"I think I am most fond of the unseen part. I mean that the various cultural experiences that I go through, and the behavioral aspects of getting the work done, are just as important as the installation and the photograph. So, for me, the relationship between the two is more about hybridism and the search for an ideal form that I'm never going to arrive at. The installation and the photograph are mere approximations of this ideal."
-Sandy Skoglund
Sandy Skoglund was born in Quincy, Massachusetts in 1946.
She attended Smith College and the University of Iowa and now teaches at Rutgers University
Skoglund began teaching herself photography in the 70's and started working as a "conceptual artist" in New York. She would take pictures to document her experiences and started working a lot with the art of repetition.
She is now recognized with her work with highly constructed scenes, which usually take months to create, that have the elements of repetition present. She will bring in her models the day of her shoot and then dismantle the set. She uses bright colors and exaggerated surreal environments. Her installations are used to "poke fun at suburban reality."
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