In Chaos There is a Cosmos, in All Disorder a Secret Order 2023 48x36 - Huge

Year2023

Hand SignedOn Verso 

Condition Excellent 

Not FramedGallery Wrapped Does Not Need Framing 

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Provenance / HistoryThis work is in part, a result of consciousness studies done in collaboration with neuroscientists. ... several concomitant theories in physics regarding the general idea of superposition of particles until they are observed (measured) causing the particle to be in wave function or as a particle...in other words the observation influences the matter state.....this fundamental idea coupled with recent proofs of non-locality suggest that consciousness exists as a basic glue of the universe....and likely outside of space time as well...all of matter has a degree of consciousness, making process painting a key to a metaphorical representation of consciousness. There is a growing number of artists collaborating with biologists, neuroscientists and physicists seeking deeper understanding of a "conscious" universe. 

Story / Additional InfoThis painting has it roots in abstract expressionism, American action painting that dominated the post-war art world. The artist studied with Grace Hartigan and worked with Bill DeKooning and, during his early years in Manhattan came to know many of the first generation of the New York School including James Brooks, Sam Francis and Phil Guston. He has carried forward the innovations of abstract expressionism while adding a multi faceted unity of knowledge theory to it...collaboration with scientists informs the furthering of human capacity in the arts, 

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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.