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.
