Jonas Wood IOUs

Someone owes someone 1K, 2K, $1000, $20000, and/or $500, says Jonas Wood on four sheets of 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. note paper, at LA Modern LA Modern describes these objects as four works by Jonas Wood. They look to me like IOUs. Since the early 2000s, Wood has run an art world-centered poker game in Los Angeles, which began as a way for emerging artists like himself and Mark Grotjahn to make a living while making art. On its third iteration in 2023, Nate Freeman wrote about the game’s latest the evolution into a $500 buy-in tournament, the World Series of Art Poker. Gerard O’Brien, who opened the California design-centered Reform Gallery in 2003, and the art gallery spinoff, Landing, in 2012, was tagged by Nate as a regular in Wood’s early game. So was artist Matt Johnson (MJ?), a childhood friend of Wood. Except, perhaps, for his name written across some of the works, LA Modern’s single seller is unidentified, but the sale includes a lot of artists O’Brien showed at Landing. I’m not going…

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