Elisa F. Decker

Adjunct Associate Professor of Art
Music and Art

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Elisa Decker’s photographic images result from an ongoing inquiry into the possibilities for the miraculous in the everyday. They celebrate serendipitous findings filtered through a painter’s sensibility. Texture, color, movement and ambiguity of scale come into play in works derived from both natural and inorganic sources. Conceptually, the work is simply about being present and responding to whatever calls out to her. Subjects range from abstraction to flora and fauna, and include portraiture, still life, and street photography as well.

Expertise

Degrees

Maryland Institute College of Art
BFA, Painting

Courses Taught

Research and Projects

Selected Exhibitions, 2019

Circles & Squares, Rick Wester Fine Art, NYC (6/13-8/9)

Abstracted Reality (PWP), Atlantic Gallery, NYC (6/4-6/15)

Our Botanical World (PWP), Matted LIC, Long Island City, NYC (3/22-5/12)

Glimpses of Our World, Salmagundi Club, NYC (PWP), Magdalena Solé, juror (2/4-2/15)

Selected Exhibitions, 2018

Our Botanical World (PWP), Queens Botanical Garden, Flushing, NY (5/4-8/8)

Artist-Curator, Sympathetic Magic (31 artists), Westbeth Gallery, NYC (3/29-4/15) http://westbeth.org/wordpress/sympathetic-magic-group-show/

In Studio: BMCC Art Faculty Show, Shirley Fiterman Art Ctr., NYC (2/14-3/24)

Solo show, Stones Speak, Jefferson Market Library Gallery, NYC (Jan. 3-30)

Selected Exhibitions, Performances 2017

The Power of Tones (PWP), Jadite Gallery, NYC (12/5-12/16)

Four on Paper, Westbeth Project Space (7/6-9/30)

Duality: Glimpses of the Other Side, Islip Art Museum, New York
(6/24-9/17)

Solo show, Chase Bank, 8th Ave, W. 12 St, NYC (8/31-12/31)

RE-SEARCH, BMCC faculty recent work, Shirley Fiterman Art Center
(2/22-4/1)

Scene on the Street, Jadite Gallery, NYC, juror: Meryl Meisler (2/1-2/15)

Bastard (The Painted Bird: Part 1) La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, The Downstairs, NYC, in association with Pavel Zustiak / Palissimo, 1/4-1/8, performed with the Ensemble

Selected Exhibitions, 2016

Structure in the City, PWP, National Arts Club, NYC (5/16-5/31/16)

ART/ WORKS, BMCC faculty recent work, Shirley Fiterman Art Center
(2/10-3/19)

Concerts on the Canal, slide show, Gateway City Arts, Holyoke, Mass. (Feb. 14)

Butterflies and Insects, San Diego Museum of Natural History
(9/19/15-1/11/16)

Selected Exhibitions, 2015

Twyla Tharp’s The One Hundreds, River to River, performed June 20

Whims of Weather, PWP, The National Arts Club, NYC, (5/18-5/31)

Spring Together, Medicine Show Theatre, NYC, Other Side of the Mirror, slide show for dance performance by Beth Soll and Janet Aisawa (4/10-4/12)

At this Moment: Recent Artwork by BMCC Faculty, Shirley Fiterman Art Center (2/18-3/24)

Selected Exhibitions in 2014

Small Wonders, PWP, Atlantic Gallery, NYC (12/9-12/20)

Hudson River Park Series, solo show, Manhattan Borough President’s Office
(10/1-10/31)

Time Frames Marking Time, Westbeth Gallery, 19 artists (5/24-6/15),
co-curated with Barbara Lubliner

http://www.blurb.com/b/5911564-time-frames-marking-time

Interior Lives, National Arts Club, NYC (5/19-5/31)

Selected Exhibitions, 2013

Curate NYC, curator: Wim van Sinderen, The Hague Museum of Photography

NYC25, Westwood Gallery, NYC (10/25-11/14)

Crest Hardware Art Show, Williamsburg, New York (6/8-8/17)
Collective Currents, Contemporary Artists Guild, Manhattan Borough President Gallery (6/3-6/21)

Beasts & Bodies, Schema Projects, Brooklyn, New York (11/8-12/8)

Rising Waters: Photographs of Hurricane Sandy, Governor’s Island, ICP and the Museum of the City of New York (9/22-9/29)

Women Inspired, Grady Alexis Gallery, El Taller Latino Americano, NYC
(3/18-4/30)

Abundance and Scarcity, Calumet Photo Gallery, NYC (2/1-2/22)

In 2012, Decker’s work was chosen for a MICA Alumni Exhibition, Spattered Columns/Art Connects New York. That summer she performed during the River to River Festival in Le Grand Continental, choreographer Sylvain Emard.

Decker has written art reviews for Art in America magazine and the Brooklyn Rail.

Each fall and spring, Decker conducts art gallery walks. She is also a docent for Context Travel.

Publications

Honors, Awards and Affiliations

In March 2010, a solo show of Decker’s photographs was held at the Gallery of the Manhattan Borough President’s Office in New York City. The Ultimate Eye Foundation selected her photograph, “Cursive Indigo” for “Waking Dreams” at Peninsula Museum of Art, Calif. (2008). She received a cash award for “Incognito” in a juried show at Kauffman Gallery, Shippensburg University, PA (2008). A 30-year survey of Decker’s photographs, paintings and drawings was on view Oct 8-Nov 8, 2005 at the Westbeth Gallery, NYC.

Ms. Decker was awarded a 2003 Camargo Foundation grant and residency in Cassis France, which was followed by a solo exhibition of her photographs at Pfizer in 2004. Other fellowships include the MacDowell Colony, the Millay Colony, I-Park, Fundacion Valparaiso, Altos de Chavon, Chateau de Rochefort-en-Terre, Chateau de Lesvault, Fondation Karolyi, Ragdale Foundation, William Allen White Cabin, Villa Montalvo Ctr for the Arts and Ossabaw Island.

Additional Information

website: http://www.elisadecker.org