New York-based, Tennessee artist Isaac Aden has participated in numerous group exhibitions at venues as widespread as the Museum of New Art in Detroit, the Lollapalooza Music Festival on Long Island, and The Parthenon in Nashville. He has had solo exhibitions at the International Gallery of Contemporary Art in Anchorage, Alaska, and in New York City at the Russian American Cultural Center, the Studio Art Gallery, and the Empire State Building. Aden received the juror's award in an exhibition at New York University and a grant from the Alaska State Council on the Arts for his work entitled the Firm and the Yielding.

Artist Isaac Aden has used steel plates as a medium for the past five years. Writer Gail Tauber describes his art as having "evolved by continual experimentation to reach a newer and ever more significant visual effect." Process is all-important to Aden. He manipulates steel plates, both hot and cold rolled, by washing them with various fluids and overlaying them with an assortment of materials like paper and plastic. The plates are timed, watched, dried, and eventually transformed - etched and rusted with gradations of color and shape - by chemical reaction. Aden compares this process to baking. The resulting work on steel may be used to transfer and print on paper, plastic or fiber. As much as possible, Aden's work is created to fit a particular space. Aden has created several series to date, including the 2002 installation Volatile Monolith at the Empire State Building.

Arts at the Airport receives funding for the visual arts from the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority (MNAA) and the Tennessee Arts Commission (TAC). Music performances are sponsored by MNAA, Delaware North Companies, Inc. and The Paradies Shops. The Flying Solo Exhibition Series is funded in part under an agreement with the TAC and the National Endowment for the Arts. For more information about Arts at the Airport, please call (615)275-1614 or visit www.artsattheairport.com.