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Andrea Bowers / edited by Michael Darling and Connie Butler.
Fine Arts Library N6537.B6488 A4 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bowers, Andrea, 1965- artist.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bowers, Andrea, 1965---Exhibitions.
- Bowers, Andrea.
- Bowers, Andrea, 1965-.
- Feminism in art--Exhibitions.
- Feminism in art.
- Conceptual art--Exhibitions.
- Conceptual art.
- Installations (Art)--Exhibitions.
- Installations (Art).
- Multimedia (Art)--Exhibitions.
- Multimedia (Art).
- Drawing--Exhibitions.
- Drawing.
- Photography--Exhibitions.
- Photography.
- Video art--Exhibitions.
- Video art.
- Ecology in art--Exhibitions.
- Ecology in art.
- Social justice in art--Exhibitions.
- Social justice in art.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 207 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 x 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Museum of Contemporary Art ; New York : DelMonico Books D.A.P., 2021.
- Summary:
- "For over thirty years, multidisciplinary visual artist Andrea Bowers (American, b. 1965) has made art that activates. Bowers works in a variety of mediums, from video to colored pencil to installation art, and speaks directly to pressing national issues. Her work combines an artistic practice with activism and advocacy, giving voice to stories rarely seen or heard. Born in Wilmington, Ohio, Bowers received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 1992 and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. She built an international reputation as a chronicler of contemporary history, documenting activism as it unfolds and collecting research on the frontlines of protest. Her subject matter contends with issues like immigration, workers' rights, environmentalism, and women's rights, presented in a range of media. Her empathetic and labor-intensive practice draws attention to the humanity impacted by injustice--shifting the conversation from politics to people. This is the first museum retrospective surveying over two decades of Bowers's practice. Highlights of the exhibition include Courtroom Drawings (Steubenville Rape Case, Text Messages Entered As Evidence, 2013), (2014) and My Name Means Future, (2020). These two works speak to the range of issues in Bowers's work, the former emerged from her work as an embedded observer in a landmark sexual assault case; the latter from her involvement in activism around the Dakota Access Pipeline project."-- mcachicago.org.
- Contents:
- Directors' foreword / Madeleine Grynsztejn and Ann Philbin
- Acknowledgments / Michael Darling and Connie Butler
- Embedded observer / Michael Darling
- We are the storm: Andrea Bowers's ecofeminism
- Andrea Bowers: drawn toward feminism / Julia Bryan-Wilson
- On the promise of assemblages in the ecologies of Andrea's studio, her field of engagement, and the exhibition space / Lucía Sanromán
- Uplifting the unheard stories / Lucia Allain
- When the dark night finally descended / Deena Metzger
- List of works
- Artist's biography
- Exhibition lenders and sponsors
- Contributors.
- Notes:
- "This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Andrea Bowers co-organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. The exhibition was curated by Michael Darling, James W. Alsdorf Chief cuator, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and Connie Butler, Chief Curator, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Exhibition itinerary: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, November 20, 2021-March 27, 2022; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, June 5-September 4, 2022"--Colophon.
- ISBN:
- 1942884834
- 9781942884835
- OCLC:
- 1196841481
- Publisher Number:
- 9781942884835
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