Jenny Holzer More Prints
American, b. 1950
Known for taking art out of the traditional “white cube” of galleries and museums and onto the streets, Jenny Holzer is one of the most potent feminist Neo-Conceptual artists of the 20th century. Her most iconic work critiques the information age and consumerism by reclaiming its primary media — conventional print billboards, storefront posters and LED signs.
“I used language because I wanted to offer content that people — not necessarily art people — could understand,” the Ohio-born Holzer told Interview magazine. She received her MFA in painting from Rhode Island School of Design, where her work was influenced by Abstract Expressionism. It was while in the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art that Holzer became inspired to work at the intersection of public art and language.
In the late 1970s, after becoming an active participant in the downtown Manhattan artist collective Colab, which included Tom Otterness and Christy Rupp, Holzer began to create her legendary “Truisms” series. Printing anonymous one-line aphorisms in bold and italicized text on broadsheets, she pasted them up in public spaces all over New York City. The “Truisms” are provocative in questioning how we receive and process information. The work elicits debate and represents a range of perspectives. In an era that saw the rise of street art and graffiti, Holzer’s pithy word art would also find viewers by way of T-shirts, stickers and park benches, into which her slogans were carved.
Holzer’s more combative “Inflammatory Essays” (1979–82) took the form of mass-produced posters on colored paper — each featuring paragraphs as compared to the punch-line structure of “Truisms.” These touched on subjects such as violence, misogyny, power structures and consumerism, all of which have continued to be central in her work.
Starting in 1982 as part of a Public Art Fund project, Holzer projected “Protect me from what I want” and other “Truisms” on the Spectacolor board, a large computerized light signboard in New York City’s Times Square. Her “Abuse of power comes as no surprise,” which has appeared on T-shirts as part of the series, has taken on new life in an increasingly politically divided America.
Just as it did in the 1970s, the forcefulness of her work continues to make both viewers and the art world stop and pay attention. She has had solo exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Tate Modern in London and elsewhere. She has also created permanent installations including the New York City AIDS Memorial. A 2014 show at New York’s Cheim & Read featured oil-on-linen canvases based on declassified government files pertaining to detainees from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Find Jenny Holzer prints and sculptures on 1stDibs.
to
2
1
Overall Width
to
Overall Height
to
1
1
16
646
450
206
148
3
1
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
2
Artist: Jenny Holzer
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 Jenny Holzer More Prints
Materials
Photogravure
End of the USA
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 an emphasis on text, is consistently provocative and occasionally frightening, manipulating the language of both pop culture and government slogan to produce commentary on global issues notably power structures 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 other cities.
Composed of anonymous statements, printed on friendly or calm colored papers, the statements were influenced by writings of major political figures such as Emma Goldman...
Category
1980s Conceptual Jenny Holzer More Prints
Materials
Offset
Torture Is Barbaric -- Print, Postcards, Text Art, Truisms by Jenny Holzer
By Jenny Holzer
Located in London, GB
Truisms [Torture Is Barbaric], after 1994
Jenny Holzer
Screenprint on balsa wood multiple
with text from the Survival (1983-1985) and Truisms (197...
Category
1990s Pop Art Jenny Holzer More Prints
Materials
Screen
Related Items
Daytona 500, 1970s Pop Art Screenprint by Seymour Chwast
By Seymour Chwast
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Seymour Chwast, American (1931 - )
Title: Daytona 500
Year: circa 1979
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 250
Image Size:...
Category
1970s Pop Art Jenny Holzer More Prints
Materials
Screen
Marshall - large format photograph of iconic cherry red Cadillac automobile
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photograph of iconic American vintage car with crimson red sheetmetal paint and custom logo tag
Marshall by Frank Schott
25 x 40 inches (64 x 102cm)
signed edition of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Jenny Holzer More Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée
Mini Fab - Pride, Limited edition print, Hand made print, Ice cream Art
By Gavin Dobson
Located in Deddington, GB
To celebrate 50 golden years of Pride UK. A special golden disco mix edition of one of my most popular pieces. 5 layer screen print on Heritage white. A celebration of colour and par...
