Contemporary artist Anna Gaskell considers herself a "photo-based" artist rather than a photographer, because her images rely on all different types of media. Gaskell, who was born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1969, draws upon film, literature and paintings to create her color tableaux. She is often inspired by literature and creates a series of photographs and short films to investigate its deeper themes. The artist's literary influences include Lewis Carrol's Alice in Wonderland, Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, Henry James' The Turn of the Screw, and the stories of Edgar Allan Poe. Several themes are recurrent in her work, including duality, the supernatural, and the insidious qualities inherent in childhood activities.Gaskell earned her MFA from Yale in 1995 and was awarded the Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize in 2000. Her artwork in featured in numerous publications and books, including "by proxy", "uncanny", and "half life".
During my research, I had difficulty finding a homepage for Anna Gaskell, but have included several links to collections of her artwork.
www.whitecube.com/exhibitions/halflife/
www.guggenheim.org/new-york
www.postmedia.net/999/gaskell.htm
www.postmedia.net/999/gaskell.html
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