Outré Gallery’s Mid-Century Soirée at the Robin Boyd House

September 11, 2010 at 1:28 am | Posted in art, events | 1 Comment
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Before it becomes a distant memory I want to put up some photos from the ‘Mid-Century Soirée’ that I attended last month. Held at the famous Walsh Street House in South Yarra,  the cocktail party was organised by Outré Gallery to coincide with US artist Shag’s ‘Inscrutable Mystery Guide’ exhibition.

The Walsh Street House was designed in 1958 by the architect Robin Boyd and is featured in two of Shag’s paintings, one of which was the centrepiece for the evening.

Shag at Walsh StreetShag and his painting ‘Dickie Bird’ at the Walsh Street House  Photo: John Raptis

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Shag Exhibition – Inscrutable Mystery Guide

August 31, 2010 at 1:25 am | Posted in art, events | Leave a comment
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IMG_0380Shag currently has an exhibition touring Australia titled ‘Inscrutable Mystery Guide’. The Melbourne opening night was held at Outré Gallery on Friday, August 14 with a cocktail party at the Walsh Street House by Robin Boyd on the Saturday night. With Shag also flying over from Los Angeles for the exhibition it seemed like the perfect excuse to fly over to Melbourne for the weekend. Below are some photo’s I took at the exhibition:

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Josh Agle (aka Shag)

January 29, 2009 at 2:06 pm | Posted in architecture, art, houses | 3 Comments
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Josh “Shag” Agle is one of my favourite lowbrow artists. Hailing from America, Shag is best known for his flat perspective, vivid colour paintings depicting lounge and tiki-themed scenes.

His paintings are visually influenced by avant-garde animation of the early fifties and sixties and usually have a subtle sense of humour to them leaving the viewer asking the question, “What’s actually going on in this scene?”

To me his paintings have a cool nostalgic feel, depicting the jet-setting high life of the 1950’s. Another great subtle feature in some of his paintings is his reference to classic mid-century modern houses. A number of his paintings have featured the work of Australian and American mid-century architects such as Robin Boyd, Harry Seidler, John Lautner and Pierre Koenig.

For more info visit www.shag.com

"Robin's Nest" - Shagrobin boyd house II courtyard Above: Robin Boyd House II – Robin Boyd

"Dickie Bird" - Shag robin boyd house II loft bedroom Above: Robin Boyd House II – Robin Boyd

"Rose Seidler's House" - Shagrose seidler house montageAbove: Rose Seidler House – Harry Seidler

Christinas WorldRoseSeidlerHouseSulmanPrizeAbove: Rose Seidler House – Harry Seidler

"The Bird Watcher" - ShagMalin Residence (Chemosphere)Above: Malin Residence “Chemosphere” – John Lautner

"LA Modern" (Day) - Shag(I’ll put money on it that the photographer in this painting is a nod to the modernist architectural photographer Julius Shulman who famously photographed the Stahl House)Stahl House 3 - Julius SchulmanAbove: Stahl House (Case Study House #22) – Pierre Koenig (Photo – Julius Shulman)

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