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Jonathan Borofsky

Jonathan Borofsky (Born 1942) is active/lives in New York, Massachusetts.  Jonathan Borofsky is known for Flat installation, graffiti, graphics.

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An installation artist, Jonathan Borofsky has made his reputation with bold, aggressive, diaristic and frequently playful works with underlying philosophical seriousness.  In an interview that he gave in 1993, Borofsky said "I like the word spiritual because I don't really know what it means, but I do believe it applies to finding your connection to the All. I've always felt that my search, whether I had a particularly chaotic work or a particularly simple one, has been a way to feel connected to the Whole."

At his retrospective exhibition at MOCA's Geffen Contemporary, work he completed as a youngster was placed on pedestals, and his dreams were literally written on the walls. Handwritten pages from notebooks were casually push-pinned in place.

In recent years Borofsky concentrated his energies on one concept at a time. In one instance, his art consisted of his counting and writing numbers down for hours on end--an obsessional marking of time.  In all of these   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4606 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Jonathan Borofsky

   Publications  Book References:  53
Magazine References:  6

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6 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Jonathan Borofsky
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art & Antiques 100 Top Treasures November 2006 Masello, David Yes
Southwest Art The Gift January 2004 Gangelhoff, Bonnie Yes
ARTFORUM Jonathan Borofsky talks to Mark Ros April 2003 Rosenthal, Mark Yes
ARTnews 3-D Vision September 1999 Muchnic, Suzanne Yes
Southwest Art New York February 1997 Bucher, Kristin Yes
ARTnews Vasari Diary January 1995 AN editors Yes
53 Book References for Jonathan Borofsky
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 McGowan, Alison C (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition) 1512 No
1997 Marquis Who's Who Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998 1515 No
1996 Barbara and Peter Toohil Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know… 363 Yes
1996 Deitch, Jeffrey The Dakis Joannou Collection 302 Yes
1996 Sandler, Irving Art of the Postmodern Era From the Late 1960s to the Early 1990s 636 Yes
1995 Fineberg, Jonathan Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being 496 Yes
1995 Flam, Jack; Donald Marron The Paine Webber Art Collection 304 Yes
1995 Lucie-Smith, Edward Art Today 512 Yes
1995 Rosenthal, Mark Critiques of Pure Abstraction
(Exhibition catalog)
48 Yes
1993 Joachimides, Christos (others) American Art in the 20th Century Painting and Sculpture 1913-1993
(Exhibition catalog)
490 Yes
1992 Columbus Museum of Art A Nation's Legacy 150 Years of American Art from Ohio Collections
(Exhibition catalog)
198 Yes
1992 Cuno, James Subject(s) Prints & Multiples by Jonathan Borofssky
(Exhibition catalog)
111 Yes
1992 Kurtz, Bruce D Contemporary Art 1965-1990 256 Yes
1992 Rose, Bernice Allegories of Modernism Contemporary Drawing
(Exhibition catalog)
128 Yes
1991 Hoffman, Katherine Explorations The Visual Arts since 1945 400 Yes
1991 Oakland Museum De-Persona
(Exhibition catalog)
103 Yes
1991 Storr, Robert/J Tannenbaum Devil on the Stairs Looking Back on the Eighties
(Exhibition catalog)
96 Yes
1991 Wheeler, Daniel Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present 344 Yes
1990 Bowman, Russell/Dean Sobel Word As Image American Art 1960-1990
(Exhibition catalog)
172 Yes
1989 Armstrong, Tom/Susan C Larsen Art in Place Fifteen Years of Acquisition
(Exhibition catalog)
230 Yes
1989 Naylor, Colin (editor) Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition) 1059 No
1988 Wye, Deborah Commited to Print
(Exhibition catalog)
120 No
1987 Cummings, Paul 20th Century Drawings from the Whitney Museum of American Art 176 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Danto, Arthur C The State of the Art 228 Yes
1986 Hunter, Sam An American Renaissance Painting and Sculpture Since 1940
(Exhibition catalog)
269 Yes
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1986 Rose, Barbara American Painting: The Twentieth Century (Second edition) 170 Yes
1986 Stein, Harvey Artists Observed 160 No
1985 Krantz, Les American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans 347 Yes
1985 Lucie-Smith, Edward American Art Now 160 Yes
1984 DeCoppet, Laura/Alan Jones The Art Dealers The Powers Behind the Scenes Tell How 320 No
1984 Freeman, Phyllis New Art 207 Yes
1984 Lucie-Smith, Edward Movements in Art since 1945 New Revised Edition 288 Yes
1984 Lund Humphries Art of Our Time The Saatchi Collection (4 Vols) 700 Yes
1984 Marshall, Richard American Art Since 1970, Painting, Sculpture and Drawing Whitney Museum of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)
124 No
1984 McDonald, Robert; Richard Vincent West Art of the States Works from a Santa Barbara Collection
(Exhibition catalog)
80 Yes
1984 Robins, Corrine The Pluralist Era: American Art 1968-1981 246 Yes
1984 Rosenthal, Mark/R Marshall Jonathan Borofsky
(Exhibition catalog)
271 Yes
1984 Severinghaus, J Walter Art at Work The Chase Manhattan Collection 333 Yes
1984 Wilson, William California Museums The Los Angeles Times Book of 288 Yes
1983 Milwaukee Art Museum New Figuration in America John Porter Retzer Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)
122 Yes
1983 Walker, Barry The American Artist as Printmaker
(Exhibition catalog)
144 Yes
1982 Johnson, Ellen H (editor) American Artists on Art from 1940 to 1980 274 No
1982 Oliva, Achille Bonito The International Trans-avantgarde 320 Yes
1981 Armstrong, Tom (Foreward) 1981 Biennial Exhibition Whitney Museum
(Exhibition catalog)
159 No
1981 Danoff, Michael/C K Carr The Image in American Painting and Sculpture 1950-1980
(Exhibition catalog)
102 Yes
1980 Lucie-Smith, Edward Art in the Seventies 128 Yes
1980 University of Pennsylvania Drawings:The Pluralist Decade
(Exhibition catalog)
96 No
1978 Independent Curators Inc The Sense of the Self From Self Portrait to Autobiography
(Exhibition catalog)
36 No
1976 Block, Rene SoHo, New York Downtown Mahhattan/Berliner Festwochen
(Exhibition catalog)
431 No
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