Throw Some Sugar on Me, Lay Your Cards Down 2024 31x19

Year2024

Hand SignedLower Right 

Condition Excellent 

Framed with PlexiglassBlack Wood Frame w/ Acid Free Mat 

Purchased fromArtist 

Provenance / HistoryThis work has its roots in the “Octopus Meditations” works started in 2018. It imagines perceptual constructs as seen from varying neuronal systems as a method of processing external stimuli. In particular, this work explores time and spatial relationships. Now is to time as here is to space. 

Story / Additional InfoFrom the artist: "This work explores aspects of consciousness as a fundamental part of the universe. Aspects of time, space and energy are consciousness. Previous works have relied on the visual equivalency of iconic, recognizable images to specific consciousness theories and relationships. These works are more open ended and spatially flexible. The addition of word imagery breaks the cubist pictorial structures into a variety of internally created spatial solutions for the viewer." 

Certificate of AuthenticityArt Brokerage 

LID167563

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.