For their 2025 exhibition at The Future Perfect’s Los Angeles residence the Goldwyn House, Bower Studios has produced two distinct collections, both of which embody the studio’s wildly inventive and deeply layered understanding of visual objects. 

Their new series of the Folia plant sculptures interpret an organic line multi-dimensionally, questioning the visual plane upon which our perception of reality is based. Site-specifically positioned in the sculpture garden of the Goldwyn House, these works allow their mirrored surfaces to confuse the dialectics of surface and background, contour and body. The Folia sculptures confuse the visual hierarchy of information, generating thrilling new possibilities in their re-ordering of depictive gestures.

Bower Studios extends its series of Palm Mirrors inside the Goldwyn House through a graphic impulse into the third dimension and back onto the viewer’s picture plane. By enlivening an implied z-axis before flattening an image into itself, these acid-etched tints diffuse light, giving off a moody, foggy glow. Hand-shaped mahogany vines their way down through the leaves to the base.

This combined installation from Bower represents a unique opportunity to interact with this deeply rarefied work in its ideal circumstance: communing with both nature and architecture, bridging the gap between lines and curves, organic and industrial.