The Artist Project: Andrea Bowers

Artist Andrea Bowers reflects on Howardena Pindell in this episode of The Artist Project.
From March 2015 to June 2016, we invited 120 artists—local, national, and global—to choose individual works of art or galleries that sparked their imaginations. In this online series, artists reflect on what art is, what inspires them from across 5,000 years of art, and in so doing, they reveal the power of a museum and The Met.

"She's expanding aesthetics to prioritize other colors or forms or textures that have been seen as nominal or insignificant or too feminine."

Artist Andrea Bowers reflects on Howardena Pindell in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
Andrea Bowers, born in 1965, is a feminist American artist who works in a variety of mediums, including drawing, video, and installation.

Graphite drawing by Andrea Bowers of a woman holding a sign with a butterfly on it with the text

Andrea Bowers (American, born 1965)

Migration Is Beautiful II (May Day, Los Angeles 2013), 2015

Graphite on paper; 16 7/8 × 24 1/4 in. (43 × 61.5 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Andrew Kreps Gallery © Andrea Bowers


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Flight/Fields, Howardena Pindell  American, Color lithograph and etching with collage
Multiple artists/makers
1988–89
Oval Memory Series II: Castle Dragon, Howardena Pindell  American, Cut and pasted postcards, tempera, gouache, fluorescent paint, punched papers, nails and thread on foam board
Howardena Pindell
1980–81
Constellations, Howardena Pindell  American, Open bite etching
Howardena Pindell
Center for Contemporary Printmaking
2015