Artist Bio

Glover's work is commissioned by U.S. Members of Congress, and hangs in over 20 public buildings: permanent collections of museums, universities, congressional offices, federal courtrooms, and congressional library. She traveled from Nevada to New York City to Washington D.C. and Rhode Island collaborating with government officials to visually express their views, exhibiting this traveling one person show of civic minded paintings, and facilitating residencies. Glover continues to exhibit and paint in residencies abroad, in NYC, France, Italy, Norway and Japan.

Glover paints from personal observations through years of experience as Courtroom Artist, Congressional Portrait Artist, Arts in Wellness Painter, and Cultural Arts Curator, ranging in activities from helping heal and inspire chronic pain patients to incarcerated youth, to representing many rich cultural traditions, to interviewing and collaborating with Congressional members and civil rights leaders, aesthetically representing their issues.  

Glover’s current work is shaped by these experiences. Her painting vocabulary reflects her growth through helping people through the Arts.  She is a Signature Member of National Association for Women Artists, a national member of Women's Caucus for Art, and served on the Leadership Team of WCA New York Chapter.  Enriching collaborations and mentorships through residencies, curating exhibits, and consulting have inspired Marcene to open ArtHouse6, for artists, curators, and patrons to share cultural experiences. This was a 5 year project during COVID season that gave support to dozens of artists and writers.

Earth Patterns, Life Rhythms:
Using nature as a metaphor, I paint about transitions we face. So movement is important in my work. I combine oil and acrylic paints and glazes with wax and gold leaf, splashing them onto wood panels, canvas, or primed paper. Influenced by Jasper Johns, I let textural brushstrokes and drips show, as evidence of the artist having been there. Fluid washes of paint refer to the idea of wind, movement all around us, and the transient nature of each moment. As I’m also influenced by Mark Rothko’s Color Field painting, I allow calm areas for contemplation to join the active washes.

I don’t paint the olive tree, I paint about the olive tree.  When someone tells you a story about their grandpa, you don’t see their grandpa, you haven’t met him, but you feel like you know him, or you know why you want to meet him. My paintings don’t show you a tree. They describe how the tree is affected by the wind, and how its roots shift the soil… they try to show you why you want to meet the tree.

Some of my paintings embrace a stillness within the greater motion, while others celebrate bold undulating rhythms pulsing through a scene, connecting us to awareness of currents in our lives. Some of these paintings contain symbols to suggest content, while others let the patterns and textures become the glyph.

I relate to early Eastern landscape painting that brings the distance forward stacking or flattening it into the same plane with the host. What I bring into the forefront are planes of existence that can’t be seen: movements in air patterns, cross sections of erosion under the earth, goals and aspirations visualized in our dreams. The barrier between these realms of what is above and below the surface is often clearly marked with a gold line. The ways the imagery interacts with the barrier remarks on breaking through barriers in life. So my work points out duality, and suggests we look deeper into our surroundings.

The way I see it, the atmosphere is made up of swirling textures, chunks of light, and resonating shadow. A person's essence cuts through that in a hauntingly clear way, as if carried by the wind, a ripple of water, or these fluid washes of paint....If we listen closely, light rays may reveal societal messages.  Atmospheric glazes reveal elements of content like sunlight reveals details it falls upon. Hieroglyph evokes nostalgic reflection. And symbolic keys landmark our thought processes wading through daily stimulus.