Artist Lecture: Jonas Wood

Jonas Wood is prominently a painter on canvas. He starts off most of his pieces with either a collage, a photo, or a drawing of a photo or collage he has made. His subject matter varies from abstract paintings of plants to realistic portraits of people and their environment. One thing that is constant throughout his pieces is the fact that he focuses more on how color takes up space rather than an object taking up space, therefore he does not really portray shadows in his pieces making his pieces rather flat. The process in which he creates his work tends to be quite tedious though rewarding. From his presentation it seemed like he would usually start out with some sort of rough draft, or initial idea, and then work from that and move it onto a bigger format, which usually seemed to be canvas. Through his presentation I got a sense that his paintings were simply just paintings of observations in life he thought were amusing rather than portraying some crazy concept,. Jonas Wood portrays strong composition throughout his pieces and a variety of interesting shapes through his abstracted still life pieces though they lack that conceptual background that I personally crave for.