Clinton Deckert
"Deckert challenges us to step beyond our
assumptions and expectations of what is
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
assumptions and expectations of what is
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
Contemporary painter, Clinton Deckert is renowned for his ongoing series of oil
paintings entitled "SURREAL MINDSCAPES". This body of work liberates the
imagination, drawing the viewer into scenarios contradicting the usual. His canvas
is where abstract thoughts and surreal imagery collide. Deckert has twice been
awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship Grant from the Greater Hartford Arts
Council. He created an assemblage for the Gala Salvador Dali event at the
Wadsworth Atheneum. Deckert is past president of Artworks Gallery in Hartford,
Connecticut and served on the Board of Directors for fourteen years. 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 created a fourteen-foot long wall
mural for the UConn Tri-Campus Psychology Department in West Hartford, which
was featured in the first volume of Arts Magazine. Deckert painted works for the
"Cow Parade New York" and "Cow Parade West Hartford" events and Oil Drum
Art, Artspace, Hartford where his work received Aesthetic First Prize. In New
York, Deckert has shown in the Monique Goldstrom Gallery in New York City
and exhibited in the "Brave Destiny" International Surrealist Exhibition at the
Williamsburgh Art and Historical Center in Brooklyn, His work has been featured
on the cover of Art Calendar magazine and Hartford Magazine. His work is
represented in numerous collection throughout the U.S. and he continually exhibits
in the Northeast.
paintings entitled "SURREAL MINDSCAPES". This body of work liberates the
imagination, drawing the viewer into scenarios contradicting the usual. His canvas
is where abstract thoughts and surreal imagery collide. Deckert has twice been
awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship Grant from the Greater Hartford Arts
Council. He created an assemblage for the Gala Salvador Dali event at the
Wadsworth Atheneum. Deckert is past president of Artworks Gallery in Hartford,
Connecticut and served on the Board of Directors for fourteen years. 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 created a fourteen-foot long wall
mural for the UConn Tri-Campus Psychology Department in West Hartford, which
was featured in the first volume of Arts Magazine. Deckert painted works for the
"Cow Parade New York" and "Cow Parade West Hartford" events and Oil Drum
Art, Artspace, Hartford where his work received Aesthetic First Prize. In New
York, Deckert has shown in the Monique Goldstrom Gallery in New York City
and exhibited in the "Brave Destiny" International Surrealist Exhibition at the
Williamsburgh Art and Historical Center in Brooklyn, His work has been featured
on the cover of Art Calendar magazine and Hartford Magazine. His work is
represented in numerous collection throughout the U.S. and he continually exhibits
in the Northeast.
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