Who Looks Outside, Dreams; Who Looks Inside, Awakes 2022 41x31 - Huge

Year2022

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Provenance / HistoryThis work is one of several growing out of the Octopus Meditations that visually tackles a strange new fact of nature as its subject matter...that particles can be "entangled" over huge distances and that measurements made in one place can have an instantaneous effect in another place. These interactions do not seem to violate the principle of the speed of light....are the interactions happening outside space and time? Einstein called this "spooky". The pictorial structure of the work suggests fixed and flowing points happening at the same time . 

Story / Additional InfoThe artist has collaborated with engineers, biologists and neuroscientists on both the production of art and scientific experiments. The imagery of science influences the art work images.
Science has made profound discoveries dividing wholes into parts. This is reflected in the unity of knowledge being divided into the great branches of learning. However, as we awaken to the harsh realities of the 21st century, crucial limitations to this enterprise have become evident. For understanding the interconnections within complex systems is as critical as comprehending each individual component. Hence, E.O. Wilson’s appeal for consilience - or the forging of connections between isolated fields of knowledge - is increasingly compelling, even if this will take generations to achieve. Kerns has been a pioneer in this endeavor: he left the ego-obsessed New York art world to foster the genius of a forward-thinking community who together exceed the sum of their parts. 

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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.