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Man with Briefcase at #2968443

By Jonathan Broofsky
Category: Sculpture

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Man with a Briefcase at #2968443, 1986, by Jonathan Borofsky is a towering, white collar worker holding a briefcase, an archetypal image displayed as a cut-out figure. In 1969, to aid his concentration, the artist began a process of numbering pieces of blank paper every day. Each of his works is given the number to which he counted at the time of its completion. The number inscribed on this man insinuates sinister overtones and associations with concentration camp victims, soldiers’ dog tags and the variety of numbers now identifying individuals in a technological society.

Courtesy of Laumeier Sculpture Park.

Year Completed: 1986
Material: Enamel on fiberglass
Donor: Loan courtesy of Paula Cooper Gallery, New York and the artist


About the artist:

Jonathan Broofsky

b. 1942

Jonathan Borofsky was born in Boston in 1942. Borofsky earned his B.F.A. from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh in 1964 and his M.F.A. from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut in 1966. He has created numerous permanent and temporary public sculptures for cities around the world. Borofsky has had one-person exhibitions at places such as: the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art and The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen Rotterdam, Netherlands; and the Moderna Museet Stockholm, Sweden. He currently lives and works in Maine.