STRANDED IN TIME - The Art of Jim “TAZ” Evans

STRANDED IN TIME
The Art of Jim “TAZ” Evans
MALIBU CITY GALLERY – Sept. 14, 2025

There are many more futures than we realize. The past is littered with the
debris of these lost futures, while the present incorporates the collective
memory of utopian dreams that have long since been abandoned. During
decades of engaging an uncharted commercial landscape of signs and
symbols, Jim “TAZ” Evans has assembled a formidable body of work.
Choosing to work in familiar forms of media like, album covers, rock and
film posters, magazine illustrations, comic books, graffiti painting, street art,
and digital imagery, Evans has turned his work into an ongoing visual
manifesto. Jim’s art transforms the visual tropes of science fiction, dystopian
visions, cartoons, martial arts films, robots, technology, and tattoo art into an
artistic statement that defies easy category, but which has communicated with
a consumer audience on a global scale. His ability to capture the zeitgeist of
film and music, and turn it into a visual dialogue, serves as a timestamp for
music and pop culture history.
Artist Jim “TAZ” Evans began his career in the San Francisco underground
rock scene. He has illustrated comics, album covers, rock and film posters,
magazines, and has appeared in numerous books. More recently he
has expanded his work into fine art, limited editions, murals, and digital art.
Evans is also the founder of TAZ, a legendary design collective which is
responsible for hundreds of gig posters, album covers, and rock ephemera.
TAZ has turned out numerous posters for bands like Foo Fighters, U2, Oasis,
Janes Addiction, Green Day, Pearl Jam, Beastie Boys, Ramones, and
Metallica, as well as doing several high-profile album jackets for Beastie
Boys, Beck, Aerosmith, House of Pain, Neil Young, and The Allman Bros.
Evans / TAZ work has been exhibited in galleries worldwide, and featured in
numerous books, articles, and interviews. He has appeared in gallery shows
with RISK, Defer, Slick, Saber, and Estevan Oriol. He also recently
collaborated with graffiti legend RISK to do murals for Sony, Warner Bros.,
and Orion Pictures, creating large-scale street art activations to promote film
releases.
The Malibu City Gallery is excited to present Jim’s work in an ambitious
exhibition that will showcase a decades long engagement with the cultural
imperative by creating art that is useful, challenging, and visually without
peer in scope, style, and subject matter. This show will prove that
the medium often can be the entire message.