Leslie Labowitz-Starus
SPROUTIME: Old Jewish Cemetery 1984. Long Beach Museum of Art, CA. Photo: Kira Perov
SPROUTIME: Regeneration/Composting 1996. Installation, 18th Street Arts, Santa Monica, CA.
Greenhouse Growing Space 2000, Canoga Park, CA . Photo montage: Jacki Apple
SPROUTIME stand at Santa Monica Farmers Market 2021
Labowitz-Starus is best known by work from 1977-1982 on violence against women incollaboratin with Suzanne Lacy. This work has been shown internationally and written about in many publications and books. In 1980, she created SPROUTIME, an art/life ongoing art work that is performance, installation and real life business. Labowitz-Starus was a fulbright scholar and worked with Joseph Beuys in 1972 in Germany where she lived until 1977 and returned to Los Angeles.