Jonas Wood and Shio Kusaka: Blackwelder Edmund de Waal The artists’ business cards are

The artists’ business cards are stapled to the final pages of the book

This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Cy Twombly: Leaving Paphos Ringed with Waves at Gagosian

and the travails and ambitions of his initial years in Paris

and Mitchell—and follows the five artists through the rapid changes of 1950s New York

and saucer—are based on the artist’s 1966 design for dinnerware made by Jackson China for the Durable Dish Company and sold by Leo Castelli Gallery

Jonas Wood and Shio Kusaka: Blackwelder Edmund de Waal The artists’ business cards areThis book was published in 2017 on the occasion of Jonas Wood and Shio Kusaka: Blackwelder at Gagosian, Hong Kong, the first exhibition of the artists work in the city. Wood and Kusaka draw from each others work as painter and potter to probe the tensions between representation and expression, precision and chance, and influences from art history and from life. Kusakas porcelain vessels play muse to Woods drawn and painted interiors, while conversely