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Andrea Bowers

Installation view of Andrea Bowers, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, June 19–September 4, 2022. Photo: Charles White.
Installation view of Andrea Bowers, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, June 19–September 4, 2022. Photo: Charles White.
Andrea Bowers
Credits

Organized by, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Curated by, Connie Butler & Michael Darling

Curatorial assistant, Nika Chilewich

Exhibition photography, Charles White / JWPictures.com

Images, Courtesy of the artists and the exhibition photographer, Charles White / JWPictures.com.

Date

Jun 19 - Sep 4, 2022

Location

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California

2022
Installation view of Andrea Bowers, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, June 19–September 4, 2022. Photo: Charles White.
Installation view of Andrea Bowers, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, June 19–September 4, 2022. Photo: Charles White.
Andrea Bowers, Radical Feminist Pirate Ship Tree Sitting platform, 2013. Recycled wood, rope, carabiners, misc. equipment and supplies. 80 × 294 × 60 in. Collection of Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann Collection, Herzogenrath, Germany.
Andrea Bowers, Radical Feminist Pirate Ship Tree Sitting platform, 2013. Recycled wood, rope, carabiners, misc. equipment and supplies. 80 × 294 × 60 in. Collection of Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann Collection, Herzogenrath, Germany.
Installation view of Andrea Bowers, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, June 19–September 4, 2022. Photo: Charles White.
Installation view of Andrea Bowers, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, June 19–September 4, 2022. Photo: Charles White.
Andrea Bowers, Ecofeminist Sycamore Branches: If We Don’t Do the Impossible, We Shall Be Faced With the Unthinkable, 2020. Steel, neon tubing, recycled transformers. 118 × 92 in. Courtesy of the Artist and the Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland.
Andrea Bowers, Ecofeminist Sycamore Branches: If We Don’t Do the Impossible, We Shall Be Faced With the Unthinkable, 2020. Steel, neon tubing, recycled transformers. 118 × 92 in. Courtesy of the Artist and the Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland.
Installation view of Andrea Bowers, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, June 19–September 4, 2022. Photo: Charles White.
Installation view of Andrea Bowers, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, June 19–September 4, 2022. Photo: Charles White.
Andrea Bowers, My name means future, 2020 (still). HD video, color, sound. 51 min. Courtesy of the Artist and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York.
Andrea Bowers, My name means future, 2020 (still). HD video, color, sound. 51 min. Courtesy of the Artist and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York.
Andrea Bowers, Disarm Rapists (Original illustration, “Disarm Rapists / Smash Sexism,” by Betsy Warrior, 1971), 2017. Acrylic marker on cardboard. 108 × 112 × 6 in. Private collection, Toronto, Canada. Photo: Jeff McLane.
Andrea Bowers, Disarm Rapists (Original illustration, “Disarm Rapists / Smash Sexism,” by Betsy Warrior, 1971), 2017. Acrylic marker on cardboard. 108 × 112 × 6 in. Private collection, Toronto, Canada. Photo: Jeff McLane.
Installation view of Andrea Bowers, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, June 19–September 4, 2022. Photo: Charles White.
Installation view of Andrea Bowers, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, June 19–September 4, 2022. Photo: Charles White.
Andrea Bowers, Church Banners (Adalberto United Methodist Church, Chicago, Member of New Sanctuary Movement), 2007/2008. Color pencil on paper. Diptych; each 50 × 74 in. Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles. Photo: Robert Wedemeyer.
Andrea Bowers, Church Banners (Adalberto United Methodist Church, Chicago, Member of New Sanctuary Movement), 2007/2008. Color pencil on paper. Diptych; each 50 × 74 in. Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles. Photo: Robert Wedemeyer.
Installation view of Andrea Bowers, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, June 19–September 4, 2022. Photo: Charles White.
Installation view of Andrea Bowers, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, June 19–September 4, 2022. Photo: Charles White.
Andrea Bowers, Community or Chaos, 2016. Aluminium, cardboard, paint, and neon. 36 ¼ × 47 ¾ × 7 in. McEvoy Foundation for the Arts.
Andrea Bowers, Community or Chaos, 2016. Aluminium, cardboard, paint, and neon. 36 ¼ × 47 ¾ × 7 in. McEvoy Foundation for the Arts.
Installation view of Andrea Bowers, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, June 19–September 4, 2022. Photo: Charles White.
Installation view of Andrea Bowers, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, June 19–September 4, 2022. Photo: Charles White.
Andrea Bowers, Letters to an Army of Three, 2005. Photocopies and decorative wrapping paper. 24 × 18 in. Collection of Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann Collection.
Andrea Bowers, Letters to an Army of Three, 2005. Photocopies and decorative wrapping paper. 24 × 18 in. Collection of Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann Collection.
Installation view of Andrea Bowers, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, June 19–September 4, 2022. Photo: Charles White.
Installation view of Andrea Bowers, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, June 19–September 4, 2022. Photo: Charles White.
Andrea Bowers, Trans Liberation: Beauty in the Street (Johanna Wallace) (in collaboration with Ada Tinnell), 2016. Archival pigment print. 95 ¾ × 59 ¼ in. Courtesy of the artists and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York.
Andrea Bowers, Trans Liberation: Beauty in the Street (Johanna Wallace) (in collaboration with Ada Tinnell), 2016. Archival pigment print. 95 ¾ × 59 ¼ in. Courtesy of the artists and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York.
Installation view of Andrea Bowers, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, June 19–September 4, 2022. Photo: Charles White.
Installation view of Andrea Bowers, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, June 19–September 4, 2022. Photo: Charles White.
Andrea Bowers, For My Transgender Sisters (May Day March, Los Angeles, 2012), 2012. Colored pencil on paper. 30 × 22 ¼ in. Collection of Phil Mercado & Todd Quinn.
Andrea Bowers, For My Transgender Sisters (May Day March, Los Angeles, 2012), 2012. Colored pencil on paper. 30 × 22 ¼ in. Collection of Phil Mercado & Todd Quinn.
Installation view of Andrea Bowers, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, June 19–September 4, 2022. Photo: Charles White.
Installation view of Andrea Bowers, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, June 19–September 4, 2022. Photo: Charles White.
Andrea Bowers, Letters to an Army of Three, 2005 (still). Single-channel video (color, sound). 55 minutes, 35 seconds. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.
Andrea Bowers, Letters to an Army of Three, 2005 (still). Single-channel video (color, sound). 55 minutes, 35 seconds. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.
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