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Jenny Holzer is an american conceptual artist from Ohio, born in 1950. After graduating from Rhode Island School of Design she headed for painting and print making. however in 1977 (NYC), she began to focus on working with text as the basic artistic material.
her works are produced via a series of varying mediums such as projection, electronic components like led, prints on t-shirts etc. she creates deeply powerful truisms that appear in the middle of city centers, on the buildings, on the streets. i find it quite interesting the way how she deals with using the words as a means of visual self-expression. the texts (whether written by her or the aphorisms) seem highly striking that i think it must be really dramatic to see all these giant/projected words that talk about violence, egos, personal issues, consuming societies… among the piles of advertisements, huge billboards. the fact that the works are displayed in public space gives me a kind of sense of a public confession which makes her works even more attractive for me. and she proves the power of words with these strangely appealingtext compositions.
her works are practically all around the streets of the world. hope to run across with one someday. and hope to get thrilled.
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I wonder what she uses to project, the letters look so bright..
Comment by berrinsun May 30, 2009 @ 2:52 am