JOHN DECKERT

RECENT ACTIVITY OF NOTE

My painting, The Fourth State of Matter in the 110th Annual Gold Medal Exhibition
of the California Art Club at the Hilbert Museum of California Art July 10 – August 14, 2021
https://www.californiaartclub.org/exhibition/110th-annual-gold-medal-exhibition/

Article on Pandemic Paintings Project in Marin Living. April, 2021 issue
https://marinlivingmagazine.com/artist-john-deckert-paints-the-everyday-heroes-of-covid-19/

Interview on the Kelly Clarkson Show on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uzyJV-UEIA
or on the Kelly Clarkson Show website:
https://www.kellyclarksonshow.com/video/man-paints-incredible-portraits-of-essential-workers/4327260

Article in the Press Democrat:
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/entertainment/santa-rosa-portrait-artist-john-deckert-salutes-nurse-on-the-kelly-clarkso/

Interview with Ross Thomas from NBC California LIVE. Segment aired February 2021
Use this link to view https://www.nbclosangeles.com/california-live/artist-honors-frontline-workers-with-custom-portraits/2518134/

Interview with Garvin Thomas from NBC Bay Area Proud. Segment aired January 2021
Use this link to see the video http://bit.ly/bap0630

My painting —Streetcar at Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco Oil on Linen, 8" x 16" has SOLD
view the exhibition at: californiaartclub.org/welcome from 11/29/20 until 01/29/21 
WELCOME TO CALIFORNIA —300 small works by members of the California Art Club

I am to be awarded the John W. Thomason Award for Combat Art by the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation for this 2020.  This award acknowledges the work I've done from 2017 to 2019.  Due to the Covid-19 crisis, the award ceremony has been postponed until April, 2021(?)  There was an article in the local newspaper about this: https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/santa-rosa-artist-honored-by-marine-corps-group/

The Coast Guard Art Program (COGAP) has accepted two of my paintings into their permanent collection.  The exhibition is on display July through August, 2020 at the Prestigious Salmagundi Club in New York City.

Two of my paintings from the Coast Guard Art Program (and the Salmagundi Club of New York City) are on exhibit at the Houston Maritime Museum for 2021

Oil Painters of America has accepted my painting of Scott W. Prior in His Studio into their 29th Annual National Juried Exhibition of Traditional Oils at the RS Hanna Gallery in Fredericksburg, Texas.  Originally scheduled for May through June the exhibition will be at the gallery August through September, 2020

I wrote a short article about the sculpture exhibition of John Colle Rogers, a fellow Marine Corps Combat Artist whose work I admire.

I began photographing workers who came into our neighborhood to be used as photo references for paintings in response to California Governor issued Shelter-In-Place orders to all but "Essential Workers".  See these paintings at https://www.johndeckert.com/pandemic There was an article in the local newspaper about this:  https://legacy.pressdemocrat.com/lifestyle/10918354-181/painter-honors-everyday-heroes-of

November and December of 2019 I had a one-man-show at Thompson-Dorfman in Mill Valley, CA exhibiting 30 recent oil paintings

Commissioned posthumous portraits of Curt Hanson, a nationally recognised Landscape painter from Connecticut and the the Navy pilot Lieutenant Charles (JTacz) Walker who perished in his F-18 Super-Hornet when it crashed into the walls of "Star Wars Canyon" in Death Valley National Park

I gave presentations of my Marine Corps paintings at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in 2018 and 2019. 35 paintings have been accepted into their permanent collection.  Two of my paintings were included in the exhibition, Preserving the Past, Recent Acquisitions (November 2019)

I was invited to show 12 paintings in a group exhibition by the Baywood Artists at the Marin Art and Garden Center, October, 2018

I was invited to show paintings in the Marinscapes Landscape Exhibition 2017, 2018, 2019, and it's final year -2020

In January 2019 I was accepted as a full Artist Member of the prestigious (and old- established 1909) California Art Club  and had paintings in several of their exhibitions, The City By the Bay (Jan. 2019), The 108th Annual Gold Medal Exhibition at the Pasadena Museum of California Art (March, 2019),  Treasures of the Bay Area Exhibition (February 2020) at the Holton Gallery in Berkeley, California and, June, 2020 Our World Re-imagined (online only)

My painting of the Point Bonita Lighthouse was printed on the cover of Marin Magazine May, 2018

2018 Portraits of Santa Rosa, Sonoma County and California’s uniformed leaders who rose to the defense of our community during the terrible wildfires of 2017.  Paintings were presented individually and at a City Council Meeting.  Included are the Police Chief, Fire Chief, CAL Fire Director, County Sheriff, Head Nurse at the Emergency Room on the night shift in the only hospital that was able to remain open, State Parks Manager, National Guard Commander, Mayor, and others who were just plain helpful during a major crisis.  (5,000 homes and buildings and thousands of acres burned) 

There was an article in the local newspaper about this: https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/chris-smith-this-fire-survivor-expresses-his-gratitude-with-paint-brushes/  

The local National Guard Unit presented me with the California Achievement Medal for this work.