C. Dimitri

Incurable Romantic, light colors, gestural abstraction w realistic cherries

2022

Abstract still-life. Oil over acrylic and gesso on panel.

Oil on panel. Highly abstracted still life.

Oil on panel.

Abstract still-life in oil on panel. Bright bold, abstracted still life of cherries, by artist/writer C. Dimitri. His work bursts with energy, color, and often cultural irony.

At the junction of the abstract and the still-life, minimalism and painterliness, simplicity and depth, this painting is a mixing of opposites.

Doug Newton’s hyper-real paintings observe reality, explore translucency, reflections and luminosity, and dazzle the viewer with all the ways light can transform our perceptions. Hi...

In her latest series, "The Weaver," Shizico explores forms, layers, and time onto canvases. Applying the format of diptychs and triptychs, she creates lyrical narratives, capturing t...

In her latest series, "The Weaver," Shizico explores forms, layers, and time onto canvases. Applying the format of diptychs and triptychs, she creates lyrical narratives, capturing t...

In the trompe l'oeil panel painting, "Wonder, or the Plane of the Invisible," a comic cut-out of Wonder Woman sits between two spatial planes—the top, very flat plane is cut out in the shape of a plane as a play Wonder Woman's famous "Invisible Plane." The silly way the comic book character would sit in an imaginary seat flying through the air would force the artist to wonder, “how do you represent an invisible plane”. Here, we see a bright blue canvas, sprinkled with glittery paillettes; an outline of an airplane beneath an outline of the word “SKY”, an infantile depiction of the sun made of masking tape, and finally, the hero, Wonder Woman, her comic clipping taped onto the invisible plane. A very believable, naturalist blue sky with puffy white clouds is visible through the letters and the invisible airplane. It feels like we can reach into the invisible plane to find the natural world…yet atop the plane is an old cartoon of the first female superhero. She overlaps the realistic atmosphere, and even casts a shadow onto it. The planet’s orbit is dedicated to the sun, and all living things need the light to survive…yet this most important element is made up of a crude array of tape strips, asymmetrical, and even torn in-half. This sun refers back to Pablo Picasso’s sun...

To Shizico, a triptych is a compilation of visual prayers; it embodies a meditative voyage akin to a form of meditation. For her, the repetition of motifs within the triptych serves ...

In her latest series, "The Weaver," Shizico explores forms, layers, and time onto canvases. Applying the format of diptychs and triptychs, she creates lyrical narratives, capturing t...

Diptych of abstracted floral paintings in an earthy blue and brown palette "Hollyhock & Zin" (Pair of Contemporary Miniature Botanical Paintings on Wood Panel) Monotype on Paper and Oil, Mounted on Panel "Hollyhock" measures 10 x 8 x 2 inches "Zin" measures 10 x 7.8 x 2 inches Roughly 10 x 18 inches overall as a diptych Signed, verso Panels could also stand upright on a shelf or mantelpiece. Wired on reverse for simple hanging, sides of panel are cleanly painted white, framing not necessary. About the work: Contemporary landscape painter David Konigsberg is well known for his conceptual landscapes that come alive in the space where earth and sky meet. Dramatic backdrops of tumultuous clouds above gestural painted fields, informed by years of living in the upper Hudson Valley, provide a stage for factual and whimsical subject matter like flying space pods...