The first monograph on a rising star who is one of contemporary art's most celebrated painters
Los Angeles-based artist Jonas Wood creates vivid images, where space and everyday life are rendered with compressed perspective in bold graphic hues. This monograph - the first on the artist's work - brings together his most significant paintings and drawings. In doing so, it offers a unique insight into the vast array of his sources, which include family photographs, found imagery, baseball cards, and other people's art, including the ceramics of his wife, the artist Shio Kusaka. With contributions by curator and writer Helen Molesworth, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York Ian Alteveer, and a conversation between Wood and fellow Los Angeles-based artist Mark Grotjahn.

Jonas Wood (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

Arts & Photography

Alteveer, Ian

Molesworth, Helen

Grotjahn, Mark

History & Criticism

Phaidon Press

The first monograph on a rising star who is one of contemporary art's most celebrated painters Los Angeles-based artist Jonas Wood creates vivid images, where space and everyday life are rendered with compressed perspective in bold graphic hues. This monograph - the first on the artist's work - brings together his most significant paintings and drawings. In doing so, it offers a unique insight into the vast array of his sources, which include family photographs, found imagery, baseball cards, and other people's art, including the ceramics of his wife, the artist Shio Kusaka. With contributions by curator and writer Helen Molesworth, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York Ian Alteveer, and a conversation between Wood and fellow Los Angeles-based artist Mark Grotjahn.

Jonas Wood (Signed Edition) (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

Mark Grotjahn (b. Pasadena, 1968; lives and works in Los Angeles) ranks among the bestknown American painters of his generation. His heterogeneous oeu vre includes depictions of anthropomorphic plants and masks as well as co lorful abstract compositions in oil or wax crayon. After 1997, he also produced numerous monochromes. Grotjahn’s "Butterfly" and "Face" paintings are ani mated by a dynamic dialectic between gestural representation and formalist structure. The lavishly designed book "Circus Circus" presents a selection of paintings from Grotjahn’s new "Circus" series as well as a "Mask" bronze sculp ture. The ambitious polychromatic works combine the geometric rigor of the "Butterfly" series with the gestural facture of the "Face" pictures, in which pri mary facial symbols emerge from flowing streams of color. The essays by Caroline Käding and Mark Prince analyze the "Circus" series in light of the painterly traditions on which it draws and examine its place in Grotjahn’s oeuvre.

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