Clearence Glover

For native artist Clarence Glover it’s to the ordinary moments. The self-taught artist captures details in a stride, the expression on a face, the look in a pair of eyes, to show the ordinary but also to leave a seam for the viewer to slip in little deeper into the Ordinary Lives of People of Color.
“I grew up in Miami’s diverse culture,” said Glover, born here in 1961. “I just remember seeing people, Hispanics, Haitians, other black people walking to church or at the market. The scenes come to me quickly and I want to capture it right away, so my art is loose but I try to make the details intense.” Glover works primary in pastels and graphite to achieve what he calls “ passionate realism”. In that way, said Glover, “people can immediately relate to what I was thinking about the first time they view my artwork.
“I want to capture the things I don’t want people to forget about, ” said Glover. “My art reflects everyday life. . . The things we don’t think about, but we notice.” . . . “I want people to see my art as that one moment of time in the back of their mind captured on paper.