Jorge Blanco

Jorge Blanco is a Venezuelan-born American sculptor whose joyful, geometric figures have landed in public spaces across the globe. Trained in industrial design at the Neumann Institute in Caracas and later at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, Blanco brings a designer's precision to large-scale works that radiate movement and humor. He created El Naufrago, Venezuela's most iconic comic strip, and spent twenty years as Creative Director of the Caracas Children's Museum before emigrating to Sarasota, Florida in 1999. His influences include Alexander Calder, Paul Klee, and Joan Miro, but his bright, abstracted figures — celebrating love, music, dance, and sport — are unmistakably his own.