Æmen Ededéen (Joshua Hagler)
The Noise of Fear is Drifting down the River (You Cannot Die), 2025
mixed media with glass beads and wax castings on canvas and burlap
135h x 226.50w in
AEE001001
Joshua Hagler
Three Rivers, 2023-2024
mixed media on linen and burlap
87h x 84w in
JH057
Joshua Hagler
Out of Existence 39, 2023
Mixed Media
9.50h x 4w in
JH075
Joshua Hagler
Out of Existence 38, 1981-2023
mixed media on found Baptist workbook page
6h x 8w in
JH074
Joshua Hagler
Valley of Fires, 2023
mixed media on linen and burlap, unstretched with wood cleat
130h x 110w in
JH056
Joshua Hagler
The Puzzle, 2020
oil, mixed media on canvas
102h x 96w in
JH002
Joshua Hagler
Waiting for Sunset, 2017
oil on linen
72h x 96w in
JH019
Joshua Hagler
The One Within Called the One Without (detail), 2020
ink, oil on polyester film mounted on wood panel
89h x 87w in
Joshua Hagler
The Epistle of One Arriving from Among the Many Departed, 2020
mixed media on burlap
89h x 87w in
JH009
Joshua Hagler
The One Within Called the One Without, 2020
ink, oil on polyester film mounted on wood panel
89h x 87w in
JH008
Joshua Hagler
Beit Lehem, 2015
oil on canvas
64h x 93w in
JH036
Joshua Hagler
Parliament (after Kiki Smith), 2023
mixed media on canvas
72h x 60w in
JH049
Dance Hall I
graphite, charcoal, oil, pastel, wax on found student whiteboard
11 x 8.5 in.
2018-2023
Dance Hall II
graphite, charcoal, wax on found Baptist instruction book page
10.5 x 8.25 in.
1981-2023
Horse in Moonlight
charcoal, graphite, oil pastel, wax on found whiteboard
11.5 x 8 in
2018-2023
Horse in Moonlight II
graphite, charcoal, oil pastel, wax on found Baptist instruction book page
10.5 x 8 in.
1981-2024
Man with Cat
graphite, charcoal, oil, pastel, wax on found student whiteboard
11 x 8.5 in.
2018-2023
Man with Cat II
graphite, charcoal, oil pastel, wax on found Baptist workbook page
12 x 8.5 in.
1981-2023
Mine Hospital
charcoal, graphite, oil pastel, wax on found whiteboard
11.5 x 8 in
2018-2023
Mine Hospital II
graphite, charcoal, oil pastel, wax on found Baptist instruction book page
8 x 10.25 in.
1981-2023
Miner at Home I
graphite, charcoal, oil, pastel, wax on found student whiteboard
11 x 8.5 in.
2018-2023
Miner at Home II
graphite, charcoal, oil pastel, wax on found Baptist workbook page
10.5 x 8 in.
1981-2023
Unknown Collaborator
charcoal, graphite, oil pastel, wax on found student whiteboard
12 x 9 inches
1982-2023
Unknown Collaborator II
graphite, charcoal, oil pastel, wax on found Baptist instruction book page
10.5 x 8 in.
1981-2023
Sarah
graphite, charcoal, oil pastel, wax on found Baptist instruction book page
11 x 8.5 in.
1981-2023
Forest Meditation
graphite, charcoal, oil pastel, wax on found Baptist instruction book page
11 x 8.5 in.
1981-2023
Joshua Hagler
The Pretending Face of an Owl in Moonlight, 2012-2020
mixed media on canvas with shredded tire
89h x 87w in
JH010
Joshua Hagler, The Epistle of One Arriving from Among the Many Departed (detail), 2020
Joshua Hagler
Out of Existence XI, 2021
mixed media on unidentified found object
JH041
Joshua Hagler
Out of Existence XX, 2021
mixed media on unidentified found object
JH042
Joshua Hagler
Out of Existence VII, 2021
mixed media on unidentified found object
10h x 8w in
JH035
Joshua Hagler
Owl Study (After Kiki Smith), 2023
ink, oil on polyester film mounted on wood panel
10h x 8w in
JH051
Joshua Hagler
Study For Private Language IV, 2022
mixed media on polyester film mounted on wood panel
10h x 8w in
JH045
Joshua Hagler
Emergency Room Study, 2022
mixed media on polyester film mounted on wood panel
JH047
Joshua Hagler
Eagle Study (After Kiki Smith), 2023
ink, oil on polyester film mounted on wood panel
16h x 12w in
JH050
Joshua Hagler
Study For Private Language I, 2022
mixed media on polyester film mounted on wood panel
10h x 8w in
JH044
Joshua Hagler
Canyon, 2022
mixed media on canvas and other fabrics
94h x 76w in
JH043
Joshua Hagler
Between Earth and Here, 2021
mixed media on canvas and burlap
106h x 182w in
JH026
Joshua Hagler
The Puzzle III, 2020
ink, oil, wax on polyester film mounted on wood panel
16h x 12w in
JH006
Joshua Hagler
Vanitas II, 2020
ink, oil on polyester film mounted on wood panel
18h x 24w in
JH038
Joshua Hagler
Solfeggio II, 2021
mixed media on canvas, linen, and other fabric
50h x 45w in
JH040
Joshua Hagler
Vanitas I, 2020
ink, oil on polyester film mounted on wood panel
18h x 24w in
JH037
Joshua Hagler
Birth Scene, 2020
ink, oil on polyester film mounted on wood panel
18h x 24w in
JH039
Joshua Hagler
Nocturne, 2020
acrylic and mixed media on canvas
95h x 88w in
(2 canvases @ 95h x 44w each)
JH023
Joshua Hagler
Trace of the M(O)ther IV, 2019
oil, mixed media on canvas
60h x 48w in
JH034
Joshua Hagler
Entry, 2012-2020
oil, mixed media on canvas
60h x 48w in
JH027
Joshua Hagler
Cathedral, 2021
mixed media on burlap
89h x 87w in
JH028
Æmen Ededéen (Joshua Hagler) lived and worked in San Francisco and then Los Angeles for fifteen years before moving to Roswell, New Mexico in 2018 as a grant recipient of the year-long Roswell Artist in Residence Program. Ededéen and his wife, the artist Maja Ruznic, now live and work in Roswell, NM. Ededéen was born at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho in 1979 and is a first-generation college graduate with a visual communications degree from the University of Arizona in Tucson. Self-directed research and travel has underpinned his career and is essential to how the artist integrates creative influences with his life experience.
