Dmitri Wright

Dmitri Wright is a painter, master art instructor, inspirational speaker, and poet. His classical academic training in the foundations used by the Renaissance and Impressionist masters is evident in his work as an American expressionist impressionist in the tradition of his mentors.


Philosophy -
To be an Artist is to be in search of what is good, beautiful and true in life, while consenting to one’s natural ability with joy and gratitude in order to share it with others.



Method -
My method is lyrical and poetic, where all contact is direct with each piece and dedicated to revealing working in the moment of creating. The work embodies a representational foundational method with an integration of the impressionist and expressionist schools with my vision, and my training that was rooted in the academy’s classics where the organizational drawing is an illustrative narrative, while keeping the traditional subject of the landscape,

I look to enhance natural beauty by bringing forth the transcendent and the invisible of what is occurring as if what is below the surface, for my brush is dancing upon the atoms of colors.

Through my brushwork I look to capture through color movement multiple contrapuntal motions, s...

Lineage
Dmitri Wright’s artistic lineage stems from the American Impressionists. His mentors have been Samuel Brecher, who studied under Charles W. Hawthorne the founder of the Cape Cod Art School. Hawthorne was a student of William Merritt Chase. Donald Brown an expressionist influenced Wright to accept the Max Beckman International Scholarship at the Brooklyn Museum Art School where he then studied under Rueben Tam; and at Cooper Union he studied under Wolf Kahn and Will Barnet.


Legacy
As an American artist, Wright’s travels have taken him to paint and/or teach throughout the United States and visiting over a dozen National Park sites in addition to Italy, France, Ireland, Austria, England, West Indies, Central and South America, and China. His work focuses on the Preservation and Progress of Impressionism.

Education
Wright was the winner of national scholarship at Cooper Union and the Max Beckman International Scholar Program at Brooklyn Museum Art School, and valedictorian at the Newark School of Fine & Industrial Arts major in Painting.

Listings & Membership
Artists Fellowship, NYC, NY
Silvermine Artist Guild, New Canaan CT
Salmagundi Club NYC, NY
Friends of Weir Farm, Wilton, CT
Who's Who in America

Sorelle Gallery, New Canaan CT
National Arts Club, NYC NY
Silvermine Art Center, CT
Mattatuck Museum
New Canaan Library, CT
Salmagundi Club NYC NY
Wilton Library, CT
Weir Farm National Historic Site, National Park Service
Newark Museum
National Art Museum of Sport
Greenwich Historic Society
New Canaan Historic Society