Jenny Holzer
Jenny Holzer
Jenny Holzer is an American neo-conceptual artist, based in Hoosick Falls, New York. The main focus of her work is the delivery of words and ideas in public spaces...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth29 July 1950
CountryUnited States of America
posters epiphany streets
The epiphany for me was that I wasnt a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the streets as posters.
real drama issues
Drama often obscures the real issues
charisma
Lack of charisma can be fatal.
profound
The most profound things are inexpressible.
art important
Everyone's work is equally important.
art people language
I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.
art good-person being-a-good-person
It's better to be a good person than a famous person.
crackpots
A lot of professionals are crackpots.
artist ideas people
I wasn't sure I was an artist, so I thought maybe I just was throwing ideas out for people to consider.
art flux
Ensure that your life stays in flux.
yield lovely attention
The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go to the awful in the hope that doing something could yield a happier result.
hands weapons messy
Fear is the most elegant weapon, your hands are never messy
gone sometimes periods
THERE IS A PERIOD WHEN IT IS CLEAR THAT YOU HAVE GONE WRONG BUT YOU CONTINUE. SOMETIMES THERE IS A LUXURIOUS AMOUNT OF TIME BEFORE ANYTHING BAD HAPPENS.
art interconnected all-things
All things are delicately interconnected.