Mind Body 2: Permeability and Flow 2023 31x25

Year2023

Hand SignedLower Right 

Condition Excellent 

Framed with PlexiglassBlack Frame w/ Archival Mat 

Purchased fromArtist 

Provenance / HistoryThis art work is part of a group of recent works exploring aspects of mind and body as mutually influential --essentially combining to form one whole with permeability and energy flow. Ideas of "non-locality", and "consciousness" as a fundamental process define the structures within these works. 

Story / Additional InfoThis work comes from Kerns' continued interest in a "conscious universe" and "consciousness" itself as a fundamental aspect of all there is along with energy and space/time....Recent progress in Physics suggest the "non-local" aspect of the universe will change contemporary physics profoundly. The work of David Bohm also plays a role in these images. The "observer" makes the universe. 

Certificate of AuthenticityArt Brokerage 

LID165297

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.