Return Unique Mixed Media Sculpture 2021 25 in 3-D Wall Sculpture

Year2021

Hand SignedOn the Back Upper Right 

Condition Excellent 

Framed with PlexiglassFramed in part with Plexiglass 

Purchased fromArtist 2021 

Provenance / HistoryA 3-D collage ...part of a group of six such collages shown at the Skillman Gallery and various group exhibitions. 

Story / Additional Info24.5inches x 16.5 inches with projections beyond the acrylic the frame adding 8 inches of projection beyond the acrylic box. Kerns occasionally works in metal, wood and now with plastic materials in collage. The pieces often add a level of exuberant humor and irony to works grounded in abstract expressionist modalities. A group of six different works most recently featured in Kerns' retrospective at Lafayette College. Ed Kerns is an American Abstract Expressionist of the New York School who studied with and worked with Grace Hartigan and Willem De Kooning. 

Certificate of AuthenticityArt Brokerage 

LID155625

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.