Sherry Karver

Sherry Karver’s current series of photo-based work originates from photographs she has taken on city streets and public spaces from around the world. Her work expands the parameters of traditional painting and photography by combining them with digital technology, narrative text and resin surface on wood panels. By blending these mediums, she can push beyond conventional boundaries and create a new hybrid. Karver’s work is informed by her own life experiences, tackling themes of alienation and loneliness in our fast-paced society, the concept of personal identity, and the loss of it, the passage of time, and the individual, both in solitude, and as part of a crowd. Through her interest in identity and anonymity, Karver began writing text over some of the figures in her photos, not only to personalize the individual, but to also make them stand out from the people around them. Sherry Karver received her M.F.A. from Tulane University, & B.A. from the Indiana University Bloomington. Her work has been exhibited throughout the US and can be found in numerous private and corporate collections. In 2018, her exhibition “Collective Mythologies” was featured at the Oceanside Museum of Art.