This article was originally published December 5, 2023 in What Women Create Magazine

My journey as an artist has had numerous twists and turns — in a good way. If you had asked me years ago where I would be in 2023, or what kind of artwork I would be making, I could never have guessed. Things just have a way of evolving on their own.

I was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, an only child to parents who were Holocaust survivors from Poland. Art was not an important element to them, but inadvertently they both were instrumental in my early interest in art

My dad was a tailor so there were always scraps of fabric laying around that I would cut up and create things with; and my mother worked for a company that made the little colored squares glued on paint store brochures. She would bring home extra ones, which developed my interest in colors early on. I was probably the only 6-year-old who knew what aubergine or chartreuse looked like.

Originally Published June 13, 2023 in When Women Inspire

The mixed media pieces from artist Sherry Karver are unlike anything I have seen. I am so excited to share this interview with you all! I love the Chicago-based artist’s modern spin and am fascinated by how crowds inspire her. I am an anxious person who avoids crowds, but now I see the value in them as they give Sherry spectacular imagery to create artistic masterpieces. Find out more about her here, see some of her artwork, and much more!

Disclosure: This sponsored interview features a woman artist who I admire for paving her own path with one-of-a-kind, eye-catching creations that mix modern materials.

Continuing through July, 10, 2015 Anyone aware of his or her surroundings knows that any place in the world offers a potential people watcher’s paradise. That holds especially true for Sherry Karver, who specializes in text-enhanced, multi-media works. Paint enhances photographic images of crowd scenes mounted on wood panels. Karver then introduces stories about the…

Fittingly enough, New York is the subject of Figuratively Speaking, a new exhibition from Chicago-born, California-based visual artist Sherry Karver, which debuted May 3 at the Kim Foster Gallery located in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood. Karver showcases her two favorite shoot locations, Grand Central Terminal and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, both of which she describes as, “the…

by Janet Alexander Galo Magazine May 2013 Fittingly enough, New York is the subject of Figuratively Speaking, a new exhibition from Chicago-born, California-based visual artist Sherry Karver, which debuted May 3 at the Kim Foster Gallery located in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood. Karver showcases her two favorite shoot locations, Grand Central Terminal and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, both…

Catalogue Essay By Peter Frank Peter Frank is Associate Editor of Fabrik Magazine and art critic for Huffington Post. He has served as critic for the LA Weekly, Village Voice, and SoHo Weekly News, as Editor of THEmagazine Los Angeles and Visions Art Quarterly, and as Senior Curator at the Riverside (California) Art Museum. At a time in human history when our inter-connectivity, our…

“… might take a year off to travel, but has no idea where to go, & has never been away from home…” This, among many other fabricated comments by Sherry Karver are superimposed over select subjects as she guides us back to and through the real world. In her art, Karver suggests that life is…