David Richard Gallery is please to present Isaac Aden: The Numinous Sublime, And So On Into Infinity a solo exhibition of his most recent monumental paintings. The exhibition features fourteen new oil paintings, measuring 12 x 9 ft and 14 x 6 ft. These seminal paintings are part of Aden’s series of Tonal paintings a body of work developed over the past six years.

At first glance the paintings evoke minimalism because they read as monolithic monochromes. The works call to mind gothic proportions as they engage the cathedral like architecture of the of the space. Upon closer inspection they seem to be more akin to Color field canvases with a vast array of subtle colors revealed. However, a protracted period of viewing in person the paintings are revealed to be more of a type of Post Minimal Pointillism comprised of billions of miniscule dots of pure color floating together to create nebulous expanses. The paintings are made from formless layers of diffused gradients of pixelized colors which appear as ethereal and atmospheric canvases. Particularly because of their scale these paintings evoke the sublime.