"Art making is a form of alchemy, in a way, because you are trying…to make gold from nothing. When it works very well is when you manage to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary."
"WISH LIST BLACK" (2006)
"WISH LIST BLACK," 2006
Oil on linen; 16 panels, 33 x 408 inches.
© 2007 Jenny Holzer, member Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Oil on linen; 16 panels, 33 x 408 inches.
© 2007 Jenny Holzer, member Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York.
"I loved being a painter at the Rhode Island School of Design, but I wasn’t good enough. So I put that away for a long, long time. It wasn’t until I started working with these secret documents that I decided that they could be paintings. I was very lucky to find Ben Snead, who also graduated from RISD, to paint the grounds for me. He’s a master painter; I’m a theoretical one."
- Jenny Holzer
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