Dmitri Wright

Dmitri Wright’s paintings and drawings are located in more than 200 private, corporate, and public permanent collections, including the Newark, Long Island, and Brooklyn Museums. In addition, the fine artist achieved national recognition through competitions, one-man shows, group exhibitions, including numerous articles, and notices. The artist has produced a variety of artworks within the Classical, Symbolic, Expressionistic and Impressionistic Schools of Art. Since 1982 Mr. Wright has been the proprietor and Master Artist of "The Renaissance Workshop," which offers private and semi-private fine and applied art lessons to children, teens and adults through all skill levels of painting and drawing though still life, figure, and landscape in his backcountry studio.

Teaching
Dmitri Wright is the artist-in-residence for the Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich teaching impressionist painting and drawing still-life, landscape, and figure to adults in the Vanderbilt Education Center, in addition in their outreach programs in the Greenwich private and public schools. Wright continues the American Impressionists’ tradition of the Cos Cob Art Colony founded by Twachtman in 1892. He is also an instructor of painting and drawing courses at the Silvermine School of Art. The artist was the Director of Education and Master Fine & Applied Arts Instructor at the former Connecticut Institute of Art in Greenwich.

Education
In 1970 Mr. Wright graduated first in his class at the Newark School of Fine & Industrial Arts located in New Jersey. Later that year he won the prestigious Max Beckman International Scholarship at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY studying under Ruben Tam, an American landscape painter. Because of his success that year he was recruited in 1971 to attend Cooper Union within the Fine Arts Scholarship Program where he studied with Wolf Kahn and Will Barnet.

Impressionist Background
Dmitri Wright’s most influential mentor was his instructor Samuel Brecher who influenced the budding artist with canons of impressionism during his studies at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts. Brecher was mentored by Hawthorne. "Charles W. Hawthorne passed the light of impressionistic thought, theory and technique to Brecher, who passed his joy of impressionism onto me in the classroom and privately from his studio in New York City." Hawthorne was a founding member of the Cape Cod School of Art colony in Provincetown. Both Brecher and Hawthorne are noted American Impressionists.