CURRENT WORK
Rosenberg Gallery | Goucher College
Baltimore, MD
IF UR LOST
November 2025 - January 2026
The Goucher Art Galleries is proud to present IF UR LOST, a solo exhibition by Baltimore-based artist Dara Lorenzo, on view in the Rosenberg Gallery from November 13, 2025, through January 31, 2026.
IF UR LOST continues Lorenzo’s investigation into how deeply private reflections—self-doubt, anxiety, longing, embarrassment—become shared experiences through art. Her process-driven works embrace vulnerability, exposing the fragments of inner dialogue and lived memory that shape how we navigate the world. In this exhibition, silence collides with laughter, fear with bravery, solitude with communion: an echo of what it means to exist among others in the city, in ritual, and in fleeting, fragile moments of human connection.
Through her layered, experimental printmaking practice, Lorenzo explores the fragile terrain of memory, self-discovery, and human connection. Combining photogravure, monotype, and chine-collé techniques, she weaves together personal photographic archives, handwritten diaries, and fragments of her book collection to create works that blur the line between image and text, presence and absence, memory and forgetting.
Atrium Artspace, Baltimore, MD
LAYERS OF CONNECTION
November 2025
Layers of Connection offers a captivating exploration of texture, place, past, and genuine friendship as seen through the lenses of Dara Lorenzo and Alfonso Fernandez. By weaving together diverse themes and artistic practices, this exhibition invites viewers on a transformative journey, encouraging them to discover the profound beauty in shared human experiences and the depth of connections formed through art and friendship.
Alfonso Fernandez is a Baltimore-based visual artist whose evocative creations traverse the delicate intersection of culture, identity, and historical narratives.
Hamilton Gallery, Baltimore, MD
TRACES
2024
"Traces" continues the artist's investigation into self-discovery and mutual connections between people within the currents of our society. This work links memories, sentimentalism, expressions
of empathy, torment, and self-reflection through the process of making art.
The artist ponders over a lifetime of collected photographic images in spaces revisited and in her current situation. The looming presence of an obsession with understanding one's existence through the artist's perspective is conveyed through a multi-layered printmaking process including photogravure, monotype, and chin-coll'e combined.
Lorenzo compiles photo montages with both her personal photographs and written diaries in a layered dialogue through the printing press. The use of old personal notes and torn pages of her own book collection reveals hard truths of an inner dialogue about private, personal haunting feelings. Emotions like self-doubt, embarrassment, and anxiety are exposed through the artwork's storyboard. This visual collection of time and memory characterizes for the artist what it is to question one's own temporality thoughtfully.
SAD SOCIETY
2024
A Collection of mixed media, collage and printmaking process.
DE-TOUR
2023
PORTALS
2023
KNUCKLEHEADS
2020
Dara Lorenzo and Writer Timmy Reed have been friends since they were fourteen years old and this is their first time collaborating for a gallery show. Knuckleheads is a showcase celebrating love and old friendship while at play exploring the often chaotic world that can be life in their grimy, beloved hometown, Baltimore City. The pieces in the show represent the mixed emotions that fill the city and the artists’ personal lives: Abstraction versus clarity, textual narrative, loud statements, wild afternoons, joy, vandalism, and, hopefully, empathy. They aim to bring the audience into a world of alleys, bridges, parks, and stoops full of potential, excitement, and humor, as well as frequent depression and despair. It is also just life. It is just for fun. Hey, You Knuckleheads! (T. Reed 2020)
COURSE OF ACTION
2019
"Course of Action" is a collaborative series between abstract painter Mario Navasero and Dara Lorenzo. This work embodies the urge to make work that artists experience when having a creative block or just trying to alter their style. The idea reflects “What’s next?"
Dara and Mario taught each other about their processes and worked on some pieces together and independently. The series consists of mixed media, carving acrylic paint, multiple intaglio processes, and relief. They illustrate the improvisation each artist experiences while reacting to the others' mark-making.
SOUL SONG PARALYTIC
2017 - 18
Soul Song is a collaboration with Saint Solitude’s musical album: Soul Song Paralytic. Dup Crossen, the song-writer and lyricist called on Dara to make visual art representing the songs on the album. For two years, Saint Solitude performed throughout Oakland and San Francisco in multiple galleries and venues with the work displayed. Dara made new pieces to add to the narrative during that time. It was a living, growing, changing experience.
The band also made a music video for one of the songs on the album called: Radio Silence. The work reflects the paralyzing emotions of grief and trying to make way to a stage of acceptance. It depicts the back and forth in one’s mind about the memories we struggle to let go of in our lives and the people.
Check out the links for an experience of the shows and videos.
HELLA OAKLAND
2016
“Hella Oakland” was a period of self- investigation and solitude. The work process was a time of discovery and soul searching. I took a lot of risks and had many breakthroughs. I was transparent about my emotions and reactions to everyday objects in my path. Each piece is a narrative that relates to the next, and mimics moments that I had every day like in a film. The thoughts that I had when looking at these places on a constant meander was poetic for me. Graffiti and the street art in Oakland were motivations. I found myself attached to the street during this process. It uses photo-etching print process, viscosity and collage through the press.
