Small But Most Venomous : Blue Ring Octopus Before Construction 2016 30X24

Year2016

Hand SignedLower Right 

Condition Excellent 

Framed with PlexiglassBrown Wood Frame 

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Provenance / HistoryThis work has a heavily compressed center constructed of painted and digitally imaged pieces of plywood...the spatial construct is to collapse cubist construction into a center mass as a metaphor representing the evolution of early chemical processes during which complex systems arose.....there are only three of these works available presently, having been the progenitors of the Octopus Meditations and because of their unique style of construction. Works were shown at Florence Lynch Gallery in NYC, William Havu Gallery in Denver, Seraphin Gallery in Philadelphia and several smaller east coast venues. 

Story / Additional InfoThese works, included information and visual imagery from some of the first collaborative work done with neuroscientists and biologists. They eventually led to the Octopus Meditations, an acknowledged group of works now on permanent display in the Rockwell Integrated Science Center on the campus of Lafayette College. The Art Work Extends Outside the Traditional Frame 

Certificate of AuthenticityArt Brokerage 

LID160012

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.