I am an artist living and working in New York City. I was born there and have lived most of my life in the East Village. After living in Europe for some years, I returned to New York in 1974 and performed as Sophia in Richard Foreman’s “Pandering to the Masses” (1974) and Meredith Monk’s “Chacon” with Ping Chong. This led me to making independent films. My first short film, “Inside Out,” premiered at The Collective for Living Cinema in Tribeca and went on to be shown at the Berlin Film Festival. Later I co-produced and co-directed with writer and cultural critic Lynne Tillman on an independent feature, “Committed.” My last film, “She Must Be Seeing Things,” showed at Film Forum in New York as well as many film festivals throughout Europe, and was very controversial at the time, inspiring bomb threats to the cinema where it was being screened in London. 

When then-president Ronald Reagan cut funding to the arts, (I was the recipient of grants from National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council for the Arts, and a number of other grants including CAPS, The Jerome Foundation and British TV Channel Four and German TV ZDF), I decided to stop making films, as I wanted to develop a practice that did not require a crew, expensive equipment and editing time and could be transported on a small scale almost anywhere. I got a “real job” during this time to support myself as I worked through this transition. I experimented with different practices including drawing and photography and finally, while living in Spain in 2017, found myself working with clay. I immediately loved the visceral, messy practice of hand building clay and throwing on the wheel, choosing glazes and then waiting to see what finally came out of the kiln, which is always a surprise. 
Since returning from Spain I have been taking classes and using studio time at Greenwich House Pottery. During the pandemic I continued working intensely and began to develop my sculptural work as well as “unusual functional” pieces. I work as a hand builder as well as throwing on the wheel, sometimes combining the two. The shapes and surfaces of ceramics offer an almost endless path of experimentation. I enjoy working and learning in a small art school community setting in New York City as well as in my small studio in Spain. I am beginning to work with a combination of different materials in ceramic sculptures.