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[Cassils](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/cassils) Recalibrating Sense: Cassils at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts BOMB Magazine Oct 22, 2017 Art historian David Getsy writes extensively about the ways in which abstract forms have been utilized by queer and trans artists to express a queer “stance,” i.e., a way of being in the world and being in relation to others “without recourse to the representation of bodies,” as he phrases it in “Appearing Differently: Abstraction’s Transgender and Queer Capacities,” a [conversation](http://www.artic.edu/~dgetsy/Publications-Files/Publications2-Articles/Getsy-Appearing%20Differently-2015.pdf) between him and William J. Simmons. “Recourse to representation” references the demands made of trans people in their art, walking down the street, and in a courtroom: demands for legible bodily representation, for surveilling eyes to know their “biological” bodies, essences, or truths—whatever the hell that means. Straight-up representation of the body is not the only expressive tactic and often not the best one; maybe manifestations of “stance” can do more. Artist and performer Cassils formally builds their “stance” out of glass, bronze, clay, gold paint, and fire. But a refusal of an easily legible body representation does not mean these works are not infused and saturated with the bodily: the glass orbs hung from the ceiling of Cassil’s current exhibition, *MONUMENTAL*, at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts are filled with their actual breaths; a large glass cube at the center of the exhibition holds their yellow-orange urine; and a bronzed clay tower registers the marks of their fingers and toes. Photo and video documentation of the body-based making of these abstracted forms hangs on the surrounding walls. What is and isn’t “bodily” here is not so clear. What makes a “queer form” is not so clear. **[Read more here](http://bombmagazine.org/article/87501016/recalibrating-sense-cassils-at-ronald-feldman-fine-arts)** Related News & Press Sep 15, 2017 [ ![Cassils 200 Days Thumbnail](/assets/exhibition_images/Cassils-200-days-thumbnail.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017-cassils-huffington-post) Sep 15, 2017 Huffington Post [Cassils](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/cassils) [Why This Artist Has Been Saving His Urine For The Last 200 Days](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017-cassils-huffington-post) Sep 26, 2017 [ ![Cassils Fountain Performance Still 6](/assets/exhibition_images/Cassils-Fountain-Performance-Still_6.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017-out-magazine-cassils) Sep 26, 2017 Out Magazine [Cassils](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/cassils) [Queer Artist Collected 200 Gallons of Urine to Protest](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017-out-magazine-cassils) Oct 17, 2017 [ Cassils on VICE News Tonight ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017-cassils-vice-news) Oct 17, 2017 VICE News Tonight [Cassils](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/cassils) [Trans Artist Collected 200 Gallons of Urine to Protest Trump](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017-cassils-vice-news) Oct 16, 2017 [ ![Cassils Becoming An Image Performance Stil No 5 Pennsylvania Academy Of Fine Arts Historic Casting Hall 2016](/assets/exhibition_images/Cassils/2017-MONUMENTAL/Cassils-Becoming-an-Image-Performance-Stil-No.-5-Pennsylvania-Academy-of-Fine-Arts-Historic-Casting-Hall-2016.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017-cassils-artsy) Oct 16, 2017 Artsy [Cassils](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/cassils) [Trans and Queer Artists Are Challenging Notions of Strength](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017-cassils-artsy) [See All Press ](https://feldmangallery.com/news_overview) Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. 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