Sandy Skoglund Born September 11th, 1946

Sandy Skoglund Sandy Skoglund – professor of art Born in 1946 at Quincy, Massachusetts. Surrealist pictures Teaches photography and installation/multi-media. Teaches at Rutgers University Teaches at Hartford University

“So I engage in repetition, for example, and in the process divide myself in two and investigate this split condition. Growing up in the suburbs, in a manicured landscape where everything seemed to have a human intention behind it, I felt dissociated from the larger world. My family lived in many different suburbs, yet always the same, and very American. This was the landscape of my youth, and the feeling of loneliness and disengagement it produced has been an underlying subtext for my work.” – Sandy Skoglund Scattered Clouds ©1974 16" X 24"

“The subjects I prefer are domestic interiors and I explore them with morbid curiosity. I am currently interested in the bathroom, a traditional American or European – a western – bathroom with sink, mirror and everything else found in it normally.” – Sandy Skoglund Pink Sink ©1977 16" X 16.8"

“Since we, as humans beings, consider ourselves the primary form of consciousness existing in nature, I decided to populate my images with animals in order to introduce this alternative awareness into our experience.” – Sandy Skoglund Gathering Paradise © 1991 47 1/4" X 61"

“The progressive cultural evolution of the humanity will lead us to understand that we are animals among other animals. Science is exploring these arguments that I, as an artist, express on the plane of physical representation.” – Sandy Skoglund Radio Active Cats ©1980 25 1/2" X 33"

“I don’t think my work has a direct relationship to surrealism “I don’t think my work has a direct relationship to surrealism. I believe, instead, that it is about the contrast and complexity that today characterizes the United States.” – Sandy Skoglund The Cold War © 1999 16" X 20"

“…There’s a built-in experimentation with most projects in terms of materials and how they behave. I search for unusual materials that haven’t been used before, so I have to figure out how to use them. In the case of the Grinnell project, popcorn is the sculptural material. Raining Popcorn is… material based, where the material itself determines the way in which the thing is made.” – Sandy Skoglund Raining Popcorn ©2001 39"H x 49 1/2"L

Revenge of the Goldfish Story of boys and dead fish Complementary Colors Cool effect of blue walls Depth of field Revenge of the Goldfish © 1981 27 1/2" X 35"

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