Ms. Skoglund’s work often incorporates sculpture and installation with vibrantly colored, meticulously constructed sets to question popular culture and commercial photography techniques.

Since the late 1970s, Skoglund has been celebrated for her panoramic installations—entire environments that she designs, constructs, and then re-visualizes photographically. With a strong interest in examining how the camera sees compared to how the human eye sees, Skoglund arranges the props in her sets to play and experiment with the camera’s eye. “Photography, as a moment in time, introduces rigid pictorialism into the multiple viewpoints of sculptural perception,” Skoglund explains. “An installation is a lot more forgiving than the photographic element, which requires endless fussing with details as they appear within the frame. There’s a discerning eye that comes into play because photography translates sculpture in a totally different way.”
Courtesy Ryan Lee Gallery.