Artist Jenny Holzer Uses T-Shirts For Art Delivery

Monday 14th of December 2009 06:20:30 PM

Artist Jenny Holzer Uses T-Shirts For Art Delivery

Jenny Holzer has been an artist for 30 years who specializes in contemporary visual art. She lives in New York and has shown her work in prestigious venues like the Guggenheim Museums in New York and the Venice Biennale among many others. This artist presents ideas and arguments in art form in a way that is haunting or sorrowful and always unique.

One of the defining qualities of Holzer’s art work is the use of a variety of mediums to present text as art. She doesn’t limit her works to traditional canvass but instead ventures out into many different mediums. For example, she has presented art on condom wrappers and marble benches. She has used billboards, LED signs, and projections. She has also used t-shirts. On fact, the t-shirt presentations have been some of her most popular art.

Recently the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead invited American artist Jenny Holzer to display art pieces in March 2010. This exhibit will include two floors of exhibits covering 20 years of Holzer art. There will be LED sign art, sculptures, paintings, and of course her famous artwork on tees.

Much of the inspiration of Holzer’s art comes from current events. The war in former Yugoslavia, US government documents, Middle East conflicts and much more have been the subject of her art. In 2008 she created HAND which is a group of paintings presenting handprints of American soldiers who fought in the Iraq war and then were accused of crimes. Much of Holzer’s work is haunting simply because it creates such strong emotions in the viewers. The HAND exhibit addresses the fog of war and how the difference between right and wrong can be murky.

The Baltic Centre exhibit has been presented earlier at the MCA Chicago and the Whitney Museum of American Art.