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SANDY SKOGLUND
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It is not uncommon for photographers to spend a great deal of time setting up their shot long before they load film into their camera. After an artist selects their subject matter, often they will take hours or even days planning the composition of the shot, arranging and rearranging objects, light sources, or even waiting for the perfect time of day or ideal weather conditions. While it's not unusual for photographers to go through elaborate preparations in the creation of a still life, or "scene", it is unusual for them to completely fabricate life size, artificial environments as their subject.
This is not the case with artist, Sandy Skoglund, who spends months creating large sculptural installations, which she later photographs. Most often, Skoglund creates detailed yet puzzling domestic settings such as bedrooms and living spaces, inhabited by people and sometimes threatened by animals. Although these environments are displayed as temporary exhibits in museums or galleries, most often viewers encounter her work in
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Sandy Skoglund
American photographer
Sandy Skoglund (born September 11, 1946) is an American photographer and installation artist.[1] Her contributions to photography have advanced the medium as a form of conceptual art. She is well known for her intricately designed environments, which utilize painterly and sculptural techniques within staged and performative scenes.[2] Photography critic Andy Grundberg notes that Skoglund's work contains "all the hallmarks of the new attitude toward photographs: they embrace blatant artificiality; they allude to and draw from an 'image world' of endless pre-existing photographs, and they reduce the world to the status of a film set."[3]
The impact of Skoglund's juxtaposition of commercial aspects, dramatization, and conceptual art elements, is described by curator Marvin Heiferman, who explains that "The work simmers down and reminds viewers of their smallness in a big, overdetermined world where consumer culture, nature, science, and their interior gyroscopes regularly spin out of control."[4]
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Sandy Skoglund: Visionary Photographer and Installation Artist - Biography, Artistic Process, and Teaching Career
Sandy Skoglund (born 1946) is an American photographer and installation artist. Skoglund creates surreal images by building complex spaces and providing them with carefully selected colored furniture and objects, a process that takes their months to complete. Sandy has studied both art history and art at Smith College in Northhampton, Massachusetts. In 1969, she studied Film, Multimedia Art at the University of Iowa, where she studied a Master of Fine Arts in 1972. After that, Sandy began working as a concept artist in New York and it was here that her interest in photography was gaining momentum. Skoglund was an art professor at the University of Hartford between 1973 and 1976. At present she teaches photography and art at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
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Sandy Skoglund: Visionary Photographer and Installation Artist - Biography, Artistic Process, and Teaching Career
Sandy Skoglund (born 1946) is an American photographer and installation artist. Skoglund creates surreal images by building complex spaces and providing them with carefully selected colored furniture and objects, a process that takes their months to complete. Sandy has studied both art history and art at Smith College in Northhampton, Massachusetts. In 1969, she studied Film, Multimedia Art at the University of Iowa, where she studied a Master of Fine Arts in 1972. After that, Sandy began working as a concept artist in New York and it was here that her interest in photography was gaining momentum. Skoglund was an art professor at the University of Hartford between 1973 and 1976. At present she teaches photography and art at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
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Interested in more details or our exclusive collections? Contact us via email for all your inquiries. Dive into the elegance of Sandy Skog
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