Jenny Holzer Born in Gallipolis, Ohio, July 29, 1950 Attended - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT62rD7wPkU

• 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

For The Guggenheim PROTECT PROTECT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqlZLSshbgU

• Took place at the Whitney Museum
• f 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
• f Wislawa Szymborska’s poems
• Featured work from 1977 to 2001
• Connection to Iraq war