Robert Montgomery

Poem in Lights to be Scattered in the Square Mile

2019

Jenny Holzer (b. 1950) is a multi-disciplinary American artist best known for her text-based public art projects. She was the first woman to represent the United States at the 1990 V...

Jenny Holzer is one of the most important and original artists of the 20th century. Her body of work, with its emphasis on text, is provocative and occasionally frightening, manipulating the language of folk wisdom, pop culture, and government slogan to produce a commentary on global issues including power structures, gender struggle, economics, voting, and warfare. Holzer's iconic "Inflammatory Essays", produced between 1979 and 1982, were first pasted on walls throughout heavily populated metro areas including New York, and shortly after in other cities. Unsigned and commercially produced, they subverted the conventions of advertising, graffiti, and public art. Each essay was in a different eye-catching color to maximize viewers' attention. It was also helpful when one Essay replaced an older one. The texts were derived from her childhood interest in rapturous writings. Holzer tried to emulate a similar style for her essays, yet borrowed from political theorists (notably Mao, Lenin, and Emma Goldman...

Jenny Holzer, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, 1986: Rare vintage original 1980s announcement card published on the occasion of Jenny Holzer's exhibition, "Under a Rock," at Bar...

Jenny Holzer (American, b. 1950) Inflammatory Essays: Shriek When the Pain Hits During Interrogation, 1996 Multiple: Pewter multiple with engraved text Dimensions: 6.6 × 5 × 1.1 cm (...

SKYLAR FEIN was born in Greenwich Village and raised in the Bronx. He has had many careers including teaching nonviolent resistance under the umbrella of the Quakers, working for a g...

Chryssa began working with neon in 1962, creating large-scale neon works using faux letters rather than legible characters. Reduced to base semiotics, her letterforms became examinat...

Jeremy Deller This artwork is not to be re-sold at auction or online, if you do you will be cursed and die horribly., 2018 Marker on posterboard 28 x 22 inches Signed verso

Italian artist Fabio Coruzzi merges painting and photography into one imaginative image that offers a new outlook on an otherwise ordinary urban scene. His artworks represent an auth...

Created just recently in 2025 with enamel and crystalline on canvas, this piece marks a refined and unexpected turn in RETNA’s practice. Set against a radiant pink background, his di...

Paste-up print mounted on aluminium. Hand-Signed by the artist, lower right on recto 70 x 50 cm Edition of 75 Ben Eine is a British street artist and typographer known for his disti...