Skoglund, Sandy: Sandy Skoglund

Paris Audiovisuel

1992

First Edition

Sandy Skoglund (b. 1946) has been in the forefront of contemporary art in the United States and abroad for nearly two decades, bridging the boundaries between sculpture, installation art, and photography. Skoglund has consistently delighted and astonished audiences with witty, puzzling, and intriguing room-sized environments, sometimes peopled with models or mannequins and often filled with animal sculptures, which also appear in her photographs and prints. This book, which accompanies a touring exhibition, is the first retrospective examination of her work.Setting the artist's work in context are an interview with Skoglund by art historian Robert Rosenblum and three essays: on her photographs by critic Carol Squiers; on her prints by Ann H. Sievers, associate curator of prints, drawings, and photographs at Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts; and on her installations by Linda Muehlig, associate curator of painting and sculpture, also at Smith.The exhibition will openat the museum at Smith College -- which is Skoglund's alma mater -- in March 1998 and travel to Cincinnati and Toledo, Ohio; Columbia, South Carolina; and Jacksonville, Florida, over the next two years. Included in this book are several works of art created especially for the exhibition.