Jim Evans, sometimes known as T.A.Z., is an American painter, printmaker, and

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who was a contributing figure in the visual art movement known as

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. After a successful career as a comic illustrator, Evans worked as a painter, poster maker, and owner of the digital design group Division 13.

Biography

Early life

Evans was born in San Diego amidst the surfing culture of southern California. After attending

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, he played in several local bands and then created comic strips for the ''

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'' and other underground papers while working for Eric Matlen's Sawyer Press. Evans then began to take commissions doing work in several comic books. These included '' Yellow Dog'', and a solo effort titled ''The Dying Dolphin'', released by the

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-based

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, it included collaborations with

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and

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. Evans also drew for ''

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'', and ''Tales from the Tube'', which was published by ''

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'', and included contributions by ''

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'' artists

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, Robert Williams, and

Hawaii

The Underground period was followed by a move to the North Shore of Oahu, and contributions to both '' Surfer'' and '' Surfing'' magazines, as well as illustrating a succession of surfing posters, such as Hal Jepson's "A Sea For Yourself", and the posters for Bud Browne's successful "Going Surfin'" series. He did posters for many Australian surf films like ''On Any Morning'', and ''A Winter's Tale''. During this period, he also did posters for Oahu's Crater Celebration, featuring bands like

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and Little Feat. Some of the time in Hawaii was spent doing commercial and advertising art for ad agencies, including ads and record sleeves for Don Ho and the Allihis, and The Society of Seven.

Album art

Returning to the mainland, Evans began to do record sleeves and continued his relationship with ''Surfer'' and ''Surfing'' magazines, doing numerous illustrations for both, including a collaboration with surfer Mike Doyle on a series of ads for Wax Research. Evans also contributed regularly to ''

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'' and ''Powder'' magazines. Working with Dean Torrance of Jan & Dean fame, he did the art for their revival album, Dead Man's Curve, and a compilation of Jan & Dean and Beach Boys hits called Golden Summer. In collaboration with Dean, Evans also did the art for the Beach Boys albums 15 Big Ones, and Live in London. At the same time, he created a logo for The Beach Boys that is still used. This, in turn, led to the commission to create a logo for the band Chicago. His list of album jackets includes;

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, The Robby Kreiger Band,

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, Beastie Boys, Beck,

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, Symbol Six, Face To Face, and Toto. Evans painting final

In addition to the record sleeves and ongoing work with the surfing magazines, Evans became a contributor to the newly formed ''Skateboarder'' magazine, handling all of the illustration work for the first four issues. Jim also collaborated with Frank Nasworthy on a series of ads for Cadillac Wheels, the first polyurethane skateboard wheel. The posters, with titles like, "From Out of the West" and "Accept No Substitutes" came to represent the paradigm shift taking place in skateboarding. Other skate art commissions included one for filmmaker / skater Stacy Peralta, for an early skate film titled ''Freestylin, as well as the poster for the first World Professional Skateboard Championships. Evans worked with producer

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to do the album art and packaging design for

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’s '' Live at the Greek Theater.''

Film posters

The period of record sleeves and skate posters ran parallel to commissions for a number of film posters. Working for most of the major studios, Jim completed art for Lumiere, 20th Century Oz, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Kentucky Fried Movie, Big Wednesday, Herowork, Acapulco Gold, The Space Movie, Patrick,

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(for which Jim also animated the opening title sequence), and

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's first film Dark Star. Numerous books began to appear at this time and his work is included in the ''History of Rock Art, Phonographics'', Roger Dean's ''Album Art Book'', and ''The History of Underground Comics''. An interest in film led to work as an Art Director, set decorator, and storyboard artist for films. Evans worked on Killer's Kiss and Growing Pains. He also helped to prepare an American release for a series of Japanese films called The Baby Cart Series. Working with director Robert Houston and his partner

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, Jim created the poster and title treatment for the 1980 release titled

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, Jim's son Gibran Evans voiced the narrative as Daigoro. An ongoing creative collaboration with John Hegeman, president of Orion Pictures, led to Jim illustrating promotional posters for the

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films for

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, The Green Inferno for

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, the film

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for

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, Anna And the Apocalypse and a poster-centric street art image for Child's Play.

