Art at Petersham

DRAWING RALLY - Jonas Wood

“I’m using these images as a vehicle for practicing painting. I think of painting as an accumulation of practice. It’s technical. It’s scientific.” - Jonas Wood

Jonas Wood creates paintings, drawings, watercolours, collages and outlines of pots and vases (featuring his wife, Shio Kusaka’s work) where the perspective is tiled, and the viewpoint distorted. The space of the composition is compressed and filled with figures, plants, toys and household objects, creating impactful reflections on the convergence between art and life. Wood plays with our vision of the world, dissecting the visible and reassembling it into storytelling scenes, re-animated domestic spaces of a new psychological landscape.
With great acumen and anticipating Wood’s remarkable success, Francesco and Gael Boglione acquired this piece at Art Basel, before the Wood became the hottest artist of his generation, now represented by Larry Gagosian, the art dealer who built an international empire over the past 25 years. Gagosian is currently showing in the New York gallery the first survey of prints by Jonas Wood; a limited-edition silk scarf was designed by the artist with this particular painting.

THE CITY YOU EXPEL, 2014 & SOMETIMES COLOUR IS ENOUGH TO WORK FROM, 2016 - Matthew Chambers

Matthew Chambers recreates images drawn equally from pop culture, movies, art history, his own imagination as well as fragments of his previous abstract works. To create his large
scale floral works Chambers starts by purchasing and photographing flowers arranged by himself in different compositions. These compositions are then drawn on the canvas by deconstructing the images in shapes and colour blocks, repainting over them with matched colour enamel adhesive, and then sprayed with nylon flock powder, creating vibrant velvety
surfaces emphasized by this new unfamiliar materialism.

Chambers wishes to create a moment of pause by inviting the viewer into the canvas, drawn into the colour, if only momentarily, away from the overflowing chaos of reality, by the only experience of seeing.

Matthew Chambers was born in Idaho in 1982, he lives and works in L.A.

UNTITLED (Some Girls are too Big For) - Jime Dine

Jim Dine is an American artist closely associated with the development of Pop Art in the early 1960’s. His works ranges from vibrant, large-scale paintings to exquisitely-rendered,
romantic drawings and bronze sculptures. In 1964 his work was present at the 32ª Biennale di Venezia where Robert Rauschenberg was awarded the Leone d’Oro and the Pop Art phenomenon exploded internationally.
Over the past years Jim Dine has donated large personal selections of his art to museums across the world, including the British Museum in London, the Albertina in Vienna, the
Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the National Gallery of Victoria, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and more recently the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Dine currently lives between New York, Paris, and Walla Walla, Washington.

This particular work was among the first Francesco Boglione’s mother, Anna Pecco Boglione, acquired in New York in the early 1970’s, advised by renowned art dealer Leo Castelli.

AMARYLLIS - Sarah Graham

“Sarah Graham’s pictures are bold, brave, and beautiful, and look fantastic in contemporary or traditional settings, I highly recommend them.” - Jane Churchill


Sarah Graham draws her inspiration from a lifelong fascination with natural world, especially insects and plants, which she describes as the “lyrical and mysterious”. Through her intense
sense of examination, she creates strong majestic forms borrowed from the Natural History Museum or memories of her travels. Graham celebrates the monumental, sculptural
grandeur of certain plant forms with majestic, water-based ink, works. “Ink is a merciless medium once it’s in the paper it is the for good. But I love how it dries, often in uneven pools”
she says.

ROSAS DE AYER - Jorge Galindo

Describing his own work as “dirty pop”, Jorge Galindo monumental paintings are gestural and expressionist. His oeuvre, characterized by a certain physical abstraction and apersistent
taste for large formats, reveals an obsession with collage that has ended up defining both his pictorial action and his understanding of images. Galindo’s large-scale canvases are marked by an aesthetics of excess, featuring bold, expressive brushstrokes, splatters, marks, and sometimes collage elements that cultivate a
sense of layered lushness and frenzy. Amidst his gestures, glimmers of formal recognition appear – most frequently, of flowers. As beautiful as they are recycled, Galindo is fascinated
by unreal depictions of these plants, full of metaphoric potential.

In 2021 the artist presented a large group of works with award-winning Spanish film director Almodóvar, part of a long-standing collaboration between the two artists and more recently showed in New York with the internationally renowned artist Julian Schnabel in a two two-person exhibition.

Jorge Galindo was born in 1965 in Madrid, Spain. Trained in the workshops of the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, his artistic oeuvre spans more than three decades. Galindo’s work has been exhibited internationally including at the Hamburger Bahnhof,
Berlin; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; and the Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA. Galindo lives and works in Toledo, Spain.

ROSE BUD - Alex Katz

In Rose Bud, 2019, Alex Katz beautifully depicts two rose buds in brilliant pinks and reds on a simple blue-gray background. This work has many of the hallmarks of Katz’s iconic artistic style. He uses bright saturated colors and flat blocks of color, reminiscent of Japanese woodblock printing techniques, which have been very influential to Katz throughout his career. The close cropping of the composition create an intimacy and emphasize the relationship between the viewer and the subject of the work. Katz painted many works of flowers of all sorts, and experimented with color, lighting and cropping in these compositions. This work is incredibly charming, with the warm pink blooms contrasting perfectly with the cool green of their stems and the pale background.
Katz developed his signature style as a reaction against the Abstract Expressionism that dominated the mid–20th century, when he began painting. Instead, he embraced narrative,
figurative clarity and the accessible pleasures of Pop art, though he remains untethered to any particular school or movement. With flat planes of rich, lovely color, Alex Katz’s landscapes and portraits evoke the smooth aesthetics of advertising billboards and film.
His work has been included in shows at institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and the Fosun Foundation in Shanghai, among others. His work belongs to multiple public collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum, the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Tate.