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Anna Gaskell
Untitled, 2007
Courtesy of the artist and Yvon Lambert Gallery,
Paris/New York
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Anna Gaskell’s work is currently on view at The Aldrich in Voice & Void and was first seen at the Museum in Pop Surrealism in 1998.
Born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1969, she studied at Bennington College for before attending the Art Institute of Chicago, where she received a BFA in 1992; she received an M.F.A. from Yale University in 1995. Gaskell has said that her work is more influenced by film and painting than by the conventions of photography. Indeed, Gaskell’s working method is more akin to that of an astute movie director than to a camera-wielding photographer. Drawing inspiration from a wide array of literary and cinematic sources, her works are made in series that form what she calls "elliptical narratives."
Gaskell received the Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize in 2000 and a Nancy Graves Foundation grant in 2002. She lives and works in New York.
