Year2021

Hand SignedUpper Right on Verso 

Condition Excellent 

Not Framed 

Purchased fromArtist 2021 

Provenance / HistoryThis work is 21 x 22.5 x 10.25 inches. Some forms are out side the plexiglass box which is 16 x20 inches. This work is a 3-D Collage of various materials. It has been shown widely and most recently included in a retrospective at Lafayette College. Kerns often works with eclectic material concepts including wood, digital imagery, plastic figures and metal. The pieces add a level of humor and irony to work grounded in abstract expressionist modalities. Kerns has made this kind of work most of his career in tandem with his better known and established abstract expressionist works developed during his association with Grace Hartigan and Bill DeKooning. 

Story / Additional InfoEd Kerns is an American painter and educator. He studied with Grace Hartigan, the highly regarded American Abstract Expressionist. Through his friendship with Hartigan, Kerns came to know and work for many artists of the New York School, including Willem de Kooning, James Brooks, Philip Guston, Clyfford Still, and Sam Francis. Kerns’ career in New York had a meteoric trajectory. In 1972, his first exhibition at the Sachs Gallery on 57th Street in Manhattan garnered high critical praise. The New York Times, The Village Voice, Arts Magazine, ArtForum , and ArtNews were among the numerous publications to praise his work. Kerns lived and exhibited in Manhattan for 12 years before coming to Lafayette College to chair and build the modern era Art Department. In 1987, Kerns was awarded the Eugene and Mildred Clapp Professorship of Art. He became the youngest person to hold an endowed chair in the College’s history. 

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