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.