Location: San Francisco, CA
Medium: Drawing, painting, sculpture
Website: jasonjagel.com
Jason Jägel was born in 1971 in Boston, Massachusetts, and has lived and worked in San Francisco for most of his career. He received a BFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1995 and an MFA from Stanford University in 2002. He received the Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation in 2001. Always carrying a notebook, Jägel is an obsessive observer and chronicler of daily life. Outside gallery exhibitions, he is one of San Francisco's most visible public artists, completing major commissioned murals and tile installations throughout the city.
Jägel uses the visual grammar of comics and illustration to conjure fictional worlds where anything can happen at any time. Dense with incident, text, color, and characters, his drawings and paintings feel like notebooks made monumental — simultaneously intimate and overwhelming, likened to improvisational jazz compositions. He has produced album artwork for underground hip hop artists including Madlib, MF Doom, and Dudley Perkins, and music deeply informs his working process. Associated with the second generation of the Mission School, his work shares that lineage's interest in humor, rawness, and street culture.
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