JENNY HOLZER "TRUISMS (TORONTO)" 1982 Salvador Dali autumn 33”H 40”W (framed)

33”H 40”W (framed)

For the uninitiated his work is accessible and beloved (notably his amazing hockey mural at Toronto's College Street subway station)

and the moose - and reinterpret them with an original palette (and often through a humorous lens)

"John & Yoko"

JENNY HOLZER "TRUISMS (TORONTO)" 1982 Salvador Dali autumn 33”H 40”W (framed)In 1982 Jenny Holzer, who was at the beginning of her career, was invited to Toronto by A Space to do one of her ground breaking public "interventions". The artist hired a few OCAD students, first in November 1982 and again in July 1983, to plaster these "Truism" sheets and her "Inflammatory Essays", around the city. While her Truisms would gradually appear on an assortment of various consumers products (T shirts, baseball caps etc.) and grander