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Artist's Statement

For me, the act of painting is a process of how the grid (industrial culture) defines itself from the natural world: an inclusive act that brings in cultural media and ephemera from that culture.Having an affinity for industrial design and pop culture, I find visual resources as random as the hardware store, the toy store, the produce department at a supermarket, dated textiles and papers, beat-up billboards, highway signs and symbols or the design of a magazine ad.With this in mind, I want my paintings to reflect the way culture organizes and builds upon itself?specifically the way architecture and infustructural design separates us from the organic world. As such, symmetrical organizing has become a central issue in the painting process.

Exhibitions

2008
"Colorbands/Espana" - (Solo Show) - + Gallery - Denver, CO
"Visiting Artist Program" - Tamarind Institute - Albuquerque, NM
"Flower Power" - (Group Show) - Museum of Art - Santa Fe, NM

2007
"Visiting Artist Exhibits" - (Group Show) - Sacramento State Univ. - Sacramento, CA
"Summer Spectacle" - (Group Show) - Tadu Contemporary Art - Santa Fe, NM
"Bang!" - (Group Show) - Farrell Fischoff Gallery - Santa Fe, NM
"Criags Chioce" - (Group Show) - First Street Gallery - Trinidad, CO

2006
“Circus” (Solo Show) - Tadu Contemporary Arts - Santa FE, NM
“Biennial Southwest” (Group Show) - Albuquerque Museum of Art - Albuquerque, NM
“The Golden Egg” (Group Show - Book release) - Philspace - Santa Fe, NM
“The Circus Within ” (Solo Show) - Tadu Contemporary Arts - Santa Fe, NM
“Fabulandia” (Group Show) - The Lab Center for the Arts - San Francisco, CA
“TimJag/New Work” (Solo Show) - Melanee Cooper Gallery - Chicago, IL

2005
“Mothernature vs. Plasticman” (Solo Show) - Center for Contemporary Arts - Santa Fe, NM
“MASS (Re) Production” (Curator)- College of Santa Fe Fine Arts Gallery - Santa Fe, NM
“Blockbuster” - (Group Show) - Tadu Contemporary Arts - Santa Fe, NM
“Really not real - really” (Solo Show) - Albuquerque Contemporary Arts (2) - Albuquerque, NM 2005
“Ideas on the Horizon” (Solo Show) - Pittsburgh State Univ. - Pittsburgh, KS.
“Fast Forward - Flashback” (Group Show) - Tadu Contemporary Arts - Santa Fe, NM

2004
"3-D art/techne'" (Group Show/Book release) - Linda Durham Gallery - Santa Fe, NM
“Urban Sprawl” (Installation) 2nd St. Contemporary Arts - Santa Fe, NM
“Shrugged” (Group Show) Egopark Artspace - Oakland, CA
“DaDa” A.T.A. Gallery (Group Show) Univ. of New Mexico - Albuquerque, NM
"Power....Fashion and Identity" (Group Show) 2nd St. Contemporary Arts-Santa Fe, NM

2003
"Zootech " (Solo Show) Oakland Museum of California - Oakland, CA
"Pay Attention"(Group Show) Linda Durham Gallery - Santa Fe, NM
“Transendance Machinery” (Installation) No Man’s Land Gallery - Santa Fe, NM
"25th Year Alumni Show " (Group Show) Sonoma State Univ. - RohnerPark, CA
"Close Call" (Group Show) Headlands Center for the Arts - Marin, CA
"Catalyst" (Group Show-Curator) Oakland Arts Gallery - Oakland, CA

2002
"Transmutations" - (Solo Show) Richmond Art Center - Richmond, CA
"Popsoup" - (Group Show-Curator) Egopark Artspace - Oakland, CA
"Post-Postcard (5 - Project Manager) Southern Exposure Gallery - S.F., CA
"Family Systemics - Becoming" (installation) San Jose Museum of Art - San Jose, CA

2001
"Objects Considered" (Group Show)- Dean Lesher Center forthe arts Bedford-Walnut Creek, CA
"Below Zero" - (Group show) San Francisco Exploritorium
"Santa Clara Civic Center Sculpture Exhibition" - City ofSantaClara/Triton Museum
"Displaced Passion" (Group Show) - Circle Elephant Gallery - Los Angeles, CA

2000
"Chain Reaction" (Group Show) - San Francisco Art Commission Gallery
"Future of the Body" (Curator - Group Show) - Richmond Art Center - Richmond, CA
"Instigating Banality" (Group Show) - San Francisco State Univ. - S. F. CA
"Workings" (Group Show) - Richmond Art Center - Richmond, CA

