KOZLOFF VOYAGER II

Artists Proof 1

31 3/4" x 31 3/4" 

Lithograph and glitter on paper

A major figure in the Pattern and Decoration Movement, Joyce Kozloff's maximalist artworks across a range of media use decorative and applied arts as a way of challenging traditional artistic hierarchies. She also works with decoration as part of her feminist approach, since it has traditionally been associated with women. A few years after Kozloff earned her MFA from Columbia University, she made a significant trip to Mexico that inspired her interest in patterns and their cultural meanings. The artist had her first solo exhibition in 1970 at Tibor de Nagy Gallery and has had numerous one-artist shows since. She has been working with maps since the early 1990s; when awarded the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome in 1999, she used the residency to make Targets (2000), a nine-foot tall globe that can be walked into to observe 24 cross-sections painted with aerial maps of places bombed by the U.S. since 1945.

See more at www.joycekozloff.net