Field Channels Reverse Topological Plasticity 2022 34x24 HS

Year2022

Hand SignedUpper Right on the Back of the Work 

Condition Excellent 

Not FramedGallery Wrapped Does Not Need Framing 

Purchased fromArtist 2022 

Provenance / HistoryThis painting is within a group of works, post-Octopus Meditations, that explores the fundamental nature of consciousness by using artistic processes and knowledge of neuronal structures .The integrated complexities of physical action are combined in a layered approach . Collaborations with neuroscientists, biologists , and computational engineers inform this work...especially the studies of emergent visual systems. This work enjoys a pedigree that starts with the emotionally driven early works of abstract expressionism particularly the paintings of Grace Hartigan and Bill deKooning. with whom the artist worked. Post war angst settled into the psyche of the expressive New York School which was led by Pollock who set the standard to connective emotionalism as a means of being "in touch" with the process of making a painting.... 

Story / Additional InfoED KERNS is an American painter. He studied with Grace Hartigan, the highly regarded American Abstract Expressionist. Through his friendship with Hartigan, Kerns came to know and work with many artists of the New York School including Willem deKooning, Sam Francis, James Brooks, Philip Guston, Clyfford Still and Ernie Briggs. Kerns’ career in New York had a meteoric trajectory. In 1972, his first exhibition at the Sachs Gallery on 57th Street in Manhattan garnered high critical praise. The New York times, The Village Voice, Arts Magazine, Artforum and Art News were among the numerous publications to offer accolades for his work. Kerns lived and exhibited in Manhattan for twelve years before taking a position at Lafayette College to Chair and build the modern era Art Department. He became the youngest person to hold an endowed Chair at the college. Kerns continued to show his work in Manhattan at galleries in SOHO and on 57th street. 

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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.