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.
