Ed Kerns
“Planck Scale Consciousness 2022 40x30 HS - Huge”
Original Painting : Acrylic on Canvas w/ Various Mediums to Increase Texture
Size: 40.00x30.00 inches | 102x76 cm
Edition: Original
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🔥Huge Acrylic Mixed Media on Canvas - Blue Chip - Inquire
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Year2022
Hand SignedOn Verso
Condition Excellent
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Provenance / HistoryThis post “Octopus Meditations” painting explores the emergent principles of visual perception and connectivity to memory. The basis of the physical processes comes from an understanding consciousness as fundamental to reality and to the phenomena of non-locality which particles enjoy. Energy fields are seen as consciousness fields (the biochemist Rupert Sheldrake refers to these fields as "morphic resonances") in which information is shared with other sentient receivers. The abstract expressionist ethos is the same idea. Gesture pulverizes the blank canvas by action strokes and emotively driven autonomic responses containing three distinct divisions: sympathetic, parasympathetic and enteric....all of which belong in the physical manifestation of emotional expressiveness. Starting in Abstract Expressionism, this is a natural evolution for this artist.
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. Kerns has enjoyed a long association with the New York Art World.
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