Carl Dimitri Figurative Paintings
C. Dimitri has received fellowships in painting from the Vermont Studio Center and the RI State Council on the Arts. A staff illustrator for The Rumpus, he has illustrated texts and book covers and has added drawings to the Kenyon Review, Bomb Magazine, and the streets of Providence. Two of his climate-change graph paintings are in the permanent collection of the Boston Public Library.
Solo exhibitions include the Tabla Rasa Gallery (Brooklyn), Aurora (Providence), and Crocker & Griffin (Narragansett), with select exhibits at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, and Brooklyn's Irondale Theater, Greenpoint, and Groundfloor galleries. He has also shown in Miami, Provincetown, and Los Angeles.
Dimitri received a doctorate in literature from the University of Essex, England. His focus on aesthetic modernism informs his visual work.
(Biography provided by Tabla Rasa Gallery)
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Artist: C. Dimitri
Bit of a Ghost, muted color female figure historic dress thick & transparent
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Began this canvas over ten years ago. Inspired by some of the themes in "Hamilton" along with the aesthetics of Romanticism and Symbolism.
Category
2010s Contemporary Carl Dimitri Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Spray Paint
I Almost Went Crazy When Mario Got Busted II, abstract w head fruit text
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Carl Dimitri Figurative Paintings
Materials
Clay, Oil, Wood Panel, Graphite
Where Souls Are Made, colorful bridge crowd bunnies abstract expressionist
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Abstract, landscape, figurative: a rabbit burrow, reminiscent of Venice
Carl Dimitri’s artistic style is multifaceted, blending abstract, contemporary, and expressionistic elements....
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Carl Dimitri Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Spray Paint, Wood Panel, Graphite
The Incredible Combustible, colorful abstract of classical figure theme
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Abstract and figurative interpretation of a classic theme. Originally inspired by the Odalisque.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Carl Dimitri Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Oil, Acrylic, Permanent Marker
Virginia Woolf's Best Friend in the Afterlife
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Black bear with layers of potential meanings. Mainly oil on panel.
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Carl Dimitri Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Lot, dramatic abstracted military theme, fire, multiple figures
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil, acrylic, charcoal on panel.
Category
2010s Abstract Carl Dimitri Figurative Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Oil, Acrylic
Eurydice Along the River's Tide, abstract w birds red cherries, water blues
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
One of a series on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.
Category
2010s Abstract Carl Dimitri Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Antifa, abstracted figurative with political references
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil, enamel, oil pastel on wood
Category
2010s Contemporary Carl Dimitri Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Elizabeth
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Portrait, figure, narrative, abstract. One of a series on unsung female heroism. Oil on canvas.
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Carl Dimitri Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Spray Paint
Pitbulls, glyphic symbols text includes "pitbull" "small penis" dog theme
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Observational painting. Belongs to a series that is reminiscent of New Yorker cartoons. Hand drawn permanent marker on heavy gloss inkjet paper.
Category
2010s Contemporary Carl Dimitri Figurative Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Permanent Marker
Frank & Marie's Wild Years colorful, nudes flying broomstick w bats text
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Portrait, figures, narrative, landscape. Inspired by Goya, Warhol. ( Campbell Soup can)
Oil paint and mixed media on panel.
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Carl Dimitri Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Wood Panel
Per Aspera Ad Astra, abstracted stars, female figures angels blue colorful
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Carl Dimitri Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Wood Panel
In the Gloaming, colorful abstract group of figures
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Figurative abstraction.
Painting will be mounted to support frame and ready for hanging.
Category
2010s Abstract Carl Dimitri Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Blue Girl
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
One of a series of masked women. Oil and spray paint on canvas, with artist's frame.
Category
2010s Pop Art Carl Dimitri Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Brand New Harold, colorful abstract figure and text
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Portrait, figure, narrative, interior. Oil on canvas.
Category
2010s Outsider Art Carl Dimitri Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Madrid, colorful abstract female figure
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
C. Dimitri’ exhuberant paintings blend abstraction with human and nature forms. His uninhibited painterly brushwork and color palette create exceptional and compelling energy
Category
2010s Abstract Carl Dimitri Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
The Four Evangelists, Figure colorful Abstract diptych face and cartoon elements
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
In a way, it is a collision of opposites.
Two canvases combined to one frame.
Category
2010s Abstract Carl Dimitri Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Oil, Spray Paint, Gouache
Thing-in-Itself, earthtone abstraction w suggestion of landscape
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Carl Dimitri Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Nine Wild Rivers and the Seven Wild Rivers, abstract, animals, figures
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Inspired by the ballroom ceiling of the Ca Rezzonico in Venice.
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Carl Dimitri Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
Odalisque, colorful gestural abstract, nude, figure, landscape
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Thinking of art-historical nudes from Fortuny and Boucher.
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Dimitri operates from the idea of the “unfinished.” It informs his choice of materia...
Category
2010s Abstract Carl Dimitri Figurative Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Oil, Canvas
Eurydice, red gestural abstract w figures
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Eurydice in the Underworld, as Hades and Persephone inform her that Orpheus has bargained for her release.
Category
2010s Abstract Carl Dimitri Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Climb, colorful abstract patterns w figures, earthy red tones
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Carl Dimitri Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1000 Years, blue and earth tonehuman face, bark from birch tree, natural element
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Carl Dimitri Figurative Paintings
Materials
Birch, Archival Ink, Mixed Media
One Last Fling and See What Happens
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
oil on panel
Category
2010s Abstract Carl Dimitri Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Mom, Bart's Twisting Facts in an Orwellian Fashion! colorful abstract faces
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil, acrylic, gesso on panel.
Category
2010s Abstract Carl Dimitri Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
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