Jonas wood sports book

Light wear at the spine ends, else near fine in illustrated boards as issued. See available prints and multiples, paintings, and works on paper for sale and learn about. An artist on finding balance, and his giant basketball sculpture. Jonas wood, dinosaur still life, 2014 my latest artist i am in love withits like an homage to hockneypierrejean maurel jonas wood american b. Woods expanding gallery of athletes, portraits and still lives are animated by familiar yet universal elements, allowing his drawings and paintings to radiate at the intersection between personal mythology and collective identity c. Plants have long been a subject of woods work, whether on their own, within paintings of interiors or alongside portraits of people. He started featuring sports stars in his paintings, because he couldnt keep. Portraits hardcover october 25, 2016 by jonas wood artist. They coauthor art books in a series with the pen name wood kusaka studios. This is a painting titled ball on wood by artist jonas wood made in. For more on this visually engaging contemporary artist, order a copy of our new contemporary artist series book on jonas wood here. Sports are part of his everyday, and are part of the endless library of memories. Jonas wood, whose show of portraits at the anton kern gallery in chelsea runs through oct. Painter jonas wood on how going it alone helped him survive his immense market success.

In each of these, however, his work reflects an instantly recognizable vision of the contemporary world, as well as a personal approach to subject matter defined by his. Etsy is the home to thousands of handmade, vintage, and oneofakind products and gifts related to your search. The artist jonas wood in his east hollywood studio, with a giant basketball by paa joe, a ghanaian artist who specializes in fantasy coffins and palanquins. The captains final log by ed nukey nukes and jocko levent brainiac multiforce by mat brinkman sports book by jonas wood 2010 city hunter by cf. This includes data values and the controlled vocabularies that house them. Inside their sprawlingspraying studio, jonas wood and shio kusaka, husband and wife artists, display works from their private collection. Picturebox released books and objects from 2000 to 2014. Compact and affordable, this first monograph takes as its subject a small slice of wood s. But, until you read our new contemporary artist series book on wood, you wont realise. Announcing the jonas wood fundraising edition printed matter.

At the time, they felt like a breath of fresh air, a sort of ideal representation of those passing memories of both the most famous athletes and those often forgotten mythical figures that you saw on basketball or baseball cards. Jonas wood untitled, from white columns print portfolio, print. Sports book jonas wood, cecilia alemani, rip hamilton on. Raised in boston, wood is the child of artinclined parents. Abaa sports book by wood, jonas search for rare books. An artist on finding balance, and his giant basketball. Jonas wood is an american artist best known for his innovative and densely patterned paintings of domestic interiors, landscapes, and sports events. Datasets available include lcsh, bibframe, lc name authorities, lc classification, marc codes, premis vocabularies, iso language codes, and more. Wood renders these interiors with a disorienting combination of scrupulous exactitude and absolute flatness.

Woods process begins with collecting source material, much of which consists of personal photographs and drawings. Starting with abstract blocks of colors on canvas, wood continues to layer forms, and. Jonas wood was the first artist we can remember that painted largescale portraits of our collective childhood imagery of sports icons. Its color field painting by the way of le douanier rousseau cecilia alemani in. A few weeks ago, on may 17th, jonas woods japanese garden 3. Jonas woods dinosaur pots still life is a work that would wellillustrate greenery, the new pantone color of the year. His subjects include sports related scenes, domestic interiors, and paintings of. Shio kusaka, born in japan, creates distinctive porcelain, and wood then photographs and paints the pieces for cooperative exhibitions. It features the fulllength version of the interview excerpted above, as well as contributions by curator and writer helen molesworth, and curator of modern and contemporary art at the metropolitan museum of art in new york ian alteveer, as. Whats more, as the curator helen molesworth puts it in her contribution to the book, while we live in a culture that holds sports.

Portraitscompiles the many works completed over woods career, done in. Jonas woods practice encompasses multiple genres through piecing together and layering a collage of personal memories and experiences, sports, places, people, heroes, and art objects. Engaging for him, and thrilling for us, sports in woods pictures is a rare example of a winwin. The first monograph on one of contemporary arts most exciting, illustrious, and soughtafter rising starslos angelesbased jonas wood creates vivid images, where overlapping textures and interior spaces are rendered with compression and dazzling bright hues. This new volume brings together paintings of clippings of plants. For much more on woods own thing, order a copy of our contemporary artist series book on jonas wood. Shop for a variety of jonas wood merchandise accompanying his first major solo museum exhibition at the dallas museum of art.

Portraits compiles the many works completed over woods career, done in a. Find an indepth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. Signed upcoming book releases premiere collectibles. Jonas wood bball studio limited edition, jonas wood catalogue, jonas wood 2019 poster, jonas wood face painting poster, jonas wood catalogue, jonas wood poster, jonas wood portraits, jonas wood sports, jonas wood interiors, jonas wood interiors and landscapes poster. No matter what youre looking for or where you are in the world, our global marketplace of sellers can help you find unique and affordable options. Here, they posed before works by ed ruscha left, ron. Sports book 2016, hardcover at the best online prices at ebay.

Artist books special edition books monographs general interest. Jonas wood is known for stylized botanicals, figure, still life and structure paintings. Mark grotjahn is an artist based in pasadena, california. With a focus on his sports portraiture, it collects images of majestic basketball players, poised baseball players, sparring boxers and more. The linked data service provides access to commonly found standards and vocabularies promulgated by the library of congress. This monograph the first on the artists work brings together his most significant paintings, drawings, watercolors, and collage. This secondedition publication of sports book features the work of american artist. Jonas wood is a contemporary artist known for his paintings of domestic interiors, landscapes, and sports events. Anton kern gallery and david kordansky gallery, 2016. It is only normal that wood, a selfconfessed sports fan, turns to sports as source material for his work. Jonas wood artist keywords and quick facts jonas wood.