Jenny Holzer Print Editions
We’re pleased to announce the availability of several print editions by Jenny Holzer, generously donated by the artist. This selection of inkjet prints dating 2013-2015 features images public light projections of the artist’s Truisms series in Italy, California, Massachusetts, and Washington D.C. Holzer’s Truisms, comprising over 250 single-sentence declarations, were written to resemble existing aphorisms, maxims, and clichés. The series was influenced by the reading list provided by Ron Clark at the Whitney Independent Study Program, where Holzer studied in 1977. Each sentence distills difficult and contentious ideas into a seemingly straightforward statement of fact. Privileging no single viewpoint, the Truisms examine the social construction of beliefs, mores, and truths. Arranged in alphabetical order, they were first shown on anonymous street posters pasted throughout downtown Manhattan, and they have since appeared on T-shirts, hats, electronic signs, stone floors, and benches.