In his paintings and illustrations, Josh Agle, or Shag as he's known, channels the '60s and the '70s that never were but should have been. They're highly stylized works into which Shag -- a contraction of the end of Agle's first name and the beginning of his last -- often places glamorous characters in the middle of a story or vignette. You'll have to supply the narrative, though, for why a bull is in a Hollywood swimming pool during a cocktail party or why the Devil is sitting in a chair, next to a record player, flaming drink in hand.
With such a brightly-colored, happy-pilled world, it's no surprise that Shag has an avid following. And anyway, who needs realism?
written on Wednesday Jan 30, 2008
yeah, baby!
