At times darkly erotic, funny, and brutally sad, these short stories and paintings interweave the colorful palette of language and the vividness of the painted voice. Charting a course from the sadness of childhood through vignettes that look honestly at what women settle for in glamorous Los Angeles, Woronov's runaways, punkers, housewives and bimbos bring us face to face with our own concerns about the future, death, and how to make peace. Her dark and often disturbing canvases deal figuratively with these same themes in a painterly style that is both immediate and powerful. In this unique combination of extraordinary fiction and paintings from the last fifteen years of her life, Mary Woronov has given us a new and distinct voice.

Mary Woronov interweaves the colorful palette of language and the vividness of the painted voice. Shaped by her years with Andy Warhol, Woronov's stories and her paintings together create a vision of life so forceful and compelling that it demands our attention. Wake for the Angels looks at childhood, relationships, love, and loneliness. "Warhol had a tendency to destroy set ideas. If he saw something all set up he'd do the opposite to make it chaotic. I use that concept in my art. My painting is like a window that just sort of transcends into something that you can't explain."

An actress as well as an artist, Mary Woronov began her career in film by accident when, in 1964, the recently graduated Cornell University sculptor drifted into New York's circle of artists, musicians, and poets that became internationally known as Andy Warhol's Factory. When Warhol began dabbling in film, Woronov became one of his stars. After touring with Warhol and the Velvet Underground, Woronov left the factory to expand her career. Woronov's big break in movies came when she starred in the sleeper hit, Eating Raoul.

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