WAYFINDING
artist who lives and works in New York, sculpts human topographies
which intersect with both raw, guttural violence and an earthy
eloquence. Both Jobani and Wangchuk have in common an
understanding of a homeland under duress.

Janice Caswell, Joyce Kozloff and Yvonne Jacquette are
American artists all of whom create densely patterned, rhythmic
worlds in their work. Caswell depicts a mapping of her
memories, or ―mental maps‖ as she calls them. She works to make
fleeting impressions and thoughts of places real or imagined, absolute
and concrete. Her meticulously plotted images of pins and beads are
arabesques of pattern. Joyce Kozloff, a driving force in the Pattern
and Decoration movement of the 70‘s, creates heavily symbolic and
patterned multimedia work with a political charge. Kozloff‘s
contemporary, Yvonne Jacquette, gives us aerial views so displaced
and removed from context they cease to be city lights in a night sky
and become highly abstracted jeweled strands and staccato notes.
Some of this work shares a feminist sensibility and some a similarity
in composition. All three artists reinvent narratives.

Nina Katchadourian and Sandy Litchfield, also American
artists, often draw inspiration directly from the organic and nature.
Katchadourian, a multimedia artist, finds new lands in existing
places—small worlds on a moss or lichen covered boulders—and who
like a scientist dissects paper maps into glass or Petri dish covered
specimens we can re-think and re-examine. Litchfield‘s delicately
rendered watercolor collages create what she terms the ―hypothetical
harmony of civilization and wilderness.‖ Natural elements are drawn
apart and recombined into a terrain of her own devising.

Whether the inspiration or resulting work be cultural,
spiritual, virtual, sexual, political or the natural, these seven artists
are cartographers of memory and experience.

Elizabeth H. Peterson
Director, Akus Gallery
Coordinator of Gallery & Museum Services
Eastern Connecticut State University
Fall 2009
Opposite: Revolver, 2008, Joyce Kozloff (born 1942), acrylic on canvas, 96‖ di-
ameter, Courtesy DC Moore Gallery, NY
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