I am a Cuban-born visual artist and composer based in Syracuse, New York.

My work began in silence — not as a metaphor, but as a way of surviving, observing, and resisting inwardly. Over time, that silence became a language: painting, music, and poetry joined into La Parábola, a symbolic universe shaped by memory, exile, spiritual fracture, and the search for awakening.

Cuba — The Beginning

I was born in Cuba, in a place where silence was often safer than honesty, and where the inner life had to find hidden ways to survive.

From an early age, art and music became more than interests. They became forms of resistance — ways of preserving a private truth when the outside world demanded obedience.

That tension between silence and expression, between fear and inner freedom, became one of the first roots of my work.

The Mentor and La Parábola

Years later, I met Dr. Juan Enrique Guerrero, a mentor who changed the direction of my work.

One day, he told me: “Write a story.” I wrote a parable. In the next class, after reading it, he said: “Now I want you to paint ten paintings from this parable.”

I created far more than ten.

That small story became the foundation of my artistic universe. Over time, La Parábola grew into paintings, poems, and musical compositions — a symbolic world where the human being moves through silence, manipulation, spiritual blindness, fracture, and the possibility of awakening.

What began as an assignment became the structure of my life’s work.

A Visual-Sonic Practice

My work does not unfold through painting alone.

Over time, La Parábola expanded into a practice where image, music, and poetry became inseparable. Each medium allows me to approach the same symbolic world from a different direction: painting gives it form, music gives it atmosphere, and poetry gives it voice.

What I seek is not simply to create objects, but to build an experience — one that invites the viewer into silence, fracture, memory, and the possibility of awakening.

Selected Exhibitions & Recognition

My work has been presented in museums, cultural centers, galleries, and academic spaces in the United States and Cuba, including the Everson Museum of Art, the Community Folk Art Center, La Casita Cultural Center, Point of Contact Gallery, Arnot Art Museum, Binghamton University Art Museum, and Lamar Dodd Art Center.

Over the years, my practice has moved between painting, music, poetry, collaboration, and symbolic storytelling — forming a body of work that has been exhibited, collected, written about, and developed across different cultural contexts.

Selected highlights include:

2025 — Community Folk Art Center, Syracuse, NY
2022 — Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
2024 — New York Artists Equity Association, New York, NY
2019 — Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
2019 — Binghamton University Art Museum, Binghamton, NY
2017 — Point of Contact Gallery, Syracuse, NY
2014 — La Casita Cultural Center Gallery, Syracuse, NY
2011 — Lamar Dodd Art Center, LaGrange, GA
2002 — Museo de la Ciudad, Havana, Cuba

My work is also represented in public, corporate, and private collections, including the Cuban Art Collection at Binghamton University Art Museum, the CdeCuba Magazine Collection in Barcelona, Lamar Dodd Art Center, and private collections in the United States.

Critical and journalistic writing about my work has appeared in Hypermedia Magazine, AAL, CdeCuba, Syracuse NewTimes, and other cultural publications.

La Parábola — The Four Phases

La Parábola is the symbolic universe at the center of my work. It began as a story and gradually became a structure for paintings, poems, and musical compositions.

Rather than presenting every series at once, I organize the work through four main phases. Each phase opens a different territory of the journey: the first wound, the fading of the soul, the architecture of the machine, and the mist that distorts reality.

Imposibilitados — The First Wound
Desvanecimiento — The Fading of the Soul
Ciudad Máquina / Machine City — The Architecture of Captivity
Brumas / Mist — The Distortion of Reality

Together, these phases form the main path into La Parábola — a world where image, music, and poetry move through silence, fracture, memory, and awakening.

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Whether you're interested in commissioning a custom piece, inquiring about available works, or exploring collaboration opportunities, I'd love to hear from you.

You may reach out to ask about an available work, schedule a studio visit, or begin a private conversation about bringing one of these pieces into your space.

Each message is received personally and with care.

Every message is received personally. For inquiries about available works, studio visits, or La Parábola, I usually respond within 24–48 hours.

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