Category
2010s Pop Art Jenny Holzer More Prints
Materials
Paper, Glitter, Mixed Media, Screen
H 8.27 in W 5.83 in D 0.4 in
Original Andy Warhol Brillo Pasadena Art Museum serigraph vintage poster
By Andy Warhol
Located in Spokane, WA
Original serigraph: Andy Warhol Brillo soap pads. Artist: Andy Warhol. Size 26" x 30" Year: 1970. Archival linen-backed original serigraph ready to frame.
Warhol's Billo ...
Category
1970s Pop Art Jenny Holzer More Prints
Materials
Screen
H 30 in W 26 in D 0.3 in
Pink Panther
By Gavin Dobson
Located in Deddington, GB
Pink Panther [2022]
limited_edition
Cymk screen print
Edition number 100
Image size: H:70 cm x W:50 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:70 cm x W:50 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Jenny Holzer More Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Mini Lobster
By Gavin Dobson
Located in Deddington, GB
Mini lobster [2022]
limited_edition
Cymk screen print
Edition number 100
Image size: H:21 cm x W:14.8 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:21 cm x W:14.8 cm x D:0.1cm
Sold Unfra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Jenny Holzer More Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
India the Wonderful Land original vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage linen backed, travel poster to INDIA The Wonderful Land. The center image of this poster is the Taj Mahal at Agra, India with the Qutb Minar minaret red tower...
Category
1950s Conceptual Jenny Holzer More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
1970s Uc Berkeley Original Silkscreen "Up Against the War Motherland"
Located in Arp, TX
"Up Against the War Motherland"
UC Berkeley Workshop
April 26, 1970
Screenprint on computer paper
14.75"x22" unframed
Unsigned
Poster is printed on tracto...
Category
1970s Pop Art Jenny Holzer More Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
H 22 in W 14.75 in D 0.5 in
Cyclists - Silkscreen by Ugo Nespolo - 2008
Located in Roma, IT
Cliclists is a screen print realized by Ugo Nespolo in 2008, in occasion of the Olympic Games in Beijing.
Edition of 260.
Hand signed and numbered in pencil.
Excellent condition.
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Jenny Holzer More Prints
Materials
Screen
1970's Large Silkscreen Abstract Geometric Day Glo Serigraph Pop Art Print Neon
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Surfside, FL
Silkscreen on Arches paper, Hand signed and Numbered in Pencil. Serigraph in white, back, blue gray (silver).
Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali (Greek: Χρύσα Βαρδέα-Μαυρομιχάλη; December 31, 1933 – December 23, 2013) was a Greek American artist who worked in a wide variety of media. An American art pioneer in light art and luminist sculpture widely known for her neon, steel, aluminum and acrylic glass installations, she has always used the mononym Chryssa professionally. She worked from the mid-1950s in New York City studios and worked since 1992 in the studio she established in Neos Kosmos, Athens, Greece.
Chryssa was born in Athens into the famous Mavromichalis family from the Mani Peninsula. one of her sisters, who studied medicine, was a friend of the poet and novelist Nikos Kazantzakis.
Chryssa began painting during her teenage years and also studied to be a social worker.In 1953, on the advice of a Greek art critic, her family sent her to Paris to study at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere where Andre Breton, Edgard Varese, and Max Ernst were among her associates and Alberto Giacometti was a visiting professor.
In 1954, at age twenty-one, Chryssa sailed for the United States, arrived in New York and went to San Francisco, California to study at the California School of Fine Arts. Returning to New York in 1955, she became a United States citizen and established a studio in the city.
Chryssa's first major work was The Cycladic Books preceded American minimalism by seventeen years.
1961, Chryssa's first solo exhibition was mounted at The Guggenheim.
