Jenny Holzer

Artist's Website

Art:21 Clip


*Jenny Holzer is 59 and has mulitple degrees including honorary Doctorates from University of Ohio, RISD and New School University in NY
*Began working with text as art after her move to NYC 1977
*Works primarily with projection and digital text scroll

Examples:

*For the City (2005), nighttime projections of declassified government documents on the exterior of NYU's Bobst Library, and poetry on the exteriors of Rockefeller Center and the NY Public Library in Manhattan
--- Government Documents
--- Poetry

Critics:
*"Feminist" to many

* NY Times
LEAD: To the Editor:

To the Editor:

Not only happy to broadcast her truisms all over Europe, Jenny Holzer has also demonstrated - at least in the reproduction that illustrates her work in ''A Changed Biennale Remains the Same'' [June 10] , - her provincialism and embarrassing lack of mastery of foreign languages. The accent on the E in the sentence ''Il desiderio di riproduzione e un desiderio di morte'' should be grave, not acute. May I suggest that Ms. Holzer limit her display of dime-store philosophy and poor orthography where it belongs: inside fortune cookies.

J. PATRICE MARANDEL
Detroit

The writer is the curator of European paintings at the Detroit Institute of Arts.