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Sharon Core, American, b. 1965
Sharon Core’s photographic practice investigates the slippery boundary between historical painting and contemporary lens-based illusion, transforming traditional still-life and landscape genres into meticulous, highly constructed visual studies. Born in New Orleans in 1965, Core received her MFA from the Yale University School of Art, where she grounded her work in rigorous technical execution and deep art-historical inquiry. Rather than capturing ephemeral moments, her process is slow and archival; she frequently builds physical objects, bakes historic recipes, arranges botanical specimens, or replicates the exact lighting and composition of master painters like Raphaelle Peale and Giorgio Morandi before recording them on large-format film.
Her celebrated series, including Early American and Thirteen Year Itch, interrogate the mechanics of representation, time, and authorship, collapsing the centuries between nineteenth-century trompe l'œil painting and modern color photography. Within the Bushwick sur Seine framework, Core’s oeuvre serves as a vital anchor, exemplifying how exacting mechanical reproducibility, material devotion, and historical reverence can elevate photographic prints into enduring primary artifacts of visual perception.
Early American investigates the slippery boundaries between historical painting, botanical documentation, and contemporary photographic illusion, transforming nineteenth-century still-life traditions into meticulous, highly constructed visual studies. Grounded in rigorous archival research, the project is inspired by the pioneering trompe l'œil paintings of Raphaelle Peale, alongside historical seed catalogs and horticultural specimens. Rather than capturing spontaneous arrangements, Core constructs each composition physically, often baking historic recipes, cultivating rare heirloom fruits and vegetables, and arranging them with exact botanical precision before recording them on large-format film under natural light.
The publication is structured as a quiet, methodical catalog of visual replication, sequencing lush plates of tiered berries, dew-kissed peaches, and dramatic still-lifes against dark, atmospheric backgrounds. By meticulously mimicking the exact lighting, compositional structure, and color palette of early American masters, the book collapses the temporal distance between nineteenth-century studio painting and modern color photography.