1999
"Industry Codes" (Solo Show) - Katrina Traywick Gallery - Berkeley, CA
"Super-Natural" (Group Show) - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts - San Francisco, CA
"Works in Progress" (Group Show) - Sculpture Space Inc. Utica, New York
"Jumble" (Group Show) - The Luggage Store - San Francisco, CA
"The Object;0f Sculpture " (Group Show) - Wright St. University Gallery - Dayton, OH

1998
"Fertile Waste/ the Regenerative Cycle " (visiting Artist) Boulder MOCA - Boulder, CO
"Objective Transformation" (Solo Show) - Katrina Traywick Gallery - Berkeley, CA
"Pacific Rim Sculpture " San Francisco MOMA Artist Gallery - (Group Show)
"Body and Technology" Main Gallery - San Francisco State University (Group Show)

1997
"Get In Here " (Group Show) - Katrina Traywick Gallery - Berkeley, CA
"Over The Line" (Group Show) - Bucheon Gallery - San Francisco, CA
"Myth America" (Group Show) - Urban Institute ofCont. Arts - Grand Rapids, MI
"Humor/ Satire " (Group Show) - San Francisco Contract Design Center Gallery
"Social Predators" (Solo show) Union Gallery - University of Arizona - Tucson, AZ

1996
"Pulp - Works on Paper" (Group Show) - University Gallery - Santa Clara University
"Confess" (Group Show) - Southern Exposure Gallery - San Francisco, CA
"Beyond the Black Box" (Solo Show) - Media Gallery - Ventura College, Ventura, CA
"Form & Metaphor" - (Group Show) Runnels Gallery - E. New Mexico U-- Portales, NM
"Post - Post Card" ( Project Manager) - FourWalls Gallery - San Francisco, CA

1995
"Happy Musings and Follies" (Group Show) - Site Gallery - Los Angeles, CA
"Body, Machine, Politic" (Solo Show) - Pirate Contemporary Arts - Denver, CO
"Associate Members 95" (Group Show) - Pirate Contemporary Arts - Denver, CO
"27th N. American Sculpture" (Group Show) - Foothills Art Center - Golden, CO
"Jag- Wenzel /New Work" (Solo Show) - Lincoln Center for the Arts - Fort Collins, CO

1994
"Containment" (Solo show) - Pirate Contemporary Arts - Denver, CO
"Objects of Thought" (Solo Show) - Artemesia Gallery - Chicago, IL
"Trash Can Show" (Group Show) - Lounge Gallery - Colorado State Univ.

1993 and previous
"39th International" (Group Show) - San Diego Art Institute - San Diego, CA 1993
"Jag/Parkins " (Solo + Video Installation) - Eleven East AshlandArts - Phoenix, AZ 1993
"Critics Choice '93" (Group Show) - D-Art Visual Art Center - Dallas, TX 1993
"Members Show " (Group Show) - D-Art Visual Art Center - Dallas, TX 1993
"Graduate Exchange Show with China" Nanjing College of Art - People's Republic of China 1991
"Doors, Windows, and Other Containers of Thought" (Solo Show) 1991
M.F.A. Thesis - (Solo Show) Haines Gallery - Montana State University - Bozeman, MT
B.F.A. Thesis Show " (Group Show) 1989
Main Gallery - Sonoma State University - Rohnert Park, CA
note: Timothy Higbee and Fourwalls Gallery are now defunct

Education BACK TO TOP

M.F.A. Montana State University (Painting) 1991
B.F.A. Sonoma State University (Painting) 1989
A.A. Santa Rosa Jr. College (Painting) 1987

Residency/Visiting Artist Programs BACK TO TOP

Tamarind Institute - Printing Residency - Fall - 2007
Sacramento State University - Fall - 2007
Sculpture Space Inc. - Utica, NY - Fall - 2000
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art - Boulder Co. June - 98
University of Arizona - Tucson, AZ Feb. – 97

