Marcio Decker

“In Decker’s multi-layered acrylics on canvas, vivid colors meld with gestural, organic and hard geometric forms inspired by the landscapes of the Sierra Nevadas – all captured under tiny glass squares. Any viewer who chooses to engage the work by moving slowly side to side will inevitably experience the intriguing optical illusions created by the light-bending glass.”

“Harnessing Michael Eugene Chevreul’s classic color concept of simultaneous contrast, Decker teases structure out of pure chroma by placing vibrant complementary hues close together creating palpable motion that changes the way we perceive them.”
-Kathleen Vanesian, art critic

Brazilian-born, Marcio studied painting and design and found his passion for abstraction, architecture, and the creative process during his schooling that continued at Bogota. In the early 2000s, his artistic journey brought him to Lake Tahoe where he currently resides, painting and directing an interior design firm. Decker earned his MFA at the Academy of Art in San Francisco in 2016.

Academy of Art University - Master in Fine Arts - San Francisco, CA

XI FLORENCE BIENNALE
Award winner 1st Prize Mixed Media
Florence, Italy - October, 2017

SCOPE NYC 2016
New York City - March, 2016

GALERIA COLORIDA
Lisbon - Portugal - February, 2016

GALLERIA 360
Florence - Italy - December, 2015

ART SANTA FE 2015
Santa Fe, NM - July, 2015

SCOPE MIAMI 2015
Miami FL - December, 2015

GALLERIA 360
Group Show - Christmas Expo - Florence - Italy - December, 2015

MOYA – Museum of Young Art
Group Show - Spirit or Art– Vienna – Austria - August, 2014