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Andrea Bowers: Help The Work Along
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by Andrea Bowers.
The centerpieces of the exhibition, three large drawings each 13 feet tall, revive political graphics from the early 1900s that include representations of powerful women. The source imagery for these drawings come from: a May Day illustration by Walter Crane published on the cover of The Comrade, c. 1902; the cover of the sheet music for Internationale, a song written in 1872 that became the anthem for radical movements throughout the world; and the cover of Emma Goldmans journal Mother Earth, the 1908 volume titled A Menace to Liberty. Bowers drawings are made from collaged found cardboard and sharpie markers. The material choices were inspired by a recent essay written by Gregory Scholette in which he states: Meanwhile, Zuccotti Park and other OWS encampments revealed a mix of high-tech digital media and handmade signs, a mix of the archaic and the new as if beneath the Internet there is cardboard.
The exhibition also includes a selection of videos and smaller drawings. Three photorealist colored pencil drawings illustrate women holding protest signs, and encourage expanding notions of gender, class, and ethnicity. Colored pencil text drawings reproduce political graphics that Bowers is developing for the Dream Act movement. Political signage and political graphics become a unifying device. Two videos in the exhibition focus on banners and signage Bowers documented at recent political marches: Occupy the Rosebowl Parade, and an Immigrantes Unidos banner at the 2011 Los Angeles May Day March.
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Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by Andrea Bowers.
The centerpieces of the exhibition, three large drawings each 13 feet tall, revive political graphics from the early 1900s that include representations of powerful women. The source imagery for these drawings come from: a May Day illustration by Walter Crane published on the cover of The Comrade, c. 1902; the cover of the sheet music for Internationale, a song written in 1872 that became the anthem for radical movements throughout the world; and the cover of Emma Goldmans journal Mother Earth, the 1908 volume titled A Menace to Liberty. Bowers drawings are made from collaged found cardboard and sharpie markers. The material choices were inspired by a recent essay written by Gregory Scholette in which he states: Meanwhile, Zuccotti Park and other OWS encampments revealed a mix of high-tech digital media and handmade signs, a mix of the archaic and the new as if beneath the Internet there is cardboard.
The exhibition also includes a selection of videos and smaller drawings. Three photorealist colored pencil drawings illustrate women holding protest signs, and encourage expanding notions of gender, class, and ethnicity. Colored pencil text drawings reproduce political graphics that Bowers is developing for the Dream Act movement. Political signage and political graphics become a unifying device. Two videos in the exhibition focus on banners and signage Bowers documented at recent political marches: Occupy the Rosebowl Parade, and an Immigrantes Unidos banner at the 2011 Los Angeles May Day March.
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