Brendan Fowler is a Los Angeles-based artist, who’s work spans numerous media and traditions working between fashion and arts. While he has a background as a musician, for many years he broadened his practice to the visual arts, combining both perspectives, until venturing into fashion design. An ongoing series of embroidered portraits he started in 2012, can be considered an example of this approach, using deadstock fabrics and an industrial embroidery machine to create art pieces that range from abstractions to portraiture. The “crash piece” series presents another example for his practice as a visual artist: Assemblages of framed photos that appear to have been violently smashed through one another. Fowler has interfaced with the worlds of contemporary streetwear and fashion through both the Election Reform! Project, which uses the formal language of fashion as a pathway to start a dialogue around the flaws of the American electoral system and the innovative upcycling project Some Ware, which he runs in tandem with the artist Cali Thornhill DeWitt.