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curtisstage

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

New Studio Photography: Label: Ai can’t make this New Studio Photography:
Label: Ai can’t make this
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“New Stratosphere”, Photograph on archival paper, 30”x40”, 2026 | shot with FujiFilm GFX50s - Long Beach, CA
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#abstractphotography #surrealphotography
#contemporaryphotography #collagephotography
@durdenandray #durdenandray
New Studio Photography: Label: Not Made with Ai 🤣 New Studio Photography:
Label: Not Made with Ai 🤣
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“Flagged”, Photograph on archival paper, 30”x40”, 2025 | shot with FujiFilm GFX50s - Long Beach, CA
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#abstractphotography #surrealphotography
#contemporaryphotography #collagephotography
@durdenandray #durdenandray
Lattice 06 - Pink, Ink on Archival Paper, 22”x17” Lattice 06 - Pink, Ink on Archival Paper,
22”x17”

Artsy Link in Profile

#Drawing
#geometricabstraction 
#pattern
Lattice 05 - Green, Ink on Archival Paper 22"x17" Lattice 05 - Green, Ink on Archival Paper
22"x17"

Artsy Link in Profile

https://www.artsy.net/artwork/curtis-stage-lattice-05-green

#drawing
#geometricabstraction 
#pattern
“Soft Cell #3” 2025, Ink on archival paper, 12”x12 “Soft Cell #3” 2025, Ink on archival paper, 12”x12” framed

#drawing #geometricabstraction 

@durdenandray
#contemporaryart #drawing #geometricabstraction #contemporaryart #drawing #geometricabstraction
WIP new drawing series!#contemporaryart #drawing # WIP new drawing series!#contemporaryart #drawing #wip #geometricabstraction
New Studio Photography: Label: Not Made with Ai 🤣 New Studio Photography:
Label: Not Made with Ai 🤣
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 “Running Interference”, Photograph on archival paper, 30”x40”, 2025 | shot with FujiFilm GFX50s - Long Beach, CA 
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#abstractphotography #surrealphotography 
#contemporaryphotography  #collagephotography 
@durdenandray #durdenandray
New work from my drawing series. Lattice 03 / Co New work from my drawing series.

Lattice 03 /  Count Down to Everywhere, 2025, Ink on Paper, 22” x 30”

#geometricabstraction #contemporaryart
Link in my profile https://shoutoutla.com/meet-cu Link in my profile

https://shoutoutla.com/meet-curtis-stage-artist-and-educator/

@durdenandray 

@shoutoutlaofficial
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 little 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 “LOCA 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: ********************** “W 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!
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