Anna Gaskell

Anna Gaskell was born in Des Moines, Iowa, on October 22, 1969. She studied at Bennington College for two years before attending the Art Institute of Chicago, where she received a B.F.A. in 1992; she received an M.F.A. from Yale University in 1995. Gaskell's early photographs were self-portraits, but she soon began photographing girls as they collectively acted out stories, often embodying characters reminiscent of Alice from Alice in Wonderland. In her wonder (1996--97) and override (1997) series, groups of girls dressed in matching uniforms are shown in ambiguous and ominous situations. Her series hide (1998) evokes a Brothers Grimm tale of a young woman who disguises herself under an animal pelt so that she might escape her own father's proposal of marriage; Gaskell set this story in a gothic mansion illuminated by candlelight. Recently, she has been incorporating the history of specific sites into her works' narratives; in the photographs and short film that comprise half life (2002), for example, the artist portrayed the former residence of Dominique de Menil as a sort of haunted house.

Gaskell's first solo exhibition was at Casey Kaplan Gallery in New York in 1997; she has since exhibited 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), and the Menil Collection in Houston (2002). She has also participated in Sightings at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London (1998), Photography Past/Forward: Aperture at 50 at Burden Gallery in New York (2002), and Moving Pictures at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. She received the Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize in 2000 and a Nancy Graves Foundation grant in 2002. She lives and works in New York.
http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_191.html

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[bfarley37]

I love Anna Gaskell....this video is a nice tribute.

[petois]

Could anybody tell me something about the music that goes with this video???

[makisov]

I first heard of Anna Gaskell while working at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami....I wish I met her. She is my favourite photographer now.

[CiCiLuvsTwilightBoyz]

Anna Gaskell is an amazing producer. I was in her documentary that she filmed this last August and it was the most amazing experience I've ever had. She is just so, unique and original and just pulls it all together! She's so sweet, and I would love to do work with her again.

[topoamargado]

i really thank you for all your videos, your are amazing!

[maxaries]

This is my favorite youtube video. Anna Gaskell just captures my imagination like no other photographer.

[XB70Playboy]

I'm happy Anna is having the success she is. We were went to the same high school together and attended a few of the same art classes as well. She fashioned a birthday card out of construction paper for me back then and hoped to get her to resign it during one of her exhibits a couple years ago. Unfortunately she couldn't make her appearance. Oh well. Next time.

[kidd9203]

I was in her series override when I was 14. My friend Beth and her sister and I and a couple other girls. The picture of the girl looking towards the back of another girl is my friend beth. I just decided today to see if anything ever came of those pictures and here I find out she's in the damn guggenheim museum and on the cover of a book! She took the pictures of us by her cabin on Lake Vermillion in MN that summer.

[gogotom]

real useful!