Thursday, January 16, 2014, 7pm
The School of Visual Arts Amphitheater
209 East 23rd Street (betw 2nd/3rd Ave), Third Floor
(please bring photo ID for building entry)
Q & A to follow the discussion.
Free to CCNY members, SVA students, faculty, and staff
$5 general admission, $3 for other students with ID
Sharon Core was born in 1965 in New Orleans, Louisiana. She holds a BFA in Painting from the University of Georgia, Athens, 1987 and an MFA in photography from The Yale University School of Art, 1998. Core began photographing while living abroad in the early 1990’s. Her work has been exhibited in the US and internationally since 1998. Recent solo exhibitions include Sharon Core: 1606-1907 at the Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York and Still Lives: Early Works by Sharon Core at the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina. Her work was included in Significant Objects: The Spell of Still Life at The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena in 2012 and will be exhibited at The Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth in December of 2013. Her work is included in numerous public collections including The Guggenheim Museum, New York, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, The Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe and The Hermes Foundation, Paris. Core’s first monograph Early American, was published by Radius Books in Santa Fe in 2012. The artist lives and works in Esopus, New York. To see more of her work, please go to the Yancey Richardson Gallery website.
September 19, 2013 – Joshua and Zakary Sandler
October 17, 2013 – Ron Jude
November 14, 2013 – Gerard H. Gaskin
December 12, 2013 – Anna Shteynshleyger
January 16, 2014 – Sharon Core
February 20, 2014 – Dan Torop
March 20, 2014 – Victoria Sambunaris
April 10, 2014 – Interim Report: Directions in Post Graduate Work/Art/Life with Elisabeth Biondi & panelists
The CCNY Lecture Series is presented in conjunction with the SVA BFA Photography Department.
CCNY‘s lectures are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.
