A Close Look: Ken Fandell’s The Sky Above My Home

Join Corinne Granof, Academic Curator, in The Living Room at The Block for a discussion of the current work on view, a monumental digital collage Ken Fandell’s The Sky Above My Home (10/7/2002–6/14/2003, Chicago, Illinois) (2003). She will discuss how Fandell’s artwork offers reflection on our relationship with nature, and engages with art of the past. Coffee and tea will be offered beginning at 3:00 pm.

The Living Room is a drop-in space at The Block Museum that invites students and other visitors to gather, reflect, and connect with one artwork in the museum’s collection, rotating each month. Stop by for a warm drink and a conversation — every Wednesday from 3–5 PM, the coffee and tea is on us.

Participation level – medium, participants are encouraged to share thoughts and questions during the program.

Programs are open to all, on a first-come first-served basis. RSVPs are appreciated, but not required.

The Living Room is supported by the Alsdorf Gallery Endowment.

Corinne Granof is Academic Curator at the Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University where she directs curatorial initiatives with students and faculty. She is the co-curator of the current Block exhibition Pouring, Spilling, Bleeding: Helen Frankenthaler and Artists’ Experiments on Paper, and has collaborated on over 30 past exhibitions and publications for the Block, including Dissident Sisters: Bev Grant and Feminist Activism (2024); For One and All: Prints from the Block’s Collection (2023); Up Is Down: Mid-Century Experiments in Advertising and Film at the Goldsholl Studio (2018); and William Blake and the Age of Aquarius (2017).

Image: Ken Fandell (American, born 1971), The Sky Above My Home (10/7/2002–6/14/2003, Chicago, Illinois), Inkjet print on paper 58 1/4 in x 105 in. Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, gift of Peter Norton, 2016.4.9.

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