Roy Secord
Category: Artist/Individual
Discipline: Visual arts
Program Affiliations: Artist Roster
I am a 21-Century modernist. My expression draws from universal and timeless vocabularies of line, shape, and geometry. I create art which all cultures and ages have an affinity to. I am a dynamic colorist creating art of dimension, depth, and rhythm through visual dances of color. My work (paintings, mosaics, terrazzo, metalwork, glassworks, sculptures, and graphics) is mostly contemporary, generally abstract, rife with color, and filled with inherent movement. I often draw from sources of nature, emotion, and beauty. My work is often portrayed as poetic in expression.
For sculpture, I develop Foam Core maquettes for submission, then translate them to large-scale works in steel plate and/or wood plank. I also sometimes use mosaic tilework for sculpture surface treatment. For 2-D designs, I utilize graphic programs to create imagery for translation to public art.
I am also an award-winning nature and landscape photographer. I often utilize those images to graphically produce painterly, impressionistic, and abstract images which I then translate to prints, paintings, and mosaic murals.
2018 Commission for NYC MTA (Metropolitan Transit Authority) subway system. Total of eight murals. Project Budget: $360,000.
Seasonal transitions expressed through geometry, line, and dynamic color. Printed/glazed/kiln-fired porcelain tile, robotically incised, then artisan hand-filled with smalti glass mosaic tile.
Honoring a Bronx community historically progressive in diversity and inclusivity. Also honoring this community where General Colin Powell grew up (he stated throughout his career all he knew of many diverse kinds of people living and working together harmoniously, he learned within this community). This universal, pride totem draws from design elements from totems of many, different cultures to represent inclusivity and this rich and harmonious, community melting pot.
Dimensions-240” (h) x 55” (w) x 45” (d)
Materials-Enamel over Steel Plate and Wood Plank