Sharon Core’s intricately layered and meticulously crafted images explore the interplay between reality and illusion, authenticity and artifice, representation and reproduction. By recreating still-lifes, sculptures and other compositions inspired by a variety of artworks, she interrogates notions of authorship and the constructed nature of images. Through her rigorous process, from growing rare botanical specimens to sourcing antique objects, Core produces images that are as much about their method of production as they are about the subjects they depict, thus challenging photography’s ties to objectivity.Sharon Core was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1965. 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 began exhibiting her photographs in New York City in 1998 and has since shown her work in numerous solo and group exhibitions both in the United States and abroad. Her work is included in major public collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth; The Phillips Collection, Washington DC; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC; Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio. She was the recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Art Grant in 2000. Her monograph,Sharon Core: Early American, was published by Radius Books in 2012. The artist lives and works in Esopus, New York.