Radioactive Cats
Artist
Sandy Skoglund
(American, born 1946)
Date1980; printed 2024
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsImage: 29 × 36 1/2 inches (73.66 × 92.71 cm)
Framed: 38 1/2 × 46 1/16 × 1 1/2 inches (97.79 × 117 × 3.81 cm)
Framed: 38 1/2 × 46 1/16 × 1 1/2 inches (97.79 × 117 × 3.81 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: acquired through the generosity of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2024.37.2
SignedOn image recto, lower right, in black pen: "Sandy Skoglund";
On image recto, lower right, blind stamp: "Sandy Skoglund";
On mount verso, lower right, in black pen on white label: "Sandy Skoglund / 1980 / PP 3/3".
InscribedOn image recto, lower right, in black pen: "'Radioactive Cats' 1980;
On mount verso, lower right, in black pen on white label: "'Radioactive Cats".
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Twenty-five green cats stalk, beg, and play across a kitchen in Sandy Skoglund’s Radioactive Cats. To stage this photograph, Skoglund constructed a gray room-sized installation filled with sculptures, posed people as though nothing were out of the ordinary, and then photographed the outlandish scene. “The most critical aspect of my work … is that it is photographic,” said Skoglund. “I am asked why I do not produce my images with a computer: it would change the meaning. To know that what we are looking at has really existed, changes our perception.”
Purchased from Sandy Skoglund by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2024.
Copyright© Sandy Skoglund
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