Roy Secord
A New York City-based fine artist and photographer who primarily creates artwork in large-scale formats of painting, sculpture, glass, mosaics, terrazzo, tile, and graphic arts for public art applications.
Category: Artist/Individual
Discipline: Visual arts
Program Affiliations: Artist Roster
About Roy Secord
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.
Roy Secord
Preferred Pronouns: He/Him/Mr.
secordrw@gmail.com
16466260421
https://www.roysecord.net/home
NYC Subway Mural
Early Spring Rains
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.
New York City Department of Transportation (Awarded, Traffic Roundabout Commission) 2019
South Bronx Pride Totem
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
Public Art Commission (three diamond panel)
Watussi Blues (one of three)
Series of three (oversized acrylic paintings on diamond shaped, stretched canvases). 96"(h) x 96"(w) x 7"(d) each for lobby of commercial building: Broadway @Wall Street, NYC
Public Artist Art Roster
I am a New York City fine artist and photographer who primarily creates artwork (usually in large-scale formats of painting, sculpture, glass, mosaics, terrazzo, tile, and graphic arts) for public art applications, as well as for general, art gallery sales. I have extensive experience in public art commissions with project budgets up to $400,000. Artwork medium proficiencies are broad-based (2- & 3-dimensional) with a practice base of painting, photography, graphic design, mosaic, and sculpture. High proficiencies in Photoshop, Illustrator, AutoCAD, and Krita digital art programs for art project development and synthesis, as well as experience in art fabrication techniques and lead development for public art/corporate art projects. I am a public artist awardee for the NYC Department of Transportation, designing, fabricating, and installing a twenty-foot-high, contemporary, totem sculpture of steel and wood construction for a traffic roundabout in the South Bronx (installed 01/19). In 2017, I was the awarded, public artist-in-residence for “The Resiliency Project 2017 (funded primarily through the NYC Mayor’s Office and NYCEDC) addressing the need for climate change resiliency (in anticipated, high-impact, disaster areas) through the creation/exhibition of a large, public sculpture. In January 2018, I was awarded a major, permanent, NYC MTA subway art commission creating eight large murals of glass mosaic & printed, kiln-glazed, porcelain tiles for the NYC subway system (installed early 2019). My 2020 commission award was with the State of New Jersey creating a colorful and dynamic, custom-formulated terrazzo and zinc metalwork, 2200-square-foot art floor for the lobby of the NJ State Public Health Building in Trenton, NJ. Currently, in 2023, I am awarded a major commission with NYC Health & Hospitals creating a large, mosaic tile mural (the first mosaic mural in the hospital system since the 1930’s WPA Federal Arts Project).
