Outlaw works with a unique palette of materials, ranging from the traditional to the ephemeral. She draws upon her immediate environment as well as her personal history to explore forms that have a strong sense of pattern and play. She works extensively with photography as a means of establishing her sculptural vocabulary. Her work is in the collections of SFMOMA, the UC Berkeley Art Museum, and the Achenbach Foundation. She was recipient of the 1998 SECA award and she is represented by Anglim Gilbert Gallery.