David Richard Gallery Podcasts

The newest series of paintings by Isaac Aden, presented in his fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, are monumental in scale with single canvases measuring 144 x 108 inches and triptychs with overall dimensions of 80 x 120 and 80 x 132 inches. The paintings fill the galley as each canvas and triptych was planned and scaled specifically for each wall. Beyond the grand size of each canvas, the palettes are ethereal and complex in that they are reductive, canvas-filling, physical mixtures of aerosolized oil paint applied to a ground of tonal gray oil paint in a pointillist approach (or pixilated in a contemporary digital vernacular) using only primary colors: red, blue and yellow. At first glance, each painting (and in the aggregate within the gallery) evokes a monochrome reading, while the stronger sensation is a moodiness that each conveys alone, when interacting with adjacent canvases, and more importantly, with each viewer. The palettes and stoic compositions convey a range of interpretations from serene