Jonas Wood

[3] Wood grew up surrounded by his grandfather's art collection which featured works from Francis Bacon, Alexander Calder, Jim Dine, Robert Motherwell, Larry Rivers, and Andy Warhol.

[12] Wood's studio is filled with the objects that influence his work, such as his children's drawings, plants, vessels, and sport memorabilia.

[13] A New York Times article by Janelle Zara states, "the studio is where Wood culls various photographs from the internet or his own archive and uses them as source material for his paintings".

[13] Jonas Wood's paintings, drawings, and prints can be described as a myriad of genres, such as domestic interiors, landscapes, still-life and sports scenes.

Both steeped in tradition yet completely fresh, Wood captures the impossible sharpness of modernity with the familiar feelings of home.

"[16] Roberta Smith of The New York Times notes that "his works negotiate an uneasy truce among the abstract, the representational, the photographic and the just plain weird.

[18] In another story about Wood, Smith noted that as a painter who paints his own life, his art bears similarity to Édouard Vuillard, Henri Matisse, Alex Katz and David Hockney.

Artist Mark Grotjahn saw Wood's paintings at that show and told Anton Kern Gallery in New York City about it.

[12] Other solo projects include Still Life with Two Owls (MOCA), the façade of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2016- 2018); Shelf Still Life, High Line Billboard, High Line Art, New York (2014); and LAXART Billboard and Façade, LAXART, Los Angeles (2014).

Shio Kusaka, born in Japan, creates distinctive porcelain, and Wood then photographs and paints the pieces for co-operative exhibitions.

[22] In 2015 Gagosian Gallery in Hong Kong presented Blackwelder, which brought together Wood's and Kusaka's works in a dedicated two-person exhibition.