Early American, Still Life with Balsam Apples

In her photography series, Early American, Sharon Core meticulously recreates still life compositions painted by the 19th-century American artist, Raphaelle Peale.  Core carefully replicated Peale’s use of lighting and subject matter and grew heirloom seed varieties of fruits and vegetables in existence in the early 19^th century to place in the composition. The carefully constructed images also examine the relationship between illusion and reality within photography.

Core was commissioned by Lincoln Center to create an edition of 9 C-prints in 2010.

Sharon Core (b. 1965 in Louisiana) lives and works in Esopus, New York. She received her BFA in painting from the University of Georgia in 1987, and her MFA in photography from Yale University School of Art in 1998. Core was the recipient of the George Sakier Memorial Prize for Excellence in Photography at the Yale School of Art in 1998 and she won the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Art Grant in 2000.

Her work is included in major public collections such as: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Guggenheim, New York; The Zabludowicz Collection, London; Yale University Art Gallery; Princeton University Museum of Art; the Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth; the West Collection, Philadelphia; National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, D.C.); the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (Fort Worth, TX); the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles); MoCA Shanghai and the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao.