Gagosian at Frieze Los Angeles 2026: California as Myth, Machine and Mirage
20 February 2026 • Mark Westall
Gagosian stages a presentation that feels less like a booth and more like a meditation on California itself
Tag: Jonas Wood
Jonas Wood (b. 1977, Boston, USA) builds vibrant, meticulously structured images that merge the immediacy of everyday life with the clarity of graphic abstraction. Working in painting, drawing and printmaking, he translates domestic interiors, plants, pottery and sports imagery into flat, patterned compositions where scale tilts, colours sharpen and space becomes delightfully unstable. His subjects—familiar yet reimagined—are filtered through a process of collage, photography and redrawing, giving each work a distilled, rhythmic energy.
Wood’s vocabulary of repeating motifs and skewed perspectives turns the ordinary into something luminous and intentionally off-balance. Through bold line, compressed depth and a quietly playful precision, he creates scenes that feel both intimate and constructed, celebrating the visual texture of contemporary life while rethinking how we inhabit images.
Phillips presents highlights of Evening & Day Editions Auction
6 January 2025 • Mark Westall
Phillips has revealed highlights from the forthcoming Evening & Day Editions Auction, taking place in London
Paul’s ART STUFF on a train # 135: ‘The Monumental Intimate’
11 November 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
But there’s also a room with five really big paintings – 10 feet high – of pots. The images somehow become more interesting for being on pots, even though they’re very flatly rendered, and the size gives the pots a grandeur which does something new.