JONAS WOOD (b. 1977, Boston, MA),

'Yellow Flower with Lines 2', 2021

Jonas Wood Exhibition Poster, Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong

Original offset lithograph exhibition poster from the artist's Hong Kong gallery paintings exhibition in 2021. Dimensions: 30" x 24" (76.2 x 60.9 cm) sheet. BRAND NEW (never framed or displayed).

This poster featuring Yellow Flower with Lines 2 (2021) was produced in 2021, in conjunction with the exhibition Jonas Wood at Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong, featuring ten new paintings exploring the motifs of fruits, flowers, and houseplants, as well as two sets of related drawings. Depicting brilliantly hued orchids, Wood uses the plant as a vehicle to experiment with color and geometry, isolating the forms on monochromatic backgrounds to explore color theory, pattern, and line.

Interior and landscape genres have been constant sources of inspiration for Wood since the beginning of his career, generating pictures rendered in oil and acrylic that are among his most ambitious and complex. These works encompass all of the characteristic elements of his vocabulary: surprising perspectival shifts, collage-like disjunctions, dense visual patterning, and gestures that occupy a porous terrain between figuration and abstraction. While the new paintings demonstrate increased formal sophistication––in particular, Wood's command of subtle tonal variation is on full display, with narrow ranges of colors sensitively handled to depict spatial depth and natural textures––they also shed light on underlying themes that can be found throughout this facet of his oeuvre. Wood's use of teeming detail, for example, often serves the paradoxical purpose of capturing the feeling of empty spaces; many of his works in these typologies are notable for their conspicuous lack of people, even when they highlight the remnants of human presence.

Jonas Wood was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and received his MFA from the University of Washington. Wood has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Dallas Museum of Art (2019); Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Netherlands (with Shio Kusaka, 2017); Lever House, New York (2013); and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2010). Other solo projects include Still Life with Two Owls (MOCA), a monumental picture covering the façade of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2016- 2018); Shelf Still Life, High Line, New York (2014); and the Façade at LAXART, Los Angeles (2014). In 2019, Phaidon published the first monograph dedicated to Wood’s most significant paintings and drawings.

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