Words tend to be inadequate, Jenny Holzer
$3,250
$3,250
Jenny Holzer
Words Tend To Be Inadequate embroidered tea towel, 2025
100% organic cotton
Dimensions: Framed 22 x 30in.
Jenny Holzer (b. 1950) is an American artist known for her incisive text-based works that bring language into public space. Emerging in late 1970s New York, she first gained recognition with her Truisms—provocative statements installed on posters, billboards, and LED displays. Working across mediums from light projections to stone benches, Holzer’s practice confronts power, politics, and the human condition with clarity and restraint. Her work is both direct and poetic, transforming words into lasting, often unexpected encounters.