--- title: 2017_Cassils_Broadly date: 2017-12-21T15:19:19-05:00 author: Cat Zhou canonical_url: "https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-cassils-broadly" section: News --- [![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg)](/) ![](/src/images/search.svg) View Artists Search Artists [Exhibitions](/feature_exhibitions) [Past Exhibitions](/past_exhibitions/) [Artists](/artist_overview) [News & Press](/news_overview) [Inventory](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery/artists) [Publications](/feature_publications) [Gallery Info](/about) [Contact](/contact) [![Facebook](/src/images/fb.svg)](https://www.facebook.com/RonaldFeldmanGallery/) [![Instagram](/src/images/ig.svg)](https://www.instagram.com/feldmangallery/) [![Twitter](/src/images/tw.svg)](https://twitter.com/feldmangallery?lang=en) [Artsy](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery) [Artnet](http://www.artnet.com/galleries/ronald-feldman-fine-arts/) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg)Artists [ View With Images ](/artist_overview) Jump to: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A [ Arakawa ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/arakawa-) [ Conrad Atkinson ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/conrad-atkinson) [ Eleanor Antin ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/eleanor-antin) [ Ida Applebroog ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/ida-applebroog-) [ Jim Anderson ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/jim-anderson-) B [ Alexander Brodsky ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/alexander-brodsky) [ Brandon Ballengée ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/brandon-balleng%C3%A9e) [ Brodsky & Utkin ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/brodsky-utkin) [ Chris Burden ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/chris-burden-) [ Joseph Beuys ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/joseph-beuys) C [ Cassils ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/cassils) [ Keith Cottingham ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/keith-cottingham) [ Nancy Chunn 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](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/richard-ross) S [ Diemut Strebe ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/diemut-strebe) [ Edwin Schlossberg ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/edwin-schlossberg) [ Federico Solmi ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/federico-solmi-) [ Jason Salavon ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/jason-salavon) [ Todd Siler ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/todd-siler) U [ Mierle Laderman Ukeles ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/mierle-laderman-ukeles) V [ Sam Van Aken ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/sam-van-aken) W [ Allan Wexler ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/allan-wexler) [ Andy Warhol ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/andy-warhol) [ Clemens Weiss ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/clemens-weiss) [ Hannah Wilke ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/hannah-wilke) Y [ Gil Yefman ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/gil-yefman) [ ![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg) ](/) [Cassils](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/cassils) 2017s Breakout Artists Brought Marginalized Identity to the Fore Broadly Dec 20, 2017 On February 23—the day on which Trump repealed the Obama-implemented order that allowed trans students to use the bathroom that aligns with their gender identity—LA-based artist Cassils began peeing solely into gallon-size jugs. The performance required the artist, who is trans, to hold their bladder at times, as trans teens at school are often forced to do. After collecting 200 gallons (most of which was stored across LA in various friends’ refrigerators), the artist shipped the urine to New York City and transformed it into a sculpture, pouring it into a glass cube. The golden, glowing block became the centerpiece of *[](http://cassils.net/uncategorized/announcing-cassils-monumental/)[Monumental](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/330-monumental-cassils-9-16-10-28-2017)*, the artist’s solo show at Ronald Feldman Gallery this fall. The performance was only the most recent manifestation of the artist’s involved practice reflecting on the body as itself a kind of sculpture shaped by violence, social pressures, and personal identity. **[Read more here](https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/ne4npx/2017s-breakout-artists-brought-marginalized-identity-to-the-fore)** Related News & Press Oct 17, 2017 [ Cassils on VICE News Tonight ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-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/2017/2017-cassils-vice-news) Oct 22, 2017 [ ![Cassils Encapsulated Breaths 2017 4](/assets/exhibition_images/Cassils-Encapsulated-Breaths-2017_4.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-cassils-bomb) Oct 22, 2017 BOMB Magazine [Cassils](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/cassils) [Recalibrating Sense: Cassils at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-cassils-bomb) Sep 14, 2017 [ ![Cassils Pissed 2017 Detail](/assets/exhibition_images/Cassils/2017-MONUMENTAL/Cassils-Pissed-2017_Detail.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-cassils-nytimes) Sep 14, 2017 New York Times [Cassils](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/cassils) [Gender-Fluid Artists Come Out of the Gray Zone](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-cassils-nytimes) 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/2017/2017-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/2017/2017-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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