Jonas Wood
Jonas Wood
Landscape Pot with Yellow Orchid, 2014
oil and acrylic on canvas
118 x 90 inches
(299.7 x 228.6 cm)
Jonas Wood
Clipping A4, 2013
oil and acrylic on canvas
108 1/2 x 73 inches
(275.6 x 185.4 cm)
Jonas Wood
Studio Exterior, 2014
oil and acrylic on canvas
112 x 114 inches
(284.5 x 289.6 cm)
Jonas Wood
Maritime Hotel Pot with Aloe, 2014
oil and acrylic on canvas
120 x 76 inches
(304.8 x 193 cm)
Jonas Wood
Black Landscape Pot with Kiwi Plant, 2014
oil and acrylic on canvas
135 x 93 inches
(342.9 x 236.2 cm)
Jonas Wood
Black Landscape Pot with Blue Plant, 2014
oil and acrylic on canvas
118 x 93 inches
(299.7 x 236.2 cm)
Jonas Wood
Blue Rug Still Life, 2014
oil and acrylic on canvas
105 x 103 inches
(266.7 x 261.6 cm)
Jonas Wood
Reggie Lewis, 2014
oil and acrylic on canvas
78 x 58 inches
(198.1 x 147.3 cm)
Jonas Wood
Young Byron Scott, 2013
oil and acrylic on canvas
78 x 58 inches
(198.1 x 147.3 cm)
Jonas Wood
Orel, 2014
oil and acrylic on canvas
78 x 58 inches
(198.1 x 147.3 cm)
Jonas Wood
Manute, 2014
oil and acrylic on canvas
120 x 48 inches
(304.8 x 121.9 cm)
Jonas Wood
Face Painting, 2014
oil and acrylic on linen
52 x 44 1/2 inches
(132.1 x 113 cm)
Jonas Wood
Self Portrait with Momo, 2014
oil and acrylic on canvas
65 x 65 inches
(165.1 x 165.1 cm)
Jonas Wood
Ewing Sticker Card, 2014
ink, gouache, and colored pencil on paper
40 7/8 x 30 inches
(103.8 x 76.2 cm)
framed:
45 7/8 x 35 x 2 inches
(116.8 x 88.9 x 5.4 cm)
Jonas Wood
Young Shaq Uniform, 2013
ink on paper
60 3/8 x 41 3/8 inches
(153.4 x 105.1 cm)
framed:
65 1/2 x 46 1/2 x 2 inches
(166.4 x 118.1 x 5.1 cm)
Jonas Wood
Anthony Davis, 2012
ink on paper
40 1/2 x 36 inches
(102.9 x 91.4 cm)
framed:
45 3/4 x 41 x 2 inches
(116.2 x 104.1 x 5.1 cm)
Jonas Wood
Green Landscape Pot with Orchid, 2014
gouache and colored pencil on paper
21 x 15 5/8 inches
(53.3 x 39.7 cm)
framed:
24 1/8 x 18 3/4 x 1 3/4 inches
(61.3 x 47.6 x 4.4 cm)
Jonas Wood
Valuev, 2014
gouache and colored pencil on paper
22 1/4 x 19 inches
(56.5 x 48.3 cm)
framed:
25 1/4 x 22 3/16 x 1 3/4 inches
(64.1 x 56.4 x 4.4 cm)
Jonas Wood
Manute Jumper, 2014
gouache, colored pencil, and collage on paper
41 1/2 x 30 3/8 inches
(105.4 x 77.2 cm)
framed:
46 5/8 x 35 3/8 x 2 inches
(118.4 x 89.9 x 5.1 cm)
Jonas Wood
Blackwelder Studio Exterior, 2014
ink, gouache, and colored pencil on paper
26 x 26 inches
(66 x 66 cm)
framed:
29 1/8 x 29 1/8 x 1 3/4 inches
(74 x 74 x 4.4 cm)
Jonas Wood
Sherman Corbett, 2009
gouache and colored pencil on paper
13 7/8 x 9 7/8 inches
(35.2 x 25.1 cm)
framed:
17 1/4 x 13 1/4 x 1 3/4 inches
(43.8 x 33.3 x 4.4 cm)
Jonas Wood
Charles Barkley, 2009
gouache and colored pencil on paper
14 1/8 x 10 inches
(35.9 x 25.4 cm)
framed:
17 1/8 x 13 1/8 x 1 3/4 inches
(43.5 x 33.3 x 4.4 cm)
Jonas Wood
Yellow Fish Tank, 2012
gouache and colored pencil on paper
29 3/4 x 24 3/4 inches
(75.6 x 62.9 cm)
framed:
32 7/8 x 27 7/8 x 1 3/4 inches
(83.5 x 70.8 x 4.4 cm)
Jonas Wood
TV Room 2, 2007
gouache and colored pencil on paper
23 x 30 3/8 inches
(58.4 x 77.2 cm)
framed:
26 1/8 x 33 1/2 x 1 3/4 inches
(66.4 x 85.1 x 4.4 cm)
Jonas Wood
Bowe V. Valuev, 2014
gouache and colored pencil on paper
25 3/16 x 27 5/8 inches
(64 x 70.2 cm)
framed:
28 1/4 x 30 7/8 x 1 3/4 inches
