Go See. I'll Say It Again: Really Go. (If you happen to be in Georgia.)

Sharon Core's "Early American" Exhibition at SCAD-Atlanta's Trois Gallery - it's not clear in their materials but I believe there is an opening reception and artist talk - Thursday 10/8 at 6PM
Show Runs Oct. 2-Nov. 25

Trois Gallery, 1600 Peachtree St., Atlanta, Ga.
The exhibitions department presents "Early American," a series of still life photographs by artist Sharon Core based on the paintings of early 19th-century still life painter Raphaelle Peale. In her work, Core engages the concept of illusionism central to the genre of still life and upends the notion of trompe l'oeil by attempting to create a photograph that appears to be a painting. This exhibition is free and open to the public. For more on Sharon's work see my blog here

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 William Christenberry: Photographs, 1961–2005

at The Morris Meseum of Art, Macon Georgia. September 12–November 8, 2009. Not everything is in Atlanta, so jump in the car and head South to Macon. We missed Mr Christenberry's gallery talk last month. Sadly, we just forgot to put it on our calendar.

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©Tierney Gearon

Tierney Gearon. It's ACP time  (Atlanta Celebrates Photography) (another festival, lord knows Atlanta loves a festival and every other day there's a new photography-related festival popping up) and Tierney Gearon is in town at the end of the month speaking about her work. If you don't know her images, you should. Netflix her documentary "The Mother Project" and go see her talk at The High Museum of Art Thu, Oct 29, 7pm - 9pm FREE!

 As part of Atlanta Celebrates Photography’s annual lecture series, The High Museum presents a lecture by acclaimed, native Atlantan photographer, Tierney Gearon, in The Hill Auditorium on Thursday, October 29 at 7:00 PM. Tierney’s lecture will encompass the entire span of her career as a photographer - beginning with her first portraits of her family, her early commercial work as a fashion photographer in Europe, her discovery by Charles Saatchi, subsequent shows at The Gagosian Gallery, The Mother Project, and her newest series, EXPLOSURE. 

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Check back here regularly as I'll hopefully add other directives as we move through the month.

Also NOTE: all images above are found freely and easily on the web and while used without permission here, I'm sure the images are copyright protected and rights remain with their respective owners... 

Sharon Core - Pop Art or Early American Master Still Life Photographer

Still Life with Branzino and Wild Striper © Sharon Core

After seeing this image in last Sunday's New York Times Magazine, I wanted to write about the work of Sharon Core. Sharon smashed an ace in 2003 with her photographs based upon Wayne Thiebaud's paintings and sold, if not every print in the edition, so many prints at Bellwether Gallery that Bellwether left Williamsburg for Chelsea. If you don't know the Thiebaud paintings or Sharon's photographs, she was able to create exact replicas of what Thiebaud painted from imagination. Call her work overly conceptual, I call it amazing (and maybe a bit obsessive compulsive.) Imagine the lighting control and forced perspective when looking at the work- not to mention the culinary control!

I emailed Sharon because I was curious about her crossover from the fine art world to the world of magazines. I wondered if The Times picture had been an assignment or, as the photograph had a decidedly Dutch-master feel to it, was it maybe part of a new series she was working that the Times just happened to pick up. She wrote that it was the best of both worlds. The Times had seen a preview of the work at her new gallery Yancey Richardson and commissioned her to use this feel for the food story about striped bass.

It turns out that Sharon's new work is based upon the painter Raphaelle Peale (son of early American painter Charles Wilson Peale and brother of Rembrandt and Titian.) Charles is said to have started what is considered the first museum in America and named his children after famous painters.

Sharon is still developing the work and plans to show in early 2009. Get a preview here.

Here's a good article from the Times. Here's the Thiebauds at Bellwether.

And here's a Thiebaud painting and a Sharon Core photograph:

Cakes 2003, ©Sharon Core