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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 works in oil painting explore boundaries and the interplay between the female body, identity, and landscape. Through an iterative process of construction and disruption, she creates layered, fluid forms that dissolve preconceived borders and inspire metamorphosis of form.
Her practice examines the female body and the manifestation of the self. She disfigures and manipulates the female form as a means of reimagining womanhood as an ever-evolving process, which never fully materializes as an actualized being.
The parallels between womanhood and the unruly landscape are simultaneously explored. Fluidity of mark-making and disruptive imagery unite the female body with the terrain, imposing a fusion of forms. By merging the visual language of landscape with that of the bodily form, she reflects on the violence inflicted on both entities, exploring how resistance and conformity shape the feminine self.