Josh Agle's show "LA By Day" at the Earl McGrath Gallery takes a modern look at the city of Los Angeles. The show will run concurrently with "LA By Night," opening September 2, 2005 at the La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles. This will be Josh Agle's third solo show with the Earl McGrath Gallery. Josh Agle's newest works continue his commentary on consumerism, consumption, and "outre" ideas of sophistication painted on vividly colored, sharply rendered panels. As he states, "Most of my paintings are set in the middle of a story or situation -- characters are interacting and reacting to each other and to outside events." Josh Agle prefers that the viewer create his or her own narratives to fit the situations. Agle's paintings are an ironic and sometimes bitter commentary on the way we live now. In her 2003 review of Agle's first solo show at the Earl McGrath Gallery New York, Roberta Smith, art critic of the New York Times, remarked, "...while wit is nifty, color is catchier. Ultimately, the eye is snared by Mr. Agle's economic use of saturated color...and the tinted-gel space created by his thin-on-thin paint handling. ...Josef Albers could easily have claimed these pulsating furnaces of color as guilty pleasures." Since Josh Agle's first solo gallery show in 1997, he has had successful solo exhibitions in the United States, Europe, Japan and Australia. Josh Agle graduated from California State University, Long Beach and lives and works in Los Angeles, CA with his wife and two children.