Web Work 7 :: Sandy Skoglund • American photographer and installation artist • Born September 11, 1946 • She is a surrealist images by creating her own sets • She completes her sets with small children and furnishings which can take her months to complete • Usually her sets contain and overwhelming amount of one object and have either a bright, contrast, or monochromatic color scheme • Skoglund studied both art history and studio art at Smith College in North Hampton, Massachusetts. She graduated in 1968 • IN 1967 she studied in Paris France at Ecole Du Louvre • 1969 Skoglund graduated from University of Iowa where she studied filmmaking, multimedia art, and printmaking • 1971 she earned her master of Art and in ’72 her masters in fine art in painting • Also in ’72 she began working as a conceptual artist in New York • She began her interest in photographer when she wanted to document her artistic themes of experimenting with repetition • 1978 she released her collection of still life food images that contained repetition • Radioactive is one of her most known pieces which features repetitious green cats in a gray kitchen with a man sitting with his back to the camera and his wife looking in the refrigerator • Another widely known print of hers is Revenge of the Goldfish it is goldfish hovering over people on bed late at night • Skoglund was an art professor at the University of Hartford from ’73 to ‘76 • Currently she is teaching photography and installation/multimedia at Rutgers University in New Jersey • True Fiction Two is Skoglunds’ most recent completed series this is similar to her project True Fiction that she was working on in ’86, but Kodak discontinued the production of the particular die she was using • Here are a few museums that her art is shown in Museum of Contemporary Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Dayton Art Museum
Sandy's work has a good connection to the photographers we talked bout in class on 3/30 because she uses different sets for her pictures and she makes them
I was reading another photography blog I can't track down which one it is, but I ran across Wendy Bevan and her pictures to me are very light beautiful and airy they also have a timeless feel tothem
http://www.wendybevan.com/