Jonas Wood

대담한 색채 감각이 두드러지는 회화로 각광받는 조나스 우드 (b. 1977)는 작가의 예술사적 관심과 일상에서 쉽게 마주하는 친숙한 이미지들을 결합한 작가만의 독특한 스타일을 구축해왔다. 우드는 그가 간직하고 있는 사진, 우연히 발견한 이미지, 혹은 다른 예술가들의 작품 등 서로 다른 다양한 이미지들을 모아 새롭게 배치한다. 특히 푸르른 식물과 정원, 꽃, 화분, 스포츠 이미지 등이 작가만의 내부/외부 공간 속으로 투영되는데, 이러한 구성은 우드의 작품 중 가장 대표적인 형식인 동시에 그의 개인적 경험과 관심에서 비롯된 회화적 접근법을 강렬하게 반영하는 것이다. 우드는 위와 같은 개별 소재들을 미니멀한 선과 형태, 선명한 색채, 특정 공간 표현 등 작가 특유의 일러스트적인 시각적 장치를 통해 새롭게 창조하면서, 구상과 추상의 경계를 모호하게 한다. 그는 이 과정에서 “색채들이 어떻게 작용하고, 사물들은 어떻게 구성적으로 형성되는지의 경계를 끝없이 밀어붙이는” 실험을 지속하며, 작가만의 그래픽성이 강하게 전개된 웅대한 회화적 공간 세계로 우리를 초대한다. 조나스 우드는 도예가인 아내 쿠사카 시오와 협업하기도 하는데, 이들의 다양한 경험은 서로의 작품 세계의 영감의 원천일 뿐만 아니라 두 예술가의 원숙한 예술적 대화로 이어진다.

Best known for his boldly colored two-dimensional works, Jonas Wood (b. 1977) has established a signature style that combines art historical references with images of his surroundings. His technique involves collaging and layering a vast array of images including photos, found pictures, and other artists’ works. Wood’s depiction of tropical plants and gardens, flowers, pots, and sports imageries, all of which come together in his interiors and exteriors, is the most representative of his works and reflects his approach to subject matter defined by his personal experiences. These diverse references are rendered in his distinctive visual elements including minimal lines, shapes, pure colors, and spatial forms, which blur the line between figuration and abstraction. Through this stylistic technique, he continuously experiments to “push the boundaries of how colors work and how things work compositionally” and develops exceptionally large, graphic paintings that invite us to engage with a new pictorial space. Jonas Wood often collaborates with his wife Shio Kusaka, who is a ceramist, and their diverse experiences not only serve as an additional inspiration embodied in each of their individual works, but also represent a matured dialogue between the two artists. 

Born 1977 in Boston, USA

Lives and works in Los Angeles, USA

Education                                                                                                                                  

2002  MFA, Painting and Drawing, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

1999  BA, Psychology, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, USA

Selected Solo Shows 

2019              

Joans Wood, Gagosian, New York, USA

Jonas Wood, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, USA

Jonas Wood & Shio Kusaka: Pots, Plants, and Sports, Masahiro Maki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2018

Jonas Wood: Prints, Gagosian, 976 Madison, New York, USA

Tennis Court Drawings, Shane Campbell, Chicago, USA

2017

Jonas Wood: Interiors and Landscapes, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Shio Kusaka & Jonas Wood, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, The Netherlands

Ed Ruscha / Jonas Wood: Notepads, Holograms, and Books, Gagosian Gallery, San

Francisco, USA

2016

Jonas Wood: Still Life With Two Owls (MOCA), Museum of Contemporary Art Los

Angeles, Los Angeles, USA

Portraits, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA

Selected Group Shows

2020

Psychic Wounds: on Art and Trauma, The Warehouse, Dallas, USA

Rendez-Vous, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, The Netherlands

2019

Words, Alexander Berggruen, New York, USA
Private Passion - New Acquisitions in the Astrup Fearnley Collection, curated by Gunnar B. Kvaran, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway 

Louis Vuitton X, 468 N. Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills, USA

California Artists from the Marciano Collection, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, US

2018

One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA

In My Room: Artists Paint the Interior 1950-Now, The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

2017

The Trick Brain, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon

Unpacking: The Marciano Collection, curated by Philipp Kaiser, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA

Los Angeles – A Fiction, curated by Gunnar B. Kvaran, Thierry Raspail, and Nicolas Garait-Leavenworth, with advisory from Hans Ulrich Obrist, Ali Subotnick and Alex Israel, Musée d’art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France

Selected Public Collections

Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, USA

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA

Saatchi, London, UK

Wake Forest University, Salem, USA

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA

The Broad, Los Angeles, USA