American installation artist Jenny Holzer(1950) can easily be described as a street artist focusing on content.
Holzer received a BFA(painting and printing, Ohio University 1972 ) and enrolled in the Rhode Island School of Design. At the RISD she began to introduce language into her work, an essential element in her public projects.
She created her first Truisms(1977-1979) on the streets of New York when she enrolled in the Whitney Museum Independent Study program. Initially these Truisms were one-liners on posters.
Later on these slogans were shared with the public in another form, other media: LED displays, outdoor light projections, ....
Whether pasted or projected, this artist is spreading her reflective message in a humorous way.
Jenny Holzer
Joan Simon, David Joselit, Renata Saleci
ISBN 07148375 47
Holzer's publications:
A little Knowledge 1979
Black Book 1980
Hotel 1980
Living 1980
Eating Friends 1981
Eating through living 1981
Truisms and Essays 1983
Graffiti artist Steve Powers started writing as a teenager.
Became known for painting his ESPO( Exterior Surface Painting Outreach) on storefront grates in broad daylight. Powers moved to New York in 1994.
Powers stopped his graffiti work in 1999 as he wanted to focus on another type of art.
The Dreamland Artist Club, a 2004 artist collective, repainted Coney Island signs. In 2007 he used his Fulbright grant to create murals with local youth in Dublin and Belfast.
The 2009 " A love letter for you" project in hometown Philadelphia was realized with over a thousand cans of spray paint and the aid of other artists. They enlightened a neigbourhood with visuals of an epic love letter.
His work has been shown at the Venice Biennale(2001), the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia.
Steve Powers publishes books and is editor of On the Go magazine.
Steve Powers, A love letter for you
ISBN 978-0977652372
The Art of Getting over
1999
Graphic Novel First and fifteenth: Pop Art Short Stories
2005 Villard Press
