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CLIFFORD EBERLY

RELIQUARIES AND RELICS FOR THE HORSESHOE CRAB
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To confront the current pandemic, global vaccine production will soon increase dramatically. The blood of horseshoe crabs is used as a sterilizing compound in medical vaccine production. Will big pharma continue to bleed the Horseshoe Crab’s precious limulus amebocyte lysate cells to use in the standard test for sterility for needles and IVs? Or will they use the humane “factor C” test, saving tens of thousands of Horseshoe crabs and Redknot birds that feed and rely on their eggs during their migration to the Arctic. Eberly presents his sculptures and paintings as reliquaries and memorial relics to the living fossil in an altar-like configuration as a prayer of hope that Horseshoe crabs do not face extinction to save human lives.


BIO
Clifford Eberly is an artist and curator living and working in the Arts and Warehouse Districts in Downtown Los Angeles. Prior to moving to Los Angeles County in 2010 to enroll in the MFA program at Claremont Graduate University, Eberly founded and directed parlor gallery in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 2006. Prior to re-settling in Lancaster where he grew up, Eberly lived and worked in New York and Philadelphia where he attended CUNY’s Studio in the City and Fabric Workshop Apprenticeship programs in 1996 and 1993 respectively. From 1988-1992 Eberly studied Fibers at Savannah College of Art and Design and graduated magna cum Laude with a BFA degree. Clifford Eberly has presented his work in solo and group exhibitions at Raid Projects(Eastside International), PØST, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, PAM, Torrance Art Museum, Sturt Haaga Gallery at Descanso Gardens, Coachella Valley Arts Center, The Art Gallery at Glendale Community College, Lee Gallery at Clemson University, Coastline Art Gallery LACMA and now pluto projects. In 2019 Eberly received the Curators LAB Grant and presented the exhibition CODE WORD SAFE at the Fellows of Contemporary Art in Chinatown, Los Angeles.

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RELIQUARIES AND RELICS FOR THE HORSESHOE CRAB

80% to artist | 20% to COVID-19 aid
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