Jonathan Borofsky - Profile

  

Jonathan Borofsky

Born: December 24, 1942 (age 72), Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Books: Subject(s)
Education: Yale University, Carnegie Mellon University, Yale School of Art 

Jonathan Borofsky is an American sculptor and printmaker who lives and works in Ogunquit, Maine. 

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 inFrankfurt, 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.^[5] In 1990, the Newport Harbor Art Museum commissioned Ruby, a 5-foot-tall plastic sculpture containing an internal lighting system and swaying, diamond-shaped light deflectors.^[6]

In 1999, three of his Molecule Man sculptures, standing 100 feet tall, were set directly into the Spree River in Berlin as a commission for German insurance company Allianz.^[7]

In 2004, the City of Baltimore, through its public arts program, commissioned Jonathan Borofsky to create a sculpture as the centerpiece of a re-designed plaza in front of Penn Station. The work is a 51-foot (15.5 m)-tall aluminum statue titled "Male/Female." For information on the controversy generated by Borofsky's Male/Female sculpture, see "Pennsylvania Station (Baltimore)"Pennsylvania Station (Baltimore).

In May 2006, Borofsky's "Walking to the Sky"^[8] was permanently installed on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University near the intersection of Forbes Avenue and Morewood Avenue in Pittsburgh. The piece was temporarily installed at Rockefeller Center during the fall of 2004 and in 2005 at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas.

  Human Structures (San Francisco), 36 feet tall, galvanized and painted steel. Permanent installation, 555 Mission Street, San Francisco, 2008

   Walking Man, 9.1 meters tall, stainless steel. Permanent installation, Kreissparkasse building, Verden, Germany, 2005


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