Wednesday, March 11
1 – 1:45 pm | Meet at Front-Desk
Pay-What-You-Wish Admission
Join Everson Museum Director & CEO, Elizabeth Dunbar, for an enriching guided tour of the special exhibition Joyce Kozloff: Contested Territories, 1983-2023. Learn about contemporary artist Joyce Kozloff, a founding figure of the Pattern and Decoration movement, who’s work combines meticulous craftsmanship with political critique. For more than four decades, Kozloff has explored how the entanglements of geography, history, and power influence the visual language of maps, and how maps shape our understanding of the world—not as neutral tools, but as instruments of influence, ideology, and control. Explore how Kozloff reimagines educational globes and deconstructs colonial-era charts, transforming maps from static documents into contested, dynamic spaces, encouraging viewers to reconsider how borders are drawn as well as how art can reclaim such boundaries as sites of resistance, memory, and possibility.
Joyce Kozloff
If I Were a Botanist (the Pale), 2014
Mixed media on canvas, 54 x 104 1/4 inches
Courtesy of the artist and DC Moore Gallery, New York
Joyce Kozloff
Targets, 2000
Acrylic on canvas with wood frame
108 inches diameter
Courtesy of the artist and DC Moore Gallery, New York
Joyce Kozloff: Contested Territories, 1983-2023 is made possible with support from the National Endowment for the Arts. The Everson is supported by the Dorothy and Marshall M. Reisman Foundation; the General Operating Support program, a regrant program of the County of Onondaga with the support of County Executive, J. Ryan McMahon II, and the Onondaga County Legislature, administered by CNY Arts; and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
