Andrea Bowers

  • Andrea Bowers, Femme Trans-Corporeal Fantasy (Leaping Fae), 2023

    Andrea Bowers

    Femme Trans-Corporeal Fantasy (Leaping Fae), 2023
    Acrylic on cardboard
    121.9 x 57.9 x 8.9 cm
    48 x 22.8 x 3.5 inches
     
    This collaged cardboard work by Andrea Bowers is one in a series of joyful meanderings on the artist's continued interest in eco-feminism, queer ecology, and magical fiction. The image depicts a fem-fae figure at the scale of a hummingbird leaping through a giant mound of blooming, native California plants and flowers.
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  • Andrea Bowers, Chandeliers of Interconnectedness (Women Still Dream, Quote by Susan Griffin), 2023

    Andrea Bowers

    Chandeliers of Interconnectedness (Women Still Dream, Quote by Susan Griffin), 2023
    Steel, neon and fused glass
    94 x 75 x 61 cm
    37 x 29.5 x 24 inches
     

    For her recent exhibition with Mary Weatherford titled Drink the Wild Air, Andrea Bowers produced a new grouping of Chandeliers of Interconnectedness. These sculptures are based on actual sycamore branches and consist of five hanging pieces made of welded, recycled steel. They feature representations of leaves fabricated from steel rods, non-toxic neon, and now recycled glass, in collaboration with Judson Studios, the oldest family-run stained glass company in America. Each chandelier incorporates lines of poetry and prose by the playwright and radical feminist philosopher Susan Griffin, whose words have been moving us with her celebration of the survival of women and nature since 1978.

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  • Installation view: Dear Earth: Art and Hope in a Time of Crisis, Hayward Gallery, London, 2023
    Installation view: Dear Earth: Art and Hope in a Time of Crisis, Hayward Gallery, London, 2023

  • Chandeliers of Interconnectedness by Andrea Bowers were part of the exhibition Dear Earth: Art and Hope in a Time of Crisis at Hayward Gallery, London, earlier this year. Works from the series are also part of the group show Dawn of Humanity: Art in Periods of Upheaval,  on view at the Kunstmuseum Bonn through February 18, 2024.

  • Installation view: Andrea Bowers, Moving in Space Withouth Asking Permission, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan, 2022
    Installation view: Andrea Bowers, Moving in Space Withouth Asking Permission, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan, 2022
  • Andrea Bowers

    Andrea Bowers

    Born 1965 in Wilmington, OH

    Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

     

    Over the last 20 years Andrea Bowers has gained an international reputation as an artist and social activist. For Bowers, political engagement and artistic expression are inseparable. Her practice, which includes drawings, videos and installations, addresses a wide range of relevant socio-political issues from women’s and worker’s rights and the arms industry, to immigration politics and the climate crisis. Storytelling is integral to the work, and part of her activism consists of highlighting the narratives of resistance and rebellion.

     

    Over the last 20 years Andrea Bowers has gained an international reputation as an artist and social activist. For Bowers, political engagement and artistic expression are inseparable. Her practice, which includes drawings, videos and installations, addresses a wide range of relevant socio-political issues from women’s and worker’s rights and the arms industry, to immigration politics and the climate crisis. Storytelling is integral to the work, and part of her activism consists of highlighting the narratives of resistance and rebellion.

     

     

    Bowers has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Galleria d’Arte Moderna Milano in collaboration with Fondazione Furla, Milan (2022); The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2022); Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2021/2022); Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach (2020); Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen (2019/2020); Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (2017); Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris (2014); Wiener Secession, Vienna (2007); and The Power Plant, Toronto (2007). Bowers has exhibited internationally in biennials and major institutional group exhibitions, including Kunstmuseum Bonn (2023); Hayward Gallery, London (2023); Kunstmueum Ravensburg (2023); Kuntsmuseum Wolfsburg (2022); Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2022); Berkeley Art Museum (2021); Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2021); Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf (2020); Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2018); Documenta 14, Fridericianum, Kassel (2017); Triennale Milano, Milan (2017); Aspen Art Museum (2016); and Albertina, Vienna (2015). Bowers’ work is held in the collections of The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; MoMA, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among others.