Complex sentence: Nicole Peyrafitte is a Pyrenean-born performance artist who considers herself a "Gascorican" (i, e, an American from Gascony) and who lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn where she moved in 2007 after 15 years in Albany, NY.
Split into simpler sentences: Nicole Peyrafitte is a Pyrenean-born performance artist who considers herself a "Gascorican" (i, e, an American from Gascony). She lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn where she moved in 2007 after 15 years in Albany, NY.