About the Artist

Dimitri Pavlotsky is a classically trained modern artist living in Chicago. For more than three decades Pavlotsky has been experimenting with a variety of visual languages. Pavlotsky is currently exploring how old master’s paintings can be presented in a new way for the eyes of the 21st century.  His dialogues with the artists of Renaissance and Baroque are playful improvisations that both question and poke fun at tradition and modernity.

Pavlotsky holds an MA in Architecture from the Moscow Institute of Architecture. After receiving several prestigious national design awards in his native Russia, he emigrated to the United States at the age of twenty-six. He maintained both an active studio painting practice and a successful architectural career until 2018, when he dedicated his full attention to painting.

Pavlotsky’s recent solo exhibitions include “Inner Experiences”, Geneva Public Library, Geneva, IL (2023), “In Your Face”, Firecat Projects, Chicago, IL (2021), “Conversations Beyond Language”, a retrospective at Springfield Art Association, Springfield, IL (2021), “Venturing Out”, virtual interactive exhibition (2020), “Transformation”, Legion Arts, Cedar Rapids, IA (2019), “Let the Game Come to You”, Gallery Orbit, Chicago, IL (2018), “Every Single Line Required”, Krug Community Circle, Wheeling, IL (2017), “Raw Emotion”, Harold Washington Library Center, Chicago, IL (2017), “Dissonance”, a retrospective at Gallery Studio Oh!, Chicago, IL (2015).

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