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Jenny Holzer’s medium is visual arts, specifically conceptual art and installations. She draws on social and political commentaries to create her text-rich work. You can shop a selection of Jenny Holzer’s pieces from some of the world’s top art dealers on 1stDibs.
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USE WHAT IS DOMINANT IN A CULTURE TO CHANGE IT: Signed glass bowl Whitney Museum
By Jenny Holzer
Located in New York, NY
Jenny Holzer
USE WHAT IS DOMINANT IN A CULTURE TO CHANGE IT, 2003
Hand Blown Glass Bowl
4 × 10 × 10 inches
Edition 68/200
Signed and numbered 68/200 on the underside with Holzer's in...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Blown Glass, Engraving
Jenny Holzer, AKA: Portfolio of 5 Etchings, Contemporary Art, Signed Print
By Jenny Holzer
Located in Hamburg, DE
Jenny Holzer (American, b. 1950)
AKA, 2006
Medium: Set of five etchings, on Magnani Pescia paper (with title page, sheets loose, in original black silk-covered portfolio case)
Dimens...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Selection from Living 1980 -1982, Heliogravure, Text Art by Jenny Holzer
By Jenny Holzer
Located in London, GB
Selection from Living 1980 -1982, 1999
Jenny Holzer
Heliogravure, on Zerkall rag paper
Signed and numbered from the edition of 99
Plate: 37 × 55.5 cm (14.6 × 21.9 in)
Sheet: 44.5 ×...
Category
1990s Contemporary More Prints
Materials
Photogravure
Half Dead, "Inflammatory Essay" (from Documenta 1982)
By Jenny Holzer
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Jenny Holzer is one of the most important and original artists of the 20th century.
Her body of work, with its emphasis on text, is provocative and occasionally frightening, manipulating the language of folk wisdom, pop culture, and government slogan to produce a commentary on global issues including power structures, gender struggle, economics, voting, and warfare.
Holzer's iconic "Inflammatory Essays", produced between 1979 and 1982, were first pasted on walls throughout heavily populated metro areas including New York, and shortly after in other cities. Unsigned and commercially produced, they subverted the conventions of advertising, graffiti, and public art. Each essay was in a different eye-catching color to maximize viewers' attention. It was also helpful when one Essay replaced an older one.
The texts were derived from her childhood interest in rapturous writings. Holzer tried to emulate a similar style for her essays, yet borrowed from political theorists (notably Mao, Lenin, and Emma Goldman...
Category
1980s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Truism 'Protect Me From What I Want' (framed)
By Jenny Holzer
Located in Manchester, GB
Jenny Holzer, Truism 'Protect Me From What I Want'
Mixed media on wood
Unframed 10.2 x 15.2 cm (4 x 6 in)
Framed 22 x 27 cm (8.66 x 10.63 in)
Jenny Holzer is an American conceptu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Wood
Men Don’t Protect You Anymore Truism (framed)
By Jenny Holzer
Located in Manchester, GB
Jenny Holzer, Truism Men Don't Protect You Anymore (Framed)
Mixed media on wood
Unframed 10.2 x 15.2 cm (4 x 6 in)
Framed 22 x 27 cm (8.66 x 10.63 in)
Jenny Holzer is an American c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Wood