Mixed medium on velvet H20" W16" (2003)

"DeCredico is an authentic artist...returning abstract art to the defiant purpose repressed by its objectification into a standard means of artistic practice: the purpose of introspecting and maintaining intimate contact with the transcendental Self in a detranscendentalizing world—indeed, maintaining the sense of the sacredness of the self in a secular world...DeCredico has transmuted the old "decorative abstraction," as Gauguin put it, into a new one, in which the decorative is problematized, making it a vehicle for a new sense of the significance of abstraction." - Donald Kuspit, 1991

Quoted from The Inner Voice Visualized: Alfred DeCredico's Abstractions