Violence: A movie studio films various scenes for pictures including: a western with a shoot - out where one of the actors is
gunned down on screen, an underwater extravaganza where an actress is swallowed
by a whale, and a Roman epic that depicts centurions beating slaves.
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.