Jonathan Borofsky (1942)

Professions: Sculptor; Painter

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  JONATHAN BOROFSKY

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  JONATHAN BOROFSKY B. 1942 CHATTERING MAN LOOKING AT ART

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  Jonathan Borofsky (b. 1942)

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  2,845,317 Green Tilted El Salvador Painting with Chattering Man

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Jonathan Borofsky Biography

(b Boston, MA, 1942). American sculptor, painter and draughtsman. As a child he accompanied his mother, a trained architect, to weekly painting classes, where he was encouraged to draw freely and not in a traditional manner. He studied at Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (BFA, 1962) and at Yale School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, CT (MFA, 1966), where his work was mainly sculptural. From the early 1970s his central concern was to diminish the boundaries between life and art. From 1973 he made use of dreams, in drawings, paintings, sculptures, projected images, prints, and finally combinations of these in multi-media installations. Borofsky first exhibited at the Artists’ Space, New York (1973), showing Counting (1969–), a serial project comprising a stack of sheets of graph paper (220*280 mm), on which numbers from 1 to c . 1,800,000 were written in pencil and ink. An ongoing project, it continued to reappear in later shows under a tailor-made perspex box; by September 1993 the numbers reached 3,200,000 and the stack c . 1.28 m high. These characteristic numbers also appeared on the back of Flags (exh. 1988, New York, Paula Cooper Gal.), for which Borofsky painted the flags of the world, with the name of each country printed under its flag; the work also included a large (h. 3.65 m) sculpture of a man with a beating red perspex heart, his singularity contrasting with the numerous flags. One of his best-known images is the Hammering Man , which appeared in both two- and three-dimensional works, including a 3.65 m high sculpture with a motorized hammering arm.

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