Past
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Crawl Space
Olivia Faith Harwood
April 04, 2025 – May 11, 2025conjunctions
Mira Dayal
February 07, 2025 – March 16, 2025Tender Giants
Amiko Li
November 01, 2024 – December 15, 2024The Circadian Support Cycle
Amy Chiao
September 06, 2024 – October 13, 2024Entre Dos Palmas
Angélica Maria Millán Lozano + Laura Camila Medina
July 05, 2024 — August 11, 2024After Boucher
Molly Jae Vaughan
May 03, 2024 — June 16, 2024Hand Me Downs
Frankie Krupa Vahdani
March 01, 2024 — April 14, 2024Homesick
Reem Al-Wakeal, Wiley + Sabrina (Bingyi) Spurlock, and Amy Chiao
November 03, 2023 — December 17, 2023live laugh lobotomize
Yuyang Zhang
September 08, 2023 — October 15, 2023At The Same Time
Rebecca Tennenbaum
July 07, 2023 — August 13, 2023Held Tight
Molly Alloy + Arielle Zamora
June 04 - August 07, 2022Second Honeymoon
Dana Robinson
April 02 - May 08, 2022Possessions, Possessions
Olivia Faith Harwood
January 29 - March 13, 2022The Longest Leg
Emmanuela Soria Ruiz
November 11, 2021 - January 09, 2022After Boucher
Molly Jae Vaughan
September 11 - October 24, 2021Resound
Angélica Maria Millán Lozano + Frankie Krupa Vahdani
July 17 - August 22, 2021umm no
Yuyang Zhang
April 15 - May 30, 2021Things that have to do with fire
Vo Vo
February 18 - April 01, 2021NO SANCTUARY
Panteha Abareshi + Kayley Berezney
December 17, 2020 - February 04, 2021Ambrosia
Grace Stott
October 15 - November 19, 2020Loopholes
Devin Harclerode + Laura Camila Medina
August 27 - October 04, 2020Patterning
Ophir El-Boher
April 18 - May 31, 2020American Hex
Christine Miller + Brittany Vega
February 01 - March 14, 2020A Thousand Cuts
B. G-Osborne
November 16, 2019 - January 10, 2020A Change of Light and other observations
Sammie Cetta
September 14 - November 08, 2019flat out
Brandi Kruse
July 20 - September 06, 2019A Thirst for Saltwater
Lehuauakea
May 25 - July 12, 2019
SUBLIMATION
Diana Palermo
March 30 - May 17, 2019Ego Placebo
Wiley
January 26 - March 15, 2019TREGUAS
Angélica Maria Millán Lozano
November 17 - December 20, 2018Current
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Flat Works for Structured Bodies
Pilar Gallego
June 06, 2025 – July 13, 2025
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(Philadelphia, PA) Fuller Rosen Gallery is excited to present Flat Works for Structured Bodies, a solo exhibition by Pilar Gallego. In Flat Works for Structured Bodies, Gallego presents a suite of fabric pieces and sewing patterns that redefine masculinity by deconstructing and queering the restrained architecture of menswear. At once sculptural and diagrammatic, these textile constructions serve as portraits of failed containment and disciplined bodies undone.
Join us for an opening reception of Flat Works for Structured Bodies at Fuller Rosen Gallery on First Friday, June 06 from 6-9 pm.

Pilar Gallego, Study in Structural Collapse 4, 2025, found men’s shirts, thread, polyfill
Gallego’s cross-disciplinary art practice investigates issues relating to in/visibility, homonormativity, displacement, desire, assimilation, and respectability politics. Looking to the closet and wardrobe as a repository for potential selves, Gallego considers the ways in which design marks and speaks for the body. The idiom “clothes make the man” is interrogated and examined with artistic nuance. Without clothing, a person is stripped of social identity and influence. It is not just that clothes enhance a person, they define them. Without them, one becomes invisible, insignificant, devoid of presence or authority. Clothing does not simply complement power—it is its very expression. Suits, button-up shirts, uniforms, corporate skins—the aesthetic and ideological framework of white-collar masculinity.

Through the logic of pattern-making and the visual language of tailoring, Gallego manipulates seams, folds, and fabric into forms that oscillate between repression and rupture. The works reference not only bodily containment—fatness, excess, deviance—but also the aesthetic codes of domination: symmetry, geometry, the grid. In resisting their own neatness, the pieces become queer—monstrous, chaotic, and ungovernable. They are feminine fat restrained; what excess looks like when it fails to contain itself. Gallego’s work points to where cultural codes and gender myths intersect and collide. They look into the body and its construction to unearth potential and possibilities. Tumors, growths, mutations, and unwanted bodies are now desirable and beautiful. The garments Gallego constructs are flayed, tucked, glitched. Their undoing is the beginning of a new masculinity; one that happily evolves into a spectral abundance of plurality.

Flat Works for Structured Bodies is unapologetic and unwilling to hide behind centuries of toxicity and failed performances. Businessmen, salarymen, lawyers, finance bros, suburban fathers—men of structure, control, and secrecy all undone and recast into extraordinary forms. While Gallego provides patterns and templates for how to construct this new queered wardrobe, the process of replication highlights the complexity and absurdity of gender performance altogether. Flat Works for Structured Bodies offers the human body what it actually needs to thrive; humor, patience, and kindness.

Pilar Gallego (b. 1981, Colombia, they/them) is an immigrant, queer and trans artist of color. They received their BFA from the Pratt Institute and is a graduate of the MFA Art Program at the California Institute of the Arts. Working conceptually with an interest in fashion theory and the production of subjectivity, they employ a wide variety of processes such as mold-making, welding, sewing, and woodworking, crossing a range of genres including painting, sculpture, installation, photography, video, and performance. Gallego has completed residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture and Yaddo.