Andrea Bowers
Andrea Bowers
Ecofeminist Sycamore Branch, Honor Earth (CalArts 50+50), 2022
39 (wide) x 21.5 (tall) x around 6 (deep) inches, with transformer on floor below (variable dims) Oxidized Steel, Neon (green and clear blue), and recycled tube supports
Edition of 10 with 4 APs
Produced for CalArts by Lisa Ivorian-Jones
In beautiful contemplation of nature’s fragility and resilience, artist Andrea Bowers has generously created a new domestic scale sculpture edition, Ecofeminist Sycamore Branch, Honor Earth (CalArts 50+50), 2022 for CalArts’ 50+50. The words Honor Earth, arrested mid-air in a limpid blue neon script, stand above delicately poised sycamore leaves of interwoven steel and neon green.
Made entirely of reused and recycled materials, Ecofeminist Sycamore Branch, Honor Earth (CalArts 50+50), 2022 continues the artist’s series of sculptures which are based on the designs of tree branches, and are made in response to the current climate emergency. Incorporating quotes from eco-feminists, inspired by Judi Bari and the Earth First! call to action, “Resist Reuse Restore”, the works stand as urgent appeals by the artist to take care of the irreplaceable planet that is our home, and upon which we fully depend.
Andrea Bowers is currently enjoying a retrospective show at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, which recently traveled from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. She has had solo shows at the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; Bronx Museum, New York; Espace Cultural Louis Vuitton, Paris; Pomona and Pitzer College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA; Vienna Secession, Austria, and the Power Plant, Toronto. Her work has recently been included in group exhibitions at the Berkeley Art Museum (2021); MCA Denver (2020); the Walker Art Center (2020); and Migros Museum, Zurich (2019). Bowers’ work is held in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.; MOCA Los Angeles and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Bowers has an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts.