Selected Press
“original,” “mysterious”
— Jerry Saltz
“What makes the picture really sign is, first, the beautifully judged nocturnal light that envelopes the scene…and then the heady profusion of the almost abstractly rendered foliage all around – joyfully abandoned manifesting a sort of libidinal overflow.”
— Barry Schwabsky
"Prosaic encounters of beauty during hikes, strolls, and swims simmer on the back burner of her mind until stirred up and warmed they knock on her door, demanding to be painted. Ideas and images never come out quite the way they went into the pot. Kozik is not a realist, slavishly painting a tree, branch by branch, but rather embodies a transcendental hunter-gatherer, a sly burglar of ideas and colors. The artist releases beauty from the prosaic."
“Kozik paints like a latter-day Magritte.”
— Pepe Karmel
“Kozik’s pictures represent stops on an internal journey rather than an exterior one.”
— James Kalm
"How can a pastoral imagination survive sin the city? [Kozik's} street-touch answer seems to be in a brand of fantasy that bubbles up out of the everyday."
“The new paintings, which employ more realistic hues, are now considerably relaxed in technique…almost lyrical.”
— Carol Diehl
“Kozik can handle paint exceptionally well.”
— Linda Yablonsky
BOOKS
Bloodworth, Sandra and Bill Ayres, New York’s Underground Museum: Expanding Along the Way, Monacelli Press, 2014 (forthcoming)
Cameron, Dan and Toni Morrison, Art Works: The Progressive Collection, Distributed Art Publishers, New York, 2007
Fensterstock, Ann, Art on the Block, Palgreave Macmillan, 2014
SELECTED REVIEWS | INTERVIEWS | EXHIBITION CATALOGS | for full bibliography see CV
Art, KK Kozik, Bill Maynes Gallery
Calm, James, Brooklyn Rail, January 2006
Calm, James, New York Arts, KK Kozik Wild Kingdom at Roebling Hall
Karmel, Pepe, New York Times, KK Kozik, December 1996
Chong, Annabel, Harper's Magazine, Do That To Me One More Time, 2000
Hochanadel, Michael, The Daily Gazette, On Exhibit: VR, sculpture and a 'big bloated car'
Diehl, Carol, ArtNews, KK Kozik, Bill Maynes Exhibition Review, April 1997
In Search of Dreams, from a Converted Carriage House, TriCorner News, August 2021
Lloyd, Anne Wilson, Art in America, KK Kozik at Bill Maynes, May 1996
Lombardi, Dominic, New York Times, From Romantic to Edgy, July 2004
Mahoney, Robert, Cover, KK Kozik Trial Balloon, April 1993
Mainstreet Magazine, "Inner Vision", February 2022
New York Art Beat, KK Kozik "New Paintings" 2012
New York Magazine, Power of Myth, July 2002
On Our Radar, "Miracle Island – Kenise Barnes Fine Art", Litchfield Magazine, March 2024
Schwabsky, Barry, Artforum, KK Kozik, Roebling Hall, April 2000
Sherman, Mary, Boston Globe, Art Show Makes Anxious Bid to the Market, August 1993
Smith, Roberta, New York Times, Roebling Hall, November 1998
The Artful Mind, June 2022
The Warmth of Summer Nights in Old New England, TriCorner News, July 2020
Two Coats of Paint, "Alien terrain at Storefront Ten Eyck", March 2015
When Art and Books Collide, TriCorner News, August 2021
Yablonsky, Linda, Time Out New York, KK Kozik at the Bill Maynes Gallery