Sherry Karver

Not Looking Back

Dye sublimation print

"Embracing chance, serendipity and random occurrences as the basis of this photography series 'Movement Interrupted,' I am 'capturing' images off of a TV screen, intentionally waiting to photograph when the screen becomes pixelated and fragmented due to uneven reception.

The images I am photographing appear for just a moment and become deconstructed, stretching the colors, lines, and shapes into a new format, from recognizable to almost abstract. The little squares that arbitrarily appear on the TV screen represent to me how our technological world interacts with, and effects people and the environment itself. "

- Sherry Karver

About the artist

Sherry Karver

Sherry Karver is not a traditional artist. She has explored art since childhood and approaches it from her own perspective. Born and raised in Chicago, she received her BA from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana and her MFA from Tulane University in New Orleans. With background in ceramic sculpture, Karver taught college-level ceramics for many years while her own work evolved into photography and photo-based painting around 2000.

She is not afraid to combine her photography with oil painting, narrative text, and resin surface on wood panels to create a new hybrid. In her series "Movement Interrupted," she uses data corruption glitches photographed from her TV screen to create unique images.

Karver has had over 25 solo exhibitions including the Oceanside Museum of Art, the Morris Graves Museum, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art, and the Peninsula Museum of Art in California to mention just a few. Her work is in over 175 private, corporate, and museum collections.

She lives in Oakland with her husband, poet and novelist Jerry Ratch.