ABOUT THE ARTIST

FEATURE ARTICLE Nashville Arts / Greg Decker

Greg Decker is a full-time professional oil painter currently living in
southern New Mexico. He taught as a visual teaching artist in New York City for twelve years with the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Lincoln Center Institute. He holds two Master of Fine Arts Degrees, from Cranbrook Academy of Art, and from the New York Academy of Art, where he studied with Martha Erlebacher and Vincent Desiderio. His early childhood in Africa, love for African decorative pattern, and involvement with poetry have decidedly influenced his paintings.

ARTIST STATEMENT

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I paint what I want to see.

I've been painting professionally for thirty years, and have always been a bold and adventurous representational artist.

My work is Symbolist in nature, seeking to embody through myth and story what I see in contemporary life.

I am widely-traveled, immersed in literature and music; visionary poetry especially informs these works.

Figure, landscape, still-life; myth in it's raw and vital beauty. An ongoing theater of color and form.

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Greg Decker 2012