
Friday, July 11: Opening - 4-6pm
Saturday, July 12: Open 12-6pm
Sunday, July 13: Open 12-6pm
Admission is Free
The TRYST Alternative Art Fair is produced by TAM and supported by the City of Torrance.
An Independent, non-commercial, Art Fair for Artist-Run-Spaces and Collectives (Definition of tryst: a rendezvous by lovers at a given time or place, often in secret)
Locator Collaborative work with Ty Pownell Locator
Collaborative work with Ty Pownell
New Work! Collaboration with @ty.pownall “LO New Work! 

Collaboration with @ty.pownall 

“LOCATOR” 2025, Steel, Resin, Rubber, Plastic, Photographs, Paint, Ink
76”x30”x24”

See this piece at the Tryst International Art Fair this weekend in Torrance in the @durdenandray booth

@tryst.la
New Studio Photography:
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 “When the Going Gets Dark” 2025 | shot with FujiFilm GFX50 in Long Beach, CA 
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#abstractphotography #surrealphotography #stilllifephotography #contemporaryphotography
#1milliondiamonds 
#minimalart #contemporaryphotography #minimalist  #minimal_shots 
#shape #geometric #collagephotography 
@durdenandray #durdenandray
25 years in higher education. OVER 25 years in the 25 years in higher education. OVER 25 years in the Arts. And I’m more convinced than ever: Art is not optional. Education is not optional.

In a world that is fractured, uncertain, and rapidly changing, art offers us something essential — connection, empathy, vision, and reflection. It holds space for complexity, joy, protest, healing, and possibly transformation.

Education — especially arts education — doesn’t just prepare students for jobs. It prepares them to think critically, feel deeply, and contribute meaningfully to a culture that needs MORE imagination, not less.

As this school year comes to a close, I’m filled with gratitude for every student, every colleague, every moment of growth and struggle. The work isn’t easy, but it’s vital. And it seems like it’s never been more urgent than it is now.

Here’s to the next chapter. To making. To teaching. To believing in what art and education make possible. 

#ArtsEducation #HigherEd #CreativityMatters  #ArtIsEssential
New work: Lattice-01 & Lattice-02 Limited editi New work: 

Lattice-01 & Lattice-02

Limited edition signed 20x20in posters coming in July!
Who’s interested in a limited edition run of pos Who’s interested in a limited edition run of posters for these drawings? (Planning on creating them in July!)

#drawings #contemporaryart
Sunday in the studio with a classic Bill Evans Tri Sunday in the studio with a classic Bill Evans Trio LP “Sunday at the Village Vanguard”. I love the album so much… feels like you are sitting in that dark basement with them! #drawing #contemporaryart #wip #studioday
7 weeks/more hours than I cared to pay attention t 7 weeks/more hours than I cared to pay attention to and the newest drawing is done! 

In my graphite drawings and studio-based photographs, I explore how patterns, distortion, and material tensions shape perception. The black-and-white checkerboard, a symbol of structure and logic, recurs across both mediums but is pushed into states of flux, drawing on natural systems like Turing patterns, wave interference, and gravitational lensing. In photography, printed patterns are cut, collaged, and staged within reflective, sculptural environments, merging physical and optical phenomena into a single frame. Shimmering surfaces and bold forms introduce new dimensions of depth and texture, amplifying the distortions found in the drawings. Across both practices, I investigate how organized structure dissolves into sensation and ultimately, the work probes the complexity how we think through abstraction.
New drawing incoming! New drawing incoming!
#drawing #wip #drawing #wip
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New Studio Photography:
Label: Not Made with Ai 🤣
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 “Sideways Formation Space” 2025 | shot with FujiFilm GFX50s - Long Beach, CA 
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#abstractphotography #surrealphotography #stilllifephotographyathome 
#contemporaryphotography  #collagephotography 
@durdenandray #durdenandray
New Studio Photography:
Label: Not Made with Ai 🤣
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 “A Ghost is Born” 2025 | shot with FujiFilm GFX50s - Long Beach, CA 
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#abstractphotography #surrealphotography #stilllifephotographyathome 
#contemporaryphotography  #collagephotography 
@durdenandray #durdenandray
New Studio Photography:
Label: Not Made with Ai 🤣
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 “This Happens All the Time” 2025 | shot with FujiFilm GFX50s - Long Beach, CA 
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#abstractphotography #surrealphotography #stilllifephotographyathome 
#contemporaryphotography  #collagephotography 
@durdenandray #durdenandray
New Studio Photography:
Label: Not Made with Ai 🤣
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 “To be Broken Down” 2025 | shot with FujiFilm GFX50s - Long Beach, CA 
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#abstractphotography #surrealphotography #stilllifephotographyathome 
#contemporaryphotography  #collagephotography 
@durdenandray #durdenandray
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