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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.