Jonathan BorofskyUntitled at 2,436,185 c.1977-8

Jonathan Borofsky born 1942

T03917 Untitled at 2,436,185c.1977-8

Black ink on paper 335 x 307 (13 1/2 x 12 1/2)
Inscribed ‘2,436,185' b.r., ‘Borofsky 78' and ‘JB167' on back b.r.
Purchased from Paula Cooper Inc., New York (Grant-in-Aid) 1984
Exh: Jon Borofsky, Paula Cooper Inc., New York, March-April 1979 (no cat.); Hundreds of Drawings, Artists Space, New York, Dec. 1983-Jan. 1984 (no cat.); State of the Art: Ideas and Images in the 1980's, ICA, Jan.-March 1987 (no number)
Lit: Dieter Koepplin, ‘Borofsky: Many Drawings and the Continuous Line', in Jonathan Borofsky, exh. cat., Moderna Museet, Stockholm 1984, p.94

In the interview with Sandy Nairne (see T03909">T03909) Borofsky said of T03917:

This is one of the series that has been affectionately termed by Dieter Koepplin ‘beach drawings' where I was sitting on the beach for a month in Maine during the summer, and it seemed like one of the times where I could slow down a little and scratch away with my triple zero Castell-Faber pens and an image would slowly come up through the paper, and I wouldn't have any plan ahead of time as to what it would be; I would just start scribbling somewhere and allow it to develop, and stop at a certain point when it felt finished. And this is one of the rare ones where it's these kind of vaginal pods ... I haven't done many of these… (read more)