JENNY HOLZER (b. 1950, OH)

'PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT', 1983-85/2018

Artist's Survival Series Wood Postcard

Artist's digital print on cherry wood unposted multiple postcard. Dimensions: 3-7/8" x 5-7/8" (10 x 15 cm). Material: Balsa Wood. This work is from an unlimited edition printed by Vandercraft, Prineville, OR and published by the artist. © Jenny Holzer/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York. BRAND NEW.

'Jenny Holzer: Light Line' is on view at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, 5/17 - 9/29/2024.

A new light projection, 'Jenny Holzer: The People', was recently on view at The National Mall in Washington DC (2023).

The major retrospective, 'Jenny Holzer', was recently on view at K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (NRW), Düsseldorf, Germany (2023).

Jenny Holzer is an American conceptual artist. Holzer lives and works in Hoosick Falls, NY.

Holzer's Survival Series (1983-85), which warned about the dangers of everyday living, have become part of the public domain, displayed in storefronts, on outdoor walls and billboards, and in digital displays in museums, galleries, and other public places, such as Times Square in New York. Multitudes of people have seen them, read them, laughed at them, and been provoked by them. That is precisely the artist's goal... Holzer began creating her Truisms in 1977, when she was a student in an independent study program. She hand-typed numerous one liners, or Truisms, which she has likened, partly in jest, to a 'Jenny Holzer's Reader's Digest version of Western and Eastern thought.' She typeset the sentences in alphabetical order and printed them inexpensively, using commercial printing processes. She then distributed the sheets at random and pasted them up as posters around the city. Her Truisms eventually adorned a variety of formats, including T-shirts and baseball caps.

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