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Artists›Joyce Kozloff

Joyce Kozloff

1942

PaintingPattern and DecorationStreet ArtGeometric Abstraction

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• Pattern and Decoration
• Street Art
• Geometric Abstraction

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Recent Acquisitions, 1968�1973

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1973

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Joyce Kozloff is an American painter and public artist known for large-scale murals and installations that integrate geometric abstraction with decorative Islamic and Islamic-derived tile patterns. Working across canvas, ceramic, and architectural surfaces since the 1970s, her practice interrogates the relationship between fine art and craft, particularly the marginalization of ornament in modernism. Her work has appeared in major public commissions and museum collections, addressing both aesthetic and social dimensions of decoration within American cultural space.

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Museum of Modern ArtNew York

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Artworks (9)

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Waves II

2016 · Lithograph, inkjet, etching, and aquatint

Image: 14 1/2 × 29 3/4 in. (36.8 × 75.6 cm) Sheet: 15 in. × 29 3/4 in. (38.1 × 75.6 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Maui: Sugar Plantations from Femfolio

2009 · Digital print with lithograph from a portfolio of nineteen digital prints (twelve with lithograph, one with pochoir, one with hand coloring, and one with gold dusting) and one lithograph

composition: 11 15/16 x 12" (30.4 x 30.5 cm); sheet: 11 15/16 x 12" (30.4 x 30.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Maui: Sugar Plantation, from "Femfolio"

2007 · Digital print with hand lithography

Sheet: 12 × 12 in. (30.5 × 30.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Untitled

1982 · Screenprint

composition and sheet: 9 7/16 × 9 7/16" (23.9 × 23.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Homage to Robert Adam

1980 · Nineteen etching and aquatints on cast paper

Museum of Modern Art

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Tut's Wallpaper

1979 · Silkscreen on silk, ceramic tiles, grout and plywood

a - pilaster 1 (left): 96 1/2 in. × 9 in. × 1 3/8 in. (245.1 × 22.9 × 3.5 cm) b - silk wall hanging: 8 ft. 10 1/2 in. × 45 1/2 in. (270.5 × 115.6 cm) c - pilaster 2 (right): 96 1/2 × 9 3/4 × 1 3/8 in. (245.1 × 24.8 × 3.5 cm) overall width of work: 74 1/4 in. (188.6 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pictures and Borders III

1977 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 28 1/4 × 16 3/4" (71.8 × 42.5 cm); sheet: 30 3/16 × 22 5/8" (76.7 × 57.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Taos Pueblo

1972 · Lithograph

composition: 18 1/8 x 24 1/16" (46 x 61.1 cm); sheet: 18 1/8 x 24 1/16" (46 x 61.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

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Group Exhibition Recent Acquisitions, 1968�1973

New York · 1973