Talk

BFA Fine Arts presents a talk with artist Joyce Kozloff. Beginning in 1970, energized by participation in the feminist art movement, Joyce Kozloff became an originating figure of the Pattern and Decoration movement, exploring applied and decorative arts as source and inspiration, especially visual cultures of the nonwestern world. During the 1980s, Kozloff concentrated on ambitious public commissions in the US and abroad, many in transportation centers, executed in ceramic tile and glass and marble mosaic. By the 1990s, maps had become the foundation for Kozloff’s private work—structures into which she would insert the role of cartography in human knowledge and as an imposition of imperial will. Her maps and globes, which image both physical and mental terrain, employ mutations to raise geopolitical issues. She completed 17 public artworks; the two most recent are at the 86th Street and Central Park West subway station, MTA Arts in Transit Program, 2018 and the new federal courthouse in Greenville, SC, GSA Art in Architecture Program, 2021. 

Her art is in many public collections, including: Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jewish Museum and Grey Art Museum in New York, NY; Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen, DE; Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC; National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, CT; Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY.