Remarks on Color

(Hardback)

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Birds, animals, and odd characters populate this delightful and humorous book of imaginative color studies that resist pandemic-era social deprivation and general malaise with vivid, irreverent, and sometimes naughty personae.

Artist Eve Wood has a ribald sense of humor and for decades has had a distinctive presence in the Los Angeles art scene. Also an art critic, poet, and bird rescuer, the many facets of her colorful life come together in Remarks on Color, which was originally created as a column for the longest running art magazine in Southern California, L.A.'s belovedArtillerytogether for posterity. In the collection, we get to live with Wood and her bestiary, contemplating the world's marvels and its ills. Her dog sleeps on a Ukranian-gold and blue rug; her raven vacuums the house; characters from movies and art stand in for obnoxious or dreamy colors; and the birds so many birds sing of freedom.

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Praise for Past Works:

Quickened by passion and imagination, the body of poems that makes up Loves Funeral is astoundingly alive.
Mark Strand, Pulitzer prize winning poet laureate

The exactitude of Wood's language coupled with the strength of poetic vision, concretizes otherwise overwhelming themes into simple and beautifully executed poetic moments that are imbued with compassion and consideration of all that makes us divinely human.
North American Review

In a creepy-funny wall-work by Eve Wood, hooks in the shape of bent human fingers probe the space around a chunk of burled birch."
Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times

A fresh, saturated palette of emerald, crimson, azure, and canary and quirky expressive brushwork, as well as distended figures and perspectives that at times approach outright caricature, sacrifice realism at the altar of post illustrative mannerism.
Modern Painters

Author Bio

Eve Wood is a Los Angeles-based artist and art critic for Artillery Magazine, Tema Celeste, Whitehot, Art & Cake, and Riot Material. Her writing and poetry has been widely published in magazines and literary journals such as The New Republic, New York Quarterly, Poet & Critic, The Massachusetts Review, The Denver Quarterly, The Santa Monica Review, The Seattle Review, The Best American Poetry1997, Poetry, and many others. She holds a BFA and MFA (1992, 1994) from California Institute of the Arts and an MFA from UC Irvine (1996) in creative writing. She is the recipient of a Jacob Javits Fellowship and a California Community Foundation Fellowship. Her drawings and paintings have been exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries such as Susanne Vielmetter, Western Project, Ochi Projects, and Track 16 Gallery, which currently represents her. She is the author and/or illustrator of seven collections of poetry and chapbooks; her latest book of poems, A Cadence for Redemption (Del Sol Press) constitutes an imaginary conversation between Abraham Lincoln and a 21st century American woman trying to make sense of the chaos around her, with a focus on socio-political issues such as bigotry, hate crimes, war, apathy and personal responsibility.