She invited them to offer a gallery space to important activists working in Chicago today. While planning this exhibition, Andrea Bowers met with the Teen Creative Agency (TCA), the MCA’s cultural leadership program for Chicago teens.
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Within the Andrea Bowers exhibition, Centro Sin Fronteras is presenting objects selected from their archive and a history of their work.
The organization’s goal is to bring attention and justice to workers who were treated unfairly due to a lack of formal representation within the justice system.
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Bowers ultimately made a series of artworks based on their work with Arellano. In 2007, Andrea Bowers documented and spent time with Elvira Arellano and Pastor Emma Lozano, two Chicago activists who worked with Centro Sin Fronteras, of a Chicago-based grassroots activist organization located in Humboldt Park. This exhibition includes contributions from two Chicago-based organizations, Centro Sin Fronteras and A Long Walk Home. It is presented in the Griffin Galleries of Contemporary Art on the museum's fourth floor. Alsdorf Chief Curator at the MCA, and Connie Butler, Chief Curator at The Hammer Museum. The former is a large-scale sculpture based on her involvement with tree-sitting activists protesting the destruction of old-growth trees in California the latter is a video that features Tokata Iron Eyes, a young Indigenous rights activist whose ancestral lands have been threatened by the Dakota Access Pipeline project.Īndrea Bowers is co-organized by Michael Darling, former James W. These two works, both focused on issues related to environmental justice, highlight the range of mediums employed by the artist. Highlights of the exhibition include Memorial to Arcadia Woodlands Clear-Cut (2013) and My Name Means Future (2020). This is the first museum retrospective surveying over two decades of Bowers's practice.
Her subject matter contends with issues like immigration rights, workers’ rights, climate justice, women’s rights, and more, illustrating the shared pursuit of justice that connects these issues. She built an international reputation as a chronicler of contemporary history, documenting activism as it unfolds and collecting research on the frontlines of protest through an empathetic and labor-intensive practice. Her work combines an artistic practice with activism and advocacy, speaking to deeply entrenched social and political inequities as well as the generations of activists working to create a fairer and more just world.īorn in Wilmington, Ohio, Bowers received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 1992 and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Bowers works in a variety of mediums, from video to colored pencil to installation art, and explores pressing national and international issues. (274.32 x 198.12 x 12.7 cm)Ĭourtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angelesįor over thirty years, multidisciplinary visual artist Andrea Bowers (American, b. Andrea Bowers ”Can You Think of Any Laws that Give Government the Power to Make Decisions About the Male Body? Quote by Kamala Harris During Brett Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Hearing in 2018, (Frontispiece by Unknown Illustrator from Les Femmes Illustres, Ou, Les Harangues Heroïques, by Madeleine de Scudéry, Published by Chez Antoine de Sommaville & Augustin Courbé, Paris, 1644),” 2020 108 x 78 x 5 in.
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