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Marcene Glover
PORTRAIT ARTIST/Fine
Arts 2-dimensional Works
ARTIST
BIOGRAPHY
Marcene Glover is Portrait Artist to United States Congressmen and Senators. She received her formal education in Fine Arts at Seton Hill University, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, majoring in Drawing and Painting, minoring in Music and Art Therapy. She served apprenticeships in Portraiture, Textiles, and Illustration. She is a Portrait Instructor at Touchstone Center for Crafts, teaches Fine Arts on a college level, and is a Rostered Artist in Residence with Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, and ArtsPath. Marcene is currently portraying the personal and political views of United States Government officials. These are being showcased in her one-person traveling exhibit, Faces in Government.
Marcene's artistic experiences range from being a Courtroom Artist, to Textile Designor, to Resort Area Caricaturist, to Directing Cultural Arts Programing, including music, literary, culinary, language, drama, and visual arts.
Essence of Life Art is the partnership of Marcene and her mother, Fiber Artist Dorie Sheridan. Their work can be seen by appointment, or in select galleries. Together, these artists produce 2 and 3-dimensional work, on paper, canvas, silk, and sculpture.
Portrait Artist to U.S. Congress
Courtroom Artist for WJAC-TV Newscenter 6 and Tribune
Democrat
Exhibiting Invitaional Artist Regionally, and in
Japan
Work in private collections in Canada and Paris France
Portraits collected by museums and colleges
Fine Arts Teacher on College level, and Arts Education Director
College Fine Arts Scholarship Juror
Member Portrait Society of America
Traditional Arts Consultant
Featured Artist in 2009 American Art Collector Portrait Artist Directory
Featured Presenter with Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art
Best in Show - Allied Artists of Johstown Exhibit
"Fine Arts Excellence in Teaching" - Community Arts Center of
Cambria County
Directory Artist in Residence with Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, PA
Council on the Arts, ArtsPath, and Building Bridges through Art Smart
PA Council on the Arts/PA Rural Arts Alliance Multiple Grant Recipient for
Portraiture
Presidential Award for Service to AmeriCorps, promoting Cultural Diversity
through the Arts, with BOTTLE WORKS Ethnic Arts Center
Juried Regional Exhibit Award - Laurel Arts
Juried Regional Exhibit Award - Somerset County Artists Association
2 Person Exhibit - Krause Gallery, Providence, RI
2 person Exhibit - Goldhaber-Fend Gallery
Solo Exhibit - Goldhaber Gallery and Katter Theater, PA
Solo Exhibit plus residency work - Harlan Gallery, Seton Hill University
Solo Exhibit - Jenner Art Gallery
Solo Exhibit - Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art Cafe exhibit
Solo Exhibit - Conemaugh Memorial Gallery
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Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art
Seton Hill University
Mount Aloysious College
ART WORKS in Johnstown!
United States Chief Magistrate Lesnick
United States Courtroom: Federal Mine Safety Commission
Congressional Library: Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson
United States House of Representative Members:
Pennsylvania Congressman, Chairman John P. Murtha
Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr.
New York Congressman Gregory Meeks
Nevada Congresswoman Shelley Berkley
Pennsylvania Representative Ed Wojnaroski
PA State Republican Party Chair Rob Gleason
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Drawings
My pastel drawings celebrate the simplicity of an artful sketch and cut through
the genre to find the essence of a people or place. They look to find a
familiar connection in what may be an unfamiliar culture. I'm influenced by
Color Field Painters and Minimalism. The way I feature a strip of intense color
into an otherwise minimal sketch is called "Color Stream". I designed
this style to catch the viewer off gaurd enough for
him to want to take a second look, giving him the chance to find his own
connection with the subject.
Paintings
My mixed media painting combines realism, letterism
and symbolism to portray my subjects' mood, culture, personality, history and
concerns. Through this "Essence-ology"
method, I capture the essence
of a person, rather than just physical appearance. I'm influenced by Australian
Aborigine Dreamtime thinking, that the past is relevent
and ever present, communicating, mixing with the dynamic events, personalities
and philosophies of today, as if carried by the wind, a ripple of water, or
these fluid washes of paint.
I see each painting as a conversation with the viewer. I begin the
communication with saturating color and free flowing shapes, to spark the
viewer's interest on a primal level, asking such questions as, "What shape is laughter?, What texture is hunger?, What color is the sound of a
trumpet blast?" The suggestive style evokes the viewer's personal
feelings, memories and opinions, and lets them mingle with glimpses of specific
information. This conveys universal ideas that are interpreted in individual
ways. As in a conversation, the viewers take away the most meaning from my
paintings when they allow their own ideas and obseravtions
into the process.
Statues, buildings, and familiar objects can hold reference to historic events and ideologies. I find parallels between strategies on the chess board, or fencing matches, and strategies in historic battle to be interesting. These paintings are about circular, not linear time, and ancestors staying with us. The saying is "if walls could talk". Well, what if 19th century battleshipheads could talk!
Congressional
Portraits
I get so much fulfillment from working with the
Congressmen and Senators. I interview them to learn why they entered public
service, their personal driving forces, and what their role is, while faced
with Americans' current concerns. I work with them to express their views in
terms of aesthetics that are personal to them, and incorporate their
philosophies into the completed portrait.
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Fine Arts
Studios of Marcene Glover and Dorie Sheridan
2nd floor
studios
BOTTLE WORKS
Ethnic Arts Center
411 Third
Avenue Johnstown, PA 15906
studio visit
by appointment: phone(814)243-2126 fax(814)410-2053
artists are
AKA Marcine Glover, and Dorothy Sheridan