Innovation is the tie that binds the paths I’ve taken from fashion design to art criticism, to founding a gallery to writing non-fiction.

Generative Art Project, a gallery I co-founded in Austin, Texas, featured digital artwork created by humans working in creative collaboration with autonomous non-human entities. The gallery grew out of my reviews of emerging art scenes in columns I wrote for publications including New York Press, Art Papers, Bust, Artnet.com, and my Youtube Channel Now On.

Before that, I was a New York fashion designer. My later sportswear collections were sold to retailers and catalogs, while my earliest creations, expressionistic clothes, were featured in my co-owned shop Einstein's, located in New York's 1980s East Village.

My latest book, You Can’t Eat Pants, is a memoir that offers a working women’s perspective on the romantic and not-so-romantic legacies of the East Village art and design scenes. Like Paris in the 1920s, the 1980s, East Village attracted a small, diverse group of dreamers who believed their time had come. The story spans 1981 to 1987 and opens as a 23-year-old designer comes across a vacant East Village shop at a crossroads in her life. The book features nostalgic tributes to our pre-Internet past and inspirational templates young dreamers can use to build their nurturing communities.