Jonas Wood
Bananas, 2021
9-color screen print on rising museum board
28 x 23 inches
Edition of 200
Co-published by WKS Editions, and Aliso Editions, Los Angeles
$2,000
The vividly graphic print, Bananas, is the second installment in a series of plant identification prints for Printed Matter by the artist. The prints are formatted to the proportions of a classic Polaroid picture, with each featuring a different plant removed from a distinct background and context, like a scientific extraction. Plants have long been a source of fascination for Wood and often appear in his work. This is the artist's first print depicting the banana tree, which Wood has spent almost a decade exploring through drawings and paintings based on his personal archive of images. A visit to Hawaii further sparked his curiosity into the many different varieties.
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