Designer, photographer and illustrator Jorge Columbo will speak at MCC’s Brighton Campus at 1 p.m. Wednesday, April 4. Best known for the iPhone drawings he started doing in February 2009, Columbo has more than 20 years of experience as an artist and is responsible for the first magazine cover ever created on a smartphone.
Colombo was born in 1963 in Lisbon, Portugal, and moved to the USA in 1989. He lived in Chicago, San Francisco and has been living in New York City since 1998 with his wife, artist Amy Yoes. He has published three books in Portugal: “Fullerton,” a retrospective of his 1990s drawings; “Of Big and of Small Love,” a photographic narrative created in collaboration with novelist Inês Pedrosa; and “Lisbon Revisited,” a series of tinted photographs inspired by early 20th-century poet Fernando Pessoa.
Video animations of his drawings appear weekly on the New Yorker’s website. This weekly spot has led him to amass an ever-growing collection of New York landscapes. He has started to expand his finger-painting approach to other cities.
Columbo’s talk will be held in Room 5-100 on the Brighton Campus. A book-signing will immediately follow.
Kathleen Farrell
VaPA
03/19/2012 |