Cambrian Explosion: Just Before the Trilobites 2023 40x30 - Huge - Octopus

Year2023

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Provenance / HistoryThis work receives its pictorial structure from the study of visual metaphors based upon genetic patterns inherent in basic chemical interactions ....often slammed together by churning geological heat ...causing a surge in emergent systems ....and within the formation these systems, thousands of early life forms possibilities...often referred to as the "Cambrian Explosion", dating back 538 million years ago....this sort of speculative visualization ferments discussion and uses the invocation of Einstein for us to use imagination and mind experiments as a means of breakout thinking... 

Story / Additional InfoThis work is based on an earlier series of works, usually referred to as the "Octopus Meditations" which speculated on Octopus "consciousness"....with a creature that has nine brains and lives a highly connected, intelligent life ahead of predators and prey....a true multi-task perceptual matrix....art and science seeking a combinatorial understanding of this magnificent creature. 

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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.