Offering information on safe abortions in the 1960s and '70s, a Bay Area activist group received countless inquiries from people nationwide; Bowers presents reenactments of their stories.
Andrea Bowers's interest in social movements and political activism, such as workers' rights rallies and protests around the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline, is central to her artwork.
The artist's works go beyond site-specificity. You might call them site-ephemeral, and the dialogues that constitute them take place in public, at places like brownstone stoops and parking garage…
The clash between entrenched patriarchal attitudes and the newly awakened #MeToo consciousness found some striking counterparts in New York exhibitions such as "The Un-Heroic Act: Representations of…
Art fairs are often associated with abstract painting (much of it looking the same), stunt pieces (almost instantly forgettable), and neon sculptures (brightly and, in many cases, annoying), but