Abisay Puentes

Each painting I create tells the story of an immigrant, my story. The sound space of my painting is part of my imaginary world. My painting and my music reflect my entire being.

In these 20 years doing art, I increased the expressive resources in my artistic work. I started with a series of drawings in 1997; Today my work has a visual and a sound space. By working these two artistic disciplines, you can transfer to a dimension outside the two-dimensional plane of the painting and the sound dimension.
The forms of each of the arts, music and painting have not been found between music form, music form and pictorial form. They do not move on the same sensory level. Instead, as content, within the same work, if they manage to merge and impact the senses of the spectators. That is one of the achievements of cinema since its inception, in the so-called Silent Cinema, music accompanied the cinematographic images. In this sense the Cinema was silent, but not deaf. I advocate a painting that breaks with the deafness in which he lived for many centuries.
The work of Kandinsky has been a very important contribution in this sense, in his work "The Spiritual In Art" he says: “... The most modern musicians, like Debussy, create impressions ofte...

Self Tought

2022- Exhibit at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, US.
2019- Exhibit at Arnod Art Museum, Elmira, NY, US.
2019- Exhibit at Binghamton University Art Museum, NY, US.
2018- Exhibit at Christine Frechard Gallery, Pittsburg, US.
2017- The Monmouth Museum of Art. New Jersey, U.S
2016- Exhibit at Point of Contact Gallery: 40 Below’s Public Arts Task Force. Syracuse, NY, US.
2015 Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
2012 - Biennial: TONY2012, Community Folk Art Center and the Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY, U.S.. 2012 - Ann Felton Multicultural Center, Syracuse, NY, U.S.. 2011 - The Lamar Dodd Art Center, LaGrange, GA, U.S.. 2011 - La Casita Cultural Center, Syracuse, NY, U.S.. 2002-City Museum, Havana, Cuba.