Andrea Bowers
The Dead Silence of Extinction (Maui Akepa, last confirmed sighting 1988, HI, scientific specimen preserved at Naturalis Biodiversity Center), 2023
Graphite and soft pastel on paper
Paper dimensions:
38.1 x 56.9 cm / 15 x 22.4 inches
Framed dimensions:
44.2 x 62.9 cm / 17.4 x 24.8 inches
38.1 x 56.9 cm / 15 x 22.4 inches
Framed dimensions:
44.2 x 62.9 cm / 17.4 x 24.8 inches
B-ABOWERS-.23-0009
Continuing her practice of making memorials of loss, Bowers has meticulously created 2 new works on paper from the series, 'The Dead Silence of Extinction'. These are highly realist drawings...
Continuing her practice of making memorials of loss, Bowers has meticulously created 2 new works on paper from the series, 'The Dead Silence of Extinction'. These are highly realist drawings of tagged, taxidermied birds that have been recently declared extinct.
"I am interested in trying to become really conscious of eco-grief. A bird goes extinct, and we feel it, everybody does, but you push it away and you don’t remember. If we would remember the grief, we would take better care of the interconnectedness around us."
- Andrea Bowers
"I am interested in trying to become really conscious of eco-grief. A bird goes extinct, and we feel it, everybody does, but you push it away and you don’t remember. If we would remember the grief, we would take better care of the interconnectedness around us."
- Andrea Bowers
Exhibitions
Andrea Bowers and Mary Weatherford, Drink the Wild Air, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2023