Exhibition

Each Word Draws a Line: In collaboration with Sergio De La Torre

March 1 – April 18, 2027

Thacher Gallery at the University of San Francisco

An exhibition featuring 15 years of collaborations between Sergio De La Torre and artists, activists, and communities

A bronze life size sculpture of a sneaker-clad foot wearing an ankle monitor.

Thacher Gallery at the University of San Francisco

2130 Fulton StreetSan Francisco, CA 94117

Thacher Gallery is located in the University of San Francisco Gleeson Library-Gescke Center. Ring the bell for entry.

Monday–Sunday  12 p.m.–6 p.m.

Free

ADA Accessible

Each Word Draws a Line features fifteen years of collaborations between Sergio De La Torre and artists, activists, and communities. The exhibition brings together photographs, text-based works, videos, and sculptures—both soft and hard—to trace lines of connection and resistance, mapping how language, image, and form can mark, disrupt, and reimagine the spaces we inhabit.

Sergio De La Torre has worked with and documented the multiple ways in which citizens reinvent themselves in the city they inhabit, as well as site-specific strategies they deploy to move in and out of modernity. These works have appeared in the 10th Istanbul Biennial; Bienal Barro de América; Cleveland Performance Art Festival; Atelier Frankfurt; Centro Cultural Tijuana; YBCA; Tribeca Film Festival; and El Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia. Sergio De La Torre is a professor of Fine Arts at the University of San Francisco.

Exhibiting Artists

Sergio De La Torre

Driver holding up a sign _Maurizio Cattelan_ at an airport.
Neon sign with the words: Undocumented Unafraid.
Warehouse like space with banners hanging from pillars. First banner reads: Abolish ICE.

Sergio De La Torre, Waiting for Cattelan, from the series Drivers, 2009. Color photograph, 22 x 26 in. Courtesy of the artist

Thacher Gallery at the University of San Francisco

Located in Gleeson Library, the Mary and Carter Thacher Gallery is a crossroads where creativity, scholarship, and community converge. Featuring art from California, we present emerging artists, Bay Area icons, and collections to explore aesthetics, stimulate dialogue, and promote social justice.

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