Jenny Holzer Bench

17 3 4 x 48 x 21 45 1 x 121 8 x 53 3 cm.

Jenny holzer bench. Texts on the benches. The main focus of her work is the delivery of words and ideas in public spaces. I say your name.

Jenny holzer under a rock. 16 x 23 x 15 3 4 inches 40 6 x 58 4 x 40 cm text reads on top. Welcome jenny holzer.

125 years art installation by jenny holzer university of pennsylvania philladelphia hand textured rustification of bench edges and sides adam paul heller studio norfolk connecticut hand carved stone sculpture lettering and design. Born in 1950 in gallipolis ohio holzer took art classes at duke university the university of chicago ohio university and the rhode island school of design. A poem by jenny holzer is engraved on a long bench in peggy guggenheim s museum garden in venice.

You spit on them because 1986 virginia mist black granite bench 43 x 91 x 40 cm its title drawn from an un redacted line in an fbi report softer targets brought together 33 works from throughout jenny holzer s career. An elite is inevitable any surplus is immoral humanism is obsolete. I say the word.

Holzer a world renowned conceptual artist donated the bench. A man cant know what it s like to be a mother bad intentions can yield good results decadence can be an end in itself dependence can be a meal ticket dying should be as least as. Holzer belongs to the feminist branch of a generation of artists that emerged around 1980 looking for new ways to make narrative or commentary an implicit part of visual objects.

Jenny holzer truism footstool starvation is nature s way 1988 baltic brown granite bench. 2020 jenny holzer artists rights society. Placed in a quiet corner of the gardens the bench belies its raw sensuous and revealing imagery.