The ‘doll’s house’ interior imitating sumptuous décor inspired Skoglund to create a series of photographs, ‘Reflections in a Mobile Home’. At that time the artist lived in a furnished mobile home on a farm in Remsen and spent most of her time there, experimenting with photography. The summer of 1977 was a turning point in Skoglund’s work. The need to document conceptual ideas prompted the artist to study photography techniques on her own. During this period she began to create her first works in the field of conceptual art. In the same year, 1972, Sandy Skoglund relocated to New York and settled in the bohemian district of Soho, considered the centre of contemporary American art. In 1969 she began graduate school at the University of Iowa, studying filmmaking and multimedia art, and in 1972 received her Master of Fine Arts in painting. Under the Junior Year Abroad Program, Skoglund spent a year at the Sorbonne and the École du Louvre in Paris, where she was fascinated by avant-garde cinema. From 1964 to 1968 she studied studio art and art history at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, and dreamed of a career as a fashion designer or cartoonist. Later Skoglund often said that the bright colours of California greatly influenced her own perception of colour. The artist’s family often moved around, and in the 1960’s they lived for a short time near Anaheim, California, the site of the original Disneyland Theme Park. Sandy Skoglund was born in 1946 in North Weymouth, Massachusetts. Back in the early 1980s, long before the advent of Photoshop, Skoglund presented the world with images of extraordinary surreal installations that instantly brought her international renown.
The Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow presents an exhibition by American artist Sandy Skoglund, a key representative of the genre of tableau photography - ‘staged’ or ‘constructed’ photography.
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