Paula Cooper Gallery

New York
Paula Cooper Gallery

Jonathan Borofsky

(American, born 1942)
Jonathan Borofsky is a contemporary American artist best known for his site-specific sculptures, colored lithographs, and screenprints. Known for combining media and juxtaposing seemingly contrasting imagery, the artist’s works engage in esoteric ideas surrounding dreams, labor, tragedy, and numbers as catalysts for his ambitious projects. In his public sculpture Walking to the Sky (2004), a 100-foot steel pole slants upwards with figures striding vertically towards the sky in a poetic depiction of humanity’s desire to explore and understand the universe. ”I am constantly amazed by the thought that our planet is one of billions of planets spinning around at thousands of miles per second in a galaxy which is one of billions of galaxies—all in...