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Erica Bowers is a visual artist from Michigan. She received her BFA in Studio Art from Michigan State University in 2025. Her oil paintings explore boundaries and the interplay between body, identity, and landscape. Through an iterative process of construction and disruption, she creates layered, fluid forms that dissolve preconceived borders and evoke metamorphosis.
Her practice examines selfhood in relation to the body, reimagining the self as an evolving presence shaped through connection with the outside world and with others. The unruly, overgrown landscape emerges as a central presence in her work, expressed through fluid mark-making and disruptive imagery that mirrors the experience of inhabiting a feminine-presenting body subjected to methods of control. Her work reflects on the power of resistance, the perception of the body, and the reclamation of selfhood.