{"id":13,"date":"2017-08-23T15:21:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T22:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/summer-2017\/?p=13"},"modified":"2017-09-05T10:36:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T17:36:46","slug":"layers-upon-layers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/summer-2017\/layers-upon-layers\/","title":{"rendered":"Layers Upon Layers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Professor of art Ken Fandell held a solo art<\/strong>\u00a0exhibition at Traywick Contemporary in Berkeley, California. Blowouts Bricks Lines, Fandell\u2019s fifth solo show at the Traywick, was 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.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_105\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_105\" class=\"wp-figure wp-figure-size-full aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/09\/faculty-news-1-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-105\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/09\/faculty-news-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"Artwork called 'bricks'\" width=\"1060\" height=\"1248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/09\/faculty-news-1-2.jpg 1060w, https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/09\/faculty-news-1-2-255x300.jpg 255w, https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/09\/faculty-news-1-2-768x904.jpg 768w, https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/09\/faculty-news-1-2-870x1024.jpg 870w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1060px) 100vw, 1060px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_105\" class=\"wp-caption wp-caption-text-size-full aligncenter-figcaption\">Bricks (110, 124, 151, 182, 203, 209, 224, 257, 253, 273, 254,<br \/>190, 170, 137, 143, 183, 204, 212), 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Coming off of a year\u2019s sabbatical, Fandell returns to teach photography in the fall, hoping 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),\u201d he says. Fandell will also teach 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<figure id=\"attachment_109\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_109\" class=\"wp-figure wp-figure-size-full aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/09\/faculty-news-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/09\/faculty-news-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Artwork of ripped tires called 'Blowout'\" width=\"1060\" height=\"1325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/09\/faculty-news-1-1.jpg 1060w, https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/09\/faculty-news-1-1-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/09\/faculty-news-1-1-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/09\/faculty-news-1-1-819x1024.jpg 819w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1060px) 100vw, 1060px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_109\" class=\"wp-caption wp-caption-text-size-full aligncenter-figcaption\">Blowout 487, 505, 555, 583, 589, 617, 647, 657, 722, 759, 793, 796, 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_106\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_106\" class=\"wp-figure wp-figure-size-full aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/09\/faculty-news-1-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-106\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/09\/faculty-news-1-3.jpg\" alt=\"Abstract art piece. Two squares with lines running top to bottom\" width=\"1060\" height=\"708\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/09\/faculty-news-1-3.jpg 1060w, https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/09\/faculty-news-1-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/09\/faculty-news-1-3-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/09\/faculty-news-1-3-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1060px) 100vw, 1060px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_106\" class=\"wp-caption wp-caption-text-size-full aligncenter-figcaption\">Palm Lines 2,4 and Palm Lines 3, 2, 1, 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of art Ken Fandell held a solo art\u00a0exhibition at Traywick Contemporary in Berkeley, California. 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