I believe that each of us is given one sentence at birth, and we spend the rest of our life trying to read that sentence and make sense of it.
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Li Young Lee
Four Drawings by Jonathan Borofsky
Self-Portrait at 2,668,379 and 2,670,098; Untitled at 2,775,883; Don’t you see it wasn’t meant to be…at 2,273,934; and Head at 2,289,440.
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Jonathan Borofsky, Self-portrait at 2,668,379 and 2,670,098, acrylic and charcoal on paper, 83¾ × 48 inches. Courtesy of Paula Cooper Gallery.
Jonathan Borofsky, Head at 2,289,440, acrylic, marker, crayon, pencil on paper, 17 × 14 inches. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery.
Jonathan Borofsky, Don’t You see it wasn’t meant to be … at 2,273,934, acrylic, crayon, marker, colored pencil on spiral edge paper, 12 × 9 inches. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery.
Jonathan Borofsky, Untitled at 2,775,883, pastel on paper, 28½ × 20 ⅓ inches. Courtesy of Paula Cooper Gallery.
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It was in 1981 and I was a sophomore in art school when I first encountered Chuck Close’s work at a show called Contemporary American Realism Since 1960. I was struck by how it didn’t resemble any of the other work in the show.
Originally published in
BOMB 8,
Winter 1983
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