Jenny Holzer ● Born in Gallipolis, Ohio, July 29, 1950 ● Attended Duke and University of Chicago before finishing her BFA at Ohio University ● Entered MFA program at RISD ● Began working with language, installation, and public art after moving to Manhattan in 1976, participating in the Whitney program ● First woman to represent the US in the Venice Biennale in 1990
Why She Stood Out to Me
About Her Artwork ● Art is revolves around language ● Content of the pieces are Truisms: sentences which describe an attitude that proclaim a truth ● Content of language used includes poetry, politics, and her own statements ● Likes to engage with the structure she in working with ● Language is mainly private “truisms” but in a public area
For The Guggenheim ● From September 26th to December 31st ● Re-opening of newly restored Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright ● Holzer was brought in to create the art piece in honor of Peter Lewis, a Guggenheim Board of Trustee member who funded the project ● Projections moved ● Writings and poems were from Holzer herself http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT62rD7wPkU
PROTECT PROTECT For The Guggenheim ● Took place at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, from March to May 2009 ● Departion from normal work; Presented temporary outdoor projection in conjuction with exhibition ● Text projected came from selections of Wislawa Szymborska’s poems ● Featured work from 1977 to 2001 ● Connection to Iraq war http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqlZLSshbgU
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