• PROJECTS
  • War is the Weapon of Mass Destruction

Born in San Francisco but raised in Los Angeles, CA, I received a B.A. & a Masters degree in Fine Art/painting from Cal State University L.A. I've worked in printmaking, drawing, painting and clay & glass art. My paintings have been shown at LACMA, Metro Rail Transit, San Francisco Museum of Art, Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, CA, American Cultural Center in Fukuoka, Japan & Galeria Juan Prats in Barcelona, Spain since 1961. My paintings & constructions are included in the collections of Robert A. Rowan, Isadore & Lucy Adelman, Dr. Herbert & Raphaella Martin (Baligen, Germany), Dr. Leslie & Judy Eber, and Jean & Christine Kazandjian. I am currently painting & continuing to build the Mosaic Tile House in Venice, CA with my husband Gonzalo Duran.

In 1989 while living in Paris, France and after visiting the Berlin Wall before it came down, I started doing political constructions. Then in 1990 I created "war works" in response to the 1st & 2nd Gulf Wars. Later that same year I created "Tree of War", a multimedia piece that many people donated items to that meant war to them. And when 9/11 happened, that gave me another opportunity to comment on that borrow with "Tree of Towers & Terror". Each one tells a complex story & is very large in scale.