Sandy Skoglund: "Enchanting Nature" expands on the breadth of Skoglund’s artistic practice as a sculptor, installation artist and photographer. Merging a variety of mediums, Skoglund creates tableaux constructed with unconventional materials. She then photographs the detailed installations, incorporating live models within swarms of fabricated objects or sculpted animals, from black squirrels and falling blue leaves to neon green cats.

Skoglund’s work is centered on the conflict between the manmade world and the natural environment and the resulting paradoxes created by the ongoing dualities of contemporary life. She uses lush, super-saturated colors and compelling forms to punctuate her distinctive dreamlike images that invite the viewer into a world of psychological suspense.

"Enchanting Nature" will feature "Radioactive Cats," Skoglund’s first installation that combines her handmade sculptures, live models and photography. Similar themes of serialism, repetition and similarity can be seen in "Revenge of the Goldfish," a room-sized installation that includes more than 100 individually handmade ceramic goldfish. The two projects are considered among the most defining images of the staged photography movement of the 1980s and 1990s.

The exhibition will also present the never-before-exhibited 2008 installation "Fresh Hybrid" and showcase work from throughout the artist’s career, emphasizing ongoing themes of nature, the environment and interspecies kinship. For the first time, Skoglund will create monumental photographic enlargements drawn from details of her iconic photographs. This new approach to subvert the "photographic rectangle" encourages visitors to experience the entirety of each image through individual sculptures, objects and images taken from installations and room-sized environments that envelope the viewer.