Art & Cake features a review , written by Genie Davis . . . here’s a snippet, and we’ll paste the link if you’d like to read more:
The Museum of Art and History in Lancaster has done it again, with another honestly awe-filled exhibition by Cudra Clover which fills most of the space. There are several other smaller installations showing as well, including a richly rewarding installation of vivid, highly detailed textile-based artworks from Leonard D. Greco, and an enormous, socially significant art quilt, We Are Home, assembled by artist Shelley Heffler, that benefits and supports the unhoused with sales of individual squares. The work was made with 12x12 quilt blocks from local residents. David Koeth’s stunning Citrus Series, globe-like works created from citrus peels are also quite dazzling, miniature unmapped worlds.
But the focus of this review is, as it must be, on the multiple works of Cudra Clover in her massive and varied exhibition, Hysteria.
“Silk painter and multimedia artist, Cudra Clover, is currently working on her Biomorphic Abstraction collection; the term "biomorphic" refers to symbolic structures or images that evoke naturally occurring forms such as plants, organisms, and body parts. Clover describes her work as creating new worlds on a microcosmic level. Mixing science and art, she researches pandemics, viruses, water, genetics, and plant cells. Clover creates her biologically inspired silk painting using camera technology, microscopes, projectors, biologists, and scientific photo research in her artistic method.
Clover's silks paintings are a time-consuming and detailed process that she views as a meditative practice on living things, both real and imagined. Clover, in this process, uses the Japanese fabric dyeing technique, rozome, and elements of the Indonesian method of wax-resist dyeing, batik. She also incorporates aspects of French Serti, a silk painting method in which painters outline their designs with gutta or water-based resistance. In creating biomorphic abstract art, Clover attempts to provoke viewers to reflect on the natural world invisible to the naked eye and the overstimulation of technology in our everyday lives.”
ABOUT CUDRA CLOVER
Cudra Clover is a silk painter, multimedia, and installation artist. She studied at Columbia College in Chicago and now lives in Hawaii and creates in her jungle studio on Maui. Her art is in the permanent collection of the Hawaii State Museum of Art and can be seen in various other public spaces. She has exhibited in Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, New York City, Black Rock City, Japan, China, Maui, Oahu, and the Big Island of Hawaii.