Joey Infante

Bio:

Joey Infante was born in Banes, a small town in the Oriente province of Cuba. He grew up in the city of Bridgeport, Connecticut, where he attended elementary and high school. All through his school years, Joey was chosen to paint all the important posters of the year’s events using colored chalks. He excelled in art and science and his teachers recommended that he enroll in a school for the arts. Joey was accepted to study at the “Famous Artist schools” in Westport, CT. Among his teachers was the renowned American Artist, Norman Rockwell, who took Joey under his wing and encouraged him to paint what he felt.

After three years and countless paintings, he was bitten by the acting bug. In summer stock, Joey learned the workings of the theater, as an actor and dancer. Young Mr. Infante took New York by storm in the Broadway productions of “West Side Story”, “Oklahoma”, and “Brigadoon”, to mention a few and attended the Stella Adler Drama School. The art of makeup, costume and stage design, choreography and music all prepared Mr. Infante for his varied forms of artistic expression. Joey’s paintings are filled with serenity, drama, and exploding excitement.

As a contemporary artist, Joey can almost be childlike or dare devil knowing no boundaries. Joey’s work has been seen in galleries and theaters, has graced the walls of restaurants and hotel lobbies in New York CIty, Miami, Puerto Rico and Los Angeles. After traveling extensively through Cuba this past year, Joey is working on a newly inspired collection, “Cuba in Abstract”.

This wonderful book is for the individual who is interest in knowing more about Cuba-from a non-political perspective. Joey Infante takes you back to his happy childhood memories in Cuba; then brings you forward to his adult experiences as an American citizen searching for his Cuban heritage, by way of a clandestine trip to Cuba, filled with personal adventure.

“Escape From Paradise” is a beautiful human-interest story and Infante makes it very entertaining, as well as informative. Infante was born in 1941 in Banes, Oriente, Cuba. He is an award-winning artist who-in his early teens in Connecticut-studied illustration with the renowned illustrator, Norman Rockwell. Infante’s art has been exhibited in Paris, Rome, New York City, and throughout the world.

This book includes many of Infante’s colorful paintings and illustrations, which have been influenced by both his Cuban Roots and American upbringing; this book also features many family snapshots, and photographs of Infante’s theatrical voyage, as an actor and dancer.

Infante currently makes his home in New York City, where he has resided for the past forty years. This sensitive, caring observation of Cuba and the Cuban people leaves the reader with a feeling for wanting to know more about the island that Infante calls “Paradise.”…….Learn More