Andrea Bowers: Art for Social Justice 3 Favorite 

“Artist Andrea Bowers creates powerful works addressing immigration, gender violence, and environmental justice. Her large-scale drawing ‘No Olvidado’ memorializes migrants who died crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, calling attention to the human cost of border policies.”
Bowers artworks and site specific projects are included in the permanent collections or museum institutions from around the world such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Pérez Art Museum Miami the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and Museum Abteiberg, Germany; among others.
As a feminist and social activist, Bowers' work addresses contemporary political issues such as immigration, environmental activism, and women's and worker's rights, within the larger context of American history and protest movements.Bowers regularly invites people who have a stake in the issues that concern her to enter the gallery spaces where she exhibits and directly engage with art world regulars. Examples of this include a series of activist events that took place at Susanne Vielmetter, and her decision to link the opening reception for her show "Mercy Mercy Me" (2009) at Andrew Kreps with an international day of action proposed by climate activist organization 350.org. Bowers also continues to make a series of drawings based on photos of women taken at immigrant rights marches, feminist rallies, gay rights protests, and environmental activism in which the subjects are rendered in isolation on large sheets of otherwise blank paper. In Girlfriends (May Day March, Los Angeles, 2011) a feeling of isolation and vulnerability due to the subjects being out of context is particularly strong.