Fine art

An association with ''

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'' led to a series of silkscreen portraits of celebrities. The magazine commissioned Evans to do portraits of Sean Connery, David Letterman,

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, and

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. These portraits led to art shows in Chicago and New York, in addition to a large scale show at the Hansen Gallery Rodeo Drive location, where he did portraits of Sly Stallone, Madonna, Arnold Schwarzenegger,

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, Steve Vai,

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, and

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. Later a show of feminist icons, done in collaboration with pop artist Richard Duardo, had a successful run at the Zero One gallery in Los Angeles. Evans' art has been shown at The Nyehaus gallery, Metro Pictures and Friedrich Petzel Gallery in New York, for a bi-coastal tour called "Swell". Other artists in the show included Billy Al Bengston,

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, Laddie John Dill, and Dennis Hopper. Stallone002

Evans’ work was included in a group show titled "The Lords and the New Creatures" at the NYE+BROWN gallery, which also featured

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, Ed Moses, and

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. In addition, work from Evans's comic and illustration period were included in the "Paid To Play" show at the Robert Berman Gallery, which also featured

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and Dave Willardson. Both of these shows were part of the Los Angeles-based Pacific Standard Time: Art In L.A. 1945-1980 initiative. A group show at WAAS Gallery in Dallas titled, “Collect / Respect" featured Evans' work in addition to Sebastian Walker, Restoration Press,

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, and SLICK. A collaboration with artist Ned Evans led to the creation of the TAZBONES team, and a two-man show at the ICON Gallery in Los Angeles. It featured a series of fantasy surf-posters and was called “The No Shows 1972-1999.” This collaboration was later included in a show at the

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in Taos, NM titled, "¡Orale! Kings and Queens of Cool.” This show also included the work of

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, and Joe Coleman. In 2014 a one-man show celebrating Evans' early work was mounted by the Palm Springs Modernism Week in conjunction with Gallery 446 and Eddie Donaldson, it was titled, “MODERNISM: The Art Of The Pop Portrait - Jim Evans 1984-1986." This period of work was also showcased at the Level Gallery in Dallas, TX in a show titled, “The Art Of The Pop Portrait - Jim Evans 1984-1989.” Jim Evans / TAZ presented solo works as well as collaborations with

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at the Buckshot Gallery in Santa Monica, CA in a show titled, “Unconventional Forces." Jim Evans / TAZ followed up by working with

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and photographer Dennis Morris on a pair of limited-edition prints celebrating

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and Peter Tosh.

T.A.Z. rock posters

In the late 1980s, Evans turned his attention back to rock music. Agreeing to do a poster for

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and L7 for a

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benefit, he created a new moniker, T.A.Z. The name was inspired by Hakim Bey's anarchist handbook titled The Temporary Autonomous Zone, This began collaboration with Jim, Gibran Evans, and silkscreen artist Rolo Castillo. 4/sup> During the 90's they created over 200 silkscreen limited edition rock posters for bands such as U2,

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, Oasis, Pearl Jam,

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, Metallica, and the Beastie Boys. 5/sup> As a group, T.A.Z. has completed commissions for numerous record sleeves. These include the Beastie Boys, Beck, Aerosmith, Face to Face,

, The Voodoo Glow Skulls, Slayer, Luscious Jackson, and Orange 9mm. The creation of T.A.Z. led to Jim's association with the Lollapalooza festival, and the Tibetan Freedom Concerts. In 1994, he was commissioned by Marc Geiger and Perry Farrell to decorate the Lollapalooza festival. 6/sup>^. The T.A.Z. collective branched out into film posters with the 10th Anniversary poster for the

franchise,

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, a series for

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’s Green Inferno, and a

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Limited Edition. T.A.Z. as a group also continues to do rock posters, commissions include, Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters,

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, Bad Religion, and Anderson .Paak. A recent issue of CAMP, the

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magazine featured an interview with Evans and poster artist Emek. Flood Magazine commissioned T.A.Z. to do a cover and interior illustration for activist rapper M.I.A. to coincide with the release of her documentary Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. Other T.A.Z. collaborators include, Ariel Celestino, Kirk Canning, and Omaha Perez. 7/sup>

