Here, a glistening scarlet carcass, streaked with orange fat and sliced open to reveal a skeletal Jacob's ladder of parallel lines, seems to
tumble out of the canvas, one thigh cocked as if it were kicking itself up into a headstand.
Her «Ladybug» (1957), which is now in MoMA's collection and was trotted
out for its recent exhibition, is one
of her signature works, with its
tumble of thick or wiry, drippy strokes
of orange, blue, turquoise, purple, and other colors surging in a pack emphatically toward the left side
of the
canvas.