Jonas Wood: Bonsai Laura Paulson Basquiat studied the medical textbook

Basquiat studied the medical textbook Gray’s Anatomy while recuperating from an injury

using photography

Subsequent paintings drew from the history of both painting and popular culture

” explaining that they function as “anonymous backdrops for the drama of words

and an index of the people and artworks depicted in the photographs

Jonas Wood: Bonsai Laura Paulson Basquiat studied the medical textbookBonsai is a thirteen color screen print by Jonas Wood, one of three (along with Bananas and Bromeliad) he produced to raise funds for Printed Matter, New York. He composed these plant identification prints to match the format of a classic Polaroid photograph. I really enjoyed the repetition of this series, Wood noted. It was a fun challenge to work in the same format but change the subject matter for each installment, something I think I do a lot in