SEARCH
6 1/2 x 9 inches (16.5 x 22.9 cm)
Edition of 10
Stamped
(Inventory #36574)
Text: Truisms (1977-79) and Survival (1983-85)
9 3/8 x 68 x 2 3/8 inches (23.6 x 173 x 6.1 cm)
Edition of 6
Signed and numbered on reverse
(Inventory #31516)
Edition of 5
21 x 23 inches (53.3 x 58.4 cm)
Signed in ink verso on label
(Inventory #36059)
Edition of 3
6 x 9 1/2 inches (15.2 x 24.1 cm)
Engraved ‘JH 663 2/3’ on reverse in center
(Inventory #36035)
Edition of 10
3 x 10 inches (7.6 x 25.4 cm)
Engraved ‘JH 113 x/10’ on reverse in center
(Inventory #36031)
Edition of 20
16 1/2 x 2 x 1/2 inches (5.1 x 41.9 x 1.3 cm) or 2 x 16 1/2 x 1/2 inches (can be installed vertically or horizontally / the above image shows both possibilities)
Signed on back
(Inventory #36102)
Edition of 12
Image size: 30 5/8 x 45 7/8 inches (77.8 x 116.5 cm)
Paper size: 33 5/8 x 48 7/8 inches (85.4 x 124.1 cm)
Signed and numbered lower right in graphite
(Inventory #33672)
Edition of 40
Image size: 19 1/4 x 14 3/4 inches each (49 x 37.5 cm each)
Paper size: 29 13/16 x 22 5/16 inches each (75.7 x 56.7 cm each)
Signed lower right and numbered lower left on the first print of the set
(Inventory #34059)
Image/paper size: 34 3/4 x 22 7/8 inches (88.3 x 58.1 cm)
Signed lower right on last sheet
(Inventory #30423)
Image/paper size (each): 17 x 17 inches (43.2 x 43.2 cm)
Signed lower right on the blue page
(Inventory #33754)
Edition of 40
Signed and numbered on colophon page
Image size: 19 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches each (50.2 x 40 cm each)
Paper size: 21 7/8 x 17 3/4 inches each (55.6 x 45.1 cm each)
(Inventory #33752)
Text: Selections from Survival (1983-85) and Arno (1996) by Jenny Holzer; US government document: “Iraqi Pipeline Through Jordan”; and “To the Forty-Third President,” from Blackbird and Wolf by Henri Cole. Copyright © 2007 by Henri Cole. Used by/reprinted with permission from Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC
Available only as a set.
Text: U.S. government document
Edition of 35, 10 AP
Image/plate size: 22 x 17 inches (55.9 x 43.2 cm)
Paper size: 27 x 21 1/2 inches (68.6 x 54.6 cm)
Signed and dated lower right, numbered lower left in graphite
(Inventory #33096)
Edition of 99
Image size: 14 7/16 x 21 3/8 inches (36.7 x 54.3 cm)
Plate size: 14 5/8 x 22 5/8 inches (37.1 x 57.5 cm)
Paper size: 17 5/8 x 24 1/4 inches (44.8 x 61.6 cm)
Signed lower right, numbered lower left
(Inventory #30265)
American installation and conceptual artist. Her studies included general art courses at Duke University, Durham, NC (1968-70), and then painting, printmaking and drawing at the University of Chicago before completing her BFA at Ohio University, Athens (1972). In 1974 she took summer courses at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, entering its MFA program in 1975 and beginning her first work with language, installation and public art. Holzer moved to New York in 1977. Her first public works, Truisms (1977-79), appeared in the form of anonymous broadsheets pasted on buildings, walls and fences in and around Manhattan. Commercially printed in cool, bold italics, numerous one-line statements such as ‘Abuse of power comes as no surprise’ and ‘There is a fine line between information and propaganda’, were meant to be provocative and elicit public debate. Thereafter Holzer used language and the mechanics of late 20th-century communications as an assault on established notions of where art should be shown, with what intention and for whom. Her texts took the forms of posters, monumental and electronic signs, billboards, television and her signature medium, the LED (light emitting diode) sign. Other works appeared on T-shirts, tractor hats, stickers, metal plaques, park benches and sarcophagi. The LED signs have been placed in high-impact public spaces such as Times Square, New York, as well as in art galleries and museums.
Bibliography
Jenny Holzer: Signs (exh. cat., Des Moines, IA, A. Cent., 1986-7) Jenny Holzer (exh. cat. by D. Waldman, New York, Guggenheim, 1989-90) M. Auping: Jenny Holzer (New York, 1992)
Copyright material reproduced courtesy of Oxford University Press, New York
