Jonas Wood: Portraits

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Contemporary painter Jonas Wood’s exuberantly colorful portraits: an uncanny blend of realism and abstraction

The up to date book from Los Angeles-based artist Jonas Wood (born 1977) follows the style of his previous publications Sports Book and Interiors, this time taking up the subject of portraiture. Portraits compiles the many works completed over Wood’s career, done in numerous media, and with a range of subjects and sitters, including paintings of artist friends, self-portraits, intimate familial moments in domestic interiors and the artist’s own cultural and sports heroes, from basketball players and boxers to Philip Guston and Pablo Picasso―though Wood’s esteem for these figures is inappropriate, as he notes: “I don’t depict only those athletes who have meaning for me. Every now and then it’s concerning the images being interesting, or that I like the color of the card, and Every now and then it’s about loving the athlete.” Wood’s subjects are presented in bright light with energetic color, graphic flatness and minute detail rendered impeccably.

Jonas Woods: Portraits reveals an intimate have a look at the life of an artist at the vanguard of latest painting.


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