About
Robert Dec received his BFA from UMass Dartmouth in 1975 and MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts in 1977. In both schools he concentrated on painting drawing, printmaking and photography. Robert has exhibited in art galleries and museums from New York City to throughout New England since 1975 and his work has been accepted to numerous juried group exhibitions, winning prizes in several of those shows. Robert's work has also been shown in several one person, two person and three person exhibitions as well. Robert has also been an accomplished art teacher, being a Visiting Lecturer at Westfield State University, Baypath community college, UMass Amherst Credit Free Workshops, as well as teaching classes at the Springfield, Brockton and Worcester Art museums. He recently retired as Chair of the Visual Arts Department at the Bancroft School in Worcester, MA (after teaching art and photography there for 34 years) to concentrate more time on his art.
Robert has continued to experiment with a variety of styles and mediums of painting throughout the years and recently. His work ranges from very realistic, to abstracted, to completely abstract- with much of his work inspired by the landscape, the environment and music.
Robert’s latest works are primarily influenced by his photography and feature nature conveyed in a unique and expressive manner. His intention is to express the landscape with paint, using surface texture, glazes and color but still retaining the recognizable, organic elements of the photo. His recent Photo Transfer Paintings are both painterly and photographic, based upon nature but process-driven by the results of the transfer technique.