At our newest location Track 16 is pleased to present as its inaugural exhibition Eve Wood: Ravenology. Wood’s second solo exhibition with Track 16 is a series of works on paper that explores her surreal fascination with the black bird. In some works the raven acts as a sidekick – equal parts protector, companion, and tormenter. In others, the ravens take on human-like form, preening in couture gowns. Our minds work associatively, linking images and ideas, shaping reality through stories, myths, and symbols. The raven, perhaps more than any other creature, has embodied this impulse toward myth-making, transforming across centuries from a trickster to a prophet, from an omen of doom to a symbol of renewal. Eve Wood’s works inhabit this mythic space while simultaneously dismantling it. Her paintings and drawings conjure the ordinary and the surreal, depicting familiar yet unsettling figures and scenes where the raven is both an active agent and a silent witness. In some works, the bird weaves itself into intimate moments, complicating relationships, while in others, it emerges as a force of transformation, restlessly unsettling meaning itself. Whether looming over lovers, manifesting as thought and memory, or erupting into a spectacle of fire, the raven in Wood’s world is never passive, but functions as an agent of ambiguity, threading myth into the everyday. There is a palpable tension in Wood’s work between humor and darkness, a space where transformation and rupture coexist. While the opportunistic ravens serve up mischief and foreboding, Wood’s humans struggle for intimacy and survival. The raven, ever loquacious, ever shifting, speaks both for and against us, revealing the absurdity of our desires, fears, and constructed histories. At the core of Ravenology is an exploration of perception – of myths, of bodies, of the ways narratives both reveal and obscure.