 Her painting is influenced by the idea of shifting meanings and the appropriation of the languages of abstraction and expressionism.Her work adopts "politically incorrect" imagery for subversive purposes.Embroidery Paintings

In 1991, Amer's "Cinq Femmes Au Travail" embroidery stitching techniques to show women performing tasks that had been advertised for women in magazines—childcare, house cleaning, and cooking.