Jonathan Borofsky was born on December 24th 1942.
He is an American sculptor and printmaker who lives and works in Ogunquit,
Maine.
Borofsky was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He received his
Bachelor of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University in 1964, after which he
continued his studies at France's Ecole de Fontainebleau and received his Master
of Fine Arts from Yale University in 1966. He lived in Manhattan until a
teaching position at the California Institute of the Arts brought him to Los
Angeles in 1977. He resided in Venice and Tuna Canyon, Los Angeles from 1977 to
1992, In the 1960s, Borofsky's art sought to interconnect minimalism and pop
art.
On May 21, 2006, Borofsky received an honorary doctorate in
Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon, his alma mater.
Jonathan Borofsky's most famous works, at least among the
general public, are his Hammering Man sculptures. "Hammering Men"
have been installed in various cities around the world. The largest Hammering
Man is in Seoul, Korea and the second largest is in Frankfurt, Germany. Other
Hammering Men are in Basel, Switzerland, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles,
Minneapolis, New York, Seattle, Washington, D.C. and Lillestrøm, Norway.
Commissioned by developer Harlan Lee, Borofsky’s
30-foot-tall sculpture Ballerina Clown was erected above the entrance to a drug
store in a mixed use, residential and commercial building in Venice, California
in 1989. It was motorized so that its right leg would perpetually kick until
tenant complaints were lodged about mechanical noise. In 1990, the Newport Harbour
Art Museum commissioned Ruby, a 5-foot-tall plastic sculpture containing an
internal lighting system and swaying, diamond-shaped light deflectors etc…
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