Carl Dimitri Paintings

Abstract and figurative, "Tuba Patrol" is an oil painting underpinned by a collage of drawings. iIt operates as a dense psychological field where time, memory, and communication coll...

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

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.

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

Oil, acrylic, gesso on panel.

"The Rider Comes Bearing Noise" stages a collision between mythic image and epistemological decay. It turns the familiar figure of the rider into an emissary of our time, evoking an ...

"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 ...

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...

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

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

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

"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...

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

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.

Oil, acrylic, resin on masonite

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

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

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

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

This painting operates in the charged space between figuration and erasure, where an image appears only to be immediately destabilized. The ground is worked aggressively and patientl...

Figurative, landscape and abstraction, "The Birthday Party" is composed of oil paint on 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...

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...

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...

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 ...

"Lyrical Miracle" is built from layers of paper, resin, paint and wood,. The geese are suspended between abstraction and figuration. The resin’s translucence invites the viewer to lo...

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...

"Safe in Here" unfolds as both a landscape and an interior. The painting’s surface is built through successive layers of paint, glaze, paper, ink and resin.

Oil on panel

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

This painting stages an enigmatic tableau: three rabbits circle a green snake beside a precarious stack of books. Against a raw canvas ground and a yellow ochre floor, the scene fuse...

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...

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 paint and steel roof paint on antique baker's board.

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.

Oil on panel.

Oil paint and steel roof paint on antique baker's box. Repurposed object, colorful, cheerful, ironic

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

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...

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

Began this canvas over ten years ago. Inspired by some of the themes in "Hamilton" along with the aesthetics of Romanticism and Symbolism.

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...

Oil paint and mixed media mounted to repurposed stainless steel.

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 ...

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

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

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.

Oil paint and oil on paper mounted on wood panel. Mostly monochromatic gestural abstraction with multiple bird images.

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...

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

Oil, spraypaint, acrylic on canvas. Storybook bridge.

oil on panel

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...

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

Multi-layered oil paint, inked paper on repurposed wood panel. Title is from the final act of Puccini's "Turandot."

Oil paint and mixed media on canvas.

Oil on canvas.