From Terra to Verde: The Art of Sharon Kopriva. The Ogden Museum of Southern Art. University of New Orleans.

By Bradley; Sharon Kopriva Sumrall

From Terra to Verde is a 30 year survey of works created between 1982 and 2012 by artist Sharon Kopriva. Born into a Catholic family in the Houston Heights, she traveled to Peru in 1982, where she encountered the open burial grounds and mummified bodies of the pre-Columbian Nazca culture. It was a defining moment in her life and art. Over the next 30 years, Kopriva's work has explored issues of faith and doubt, life and death, primitive culture, historic events and contemporary society. Working in an imagist style, she conveys her personal spiritual journey through sculptures, paintings, drawings and installations. Moving from the earth-tones of her early expressionistic landscapes and mummies to more recent magical realist depictions of forests-as-cathedrals, this book reveals the breadth and unity of her career.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0977254461
• ISBN13: 9780977254460
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: The Ogden Museum of Southern Art
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.