1963, Chryssa's work was shown at the Museum of Modern Art in curator Dorothy Canning Miller's Americans 1963 exhibition. The artists represented in the show also included Richard Anuszkiewicz, Lee Bontecou, Robert Indiana, Richard Lindner, Marisol, Claes Oldenburg, Ad Reinhardt, James Rosenquist and others.
1966, The Gates to Times Square, regarded as "one of the most important American sculptures of all time" and "a thrilling homage to the living American culture of advertising and mass communications." The work is a 10 ft cube installation of two huge letter 'A's through which visitors may walk into "a gleaming block of stainless steel and Plexiglas that seems to quiver in the play of pale blue neon light" which is controlled by programmed timers. First shown in Manhattan's Pace Gallery, it was given to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York in 1972.
1972, The Whitney Museum of American Art mounted a solo exhibition of works by Chryssa.
That's All (early 1970s), the central panel of a triptych related to The Gates of Times Square, was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art between 1975 and 1979.
1973, Chryssa's solo exhibition at the Gallerie Denise René was reviewed for TIME magazine by art critic Robert Hughes before it went on to the Galleries Denise René in Düsseldorf and Paris.
Other works by Chryssa in composite honeycomb aluminum and neon in the 1980s and 1990s include Chinatown, Siren, Urban Traffic, and Flapping Birds.
Chryssa 60/90 retrospective exhibition in Athens in the Mihalarias Art Center. After her long absence from Greece, a major exhibition including large aluminum sculptures - cityscapes, "neon boxes" from the Gates to the Times Square, paintings, drawings etc. was held in Athens.
In 1992, after closing her SoHo studio, which art dealer Leo Castelli had described as "one of the loveliest in the world," Chryssa returned to Greece. She found a derelict cinema which had become a storeroom stacked with abandoned school desks and chairs, behind the old Fix Brewery near the city center in Neos Kosmos, Athens. Using the desks to construct enormous benches, she converted the space into a studio for working on designs and aluminum composite honeycomb sculptures...
Category
1980s Pop Art Jenny Holzer More Prints
Materials
Screen
"Where's Father?", circa 1979, Serigraph by Seymour Chwast
By Seymour Chwast
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Seymour Chwast
Title: Where's Father?
Year: circa 1979
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 250, AP 50
Image Size: 22 x 19.5...
Category
1970s Pop Art Jenny Holzer More Prints
Materials
Screen
The Mock Turtle's Story Alice in Wonderland Salvador Dali 1969 original woodcut
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Paonia, CO
The Mock Turtle's Story is from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as interpreted by Salvador Dali and published by Maecenas ( a Random...
Category
1960s Surrealist Jenny Holzer More Prints
Materials
Photogravure
Previously Available Items
Delicately Interconnected
By Jenny Holzer
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Jenny Holzer's menacing (and sometimes humorous) "Truisms" first appeared in the late 1970s in a variety of formats, but initially as a type of street art.
Over the past four decad...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jenny Holzer More Prints
Materials
Screen
Truisms Puzzle
By Jenny Holzer
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Jenny Holzer is one of the most important and influential artists of the 20th century.
Her body of work, with its emphasis on text, is consistently provocative and occasionally frig...
Category
1990s Contemporary Jenny Holzer More Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
End of the USA
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 an emphasis on text, is consistently provocative and occasionally frightening, manipulating the language of both pop culture and government slogan to produce commentary on global issues notably power structures 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 other cities.
Composed of anonymous statements, printed on friendly or calm colored papers, the statements were influenced by writings of major political figures such as Emma Goldman...
Category
1980s Conceptual Jenny Holzer More Prints
Materials
Offset
Truisms (Toronto)
By Jenny Holzer
Located in Toronto, Ontario
In 1982 Jenny Holzer, who was at the beginning of her career, was invited to Toronto by A-Space to do one of her ground-breaking public "interventions".
The artist hired a few OCAD ...
Category
1980s Post-Modern Jenny Holzer More Prints
Materials
Inkjet
End of the USA
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 an emphasis on text, is consistently provocative and occasionally frightening, manipulating the language of both pop culture and government slogan to produce commentary on global issues notably power structures 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 other cities.
