Holzer to Speak at Cal State Long Beach

Jenny Holzer will be the 1991 Zeitlin Lecture speaker at Cal State Long Beach’s University Theater on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. Holzer, an artist from New York who represented the United States at the Venice Biennale in 1990, is best known for the messages she flashes on light-emitting diode signs, text-art that adopts the familiar form of commercial messages on T-shirts, billboards and park benches in order to address such issues as sexuality, death and war.

Holzer’s work has been shown in major museums including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Louisiana Museum in Humlebaek, Denmark.

The Zeitlin Lectures were inaugurated in 1979 to honor Jacob Zeitlin, a Los Angeles bookseller, poet and patron of the arts. General admission tickets to this lecture are $10, $6 for students and seniors. Parking will be available in the theater lot at West Campus Drive and 7th Street. Information: (213) 985-5761.