The members of today's intense religious groups and not a few members of the larger
public like to get even closer to home, rubbing texts like these into
contemporary Christian
consciousness: «Now great multitudes accompanied Jesus; and he turned and said to them, «If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he can not be my disciple»» (Luke 14:25 f.).
The fact that Fowler's clothing has shown up on everyone from Kanye West to Abel Tesfaye — also known as The Weeknd — speaks to an interesting moment in culture when ideas from the worlds of
contemporary art and underground music are being shot into the
public consciousness via clothing.
Art and the Feminist Revolution, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2007, traveling); Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum of Art and Design, New York (2008); Double
Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art since 1970,
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2005); 54th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2004); Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949 - 1979, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1998); Afro - American Art in the Twentieth Century: Three Episodes, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY (1980); Afro - American Abstractions, P.S. 1
Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY (1980); Freeway Fets,
public art project, freeway underpass, Los Angeles (1979); The Concept as Art, Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York (1977); California Black Artists, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (1977); and Sapphire Show, Gallery 32, Los Angeles (1970).