[1] The gallery opened on Newbury Street in December 1980, representing a group of artists from the Boston area, notably including Doug Anderson, Gerry Bergstein, Alex and Allison Grey, and Paul Laffoley, among others.
Stux began publishing catalogues for each of its artists’ shows, featuring essays by prominent art critics and historians, including Dan Cameron, Robert Pincus-Witten, Donald Kuspit, and others.
[1] In 1987,[8] the gallery first exhibited Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ, which subsequently became the focus of major public controversy as a flash point in the “culture wars”, because it had been produced with partial support from a grant funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.
The photograph—which features a plastic crucifix suspended in a plexiglass tank of the artist’s own urine—was cited for blasphemy by the fundamentalist American Family Association, and subsequently denounced in the U.S. Senate by Jesse Helms and Alphonse D’Amato.
[10] In the Spring of 2014, Stux Gallery relocated uptown to the historic 57th Street district, renowned for the birth of early American modernism in fine art, occupying an expansive 4,000 sq.