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