Composed of anonymous statements, printed on friendly or calm colored papers, the statements were influenced by writings of major political figures such as Emma Goldman...
Category
1980s Conceptual Jenny Holzer More Prints
Materials
Offset
Truisms (Toronto)
By Jenny Holzer
Located in Toronto, Ontario
In 1982 Jenny Holzer, who was at the beginning of her career, was invited to Toronto by A-Space to do one of her ground-breaking public "interventions".
The artist hired a few OCAD ...
Category
1980s Post-Modern Jenny Holzer More Prints
Materials
Inkjet
10 Inflammatory Essays 1979-1982 -- Lithograph, Small Set, Text Art by Holzer
By Jenny Holzer
Located in London, GB
JENNY HOLZER
10 Inflammatory Essays 1979-1982, 1993
The set of ten offset lithographs, on variously coloured copier papers
Unsigned as issued
Printed by Coriander, London
Published ...
Category
1990s Feminist Jenny Holzer More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
10 Inflammatory Essays 1979-1982 -- Lithograph, Text Art by Jenny Holzer
By Jenny Holzer
Located in London, GB
JENNY HOLZER
10 Inflammatory Essays 1979-1982, 1993
The set of ten offset lithographs, on variously coloured copier papers
Unsigned as issued
From the edition of 30
Printed by Cor...
Category
1990s Feminist Jenny Holzer More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jenny Holzer "Truisms (Toronto)"
By Jenny Holzer
Located in Toronto, Ontario
In 1982 Jenny Holzer, who was at the beginning of her career, was invited to Toronto by A-Space to do one of her ground-breaking public "interventions".
The artist hired a few OCAD ...
Category
1980s Post-Modern Jenny Holzer More Prints
Materials
Inkjet
Murder Has Its Sexual Side -- Print, Postcards, Text, Truisms by Jenny Holzer
By Jenny Holzer
Located in London, GB
JENNY HOLZER
Truisms [Murder Has Its Sexual Side], after 1994
Screenprint on balsa wood multiple
with text from the Survival (1983-1985) and Truisms (1977-1979) series
Published by ...
Category
1990s Pop Art Jenny Holzer More Prints
Materials
Screen
Lack of Charisma Can be Fatal -- Print, Postcards, Truisms by Jenny Holzer
By Jenny Holzer
Located in London, GB
JENNY HOLZER
Truisms [Lack of Charisma Can be Fatal], after 1994
Screenprint on balsa wood multiple
with text from the Survival (1983-1985) and Truisms (1977-1979) series
Published b...
Category
1990s Pop Art Jenny Holzer More Prints
Materials
Screen
Selection from Living 1980 -1982, Heliogravure, Text Art by Jenny Holzer
By Jenny Holzer
Located in London, GB
JENNY HOLZER
Selection from Living 1980 -1982, 1999
Heliogravure, on Zerkall rag paper
Signed and numbered from the edition of 99
Plate: 37.0 x 55.5 cm (14.6 x 21.9 in)
Sheet: 44.5 ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Jenny Holzer More Prints
Materials
Photogravure
Jenny Holzer more prints for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Jenny Holzer more prints available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of more prints to introduce a pop of color in a neutral corner of your living room or bedroom, you can find work that includes elements of orange, yellow and other colors. You can also browse by medium to find art by Jenny Holzer in intaglio, offset print, photogravure and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 20th century and is mostly associated with the Pop Art style. Not every interior allows for large Jenny Holzer more prints, so small editions measuring 6 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Samuel Field, Bruce Nauman, and Les Levine. Jenny Holzer more prints prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $496 and tops out at $4,355, while the average work can sell for $660.
Artists Similar to Jenny Holzer
Questions About Jenny Holzer More Prints
- 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022While the takeaway of Jenny Holzer’s art is subjective to each individual, her work focuses mainly on the delivery of words and ideas in public spaces with large-scale installations. Shop a selection of Jenny Holzer artwork and prints on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022Jenny 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.