Overview

• Garth Greenan Gallery confirmed she died in New York on September 3; no cause was provided.
• A 2016 retrospective at Brandeis University’s Rose Art Museum, which traveled to the Albright-Knox and the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, spurred renewed recognition and museum acquisitions.
• Her signature paintings enlarged and painted over found film and magazine images to probe on-screen violence, gender dynamics, and media spectacle.
• Beyond visual art, she published nine novels and ten plays, shared an Emmy for Lily Tomlin’s 1973 special, and saw her 1972 novel To Smithereens reissued in 2025 to critical praise.
• She briefly wrestled professionally as Rosa Carlo, and recent reports conflict on her birth year, citing both 1926 and 1937.