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Artist Statement:
I offer paintings tethered to
my personal urgings, intimates
of my drive to explore. As an
artist, I aspire to interpret
the tension between stillness
and flow, and the innate
energy behind the process of
life. I view color as the
initiation to the primal and
the playful, impacting the ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
and Presentations:
Abstract EXPOsure
"…celebrate the vibrations of
the soul through abstract
artistry."
online juried exhibition
www.abstractexposure.com July
1 to Sept. 30, 2007
Cover Art for the scholarly
journal, Radiologic
Technology, for the
calendar/volume year
Sept./October 2006 through
July/August of 2007,
Albuquerque, NM
"Forms, Figures, ...
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Artist Reviews:
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Collections:
Corporate:
American Society of Radiologic
Technologists, Albuquerque, NM
USA
Private:
Marcus Haddock, Skaneateles,
NY USA
Amy Gehm, Austin, TX USA
Janice Green, Austin, TX USA
Dr. Clifford Moy and Diane
Faucher, Austin, TX USA...
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Commissions:
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William Secrest Biography:
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Biography
I was born in Puerto Rico where my mother’s family resided. I spent most of my childhood under the wings of the Air Force. Often I have thought that my Hispanic heritage has been a major infusion into my artistic interpretation. I especially recognized this part of myself, “opening up to this mixed media” of blood, while living in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, during my teen-age years. My family finally settled down in the piney woods of East Texas into the heritage of my father’s Irish side. There I became attuned to the great outdoors of small farm living which would influence me for the rest of my life—the desire to be outside with the elements of nature. My first taste of Art came while attending Stephen F. Austin St. University and taking Art courses while obtaining a degree in English. The writing of poetry was my first passion, one I still observe.
Because of my love for the outdoors, I worked in the horticultural field in Austin, TX with landscape design, plant care and sales. I often prefer the outdoors, choosing to observe and absorb the way a day changes according to the light and weather patterns.
I am essentially a self-taught artist. There is always guidance from random or chosen events which influence the creative state. I work from a variety of inspirations, such as photographs, visualizations from word sketches or from dream work. Mixing colors is a state of grace and tranquility, a color trek into space. I love the messiness and glide of oils for within that realm there is great diversity to stray from finesse and back again, where I find the right balance of physicality and imagination.
Since 1994 I have been living in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, where I focus on my vegetable and perennial gardens as the weather warms. Even then, as I turn the earth, I believe the smell of the earth is as good as the smell of linseed oil. Over the past thirteen years I have defined myself to be a four-corners artist, enjoying the diversity that this region brings to the imagination in this grandeur of space and culture.
--William Secrest
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