Born in Albany, New York, in 1947, I left for New York City at seventeen to attend the Fashion Institute of Technology, mostly to be in the city, but supported by my parent's hope that it would lead to a job in commercial art—supposedly to keep me busy until I got married. I did learn figure drawing there, but upon graduation I was far more interested in my generation's counterculture, so I moved to the East Village to live the hippie life of the Sixties. It truly was a great time for awhile, but unfortunately, for me, fun communes turned to crazy cults and domestic violence in a Hare Krishna ashram. Go figure! I did somehow escape, and as a single mom, found my way back to school to earn an MFA from the University at Albany in 1983. Serious about my art now, and with my daughter heading to NYU, I returned to New York in 1994 and set up a live/work studio on the Lower East Side. There I became part of a wonderful multigenerational art community, showing widely. I value those exciting 24 years in NYC but in 2018 it came time to leave my busy, noisy street and move back upstate. Here my whole house is a studio, still busy but quiet.

My practice has ranged from realistic paintings of angels (80s), to wall-sized photocopies of genitals (90s), from small symmetrical pencil drawings to charcoal fingerprint murals (2000s). With the personal is political torch in hand I've made short videos and had a few name changes along the way too, converting my early-married name, Weinman, to Weinperson for several years, and now back to my birth name, Braun. It's all part of a search for selfhood, best expressed by my concurrent shows in 2016, "Homeostasis" and "Crazy Bitch".

Since 2003, all my work is within the constraints of symmetry and carbon mediums, the building blocks of life as we know it. I like working with limitations because they trigger exploration of endless possibilities. I call it freedom through discipline. Lately it has led to figurative work again—what could be more symmetrical and carbon-based?

My papers are archived at the Fales Library, at New York University, in their Special Collection of Downtown New York Artists.