Borbay Today
Voted Time Out New York’s Most Creative New Yorker in December 2009, Upper East Side artist Borbay has painted textural portraits and famed locations around the world, including The Guggenheim, TriBeCa Grand, Woolworth Building, Elaine’s, Chrysler Building, Hancock Tower (Chicago), Runaway Bay (Jamaica), Welcome to Las Vegas Sign and San Marco Cathedral (Milan).
His work is comprised of collaged New York Newspaper headlines, and layer upon layer of acrylic paint. Driven to capture the actuality of society, this series visually displays the paradox of love, lust, murder, sex, sports, betrayal, triumph, religion, rape and politics in one place… concepts any person reading a daily newspaper will see juxtaposed without a second thought.
Borbay’s recent #KingsOfHipHop exhibition opened to a capacity crowd in the Meatpacking District, and was covered in Forbes.
Beyond the canvas, Borbay branded Bomb Wines, which launched to great fanfare in Montclair, NJ.
Carlos Fresneda of El Mundo recently penned, “The undisputed kings of the season are undoubtedly Banksy, Shepard Fairey and Mr. Brainwash, backed this week by the new local hero, Jason Borbay , re-inventor (of) collage.”
His architectural impressionist collage paintings have been featured in Time Out New York , Wall Street Journal Japan, New York Post, Whitewall, The Huffington Post, The Source and more.
Process-driven, Borbay shares the creation of each piece through social media, posting frequent updates to his blog, Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook accounts. If art plus social media is the new frontier, Borbay intends to be at the forefront.
His works have been acquired for private collections around the world; as well as the permanent corporate collections of Red Bull, Pabst Blue Ribbon and BEVFORCE.
A Window Into the Past
Borbay’s professional career began as a graphic designer in Boston, immediately followed by a six month stint on low-budget reality TV. Having saved some green whilst acting the fool, Borbay moved to Manhattan with his friend the art dealer, and spent 2003-04 as a stand-up comedian and producer.
Stumbling home down Fifth Avenue on night, his friend Rory gestured upward saying “I know someone who need someone in this big black building.” 24 hours later, he was interviewed and hired at The Trump Organization. After nearly two years of wheeling and dealing in development, he moved on to an advertising recruiting firm.
From there, Borbay landed a job at an interactive advertising firm, where he started out as a recruiter and pr guy, and quickly worked his way up to Business Director. Today, Borbay is a professional location artist, who works and resides in the Upper East Side of Manhattan with his acupuncturist/herbalist girlfriend.
Oh, what picture were you talking about in the park? Kelly..
ah, Holland Park, sorry bit blind this morning, shall credit and link you! Kelly
I wish you the best on your quest to artistic domination!
Thank you David! Likewise sir…
Borbay,
You are an inspiration to me, my friend. I have gained much through reading your site and following your artistic progress. You have proven that the impossible is, in fact, possible.
I wish you the best in your artistic conquest of NYC and beyond. I love your work and your ambition. Keep on paintin’
Dave
Jason!
What’s going on man? Glad to see your art taking off, just voted for you on TONY so good luck!
Sze
Just voted – So great to see your art – remember the Ice Tea project in college?
@Sze: Thank you, truly appreciated! How are you?
@Erica: I surely do, “Mr. T Iced Tea, I pity the fool who doesn’t drink my Iced T”
Jason, I love your work!!! It is very inspired and makes me want to breathe in Life’s colors and beauty! I think you will do very well! Mike
Jason, BIG Congrats on the Urbania Event. It appears
to have been a great success and I truely wish I could
have been there. NYC hasn’t looked this good until you
moved in. Keep up the passion and Best of Luck !!
Tom
Hello Jason,
Since you worked with Fi as a Business Director, I need help some tips on Directing Business. Can I contact you through via MSN, Yahoo or Skype?
@Mike: Thank you, I really appreciate it.
@Tom: Awesome, thank you…
@Ali: I fired you an email, happy to help.
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Borbay–
I wish you and Ari much success in Las Vegas. Many thanks for producing a work, while in Vegas, that will be auctioned at the Broadway Cares/Equity AIDs fundraiser. You have a heart of gold, reaching out to others in need, with your art.
Sending you my best regards from Northern California where I am producing a new body of art work.
Brendan Ben Feeney at Brendanbenfeeney.com
LOVE you work, I just started painting about 2 years ago after breaking my neck and it went undignosed.I love it ! Love your Vegas Paintings, my dad lives in Vegas!
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