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At Home With Jenny Holzer, the Artist - List -...

Dec 19, 2009
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At Home With Jenny Holzer, the Artist - List - NYTimes.comWhen inspiration struck: I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. The epiphany for me was that I wasn’t a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the streets as posters. I did a lot of skulking around downtown with a bucket of wheat paste and a roll of posters late at night and would occasionally get caught.&Reason she stopped writing: I stopped using my own words in my work around 2001. I’m a half-baked writer at best and find the process painful, and I wanted to be able to include a greater range of subjects and emotions and all those good things than I could muster. In short, I like the art part better.Look at those big-ass redaction paintings behind her…
At Home With Jenny Holzer, the Artist - List - NYTimes.com
When inspiration struck: I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. The epiphany for me was that I wasn’t a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the streets as posters. I did a lot of skulking around downtown with a bucket of wheat paste and a roll of posters late at night and would occasionally get caught.

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Reason she stopped writing: I stopped using my own words in my work around 2001. I’m a half-baked writer at best and find the process painful, and I wanted to be able to include a greater range of subjects and emotions and all those good things than I could muster. In short, I like the art part better.

Look at those big-ass redaction paintings behind her…

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