Elisa Decker

Decker has exhibited extensively since 1975 and has work in the permanent collections of Pfizer Inc., NYC; International Art Studio, Valievo, Serbia; Altos de Chavon, Dominican Republic; Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado and in many private collections. Her paintings, drawings, and pastels hint at the ever-present possibility of rebirth. Swirling roots and limbs, a visceral landscape of weathered forms resembling bone and sinew, undulate in a shimmering dance revealing spectral, fairy-like shapes of the imagination. Though anchored in reality, their metaphysical quality invites the viewer to commune with the numinous in nature.

As a photographer, Decker continues to see the world through the eyes of a painter and celebrates the act of finding her subjects by chance. Whether zeroing in on tree parts, the shifting fragments of salt marshes, lavender cloaked in snow, the linear intricacy of fishing nets, or suggestive fruit and vegetables, she focuses on pure movement, color, shape and texture. An ongoing series explores readymade abstractions on faded walls, sidewalks, rusted metal, torn billboards, graffiti and construction sites. Eroded by time and the elements, transformed by light, these "paintings" catch the artists eye ...

Elisa Decker majored in painting at the Maryland Institute of Art, receiving a B.F.A., summa cum laude.

Also an independent curator and freelance editor and art critic, Decker has curated:
"Sympathetic Magic" (30 artists), Westbeth Gallery, NYC (3/29-4/14, 2018). Catalog published in 2019 on Blurb.

"Time Frames Marking Time" (19 artists), w/ co-curator Barbara Lubliner, Westbeth Gallery. (2014).
Catalog published on Blurb.

"Diving into the Details", NURTUREart Gallery, Williamsburg Brooklyn (2004) and Diving II (2005), a benefit held at Spike Gallery in Chelsea

"Private Mythologies", Westbeth Gallery (1999)

"Beyond Appearances" La Mama La Galleria (1997).

"The Male Nude: Women Regard Men", Hudson Center Galleries (1986, catalogue).