ANDREA BOWERS – DEMOCRACY NEEDS OUR COURAGE
2026-09-28Drawing on slogans used in worker’s rights movements from the turn of the twentieth century, as well as her own archive of political graphics, Bowers looks to connect the movements of the past to our present. In a new, large-scale drawing on collaged cardboard supports, a woman triumphantly sits atop an anvil, a longstanding symbol of worker’s rights, positioned as a political force in her own right. In another, the anvil is used as a tool as a woman connects the final link of a chain that reads, “vote for women.” A series of highly detailed graphite drawings isolate individual protestors on the page. Each realized from photographs taken by Bowers at protests throughout Donald Trump’s first presidential term, Bowers utilizes her own labor to elevate these figures, memorializing their actions in intimately scaled works that feel monumental. Their slogans, such as “families belong together,” join those of new light-based works in neon and LED, which announce “Fascism Isn’t Freedom,” and “Eco Not Ego.” The black cat,
Opposite – Free Speech, 2026
Exhibition runs through till October 31st, 2026
Andrew Kreps Gallery
22 Cortlandt Alley
10013
New York
