Occupation: Painter Media: Oil on Canvas, Acrylic. Born Chicopee, Massachusetts, May 17, 1959.
Education Self taught.
Teaching Positions Lect, Connecticut Art Education Association Fall Conference, Farmington Marriott, 2004; lect, Manchester Art League & Cheshire Art League, 2005; lect, Manchester Art Association, 2006.
Business and Professional Positions President, Artworks Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut, 91-92 & 97-99; president, In home Art Serv, Southington, Connecticut, 95-2000; judge & juror, art exhibs, 98-.
Commissioned Works Cow Parade, Hartford Mag, Connecticut, 2003; Wall mural, Univ Connecticut, West Hartford, 2004.
Public Works Univ Connecticut, Storrs; Naugatuck Valley Community Coll, Connecticut; Greater Hartford Art Coun, Connecticut; Northend Sr Center, Hartford, Connecticut; New Britain Rock Cats Baseball Stadium, Connecticut; Univ Connecticut Med Center.
Exhibitions I Dream & I was Dreaming, Artworks Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut, 97; Surrealist and the Poet, Univ New Haven, Connecticut, 2000; Gala, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, 2000; Brave Destiny Int, Williamsburg Art & Hist Center, Brooklyn, New York, 2003; Surreal Mindscapes, Stevens Gallery, Univ Connecticut, Storrs, 2004; New Britain, Mus America Art, Juried Show, Connecticut, 2004; Warner Theatre Atrium Gallery, Torrington, Connecticut, 2004; Pump House Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut, 2004; Winter Blues, Artworks Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut, 2005 ; Polonaise Gallery, Woodstock, Vermont, 2005; Lotus Fine Art & Design, Woodstock, New York, 2005; White Heat, White Space Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, 2006; Oil Drum Art Exhib, New England Carousel Mus, Bristol, Connecticut, 2006; Heartbeat, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, 2006; ArtSpace Hartford, Open Your Mind, Connecticut, 2006; New Britain, Mus America Art, Juried Show, Connecticut, 2007; 64th Annual Connecticut Artists Exhib, Slater Member Mus, 2007; Third Summer In, White Space Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, 2007; Art Under the Big Top, Artspace Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut, 2008; Conjurings, White Space Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, 2008.
Bibliography Steve Starger (author), Clinton Deckert at Art Works, Art N Eng, 97; Pat Seremet (author), Art Works Works, Java - Hartford Courant, 2002; Will Steigerwald (author), The Walls have Eyes and Ears, Art Is Mag, 2005; Pamela Morello (author), Painter's award winning work balances art and function, Southington Citizen, 2005; Nancy L Rodgers (author), Altered Awareness, Art Is Mag, 2005; Feature, Cloning the Drama, Southington's Inventive Exhibition, Kool-Record Jour, 2006; Leah Lopez Schmalz (author), Third Summer's A Charm, Overall Complexities, Guilford Courier, Connecticut, 2007.
Honors and Awards Individual Artist Fellow Grant, Grater Hartford Arts Coun, 99 & 2002; Peoples Choice Award, Artwell Gallery; Best in Oils, Southinghton Arts Association, 2003; Bank North Award, Southington Arts Association, 2004; Aesthetic First Prize, Oil Drum Art, Artspace, Hartford, Connecticut, 2005.
Memberships Artworks Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut (president, 91-92, 97-99, vice president, 93-96, program chairman 2000-03, member chairman 2004); New Britain Mus America Art, Connecticut; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut; Real Arts Way, Hartford, Connecticut.
Dealers White Space Gallery 1020 Chapel St 2nd Floor New Haven CT 06510; Lotus Fine Art & Design Inc 33 Rock City Road Woodstock New York 12498; Polonaise Gallery 15 Central St Woodstock VT 05091.
