Diamond Squared
Diamond Squared
by Roy Secord
chashama 210 Art Space
210 East 43rd Street, Ground Floor
(Btw. 2nd and 3rd Ave)
New York, NY
May 4 - May 15, 2013
Opening Reception:
Friday, May 10th, 6 -10 p.m.
Gallery Hours:
Wednesday - Saturday, 1 - 6 p.m.
Artist Statement:
Diamonds ARE forever in this solo exhibition by Roy Secord. This exhibition features colorist paintings executed entirely on diamond shaped canvases. The works act as potent "art as objects" utilizing formalist structure and design. Color and ambiguity abound. Geometry is this artist's painting language. He derives his esoteric painting language from a language continuum dating from man's ancestral cultural beginnings to the present, 21st-Century, technologically-advanced society. Circles, squares, points, and lines (and diamonds) never meant so much.
Artist Bio:
Roy Secord was raised in West Texas, New Mexico and Florida near Cape Canaveral. He earned his secondary education at the University of Texas, and subsequently apprenticed with Mexican sculptor and muralist Mago Gandara Orona. He moved to New York City after finishing his apprenticeship, and studied painting and sculpting at various institutions. Secord has taught technique classes across Manhattan and has exhibited both in the U.S. and internationally.
Secord's primary expressions are large scale, colorful and contemporary, geometric abstractions on canvas (traditional easel painting), innovative hard-edged collages/assemblages, and biomorphic-based, carved, cast-stone sculptures. He has a deep societal commitment in serving as a master artist/educator/facilitator for community and public artwork projects. For more than 20 years, he has resided in and maintained a working studio in Harlem/Upper Manhattan filled with exotica, plants, and a menagerie of animals: cats, rain forest parrots, and a large collection of tropical fish.
