Amanda Flowers is an interdisciplinary artist from the Bay Area based in Los Angeles. Her visuals are a mixture of dreams and imagined terrains of her emotions she calls “The Shadow Realm.” Her art practice is embodied by the essence of her maternal grandparent's journey from North Carolina during The Great Migration in the late 1960s. She integrates an ancestral bridge to honor her lineage through imagined ancestral motifs. Significant to Flowers' work is an interest in the parallels of cycles of life between humans and plants. She captures this through a portrayal of reincarnation and decaying elementals to depict a primordial environment. Flowers encompasses these elements on burlap and wood through clay, oil, and repurposed materials from deconstructed art pieces. She is inspired by a constellation of Black historical spiritual mythologies, from the emotional subconscious to the metaphysical and physical experience of Black enslavement. She creates a rich territory on the edge of science depicting her own cosmology and quasiscience of a space where our suppressed emotions lay.
Her work has been featured in group exhibitions, including Christie’s Los Angeles, Wearable Art Gala, Huntington Beach Art Center, Arushi Gallery and Various Small Fires. She has been a learning participant in numerous Hauser & Wirth Learning Programs since 2024, such as ‘Artist & Activist: Gustav Metzger’ to recently ‘Art Community: From Studio to Collection Education Lab’ in response to the ‘Destiny is a Rose’ 2026 exhibition.
Flowers was awarded the USC Roski School of Art and Design Departmental Grant in 2026, Gucci Changemakers Scholarship, Audrey Wanner Peyton Millis Scholarship in 2024, and the Individual Artist Grant from the City of Pasadena in 2023. Flowers received her BFA from California State University, Los Angeles. She is currently pursuing her MFA at the University of Southern California.
