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
135 x 226.5 in
AEE001001
Joshua Hagler (Æmen Ededéen)
Valley of Fires, 2023
mixed media on linen and burlap, unstretched with wood cleat
130 x 110 in
Joshua Hagler (Æmen Ededéen)
The One Within Called the One Without, 2020
ink, oil on polyester film mounted on wood panel
89 x 87 in
JH008
Joshua Hagler (Æmen Ededéen)
The Pretending Face of an Owl in Moonlight, 2012-2020
mixed media on canvas with shredded tire
89 x 87 in
JH010
Joshua Hagler (Æmen Ededéen)
Three Rivers, 2023-2024
mixed media on linen and burlap
87 x 84 in
Joshua Hagler (Æmen Ededéen)
Parliament (after Kiki Smith), 2023
mixed media on canvas
72 x 60 in
Joshua Hagler (Æmen-Ededéen)
Man with Cat, 2018-2023
graphite, charcoal, oil, pastel, wax on found student whiteboard
11 x 8.5 in.
JH060
Joshua Hagler (Æmen-Ededéen)
Man with Cat II, 2018-2023
graphite, charcoal, oil pastel, wax on found Baptist workbook page
12 x 8.5 in
JH061
Joshua Hagler (Æmen Ededéen)
Owl Study (After Kiki Smith), 2023
ink, oil on polyester film mounted on wood panel
10 x 8 in
Joshua Hagler (Æmen Ededéen)
Study For Private Language IV, 2022
mixed media on polyester film mounted on wood panel
10h x 8w in
Joshua Hagler (Æmen Ededéen)
Waiting for Sunset, 2017
oil on linen
72h x 96w in
Joshua Hagler (Æmen Ededéen)
Eagle Study (After Kiki Smith), 2023
ink, oil on polyester film mounted on wood panel
16h x 12w in
Joshua Hagler (Æmen Ededéen)
Study For Private Language I, 2022
mixed media on polyester film mounted on wood panel
10h x 8w in
Joshua Hagler (Æmen Ededéen)
Canyon, 2022
mixed media on canvas and other fabrics
94h x 76w in
Joshua Hagler (Æmen Ededéen)
Emergency Room Study, 2022
mixed media on polyester film mounted on wood panel
10h x 8w in.
Joshua Hagler (Æmen Ededéen)
Cathedral, 2021
mixed media on burlap
89h x 87w in
Joshua Hagler (Æmen Ededéen)
Solfeggio II, 2021
mixed media on canvas, linen, and other fabric
50h x 45w in
Joshua Hagler (Æmen Ededéen)
Between Earth and Here, 2021
mixed media on canvas and burlap
106h x 182w in
Joshua Hagler (Æmen Ededéen)
The Puzzle III, 2020
ink, oil, wax on polyester film mounted on wood panel
16h x 12w in
Joshua Hagler (Æmen Ededéen)
Vanitas II, 2020
ink, oil on polyester film mounted on wood panel
18h x 24w in
Joshua Hagler (Æmen Ededéen)
Vanitas I, 2020
ink, oil on polyester film mounted on wood panel
18h x 24w in
Joshua Hagler (Æmen Ededéen)
Birth Scene, 2020
ink, oil on polyester film mounted on wood panel
18h x 24w in
Joshua Hagler (Æmen Ededéen)
Nocturne, 2020
acrylic and mixed media on canvas
95h x 88w in
(2 canvases @ 95h x 44w each)
Joshua Hagler (Æmen Ededéen)
Out of Existence 38, 1981-2023
mixed media on found Baptist workbook page
6h x 8w in
JH074
Joshua Hagler (Æmen Ededéen)
Out of Existence 39, 2023
Mixed Media
9.50h x 4w in
JH075
Joshua Hagler (Æmen Ededéen)
Out of Existence VII, 2021
mixed media on unidentified found object
10h x 8w in
JH035
Joshua Hagler (Æmen Ededéen)
Out of Existence XX, 2021
mixed media on unidentified found object
11.5h x 6.5w in.
JH042
Joshua Hagler (Æmen Ededéen)
Out of Existence XI, 2021
mixed media on unidentified found object
8.5h x 9w in.
JH041
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.
Æmen Ededéen
The Noise of Fear is Drifting down the River, (You Cannot Die)
February 28 - April 04, 2026
Æmen Ededéen
The Noise of Fear is Drifting down the River, (You Cannot Die)
February 28 - April 04, 2026
Æmen Ededéen
The Noise of Fear is Drifting down the River, (You Cannot Die)
February 28 - April 04, 2026
Joshua Hagler (Æmen Ededéen)
FOCUS: Joshua Hagler
February 15 - March 23, 2024
Joshua Hagler (Æmen Ededéen)
FOCUS: Joshua Hagler
February 15 - March 23, 2024
Joshua Hagler (Æmen Ededéen)
FOCUS: Joshua Hagler
February 15 - March 23, 2024
Joshua Hagler (Æmen Ededéen)
FOCUS: Joshua Hagler
February 15 - March 23, 2024
Joshua Hagler (Æmen Ededéen)
Drawing in the Dark
April 3 – May 29, 2021
Joshua Hagler (Æmen Ededéen)
Drawing in the Dark
April 3 – May 29, 2021
Joshua Hagler (Æmen Ededéen)
Drawing in the Dark
April 3 – May 29, 2021
Joshua Hagler (Æmen Ededéen)
Drawing in the Dark
April 3 – May 29, 2021
Joshua Hagler (Æmen Ededéen)
Drawing in the Dark
April 3 – May 29, 2021
Joshua Hagler (Æmen Ededéen)
Abandoned School
2020, New Mexico
Joshua Hagler (Æmen Ededéen)
Abandoned School
2020, New Mexico
Joshua Hagler (Æmen Ededéen)
Abandoned School
2020, New Mexico
Joshua Hagler (Æmen Ededéen)
Abandoned School
2020, New Mexico
Joshua Hagler (Æmen Ededéen)
Abandoned School
2020, New Mexico
Joshua Hagler (Æmen Ededéen)
Abandoned School
2020, New Mexico
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.
