Jonas Wood - Helen Molesworth Ian Alteveer Mark Grotjahn Kartoniert (TB)

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.