Sandy Skoglund (USA): netok

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Sandy Skoglund (USA)

Aug 29, 2007 09:10

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Sandy Skoglund was born in Quincy, Massachusetts in 1946.
She received her M.F.A. in painting in 1972, from the University of Iowa.
Sandy moved to New York in June of 1972, where she started working as a conceptual artist.
Skoglund takes months to set up the room size installations which she furnishes with a few familiar objects, modeled from clay, painted, and repeated, until they overflow the space, like the hangers in this piece or cats in another of her works. This gives the room a Surrealistic dreamlike quality. The final step is photographing the installation with people in it. The difference between the installation and the photograph, which is the real end result of her work, is that the photographs contain people.
Skoglund says her work is based on a Frankensteinian model where the human beings have created a world that is out of control and turns on them.Cats_in_Paris