[1] Her "brutal, playful, and kinetic" work often involved painting, collage and assemblage techniques, with portraits, found objects, animal and architectural images.
In 1965, she spoke the first line of dialog in the first episode of the long-running soap opera Days of Our Lives, credited as "Simone Pascal".
"[17] Others found her work cliched and "tacky-chic"; wrote one critic in 1986, "This approach is about as fresh as a strolling drag queen vamping in a never-cleaned Carmen Miranda outfit, complete with dusty bananas.
"[18] "Gad probably intends to be a social critic," conceded Suzanne Muchnic in 1982, "but her message is so familiar and so numbingly boisterous, we are deadened to its sadness.
"[19] Shortly after Gad's passing in February 2021 art critic Ezhra Jean Black wrote, "Every pigment-laden, hyper-expressive brush stroke of her paintings asserted her signature, her re-trace of a surface, a contour that recaptured a fleeting association or remembered sensation, the performance or recreation of a memory by her own hand.