American born in 1922. She was a lively participant of the New York School of Abstract Expressionists in New York City.
She taught her self to draw and read whilst convalessing from pneumonia when she was 6, it would be some 20 years or so before she took proper drawing classes. She worked as a drafts(wo)man whilst living in Newark, New Jersey in the 1940's, after the birth of her first child. She moved to New York City and became associated with many of the key painters of the time, notably being deeply inspired by Jackson Pollock. She was also involved with and had relationships with writers and poets of the time, many of whom inspired a later body of work.
In 1960 she invented a new medium, Water colour collage, using colour washes to create form and then tearing and collaging the pices together again.
She is currently living and working in Baltimore, Maryland, where she is director of graduate studies at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Image: 'Billboard', 1957, Oil on Canvas
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