Andrea Bowers
Andrea Bowers consciously integrates terminologies, discourses, and tactics from political activism and community organizing into her artwork. Memorial to Arcadia Woodlands Clear-Cut (Green, Violet, Brown), created for this exhibition, is an expression of Bowers’s advocacy.
On January 12, 2011, along with four other activists, she was arrested while participating in a tree-sitting protest in the city of Arcadia, at the outskirts of Los Angeles. Bowers documented the sit-in protest of the bulldozing of a grove of oaks and sycamores by the L.A. County Department of Public Works. Over two days, logging crews worked swiftly around the trees occupied by the protesters, leaving only stumps, logs, and slash. This is the material now woven into a hanging sculpture, a phantom tree of that forest that memorializes the now-razed grove.
SITElines.2014
Unsettled Landscapes looked at the urgencies, political conditions and historical narratives that inform the work of contemporary artists across the Americas – from Nunavut to Tierra del Fuego. Through three themes – landscape, territory, and trade – this exhibition expresses the interconnections among representations of the land, movement across the land, and economies and resources derived from the land.
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