Æmen Ededéen / Dean Fox / Daniel Pitín

Three artists whose distinct visual languages challenge viewers to look beyond the familiar by deconstructing everyday forms, creating charged environments where tensions unfold and meaning emerges from the mundane. About Æmen Ededéen / Dean Fox / Daniel Pitín brings together three artists whose distinct visual languages challenge viewers to look beyond what is familiar by deconstructing what we see every day. The exhibition is steadily attentive to what remains concealed. The artists unsettle familiar forms, opening up a space where tensions unfold, environments become charged with unfamiliarity, and meaning is found in the mundane. What initially appears recognizable gradually gives way to obscurity, resisting what we believe to be true. Æmen Ededéen (b. 1979, Mountain Home AFB, Idaho) is a first-generation graduate with a graphic design degree from The University of Arizona. A 2018 grant recipient of the Roswell Artist in Residence Program, Hagler has since made New Mexico his permanent home. Currently, he lives with his wife and daughter in the high desert village of Placitas at the foot of the Sandia Mountains. Recently, his practice has been guided by a project titled The Glass Dream Game, which explores the intersections of knowledge, memory, and the unconscious. Drawing from his personal library then selected through chance-based methods inspired by the I Ching, his layered, dream-like compositions reference art history, philosophy, religion, science, and literature. Informed by Hermann Hesse's The Glass Bead Game and Jungian thought, the project embraces synchronicity and radical interdisciplinarity. Dean Fox (b. 1979 in London, UK) studied Fine Art and Illustration at Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design, London. Fox's paintings offer up a gloriously hallucinogenic exploration into not just the metric and matrix of Impressionism but, more importantly, the praxis and lexis of painting itself. Fox's image first starts out as a digital collage, born from a tessellation of various works by artists such as Manet, Monet, Gauguin or Degas. Once he has digitally sewn together various vignettes from his chosen artist(s) source, he then transfers his montage onto his canvas in paint. This is when the chrysalis metamorphoses; the bug of historical reference – from Impressionism, Symbolism to Fauvism – now transformed into a butterfly of painterly possibility, boundary and contingency. His work has been exhibited across Europe, the UK and US. The artist lives and works in Epping, UK. Daniel Pitín (b. 1977, Prague, Czech Republic) is a leading figure among the generation of artists to have emerged since the fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe. He received his education from the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, Czech Republic in 2001, and continues to live and work in Prague. Pitín is collected by the the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Knoxville Museum of Art, and his solo institutional exhibitions include Cover Story, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (2012); and After the Fall, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill and the Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville (2011). Read more Toggle Painting Mixed media