Born in Albany, New York, in 1947, I left for New York City after high school to attend the Fashion Institute of Technology. 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 was a wild time of flowers, psychedelics, burning bras, and draft cards but, unfortunately for me, fun communes turned to crazy cults, culminating with domestic violence in a Hare Krishna ashram. Go figure! I somehow managed to escape, literally, and as a single mom found my way back to school to earn an MFA from the University of New York at Albany in 1983. Ten years later, having grown serious about my art and my daughter heading to NYU, I returned to New York City to live and work on the Lower East Side. There I became part of a wonderful art community and began exhibiting widely. The next 24 years in NYC were a whirlwind of growth and art-life 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 second-marriage 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 emerges from within the constraints of symmetry and carbon mediums, a practice I call "Symmetrical Procedures". I like working within limitations because they trigger explorations of endless possibilities, a form of freedom through discipline. Past and present trajectories cross-pollinate under this umbrella, conjuring metaphor and metamorphosis. I invite you to peruse this website and join my journey, but it's been a long one so buckle up!

For deeper research, my papers are archived at the Fales Library, at New York University, in their Special Collection of Downtown New York Artists of 1980s-90s.