Jason Jägel, From The Sky Rivers Look Like Snakes

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From The Sky The Rivers Look Like Snakes

Gallery 16 is proud to welcome artist Jason Jägel for his first exhibition with Gallery 16.

From the Sky Rivers Look Like Snakes presents several bodies of work; large oil paintings, works on paper, smaller mixed media pieces, and sculpture. This marks the first time Jason has exhibited oil paintings since Bay Area Now 1 at the Yerba Buena Center in 1997.

Jason writes, “As a jumping off point, these new paintings reference the immediacy of my daily brush-pen drawings made in pocket sketchbooks. Currently entering my 20th year of exhibiting, I am driven to loop back over my earliest impulses as a means to push forward.”

Jägel’s work cultivates a strong improvisational component born out of autobiographical fiction along with his love of music, comics, and literary fiction. He has created a stylistic form that is immediately recognizable blending elements of abstract painting, comic flatness, and linguistic expression. His spontaneous paintings are often dense accumulations of these influences.

He has been featured in numerous solo and group shows since 1995 in New York, Tokyo, Copenhagen, Milan, Barcelona, Los Angeles, Seattle, and New Orleans. Jägel’s work appears in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The UCLA Hammer Museum and the Portland Museum of Art among others.

In 2002 Jason Jägel graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from Stanford University. Since 1995 he has participated in numerous exhibitions, including solo shows in Barcelona, Copenhagen, Los Angeles, Milan and New York. Besides MoMa, New York and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Jägel is also represented in collections of UCLA Hammer Museum of Art and the Portland Museum of Art, USA, and in numerous private collections. Seventy-Three Funshine, a monograph of his work, was released in 2008. In 2012 Jägel was awarded a fellowship from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. In addition to his rigorous studio practice, Jägel teaches at numerous institutions in the San Francisco Bay Area. Recently Jason created a limited edition project entitled “Take Me With You” for THE THING QUARTERLY. His book “ Hang Glider & Mud MaskJason is a recent collaboration with Brian McMullen, it is published by McSweeney’s McMullens.

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3. Looking Right While Facing Left, 2012 Various Media 44” x 21” 7.Quiet Season, 2006, 2008, 2011 Gouache, pencil, paper, board, glue 9” x 13” x 7” $6,800.00 8.City Living, 2010 Gouache, paper, board, glue 5.25” x 6.5” x 8” $2,800.00 9.Conjuring, 2011 Pencil, paper, board, wood, glue 6.5” x 2.75” x 6.5” $2,000.00 10. The Stole Life, 2010 Gouache, paper, board, wood, glue 5” x 5” x 2” $2,600.00 11 Animal Nature, 2014 Oil on linen on board 55.75” x 48” $10,000.00 12.My Bad Habits, 2013 Gouache, oil and acrylic on paper on board 39.25” x 27.75” $6,000.00 13.Hand/Eye, 2012 Gouache on paper 81.5” x 60.5” $10,000.00 14.A Home Made Of Sticks, 2013.

Gouache on paper, 72 x 48 inches / 182.9 x 121.9 cm $10,000.00 15-16.A Million Steps 2013 Gouache, ink and pencil on paper 26’’ x 40’’ 17.No Creed, 2013 Oil on cavas 44” x 38” $9,000.00 18.New Ways Of Thinking, 2013 Oil on canvas 44” x 38” $9,000.00

19.The Glow, pt.1, 2013 Oil on linen 32” x 27” $5,500.00 20. Modern Art, 2013 Guache and ink on paper 22’’ x 15’’ $3,600.00 21.Eye Blink, 2012 Gouache on paper 15’’ x 11’’ $3,000.00 22. Melancholia, 2012 Gouache on paper 15’’ x 11’’ $3,000.00 23.Magic Hat, 2012 Gouache, ink and pencil on paper 40’’ x 28’’ $6,000 24.Feather In My Cap, 2012.

Gouache and pencil on paper, 16 x 11 ½ inches $3,000 25-26. The Castle, pt. 12012 Couache, ink and pencil on paper 28’’ x 40’’ $6,000 27-28. Under Paper Covers2013 Oil on linen 26’’ x 32’’ $5,500.00 29-30. Some Of Our Sayings, 2012 Gouache and pencil on paper 28’’ x 40’’ $6,000.00 31. Like Cats and Dogs 2013 Gouache and pencil on paper 40’’ x 26’’ $6,000.00

32. Walk Like A Duck, 2013.

Gouache on paper, 8 x 8 inches $2000 33. Hand-To-Mouth, 2014 Oil on canvas 48” x 40” $9,000.00 34. What It Means To Look Up, 2014 Oil on linen on board 48” x 40” $9,000.00 35. Intending to Grasp the Nettle, 2013 Oil on linen on board 48’’ x 40’’ $9,000.00 36. From Ships to Rivers, 2014 Oil on linen on board 55.75’’ x 48’’ $9,000.00 37. Strobe Light, 2013 Gouache on newsprint 16.75’’ x 17.5’’ $2,500.00 38. Searching for Victims, 2013 Gouache on newsprint 5.75’’ x 8’’ $1,300.00 39. Laxness, 2013 Gouache on magazine 14.5’’ x 10’’ $1500 40. Near Paris, 2014 Gouache on newsprint 13.25’’ x 14.5’’ 41. Please Shut Me Softly, 2013 Gouche on newsprint 3.75’’ x 4.5’’ $1,200.00

42. Heartwood, 2014 Acrylic, ink on magazine 4’’ x 2.75’’ $1,200.00 43-44. Lungly Longing, 2013 Oil paint, acrylic, synthetic polymer, gouache, wood, cigarette box $6,000.00 45-46. I Can See Right Through You, 2013 Oil paint, synthetic polymer, gouache, wood $6,000.00 47. Installation detail

Gallery 16 Gallery 16 was founded by artist Griff Williams in 1994. Since then, Gallery 16 and its fine art imprint Gallery 16 Editions has produced exhibitions with over 250 artstis and published over 800 prints, artist books, and multiples with artists including Ari Marcopoulos, Jim Goldberg, Colter Jacobsen, Bill Berkson, Harrell Fletcher, Lynn Hershman, Amy Franceschini, Adam Lowe, William Kentridge, Tucker Nichols, Rebeca Bollinger, Libby Black, Deborah Oropallo, Jim Isermann, bell hooks, Ann Chamberlain, Elliot Anderson, Carol Selter, Rebeca Bollinger, Rex Ray, Margaret Kilgallen and Rudy VanderLans.

Jason Jägel’s artwork is available through Gallery 16.

Gallery 16 is located at 501 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94107.

Inquiries may contact Griff Williams at 415-626-7495.

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