Implicate, Explicate: Folding and Unfolding 2018 48x36 - Huge

Year2018

Hand SignedOn Verso 

Condition Excellent 

Not FramedGallery Wrapped Does Not Need Framing 

Purchased fromArtist 2018 

Provenance / HistoryArtwork was exhibited in the Bravin Lee Gallery Space 526 w 26th Street, New York, New York in a group exhibition throughout the month of March 2024. The show was entitled "Post Post Human" curated by Taney Rongier and Jim Toia. The painting was also shown at Lafayette College Galleries. It is one of a group of paintings exploring consciousness as it arises from morphic fields of information as described by the Chemist and cosmologist Rupert Sheldrake in his groundbreaking work on vision and perception. David Bohm's theories concerning the folding and unfolding processes of reality are a part of the structural concept of the painting. 

Story / Additional InfoThis work is a part of a series of works that became known as the "Octopus Meditations".
The series was based on studies of Octopus consciousness...particularly regarding movement in their watery environment....Having multiple brains (nine to be precise) these beautiful creatures are able meld with blend with their environment as much as one hundred times a day while seeking food or protection from predators. 

Certificate of AuthenticityArt Brokerage 

Additional InformationMOTIVATED - Very Heavy Texture 

LID168920

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.