Kathe Burkhart’s Liz Taylor Series uses Pop Art imagery and assemblage to critique representation and the sexual politics of identity. It spawned the term ‘Bad Girl’ in contemporary art, which was derived from the byline of a 1990 Flash Art cover story devoted to the artist’s work. This extended series of large-scale, photo-based paintings has been ongoing for 43 years, since 1982. It is a feminist project that is both intersubjective and a social critique. The work blurs portraiture with self-portraiture and public with private; disrupting traditional representational painting through its combination of pop stylization, image and text, autobiographically performative process, and use of collage. Resisting both victimology and essentialism, it deconstructs the language of curses and appropriated media images by exploding female stereotypes, representing a dominant female subjectivity.