California artist Sherry Karver uses mixed media to create images that confront today’s individual and societal issues. Born in Chicago, IL, she received her BA from Indiana University and her MFA from Tulane. She began her work as a ceramicist, eventually transitioning into a photography-based and multimedia practice. Still, her background in sculptural mediums is apparent through her current artistic process of adding detail to her pieces in layers. In her most recent series, “Identity and Perception - Urban City series with Narrative Text”, her work process starts with photographs taken on city streets in New York, Paris, Milan, and in iconic buildings such as Grand Central Terminal and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY. She then writes text over some of the figures to isolate them visually from the crowd. Each narrative is imagined, solely drawing from their appearance. The last step is glazing the images in oil paint, adding color to the initially black and white scenes, and covering the pieces in resin for a hard glossy surface. Through oil painting, photography, and narrative text, she evokes ideas and feelings of alienation, loneliness, loss of identity, history, memory, self-image, and how others view us. Her work has been exhibited extensively, and she has had over 25 solo exhibitions including the Oceanside Museum of Art, CA, the Morris Graves Museum, Eureka, CA, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art, Santa Cruz, CA, and the Peninsula Museum of Art in Burlingame, CA.