Saturday, April 9, 2011

Web Work #7




Sandy Skoglund.
* was born on 9-11-46
* each picture takes her months to set up.
* studied both art history, and studio are.
* graduated in 1968 from Smith College in Michigian
* she also atended a grauadte college in Iowa.
* in 1972 started working as a conceptual artist in New York
* in 1978 she reproudced life size still food images.
* most known photo was called Radioactive cats, which consited of sculpted green cats running around a gray kitchen with an old man with back towards camera a his wife looking in the refridgerator.
* was an art professor at the University of Harvard from 1973-1976
* she started a fiction called True Fiction, but was never finished because kodak stoped production of the dye she was using for her prints.
* she then started and finished her seriese of fictions tiltled True fiction Two.
* you can find her work in the musems of
* Musem of Contempary Photography
* San Francisco Musem of Modern Art
* Dayton Art Institute






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