Wood Sculptures 1987-99

The earliest sculptures were made at the Banff Centre, in Canada, 1987, where Borocz received a grant and worked at their professional wood shop. After Banff, he continued to carve in Brooklyn, NY.

Böröcz’s wood sculptures develop out of both his drawings and performance work. Nonetheless, the material has always been important and he gets inspiration from the wood itself and the process of the woodworking.
These sculptures are either built together from different carved parts, like “Broom”, “Domino Women with a Pipe”, ”Smoking Chimney”, “Chess Tower”. Or, sometimes they are carved from a single piece of wood, like “Two Men in a Barrel”, ”Pregnant Woman”, and “Atlas”.
Components of these compositions are objects originally made from wood: like the domino, barrel, chess piece, pipe, etc., which Böröcz enjoys to re-create from that same material, once again.

Titles from left to right:
1 Broom, 1987
carved pine,  5' high  
2 Broom (detail)
3 Smoking Chimney, 1987
pine, walnut
4 Chess Tower on a Persian Rug, 1987 
tower made of laminated pine and walnut, chess figures carved from pine and walnut, rug made of different woods.
5 Hammer Head, 1999
pine, metal hammer head, 16" high
6 Two Men in a Barrel, 1988
carved plain wood, 2' high
7 Pregnant Woman, 1988
carved spruce, 2' high
8 Atlas, 1988
poplar, 4' high
9 Domino Woman, 1987
walnut, pine, 36' high
10 Clouds on the Number People, 1987
pine, walnut
11 PIPES
1 Mother Pipe, 2 Mucius Scaevola,  3 Antony & Cleopatra, 1987, walnut, pine, 8"-10"
12 Marx Brothers, 1987
pine, 12" high