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Artworks
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climate change is real (global climate action summit), 2018
installation view, yerba buena center for the arts, san franciscophoto: charlie villyard
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climate change is real, 2017
installation view, pérez art museum, miami beachAndrea Bowers
Heat Index, 2019203,2 x 182,8 x 6,3 cm
80 x 72 x 2.5 inedition of 3 + 1 APFurther images
Heat Index is a neon work that responds to a recent public commission at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, which was originally inspired as a...Heat Index is a neon work that responds to a recent public commission at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, which was originally inspired as a response to President Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement in July 2017. For Bowers, creating artworks that publicly address crucial issues in heightened political moments is one of the most rewarding aspects of her work as an artist. She believes President Trump and his government have opted to embrace “alternative facts” and all but eliminate the role of scientists in creating environmental policy, spurning the application of science as a tool for determining objective reality. Bowers offers a powerful response to the anti-science bias exemplified by some conservative media in the United States today. As we face a coordinated effort to fracture reality and render a unified opposition impossible, the work offers an affirmative, positive statement.
