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.