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Sherry Karver
Things We Can't Resist
2015

About the Item

Sherry Karver's, "Things We Can't Resist," is a unique mixed media created from composite photography, oil glazes, layers of resin and fictional biographical text. Karver collects images of people she finds intriguing in her travels and seamlessly joins them together into new compositions and locales including New York's Metropolitan Museum, Grand Central Station, the streets and cafes of Paris, London and more. "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. The figures are often caught in movement, conveying our individual journeys, where we are all "collectively alone". Also, I often incorporate ‘ghost-like apparitions’ into some of my work. These figures represent the passage of time – all the people that have been in the exact same place but at a different moment – maybe only five minutes before, or ten years in the future. We are all connected in this time continuum, even if we aren’t aware of it. My work embraces the contemporary non-linear view of time with its randomness, spontaneity, and chance occurrences."

Creator:
Sherry Karver (American)
Creation Year:
2015
Dimensions:
Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 40 in (101.6 cm)
Medium:
Mixed Media,Oil,Pigment,Resin,Wood Panel
Movement & Style:
Contemporary
Period:
21st Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Boston, MA
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU2502647282

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