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Jonathan BOROFSKY
Jonathan Borofsky was born in 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts. He says every artist’s work is their own self-portrait. The work of Jonathan Borofsky exposes a great deal of his character and psyche, at times intensely personal with dream representations and at other times more idiosyncratic by numbering his works (based upon his commitment to counting) rather than signing them.
Originally from Boston, Borofsky received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University in 1964 and his Master of Fine Arts from Yale University in 1966 with time in between studying at the Ecole de Fontainebleau in France. He was a longtime resident of California and now resides in Maine.
Difficult to categorize, Borofsky’s art has been described as Pop, Minimal, Conceptual and Neo-Expressionist. Though aspects of his work fit such descriptors, fitting into a definition has never been a goal. Borofsky states his aim in visual art, and even music, is searching for a feeling of oneness and of just being happy to be alive.
In the early 1990s, his focus shifted from gallery and museum-based installations to large-scale outdoor public commissions. Borofsky enjoys seeing how the public interacts with a sculpture and perhaps even taking personal ownership of it.
The influence of counting and dreams has not left, but the scale has changed. Visions such as a red ruby heart, the worker in all of us, and defying laws of physics exist with a universal appeal for audiences throughout the globe. In Frankfurt, Germany, Hammering Man stands as a symbol of identity. Once on display in Rockefeller Center, Walking to the Sky now inspires students at his alma mater, Carnegie Mellon University.
His art, his self-portrait, shows the connectedness of humanity.
Jonathan BOROFSKY
Jonathan Borofsky was born in 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts. He says every artist’s work is their own self-portrait. The work of Jonathan Borofsky exposes a great deal of his character and psyche, at times intensely personal with dream representations and at other times more idiosyncratic by numbering his works (based upon his commitment to counting) rather than signing them.
Originally from Boston, Borofsky received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University in 1964 and his Master of Fine Arts from Yale University in 1966 with time in between studying at the Ecole de Fontainebleau in France. He was a longtime resident of California and now resides in Maine.
Difficult to categorize, Borofsky’s art has been described as Pop, Minimal, Conceptual and Neo-Expressionist. Though aspects of his work fit such descriptors, fitting into a definition has never been a goal. Borofsky states his aim in visual art, and even music, is searching for a feeling of oneness and of just being happy to be alive.
In the early 1990s, his focus shifted from gallery and museum-based installations to large-scale outdoor public commissions. Borofsky enjoys seeing how the public interacts with a sculpture and perhaps even taking personal ownership of it.
The influence of counting and dreams has not left, but the scale has changed. Visions such as a red ruby heart, the worker in all of us, and defying laws of physics exist with a universal appeal for audiences throughout the globe. In Frankfurt, Germany, Hammering Man stands as a symbol of identity. Once on display in Rockefeller Center, Walking to the Sky now inspires students at his alma mater, Carnegie Mellon University.
His art, his self-portrait, shows the connectedness of humanity.
