Gagosian, West 24th Street, New York // January 25, 2023 – February 26, 2023
Pattern Couch Interior with Mar Vista View, 2020 Soft ground etching on Hahnemuhle copperplate paper Paper Dimensions: 29 x 25 1/2 inches 73.7 x 64.8 cm Image Dimensions: 23 3/4 x 21 inches 60.3 x 53.3 cm Edition of 35
Japanese Garden, 2021 51-color screen print on Rising Museum Board Paper Dimensions: 25 1/8 x 23 7/8 inches 63.8 x 60.6 cm Image Dimensions: 24 x 23 1/8 inches 61 x 58.7 cm Edition of 40 © Jonas Wood Courtesy the artist and Gagosian
Kitchen Interior, 2022 112-color screen print on Rising Museum Board 48 1/4 x 31 1/2 inches 122.6 x 80 cm Edition of 60 © Jonas Wood Courtesy the artist and Gagosian
Aechmea Bromeliad Poster, 2022 27-color lithograph on Coventry Rag Smooth paper 42 3/8 x 30 3/4 inches 107.6 x 78.1 cm Edition of 80 © Jonas Wood Courtesy the artist and Gagosian
Jonas Wood has said of printmaking, “You have to build the print piece by piece. I just love the way it looks, the process, the whole feel of it. It’s irreplaceable.” In Wood’s hands and with the help and expertise of master printmakers he works with, there is something completely alive in Wood’s prints. I think of the 112-color Kitchen Interior (2022), a screen print that took over 20 months to produce and demonstrates the most mundane of moments, the domestic life of a kitchen, in almost surreal intensity and layered beauty. That is perhaps why Wood is so perfect as printamaker, the idea of taking something almost unseen and underappreciated and elevating it to unfathomable visionary, painstakingly executed epics.
In Gagosian’s Jonas Wood: Prints 2, the follow-up to 2018 Jonas Wood: Prints, the artist develops a mastery in the art form but also a mastery in the art of collaboration. The prints here in this show, works made with Aliso Editions, Cirrus Gallery & Cirrus Editions Ltd., Counter Editions, Hamilton Press, Mixografía, Pace Editions, as well with experts in his own print house, WKS Editions, see Wood creating aquatint, hard-ground and soft-ground etching, lithography, screen printing, and woodcuts, as well as various hybrid processes. The result is a conversation between painting and printmaking, how the two can go hand-in-hand, and how an artist can use both methods to propel a vision forward. —Evan Pricco
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