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Andrea Bowers

Andrea Bowers (b. 1964, Ohio) is a Los Angeles-based artist who has been recording and amplifying the work of activists present and past for more than two decades. Her multi-media practice includes drawing, video, sculpture, and installation work that foregrounds the experience of the people who dedicate their time and energy to the struggle for gender, racial, environmental, labor, and immigration justice and those who are directly affected by systemic inequality. Over time, her different bodies of work have become a document of the changing language, prerogatives, and dynamics of social justice movements. In 2021 a major mid-career survey of Bowers’s work curated by Michael Darling and Connie Butler opened at the MCA Chicago and traveled to the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles in 2022. Other recent solo exhibitions include Grief and Hope, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany and Light and Gravity, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany. In September 2022, Bowers opened a solo exhibition including both new and existing work at the Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Milano as part of an exhibition program organized by the Fondazione Furla. Bowers is represented by Vielmetter Los Angeles, Andrew Kreps Gallery, Kaufmann Repetto, and Jessica Silverman Gallery.

Andrea Bowers

Inseparably Linked, 

Local Plant Studies, 2024


Northeast Ohio-born and LA-based artist Andrea Bowers created this special painting last year to support moCa's mission. Bowers is part of a group of activists who are actively fundraising to provide direct support to artists and art workers impacted by the devastating LA fires through this GoFundMe initiative.


To help support this cause, moCa will donate 50% of the revenue raised by the sale of this artwork to this initiative, ensuring that thousands of dollars are quickly and effectively given to our art comrades in need.


Please contact Megan Lykins Reich at mreich@mocacleveland.org or 440.785.5350 to inquire about this work.


About the Painting:

Portraying indigenous plants alongside a quote by Dr. Vandana Shiva, Inseparably Linked, Local Plant Studies embodies the delicate balance of nature and echoes the pressing issues of delicate ecosystems across the country. The hand-painted flora sit on a substrate that Bowers builds by layering and collaging pieces of cardboard. The material harkens to protest signs while the thick scale reminds us of the trees from which the cardboard originally came.


Acrylic on cardboard

20 x 20 x 3 inches

Estimated value: $35,000



Help LA Artists and Art Workers Impacted by the Fires

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