Author: Kearns, Jerry (born 1943)
Title: The Road to Casablanca. " Jerry Kearns Exhibition Poster
Description: San Francisco: Modernism, 1986. Poster. 81 x 49cm..Receiving his MFA from UC Santa Barbara in 1966, Jerry Kearns was born in Petersburg, Virginia in 1943 and creates large-scale whimsical and dark graphic paintings. Since the 1980’s Kearns has created “psychological pop” paintings, which have been exhibited in the United States and internationally, focusing on the impact of consumerism and mass media on people’s conceptions of themselves and reality. His artistry draws on his own experiences growing up in the United States and witnessing the blending of politics, entertainment, and truth in the media. He personally saw this transformation occur first-hand beginning with the Reagan administration. The subject matter is also based in personal tragedy, as his wife passed away in 2016 due to pancreatic cancer caused by the toxic air in New York City, an environmental crisis denied and covered up by the Bush administration. His sought-after pop art pieces juxtapose famous images and figures from Western iconography in violent scenes of conflict but without a clear victor. Sometimes humorous, sometimes morbid and often both, these acrylic on canvas artworks reflect the hypocrisies and absurdities that lie within the confusing landscape of American cultural politics and ideologies..erry Kearns’ “psychological pop” paintings represent a multidimensional quantum universe. Juxtaposing varied modes of representation, Kearns presents a visual mash-up that highlights how certain iconography expresses American belief structures. In compositions rife with conflict, questioning, contradictions and intrigue, Kearns depicts iconic figures sourced from Western popular culture engaged in perpetual power struggles, though it’s never clear who is winning. His characters fluctuate between protagonist and antagonist in a narrative that reflects our own constructions of reality – a matrix of thought where time and space are condensed and presented in a single, tense moment. Jerry Kearns has exhibited internationally across the Americas, Europe, and Asia since the 1980s. He has been featured many times in The New York Times, Art and Auction, ARTnews, and Artforum, among others. His paintings are included in many public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art (New York), National Galerie (Berlin), Brooklyn Museum (New York), the Art Institute of Chicago, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), The Norton Family Collection (Los Angeles), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Queensland Art Gallery (Queensland, Australia. .
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Title: The Road to Casablanca. " Jerry Kearns Exhibition Poster
Description: San Francisco: Modernism, 1986. Poster. 81 x 49cm..Receiving his MFA from UC Santa Barbara in 1966, Jerry Kearns was born in Petersburg, Virginia in 1943 and creates large-scale whimsical and dark graphic paintings. Since the 1980’s Kearns has created “psychological pop” paintings, which have been exhibited in the United States and internationally, focusing on the impact of consumerism and mass media on people’s conceptions of themselves and reality. His artistry draws on his own experiences growing up in the United States and witnessing the blending of politics, entertainment, and truth in the media. He personally saw this transformation occur first-hand beginning with the Reagan administration. The subject matter is also based in personal tragedy, as his wife passed away in 2016 due to pancreatic cancer caused by the toxic air in New York City, an environmental crisis denied and covered up by the Bush administration. His sought-after pop art pieces juxtapose famous images and figures from Western iconography in violent scenes of conflict but without a clear victor. Sometimes humorous, sometimes morbid and often both, these acrylic on canvas artworks reflect the hypocrisies and absurdities that lie within the confusing landscape of American cultural politics and ideologies..erry Kearns’ “psychological pop” paintings represent a multidimensional quantum universe. Juxtaposing varied modes of representation, Kearns presents a visual mash-up that highlights how certain iconography expresses American belief structures. In compositions rife with conflict, questioning, contradictions and intrigue, Kearns depicts iconic figures sourced from Western popular culture engaged in perpetual power struggles, though it’s never clear who is winning. His characters fluctuate between protagonist and antagonist in a narrative that reflects our own constructions of reality – a matrix of thought where time and space are condensed and presented in a single, tense moment. Jerry Kearns has exhibited internationally across the Americas, Europe, and Asia since the 1980s. He has been featured many times in The New York Times, Art and Auction, ARTnews, and Artforum, among others. His paintings are included in many public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art (New York), National Galerie (Berlin), Brooklyn Museum (New York), the Art Institute of Chicago, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), The Norton Family Collection (Los Angeles), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Queensland Art Gallery (Queensland, Australia. .
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