Drawing on people close to her, including a number of other artists as well as family members, Opie has posed her figures against a black drop cloth, using
highly theatrical lighting, color, and scale.
From 1983 to 1990, Wallace was part of the collaborative team Wallace & Donohue, which created work that is
highly theatrical and self - aware, employing language, an absurdist sense of humor, and various devices — rotating and sliding panels, track
lighting, a surveillance camera — to interrupt the otherwise passive act of looking.