Mike Glier, Jenny Holzer from the “Calling Women” series, 1983; two-color lithograph published by Art Institute of Chicago, Oxbow, edition of 25 signed by the artist, 30 x 22 inches.
This 1983 portrait of Jenny Holzer was created by her husband Mike Glier, a fellow member in the artists’ group COLAB. It is part of a series of works in which Glier sought to bring out the assertiveness of his female subjects by directing them to call out the name of a person, place or thing they felt strongly about. The “Calling Women” theme was particularly apt for Holzer, who was then finishing her “Inflammatory Essays,” a series of all-cap aphorisms.
|