Jonas Wood

Jonas Wood

(American, b. 1977)

Jonas Wood is a Los Angeles–based painter whose work translates the things of daily life—plants, vessels, interiors, sports imagery—into assertive, flattened compositions. Working from photographs and personal snapshots, he builds collaged studies that are distilled into firm contour, planar color, and compressed space, creating pictures that read with graphic clarity while retaining the quirks of observation. Seriality is central: recurring motifs become informal inventories of domestic and studio life, where small shifts in scale, pattern, and placement generate new rhythms.

Printmaking is integral to Wood’s practice. Screenprints, lithographs, and etchings extend his painted vocabulary with crisp edges and calibrated palettes, emphasizing his interest in separation, layering, and the translation from drawing to final image. Dialogues with ceramics—often in conversation with the work of his wife Shio Kusaka—underscore his attention to craft, pattern, and objecthood.

Situated within lineages running from Matisse to postwar Pop and West Coast painting, Wood has forged an unmistakably contemporary language: personal yet systematized, familiar yet formally exacting. His paintings, drawings, and editions are widely exhibited and collected, reflecting an oeuvre grounded in the patient re-seeing of everyday subjects.