--- title: 2018_Cassils_MOCA date: 2018-09-18T13:08:00-04:00 author: Cat Zhou canonical_url: "https://feldmangallery.com/news/2018/2018-cassils-moca" 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 [ 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[Cassils](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/cassils) BLESSED BE: MYSTICISM, SPIRITUALITY, AND THE OCCULT IN CONTEMPORARY ART Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, Arizona Sep 14, 2018 Cassils: Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, Arizona The Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson (MOCA Tucson) is pleased to present *Blessed Be: Mysticism, Spirituality, and the Occult in Contemporary Art*, a curated exhibition by Ginger Shulick Porcella exploring religion, ritual, cult mentality, and the human impulse to belong and participate, as viewed through the lens of cultural production. This exhibition examines the relationship between “cult” and “culture” and how the museum space, like sites of worship, are places for sustained, concentrated attention and contemplation. *Blessed Be* links spiritual practice to artistic production, raising questions about the liminal spaces that exist between the sacred and the prosaic, celebrating these renowned contemporary artists and visionaries. The exhibition reveals the performance behind the ritual, and as such *Blessed Be* is an evolving exhibition, activated throughout the course of the show through a full series of lectures, screenings, and performances. Themes explored in the exhibition include the power of language, sometimes as veiled or coded symbols (as in the work of Christopher Carrol or BREYER P-ORRIDGE); the sublime (as experienced through some of the more monumental and immersive works such as Cassils’ *Ghost* or Leo Villareal’s *Signature of the Invisible);* and ways that we can leave behind the here and now to go beyond what we previously thought was mentally or physically possible to explore the deeper mysteries of the universe (as in Adam Cooper-Terán’s site of ritual or in Matthew Day Jackson’s satirical *In Search of…Lost Civilizations*). Ultimately, *Blessed Be* evokes the inexpressible through both form and aesthetics, unveiling the divine aspects that can be found in even the most mundane activities to transform the museum into a sacred space for contemplation, empathy, revelation, global understanding, and transcendence. **[Read more here.](https://moca-tucson.org/exhibition/blessed-be-mysticism-spirituality-and-the-occult-in-contemporary-art/)** Related News & Press Sep 17, 2018 [ ![Installation View](/assets/exhibition_images/installation-view_180918_171217.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2018/2018-ukeles-hyperallergic) Sep 17, 2018 HyperAllergic [Mierle Laderman Ukeles](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/mierle-laderman-ukeles) [Social Practice Queens Combines Art and Social Action in Unique Graduate Programs](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2018/2018-ukeles-hyperallergic) Sep 16, 2018 [ ![Ballengee Rip Audubons Bighorn Sheep After John James Audubon 2016 Red](/assets/exhibition_images/Ballengee-RIP-Audubons-Bighorn-Sheep-After-John-James-Audubon-2016_Red.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2018/2018-ballengee-nrdc) Sep 16, 2018 NRDC [Brandon Ballengée](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/brandon-balleng%C3%A9e) [NRDC Spotlights Decline of Biodiversity at EXPO CHICAGO with Frameworks of Absence by Artist and Biologist Brandon Ballengée](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2018/2018-ballengee-nrdc) Apr 05, 2026 [ ![Img 3300](/assets/exhibition_images/IMG_3300.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2018/wexler-2018-dans-papers) Apr 05, 2026 Dan's Papers [Allan Wexler](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/allan-wexler) [A NEW WAVE OF ARCHITECTURE ON THE NORTH FORK](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2018/wexler-2018-dans-papers) Sep 06, 2018 [ ![Portrait Of Hn Harrison Photo Copyright Peggy Jarrell Kaplan 1985](/assets/exhibition_images/Portrait-of-HN-Harrison-Photo-copyright-Peggy-Jarrell-Kaplan-1985_180912_211856.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2018/harrison-2018-hyperallergic) Sep 06, 2018 Hyperallergic [Helen Mayer & Newton Harrison](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/helen-mayer-harrison-newton-harrison) [Taipei Biennial 2018 Announces Participating List](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2018/harrison-2018-hyperallergic) [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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