Anna Gaskell: From Untitled #105 (A Short Story of Happenstance)

Anna GaskellFrom Untitled #105 (A Short Story of Happenstance), 2005Photolithograph20.5 x 29 inchesEdition: 17/35 In Anna Gaskell's series A Short Story of Happenstance, the artist presents elusive narratives of adolescent girls in psychologically charged, surreal situations that draw from cinematography, art history, and fairy tales. From Untitled #105 (A Short Story of Happenstance) was produced alongside Gaskell’s 2005 exhibition, Out There: Landscape in the new Millennium, which took place at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (2005). Anna Gaskell was born in 1969 in Des Moines, IA. She received her BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago (1992) and her MFA from Yale University (1995). She has been the subject of many solo exhibitions, including at the Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO (2000); The Menil Collection, Houston, TX (2002); Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA (2006); The Box at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (2007); and The Des Moines Art Center, Des