How I Made This: Nicole Dyer’s Trompe L’Oeil Groceries

“I go to grocery stores like I go to museums,” the Baltimore-based artist Nicole Dyer said. Dyer’s paintings and sculptures, which she documents daily on Instagram, often depict domestic objects and home goods — things you see every day but usually ignore. Lately, she has turned to replicating the genre of wellness-adjacent, intensely branded products that can be found on the shelves of Whole Foods or bodegas in gentrifying neighborhoods: dairy-free yogurt, tinned fish, a