jacabo was born in Havana, Cuba but immigrated in the early 1950s to the United States, where he later became a citizen in New York at a young age. After receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Miami in Florida in the 1970's, he abandoned his dream of becoming a painter for nearly four decades to work in commercial art to support his family. The passing of his mother, who had always loved his childhood works and hung a painting of his on her wall until her death, shook jacabo awake. And in 2011, he finally returned to his lifelong dream. Using a wet-on-wet...more
