"These torsos come out of many impulses & were cast of recycled paper from a cast of my body created when I was in my 20's by Ken Slote an artist/friend who showed at Tibor deNagy gallery in NYC. At the time, he was making a living from creating store manikins from body casts of women he knew- but my face was considered too gothic for regular stores so I became a sculpture and now I use the cast to create my own sculptures. Fitting because my art has always arisen from the personal and the political particularly as a woman of the 20th & 21st centuries. Love, relationships, memories, fantasies, dreams, trash, clothes and aging all fascinate & inhabit my work, whether it is live performance or tangible wall works."

"In my performances I incorporate Butoh movement & now Butoh Voice created from my poetry to address issues that continue to frustrate and concern me- from sexual fantasy to old age, from love to hate, from the personal to the political. In recent years, I have been exploring aging and how our society, so focused on the beauty of youth, negatively perceives women as they age. This work, "The Invisible Woman", was developed in a residency at the North American Cultural Laboratory (NACL). In this work, I am focusing with humor and angst on this dilemma all women who survive into their 60's and beyond must endure."

"Love, relationships, memories, fantasies, dreams, trash, clothes and aging all fascinate & inhabit my work, whether it is live performance or tangible wall works.

In my performances I incorporate Butoh movement & now Butoh Voice created from my poetry to address these issues that continue to frustrate and concern me and both in my performances and in my tangible art-on-the-wall , I often find myself destroying to create."

EDUCATION
BFA cum laude, Ohio University
MA, New York University (full fellowship)
Additional study: Cleveland Institute of Art; Brooklyn Museum School; Fashion Institute of Technology;
School of Visual Arts; Naropa Institute; Performance Writing with Simone Forti
Butoh movement: with Noboru Kamita, Eiko, Kim Ito, Akira Kasai, Atsushi Takenouchi, Ko Murobushi, Yumiko Yoshioka, Hiroshi Koike & others at Japan Society & The Cave in Williamsburgh, Bklyn with Katsura Kan & Ximena Garnica;
Time Based Art (TBA) Festival in Portland OR with 33 Fainting Spells; Deborah Hay, etc.

GRANTS & AWARDS
2011 NACL- North American Cultural Laboratory Residency, The Field
2010 FarSpace Grant, The Field
2009 Movement Research Monday Night Series
2008 Field Work at EarthDance, Massachusetts, Artist in Resident
2007 Puffin Grant for Art From Detritus Exhibit
2004-2011 7 Years of Living Art, created by Linda Montano
2000 Travel Grant, Performance Studies International (PSI) Mainz, Gr.
1997 IACP Grant from THE FIELD, NYC
1995 Kauffman Foundation (for "Art from Detritus"), Kansas City MO
1988 Jerome Foundation (Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art)
1986,87 NYSCA (Experimental Intermedia & Snug Harbor Cultural Center)
1985 NEA (Los Angeles Women's Building & Franklin Furnace)
1981 Artist in Residence: The Millay Colony for the Arts
1979.88 Artists' Space Exhibition Grant
1966 NDEA Fellowship to New York University