Jonas Wood

Gagosian is pleased to announce a presentation of prints by Jonas Wood at its gallery and shop in London’s Burlington Arcade. The display includes a suite of five woodcuts of bonsai and a new etching of a domestic interior, installed in the upstairs gallery on Wood’s botanical-print wallpaper. On the ground floor are three prints of flowers—including White Flower with Grid, a new sixteen-color screen print published by Counter Editions—all installed on tennis ball–patterned wallpaper designed by the artist.

Wood develops his compositions from multiple sources, and his chosen motifs function as vehicles for experimentation with color and pattern, line and geometric shape. His use of plant imagery reflects not only the houseplants that populate his home and studio, but also the climate and cultural identity of his native Los Angeles. Developing his prints in parallel with his paintings, Wood has arrived at linked practices that continually inform one another. In the prints on view, the artist employs the characteristic visual language of his paintings on a smaller scale, with an appealing graphic immediacy.

Wood is also taking over the Gagosian Shop with the release of his new exhibition catalogue, posters, artist-designed hats, and special-edition books, as well as a reading room of publications on his work, including rare and out-of-print titles. The presentation at Burlington Arcade is open concurrently with the artist’s solo exhibition of paintings at Gagosian’s Grosvenor Hill gallery.