Sandy Skoglund is a conceptual artist and
photographer based in New Jersey. The artist began creating life-size
installations in the early 1970s. By the
late 1970s, she became interested in photographically documenting her conceptual
ideas.
Color
plays a large role in Skoglund’s work.
The artist employs contrasting hues within monochromatic scenes to
engage the brain's visual process using color
psychology and associations to manipulate the viewer's experience.
She works meticulously on large-scale installations, crafting every detail by hand with a team of assistants. A single piece can often take several months to complete. The resulting surrealistic scenes, dominated by strong color, are sometimes playful, sometimes haunting. Art critic Marge Goldwater states Skoglund can “transform the mundane into the mysterious."
She works meticulously on large-scale installations, crafting every detail by hand with a team of assistants. A single piece can often take several months to complete. The resulting surrealistic scenes, dominated by strong color, are sometimes playful, sometimes haunting. Art critic Marge Goldwater states Skoglund can “transform the mundane into the mysterious."
“Skoglund juxtaposes unlikely images to create tension and the impression of a world gone seriously wrong,” notes an article in Artask.com. Most of her pieces feature an altered landscape or artificial environment where nature and human culture are twisted or exaggerated. They seem designed specifically to make the viewer uncomfortable.
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Raining Popcorn, copyright 2001 |
“Color vibration is always exciting to me, “ Skoglund shared via email. “The adjacent edges of contrasting cool and warm being my favorite strategy. I use this method in order to enhance the visual excitement within the images.” She says, “I call my work with color ‘color shock."
Two of her most renowned and evocative works, Radioactive Cats and Revenge of the Goldfish, appeared at the Whitney Biennial Exhibition in 1981. Radioactive Cats features green painted clay cats running amok in a grey kitchen. It is a scene she sculpted over a period of months and subsequently photographed. When asked about her color choice, Skoglund says, “I arrived at the green because the cats have turned radioactive and green would be one of the colors that you might think would reference nuclear properties.”
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Portrait of Sandy Skoglund, copyright A. Baccili 2016 |
In Revenge of the Goldfish, the artist imagined the bedroom as a “watery” place and chose a blue-green aqua that she says “feels like water and sky at the same time.” “The vibration of orange against blue makes the orange more vivid and the blue more vivid than if they were by themselves,” she notes. “I wanted the vibrancy that comes from opposing colors banging up against each other.”
For Skoglund's work entitled Fox Games she says, “I wanted a true red, and the selection of grey had to do with a grey that would vibrate with the red. I always spend a lot of time on the color, getting the exact value, hue and intensity. “
In Cocktail Party, the artist used a method
she calls “color flooding.” The scene is
made up of bright orange cheese doodles, producing an almost neon effect merely
through repetition. “Some color is
naturally unnatural,” she points out. “I did not enhance the bright
yellow orange of the entire piece – I simply copied the garish color that was
already part of the identity of the subject matter.”
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Cocktail Party, copyright 1992. |
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