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Don’t Miss Artist and Otis Faculty Member Andrea Bowers’s Retrospective at The Hammer

Andrea Bowers’s retrospective at The Hammer opened on Friday, June 24, just after the Supreme Court released its decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, putting in stark relief the importance of her work, which centers feminist activism at its core.

BFA Fine Arts Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Andrea Bowers

Andrea Bowers (b. 1965 in Wilmington, OH) received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, and her BFA from Bowling Green State University, OH. Over the last 23 years, she has built an international reputation for her drawings, videos, and installations, which deal with social issues ranging from womens’ and workers’ rights to climate change and immigration. She lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

Otis College Fine Arts Senior Lecturer Andrea Bowers Profiled in The New York Times

The text below is excerpted from “Andrea Bowers: Her Activism Animates Her Art” By Siddhartha Mitter, which was published by The New York Times on November 30, 2021. 

LOS ANGELES — The artist Andrea Bowers is a workaholic who, during the depths of the pandemic, was happy to bunker in her studio here and spend hundreds of hours making a single photorealistic drawing of, say, a protester for fair wages or climate justice.