Sandy Skoglund 

Lot #64
Two Boxes, 1978
Archival pigment inkjet
22 x 28 x 1 inches
Edition 13 of 15 
Courtesy of the artist and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York

About the Artwork

An icon within the history of photography, Sandy Skoglund makes conceptual photography-based work that often incorporates sculpture and installation with vibrantly colored, meticulously constructed sets employed to question popular culture and commercial photography techniques. Her Food Still Lifes series, of which Two Boxes is a part, considers the staging and arranging of traditional still life compositions through the lens of ‘70s consumer culture in ten high-anxiety images. Each image depicts a meticulous arrangement of processed food or containers against vividly patterned contact papers, creating a dizzying perspectival distortion. Taking this perceptual disruption even further, three images in the series—Orange on a Box, Yellow Box, and Two Boxes, present angled boxes covered by the same repetitively patterned design as the backdrops themselves; as a viewer continues to look, the photographs appear to buzz, recede, and emerge anew. Selected images from Food Still Lifes are included in the Aperture publication Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography (Aperture, 2017). Her work has been exhibited widely and is held in many permanent collections around the world.

Retail Value: $10,000