Dmitri Cavender American, b. 1957

Dmitri Cavander is an artist who primarily works in oil and watercolor. He

was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and currently lives in San Francisco,

California. He received a double degree in Fine Art and English from the

University of California at Berkeley, graduating Phi Beta Kappa.

He exhibits his work with Soprafina Gallery in Boston, and Armature

Projects in New York. His paintings have been shown in dozens of

exhibitions at galleries in San Francisco, Boston, New York, and Connecticut,

including Gallery Henoch and Spike Gallery in New York. He’s had biannual

solo exhibitions at Soprafina Gallery in Boston since 2009. The work received

critical acclaim from a broad range of art journals and newspapers, including

the Boston Globe and Arts Media, and critics responded to his sense of paint

and light. In the March 17, 2005, edition of the Boston Globe, Kate McQuaid

writes, “"the contrast of shadow with light that's as sweet and potent as nectar

lend these basic scenes a distinctive import. Cavander is a realist who excels

at revealing the magical in the mundane with a facile thick brush, thick paint,

and a warm color scheme.”

Cavander has drawn since the age of 4, and began oil painting as an

undergraduate at UC Berkeley, where he studied under Christopher Brown,

and discovered several key influences on his work – particularly the attention

to light and the approach to realism taken by California Bay Area artists like

Richard Diebenkorn and Wayne Thiebaud, and the simplification of form

found in artists like Fairfield Porter and Alex Katz. After leaving Berkeley, he

studied with George Nick in Boston, and drew inspiration from the urban

landscape, interiors, and highways around Boston.