Painter Dimitri Pavlotsky explores the figure by creating interior emotional landscapes. The direction of his prolific art practice has evolved from a thirst for whimsy and self-expression, and as a reaction to his previous academic training and successful career in architecture (MA in Architecture, Moscow Institute of Architecture, 1986). After working as an architectural designer in Moscow, Russia and receiving several prestigious national design awards, he came to the United States in 1989 bringing with him a great deal of Eastern European passion for self-discovery and exploration.

Pavlotsky’s colorful paintings are dynamic improvisations. His approach is an intuition-based search for subconscious energy. He is working between the gestural anxiety of expressionism and the more choreographed movement of figurative abstraction. Taking inspiration from the subjectivism of Chaim Soutine, Pavlotsky tames and modernizes the aggressiveness of 1950’s New York School by playing with space through color as an assertive tool.