(71.8 x 78.4 x 4.4 cm)
Jonas Wood
B+W Landscape Pot 1, 2014
ink and colored pencil on paper
60 3/8 x 41 1/4 inches
(153.4 x 104.8 cm)
framed:
65 3/8 x 46 3/8 x 2 inches
(166.1 x 117.8 x 5.1 cm)
Jonas Wood
Maritime Sunset Landscape Pot, 2014
ink, gouache, and colored pencil on paper
28 x 22 inches
(71.1 x 55.9 cm)
framed:
31 3/16 x 25 1/8 x 1 3/4 inches
(79.2 x 63.8 x 4.4 cm)
Jonas Wood
Tropical Interior Landscape Pot, 2014
ink, gouache, and colored pencil on paper
25 1/16 x 21 inches
(63.7 x 53.3 cm)
framed:
28 3/16 x 24 1/8 x 1 3/4 inches
(71.6 x 61.3 x 4.4 cm)
Jonas Wood
Eric the Actor (ETM), 2010
gouache and colored pencil on paper
41 x 30 inches
(104.1 x 76.2 cm)
framed:
46 x 35 x 2 inches
(116.8 x 88.9 x 5.1 cm)
Jonas Wood
Shio with 2 Dogs, 2014
ink, gouache, and colored pencil on paper
23 x 24 inches
(58.4 x 61 cm)
framed:
26 3/16 x 27 3/8 x 1 3/4 inches
(66.5 x 69.5 x 4.4 cm)
Jonas Wood
Frieze 2008, 2009
gouache and colored pencil on paper
21 x 29 15/16 inches
(53.3 x 76 cm)
framed:
24 7/16 x 33 1/16 x 1 3/4 inches
(62.1 x 84 x 4.4 cm)
Jonas Wood
Rosy in My Room, 2014
gouache and colored pencil on paper
20 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches
(52.1 x 52.1 cm)
framed:
23 5/8 x 23 5/8 x 1 3/4 inches
(60 x 60 x 4.4 cm)
Jonas Wood
Self Portrait with Momo, 2014
gouache and colored pencil on paper
20 1/4 x 20 inches
(51.4 x 50.8 cm)
framed:
23 3/8 x 23 1/8 x 1 3/4 inches
(59.7 x 59.1 x 4.4 cm)
Jonas Wood
Manny Sanguillen, 2009
gouache and colored pencil on paper
14 x 10 inches
(35.6 x 25.4 cm)
framed:
17 x 13 x 1 3/4 inches
(43.2 x 33 x 4.4 cm)
Jonas Wood
Purple Orchid Clipping, 2013
gouache and colored pencil on paper
60 3/8 x 40 1/2 inches
(153.4 x 102.9 cm)
framed:
65 3/8 x 45 1/2 x 2 inches
(166.1 x 115.6 x 5.1 cm)
Jonas Wood
Black Landscape Pot with Kiwi Plant 1, 2014
ink, gouache, and colored pencil on paper
60 5/16 x 41 1/4 inches
(153.2 x 104.8 cm)
framed:
65 3/8 x 46 1/4 x 2 inches
(166.1 x 117.5 x 5.1 cm)
Jonas Wood
Brian, Ana, Lulu, and George, 2014
gouache, colored pencil, and collage on paper
41 1/4 x 28 inches
(104.8 x 71.1 cm)
framed:
46 1/4 x 33 1/16 x 2 inches
(117.5 x 84.1 x 5.1 cm)
Jonas Wood
Still Life with Blue Rug, 2013
gesso, gouache, ink, and colored pencil on paper
34 x 32 inches
(86.4 x 81.3 cm)
framed:
39 x 37 x 2 inches
(99.1 x 94 x 5.1 cm)
Jonas Wood
Akio Takamori, 2014
oil and acrylic on linen
42 x 36 x 1 1/2 inches
(106.7 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm)
Jonas Wood
2 Boxers, 2014
oil and acrylic on canvas
75 x 94 inches
(190.5 x 238.8 cm)
Jonas Wood
Robin and Ptolemy, 2013
oil and acrylic on linen
25 x 18 1/2 inches
(63.5 x 47 cm)
Jonas Wood
Jeremy, 2014
oil and acrylic on canvas
112 x 132 inches
(284.5 x 335.3 cm)
David Kordansky Gallery is pleased to announce a major exhibition by Jonas Wood at the gallery’s new location at 5130 W. Edgewood Place. The exhibition will open on Saturday, November 8, 2014 and will continue on view through January 10, 2015. An opening reception will be held on November 8 from 6:00pm until 8:00pm. Extending across three exhibition spaces at the gallery’s new building, this is Wood’s most expansive and diverse show to date. Each room will focus on a genre within his painting practice: plants, sports cards, and portraits. Also featured will be a salon-style installation of works on paper, dating from 2007 to the present, closely related to the paintings on view.
