Joyce Kozloff

American, b. 1942

Lattice
1977

Collage with graphite and ink on paper
25.875 x 37.25 x 1 in.
Gift of the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation
2005.79

When Kozloff returned to the United States in the late 70s, she shifted the focus of her artmaking to incorporate decorative arts and pattern design in an effort to break down the barrier between the “high arts” of painting, sculpture, and architecture, and the “lower” decorative and practical arts. Later in her career, Kozloff began a series of public art commissions, where she would integrate her signature mosaic and pattern designs with commentary on the city’s history, culture, and politics. Kozloff’s most recent body of work centers on collages of maps and globes. She combines historical and contemporary maps with political imagery to comment on the history of navigation, exploration, colonialism, and war.

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This object has the following keywords:

• <quilts by pattern or motif>
• blue
• diagonal - Inclined obliquely from a reference line, like a straight line joining the two opposite corners of a rectangle.
• geometric patterns
• green
• lines
• rectangles
• red
• squares
• yellow

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

• Uses of the Real I , 1/20/2008 - 4/30/2011
• Female + Form , 6/17/2013 - 3/17/2014
• Women, Surrealism, and Abstraction , 8/25/2020 - 7/9/2022

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