I was born and raised in New York City, the 1st-generation child of a refugee from WWII, and live now in Asheville, NC. My best-known work combines stitching with paint. My work focuses on the nexus of impulsive destruction and thoughtful mending, juxtaposing acts of aggression, such as spilling, shredding and cutting, with restorative labor and careful reconstruction. I contrast accident, error and gestures of impatience, with the seductive, attentive detail of traditional craft techniques and develop rich narratives from chance and impulse. My work combines painting and sculpture with craft methodology. My work has been exhibited widely at museums such as the Queens Museum of Art; the Museum of Arts & Design in NYC; the San Diego Museum of Art; the National Museum of Decorative Arts and Design in Oslo; the Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC and the Asheville Art Museum. I have shown solo or semi-solo with Tracey Morgan Gallery in Asheville, NC; LMAKprojects in New York, OH&T Gallery in Boston, P|M Gallery in Toronto, Luis de Jesus in Los Angeles and Margaret Thatcher Projects in NYC. Additional solo/group exhibitions have included numerous university, commercial galleries and small museums nationally, as well as venues in Stockholm, Sydney and Berlin. My work has been reviewed in The New York Times, LA Times, Toronto Globe and Mail, Art Forum, ArtNews and The Village Voice, was the subject of a feature in American Craft, and has been included in many international contemporary art books, such as Radical Decadence,(New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017) and De Fil en Aiguille(Paris: Pyramyd Editions, 2018). I have received grants from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Center for Crafts and the North Carolina Arts Council, I received a degree in Russian Literature & History from Wesleyan University and spent a year as a student in Moscow, Russia.