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Fuller Rosen Gallery
319 N 11th St Unit 3-I
Philadelphia, PA 19107

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Past

Crawl Space
Olivia Faith Harwood

April 04, 2025 – May 11, 2025


conjunctions
Mira Dayal

February 07, 2025 – March 16, 2025


Tender Giants
Amiko Li

November 01, 2024 – December 15, 2024


The Circadian Support Cycle
Amy Chiao

September 06, 2024 – October 13, 2024


Entre Dos Palmas
Angélica Maria Millán Lozano + Laura Camila Medina

July 05, 2024 — August 11, 2024


After Boucher
Molly Jae Vaughan

May 03, 2024 — June 16, 2024


Hand Me Downs
Frankie Krupa Vahdani

March 01, 2024 — April 14, 2024


Homesick
Reem Al-Wakeal, Wiley + Sabrina (Bingyi) Spurlock, and Amy Chiao

November 03, 2023 — December 17, 2023


live laugh lobotomize
Yuyang Zhang

September 08, 2023 — October 15, 2023


At The Same Time
Rebecca Tennenbaum

July 07, 2023 — August 13, 2023


Held Tight
Molly Alloy + Arielle Zamora

June 04 - August 07, 2022


Second Honeymoon
Dana Robinson

April 02 - May 08, 2022


Possessions, Possessions
Olivia Faith Harwood

January 29 - March 13, 2022


The Longest Leg
Emmanuela Soria Ruiz

November 11, 2021 - January 09, 2022


After Boucher
Molly Jae Vaughan

September 11 - October 24, 2021


Resound
Angélica Maria Millán Lozano + Frankie Krupa Vahdani

July 17 - August 22, 2021



umm no
Yuyang Zhang

April 15 - May 30, 2021


Things that have to do with fire
Vo Vo

February 18 - April 01, 2021


NO SANCTUARY
Panteha Abareshi + Kayley Berezney

December 17, 2020 - February 04, 2021


Ambrosia
Grace Stott

October 15 - November 19, 2020


Loopholes
Devin Harclerode + Laura Camila Medina

August 27 - October 04, 2020


Patterning
Ophir El-Boher

April 18 - May 31, 2020


American Hex
Christine Miller + Brittany Vega

February 01 - March 14, 2020


A Thousand Cuts
B. G-Osborne

November 16, 2019 - January 10, 2020


A Change of Light and other observations
Sammie Cetta

September 14 - November 08, 2019


flat out
Brandi Kruse

July 20 - September 06, 2019


A Thirst for Saltwater
Lehuauakea

May 25 - July 12, 2019


SUBLIMATION
Diana Palermo

March 30 - May 17, 2019


Ego Placebo
Wiley

January 26 - March 15, 2019


TREGUAS
Angélica Maria Millán Lozano

November 17 - December 20, 2018

Current

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.

Pilar Gallego, Flat Pattern: 1″ Constructible Box, #904,
2025, scaled draft for assembly, ink on paper


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.


Pilar Gallego, Study in Structural Collapse 2,
2025, found men’s shirts, thread



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.

Upcoming

Cassie Renée Peña

August 01, 2025 – September 14, 2025

Ryan Patrick Krueger

October 03, 2025 – November 16, 2025

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