Providence - Paintings

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

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...

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

Abstract, interior / exterior figurative. colorful, abstract brushwork, loose perspective similar to Anselm Kiefer Oil on panel.

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

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.

"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.

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

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...

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...

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

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

Oil, acrylic, resin on masonite

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

Oil on panel

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...

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...

"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 ...

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

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...

A single wooden table stands against a white brick wall. The solitary piece of furniture is unexpectedly dramatic; a subtle shadow is cast by its legs on the white floor and on the w...

An abstract figure in oil paint and enamel on canvas.

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...

"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...

In this interior painting, the corner of a bathroom is slightly visible through the doorway along a white wall in an artist's quiet studio space. The warmth of the worn, paint splatt...

"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 ...

"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.

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...

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...

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

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

In this contemporary oil painting on panel, two wooden tables stand against a white wall worn with marks from past artworks in an artist's quiet studio. The warmth of the golden brow...

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

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

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

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 ...

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.

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 paint and mixed media mounted to repurposed stainless steel.

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

oil on panel

Oil, spraypaint, acrylic on canvas. Storybook bridge.

Oil paint and mixed media on canvas.

Oil on canvas.

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

Oil, acrylic, charcoal on panel.