Josh Agle

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Josh Agle (born August 31, 1962 in Sierra Madre , California ) is an American artist who is also known under the pseudonym Shag .

Life

Josh Agle was born on August 31, 1962, the first of nine children in Sierra Madre. Agle spent his early childhood in Hawaii, later the family moved to Los Angeles. When Agle was in high school, the family moved to Utah. In the mid-1980s, Agle finally went back to California to study economics and architecture at California State University of Long Beach .

He changed his major to graphic design and achieved initial success as an illustrator during his studies with work for Time , Forbes and Entertainment Weekly magazines . He also designed record covers for bands known in the region. When he designed a cover for his own band, the Swamp Zombies , he first used the pseudonym Shag . The artist name, made up of the last two letters of his first name and the first two letters of his surname, was originally intended only to distract from the fact that the illustrator was also a member of the band.

In 1995, Otto Von Stroheim asked Agle to contribute a picture to an exhibition. That image sold straight away for $ 200 and caught Agle's attention from influential gallery owner Billy Shire. Agle was given the opportunity to present a number of other pictures at an exhibition in Shire's La Luz de Jesus gallery in Hollywood in 1996 . All of the paintings on display there were sold, and Shire loved it so much that he organized an exhibition for Agles only, which was very well attended and whose paintings also sold quickly.

Since then, Agle has had repeated exhibitions in various galleries in the United States, Japan, Australia and Europe. In 2009, a so-called SHAG store opened in Palm Springs, which sells merchandising products with Agles motifs.

Agle's extraordinary projects include various works for the Disney group , the so-called Venus Room designed for the Venetian Resort Hotel and a mural over thirty meters in length in the Georgia Aquarium .

Josh Agle lives with his wife and two children on a ranch in Orange County , California.

style

Josh Agles art is attributed to the Lowbrow . It is heavily influenced by tiki culture as well as advertising, cartoons and pop culture of the 1950s and 1960s.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Nancy Lackey Shaffer: The Cool and Capricious World of Artist Josh Agle, aka Shag. Highbrow Magazine, April 26, 2013, accessed June 1, 2013 .
  2. ↑ a b Liz Goldner: Josh Agle, aka Shag, Creates Brightly Colored Paintings. (No longer available online.) In: contemporary-art-dialogue.com. Archived from the original on December 13, 2013 ; accessed on June 1, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.contemporary-art-dialogue.com
  3. ↑ Kitty Mead: SHAG - Josh Angle. Interview. In: artbeatstreet.com. Accessed June 1, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Agle, Josh
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shag (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Sierra Madre