Artist Registry
Greg Decker
Contact information
TAG art gallery
Jerry Dale McFadden
237 5th Avenue North
Nashville TN 37219
(615) 255-7816
art@tagartgallery.com
www.tagartgallery.com
Artist statement
I consider myself an adventurous figurative painter, and I love mythic and narrative elements in art.
I struggle to be technically adept and historically literate.
I embrace art of the past, present, and future which embraces beauty and form.
Resume / bio
Greg Decker is a professional artist (painter) from New York City who recently emigrated to Nashville to begin his own series of workshops in traditional painting. He is a figurative painter, producing oil paintings which are often ‘mythical’ in content, as well as portraits and still lifes.
Greg holds two Master of Fine Arts Degrees, one from Cranbrook Academy of Fine Art, and one from the New York Academy of Art, and has studied at Oxford University in England. In New York, he taught with MoMA, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he specialized on drawing in the galleries.
Additional information/resume available on request.
Education
- New York Academy of Art, New York NY, MFA, 2003
- Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills MI, MFA, 1980
- Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis MN, BFA, 1975
Exhibitions
- Alan Lequire Gallery, Nashville TN, 2005
- Gallery Timothy Tew, Atlanta GA, 2001, 2002
- Perry-Nicole Gallery, Memphis TN, 2002
- The Painting Center, New York NY, 1998
(Information last updated: 2 March 2007)
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