She has worked as a curator for more than two decades, with more than 25 major national and international exhibitions to her credit. She was named an Alphonse Fletcher, Sr. Fellow in 2008 for her lifetime of writing on the visual arts, which has appeared in numerous publications including NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art, Artforum, Flash Art, Atlantica and Third Text, among others. Her book, EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art, has been named one of the top art books of 2011 by Publishers Weekly and her book on African-American artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s is forthcoming from MIT Press.