Beginning of Water 2023 21x25
Ed Kerns
Original Painting : Acrylic Paint w/ Various Mediums and Silver Metallic Suspension on Canvas
Size : 30x24 in | 76x61 cm
Framed : 31x25 in | 79x64 cm
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Year2023
Hand SignedOn Verso
Condition Excellent
Framed without GlassBlack Metallic Frame
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Provenance / HistoryThis painting is one of the first of a new series of works in which the chief structural dictates are driven by visual concepts of origin stories. The work reflects upon the material coalescence of elementary particles joining other materials to emerge as formularies of larger, flexible states of matter. In this case, the reflection is about water. The series will start to be exhibited this fall. Like the Octopus meditations several paintings will become a part of this beautiful new series.
Story / Additional InfoThere is much discussion in the collaborative Art/Science world about the early compromise of religion and faith as a result of empirical data and technological advancements. Yet, of late there is a return to the transcendent, an embrace of the Emersonian view of our place in the universe based on the recent discoveries of big Science. Trans-humanism, the arrival of Ray Kirzwell's "technological singularity", and the confirmation in recent Physics experiments of the "non-locality" of the universe all remind humanity of its connection to the whole...we are once again a part of a larger, collective, consciousness. Science is returning us to a stewardship position of nature and away from a dominion of exploitation. We have even created star fusion on a small scale. This work is an "Origin" story of water and the entire series will consider such thoughts.
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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.