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|  A student at Cooper Union and the Art Students League in New York, she is a modernist sculptor whose corten-steel work came to the fore in the 1970s. She rejected the prevalent Minimalist style for that which was more fluid and malleable appearing and created sculptures that have flowing, rhythmic, continuous lines--something she accomplished by attaching pieces with steel pins or dowels instead of welding them together.
She was originally a student of architectural drawing, and then became a painter, much influenced by her colleague and friend, Morris Louis in Baltimore and by the gestural work of Jackson Pollock in New York. She studied Abstract Expressionism with Hans Hoffman in Provincetown, Massachusetts in 1952, and She studied Abstract Expressionism with Hans Hofmann in Provincetown in 1952, and two years later had her first solo exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
It was sculptor George Segal who encouraged her to sculpt, seeing her obvious talents in that direction. Her first sculptures were mixed media, but by 1970, she had turned to steel. She manipulated and welded the steel forms herself, but later worked with wax maquettes that she had converted in steel fabrication shops.
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