Artist Talk with Andrew Kozlowski

Andrew Kozlowski is a cartoonist, printmaker, writer, small press publisher, and art educator who has been living and working in Jacksonville Florida since 2017. His work has been included in numerous exhibitions in the US and abroad with solo exhibitions at The Print Center in Philadelphia PA, 1708 Gallery in Richmond VA, and ArtSpace in Raleigh NC; and group exhibitions at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, Tanks Art Center in Queensland Australia, and Yellow House Gallery in Jacksonville FL. Publications include the Saw Palm Literary Journal, Swing Literature Magazine, and the Hand Magazine.

In 2023 Kozlowski received an Individual Artist Grant from the Community Foundation of NE Florida. Prior to 2020 his work consisted of prints on paper and large-scale site-specific installations using wheat-pasted prints. However, when the COVID-19 pandemic began he was unable to work in the studio and traveling for exhibitions was not feasible. Quarantined at home he dove deep into his practice of journaling and writing, reigniting his first artistic impulse: comics. While he's been a practicing artist for many years, 2020 provided a monumental shift in his work. Writing and drawing comics has helped him say things that his artwork had otherwise buried or ignored and has offered him a chance to share a different part of his life. Since 2021 he has been sharing weekly comics via Instagram @andrew.kozlowski. In 2023 he opened Paper City Publishing, an imprint to self-publish his work, and the work of other cartoonists, artists, writers, poets, and zinesters. You can see more of his work at www.papercitypublishing.com.

This talk is free and open to the public.