Genotypes, Explant, Nutrients, and Growth Regulators 2023 30x15

Year2023

Hand SignedOn Verso 

Condition Excellent 

Not FramedGallery Wrapped Does Not Need Framing 

Purchased fromArtist 2023 

Provenance / HistoryThis painting is a meditation on morphology the branch of Biology that deals with structure and form in living organisms. The painting is about deep time when earthly life forms shared a common ancestor that bifurcated its formal structure leading to among many versions including primates and cephalopods....the structural changes over 650 million years are quite remarkable....one leading to a huge brain with a massive frontal cortex and the other leading to nine brains in an integrated connective configuration. The implications for interaction/perception of respective environments is visually rich and in both cases, the perceptual result . 

Story / Additional InfoI have collaborated with many neuroscientists, engineers and computational specialists over the years and am deeply interested is what is called the "the hard problem of consciousness"....I am not illustrating here but rather using my experiences and knowledge to address the unity of knowledge and the consilient principles of the late E.O. Wilson, noted
intellectual and sociobiologist...a field he established. 

Certificate of AuthenticityArt Brokerage 

LID162926

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.