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.

This is a process video, The painting was created at the end of 2011, and is part of my "Actors I Admire in Kick-Ass Roles" series... Ive been inspired by the bodies of work created by both Hunter S. Thompson and Johnny Depp, so this was my opportunity to pay double homage in one place.