Jonathon 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 1960’s, Borofsky’s art sought to interconnect minimalism and pop art.
On May 21st,
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 Lillestrom, 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.
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