Joyce Kozloff
Boys Art # 2 Nagasaki 2003

American artist, Joyce Kozloff 's highly decorative work reminds me of ancient maps, which combined practical geographical information with decoration, and images of mythical Gods and beasts. Yet Kozloffs work is both down to earth and politically charged, dealing with with the subjugation of peoples under the domination of Empire. Drawing inspiration from older civilizations, who's intricate patterns embody profound mythological and spiritual meanings.

Joyce Kozloff
Jodhpur Blue 1996.
Section 29 x 42.7 cm

39 foot piece. Cast paper & plaster, wood and enamel, paint, indian ink , collage on paper, watercolour on silk. Kozloff maps interweave images, recipes and extracts from books to form a rich patchwork mapping the human and cultural elements of a geographical site.

Consisting of 8 panels, depicting street maps, photographs, recipes and food.

From her exhibition, 'Crossed Purpose'.

Cildo Meireles
Physical Art: Cords / 30KM Extended Line 1969
Industrial cord, map wooden box 60x40x8cm.
From the ‘Geographical Mutations’ series

A conceptual artist, who questions the “physical, geometric, psychological, topographical and anthropological” boundries producing work which calls into question and refuses to be restricted by the political, physical or geographical, boundries. This small leather case, displaying a map of Brazil, combines and contains the earth from the borders of the two opposing states of Rio and Sao Paulo. This work is also a personnal reflection on this Brazilian artists childhood.

PhD candidate Nepusz Tamas mapped nearly four million relationships between the artists on Last.fm to turn them into an interactive map that's categorized by genre.
As one might expect, the rock zone (red) separates metal (gray) and pop (green). Reggae and ska (pink) exist in a little data peninsula equidistant from pop and rock. You can search for bands on the map to see where they fall, or enter any Last.fm user name to see where their favorite artists are on the map.

There is a 3D feel about this map.

I like the concept of, interactive.

Posted by-Mary Allardyce

City without clothes

Jana Morgan
Describes her work as exploring memory and other mental and linguistic constructs as they mediate the body's interaction with place.

Los Angeles Aerial # 3
Psychogeography of the crazy quilt (in the fashion of Jackson Pollock) 3' x 4' piece is a collage of vintage fabrics, men's neckties and painted / dyed fabrics, machine and hand stitching.

City Without Clothes (potentials of paradise)

work in progress-velvet, velour and fleece.

Morgan describes this piece as, "a work-in-progress, a sort of map to nowhere (as in utopia)," one from a series of aerial-psychogeography studies. She describes it as personal, in that it's potentially everywhere she ever imagined living, but has never visited. It articulates possibilities and parallel lives that may yet be lived.

Note the link in title to, Guy Debord's 1957 map, 'The Naked City'.
I love this work.
posted by-Mary Allardyce

Map of An Englishman

Grayson Perry reveals the reasoning behind his controversial work:"I want to make something that lives with the eye as a beautiful piece of art, but on closer inspection, a polemic or an ideology will come out of it.
His 'Map of an Englishman', is a map of his own brain, with the appearance of an island, it bears the vague resemblance to the two sides of the human brain. At first sight it appears to be a mock-Tudor etch, but place names reveal a world of confusion, surrounded by Schizophrenia, Psychopath, Delirium, Bipolar Disorder, Anorexia Nervosa ect... a large creepy forest is named Fear and his many Church's, castles, hills and houses bear the names of character traits. Divided into counties such Romance, Tender, Bitch, Guru Cliche. There are only limited areas bearing the names Normal Easy. Posh is a region where the place names express elements we attribute to the social class we call posh: Chardonnay, School Run and Yoga Bulemic. Posted by - Mary Allardyce