Jonas Wood: Pattern Couch Interior with Mar Vista View

This soft-ground etching by Jonas Wood depicts a scene from the artist’s home, in which partially open curtains reveal a view through a window. The monochromatic composition emphasizes detailed patterns of line and texture, establishing complex relationships between surface and depth. Wood began a related painting in his Los Angeles studio before traveling to New York to work on this print with Pace Editions.

Reflecting on this process, Wood notes: “Most of the time when I’m making a painting, I’m either working from a photo or I’m working from a drawing. In this case, instead of using a drawing, I used an etching. I try to take things that I learned in printmaking and try to make the paintings better, or take the language from printmaking into painting, from drawing into painting, from drawing into printmaking, from printmaking into painting—they’re all connected in a circle.”