upcoming
Human-Made
Opens: Jan 10, 2026
Closes: Jan 31, 2026
A Juried Makers Exhibition & Sales Opportunity
At Not Shockboxx, reputation is everything. Those that curated this sacred space before us built this gallery on challenging, unapologetic, and emotionally honest fine art — and we protect that reputation carefully.
Human-Made is a deliberate, slightly sideways step from our usual programming — and it’s personal.
As a graphic designer by trade, I’ve always lived in the in-between: not quite “pure” fine art, not just commercial work. I know what it feels like to be an artist and a small business owner, to make work that begs to be in a gallery but also on a shelf, a website, or in someone’s hands as a product they use and love.
Right now, in a moment when AI is scraping, mimicking, and automating creative work at scale, Human-Made is a reminder that there’s still no substitute for the real thing: a person, a process, and a practice.
This show is for the creatives who:
- Design the lettering for a beautiful cover and sell custom notebooks with that lettering on them.
- Hand-throw a ceramic mug once, refine the form, then make a whole run to offer at markets and online.
- Paint vivid, imaginative landscapes, then sell prints and reprints so more people can live with that work at home.
It’s for the folks who sit at the intersection of art, craft, and commerce and are proud of that middle ground.
upcoming
You Are Who You Think I Am
Opens: Feb 7, 2026
Closes: Feb 21, 2026
In You Are Who You Think I Am, internationally recognized body-paint artist and photographer Roustan pulls viewers into the complicated, charged conversation surrounding nudity, perception, and intent. Roustan’s work has long lived at the crossroads of beauty, vulnerability, and taboo, where the human form becomes both a battleground and a sanctuary.
Through meticulously painted bodies and intimate photographic portraits, Roustan examines how we project meaning onto nakedness, and how those projections reveal far more about us than the subject itself. His images challenge the knee-jerk impulse to sexualize or moralize, instead asking viewers to pause long enough to see the person beneath the paint: unique, powerful, flawed, joyful, insecure, healed, or healing.
Roustan’s process is rooted in empathy and years of studying how people inhabit their own skin. His canvases (real people, with real stories) step into new versions of themselves as the paint settles. What emerges is a celebration of individuality, a reclamation of the body as art rather than object, and a mirror held up to the culture that insists on labeling every exposed inch.
This exhibition invites you to strip away your assumptions, reconsider your reflexes, and meet the work with the same curiosity and openness Roustan brings to every model. You Are Who You Think I Am is not a provocation, it’s an invitation to look again, more honestly this time.
open call
Red Light District
Opens: Feb 28, 2026
Closes: Mar 14, 2026
Not Shockboxx invites artists to submit work for Red Light District, an exhibition that slips into the intimate, flirtatious, and undeniably human space where sexuality and art meet.
We’re looking for the full spectrum — the beautiful, graceful nude that holds you still… and the raw, strange, or unfiltered expression that makes you shift in your seat. Sensual, humorous, elegant, gritty, delicate, provocative — bring us work that knows how to command attention.
If your practice explores desire, touch, tension, fantasy, power, queerness, vulnerability, or the electric space between bodies, this is your moment. All mediums welcome: painting, photography, sculpture, illustration, digital, textile, mixed media, video, installation. If it pulses with heat or honesty, we want it.
This show is 18+.
Boundaries are straightforward:
No depictions of minors — real, implied, or symbolic.
Explicit content is welcome, as long as it centers consenting adults and remains within legal and ethical standards for artistic expression.
This isn’t shock for shock’s sake. It’s about the truth of being human — the erotic, the awkward, the beautiful, the complicated, the funny, the haunting. Show us the work you’ve been afraid to show elsewhere.
We especially encourage submissions from queer artists, artists of color, and artists with different abilities. No one is excluded, but these voices will receive juried preference.
past exhibits
About
Not Shockboxx Gallery is exactly what it sounds like—not Shockboxx—but we wouldn’t be here without it. The legendary Shockboxx gallery built a reputation for fearless, unconventional, and unapologetically meaningful art, and we’re proud to preserve that legacy while forging our own path. We’re the next generation of gallery owners—different voices, different ideas, but the same deep respect for the artists and community that made Shockboxx unforgettable. We’ll always be grateful to the creators who came before us, but we’re also here to stir our own pot, make our own beautiful mess, and see where the tide of strange and wonderful takes us.
Gallery owner Jessica Accamando with Gallery Manager Carin Ohara.
A Studio with a Pulse
Step behind Not Shockboxx Gallery and you’ll find a room that feels alive, a 500-square-foot artist’s sanctuary with glittered floors, a garage door that breathes ocean air, and a skylight that never misses a brushstroke. It’s raw, radiant, and just strange enough to make your creative brain sit up and pay attention. This isn’t a rental or a co-working space. It’s a place to make, to experiment, to belong — the heart of the Backboxx Artist Society.
Join the Society
The Backboxx isn’t for everyone. It’s for the ones who can’t not make things. The ones who need a place that hums with possibility and doesn’t care if there’s glitter on their shoes. Membership is limited, the walls are already watching, and the next masterpiece might just start here.
Think you belong? Step inside, fill out the application, and claim your spot in the Backboxx Artist Society.