Minimal Neural Mechanisms Necessary for Conscious Experience 2023 40x30 - Huge

Year2023

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Condition Excellent 

Not FramedGallery Wrapped Does Not Need Framing 

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Provenance / HistoryThis painting explores the field theories of information distribution. It has a purple/silver "field" in which sits a pod of evolving information (metaphorically). Inside the pod one sees the emerging neural mechanisms that are beginning to describe pictorial form, a necessarily abstract superposition not yet fully defined by the observer. Rupert Sheldrake, the black sheep biochemist says,"Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It is not rigidly determined in the old sense and it is not rigidly predictable. I think the laws of nature are likely to evolve, more like habits than laws." The structure of this work is a meditation on the "habits" of superposed entities as they are measured or observed. 

Story / Additional InfoThe work evolved from a highly successful series of works entitled "The Octopus Meditations" which in large measure are housed in the Rockwell Center for Integrated Science at Lafayette College. This work follow the path that series started in methods of though regarding the processes of consciousness as a fundamental aspect of cosmology. 

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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.