Æmen Ededéen (Joshua Hagler) is a 2020 Hopper Prize Finalist. 2018 saw two museum shows at the Brand Library and Art Center in Los Angeles and the Roswell Museum and Art Center in New Mexico entitled The River Lethe and Love Letters to the Poorly Regarded respectively. 2019 marked his first U.K. solo exhibition entitled Chimera, at Unit London. The artist’s second solo exhibition with Unit London, The Living Circle Us, was curated by art historian, David Anfam, and was accompanied by the artist’s debut monograph, This is The Picture. He has exhibited paintings, sculpture, video, and animation in galleries and museums in North and South America, Europe, and Australia including a long list of solo exhibitions. Hagler has completed residencies abroad in France, Italy and Norway. Reviews and features about the work, as well as his own poems and essays, have appeared in a variety of publications and media outlets in the U.S. and other parts of the world, including GQ Magazine and Italian Vogue.
Joshua Hagler | FOCUS: Joshua Hagler
February 15 - March 23, 2024
Joshua Hagler | FOCUS: Joshua Hagler
February 15 - March 23, 2024
Joshua Hagler | FOCUS: Joshua Hagler
February 15 - March 23, 2024
Joshua Hagler | FOCUS: Joshua Hagler
February 15 - March 23, 2024
Joshua Hagler | Drawing in the Dark
April 3 – May 29, 2021
Joshua Hagler | Drawing in the Dark
April 3 – May 29, 2021
Joshua Hagler | Drawing in the Dark
April 3 – May 29, 2021
Joshua Hagler | Drawing in the Dark
April 3 – May 29, 2021
Joshua Hagler | Drawing in the Dark
April 3 – May 29, 2021
Installation view: Abandoned School, 2020, New Mexico. Image courtesy of Joshua Hagler.
Installation view: Abandoned School, 2020, New Mexico. Image courtesy of Joshua Hagler.
Installation view: Abandoned School, 2020, New Mexico. Image courtesy of Joshua Hagler.
Installation view: Abandoned School, 2020, New Mexico. Image courtesy of Joshua Hagler.
Installation view: Abandoned School, 2020, New Mexico. Image courtesy of Joshua Hagler.
Installation view: Abandoned School, 2020, New Mexico. Image courtesy of Joshua Hagler.
The Glass Dream Game is a divination game I developed in 2024, and practice on a daily basis. The idea came to me after reading Hermann Hesse's 1943 Nobel-Prize-Winning novel The Glass Bead Game. But the Glass Dream Game's underlying structure is ultimately owed to I Ching (The Book of Changes), an ancient Chinese divination system. The Game begins through a bibliomantic process selecting six books, by chance, from my private library of about 1,000 books. One page in each of these books is selected through the same chance process, resulting in a Hexagram. From these six pages, I take notes and makes sketches, looking for connections and noting any synchronicites emerging from the Hexagram. This process is called a Trial. Using the notes and sketches from the Trials, I compose a Dream in Movements, written passages connecting the elements across a Hexagram. From the Dream comes the Vision, a painting or object, not about the Dream, but in some way informed by it. Through the Hexagrams, Dreams, Visions, and Trials, an extensive network of relationships begin to emerge.
Underlying my interest in Hesse and I Ching is my personal involvement in Taoist practice and Jungian dream analysis.
Uncanny synchronicities between texts often have intense and surprising personal significance. I understand myself and my library to be entangled in an ongoing collaboration through which the Unconscious reveals Itself.
This approach aligns well with my longtime approach to painting. Any single painting I've made over the past decade or so, and any shown here, has perhaps four or five different paintings beneath it. Each layer I add to the work is done on temporary substrates that stick but don't bind to various areas of the surface. Sometimes some imagery remains in the final work. Other times, it appears to the viewer as non-representational or abstract. Different viewers tend to focus on different aspects or passages in a work, and therefore seem to have highly individualized encounters. Painting, for me, is a kind of iterative unconvering toward ever-deepening memory and mystery. I like believing that painting is to do with awakening, that it can be one valuable aspect of a larger contemplative or devotional practice.