Digital media

The move into electronic media led to the founding of The Big Gun Project. The Big Gun Project was conceived as a loosely organized artistic electronic commune made up of artists, designers, writers, and computer programmers. The Big Gun Project was responsible for creating early websites such as The Crash Site, FilmZone, and Salvo. The Big Gun Project's work-for-hire initiatives led to the completion of many web sites for major motion pictures. Among them, Men in Black, Tomorrow Never Dies, Seven, Jackie Chan's Rumble in the Bronx, The Mummy, The Big Lebowski, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, which was done in collaboration with the film director Terry Gilliam. On the music side, the Big Gun Project built web sites for The Beastie Boys, The Ozzfest, Grand Royal Records, and The Tibetan Freedom Concert. In the late 1990s Evans worked as the Executive Creative Director for Al Teller's online label Atomic Pop. He was in charge of interface design, content creation, web site development for artists signed to the label, and interactive game design. While at Atomic Pop he created sites, videos, and games, for Public Enemy, Ice-T, The Black Eyed Peas, and Smashing Pumpkins.

Current

Evans resides in Malibu with his wife and business partner Nancy Lucas Evans. He is the Executive Creative Director and owner of the Division 13 Design Group, a web-based design firm specializing in the collaboration of art and technology. With clients like Sony Pictures, DreamWorks Animation,

, Orion Pictures,

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, and

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, he does web sites, marketing campaigns, games, apps, videos, animations, and poster art for films. Titles he has worked on include ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', the ''

'' series, '' The Ring'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Don’t Breathe'', and '' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows''.

Works

Film Projects

* Jumanji: The Next Level * Zombieland: Double Tap * Once Upon A Time in Hollywood * MIB - International * Rocketman * Lego Movie 2: The Second Part * Teen Titans * Venom * Mission: Impossible - Fallout * The Emoji Movie * Star Trek Beyond * Angry Birds * Don't Breathe * Star Trek * Trolls * Home * The Darkness * Green Inferno * American Ultra * Freeheld * The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 * Paddington * Fury * Penguins Of Madagascar * Mr. Peabody & Sherman * Turbo * The Nut Job *

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* Real Steel * In Time * The Croods * Shrek Forever After * Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs * Monsters Vs. Aliens * Kung Fu Panda I, II * Saw, Saw III, Saw V, Saw 3D * Hellboy I, II * Mirrors * DreamWorks Animation * Shrek The Third * Dreamgirls * Madagascar I, III * Lord of War * Over The Hedge * Flags Of Our Fathers * The Terminal * Catch Me If You Can * Shark Tale * XXX: State of the Union * The Ring 1, 2 * League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen * Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas * The Big Lebowski * Men In Black * Psycho * Seven

Film posters

* Jumanji: The Next Level * Zombieland: Double Tap * Once Upon A Time In Hollywood *

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(IMAX) *

(Comic-Con Exclusive) * SAW (10th Anniversary Edition) * Tank Girl * Kentucky Fried Movie * Big Wednesday * Mustang Ranch * Dark Star *

* Acapulco Gold * 20th Century Oz * The Space Movie * Kentucky Fried Movie * I Never Promised You A Rose Garden * Lumiere * Herowork

Music posters

* Anderson .Paak * Blink-182 * Band Of Horses * Queens Of The Stone Age * House Of Pain * Nirvana * Beck * The Melvins * Rage Against The Machine * Smashing Pumpkins * Green Day * Lollapalooza * Foo Fighters * U2 * Tibetan Freedom Concert * Nine Inch Nails * Pearl Jam * Metallica * The Ramones * Sonic Youth * Jane's Addiction * Beastie Boys * Wu-Tang Clan * L7 * Bad Religion * Oasis * Bob Dylan * 311

Album art

* Live at the Greek Theater,

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, *

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- Beastie Boys *

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* Live In London -

* Robby Krieger & Friends -

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- Face to Face *

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* Who Is, This Is -

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References

External links

Club of the Waves - Surf Artist - Jim Evans

Future Man - Originally printed in Surfer’s Journal

Swell Redux article in Man Of The World and RIPP online

Swell - Art in America

Vegas Seven - Low to High Brow

ART SABOTAGE - T.A.Z.

Beastiemania.com - Interviews T.A.Z.

Liquid Salt Surfing Magazine - Jim Evans Interview
{{DEFAULTSORT:Evans, Jim American contemporary painters 20th-century American painters American male painters 21st-century American painters American photographers American storyboard artists Artists from San Diego 1950 births Living people Underground comix Album-cover and concert-poster artists Film poster artists 20th-century American printmakers 20th-century American male artists