Cummings uses an eclectic range of methods to investigate notions of history and place, complicated by memory and fiction. The work may take the form of objects, photography, performance, or drawings. Sculptures may function as props; installations become sets for real or imagined activities, performances may become videos or photographs.

Formally, she is interested in the double vision that happens when you can believe an illusion, but also see how it is constructed—and the inexact science of remakes, reenactments and reinterpretations. The recent focus of these experiments has been the idea of the “wild west” and the conflict between a cultural ideology of liberty and a practice of enclosure.

She has shown her work locally and internationally, in such venues as Southern Exposure and Silverman Gallery, (SF), Monty ABN in Antwerp, Belgium, and Galleria 1/9 Unosunove, Rome, Italy, along with other, more ad hoc guerilla exhibitions in San Francisco. She was a nominee for the SF MOMA's 2010 and 2012 SECA award, and has a forthcoming installation commissioned by the Oakland Museum of California in 2016/2017. Cummings hails from California's rural Central Valley, and that experience feeds into the work. Cummings holds an MFA in 2009 from the California College of the Arts, a BA in ceramics and photography from UC Davis.