Sandy Skoglund

GREEN ROOM

Sandy Skoglund, born 1946, creates surreal images by building elaborate sets or tableaux, furnishing them with carefully selected colored furniture and other objects, a process of

which takes her months to complete. Finally, she photographs the set, complete with actors. The works are characterized by an overwhelming amount of one object and either bright,

contrasting colors or a monochromatic color scheme.

RAINING POPCORN

Skoglund’s staged, fantastical images typically present wacky situations in color-infused environments such as a flood of orange-red foxes in a restaurant, dozens of babies dropping from the sky, or the eerie pallor that permeates Ferns.

FOX GAMES 1989

Skoglund uses a variety of suburban settings. Backyard barbecues, cocktail parties, and bedrooms transformed into ironic and strangley humorous scenarios reflecting themes of

dysfunction and the illusionary security of suburbia and the American dream.

GATHERING PARADISE, 1991 cibachrome color photograph; Artificial trees and bushes, artificial patio floor, lawn furniture, sculpted epoxy resin squirrels and live models

Maybe Babies1983

One of her most-known photographs, entitled Radioactive Cats, features green-painted clay cats running amok in a gray kitchen. An older man sits in a chair with his back facing the camera while his elderly wife looks into a refrigerator that is the same color as the walls. It it a commentary on a post-nulcear society? On how we treat our elderly?

RADIOACTIVE CATScibachrome color photograph Sculpted plaster cats and live models

Revenge Of The Goldfish, 1981

Ceramic fish, furniture, live figure models

Shimmering Madness 1998