ARTISTS
Joyce Kozloff
I realized that in my own work, maps could become a device
for layering multiple readings. Since then, they have become a
versatile structure for my long-term passions: history, culture,
decorative and popular culture. By overlapping systems of
information, I intuitively make connections which emerge in a literal
and conceptual collage.

(Joyce Kozloff, as quoted in Crossed Purposes exhibition catalog, page
16, interview conducted by Moira Roth) http://sweeney.ucr.edu/
exhibitions/kozloff/kozjoyce3.html, Accessed 10/1/09

Kozloff is an originating figure of the Pattern and Decoration
movement of the 1970s, which was a "cultural melding" that
challenged mainstream modern art. The recent work...created since
2000 features maps and geographical interpretations that show her
reflections and transition from that movement. Throughout her career,
Kozloff has made art about wars, past and present, and she has
participated in innumerable peace actions throughout the country.
Today, her art has become even more proactive in its anti-war themes,
as she experiments with dramatizing visually the earthly and aerial
landscapes of potential future threats: conflicts over securing helium
from the moon; frightening monsters unleashed to target enemies;
menacing maps with projected troop movements, and dizzying,
disorienting and claustrophobic spaces. In viewing Kozloff's art, one
cannot help feeling the visceral response that comes with fight or
flight, followed by the clenched-fist desire to revolutionize the world so
that these futuristic wars do not occur.

Linda Stein in On the Issues Magazine, winter 2009,
www.ontheissuesmagazine.com, Accessed 10/2/09
Opposite Top: American History: Going Global (large), 2004, Joyce Kozloff
(born 1942), etching, collage, watercolor, pigment print, acrylic, colored pencil,
32 ¾‖ x 47 ⅞‖ Courtesy DC Moore Gallery, NY

Opposite Below: American History: Nuking the Japs (large), 2004, Joyce
Kozloff (born 1942), etching, collage, watercolor, pigment print, acrylic, colored
pencil, 33‖ x 47 ⅞‖ Courtesy DC Moore Gallery, NY

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