SandySkoglund

Sandy Skoglund was born on September 11, 1946 in Quincy, Massachusetts. She attended Smith College in Northampton and attended the University of Iowa. In 1972 began her work as a conceptual artist in New York. Her previous employment was at Hartford University between 1973 and 1976, as a professer. Currently, she is teaching photo and art multimedia at Rutgers University in NJ as well as spending her time capturing pictures throughout New York City.

Her work has been said to be “antic dream world of ordinary life gone seriously awry." Her style is [|surrealist]; that is to say, she "seeks to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind" (Oxford American Dictionary). As an installationist photographer, she arranges objects in strange setups to create bizarre still images, that she can then photograph. Sandy creats peculiar pictures that bring a new outlook to photography. It is said that "Large format [|Cibachrome] photographs of her bright and humorously unsettling, room-sized installations poke fun at suburban reality" (www.agallery.com).

Two examples of this abstract, avant-garde style are her two most famous photographs:
 * Raining Popcorn** (www.agallery.com)


 * Radioactive Cats** (www.iit.edu/)

Cited Sources: http://www.sandyskoglund.com/ http://guybae.artgalleries.ch/index.html?page_id=18&change_lid=1 http://www.batguano.com/bgma/skoglund.html