Sandy Skoglund

 Sandy Skoglund is an America photographer and also an installation artist. Which I admire as not only has she over come the problem of gender dominate in this work area but she has also created interesting and amazing pieces of work that no one else has specifically created or achieved. Sandy creates surrealistic images by creating and building sets or tableaux and uses furnishing and props in the images so that they colour coordinated and colour balance the whole image out so that you get the areas you want to pick up on with better detail, so she excludes a lot of the image but defining it by 1 colour I would say in majority of her images.Sandy was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts in 1946. Sandy spent her childhood all over the country including the sates Maine, Connecticut and California. Sandy studied art history and studio art in smith college in Northampton, US.  Then she graduated in 1969 in university of Iowa, where she studied film, multimedia art and printmaking which as looking at her work has come in very handy as she uses all her skills as she has learnt over these 3 course and crosses them over each other creating these magical instalments of work that she makes.With sandy installations she very much choses to main colours in the workspace that she will use and only use these to create her elaborate and amazing works spaces for the images that she’s uses. All her images work by this ratio of colour as this is what I would say connects her images all together back again to make them all bounce off each other and work well as there’s 2 dominating colours in each part of her image.In a lot of her work and images she emphases pieces to the point where it over takes the whole images as socks floating in and around the whole image where it starts become the question of how they in place are or how did they get there in the 1^st place. Not only does her work only give you a flavour of two colours but its also confuses you in do mince and slap which area becomes more important as in do you look at the floating objects more or do you look at the background where it’s the flat matt colour as the whole room. Very mage is so hectic and confusing that you can’t analyse every image the same with Sandy’s work.