{"id":5559,"date":"2017-04-13T15:39:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T22:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about-hmc\/?p=5559"},"modified":"2017-04-28T15:25:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T22:25:52","slug":"artist-professor-holds-solo-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/2017\/04\/13\/artist-professor-holds-solo-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Professor Holds Solo Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent work by Associate Professor of Art Ken Fandell is on display at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.traywick.com\/\">Traywick Contemporary <\/a>in Berkeley, California. The exhibition, Blowouts Bricks Lines, runs through May 27 and is Fandell\u2019s fifth solo show at the Traywick.<\/p>\n<p>Blowouts Bricks Lines is a collection of nine works comprising three series of Fandell\u2019s photographs, in which he layers multiple images of ordinary objects to produce unexpected results. In Blowouts, layered images of a twisted chunk of tire tread that Fandell removed from a Southern California freeway resemble delicate brush strokes in black ink. The Bricks series could be the most literal of the three in terms of featuring a subject recognizable as itself, except for the fact that the bricks take on varying levels of translucency and appear stacked in impossible ways. Lines features ultra-high-resolution images of palm tree trunks (just the trunk, no fronds) dissecting a background of gray sky. Traywick notes on the show point out that Fandell \u201cmines the mundane and everyday to reveal the extraordinary in the ordinary, with a distinct blend of skepticism, irony, and humor.\u201d Indeed, there is something ironic and humorous in looking closely at a giant \u201cpainting\u201d and discovering it\u2019s actually a photograph of blown-out tire (splayed radial wires, tread and all), something most everyone in freeway traffic has probably seen many times without noticing its beauty.<\/p>\n<p>Fandell, who is on sabbatical during the 2016-17 academic year, is currently working on projects he began last summer as well as some new ones. \u201cOne involves a bee (dead) and the other involves a few pounds of clay left over from a ceramics class I took this winter,\u201d he says. He\u2019s also working on a series of artist books using material from recent projects, including his current exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>Slated to teach photography in the fall, Fandell is thinking about how to approach the subject in a new way. \u201cI want it to be more about how to make good art with the technology [the students] have and know (i.e. camera phones). I\u2019m not sure yet how I\u2019ll do it,\u201d he says. Fandell will also be teaching Undisciplined Art, a conceptual art class that uses Marcel Duchamp\u2019s 1917 work Fountain as the jumping off point for art of the last 100 years.<\/p>\n<p>Fandell will head back to the Traywick on April 23 to give a talk on his work, and he\u2019s beginning to plan a solo show at the Long Beach Museum of Art for summer 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent work by Associate Professor of Art Ken Fandell is on display at the Traywick Contemporary in Berkeley, California. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":5560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,19],"class_list":["post-5559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty","category-hsa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}