JOYCE KOZLOFF

Kozloff was one of the original members of the Pattern and Decoration movement, and in her practice has sought to disrupt any easy distinction between “high art” and decoration. Kozloff was also among the first involved in the 1970s feminist art movements, and has been active in the women's and peace movements throughout her life, becoming a founding member of the Heresies collective which would produce the quarterly Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics in the 1970’s.

In the 1980’s, Kozloff began to pursue her interest in large-scale public projects, and has produced 16 to date, many of which were created for public transportation sites—a location for art that also compliments her practice since the early 1990’s, where her politically engaged art has focused on the iconographies and design elements that have been explored and standardized within the field of cartography as “structures into which I could insert a range of issues, particularly the role of cartography in human knowledge,” according to the artist. Of her broader practice, Kozloff states that, “I have long rejected the academic disdain for visual opulence – in fact, my dissident political understanding could only be materialized through sensuous processing.”