Experience the modified body beautiful in a gallery setting, with photography featuring tattooing, piercing, corsetry, and scarification. “Modified Eros” features photographs by seasoned artists and fresh talent alike and will display images by Patrick Reardon, Brian Mackey, and many others. Many of the models and photographers will be present at the public opening for the show on Friday, November 9. Additional viewings by appointment only through curator.

Some of the photographs in the show have previously appeared on Bella Vendetta’s eponymous website, where she showcases the erotic fantasies of people whose imaginations run on the taboo side. The pieces in the show represent not just the photographers’, but also the models’ predilections. “It’s hard to get a gallery to show images like this because they don’t see body modification as an art form and they don’t think of modified people’s bodies as beautiful,” says Ms. Vendetta.

Audacia Ray, who has curated $pread magazine’s “Sex Worker Visions” shows for the past two years, says, “The photographs I’ve selected for this show invite people to appreciate the erotic beauty of body modification, though some images, like photographs of suspension, blood play, and genital modifications, will make folks squirm a little too.”