JENNY HOLZER

For over thirty years, Jenny Holzer has cannily transformed public systems of display into the forms that shape and hold her art. While language always has functioned as Holzer's primary medium, it cannot be dissociated from the ingenious and sly choices of bodies that hold the text. From posters, bronze plaques, and marble benches to electronic signs and light projections, the physical lives of her work question how modes of mass address form publics and communities. While she first used existing electronic signs like the Spectacolor sign in New York City's Times Square to disorient the usual reception of news and advertising, Holzer now configures L.E.D. (light-emitting diode) signs into sculptural arrangements that derange architectural space and thoughtfully complicate a viewer’s relationship to place.