Year2017

Hand SignedUpper Right on Verso 

Condition Excellent 

Not FramedGallery Wrapped Does Not Need Framing 

Purchased fromArtist 2017 

Provenance / HistoryThis large work was done at the very beginning of the Octopus Meditations (2015-2018). Subject matter explores chemical reactions in the primordial soup of the early universe. The work has been shown in several exhibits relating to scientifically driven images pondering the interactions leading to early single cell organisms...specifically those formed in extreme environments...i.e. forms of bacteria....process, flow and space time adding to the layered complexities of the image.....a different kind of painterly space in layers of visual information rather than in an illusionistic pictorial set up. 

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 New York galleries. 

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