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Rachel Gorman

New Orleans, Louisiana

This video still for Burial Shroud for the Last of a Line (Family Quilt) shows a quilt pinned to a clothesline with fourteen clothespins along one narrow end. Objects or designs appear densely spaced across a band near the top of the quilt. Neon-green fringe crosses the middle, and red, pink or black rectangles are against white cloth in the bottom half. The quilt hangs in a grassy field, where a person wearing all white in the distance is outlined against the clear blue sky.

Burial Shroud for the Last of a Line (Family Quilt)

2025

Alien Tourist T-Shirt #2

2023

This view of the MicroNature Station shows a clear round object behind a piece of moss on a little platform. Below, a glass panel opens our view into seemingly countless wires in a yellow-glowing box.

MicroNature Station

2023

A person stands on a low platform that acts as the base of this MicroNature Station installation piece. The base and pedestal that rise up from it are lit from within and act as the only light sources. The pedestal flares outward and holds a bean-shaped, clear object. The person stands barefoot on a sheet of brown, perhaps organic, material. The person wears headphones and reaches one hand out to touch the bean-shaped object.

MicroNature Station

2023

Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.

About Rachel Gorman

Rachel Gorman is a white woman with shoulder-length brown hair swept up and over her forehead. She looks off to our right and wears green eyeliner and a white button-down shirt under a magenta-pink sweater.

Rachel Gorman is an award-winning artist and speculative designer based in New Orleans, LA. Her practice explores the embodied experience of possible futures, combining research, imagination, sustainable materials, bodily sensation, and creative technology to create immersive installations and artifacts that provoke reflection and dialogue. She holds an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design and is the co-founder of Through Studio, a design lab and consultancy that uses speculative frameworks and emerging biotechnologies to address global environmental challenges and envision more sustainable futures. Rachel is also an active member of The Front, a contemporary art gallery and artist-run collective in New Orleans.

Program Participation

Joan Mitchell Center Residency, 2026

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“ I’m drawn to how humans perceive and separate the ‘natural’ from the ‘artificial’ and themselves. Working across digital and analog media, I seek to blur boundaries between the organic and the synthetic, the emotional and the technological.”