Sometimes Wood's selected everyday elements are jarringly recombined into works such as Collaboration Appropriation 4 (2015), which brings together the artist's plants and basketball motifs in a surreal composition set against a neutral background.
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In the print series 'Four Majors' (2018), Wood portrays the courts of the four tennis Grand Slam tournaments in vibrant multi-colour screenprints. Watching tennis matches while he works, the artist has painted numerous tennis courts. Wood has referenced tennis in paintings, drawings and prints since 2011. The artist avidly watches games and listens to sports commentary or has it running in the background while he works. Wood shows his obsessive passion for basketball in works such as Floating Orange Ball (2014), which also pays homage to J eff Koons' sculpture One Ball Total Equilibrium (Spalding Dr J Silver Series) (1985). Sport has been a dominant feature of Wood's work ever since he began making drawings of isolated basketballs and pinning them up on the wall in the mid-2000s. The fractured plains of the Cubists and the minimal, colourful planar approach to portraits reflect the work of Wood's other proclaimed influences: Lucian Freud, David Hockney, Wayne Thiebaud, and Alex Katz. The resulting disconcerting sense of compressed space harks back to the work of the 20th-century modernists he cites as influences, particularly Henri Matisse, who he has made direct visual reference to in works such as Red Pot with Lute Player #2 (2018). Space and depth in the artist's artworks are created purely with flat planes of colour and lines. Wood's process typically begins with a collage of photographs that he simplifies into drawn compositions. Sharing a studio with her in Culver City, California, many of the artist's myriad paintings of plant pots and other ceramic vessels are modelled on Kusaka's work. In works such as Group Portrait (2004) and MSF Fish Pot #7 (2016) Wood has incorporated the work and interests of his wife, the Japan-born ceramicist Shio Kusaka. The artist's imagery is comprised of his day-to-day surroundings. In a conceptual sense, Wood follows early Pop Art's focus on reinvigorating an interest in the everyday things that we overlook, though his approach is less commercial and more personal than Pop Art's. He weaves the essence of 20th-century modern traditions with his own hard-edged, quasi-abstract cut-out style. Jonas Wood's drawings, paintings, collage, and prints cross multiple genres including portrait, still life, landscape, and architecture. Many crossovers can be found in the couple's respective artworks, as both have often appropriated and been inspired by each other's motifs. In 2002 Jonas Wood also married Japan-born ceramicist Shio Kusaka. Graduating in 2002 Wood then worked as an assistant to American painter Laura Owens building on top of his grad school education. Taking up work in a research lab enabled the budding artist to support his painting practice until he took up an MFA in Painting and Drawing at the University of Washington in Seattle. Wood initially studied psychology at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in upstate New York graduating with a BA in 1999.
Both would influence his artistic interests. Born in 1977 in Boston, Jonas Wood's father was an architect, and his grandfather and avid art collector who possessed works by Alexander Calder, Andy Warhol and Francis Bacon.
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