Shag (artist)

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 came on 31 August 1962 as the first of nine children in Sierra Madre to the world. His early childhood was spent Agle in Hawaii, the family moved to Los Angeles. As Agle in high school, the family moved to Utah. Mid -1980s Agle finally went back to California to study at the California State University of Long Beach economy and architecture.

He changed his major in graphic design and achieved during his studies with work for the magazines Time, Forbes and Entertainment Weekly first success as an illustrator. In addition, he designed album covers for bands known in the region. When he designed for his own band, the Swamp Zombies, a cover, he used the pen name for the first time shag. The composite of the last two letters of his first name and the first two letters of his surname artist name was originally only distract from the fact that the illustrator was a band member simultaneously.

In 1995, Agle by Otto Von Stroheim was asked to contribute an image to an exhibition. This painting was sold right away for $ 200 and secured Agle the attention of the influential gallerists Billy Shire. Agle was given the opportunity to present a number of other pictures at a 1996 exhibition held in Shire's La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Hollywood. All images were exhibited there sold and Shire was so excited that he organized an exhibition for works Agles, which was very well attended and whose pictures were also sold quickly.

Since then, Agle had repeated exhibitions in various galleries in the United States, Japan, Australia and Europe. Opened in 2009 a so-called SHAG Store in Palm Springs, sold the merchandising products with designs Agles.

To Agles unusual projects include various work for the Disney Corporation, which was designed for the Venetian Resort Hotel -called Venus Room and a thirty meter long mural at the Georgia Aquarium.

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

Style

Josh Agles art is associated with the Lowbrow. She is greatly influenced by the Tiki culture and advertising, cartoons and pop culture of the 1950s and 1960s.