Hammering Man at No. 33025, 1990
Handmade paper with cast paper collage, silkscreened and handpainted numbers, 144" x 69" x 3"
Jonathan Borofsky was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1942. He received a B.F.A. from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After studying at the École de Fontainebleau in France in 1964, Borofsky earned his M.F.A. from the Yale University School of Art in New Haven, Connecticut in 1966. He works in a wide range of media, including painting, sculpture, drawing, and printmaking, and also creates site-specific installations. In 1975 Borofsky had his first solo exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery in New York, and has since exhibited throughout the world, including solo exhibitions at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Borofsky’s work has also been included in three Whitney Biennials and in Documenta VII, Kassel, Germany. His work is included in many international museum collections.
*Excerpted from Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection, published by Harry N. Abrams Inc.