Domani
Studio - Gallery of Contemporary and Modern Art.-
Santa
Fe, New Mexico
Domani Studio
Gallery
of Contemporary
and Modern Art
28 Bisbee Court A-1
Santa
Fe, New Mexico 87508
Voice: 505.438.8388
Fax: 505.438.8388 dimitry@domani-studio.com
Dimitry
Domani.- (click here for pictures) Born in Romania of parents of Italian and Greek
descent, Dimitry fled the oppression and aggression he witnessed
under Communist rule in 1978.
This was up close and personal: his father and older brother were
imprisoned for eleven years by the Ceausescu regime.
He
then endured the agony of being a political prisoner, spending six
months in prison in the former Yugoslavia. Transferred to a refugee
camp in Austria in 1979, he survived the next year-and-a-half passing
up opportunities for citizenship in other countries, in order to
fulfill his dream of coming to America.
Having
experienced the pain of life without expression, Dimitry became
impassioned through the forces of his art. First as a student at
the Art Institute of Timisoara, he then continued his studies under
various artists he admired in the United States after acquiring
his visa in 1981. He has developed an honest sculpting style that
varies from the abstract to the stylized to the realistic, and his
subjects are quite diversified: ranging from figure studies to untamed
animals in wild and natural surroundings.
In
Dimitry's suggestive choices of subject matter, creatures of grace
and majesty are reverently held in a moment of purity. His sculptures
are displayed from Washington DC to the Great Southwest. His collection
can be seen in person at Domani Bronze Studios, the gallery he owns
and operates in Santa Fe. Dimitry's bronzes evoke awe and admiration
as one's spirit is transformed by their exhilaration and beauty.