Sharon Core

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Sharon Core
Born1965 (age 58–59)
New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Education University of Georgia (BFA)
Yale University (MFA)
Known forPhotography
AwardsGeorge Sakier Memorial Prize for Excellence in Photography, Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant

Sharon Core (born 1965) is an American artist and photographer. Core first gained recognition with her Thiebauds series (2003-4) in which she created photographic interpretations of American painter Wayne Thiebaud's renderings of food. Two of her works in the Thiebauds series, Candy Counter 1969 (2004) [1] and Confections (2005) [2] were acquired by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 2005. [3]

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Early life and education

Core was born in New Orleans in 1965. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1987 from the University of Georgia and a Master of Fine Arts from the Yale University School of Art in 1998, which is where she received the George Sakier Memorial Prize for Excellence in Photography. [4]

Career

After studying painting at the University of Georgia, Core moved to Stockholm, Sweden. She then settled in Prague in 1993, where she first practiced photography seriously and created a baking business based in her own apartment. [5] In 1996, she returned to the United States to attend the Yale University School of Art. For her thesis project, which was centered around the ritual of eating, she photographed people consuming their favorite foods.

This project led to her early series, Drunk (1998–2000), in which she captured portraits of intoxicated guests at a party she organized as well as those she found at local gatherings. [6]

Her next series, Early American (2007–2010), remodeled the still lifes of 18th century American painter Raphaelle Peale. Similar to the photographs of Thiebauds, Core again focused on the idea of process, growing the early 19th century produce in Peale's paintings in her greenhouse and collecting period dish ware. [7] She also painted the walls in the backdrop of the photographs to echo Peale's painting techniques. [8] These works were on view at the Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York City from October 23 to December 6, 2008. [9]

Core's project 1606-1907 (2011–2015) explored three centuries of flower paintings. [10]

For her subsequent project "Understory" (2015), Core takes inspiration from the seventeenth-century Sottobosco tradition of Dutch paintings of forest floors. According to a description in The New Yorker, "Core's new pictures revel in decay and wildness. Snails slither across bright, wet leaves; pink flowers collapse in a pile of petals; a toad peers from the shadows, camouflaged in the dirt." [11]

In her series Thiebauds (2003–2005), Core recreated 18 of Wayne Thiebaud's food paintings of the 1960s. She was inspired upon viewing Thiebaud's retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2001. [12] In 2004, Robert Panzer, then executive director of the Visual Artists and Galleries Association (the copyright collective that represented Thiebaud at the time), told the New York Times "Wayne Thiebaud is concerned with the use that Sharon Core has made of his work...The reproductions she has made are largely straightforward versions of his paintings." [13] Thiebaud responded to Panzer's remarks to the press by sending Core a letter praising her photographs and refuting Panzer's claims that Thiebaud was "concerned." [14]

Personal life

Core lives and works in Esopus, New York. [15]

Exhibitions

Core has presented solo exhibitions at spaces across the U.S.: [16]

Selected collections

Core's works have also been purchased by various institutions: [17]

Further reading

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References

  1. ↑ Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. "Candy Counter 1969" . Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  2. ↑ Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. "Confections" . Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  3. ↑ Yancey Richardson Gallery. "Sharon Core CV" (PDF). Sharon Core. Retrieved 6 July 2016.
  4. ↑ Guggenheim Museum. "Sharon Core" . Retrieved 20 June 2016.
  5. ↑ Egan, Maura (2004-03-28). "Cake Masters". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2016-07-25.
  6. ↑ Egan, Maura (2004-03-28). "Cake Masters". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2016-07-25.
  7. ↑ Puckett-Rinella, Judith (22 October 2008). "In Focus | Sharon Core". T Magazine. Retrieved 2016-06-20.
  8. ↑ Golonu, Berin (March–April 2009). "MIRRORING". Art on Paper. 13 (4): 32–35. JSTOR   24557042.
  9. ↑ exhibit-E.com. "Yancey Richardson Gallery > Past Exhibitions > 2008". www.yanceyrichardson.com. Retrieved 2016-06-21.
  10. ↑ Chua-Eoan, Howard. "Painting with a Camera: Sharon Core's Early American". Time . Retrieved 2016-06-20.
  11. ↑ ""Goings On About Town: Art"". The New Yorker. 2 May 2016.
  12. ↑ "Art Show: Sharon Core". ELLE DECOR. 2010-10-07. Retrieved 2016-06-20.
  13. ↑ Egan, Maura (2004-03-28). "Cake Masters". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2016-07-25.
  14. ↑ Letter from Wayne Thiebaud to Sharon Core, April 5, 2004. Sharon Core archives, Esopus, NY
  15. ↑ "Artist website". www.sharoncore.net.
  16. ↑ Yancey Richardson Gallery. "Sharon Core CV" (PDF). Retrieved 6 July 2016.
  17. ↑ Yancey Richardson Gallery. "Sharon Core CV" (PDF). Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  18. ↑ Cleveland Museum of Art. "Early American, Melon and Pitcher, 2009 by Sharon Core" . Retrieved 2 August 2016.
  19. ↑ J. Paul Getty Museum. "Sharon Core (Getty Museum)" . Retrieved 2 August 2016.
  20. ↑ Montclair Art Museum. "eMuseum: Sharon Core" . Retrieved 2 August 2016.
  21. ↑ Princeton University Art Museum. "Early American: Watermelon and Apple Gourd, 2007 by Sharon Core" . Retrieved 2 August 2016.
  22. ↑ The Mint Museum. "Collection Database: Sharon Core" . Retrieved 2 August 2016.
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