Modernism is pleased to present FACT WITNESS, a painting exhibition by Jerry Kearns. This is the artist’s 10th solo show with the gallery. This exhibit features 8 new paintings, completed over the past three years. Each canvas is 84 inches in height and varying widths. The size repetition lends a cinematic, interrelated and overlapping reading of the images.
“I think of the paintings in FACT WITNESS as continuing the story. These works, which I began shortly after losing my wife Nora in 2016, were at the time of their making, a form of magical thinking. Daily, I worked at recreating Nora, brush stroke by brush stroke. I was aware of tapping into the spiritual/ritual core of why we make art. There is something very magical about that split-second sensation when my brush touches the canvas and transfers energy into metaphor. “
Our personal story was surrounded and framed by a fast-changing America. I was increasingly feeling the insanity of the ceaseless flow of misleading alternate facts, where there is no truth, where everything is transactional. I felt an inflated mad Joker had taken power, and he held deeply disturbing authoritarian tendencies.”
—Jerry Kearns, 2019
Reception for the artist:
Thursday, January 9, 2019
5:30 – 8pm
Check gallery website for hours and additional info