Moving Matter with My Brain 2021 31x23

Year2021

Hand SignedLower Right 

Condition Excellent 

Framed with PlexiglassWhite Wood Frame w/ Mat 

Purchased fromArtist 2021 

Provenance / HistoryWork was recently included in "Ed Kerns: Interconnected Retrospective of 50 years of Work: Four major venues; Grossman Gallery, Skillman Gallery, Rockwell Integrated Science Center and Williams Center for the Arts, Lafayette College. Catalog with illustrations available . 

Story / Additional InfoThe work part of a larger group of works concerned with the examination of human consciousness processes and how they relate to physical movement.

In addition to painting and production of digital art, Kerns routinely collaborates with neuroscientists, biologists, computer scientists, and engineers. He is part of a growing group of artists and academics who embrace the emergent possibilities of consilience forming a broad partnership to explore the overarching unity of knowledge. The visual ideas found in his recent work have been developed from conversations with biologists, neuroscientists, and other artists interested in the compelling revelations made possible by process-driven visual-modeling and direct observation, the root of both art and science. To ask questions about consciousness, especially in the context of a magnificent creature with an integrated neural network of nine brains, places imagination and creativity at the forefront of progress in scientific and artistic endeavor. 

Certificate of AuthenticityEd Kerns 

LID155315

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.