Borofsky oil painting

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Leave this field blank. Year of birth, place United States. Biography Jonathan Borofsky was born in Boston in He lives in Ogur Guit, Maine. The process of counting is central to Borofsky's work. After completing his studies he withdrew into his studio in New York. Here he started to note down both intellectual concepts and numbers in a continuous sequence.

He gave the resulting annotations and drawings the title »Counting«. Arranging them into groups and according to themes, he introduced concepts concerning time. He has, in fact, continued this counting process. From the early s Borofsky has also been active as a painter. In some of his pictures Borofsky deliberately adopts a child-like manner of working.

He also combines images that he painted during his own childhood with those he has produced as an adult into sequences of objects and images, which he calls »Continuous Paintings«.