SUE GREENWOOD FINE ART330 north coast hwy laguna beach, ca 92651 suegreenwoodfineart.com 949.494.0669SGFA

S H E R R Y K A R V E R

Wo r d O n t h e S t r e e tMay 20 – Ju ly 10

Cover:The Appropriation of Graffiti, 2015, 30" x 40" photo images, oil, narrative text, and resin on wood panel $8,600

Sherry Karver

My current series of photo-based work originates from photographs I have taken on city streets in Paris, London, New York, Chicago,

San Francisco, and at Grand Central Terminal. I am expanding and shifting the parameters of traditional painting & photography

by combining them with digital technology, narrative text, and resin surface on wood panels. By blending these mediums, it

enables me to push beyond their conventional boundaries to create a new hybrid. These are one-of-a-kind works, not photo editions.

I have always lived in large cities, so my work is informed by the multitude of issues we encounter living in a metropolitan area:

loneliness and alienation in our fast-paced society, the concept of personal identity and the loss of it, the

passage of time, the individual as part of the crowd, and how we can stand out from the ‘sea of sameness’,

since we each have our own unique voices and stories to tell.

Around 2000 I began writing text over some of the figures in my photos in an attempt to personalize or

individualize them, and make them stand out from the crowd. These brief stories about the people are

from my imagination, based solely on their appearance or stance. By using text in my work, it adds

another layer, and gives the viewer a chance to “experience” the artwork, and become part of the

process by reading it. There is a light humor to my work but I ask the spectator to go further and deeper.

I want them to dissolve the narrative and address the experience.

I superimpose these “biographies” on top of the individuals, almost as if they are wearing their stories like

an article of clothing. I try to give a little bit of history about the person; where they are from, their age,

what they do, their hopes, their dreams, and often something embarrassing or personal that they would

rather not have revealed.

In my work the documentary nature of the B&W photograph merges with the painterly qualities of oil, establishing a dialogue

between the two. I mount my black & white images on top of 2 5/8” deep wood panels, and hand paint them with numerous

layers of oil glazes to build up the color, combining the old master technique of glazing with contemporary photo/digital

technology. The final surface has a UV resin coating.

– Sherry Karver

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New Pa in t ingsby

Sherr y Kar ver

Word On the St reet

May 20 – July 10, 2015

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Walking In the Slanted Light, 201530" x 40" photo images, oil, narrative text, and resin on wood panel $8,600

Imagination, 2015 20" x 20" photo Images, oil, narrative text, glitter and resin on wood panel $3,600

Lingering Observations, 201440" x 20" photo images, oil, narrative text, and resin on wood panel $7,200

Twenty to One, 201530" x 40" photo images, oil, narrative text, glitter, and resin on wood panel $8,600

Harmony Of Strangers, 201532" x 32" photo images, oil, narrative text, and resin on wood panel $7,500

News of the Future, 201532" x 32" photo images, oil, narrative text, and resin on wood panel$7,500

Collective Mythologies, 201536" x 42" photo images, oil, narrative text, and resin on wood panel $11,000

Lovers, Anarchists and One Lost Soul, 201544" x 24" photo images, oil, narrative text, and resin on wood panel $8,200

Just a Narrow Bridge, 201540" x 20" photo images, oil, narrative text, and resin on wood panel $7,200

Now Boarding Track 11, 201524" x 24" photo images, oil, narrative text, and resin on wood panel $5,200