Carl Dimitri Art

Dimitri incorporates and captures free form expression using urban iconography, text, collage and traditions methods.

A narrative landscape, suggesting a collision of art, history, and phantasm. Oil paint, collage, mixed media on panel. references Guggenheim, Roman colosseum

The artist began this painting in 2010. Oil and resin on wood panel. Dedicated to David Lynch and coral reefs. Rich brushwork in image of stringed musical instrument within the abst...

C.Dimitri has received fellowships in painting from the Vermont Studio Center and the RI State Council on the Arts. He is represented by Tabla Rasa gall...

Oil paint and mixed media on canvas. Narrative, figurative and abstract, with a car, rabbit, snake and floral motif.

"Passage" unfolds like an idea from another age — a scene suspended between the Renaissance and the metaphysical. At its center, framed by an over-arching oval window, a young woman ...

Oil paint and mixed media on canvas. This work is the second painting in a series of trees from Parade St. Park.

She lay flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, her chin on her folded arms, and high overhead the wind blew in the tops of the pine trees. - For Whom the Bell Tolls (mo...

Oil, acrylic, gesso on panel.

"Per aspera ad astra" is Latin for "through difficulty to the stars." A friend asked me to read a religious text. The opening chapter talked about "God's enemies." I thought, God has...

Black bear with layers of potential meanings. Mainly oil on panel.

Abstract sculptural still-life: a pot of flowers. Mixed media on canvas. Neutral tones, cheerful simplicity, boldly poetic

Oil, acrylic, resin on masonite

Abstract cityscape indebted to Matisse's "View of Notre Dame."

Oil, graphite, clay on panel. Abstract mixed media work on panel. Images include text, still life and figurative elements. White tones, aqua and red. Dimitri is noted for his use o...

Abstract interior, with figures and bison. Oil on panel.

One of a series of landscapes, open to multiple interpretations. Blues and greys suggest an abstracted landscape.. Oil on panel.

A sort of cityscape/skyscape concerned with simplicity, minimalism, negative space, and a story of art and the stock market.

Abstract and figurative, "Hi, I'm the Owner of Two Vicious Pitbulls" is an oil painting underpinned by collage elements using a variety of materials, including drawings on heavy pape...

Oil paint and black velvet on wood panel. Title from "Small Change," by Tom Waits.

The composition features a complex surface, layered figuration, diaristic symbols, a psychological interiority, and a willingness to let the painting be a world rather than a pictur...

A combination of collage and painting, "I Have Bitcoin" is part painting, collage and comic. Oil paint and mixed media on repurposed wood panel.

In this large-scale, hallucinatory tableau, the familiar collapses into the surreal. A dark sedan tilts precariously across a flooded, dreamlike plane while rabbits—some spectral, so...

An abstract figure in oil paint and enamel on canvas.

"Make Me Proud or At Least Less Ashamed" captures a moment of quiet persistence. The surface shimmers with layered paint, paper, resin and copper, materials that hold both fragility ...

This work by Dimitri reflects his imaginative process. He says, "Multiple layers of materials laid down over a ten-year period. The painting recently fell into place." With a colorf...

Cityscape with archetypal figures. Bunny and horse images, colorful w/ pink, blue, green

One of a series on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.

Made with the bark of the Paper Birch tree on a repurposed trophy plaque. The title was inspired by the song, "Scott Pilgrim," by the Canadian band, Plum...

Abstract, landscape, figurative: a rabbit burrow, reminiscent of Venice Carl Dimitri’s artistic style is multifaceted, blending abstract, contemporary, and expressionistic elements....

A landscape involving the idea of quantum superposition or matter existing as a combination of multiple states with multiple outcomes. Only the viewer can determine which potential ...

Found plastic & tree Environmental theme

Changing Everything Forever: River #7 Exuberant brushwork, bright colorful abstract landscape Acrylic, w some dirt, some grass, on canvas. Painted at the Blackstone-Seekonk River.

Portrait, figures, narrative, landscape. Inspired by Goya, Warhol. ( Campbell Soup can) Oil paint and mixed media on panel.

Energetic, joyous brushstrokes in this painterly abstraction with birds. Bright colors, dominant whites, blues, with touches of orange and red. Multi-layered oil paint and painted...

Oil on panel

Rimbaud is a contemporary homage to the 19th-century poet, capturing his enigmatic presence through an imagined portrait. Surrounding the figure are a constellation of small sketches...

Birds on repurposed galvanized steel. Predominately monochromatic repeated, patterned, abstracted bird images

Kant's "thing in itself" represents the hidden essence of objects beyond appearances. Painting the thing in itself encourages viewers to look beyond the surface of things and conside...

Oil on panel.

Oil paint and mixed media mounted to repurposed stainless steel.

Oil, spraypaint, acrylic on canvas. Storybook bridge.

Dimitri incorporates and captures free form expression using urban iconography, text, collage and traditions methods.

Oil paint and mixed media on canvas.

At the intersection of still-life, portrait, and landscape, Sinatra & Gardner is one of the earliest paintings in a series focused on limited palettes and maximum negative space.

Dimitri incorporates and captures free form expression using urban iconography, text, collage and traditions methods.

Oil on canvas.

oil on panel

Oil, acrylic, charcoal on panel.

Abstract and figurative interpretation of a classic theme. Originally inspired by the Odalisque.

Acrylic, ink, glitter on canvas Dimitri operates from the idea of the “unfinished.” It informs his choice of materials and the way he handles them. It informs the imagery. The unfin...

Figurative abstraction. Painting will be mounted to support frame and ready for hanging.

oil on panel

This painting reimagines Eugène Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People through a postmodern lens, fracturing and repeating its imagery until the original dissolves into echoes and fr...

Abstract, inventive depiction of an English landscape where the painter studied.

This mixed-media canvas captures a surreal moment: a UFO, complete with a wide-eyed alien pilot, making an unexpected landing at a mundane airport. Rendered primarily in black and wh...

Oil, spray paint, acrylic on canvas. Bridges.

Oil, acrylic, spraypaint on canvas. Bridge to a friend of the artist's house.

Abstract, interior, landscape, animals. Oil on panel.

One of a series on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Here they make the treacherous climb out of the underworld: Now thro' the noiseless throng their way they bend, And both with pa...