Shag

Josh Agle (born August 31, 1962) is an American artist, better known by the nickname Shag.

Early life and education Josh Agle was born August 31, 1962, the first of nine children in Sierra Madre, California. He spent his early childhood in Hawaii, and later moved with his family to Los Angeles. While Agle was attending high school, his family moved to Utah. In the mid-1980s, he returned to California, to study economics and architecture at California State University, Long Beach.

Career While at CSULB, Agle changed his major to graphic design and achieved his first successes as an illustrator while in college, with work for the magazines Forbes, Time and Entertainment Weekly. Also, he designed record covers for bands in the area. When he designed a cover for his own band, the Swamp Zombies, he first used the pseudonym Shag, composed of the last two letters of his first name and the first two letters of his surname, so as not to make it look as if the cover artist was merely a band member, but that the band was successful enough to hire a graphic designer. and his first New York gallery show in 2002. In 2010, he opened a "SHAG Store" in Palm Springs, which sells merchandise depicting Agle's works. He is also known for designing Tiki mugs.

Shag has designed projects for The Walt Disney Company and the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, as well as a 100-foot-long mural in the Georgia Aquarium.

Selected books

Museum exhibitions and collections 2010 - Art Shack, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California 2009 - Urban Superstars, Naples Museum of Modern Art, Naples, Italy 2008 - Beyond Baby Tattooville, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, California 2008 - In The Land of Retinal Delights, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California 2007 - The Flesh Is Willing: New Work by Shag, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California 2007 - Rome Is Burning, Haas Fine Arts Center, Eau Claire, Wisconsin 2005 - Pop Surrealism, Sangre De Cristo Art Center, Pueblo, Colorado 2005 - Paradirama, Musee International des Arts Modestes, Sète, France 2002 - The Sophisticated Misfit: Fifteen Years of Shag, Brea Museum, Brea, California 2000 - Lowbrow Art: Up From The Underground, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, Florida