In 1985, she moved to Paris, Ontario with her husband poet, editor and publisher and bookseller Nelson Ball (1942-2019).
[2][3] Caruso considered her paintings to be about the nature of colour, and her drawings to be about the elements that constitute the work.
[4] She took the strictures of post-painterly abstraction to heart, denying spontaneous gesture, the textured surface or any suggestion of illusory pictorial depth, although she admitted seriality.
[4] She also participated in numerous group shows in Canada and abroad, including Formalist Encounters, organized by the Woodstock Art Gallery which travelled in Ontario (1986–1987); and The Empirical Presence (1991) at Galerie Optica in Montreal.
[2] Her book of memoirs, A Painter's Journey, consisting of diary entries made between June, 1966, and December, 1973, was published by the same press in 2005.