DonutChocula: FIFTY24SF Gallery Presents "I'll Fly (Into Your Heart)" New Works by Jason Jagel

March 29, 2010

FIFTY24SF Gallery Presents "I'll Fly (Into Your Heart)" New Works by Jason Jagel

FIFTY24SF Gallery Presents I'll Fly (Into Your Heart)
New Works by Jason Jagel

FIFTY24SF Gallery, in association with Upper Playground, presents I'll Fly (Into Your Heart), a solo exhibition by Jason Jagel.

Jason Jagel has been featured in numerous solo and group shows for well over a decade, from Tokyo to Los Angeles. Jagel pursues fictional autobiography through drawing, painting, paper sculpture, wood carving, sound, video and installation. His work is informed by music, fiction, comics and movies. Jason has made artwork for album covers for the likes of Our Lady of the Highway, Dudley Perkins, Egon, MF DOOM, Madlib and more.

Jagel explores different mediums for his art, from drawing and painting to paper sculpture, woodcarving, sound, video and installation. Recently, solo exhibitions of his work have been featured at Galleri Christoffer Egelund in Copenhagen, Denmark, and AMT Gallery in Milan, Italy. His monograph, entitled, Seventy-Three Funshine (2008), was created with an accompanying ten-inch vinyl record with music by Madlib and published by Electric Works, San Francisco. He was recently featured in a 12-page interview in Juxtapoz Magazine. Jagel currently resides in San Francisco with his wife and two daughters.

Jagel displays his record cover work honestly as a vehicle for getting closer to the musicians that have directly inspired his work. Ultimately, that vehicle brings the focus of the show back to childhood days in the 70’s and 80’s, wherein inventing superheroes, comics, Jack Kirby, arcade games, cable TV, radio shows, records and tapes were Jagel’s major preoccupations. The show also features a sneak peak into the work that will be featured in the upcoming DOOM box set.

Regarding the title Jägel says: “I'll Fly (Into Your Heart)” reminds me of the style of certain ’60’s soul songs where the inserted parenthesis creates multiple, simultaneous titles from one. It also appears as a statement of first-person dialog, leading the questions: Who or what is flying? To whose heart? For good purposes or ill?” Evident in this statement and throughout Jason’s work is a preoccupation with slippery meanings and storytelling.

I'll Fly (Into Your Heart), features new works on display at FIFTY24SF Gallery April 1—May 26, 2010.