Sandy Skoglund, artist, New Jersey
Moderated by Jennifer Casler Price, senior curator of Asian, African, and Ancient American Art and Nancy E. Edwards, curator of European art/head of academic services
Internationally renowned artist Sandy Skoglund is known for her conceptual photography, which reflects her interest in popular culture, as well as for her directorial approach to arranging her sculptures with live models for the camera in meticulously wrought compositions. Skoglund—whose art is held in countless major museum collections across the United States—sculpted giant terracotta goldfish for an unsettling, dreamlike installation and photograph titled Revenge of the Goldfish (1981), one of the defining images of 1980s tableau photography.
She continues to explore these issues in her imaginative and witty practice; but what does the art of the past mean to Skoglund, a contemporary artist? In this ongoing program, artists and architects discuss works in the museum’s collection, share the special insights of the practicing professional, and relate older art to contemporary artistic concerns, including their own.