She splits time between a studio in Santa Ana, CA and NYC, where she has been represented by Hirschl & Adler Modern since her first exhibition in 2000.

Boundaries and definitions are revealed in this impossible paradox, for instance: the absence in the present, the contemporary in the traditional, the lightness in weight, the emptiness in mass, the fluidity of the solid, the long narrative of moments.

Inspired by the natural world, she references its myriad of elegant organic structures, a concept continuously developed and recycled in her sketchbooks.

But marble is the pathway to connect my work to the past, to a larger story– human and geological...It's not an accident that I read the earth like a novel.

Inspired by the sounds of extinct birds (recordings archived at the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology), Turk developed an alphabet of symbols and participatory moments.

The objective of the opening events was to prompt community reflections, at once serious and light, when facing difficult and overwhelming environmental topics.

Turk is the recipient of many awards and grants, including: a MacArthur genius grant,[21][22] and the Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Fellowship,[23] both in 2010; a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (SARF) in 2011;[24] and a Helena Modjeska Cultural Legacy Award for artistic achievements from Arts Orange County in 2012.