A group show explores the contemporary history of unconventional supports.

In the 1980s, when painting was commonly said to be dead, many group shows were devoted to abstraction.

For an abstract painter of her generation, the older distinctions between figurative and abstract art, or between politically critical art and the consumer products of mass culture cease to have much importance. Perhaps that is why her essentially cheerful art shows no signs of th angst which inspired so many of the pioneering Abstract Expressionists.