Kurland first gained public notice with her work in the group show Another Girl, Another Planet (1999), at New York's Van Doren Waxter gallery.
[2][3] The show included her large c-print staged tableau pictures of neo-romantic landscapes inhabited by young adolescent girls, half-sprites, half juvenile delinquents.
The staged photos take place in urban and wilderness settings, with girls depicted as though to imply they are runaways, hopeful and independent.
[4][5] As landscapes she chose the 'secret places' of late childhood; wasteland on the edges of suburbia, 'owned' only by a feral nature and unsupervised children.
I started going to museums at an early age, but my imagery is equally influenced by illustrations from the fairy tales I read as a child.
[15] Kurland began dating women shortly after completing her "Girls" series, work with an undercurrent of sex and female sexuality.