`The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.` This caption from Carlos Castaneda is written across the bottom of a painting of a nude man, who balances precariously on an overhead beam. The caption could serve as the motto of much of Woody`s work, both his figures and his landscapes. If his panoramic landscapes sweep away to a distant horizon and leave you with a heart-stopping sense of your own solitude, his nude figures expose the raw existential isolation at the very core of the human condition.
- William PetersonIt is a very vulnerable time in Italy when it comes to precariously looking in the eye of a number of threats ... from the Olympics, to the construction of the (train) tunnels, to upcoming elections.
- Art Dunlop