Jenny Holzer is an American contemporary artist who works primarily with textual art pieces. She studied art at Duke University and at the University of Chicago. While enrolled in the Rhode Island School of Design, Holzer started working with textual art pieces. Holzer says she likes working with textual art because she “wanted to offer content that people- not necessarily art people- could understand.” Her most well-known series of works is the Truisms series which she created in 1977. It consists of one line proclamations such as “money creates taste” and she posted these all over New York. Holzer uses shirts, projections, and poster to carry text that conveys her ideas of language both for communication and for control. I really enjoy the simplicity of her artwork and that her work is still able to convey powerful images to a wider audience. I love that her projection work is changed by the form of the building she projects her text on. It sometimes warps the words and adds to her strong messages. This effect can be seen in her work For the Academy. Additionally, Holzer is able to create a unique atmosphere for her textual messages by her use of LEDs in her MONUMENT series. I feel like all of her work opens a forum for people to understand and discuss her art. I want to replicate this idea in my work, attempting to apply my art to a wider audience. Whether this is through textual art pieces such as Holzer’s or through a different perhaps simplified method.
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