Edgar Jerins

Life in Charcoal

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Forged in the crucible of family tragedy, Edgar Jerins’ monumental charcoal drawings are a towering an art. Arthur Miller commanded “Attention must be paid” and in these meticulously observed images, the artist does exactly that…
 
ISBN: 978-1-957183-37-4
Binding: Hardbound
Pages: 120pp
Publication Date: June 2023
Size: 9” x 11” Landscape
World Rights: Available
 
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“Edgar Jerins has had public collections exhibited at: Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN, The Global Center for Latvian Art, Cesis Latvia, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR, Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, NE, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA, Adjunct Faculty New York Academy of Art”

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Forged in the crucible of family tragedy, Edgar Jerins’ monumental charcoal drawings are a towering achievement of contemporary American art. Arthur Miller commanded “Attention must be paid” and in these meticulously observed images, the artist does exactly that.

His middle American subjects have been buffeted by a sea of troubles, sometimes of their own causing. Jerins brilliantly and movingly captures friends and family members at a moment when all denial has been stripped away. There is no irony here, no flippant art world in-jokes, no smug condescension and certainly no sentimentality. Jerins shows us the redemptive power of suffering, the quiet heroism of the American spirit, and our refusal to give up no matter the odds against us.

The difficulties his subjects have with relationships, money, health, aging, substance abuse, violence, and death are part of the human condition that we Americans all know too well. Edgar Jerins brings a new realism to American art. His art is not just about life, it is life.

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Edgar Jerins was born in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1958. He graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1980. His primary focus was always portraiture, whether the subject was clothed or nude. In 2001 he began a series of large-scale narrative drawings of his family and friends in crisis. The drawings received considerable attention in the form of grants, reviews, and museum exhibitions and purchases.

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ISBN: 978-1-957183-37-4
Binding: Hardbound
Pages: 120pp
Publication Date: June 2023
Size: 9” x 11” Landscape
World Rights: Available


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Edgar Jerins

“Edgar Jerins has had public collections exhibited at: Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN, The Global Center for Latvian Art, Cesis Latvia, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR, Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, NE, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA, Adjunct Faculty New York Academy of Art”

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