Artist Jonathan Borofsky

Modern art has been one of my great passions over the past 35 years.  I appreciated art as a young girl, and after taking several art history classes at UCLA, I was hooked.  When Ron and I got married, we combined my love of modern art with his willingness to learn and pay for an art collection, and started purchasing art.  Picasso, Miro, Warhol, Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg and Claude Pissarro were just some of the artists we collected.  We had great fun researching artists, going to artists studios, and even buying one Lichtenstein at a Sotheby's auction over the phone.

Those days are gone, but my love of art remains.  If you are not familiar with Jonathan Borofsky, let me introduce you.  He is 77 years old, works and lives in Maine, and his work is hung in dozens of public collections.  He has large permanent public sculptures around the world, from the U.S. Federal Building in Los Angeles, to the Seattle Art Museum and the Rockefeller Center in New York.

Borofsky left New York after working as a gallery artist, to move to a quiet life in Maine.  His ideas flow from his mind and heart.  When he was doing small gallery projects he worked alone.  Now, with huge sculptures, he has 14-20 people working with him on one project.  It's a very different experience.  Here are a couple of examples of his work.  Enjoy.