Jacqueline Kluver

Artist Statement

Originally the creative skills of women were relegated to utilitarian craft with purposes in the home and community. Within every social class, religion and culture, these women emulated intrinsic beauty that captured the spiritual strength, quiet power and fierce passion of their creators. I strive to capture that visual chant, unassuming strength and testimony of the spirit which lives in the soul of the woman.

Process

Jacqueline Kluver works with the patience and tenacity of a weaver. She is a weaver of paint. In a Zen-like state of layering patches and strokes of color, patterns emerge and in a continued process, dissolve again into new patterns. Over time she layers “painting over painting” intuitively and with obsessive ritual she arrives at her desired destination.  Her work is described as having both vitality and drama with a unique stability of order and chaos.

Biography

Omaha Artist Jacqueline Kluver received her BFA from the University of NebraskaOmaha. She has worked as a full time artist while raising a family for the past twenty years. Jacqueline Kluver’s work is represented by Modern Arts Midtown, Omaha, where she has conducted solo exhibitions consistently since 2003. Her work is primarily large scale and widely collected regionally.