Jonas Wood Ceramics

The pair often work in tandem motifs migrating from kusaka s ceramic vessels to wood s paintings and back again.

Jonas wood ceramics.

Published on the occasion of his 2019 exhibition at gagosian 555 west 24th street new york the softcover catalogue features full color reproductions of thirty new paintings and works on paper that range from his familiar and beloved pots to his most recent series of. Jonas wood is available for online reading from august 2 through august 31 as part of the from the library series. Possesses one of contemporary painting s most instantly recognizable aesthetics. Los angeles based artist jonas wood creates vivid images where space and everyday life are rendered with compressed perspective in bold graphic hues.

Raised in boston wood is the child of art inclined parents. Jonas wood born 1977 is a contemporary artist based in los angeles background. The dallas museum of art is supported in part by the. Which include family photographs found imagery baseball cards and other people s art including the ceramics of his wife the artist shio kusaka.

In his paintings drawings and prints jonas wood merges references to art history his memories and visions of the people objects and settings that compose the fabric of his life. Working in acrylic and oil on supports including cardboard and canvas he presents portraits of his friends and family interior scenes and still lifes. Jonas wood has a thing for pottery a classic jonas wood painting invariably contains pots writes the curator and author in our new book on the la artist sometimes it s lots of pots casually arranged on shelves some empty and others housing a variety of succulents. Jonas wood landscape pot with bromeliad 2016 gouache colored pencil and collaged paper on paper 33 1 4 x 20 1 4 inches 84 5 x 51 4 cm framed.

We like hanging out and doing the clay together kusaka. With contributions by curator and writer. Wood grew up. Or there are individual pots where the scale of the vessel is enlarged to such a degree that their surfaces can.

The credit for these pieces goes partly to the painter jonas wood 39 who shares her studio space and also happens to be her husband. His canvases depict plants and ceramics often on shelves or in lush domestic interiors rendered with a flattened perspective in vibrant hues yet wood s work is hardly formulaic. Wood s family members are recurrent characters in his paintings as are the ceramics produced by his wife artist shio kusaka stressing the importance of familial dynamics in shaping identity a notion central to his approach. See more ideas about jonas wood illustration art art inspiration.