“My interest in participating in this book you’re about to make,” Brendan Fowler tells me, “is that I think it will be a document that would have been useful to me before I’d had my fire.”
Brendan Fowler
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There’s No Need to Buy a Camera
LOS ANGELES — What are people really saying when they express a desire for a new camera? The question is raised by Brendan Fowler’s solo exhibition New Camera at LAXART, where photographs are distorted and transferred to canvas, with old-fashioned camera time stamps stitched on using an industrial embroidery machine.
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When Controversy and Failure Become Art
In the exhibition Canceled: Alternative Manifestations and Productive Failures at the Center for Book Arts, the documents, language and narrative of controversy, censorship and failure become a new form of work to consider.
