Omara Portuondo by Armando Alleyne
Starting Price: $1,300
Armando Alleyne
Omara Portuondo, 2025
24 x 36 in.
Acrylic Paint Collage on Canvas
About the Work
Omara has been working in Cuba and at the Buena Vista Social Club, showing her Cuban Afrolatin music style.
About the Artist
Armando Alleyne’s painted and collaged renditions of jazz musicians, Afro-Latin singers, boxers, but also family members and friends have a rhythm all-their-own. Parallel to his practice of painting portraits of Black icons, he allows elements of his lived experience to take form in his work. Never shying away from the seminal, the sensual or the political, Alleyne’s lifetime of paintings tell a story of how we are subject to our city and how in it we can search for the tools to heal. Armando Alleyne (b. 1959, New York) grew up in Lower Manhattan and graduated from The City College of New York with a B.A. in Education and Fine Arts, in 1983. He lives and works in Brooklyn.
Alleyne exhibited in RicanVisions in 2025 at The Latinx Project.