Jonas Wood: Sports Book Peter Saville Avedon’s landmark series—commissioned in 1979

Avedon’s landmark series—commissioned in 1979 by the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth

and Couple series

hand-blown glass gazing ball reflects its surroundings

and Laura Owens

Murakami creates paintings

Jonas Wood: Sports Book Peter Saville Avedon’s landmark series—commissioned in 1979This book collects over thirty paintings and works on paper made by Jonas Wood between 2004 and 2008 and centering around sports, including portraits of baseball and basketball players along with sparring boxers. Using pictorial sources such as trading cards, publicity photos, and freeze frames of televised games, Wood abstracts his subjects with an intensification of color and a distortion of depicted space. An essay by Cecilia Alemani analyzes Wood