"Words are just a way we communicate. Images are a way we communicate. And I couldn't figure out why they had to be in different baskets."
"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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