Durand Seay
A brief work description
The paintings of Durand Seay, artist and architect, are motivated by a duality of structures found in nature and the expressions of time. There is an association to symbols of balance, serenity, spirituality, and how we connect as a people. The work is surreal at times, exploring the subconscious mind through fantastic imagery. With his intuitive character, guided by spontaneity, he expresses a sensual and abstractive language. Space becomes form like an architect implanting an idiom of time through movement. Seay’s thought is like a camera, capturing that instant feeling of the wind against ones face.
He will always ask you, “How does the work make you feel, the emotion evoked?”
BIO
Awards
2012 Best of Opaque Painting, Montgomery Art Guild Regions Bank Exhibition
2012 Best of Show, Selma Art Guild Summer Exhibition, Selma, Alabama
2011 Best of Opaque Painting, Montgomery Art Guild Regions Bank Exhibition
2011 Artslant.com 2011 Round-2 Showcase Winner
2010 First Place Winner, “My Personal Best” competition, Art Scene Today .com
2008 First Place in Oil and Acrylic Category, Hilton Head Art League National Juried Exhibition, Hilton Head, SC
2008 Purchase Award, Southworks Juried Exhibition, Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation, Watkinsville, GA
2003 Award of Excellence, Alabama Exhibition, Rosa Parks Museum, Montgomery, Alabama
1996 Best of Show, Montgomery Art Guild, Regions Bank 31st Annual Exhibition
1995 Third Place and Honorable Mention, Montgomery Art Guild, Regions Bank 30th Annual Exhibition
1993 Honorable Mention, Montgomery Art Guild 30th Museum Exhibition
1990 Best of Show, Montgomery Art Guild 29th Annual Juried Museum Exhibition
1989 Best of Show, Montgomery Art Guild 28th Annual Juried Museum Exhibition
1988 Third Place, Montgomery Art Guild 27th Annual Museum Exhibition
1987 Third Place & Montgomery Arts Council Purchase Award, Montgomery Art Guild 26th Annual Museum Exhibition
1987 Best in Pastel Category, Metro Art International Competition, New York, New York
Selected Exhibitions
GROUP
2012 “B-12” – Dothan Museum of Art Biennial, Dothan, Alabama
2012 Energen Exhibition, Birmingham, Alabama
2011 39th Montgomery Art Guild Museum Exhibition, Montgomery, Alabama
2011 “The Artists of Montgomery, Past and Present”, The Johnson Center for the Arts, Troy, Alabama
2010 “B-10” – Dothan Museum of Art Biennial, Dothan, Alabama
2009 Imaginary Journeys, Trevisan Arte Internationale, Ferarra, Italy
2008 Hilton Head Art League National Juried Exhibition, Hilton Head, SC
2008 Southworks Juried exhibition, Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation, Watkinsville, GA
2003 The Alabama Exhibition, Rosa Parks Museum, Montgomery, Alabama
1996 Montgomery Art Guild 25th Annual Museum Exhibition, Montgomery, Alabama
1993 Montgomery Art Guild 30th Museum Exhibition, Montgomery, Alabama
1992 Wiregrass Museum Biennial, Dothan Alabama
1991 Alabama Showcase, Alabama State Arts Council Gallery, Montgomery, Alabama
1987 Metro Art International Competition, New York, New York
1987 Southeastern Art Exhibition, Mobile Museum of Fine Arts, Mobile Alabama
1987 Montgomery Art Guild 26th Annual Museum Juried Exhibition, Montgomery, Alabama
INDIVIDUAL
2012 Stonehenge Gallery, Montgomery, Alabama
2001 New South Art Shop, Montgomery, Alabama
1989 Auburn University Architecture Department Gallery, Auburn, Alabama
1989 Green Garden Gallery, Montgomery, Alabama
1985 Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama
1978 Auburn University Architecture Department Gallery
Collections
Montgomery Arts Council
Blount International
Montgomery Art Guild
Alabama Power Company
Alabama Gas Corporation
Southern Progress
Sony Corporation
Education
Bachelors of Environmental Design, Auburn University 1977
Bachelors of Architecture, Auburn University 1978
Art Studies in Painting and Drawing, University of Georgia, 1976