Living, 1980–1982 BiographyJenny Holzer

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In this exhibition her writings appear as works on granite benches and electronic signs in the gallery, on official looking cast metal plaques placed around the MIT campus, as well as on cable television, electronic signs, and a billboard for the larger community.

Sep 20, 2024 · Jenny Holzer – Kind of Blue, 2012, 9 LED signs with blue diodes, 215,9 x 304,8 x 1463,04 (85 x 120 x 576 in.), Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, USA. Kind of Blue is a retrospective work and Jenny Holzer’s one of the greatest hits. Holzer says that the pond outside the glass walls adds a playful yet brilliant finish to the installation.

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Jun 11, 2008 · In the 1980s, Jenny Holzer began using LED signs in her artwork, engaging a form usually associated with entertainment and advertising as a medium for her challenging texts. In Thorax, the arched LEDs become sculptural elements.

The LED sign is perhaps Jenny Holzer's best-known form for displaying her texts, allowing her to smuggle her urgent and provocative words into unlikely sites such as Times Square.

The text-based art of Jenny Holzer appears in places one wouldn't expect to find it. On t-shirts, billboards, parking meters and LED signs (Holzer's signature medium), her stark one-liners call attention to social injustice and shed light on dark corners of the human psyche.

Jan 1, 1988 · Jenny Holzer: Signs [Jenny Holzer, Iwona Blazwick, Bruce Ferguson, Joan Simon] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers.

Jenny Holzer, UNEX Sign #1 (Selections from The Survival Series), 1983, refabricated 2012. LED sign in powder-coated aluminum housing, overall: 31 1/8 × 106 × 12 in. (79.1 × 269.2 × 30.5 cm).