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Jenny HolzerJenny Holzer (born July 29, 1950 in Gallipolis, Ohio) is an American conceptual artist. She has attended Ohio University, Rhode Island School of Design, and the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Holzer was originally an abstract artist, focusing on painting and printmaking, but after moving to New York City in 1977, she began working with text as art. The main focus of Jenny Holzer's work is on the use of ideas in public space. Street posters are her favorite medium, but she also makes use of a variety of other media, including LED signs, plaques, benches, stickers, T-shirts and the World Wide Web. =Works= - Truisms (1979-) http://mfx.dasburo.com/art/truisms.html is probably her most well-known work. Holzer has compiled a series of statements and aphorisms ("truisms") and has publicized them in a variety of ways: listed on street posters, in telephone booths and even, in 1982, on one of Times Square's gigantic LED billboards.
- Inflammatory Essays (1978-79), in which she brought texts by Trotsky, Hitler, Mao, Lenin and Emma Goldman onto the streets.
- Living Series (early 1980s), using more monumental media such as bronze plaques and billboards.
- Survival Series (1983-1985), with more militant aphorisms.
- Under a Rock
- Lament
- Child Text, a piece on motherhood for the 1990 Venice Biennale.
- Please Change Beliefs (1995) http://adaweb.walkerart.org/project/holzer/cgi/pcb.cgi, created for the internet art gallery adaweb http://adaweb.walkerart.org.
=External links= Holzer, Jenny Holzer, Jenny
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