Drawing A Blank (On Forgetting, Refusal, Censure and Impotence)

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—01. July 14 — August 18, 2012.

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"I'm explaining myself. I'm talking to you with a drink in one hand. At the open bar in the lobby of the reception for what's-his-name. Except when I get to my point I pause. There's a name I'm missing. Maybe it's yours. What I've forgotten is perhaps more important than what I've said. And you're politely waiting. And I stutter some half-sentences that don't come close to what I meant. But you nod anyway. Later that night at home in bed in the dark I'll recall just what it was I wanted to say. I'll open my eyes and look at the ceiling and simultaneously congratulate and berate myself for such a statement."

—Opens today at David Kordansky Gallery

Jonas Wood at David Kordansky Gallery

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—01. Hit Man.
—02. Calais Drive.

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The David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles opened a show of new work by Jonas Wood at the end of March. The artist often begins his work by collaging photographs he has taken, and these collages of composite scenes are then used as either standalone pieces, or as studies and drawings for future paintings. These paintings sometimes appear again in Wood's later work, hanging on the walls of the galleries or studios he is depicting. This body of work represents "a visual analogue to the multiple, unpredictable, and constantly evolving ways in which memory reconstructs the past. Accordingly, Wood frequently portrays his subjects by way of pre-existing representations like baseball cards, posters, and images from television broadcasts." The show hangs until May, should you live in the city, or else plan to be visiting LA over the next few weeks.

—Jonas Wood at David Kordansky Gallery