Sherry Karver

Roots Go Deep

2025

Sherry Karver is "not a 'traditional' artist, and am always looking for new approaches to the materials I use to expand their possibilities. My work pushes the parameters of photography, painting, narrative text, and resin surface by blending them to create a new hybrid. Most recently I have also incorporated jigsaw puzzles into my work." She received my B.A. in Sociology from Indiana University in Bloomington, IN and her M.F.A. in ceramics from the Newcomb School of Art at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA. Her artwork has evolved from creating ceramic wall sculpture into the photo-based mixed media painting. Her work has been featured in over twenty-five solo exhibitions including the Sasse Museum of Art in Pomona, CA, the Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA, The Morris Graves Museum, Eureka, CA, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art in Santa Cruz, CA, and the Peninsula Museum of Art, Burlingame, CA, as well as over 175 private, corporate, and museum collections such as: The Sasse Museum of Art, Pomona, CA, The Crocker Museum, Sacramento, CA, The Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA, Santa Cruz Museum of Art, Santa Cruz, CA, and the Newcomb Art Museum, New Orleans. Karver's work has recently been featured in What Women Create Magazine, Carpazine Magazine, The Woven Tale Press, ArtReveal Magazine, Artist Talk Magazine, Edge of Humanity Magazine, 5"x7", etc., and on the cover of numerous books, and has been reviewed over thirty times. She was born and raised in Chicago and now living in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband.