"My approach tends to be from experiments. I need the challenge. If I know how to do something well, there's no need to do it all the time because it becomes a little monotonous. So I like to find a challenge."
"BIG HANDS YELLOW WHITE" (2006)
"BIG HANDS YELLOW WHITE," 2006
Oil on linen, installation view: Cheim & Read, New York.
© 2007 Jenny Holzer, member Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Oil on linen, installation view: Cheim & Read, New York.
© 2007 Jenny Holzer, member Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York.
"I made a number of paintings of redacted handprints because this seemed an extreme example of what’s been happening- that there was once a body, and then the body was blacked out. We have found handprints of dead people, and these are extraordinary. I turn these handprints into paintings with apologies to the dead, and then I move to make them as precise, as clear, as possible."
- Jenny Holzer
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