Mary, Mary Woronov
"My painting is like a window that just sort of transcends into something that you can't explain."
Mary Woronov (Brooklyn, 12/8/1943 or 1946*-) rocks! She's an artist who can't be pegged down to any one form or genre. She left Cornell University in 1964 (where she studied sculpture, among other things) after coming across Andy Warhol and the Factory scene in Manhattan. She appeared or acted in Factory films, including Screen Tests (1964-1966), Chelsea Girls (1966/1967) and Kiss the Boot (1966, based on "Venus in Furs"); she toured with the Velvet Underground and Nico (primarily as a dancer) via the Exploding Plastic Inevitable.
(from Chelsea Girls)
Since the Factory years, she has been sculpting, painting, writing, editing, acting, directing, and writing some more, producing a dazzling array of work. A sample of cult or independent movies she's participated/starred in: Silent Night, Bloody Night (1974); Death Race 2000 (1975); Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979), Eating Raoul (1983), The New Women (2001), Prison-A-Go-Go (2003), The Halfway House (2004). Her TV work includes Charlie's Angels and Babylon 5, and much more.
Mary Woronov is, perhaps most interestingly, a writer who in recent years seems to have allied herself strongly with Serpents Tail Publishing:Swimming Underground: My Years In The Factory
(2000; 1995)
Snake (novel, 2000)
Niagara (novel, 2002)
Blind Love (short stories, 2004)
She has a helpful website with much more extensive information and lots of photographs and other images:
I imagine there will be much more written about her work on this blog and elsewhere. Blind Love looks interesting, a series of very short stories and vignettes. Snake is described in a blurb on the website as "The Stepford Wives meet Bonnie and Clyde."
(From Rock 'n Roll High School)
*I've come across both years for her birthdate. If she was born in 1943, she shared that exact date with Jim Morrison. Either way, they have the same birthday, which was also the day John Lennon was killed in 1980. My birthday is December 9, so I notice these things. . . . .
p.s. Thanks Robin for setting me straight on the internal web links; and cheers to Luma and Brazil, they just defeated Ghana in the latest World Cup match, 3-0.
Ciao!
7 comments:
Love her books. Great post! Love the multiple genres and whatnot. Great role in Rock and Roll High School, of course! "Do your parents know you're Ramones?" Love it!
Internal web links; way cool, Erik! Love the post, too! Can't keep up w/all the great info, though; need to make a list of films to rent now! My daughter is a Sagittarius, too, by the way; December 7th. :)
Hey Erik,
I'm still dying to meet you. xoxo, Angela
I remember seeing "Eating Raoul" back in my undergrad days at Oakland University. Andy Warhol film right? Very strange movie. I'll have to check out the short story collection too. Thanks for the link. --Jim
Thanks all for the comments! Robin, your daughter's a fellow archer, cool! Pearl Harbor Day, too ;)
Jim, it's in the Warhol style, but by that time, he was coasting on "portraits" of German industrialists and "Interview" Magazine. Can't remember the director offhand, though. My sister Vickie went to Oakland for grad. school in the early 80s.
Great indications. Some of my knowledge and written down others stop in the future conferring. I am anxious for the game of Saturday, faced for here as one revanche. Beijus
Luma,
good luck on Saturday!
Beijus!
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