It doesn't mean knocking anyone else. It means a wholeness that makes you respond to other people with dignity. But, unlike Moore's work, Tulin focuses on the female form, and uses a sense of humor to do it. I like women who are weighty, fleshy, full of curves, since I'm looking to abstract shape, to heighten what I see. I look at the body as a landscape, especially women's bodies.
Women are grounded, of the earth, solid and with roots.
The figures grace the pedestals and floors of the National Portrait Gallery and the homes of notables such as Olga Hirshhorn, Art Buchwald, and Martin Agronsky. Her work has been seen in galleries in New York, Boston, Martha's Vineyard, Stockholm, Paris, and London. Locally, she exhibits and sells at Creative Partners Gallery in Bethesda. Tulin, who lives in Bethesda, is a native Washingtonian, born to parents who were Jewish immigrants from Russia. She attained a masters degree in art therapy from George Washington University.