March 23 – June 18, 2024
Parallel Worlds
A solo art show featuring maria-lucilia gorre, presented by Fleetwood SF
DECEMBER 7 – JANUARY 26, 2024
Deck the Walls
A Benefit Art Show for the Understudy Program, co-curated by 540 Rogues, Fleetwood SF, and The Drawing Room
SEPTEMBER 16 – OCTOBER 22, 2023
The Avenues
Presented by The Drawing Room
The Drawing Room invited Bay area artists who live and/or work in San Francisco’s vibrant Richmond District, OR whose work is centered on the Richmond, to submit works for a fall 2023 exhibition, THE AVENUES.
As an artist who has lived and worked in the Inner Richmond for over 8 years, I have experienced firsthand the web of interconnectedness that makes this place distinct. Despite the hardships of the past few years, there is a strong bond between the people who live and work here. It seems quieter and sturdier compared to other neighborhoods in the city, with an optimism and diversity that glows beneath the surface. This image was created using natural fibers and thread, symbolizing the intangible strings that connect us all.
May 20 – july 15, 2023
Formations
Nancy Cook fellowship I, 2022-2023
Slide Space 123, Mills College at Northeastern University
Kellen Bank, Laura Deangelis, Maria-Lucilia Gorre, Isabela Reyes-Klein
As she completed her MFA, artist Maria-Lucilia Gorre was wrestling with change both personal and cultural. Seeking to find templates for impermanence and cyclical change—seasonal, yearly, and at geological time scales—Gorre spent time in the desert landscapes of two Western National Parks, Joshua Tree in Southern California, and Saguaro National Park in Pima County, Arizona. Saguaro is famously home to the petroglyphs of the Hohokam people who predate written history. Both representational and abstract, the ancient etched drawings they left behind on the desert varnish include spiral forms that Gorre uses as an emblem of cyclical change and non-linear time, both of which can inform and provide perspective in our present day.
The artist invites viewers to walk with her through the macro- and micro- landscapes and patterns of the desert, an ecosystem that invites close looking, and one in which extravagantly intricate structures and small dramas of decay and renewal can too easily be overlooked. Her images—accompanied by a soundscape and the artist’s written impressions of her walks—were created as risographs that will begin to fade over the duration of the exhibition, transformed by ambient UV light in the gallery.
Written by Deirdre Visser
Photographs by Michael Halberstadt
April 30 – May 29, 2022
NINE: Through the Void
2022 MILLS College MFA exhibition
Mills College Art Museum, Mills College at Northeastern University
Shelley Carlisle, Mittie Cuetara, Shuriya Davis, Maria-Lucilia Gorre, Markus Kager, Hannah Pozen, Ambrose Prince, Kelsey Rae Thomas, Pat Woolf
For my thesis exhibition at Mills College, I wanted to capture the intimate, ephemeral moments that put us in connection with something bigger than ourselves. Combining line, light, color, and sound, I created works and experiences that reflected the sensory energy of change, growth, and transition. My process involved rituals that allowed for somatic listening: drawing with string, allowing gravity to determine the direction of my pen, living in-between impulse and intention, structure and chaos. Attempting to find harmony between nature and technology, I worked with both physical materials and digital tools as a way to reflect the duality and complexity of modern humanity.
