Published in Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, February 2022. Jonas Wood’s still lifes are like David Hockney paintings on steroids. His paintings pay homage to his venerated predecessor while amping up the bright saturated Color hues, raising the viscosity of the paint medium and enlarging the scale of the canvases to give his luminous still lifes a more powerful presence.

Wood’s phenomenal artistic skills demonstrate the wisdom of “standing on the shoulders of Giants” ( Isaac Newton, 1675) because his immersion in great modern art from childhoods, when he visited his grandfather’s collection, continues to provide a greater vanatage point for seeing the possibilities of art.

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https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/pooches-at-david-kordansky-gallery/5324