Eli Kern is a highly prolific painter known for richly textured surfaces created with unorthodox tools such as forks, Q-tips, toothbrushes, and palette knives. A poet as well as a visual artist, Eli brings his love of language into the studio, where wordplay often appears in both his imaginative titles and in poems that accompany his expressive paintings. Together, his visual and written work form a layered, energetic exploration of material and meaning.