Brain Luminosity: The First Condition, a Formation of Light 2023 30x24 - Octopus

Year2023

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Provenance / HistoryA beautiful, luminous painting assuming a position of articulation of light as a first condition of consciousness... an observation of a super posed subject....an illumination of consciousness extending outside the brain into the resonance of emergent systems... a meditation about the non local nature of the universe and the principles of quantum observation...a work in the series of new paintings about consciousness itself. 

Story / Additional InfoThis work has been based upon processes revealed from a well known previous series of paintings entitled "the Octopus Meditations"....a group of works produced by the study of sentience of Octopuses who enjoy the benefits of a neural systems with nine interconnected brains and sense their watery environment with great awareness and the ability to process many points of view simultaneously. Essentially these works and this one in particular, address the fundamental property of consciousness....and the emergent quality of being a part of the observation, in fact, creating the world we experience. 

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Ed Kerns - United States

Art Brokerage: Ed Kerns American Abstract Expressionist Artist: b. 1945. Ed Kerns (February 22, 1945) is an American abstract artist and educator. Kerns studied with the noted Abstract-Expressionist painter, Grace Hartigan and through the elder artist came to know and work with many artists of that generation including, Phillip Guston, Willem de Kooning, James Brooks, Ernest Briggs, Richard Diebenkorn and Sam Francis. Born in 1945 in Richmond, Virginia, Kerns started painting at a young age. He attended the Richmond Professional Institute, receiving his BFA in 1967. He went on to the Maryland Institute, where he studied with painter Grace Hartigan. Here, Kerns received the Hoffberger Fellowship and graduated with an MFA in 1969. Kerns first gained exposure in 1972, when he was commissioned by art collector Larry Aldrich to paint 100 paintings over the course of the year as gifts.That same year, Kerns had his first solo art show at the AM Sachs Gallery in New York. Over the course of the 1970s and 80s, Kerns formed a close partnership with the Rosa Esman Gallery and exhibited ten solo shows there. Of his work in the late 1970s and early 80s, gallery coordinator Judith Stein says, "He works slowly, creating no more than ten large paintings a year. His media are acrylic, sand, and thread, the last used to stitch together sections of canvas. Often plywood or upsom board is used as support." Listings wanted.