Otis presents Pioneers of the Feminist Art Movement: Joyce Kozloff

Born in Somerville, New Jersey, Joyce Kozloff is known for paintings with flat, colorful, abstract patterning and for repetitive geometric forms that produce strong variations of line, shape, and color. In the 1980s, she did numerous site-specific works with tiles and mosaics including the "New England Decorative Arts" for the Harvard Square Subway Station in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and two works for One Penn Plaza in Philadelphia.

A later project involved a series of thirty-two watercolors; each twenty-two inches square titled Patterns of Desire.

Kozloff earned her BFA degree at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh in 1964, and her MFA from Columbia University in 1967. She also studied at the Art Students League in New York City; Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey' and the University of Florence in Italy.

She has held teaching positions including elementary, high school and college classes. Her first one-person show was in New York in 1970 at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery. It was during this time, she began her pattern pieces, which were initially inspired by the decoration she saw on Mexican Cathedrals.

Interviewer: Anne Swartz
Videographer: Julie Martin

This video is part of an ongoing series of Oral Histories about early feminist artists

The entire interview can be found in the Library at Otis College of Art and Design

Doin' It in Public: Art and Feminism at the Woman's Building

Ben Maltz Gallery
October 1, 2011 -- January 28, 2012

In conjunction with the Getty Foundation's larger initiative, Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945 -- 1980, which highlights the Post World War II Los Angeles art scene

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[emmalineNZ]

Inspiring interview: Kozloff is so interesting to listen to, and I love her work. I think some consciousness-raising groups would be useful now.

[stamstuff]

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[graupepillard]

Excellent interview. Congratulations!