She is best known for watercolors and paintings that explore “ritual, geometry, and growth through repeated forms, serial patterns, and iconic forms like circles and diamonds.”[1] DeGennaro was born in Rockville Centre, New York in 1956.

She received a BS in Fine Arts from Skidmore College in 1978 and an MFA from Columbia University in 1986.

[2] DeGennaro’s artistic practice has been described as nature and mathematics converging where “subtle washes of watercolor yield symmetrical compositions of circles and triangles, which are then heightened with small beads of colored pigment.

[3] Along with art from non-Western cultures the artist’s life-long study of symbols and her own dreams have been a source of inspiration.

[6] DeGennaro’s work has been included in Sixfold Symmetry: Pattern in Art and Science at The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery in Saratoga Springs,[6] Patterns: Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles at Kentler International Drawing Space in Brooklyn, NY,[6] and To Infinity and Beyond: Mathematics in Contemporary Art at the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, NY.