After Jonas Wood Jungle Kitchen Exhibit Poster Interiors Landscapes Kordansky

2017

Kordansky Gallery celebrates L.A.-based artist Jonas Wood’s newest works in three of its galleries. Like the spaces they occupy, the canvases are vast, most floating at around 100” t...

The vividly graphic print, Bananas, is the second installment in a series of plant identification prints by the artist. The prints are formatted to the proportions of a classic Polaroid picture, with each featuring a different plant removed from a distinct background and context, like a scientific extraction. Plants have long been a source of fascination for Wood and often appear in his work. This is the artist’s first print depicting the banana tree, which Wood has spent almost a decade exploring through drawings and paintings based on his personal archive of images. A visit to Hawaii further sparked his curiosity into the many different varieties. Jonas Wood (b. 1977, Boston) makes paintings, drawings, and prints in the genres of portraiture, still life, and landscape. His work reflects a personal approach to subject matter defined by his affinities and experiences. Conjuring depth using flat forms––his process involves collage-based studies in which he sometimes works with photographs to deconstruct and reassemble the images––Wood probes the boundaries between the new and the familiar, integrating emotionally resonant material from everyday life. Jonas Wood has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Dallas Museum of Art (2019); Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Netherlands (with Shio Kusaka...

Jonas Wood Interiors and Landscapes Exhibition Poster, 2017 Poster 24 × 18 in 61 × 45.7 cm Published by David Kordansky Gallery

Very rare, sold by the Museum Voorlinden, only about 10 posters were available signed from the museum.