Rare original photo documentation of classic 1980's East Village street art installations of calligrapic symbols on urban ruins painted, photographed and enhanced digitally by artist Scot Borofsky. Limited editions signed and dated.
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Cotton Mill Hill Studios
Brattleboro, VT 05301
United States
| Scot Borofsky is a symbolist artist who works in oil paint, oil stick, watercolor pastel, charcoal, ink, pencil and mixed media on linen, canvas and hand-made paper expressing personal and archetypal characters and states of mind through a personal language of invented symbols set in varying contexts and inspired by studies of ancient Chinese and Japanese landscape painting, Ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock print, pre-Columbian design and sculptural abstraction, African mask, 20th century western art, Paul Gauguin, Leonardo Da Vinci and of pictographic languages, including Mayan glyphs, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Chinese characters and hobo codes. Borofsky cut his teeth as one of the early street artists in New York's East Village of the 1980's where his large scale iconic graphic symbol designs were spray painted on urban walls in bright complementary tones imitating the effect of ancient artworks decorating the urban ruins of a fallen civilization. These "Calligrafitti," new-age figurative and pattern designs, were... |
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