Ms. Sverdlove received her B.F.A. from the Cooper Union Art School. She also studied with Richard Diebenkorn at the San Francisco Art Institute.

Her landscape, seascape and other paintings are in numerous collections, both private and public. Among the institutions that own her work are: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Owens-Corning Collection of the Toledo, Ohio Museum, Purdue University, Marymount College, New York, Saban Entertainment (LA), Lomas and Nettleson (Dallas), Grand Hotel (Houston), Holiday Inn (Corpus Christi), and City Of Hope (Duarte, CA).

Her landscape, seascape and other paintings has been shown in numerous venues, including the Allan Stone Gallery (New York), the Cooper Union (New York), Hooks-Epstein Gallery (Houston), Longview Museum (Texas), Valley House Gallery (Dallas), Brand Library (Main Gallery in Glendale), Orlando Gallery (Los Angeles), the Maturango Museum, and the University of Judaism.

Many of her art works over the past decade are oil paintings, watercolors and graphics of California landscapes, particularly of the San Gabriel Valley, the Pasadena area looking northward to the San Gabriel mountains and southward to the buildings of downtown Los Angeles in the distance. Other paintings represent the California coast from Orange County to Monterey.