Among the paintings, Wood will debut a new series of large-scale pictures of solitary plants in painted pots. Referred to as “landscape pots”, each image pairs a “clipping”––a plant form isolated from a preceding work by Wood––with a vessel shape that is, itself, a painted view––a cityscape, park, or jungle-like foliage. Compositing images of objects, perspectival spaces and external surfaces, as well as textures, scales, and temporalities, the pots exemplify Wood’s montage-based practice, and its evocation of nostalgia and the uncanny.
Accordingly, Wood increasingly draws not only from his growing collection of photographic images and “readymade” portraits such as trading cards, but also the history of his own practice. In tandem with his paintings, he has produced a breadth of preparatory and companion works on paper, through which he resolves elements of each composition and which he later mines for future works. In this sense, the exhibition’s installation of drawings approximates a view of his studio, functioning as a matrix to understand Wood’s process, and also his greater visual universe.
Over the past decade, Wood has developed a singular style of representational image-making. Working from a vast archive of photographs––shot and collected by the artist or sourced via the Internet––Wood reinterprets everyday views from his life. Domestic interiors, televised sports, and snapshots of family members become observational events and opportunities for the construction of line and shape. In each work, he collages flat, graphic color, and freehand geometric patterns, synthesizing discontinuous views of his subjects. His paintings remain legible as representational images while skewing towards abstraction. For instance, Wood’s daughter’s painted face, the flowers of an orchid, and the musculature of Manute Bol’s arm appear equally as intimate portrayals, kaleidoscopic visions, and novel painterly events.
An accompanying, fully illustrated catalogue, designed by Brian Roettinger and the artist, will be published in late 2014.
Jonas Wood (b. 1977) has recently presented solo exhibitions of his work at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the High Line, New York; the Lever House Art Collection, New York; Anton Kern Gallery, New York; Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago; and David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles. Recent group exhibitions include Greater L.A., New York; Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; and Newtonland: Orbits, Ellipses and Other Places of Activity, White Flag Projects, St. Louis. Wood’s work is included in the public collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the MCA Chicago; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. In November 2014 he will debut a new façade and billboard with LAXART in Culver City. Earlier this year he released print editions with Edition Jacob Samuel, Los Angeles; Cirrus Editions, Los Angeles; and Hamilton Press, Venice, California. Wood lives and works in Los Angeles.
