| SNAKE JAGGER |
Exhibitions
1991 One man show - Gallery Without Walls, Palm Springs, California
1991 "Fresh Paint, Hot Print" benefit for Shelter From the Storm, Ritz Carlton,
Rancho Mirage, California
1992 Group Show "Seen and Unseen". Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, New Mexico
1992 Group Show "Giving Thanks to Mother Earth..." Spirit Echos Gallery, Austin Texas
1992 12th Annual Faber Birren Color Award Show, Stamford, Connecticut
1995 "East Meets West: Old and New" The Delaplaine Visual Arts Center, Frederick Maryland
1995 Group Shows, Art 95' "Top 70" Exhibition, Art 54 Gallery, Soho, New York City
1995 15th Annual Faber Birren Color Award Show, Stamford, Connecticut
1995 Group Show, 8th Annual Northern National Art Competition, Rhinelander, Wisconsin
1995 Group Show, 16th Annual Summer Art' 95, Steamboat Springs, Colorado
1996 One Man Show, Benefit for ARTEACH, Indian Wells, California
1996 Group Show, Miles Avenue Gallery, Indio, California
1996 Group Show, Space Art, Volcano Art Center, Hawaii
1996 "Snake Jagger" One Man Show, Mt. San Jacinto College, San Jacinto, California
1991 One man show - Gallery Without Walls, Palm Springs, California
1991 "Fresh Paint, Hot Print" benefit for Shelter From the Storm, Ritz Carlton,
Rancho Mirage, California
1992 Group Show "Seen and Unseen". Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, New Mexico
1992 Group Show "Giving Thanks to Mother Earth..." Spirit Echos Gallery, Austin Texas
1992 12th Annual Faber Birren Color Award Show, Stamford, Connecticut
1995 "East Meets West: Old and New" The Delaplaine Visual Arts Center, Frederick Maryland
1995 Group Shows, Art 95' "Top 70" Exhibition, Art 54 Gallery, Soho, New York City
1995 15th Annual Faber Birren Color Award Show, Stamford, Connecticut
1995 Group Show, 8th Annual Northern National Art Competition, Rhinelander, Wisconsin
1995 Group Show, 16th Annual Summer Art' 95, Steamboat Springs, Colorado
1996 One Man Show, Benefit for ARTEACH, Indian Wells, California
1996 Group Show, Miles Avenue Gallery, Indio, California
1996 Group Show, Space Art, Volcano Art Center, Hawaii
1996 "Snake Jagger" One Man Show, Mt. San Jacinto College, San Jacinto, California
Snake Jagger refers to his artistic style as Whimsical Surrealism. He is an artist who, while dedicated to the subtle
exposition of his personal philosophy, doesn't take himself too seriously and is comfortable working with his
tongue planted firmly in cheek. Jagger's work is clearly surrealist in demeanor, but thereis no hint of the
Daliesque allegory here. Rather, Jagger's work seems to draw a significant part of its compositional inspiration
from Rene Magritte. Jagger, like Magritte, is able to juxtapose the most mundane of objects in a manner that
convinces us to accept the entire image, regardless of its disparities, as a wholly realistic depiction. In Magritte's
paintings, we are not taken aback by locomotives roaring out of fireplaces or by swarms of levitating British
businessmen soaring above the rooftops. And so it is with Jagger's work; once the mind's eye has recorded the
presence and positioning of these incongruous objects, then it becomes almost impossible to imagine the
painting existing without them.
Jagger's striking visual imagery often takes viewers on a down-the-rabbit-hole journey into what could almost be
considered a parallel universe. Within this hyper-real world, massive vine-ripened tomatoes lounge on sunny
Mediterranean patios, huge Saguaro cacti double as street lamps, dripping water faucets thrust up out of
velveteen desert sand dunes, and doors in the canvas literally open into other realities.
So skillfully wrought are the images, and so carefully integrated into the composition, that we are hard put to think
of these visual elements in any sense other than as normal, expected components of the landscape. The artist
also employs a broad lexicon of symbols in his paintings. This complex iconography has been an important part
of his work for over twenty years and is present to some extent in virtually everything he creates. But before
viewers can explore the artist's copious use of symbolism they must first understand the seminal importance of
the highly ordered, manicured landscapes and architectural components that are at the visual center point of
Jagger's singular view of the world. His goal is to reshape and reinvent the world, and he is inviting us all along
with him on a journey that promises both discovery and fulfillment.
The message at the core of each of his paintings is this: We only have one world and we cannot allow ourselves
to squander its resources. Working together, we will perfect this worlds beauty and potential. We will leave it a
better place for all generations yet to come. Ultimately, we must each make a choice, to either be part of the
problem or part of the solution.
exposition of his personal philosophy, doesn't take himself too seriously and is comfortable working with his
tongue planted firmly in cheek. Jagger's work is clearly surrealist in demeanor, but thereis no hint of the
Daliesque allegory here. Rather, Jagger's work seems to draw a significant part of its compositional inspiration
from Rene Magritte. Jagger, like Magritte, is able to juxtapose the most mundane of objects in a manner that
convinces us to accept the entire image, regardless of its disparities, as a wholly realistic depiction. In Magritte's
paintings, we are not taken aback by locomotives roaring out of fireplaces or by swarms of levitating British
businessmen soaring above the rooftops. And so it is with Jagger's work; once the mind's eye has recorded the
presence and positioning of these incongruous objects, then it becomes almost impossible to imagine the
painting existing without them.
Jagger's striking visual imagery often takes viewers on a down-the-rabbit-hole journey into what could almost be
considered a parallel universe. Within this hyper-real world, massive vine-ripened tomatoes lounge on sunny
Mediterranean patios, huge Saguaro cacti double as street lamps, dripping water faucets thrust up out of
velveteen desert sand dunes, and doors in the canvas literally open into other realities.
So skillfully wrought are the images, and so carefully integrated into the composition, that we are hard put to think
of these visual elements in any sense other than as normal, expected components of the landscape. The artist
also employs a broad lexicon of symbols in his paintings. This complex iconography has been an important part
of his work for over twenty years and is present to some extent in virtually everything he creates. But before
viewers can explore the artist's copious use of symbolism they must first understand the seminal importance of
the highly ordered, manicured landscapes and architectural components that are at the visual center point of
Jagger's singular view of the world. His goal is to reshape and reinvent the world, and he is inviting us all along
with him on a journey that promises both discovery and fulfillment.
The message at the core of each of his paintings is this: We only have one world and we cannot allow ourselves
to squander its resources. Working together, we will perfect this worlds beauty and potential. We will leave it a
better place for all generations yet to come. Ultimately, we must each make a choice, to either be part of the
problem or part of the solution.