Details

Title

Gathering Paradise

Artist/Maker

Sandy Skoglund (American, born 1946)

Date

1991

Medium

Dye coupler print

Dimensions

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Credit

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James L. Henderson, III

Accession #

1991.270

On View

Currently not on view

Like many of installation artist and photographer Sandy Skoglund’s surrealist views of domestic spaces, this macabre, pink-tinged scene of squirrels running riot across a patio suggests the frenetic anxiety that bubbles beneath the placid appearance of suburban life. Eschewing digital manipulation, Skoglund meticulously constructs room-size theatrical sets—in this case, complete with sculpted squirrels—which she then photographs. At once funny and unsettling, her photographs of everyday spaces invaded by a menagerie of fantastical animals reveal the nightmarish aspects of the American dream.

Image Copyright

© (c) Sandy Skoglund