The exhibit opens with early paintings, moves on to various installations, and culminates in Teaching Wall , a series that documents 36 years of her teaching experience. Her ability to integrate various disciplines stems from a fecundity of experiences and training. Her musical background encompasses varous musical instruments, improvisational jazz, big band pop, tap dancing and Japanese music and theater. Add to this professional background in printmaking, landscape and environmental design and college teaching, and you have an exceptional medley of talents. Consequently, paintings, installations and performances play like contrapuntal concertos.
Ideas clash and integrate in point and counterpoint.
Combined patterns also reflect the influence of Matisse's oriental paintings. Genovese Supper Table evokes the warmth and safety of her early environment. A typical family gathering, adults converse around the dining room table while dad holds the baby and a restless child climbs a chair. Also quoting Matisse's interiors are windows that reveal exterior environments, an early indication of her love of the landscape. A sustained body of multi-media works, Flow Inversion took her from wall to floor, out into the performance space and back.