Many of those images worked their way into her paintings, including those at the Hyde.
Her paintings included scenes of the park's lawn and park visitors eating lunch and holding umbrellas in the rain.
A cavalcade of deaths (her father, her mother, her sister, Frank O'Hara) and her awareness of her own mortality intermittently roiled her paintings, including her so-called "Black" paintings (1964), centered with dark storm clouds of tightly clenched strokes.
Although Ms. Thomas considers herself primarily a painter, she has recently begun to exhibit the different mediums that go into making her paintings, including photography, collage, installation and, most recently, video.
Ms. Nemens's space, by contrast, is a study in lovely clutter, home to their bikes, their tennis rackets, her two saxophones and her paintings, including, over the sink, three images of juicy red lips bearing the words: "That bad?" "Yes".
The iconography of her paintings includes the use of lines representing paths and ceremonial hair-string skirts, and circles representing water-holes.
6 of her paintings, including Tumbledneath, are currently on view through December at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Catcer Center, at 205 East 64th Street, New York, NY.
As with other contemporary artists of the central and western deserts, her paintings included depictions of stories or features for which she had responsibility within her family or clan, such as the Awelye Atnwengerrp dreaming (or Women's Dreaming).
Subjects that Bush has taken for his paintings include his late Scottish terrier Barney, farm animals and fruit.
