Past
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Flat Works for Structured Bodies
Pilar Gallego
June 06 – July 13, 2025Crawl Space
Olivia Faith Harwood
April 04 – May 11, 2025conjunctions
Mira Dayal
February 07 – March 16, 2025Tender Giants
Amiko Li
November 01 – December 15, 2024The Circadian Support Cycle
Amy Chiao
September 06 – October 13, 2024Entre Dos Palmas
Angélica Maria Millán Lozano + Laura Camila Medina
July 05 – August 11, 2024After Boucher
Molly Jae Vaughan
May 03 – June 16, 2024Hand Me Downs
Frankie Krupa Vahdani
March 01 – April 14, 2024Homesick
Reem Al-Wakeal, Wiley + Sabrina (Bingyi) Spurlock, and Amy Chiao
November 03 – December 17, 2023live laugh lobotomize
Yuyang Zhang
September 08 – October 15, 2023At The Same Time
Rebecca Tennenbaum
July 07 – 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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Tower of Babel
cassie renée peña
August 01 – September 14, 2025︎︎︎ schedule viewing with Calendly
(Philadelphia, PA) Fuller Rosen Gallery is delighted to present Tower of Babel, a solo exhibition by cassie renée peña. Tower of Babel features new ceramic and furniture pieces highlighting renée peña’s passion for ancient and contemporary cultures. renée peña’s art practice investigates the spaces where disparate civilizations intersect and how physical artifacts show cultural transition and transference.
Join us for the opening reception of Tower of Babel at Fuller Rosen Gallery on First Friday, August 01 from 6-9 pm.

cassie renée peña, from Tower of Babel, 2025
Tower of Babel materialized over a year in response to witnessing American and European reactions to the genocide in Gaza and to Demian DinéYazhi’s work at the 2024 Whitney Biennial. DinéYazhi’s piece, text on a neon light that flashes: “we must stop imagining apocolypse/genocide + we must imagine liberation,” called cassie renée peña to move past observation to conceive a different reality. renée peña recognizes the tension with historical revision and imagined utopias. She does not want to ignore and minimize the current reality that land, artifacts, and lives are stolen today in the name of European supremacy as expressed through the ongoing genocide in historical Palestine, Sudan, against Armenians in Turkey, and in other countless ways in a mutitude of countries.


The political turmoil between the United States, Israel, and Iran is a continuation of the surface story of Babel and Babylon. Babylon was the world capital for several empires, including the Assyrian and Persian Empires, until the rise of the Hellenistic world. In Judaism, Babylon symbolizes an oppressor and in Christianity, Babylon came to symbolize worldliness and evil. Until the historical city of Babylon was discovered, Europeans depicted Babylon as an “Oriental” amalgamation of the Egyptian, Greek, and Ottoman Empires.
For renée peña, the practice of creating an imagined past, the mythical Tower of Babel, represents an ideal of humanity; one where the cultures and languages meant to divide us are shared and celebrated. In this exhibition, collectivism and pluralism dismantle the Western mythologies that are meant to explain who is noble and who is barbaristic. renée peña provides audiences an opportunity to re-locate themselves in an egalitarian and democratic world that belongs to all cultures across all times.

cassie renee peña (b. 1984, Camp LeJeune, NC, she/her) is a self-taught artist whose focus is on functional-conceptual sculptures that evoke existential and spiritual themes through the practice of manipulating and recontextualizing pre-historic and historic ceramic forms. Bridging the relationship between use and meaning in craft, her art practice is meant as a form of both play and ritual-making rooted in the history of anti-capitalist art craft. renée peña has shown work in Philadelphia at the Clay Studio, Vicarious Love, Utility Works, and in other artist created arts spaces. She has also exhibited in North Carolina in various galleries and art spaces across the High Country.
Her work has been published in Heads Magazine and Art Maze Magazine. In conjunction with her studio practice, renée peña works in public health. She received her MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and Expressive Arts Therapy from Appalachian State University. renée peña currently resides in Philadelphia, PA.