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. Her work is intended to be purely decorative and pleasureable and not tied to any particular culture.

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 Inst...