She turns up the retinal volume again and again in the grounds of her paintings — vast seas of cerulean blue edged by crisp white lines, or enveloping acts of domestic
violence; equally riveting cadmium reds, oranges, and crimsons saturating the picture plane beneath angry gorillas, dancing Chubby Checkers, and kissing lovers;
Day - Glo yellows that push up
against sharp blacks as «bad guys» in black suits point
guns and walk up and down staircases — and employs unusual compositional strategies to draw our attention to these expanses of high - key color.