£500
Contemporary & Post-War Art | 595
Auction: 16 April 2020 at 12:00 BST
Silk scarf, signed and dated within design, within original box and accompanied by purchase receipt, unframed
Biography:
You could call [my work] a visual diary or even a personal history. I’m not going to paint something that doesn’t have anything to do with me. Of all of the possible things I could paint, the thing that interests me is something that I can get close enough to in order to paint it honestly.
Jonas Wood was born in Boston, and his first exposure to art came through his grandfather, whose personal collection included works by Francis Bacon, Alexander Calder, Robert Motherwell and Andy Warhol. Wood studied in New York, before gaining his MFA from the University of Washington, Seattle in 2002. After completing his studies, he moved to L.A. and worked for Laura Owens. He now shares a studio with his wife, the artist Shio Kusaka, and recurring motifs and ideas can be seen across both their works. They have also started to exhibit together, in Hong Kong and the Netherlands.
Wood’s first solo museum exhibition was at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles in 2010, he then received a number of high-profile commissions, including a mural for the High Line in New York. In 2019, he had his first solo survey show at the Dallas Museum of Art.