Next Solo Exhibition C O N J U R I N G S White Space Gallery, 1020 Chapel Street, 2nd Floor, New Haven, CT Saturday September 13th, 2008, 6:00-8:00 PM www.whitespacegallery.com
Tall Tale
Out on the Moor
Neo-Tradition
Pic-Nic-Knack
Remnants of Quest
Overseer
Oil Paintings on Canvas
Directional
The Bucket, Prints now available
Clinton Deckert at White Space Gallery, New Haven, CT
Heart Mechanics
Wanderer
Wine & Spirits
Wisdom
I Once Ruled the Sea
Cloning the Drama
Extrapolation
Visiting Orb
Micro-Cosmo
Harbinger
Wayward Meditation, SOLD
Blue Moon At Noon
Candle Horse Checkmate
Johnny Roach Falls
Open Conversation
Award winning contemporary artist, Clinton Deckert is renowned for his paintings where abstract thoughts and surreal imagery collide. Deckert has twice been awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship Grant from the Greater Hartford Arts Council. Deckert is past president of Artworks Gallery in HartfordConnecticut and served on the Board of Directors for fourteen years. He created an assemblage for the Gala Salvador Dali event at the Wadsworth Atheneum. He has also exhibited at the Senator’s Connecticut Office of the U.S. Senate and at the Steven's Gallery at the University of Connecticut. He has painted a fourteen-foot long wall mural for the UConn Tri-Campus Psychology Department in West Hartford, which was featured in the first volume of ArtIs magazine.Deckert painted works for the "CowParade New York" and "CowParade West Hartford" events and Oil Drum Art, ArtSpace, Hartford where his work received Aesthetic First Prize. In New York Deckert has shown in the famous but now defunct Monique Goldstrom Gallery and exhibited in the "Brave Destiny" International Surrealist Exhibition at the Williamsburg Art and HistoricalCenter in Brooklyn, NY. His work has been featured on the cover of Art Calendar Magazine, Hartford Magazine and he has achieved inclusion in Marquis Who’s Who in American Art. Clinton’s paintings have been represented in eight juried shows at the New Britain Museum of American Art and most recently at SlaterMemorialMuseum in Norwich,CT. His work is represented by Lotus Fine Art in Woodstock, NY, and the Polonaise Gallery in Woodstock, VT, and the White Space Gallery in New Haven, CT. Deckert‘s work is also numerous collections throughout the U.S.A. and he continuously exhibits throughout the Northeast. Clinton Deckert has been interviewed on the television show "Beyond the Headlines" on the Fox affiliates, The WB-20 and live on the talk radio station WTIC, Hartford, Connecticut and "Live the Journey" on WNHU at University of New Haven. He served as awarding Juror in several exhibitions and has conducted Artist Talk lectures throughout Connecticut including Connecticut Art Education Association, The Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts, The East Hartford Art League, Cheshire Art League, Tolland County Art Association, The Arts Association of Meriden, and Artworks Gallery in Hartford. His work is part of the permanent collections in the University of Connecticut Health Center, the NaugatuckValleyCommunity College, Waterbury, and the University of Connecticut in Storrs. Deckert’s work has been favorably reviewed numerous times in Art New England, The Hartford Courant and The Journal Inquirer and has also appeared twice in The New York Times.
Comments from Critics, Jurors and Directors
"His paintings are rendered without the hindrance of logic and their appeal comes from the eerie ambience of unique imagery capturing a timeless quality. Deckert seems keenly aware of the absurdities underlying the very concept of life." Jude Schwendenwien, Art New England, 1991"
The vacillating between the real and unreal world of Clint Deckert's work beguiles one's imagination and leaves the viewer with a sense of a pleasurable journey.” Jack Lardis, President of Oil Drum Art, 2005
"Deckert’s riotous conjurings are dazzling, ingenious, provocative and injected with a sense of fun." Steve Starger, Journal Inquirer & Art New England, 1997
"Deckert takes it all on - color compatabilty, canvas structure, field depth, compositional nesting, classic themes and comentary. Even given day to reflect ... it is doubtful that I would be able to get to the root of the image." Leah Lopez Schmalz, Guilford Courier, 2007
"Clinton Deckert has created with and entered with mind a world of color and zaniness found just over a forbidden, towering wall." Stewart Wilson, Executive Director of Artwell, 2003
"Such Courage Such Skill! Excellent. Wish I had done this work.", Doe Bartlett, Juror, 2003
"Deckert challenges us to step beyond our assumption and expectations of what is a familiar to a fresh look at associations, redefining and ultimately expanding our sense of what makes things real." Mary Kramer, Director of the Promenade Gallery at the Bushnell 1994
