Anna Gaskell
| Anna Gaskell | |
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| Born |
October 22, 1969 Des Moines, Iowa, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Photography |
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Anna Gaskell (born October 22, 1969[1]) is an American art photographer who is considered part of the "Yale School", having studied under Gregory Crewdson.[2] She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1992.[3] In 1995, she received her MFA from Yale University School of Arts.[3] She is best known for her photographic series “Elliptical Narratives”. She lives and works in New York.[4]
Artistic practice
Gaskell describes her early practice of "taking pictures of myself, but I didn't really enjoy it...I had these personal stories that I wanted to tell. So I thought I'd have someone play a familiar character and then I could twist that, combine it with things related to it, and I'd be telling a completely different story."[5] Working in narrative photography, Gaskell creates fictions often based on well-known stories, fairy tales or literary works as a way to invite her viewers into her photographs. The wonder series (1996–97) is a meditation on Lewis Carroll’s Alice's Adventures in Wonderland stories where two identically dressed Alices are photographed together and separately and at oblique angles that recall the disorienting experiences of Alice in Wonderland. In hide (1998) her photographs of young girls alone in a Gothic mansion, create a sense of dread and underlying sexual intrigue that takes its impetus from the tale of a young woman forced to hide beneath animal skins to hide from the matrimonial desires of her father.[6]
Exhibitions
Gaskell's first solo exhibition was at Casey Kaplan Gallery in New York in 1997. Her work has been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami (1998), White Cube in London (1999 and 2002), Aspen Art Museum in Aspen, Colorado (2000), Castello di Rivoli in Rivoli, Italy (2001), the Menil Collection in Houston (2002), Art Unlimited in Basel (2005), and The Box at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio (2007).[4]
Awards
References
- ↑ "Anna Gaskell". Artnet.com. November 23, 2013. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
- ↑ Higgins, Jackie (2013). Why It Does Not Have to Be in Focus. Prestel. pp. 136–137. ISBN 978-3-7913-4851-3.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Gaskell, Anna." Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 17 Mar. 2014.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Anna Gaskell". Guggenheim Museum of Art Collections Online. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
- ↑ Hay, David (September 29, 2002). "Photographs on a Wall, Doors to a Haunted Manor". New York Times. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
- ↑ Nancy Spector, "The Fiction of Fiction: An Exquisite Unease," in Anna Gaskell (NY: powerHouse Books: 2001) ISBN 1-57687-069-3.
- ↑ Nancy Graves Foundation. http://www.nancygravesfoundation.org/grants.html