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OX-OP ARTS PRESENTS:
SHAG
“Push Your Luck”
Paintings & Prints

Artist Reception Saturday June 4th, 7:00 PM-10:00pm
Show runs June 4th-30th

(The Twins have a home game scheduled but we will have the parking lot reserved for those attending the show)



MINNEAPOLIS, MN-OX-OP was in on the Shag phenomenon from the start, hosting his first solo show outside of L.A. Those who attended the early shows (back then, in Grumpy’s City Club) got a crack at was to become Shag mania. Since then, even a simple book signing at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art had Shag fans lined up out the door. Fortunately, despite the fact that he is hounded by top galleries in NYC, London, Tokyo, etc., we’re lucky to have Shag loyal enough to squeeze us into what now is an insane demand/schedule.

Josh Agle (probably better known as Shag, a contraction of the last two letters of his first name and the first two letters of his last) is a painter, illustrator and designer working in Southern California. His initial intention to establish a career as an illustrator-for-hire was sidetracked when his original paintings began to garner considerable attention from galleries and collectors. Since his first solo gallery show in 1997, Shag has had successful solo exhibitions in the United States, Europe, Japan and Australia.

The paintings themselves celebrate consumerism and consumption on vividly colored, sharply rendered panels; the characters drink, smoke and eat in lavish, stylish surroundings. But Agle sees the visuals of his work as window-dressing or stage scenery. He’s more concerned with the narrative of the art. “Most of my paintings are set in the middle of a story or situation -- characters are interacting and reacting to each other and to outside events.” Agle doesn’t offer too many clues about the stories, preferring that the viewer create his or her own narratives to fit the situations.

In 2004, MGM Studios invited Shag to redesign the Pink Panther character for its 40th anniversary. The Shag-style panther appears on DVDs and merchandise worldwide for the next three years. In 2005, Shag With A Twist, a live dance musical based on the artwork of Shag opened at the Los Angeles Theatre Center for a 13 week run. The production, sponsored by the City of LA and the San Pedro Ballet was critically acclaimed and a touring production is now being planned.

Currently Shag paints in a large studio in the hills above Southern California. He is currently working on paintings for upcoming exhibits in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Sydney.



OX-OP is open to the public
Tuesday through Friday 4-8pm
Sat 1-5pm, or by appointment
New shows opening the first Saturday of every month.





Rob McBroom
wes@ox-op.com

Tiff Larkin
tiff@ox-op.com

612-259-0085




OX-OP
1111 Washington Ave S.
(Behind Grumpy’s Bar)
Minneapolis, MN 55415
Ph. 612-259-0085
www.ox-op.com

Art Dealer

Art Attack on the Suburbs-Grumpy’s Art Unveiling Party
Aesthetic Apparatus-"2nd Annual Kindling & Litter-Box-Liner Sale"
"Rome is Burning/The New School"
Aesthetic Apparatus-"The Official Aesthetic Apparatus Kindling & Litter-Box-Liner Sale"
Gary Baseman- "MOD Manifestations Of Desire"
Mark Mothersbaugh-"Postcard Diaries"
Gary Taxali-"Chumpy's Specials"
Nathan Jurevicius-"Tunnel Vision"
Shepard Fairey "Visual Disobedience"
Jaime Hayon: "Mon Cirque"
Derek Hess: "Descent from Grace"
Shag-"Push Your Luck"
Billy Childish-Paintings, Prints, Poetry & Performance
Kii Arens-"The Yard Sale"
Burlesque of North America: First Blood, Part III
"Triangulated Fire" paintings by Naoto Hattori, Ryan Kelly & Chris Ryniak
BuffMonster-"Dulces Locos"
Dalek- "The Return of the Space Monkey"
Yumiko Kayukawa & Oksana Badrak
Glenn Barr-"New Paintings & Prints"
KRK Ryden-"The Atomic Glob Show"
Camille Rose Garcia-"Works on Paper"
"Qeedrophonic"
Frank Kozik-"All Your Base Are Belong to Us"
Bwana Spoons & Martin Ontiveros "Like Sqeezing Juice from a Stone"
"Rated XX"
Aesthetic Apparatus
George Thompson-"Bachelor of Fine Arts"
Mark Mothersbaugh-"Beautiful Mutants"
Charles S. Anderson Design-"Awful Pretty: Original Art"
Jeff Soto-"Complete Domination"
Dave Burke-"New Paintings"
Tim Biskup-"The Phantom Thread"
Shag-"Tell No One: Paintings and Prints"
Niagara-"Paintings,Prints and General Artistic Mayhem
Shepard Fairey -"Prints and the Revolution"
Gary Baseman-"Open Wounds (and other paintings about vulnerability)"
Dalek-"Two Fingers of Milk"
"Big Bang"