Jimmy Ernst's style is immediately identifiable and clearly individual, yet it is also difficult to define and paradoxical in its implications. The structures and patterns are meticulously designed and constructed, but they yield a sense of fantasy and evocation. This fusion of exactitude and mystery is related to the ambiguity of pure abstraction that has at the same time suggestions of subjects. The double play of elements is nowhere more apparent than in his construction of space, which by turn can seem flat and enormously deep, at once bounded by the design, or potentially infinite.

Jimmy Ernst was born in Bruehl, Germany, in 1920; his mother was a leading art critic, and his father the surrealist painter Max Ernst. He studied at European craft schools, and came to the United States while still in his teens. It was at the age of twenty that he decided upon a career as a painter... .  Source: Bulletin, February 1967.