1. Sandy Skoglund
Born September 11th, 1946

2. 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

3. “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
© " X 24"

4. “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
© " X 16.8"

5. “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
© /4" X 61"

6. “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
© /2" X 33"

7. “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
© " X 20"

8. “…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
© "H x 49 1/2"L

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

10. References The End http://www.sandyskoglund.com/
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