Got rich by photographing other rich people’s art collections and calling it art.  Lawler weaseled her way into  many an Upper West Side apartment to snap pics of works by megastars like Pollock and Koons in domestic spaces. 

Her work is about money, ownership and the second life of artworks after the auction.  There they are, displayed proudly in their new forever homes, to be enjoyed by only the wealthiest, thus worthiest, of art lovers.

*Roll eyes or stick nose up here, depending on your annual income.*

She also takes pictures of famous artworks behind the scenes, or of their wall labels.  She once screened the movie The Misfits without any picture. Basically she doesn't actually make make aything or have any original ideas, but takes stuff other people have made and mess with it.  In the real world we call this stealing, but in the art world what she does is known as “Appropriation.”