|
|
Media - Acrylic on Wood
Address - New York City, United States
Email - [email protected]
Website - WWW.ROCCAYARD.COM
Born in Montreal, Canada, Roc Cayard is the offspring of a Haitian mother and a
Haitian-Dominican father. After spending his childhood years in Haiti during the early 1980's
, he and his family moved to the United States during his early teenage years as a way to
escape the violence, kidnappings and political uprisings on the often unstable Caribbean
island.
Fluent in French, Spanish, Creole and English, creating art has always served as an outlet for
Cayard's experiences. The turmoil reflected in early and mid-'90's rap music has also been a
parallel for the aggression Cayard witnessed in life, one that ultimately provided a deterrent
from the pressures of his environment.
After graduating with dual bachelors degrees from a reputable University in New York , Roc
embarked on a career as an independent filmmaker,producing several successful urban
documentaries focused on New York's underground hip-hop culture. In recent years, he's honed
his artistic skills as a painter, concentrating primarily on the topic of depression, a
subject that is familiar ground to many. Roc Cayard resides in New York City.
Artist Statement:
Depression Kills. Depression paralyzes. Depression Sleeps. Depression is solitary. Depression
is Hyper and Aggressive.
The Art of Depression, is the name of my collection of acrylic on wood board paintings.
Painting is my way of exorcizing certain thoughts,moods and feelings out of my body.
I mostly use bright primary colors in my paintings because they have the characteristic
elements to energize, uplift and promote a positive mood.
Most of my painting are inhabited by characters that I refer to as 'The Infected People'.
Infected not by a disease but by the mood of Depression.
These characters are painted with square spots that covers the infected characters body and
these spots can be best described as wild electrons within an atom.
When the characters' mood is calm and collected, these electrons slowly fade away and
completely disappears .
In most of my work, the "infected" character is almost always in charge, although in
some pieces he is clearly the victim.
All of my paintings describe a specific mood or a reoccurring mood that I experience every now
and then.
Those moods can't be precisely described with words, hence the need for me to express them
thru my work.
The scenes that are depicted in my paintings are split second flash thoughts that comes to
mind when I'm in a certain mood.
The specific colors that I use also help calibrate the level of energy and mood in each
character and sometimes certain colors are used to identify a specific character by
individuality, role or by profession.
My process for creating a painting starts with translating my feelings into a scene that can
be visualized .
Then I'll work on a sketch for as long as it is necessary in order to get the basic scene that
can best describe that mood.
A work is not considered complete until I feel like I've completely exorcized and transfered
that specific mood from my body onto the medium that I am painting on.
Everyday life observations and personal involvements are the two of the main influences in my
paintings.
|
