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

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Past

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

conjunctions
Mira Dayal

February 07, 2025 – March 16, 2025

Fuller Rosen Gallery is delighted to announce the opening of conjunctions, a solo exhibition by Mira Dayal and guest curated by Laurel V. McLaughlin. Featuring Dayal’s steel sculptures that reinterpret everyday objects tied to writing and narrative processing, conjunctions blurs the boundaries between tools, toys, and sculptures, emphasizing how objects can shift in function and meaning.

Join us for an opening reception of conjunctions at Fuller Rosen Gallery on First Friday, February 07 from 6-9 pm.

And don’t forget to celebrate with us at with us at Ulises on Saturday, March 01 at 5 pm for “Language Object Index: Artist Book Launch and Conversation” with Mira Dayal.


Mira Daya, Cat’s Cradle with Four Knots, 2023, steel

Mira Dayal’s “language objects” center on a lexicon of steel sculptures that allude to vernacular objects associated with writing, narrative, and textual processing. These sculptures, rooted in post-minimalist phenomenology, invite viewers to rethink object relationships and their roles in material manipulation and storytelling. What are the outer limits and overlapping properties of each object type? How does one shift into the other? The functions of the malleable source objects—to gather, to write, to record, to make an image or story—are notably altered in their more rigid steel counterparts.

Mira Daya, detail of Cat’s Cradle with Four Knots, 2023, steel

Multiply, attached, bent, doubled, solidified, scaled up, and reoriented, the formal play creates ambiguity, heightens emotional tension, and encourages associative readings. Through choices of subjects and exchanges of proportions, materials, and forms of labor, Dayal draws a triangulated relationship among tools, toys, and sculptures. A tool, repurposed or disassembled, can tell us something about what we were meant to make with it. Likewise, a toy taken seriously can show us what we’re invited to invent or lead us to other games we could play.

Among these sculptures emerges a motif of loops tethered by conjunctions—parts that are sutured or knotted or linked together, like words strung together in a sentence. See the stapled twist of a Möbius strip or the tied string figure of the game “cat’s cradle,” two forms that inspire sculptures in this ongoing series. At first glance, such works evoke toys more than tools or sculptures. Yet, these objects not only propel important mathematical theories, but also demonstrate the poetics of material manipulation, hold abstract narrative potential, and push expectations of scale.

Illustrations of a Cat’s Cradle from Caroline Furness Jayne’s String Figures and How to Make Them, 1906

This tool-toy-sculpture triad, and the heightened attention to things we usually make meaning with, conjures an object-oriented ontology; in which things affect non-things in our shared world. In setting up this triad, Dayal practices a post-minimal study of phenomenology—of how people perceive and experience objects—emphasized here through the sculptures’ proportionality to the artist’s body and the labor required to produce these unwieldy, individual versions of small, ephemeral, and mass-produced objects. Building on Dayal’s prior exhibitions about the materiality of imaging technologies, language processing, machine learning, and precursors to writing, conjunctions teems with propositions for continued manipulation, embodied interaction, and webs of signification.





Mira Dayal (she/her) is an artist, writer, editor, and educator based in New York. She produces systems of sculptures that respond to a site’s architecture or history, involve subtle but laborious uses of everyday objects and materials, critically reflect on changing technologies, and expand the limits of language and image. Dayal has held solo and two-person exhibitions at Princeton University, NJ; Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York; Kunstverein Dresden, Germany; Gymnasium, Brooklyn; Lubov, New York; NARS Foundation, Brooklyn; and Abrons Art Center, New York.

Dayal has participated in group exhibitions at the Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Feral File; Barnard College, New York; Miriam, Brooklyn; lower_cavity, Holyoke, MA; Parent Company, Brooklyn; Apparatus Projects, Chicago; Artspace New Haven, CT; OCHI, Los Angeles; Hesse Flatow, New York; NURTUREart, Brooklyn; and other spaces. She has participated in residencies at Ox-Bow, Art in General, and A.I.R. Gallery. Dayal recently coedited Track changes: a handbook for art criticism (Paper Monument, 2023) and co-publishes the collaborative artist book series prompt:. As an editor and writer, she has contributed over the past decade to numerous art magazines and museum exhibition catalogues. Dayal is on faculty at Barnard College, Parsons School of Design, and the School of Visual Arts, and has previously taught at Hunter College and the International Center of Photography.


Photo by Sam Gehrke

Laurel V. McLaughlin, PhD (she/her) is the Curator and the Director of the Collective Futures Fund at Tufts University Art Galleries. A writer, curator, art historian, and educator, her work has been supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art, the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, the Dutch Consulate of New York, Acción Cultural Española, The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation, University of Pennsylvania, and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and she is currently undertaking a 2022 Andy Warhol Curatorial Research Fellowship for a forthcoming exhibition How do you throw a brick through a window... at Tufts University Art Galleries in collaboration with Tanya Gayer and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center.

McLaughlin’s scholarly and curatorial writing has been published in Art Papers, BOMB Magazine, Sculpture Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Contact Quarterly, Performance Research, ASAP Journal, women & performance, and te magazine, among others. Forthcoming writing from McLaughlin is featured in Prospect.6: the future is present the harbinger is home (Prospect, 2025), Women’s Innovations in Theatre, Dance, and Performance (Bloomsbury's Methuen Drama 2025), and “On Breath,” Performance Research, Vol. 29, No. 3. (2025). She recently contributed a collaborative text with artist Mia Habib in Bare Bodies—Thresholding Life, published by De Gruyter GmbH and co-edited the multidisciplinary reader Tania El Khoury’s Live Art: Collaborative Knowledge Production (Amherst College Press 2024).

Upcoming

conjunctions
Mira Dayal

February 07, 2025 – March 16, 2025

Olivia Faith Harwood

April 04, 2025 – May 11, 2025

Pilar Galego

June 06, 2025 – July 13, 2025

Cassie Renée Peña

August 01, 2025 – September 14, 2025

Ryan Patrick Krueger

October 03, 2025 – November 16, 2025

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