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Anatomy of a Practice: Andrea Bowers & John Quigley

Virtual

When

Wed, Nov 19, 2025 7:00PM – 8:00PM

Where

Online

Price

Free

with admission to the grounds

Join us online for a conversation with exhibiting artist Andrea Bowers and environmental activist John Quigley, presented in conjunction with the exhibition Trees, we breathe. The discussion will begin with an overview of the visual and material structure of Bowers’ 2024 work Don’t Let Our Children Inherit Tree Stumps Coffee Table Library— one of four pieces by the artist featured in the exhibition—and expand to explore the shared roots of Bowers’ and Quigley’s practices. Together, they’ll reflect on their collaborations, activism, the tools that sustain their work, and the legacies of intersectional movements that continue to shape their approaches to art and advocacy. The conversation will be moderated by Rachel Raphaela Gugelberger, Wave Hill Curator of Visual Arts.

Andrea Bowers

Andrea Bowers

Since the 1990s, Andrea Bowers has combined art and advocacy through drawing, painting, performance, installation, sculpture, and video. As a chronicler of contemporary political history--as well as a participant, and witness--Bowers develops her projects alongside activists, using craft and her labor to honor and show respect to the generations of activists working to create a fairer and more just world. Throughout her career, Bowers has developed projects related to ecofeminism and environmental conservation. Her sculptural tree sitting platforms were first developed following her participation in 2011 protests to protect old growth redwoods in California. Recent institutional solo exhibitions
have been presented at Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland; Fondazione Furla and Galleria d’Arte Moderna (GAM), Milan; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany. Bowers’ work is held in the permanent collections of The Hammer Museum of Art and Museum of Contemporary Art, both in Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; MoMA and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Tate Modern, London and Museum Abteiberg, among others.
Photo Credit: Andrea Bowers. Courtesy of the artist and Andrew Kreps Gallery
John Quigley

John Quigley

John Quigley is an award-winning artist, producer, and activist. As an artist he is the founder of Spectral Q where his unique mix of human installation and aerial photography bring together communities to create large-scale messages for the common good. Focusing on themes of health, human rights, social justice, ecological balance, democracy, and freedom, his work strives to liberate the spirit and inspire unity through creative participation. Quigley has created more than 200 installations involving over 200,000 people on seven continents. His body of work has been profiled in the London Sunday Times Magazine and has appeared in hundreds of media outlets around the world.
As an activist, Quigley has worked with major environmental organizations in the United States and has served on the national and international boards for Earth Day. He currently serves as the Founding Director of Artists for Amazonia, a board member of the Environmental Media Association (EMA) and the Whaleman Foundation, and on the MOCA Los Angeles Environmental Council Advisory Board.
Photo Credit: Courtesy of John Quigley