ISAAC ADEN
 I Like America (installation view)cast aluminum, canvas, paint, wall paper, beads, and neon
10 x 45 x 20 ft
2015 |  Rodeo Paintingpainted dirt, cowboy, and bronco
135 x 226 ft.
2015 |  Rodeo Paintingpainted dirt, cowboy, and bronco
135 x 226 ft.
2015 |
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 Bead Paintingglass beads sewn on linen
12 x 9 in.
2014 |  Finger Paintingpainted steel
24 x 24 in.
2015 |  The Banality of Freedom(Lunch at Walgreens and the Diet of Worms)
Installation View
2014 |
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 Drones Kissingcarbon fiber, fiberglass, and lipstick
14 x 96 x 98 in
2014 |  A Dream Deflated(After Langston Hughes)
bear traps and basketballs
20 x 120 x 36 in
2014 |  Portable Monument to Hegelbear skins, projection screen, pencil on linen, and neon
84 x 48 x 24 in
2014 |
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 How to Explain PicturesTo a Dead Bear
bear skin, skeletons, and gold
7 x 4 x 2 ft
2013 |  Untitled (Tarpaulin Painting)Tarpaulins and neon
7 x 5 ft
2015 |  Untitled ( Tarpaulin Painting)Tarpaulins and neon
7 x 12 ft each
2015 |
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 Hotel>Oscar>TangoMirrors and neon
6 x 10 x 10 ft
2012 |  Untitled(31 Constructions for the Month of August)
Paper Tubes
5 x 14 x 14 ft
2011 |  Untitled(31 Constructions for the Month of August)
Paper Tubes
6 x 14 x 14 ft
2012 |
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 Untitled(31 Constructions for the Month of August)
Paper Tubes
10 x 14 x 14 ft
2012 |  Untitled(Kreide Zeichnung Kassel)
Chalk Drawing
18 x 18 x 24 ft
2009 |
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ISAAC ADEN
1979 born in Lincoln, NE
Lives and works in Manhattan, NY
Isaac Aden’s Post-Medium practice has centered its primary research in the area of New Institutionalism. Aden makes bodies of works often tangentially related and even visually disparate with no desire to ascribe an aesthetic conclusion to his practice. In this way his practice becomes absorbent and generative.
Aden’s work is about the human condition, the American experience, and painting in the expanded field. It is my aim to consider the lessons of history from which we arrive at this current moment and focus it into creating art with hopes of retaining relevance generations beyond now.