| | 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 the first historical outdoor site-specific installation large enough to be classified as an earth work and as cutting edge street art of the '80's and are documented in high resolution digital photographs taken by the artist at the time of his inventive conceptual street art. This early street art outdoor installation may now be experienced as a historical virtual installation on the web, (http://virtualeastvillage84.com) the first of its kind in the graffiti and street art world, created by the master of spray, Scot Borofsky whose spray painting on canvas works are documented in his Spray Paint Archive on his personal website: http://scotsart.net/. |
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