Curated Projects/Project Manager BACK TO TOP

“MASS (Re) Production” - College of Santa Fe Fine Arts Gallery - Santa Fe, NM - 2005
“POWer, Fashion, and Identity” - 2nd street Contemporary Arts - Santa Fe, NM - 2004
"Catalyst" Oakland City Gallery - Oakland, CA - 2003
"POP soup" Egopark gallery - Oakland, CA - 2002
“Monster Drawing Show” - Southern Exposure Gallery - San Francisco.CA – 2002
"The Future Of the Body" Richmond Art Center - Richmond, CA – 2000
"Transplant" - Works/San Jose - San Jose, CA – 2000
"Post - Postcard"- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 - Four-walls/ Southern Exposure Gallery - San Francisco.CA, 1998-2002
"Transplant II" - Contemporary Arts Collective -Las Vegas, NV- 1999
"Fertile Waste" - Boulder Museum of Cont. Art - Boulder, CO - 1998
"Me, myself, and I" - Timothy Higbee Gallery - San Francisco, CA - 1997
"Social Predators" - Union Gallery - Univ. of Arizona - Tucson, AZ - 1997
"Exit - Not An Exit" - Timothy Higbee Gallery - San Francisco, CA -1996
"Montana Alternative Arts and Music Festival" - Bozeman, MT - 1993

Site Specific Commisions BACK TO TOP

"Family Systemics - Becoming" (installation) San Jose Museum of Art - San Jose, CA 2002
"Super-Natural" (Group Show) - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts - San Francisco, CA 1999
"Fertile Waste/ the Regenerative Cycle " (visiting Artist) Boulder MOCA - Boulder, CO 1998
"Body and Technology" Main Gallery - San Francisco State University (Group Show) 1998
"Social Predators" (Solo show) Union Gallery - University of Arizona - Tucson, AZ 1997

Publications/Books BACK TO TOP

Biennial Southwest - Albuquerque Museum Publications - 2006 - $19.95
The Golden Egg - Artist and Humor - Wilson publications - 2006 - $40.00
New American Painting /book #58 - Open Studios Press - 2005 - $19.95
New Mexico Artist Series (Book#5) "3D - Technie" Fresco Fine Arts Publications - 2004 - $39.96
Blocbuster artist books - Blocbuster publications - Blocbuster.com - Free
Western Interiors Magizine - Summer Issue - Santa Fe Design Week - $5.95

Reviews BACK TO TOP

Bliss Magizine - "It’s the Tim Jag Show" - Winter/Feb. 2007
“Art – Hold the Artiface” review by Fred Camper in Chicago Reader – Aug. 2006
THE Magizine - “Mass Reproduction” Oct. 2005
Art Papers /Atlanta - “Pulse - at CCA” May 2005
THE Magizine “Flash-Forward” reviews - May 2005
Artweek Magizine "Catalyst" Aug. 2003
Eastbay Express "Catalyst" 7-7-03
San Francisco Chronicle "Closecalls " 2-22-03
Artweek Magizine " POP soup" May 2002
L.A. Weekly "the Westside of the Eastside" 1-26-01
Artweek Magizine "Instigating Banality" March 2001
San Francisco Bay Guardian "Critcs Choice: Art - On The Level" 7-11-00
Oakland Tribune "Bodies of Work Get Whole New Meaning" 6-16-00
Colorado Daily "You Are What You Throw Out" 6-30-98
Boulder Planet "Fertile Waste" 6-24-98
Los Angeles Times "Ventura County Weekend" 10-17-96
New Art Examiner "Jag, Jensen - Reviews" September, 94

Lectures/InterviewsBACK TO TOP

Dialog 360 - Artist in Conversation - Santa Fe Art Institute - May/2007
K.S.F.R Radio Free Santa Fe - (Interview) - Santa Fe, NM 1-14-05
Santa Fe Reporter (7 - Artist/Interview) - Santa Fe, NM 1-28-04
K.L.A.X. Univ. of California Radio (Interview) - Berkeley, CA 7-4-03
Oakland Arts Gallery (Gallery) - Oakland, CA - spring 03
Mills College Dept. of Art (Class) - Oakland, CA - spring 02
Dean Lesher Center for the Arts (Slides) - Walnut Creek, CA -fall 01
Works/San Jose (Gallery) - San Jose, CA - summer 00
Sculpture Space (Open Studio) - Utica, NV -fall 99
Traywick Gallery (Gallery) - Berkeley, CA - spring 99
San Francisco State University (Gallery) - San Francisco, CA fall 98
Traywick Gallery (Gallery) - Berkeley, CA - spring 98
K.U.S.F. University of San Francisco Radio (Interview) - San Francisco, CA -3-12-98
Gen. Art Peer Critique (Gallery) - San Francisco, CA - winter 98
San Francisco Art Institute (Class) - San Francisco, CA. - spring 97
University of Arizona - (Gallery) - Tucson, AZ - spring 97