Word City Mind: A Universal Resonance November 20 – December 15, 2007
The Martin Art Gallery at Muhlenberg College proudly presents Word City Mind: A Universal Resonance, November 20 – December 15, 2007.Thursday, November 8, 2007 01:59 PM
Artists Ed Kerns and Elizabeth Chapman, while working independently on producing layered systems, discovered their mutual affinity for those systems—each layer informing the next and producing a self-organizing piece—and an attunement to the deep transcending patterns that can be found in nature. Collaboratively they are using topography, urbanism, and linguistic symbols as visual metaphors to study and explore the realm of neuroscience, form and function, and the venerable legacy of Leonardo da Vinci’s The Universal Law of Matrices.
Ed Kerns is a well-respected painter whose work is widely exhibited throughout the United States and Europe. His paintings are included in many prestigious collections including the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. and the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas. He is a professor of art at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.
Elizabeth Chapman is a practicing architect and painter who began studying the impact of technology on thought in the early 1980s while working with UNESCO. Her graduate work at MIT led her to an exploration of neurology and architecture. She travels extensively to study those overlapping connections.
The artists, Lafayette science faculty Dr. Elaine Reynolds, Dr. Ross Gay, and Donna Gustafson, will be joined by Dr. Jeremy Teissere, Director of Muhlenberg’s Neuroscience Program and professor of studio art, Amze Emmons for a panel discussion in the Gallery on Wednesday, November 28, 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. A reception immediately follows, 6 – 7:00 p.m. The event is open to the public and free of charge. Gallery hours are Tuesdays through Saturdays, noon – 9:00 p.m.; closed during Thanksgiving recess. For information, contact Kathryn Burke in the Martin Art Gallery office at 484.664.3467. For visual details and essays visit: www.lafayette.edu/~kernse
