In 1973 I moved to Los Angeles, 3,000 miles from home, to be part of the feminist art movement. “The personal is the political” and the DIY ethos of feminism provided the impetus for me to make work that challenged the white walls of the art world, as well as utilize and subvert commercial formats. Examples of this in my work include: a live performance in a working Hollywood soda fountain, a feminist guerilla poster campaign on the streets of Los Angeles, and a memoir/showroom comprised of shopping bags, furniture and apparel.

My family background also had a major influence on my art practice. The eldest of six, I was raised in a secular Jewish household where stand-up comics were revered and my passion for satire and storytelling was born. My relationship to my mother, an unconventional fifties housewife, is a theme that runs in and out of my work. Her creative drive, as an amateur photographer and interior decorator, although confined to the home, had an impact on my career as an artist, and engagement with making art out of the everyday.

All my work – video art, film, photographic based projects and installation – is steeped in non-traditional storytelling. My narratives are a “collage” of anecdotes, commentaries, and images that gradually build into a larger whole.

In 2019, at the age of seventy, my work dramatically shifted from filmmaking to gallery installations. These recent installations blend 20th century visual culture with my personal history. Feminism, fashion, matrilineal lineage and Jewish identity are the primary themes. Currently I am researching a project about immigration, home and citizenship, that revolves around my maternal Great Aunt, a milliner, who was raised in Riga, Latvia and emigrated to the USA as a young woman in 1927.