Katrina Nola 2005 60x54 - Huge

Year2005

Hand SignedUpper Right on Verso 

Condition Excellent 

Not FramedGallery Wrapped Does Not Need Framing 

Purchased fromArtist 2005 

Provenance / HistoryThis work was done in 2005 shortly after the artist returned from New Orleans where he worked in the Lower 9th Ward helping the citizens to restore what housing was left after the levies broke and the flood waters poured in. The area is considered a bayou, watery and marsh like. This painting is based on an imaginary restoration of the flora and fauna as well as the houses in the ward. It is truly one of the few available of my purely, large abstract expressionist paintings. The painting has been widely shown including being a part of the Clyfford Still Museum opening in the Havu Gallery, Denver, Colorado. 

Story / Additional InfoI was sitting with a man who saw family members washed away in the Katrina storm surge. He showed me photos taken from the rooftop of his brick house(one of the very few in the area) of a wall of water coming...I was so emotionally moved by the whole experience that my art reacted directly to the experience.....real down and dirty abstract expressionism.....a basically calm dispassionate image... however, the underpainting is violently expressive. 

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LID159585

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.