Prometheus, 1980
Mixed Media including Hardware, 36" x 79"
Maria Josephy was born in 1933 in New York City, New York. She studied painting and printmaking at Sarah Lawrence College, and received her B.A. in 1954. In 1957, she began working as a free-lance graphic designer in Chicago and Washington, D.C. Josephy began making collages and assemblages in 1962. She participated in shows in New York, Chicago, Illinois, and Washington, D.C., and had a solo exhibit at the Hampton Institute College Museum in Hampton, Virginia, in 1989. Josephy’s whimsical narratives often drew on classical themes and were marked by an uncanny sense of invention and detail. Maria Jospehy died on October 9, 2014.
*Excerpted from Tools as Art: the Hechinger Collection, published by Harry N. Abrams Inc. Edited to reflect the artist’s passing