#brendan fowler

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Brendan Fowler, Andrea, 2017, Polyester, rayon (industrial embroidery), found fabric, acrylic on canvas, walnut, 16.5 x 13.5 inches

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[hardtoreadings]

Initiated in 2015,  ELECTION REFORM! is part artist edition, part serious fashion label, part recycling project — both the base garments and the textiles that are collaged onto them are recycled vintage pieces — and part activism. Each garment comes with not just an intention to create dialog — ELECTION REFORM! — but also with a reader about the American electoral system that offers highly engaging essays on various topics from felon disenfranchisement, to ballot fraud, the the origins of the Electoral College. 

In Fowler's summation “The problem is that we only talk about the system every four years when something goes wrong. The system's failings, some of which are inevitable and some of which are intentional, are there for lack of awareness of the people. If we can keep a dialog going around this all the time, then that's how we can go from disempowered and disenfranchised to speaking up and repairing this system and make it work for us, the citizens who's voice it is designed to serve.” 

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Sign for Susan Cianciolo’s RUN Store, New York, 2001. Photo: Brendan Fowler.

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Brendan Fowler on TikTok

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Artwork by Brendan Fowler

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Scaffolding outside Susan Cianciolo’s Run 11 show. Photo by Brendan Fowler, via Vogue