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Gerald Sequeira
gerald.painter@yahoo.com
www.geraldsequeira.com
Gerald Sequeira has been painting since 2003. He received his B.S. in Civil Engineering and his J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles.
While a law student, he served as the law school's official mentor to undergraduate students.
He also was a physics tutor in the UCLA Academic Advancement Program during his undergraduate years. After taking the bar exam, Gerald spent three months living in Belgium where he visited some of Europe’s best museums.
Coming back inspired, he dusted off the art materials he had used in high school under the guidance of his mentor and teacher Patti Post and began painting in his spare time (he doesn’t own a television, so he has lots of time to spare.)
Prior to joining the William S. Boyd Law School, Las Vegas in 2004, Gerald worked as a field attorney for the National Labor Relations Board.
He continues to exhibit his work at venues throughout Los Angeles and currently lives in Lawndale, CA.
Gerald is inspired by many artists. However, two seemed to have had a larger influence in his work, Richard Diebenkorn and Jasper Johns.
His geometrical abstractions as well his more recognizable cityscapes and landscapes are presented as intricate, broken planes of myriad shapes and stark, vibrant colors. In his ‘Map’ series Gerald uses blocks of interwoven shapes resembling maps or labyrinths inviting the viewer’s eye to wander in the landscape.
The harmony of his intricate geometric patterns and color schemes requires the spectator to step back from the canvas and yet, by stepping back, details become apparent from within the explosive confusion; the structure of the compositions sharpens, the linear boundaries are enhanced and the juxtaposition of colors takes on new dimensions.
From what at first appears to be a flat two-dimensional plane, layers of depth emerge, a readable map leading to the inner dimensions takes shape, and the mind is drawn in.
Gerald’s figurative works have an impressionistic quality that capture mood and light - a moment in time from which only the “impression” of memory remains. The central figures blend and merge into a background mosaic of alphabetical letters.
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* None of the artworks may be copied or reproduced without the written permission of the Artist