Born in Chicago, she studied at Scripps College and earned a B.A. and M.F.A. at the University of California in Los Angeles. From 1989 to 1991, she was Assistant Professor of Art at Harvard University. She is a member of the Women's Caucus of the Arts. Her work has followed many of the trends of her time from Pop inspired silhouettes of urbanites to Photo-Real close-ups of produce and trash to expressionist landscapes. But her work has always had elements of realism, and a 1998 exhibit at Schmidt-Bingham Gallery in New York featured paintings and graphics of trees.