Jonas Wood: Plants and Animals

This volume presents a comprehensive and intimate look at Jonas Woods 2022 solo exhibition at David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles. It features large full-color plates of the 14 paintings, installation views, and contextualizing images from Woods personal archive, showcasing his evocations of daily life, memories, and invented scenes. The artist's work is in the permanent collections of numerous institutions.

Format: Hardback
Length: 128 pages
Publication date: 28 May 2023
Publisher: David Kordansky Gallery

This captivating volume presents a concise yet comprehensive exploration of Jonas Woods' remarkable 2022 solo exhibition at David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles. Through insightful texts by the artist himself, enriched with process notes, references, and reflections on his artistic practice, this richly illustrated monograph offers a unique perspective into how Woods conceptualizes and brings his celebrated paintings to life.

Jonas Wood: Plants and Animals showcases a stunning array of large, full-color plates, capturing the 14 captivating paintings featured in the exhibition, along with installation views and an abundance of contextualizing images. These include a diverse range of materials, such as drawings, collages, prints, photographs, previous paintings, research materials, and studio shots, many of which are previously unseen selections from Woods' personal archive.

Plants and Animals invites viewers on a vibrant and captivating journey into the world of an artist whose evocative portrayals of daily life, memories, and imagined scenes are both familiar and surprising. Each painting unfolds like a portal to an infinite realm of visual exploration, teeming with countless worlds and narratives.

Jonas Wood's artistic journey began in 1977 in Boston. He has graced the stages of numerous solo and two-person exhibitions, including notable appearances at the Dallas Museum of Art (2019), Museum Voorlinden in Wassenaar, the Netherlands (in collaboration with Shio Kusaka, 2017), Lever House in New York (2014), and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (2010). His exceptional work is held in prestigious permanent collections worldwide, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC; the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles; the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Guggenheim Museum in New York; The Broad in Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art in New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

In conclusion, Jonas Wood: Plants and Animals is a remarkable testament to the artist's talent and vision. Through its captivating images, insightful texts, and immersive presentation, this monograph provides a profound insight into the creative process of one of today's most celebrated painters.

Weight: 1565g
Dimension: 340 x 274 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9798986545219