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SCAD-Atlanta presents lecture by artist Sandy Skoglund
Joann Cooler and Sandy Skoglund 
Photo by Freddie Bennett
Noted artist and SCAD Distinguished Faculty Program member Sandy Skoglund (right) discusses project concepts with Joann Cooler, a senior interactive design and game development student, in Skoglund’s Creative Focus course at SCAD-Atlanta April 13.
By Nikki Teigen
Published: Friday, April 21, 2006
Installation artist Sandy Skoglund will talk about her artwork and inspirations at the Savannah College of Art and Design-Atlanta, 1600 Peachtree St., April 26, 7 p.m. Skoglund is teaching at SCAD-Atlanta during spring quarter as part of the Distinguished Faculty Program. The lecture is free and open to the public.

The Distinguished Faculty Program is an opportunity for students at SCAD-Atlanta that expands the role of visiting artist to visiting professor. Beginning Spring 2006, renowned artists are joining the SCAD-Atlanta faculty for one quarter to teach specialized courses and offer student critiques. These people exemplify the mission of SCAD education: They are celebrated artists who have succeeded in transforming their art into successful careers. The advanced, five-hour credit courses taught by Distinguished Faculty Program participants are open to all graduate students and available to seniors with faculty adviser or chair approval.

Skoglund is known for creating sculptural installations and photographs that are often made of food or other ordinary materials drawn from everyday life. Her work offers a complex dynamic that is parody and convention, experiment and treatise. Many of her famous pieces utilize life-size animals replicated and placed in unusual settings, such as “Radioactive Cats,” which features green cats romping in gray kitchens, and “Revenge of the Goldfish,” which features huge goldfish swimming through the air in cobalt bedrooms. Other pieces incorporate food, such as “Spirituality in the Flesh,” which used ground beef as a medium.

In 2001, Skoglund held an exhibition at SCAD featuring “Shimmering Madness,” a large-scale installation made of thousands of feather butterflies and jellybeans. In 2003, she was commissioned by SCAD to create a large-scale installation titled “Streaming” at the Pfriem Gallery at SCAD-Lacoste, France. “Streaming” involved hundreds of ribbons hanging from the ceiling. As the materials fell to the ground, they accumulated and swelled like a river of texture and color. Furniture functioned as islands for the streaming ribbons to flow around, and students were used as participants swimming in the river of color.

Skoglund earned a master’s degree from the University of Iowa. She has taught at The Ohio State University, Sarah Lawrence College, the School of Visual Arts, the Hartford Art School and Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Her work has been shown at venues nationally and internationally, including Galerie Rabouan-Moussion, Paris; Guy Bartschi Gallery, Geneva; Museo d’Arte della Provincia di Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy; and Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta. Her photographs and installations are in many prominent public and private collections, including those at the Brooklyn Museum, the Center for Creative Photography, Centre Pompidou, the Art Institute of Chicago, Corcoran Gallery of Art, the High Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.


Teigen is media relations manager for SCAD-Atlanta.