SeXObjects | Curated by Hannah Sloan
Featuring: Abby Aceves, Lavaille Campbell, Jean Lowe, Alia Malley, Valiente Pastel, and Elizabeth Scott
October 11 – November 22, 2025
Opening Reception: October 11, 4–6pm
Before the internet mediated desire, Generation X—my generation—learned about sex through experience: messy, human, and unfiltered. Our education unfolded in bedrooms, cars, and nightclubs entered with fake IDs, soundtracked by the ragged defiance of Courtney Love and the unapologetic fury of 1990s riot grrrl feminism. Unlike our younger counterparts, we came of age—and defined ourselves sexually—before the onslaught of internet porn and the slow erosion of intimacy brought on by smartphones and digital distraction. In an era when a screen can dull the libido and physical sex is in decline, that pre-internet reality of tangible, erotic self-discovery feels like a bygone luxury, as imperfect as it was.
SeXObjects at Craig Krull Gallery playfully and earnestly revisits that visceral era, when intimacy was chaotic, risky, and real—before swipes, screens, and algorithms reprogrammed how we connect and feel. Fueled by nostalgia and yearning, the exhibition invites viewers back into a tactile, pre-internet universe, when desire was discovered in the hushed corners of sex shops, the thrill of a secret club, or the glossy pages of a magazine—through the work of six artists whose contributions are challenging, personal, honest, and sex-positive.