Dominick Di Meo

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Dominick Di Meo

Hello Max! Tick-Tock
1966
acrylic and synthetic polymer on canvas
22 x 30 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Visionary Garden (triptych)
1980s
polymer, acrylic and fabric on canvas
72 x 50 inches (each)

Dominick Di Meo

Untitled (sky blue)
n.d.
acrylic, polymer, stickers, graphite, fabric, collage, and shaped elements on canvas
48 x 52 1/4 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Elements for a Monument
c. 1981
polyform, wire, acrylic and acrylic transfer on wood
13 x 4 x 9 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Elements for a Monument
c. 1981
polyform, wire, acrylic and acrylic transfer on wood
15 x 4 x 6 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Elements for a Monument
c. 1980
polyform and bone on wood
5 1/2 x 3 1/2 x 2 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Untitled
c. 1980
polyform and acrylic on polymer-coated canvas and wire mesh
21 x 12 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Study for ‘A Monument’ #4
1979
Polyform and acrylic on polymer-coated canvas and wire mesh
9 x 16 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Untitled
c. 1979
polyform and acrylic on polymer-coated canvas and wiremesh
17 x 10 1/2 x 9 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Untitled (Study for 'A Moment')
c. 1979
polyform and acrylic on polymer-coated canvas and wiremesh
9 x 17 x 10 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Untitled
c. 1978
polyform and acrylic on polymer-coated canvas and wiremesh
21 x 19 x 3 1/2 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Untitled
c. 1978
polyform and acrylic on polymer-coated canvas and wiremesh
14 1/4 x 10 1/4 x 1 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Elephant Skin Game
1974
acrylic on canvas
10 x 10 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Mirage
c. 1974
polyform, polymer, and acrylic on canvas
30 x 24 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Commemorative Ground Cover
1973
polyform, polymer and acrylic on canvas
36 x 30 1/2 x 3 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Invalid with Mirror
1973
synthetic polymer transfer on canvas
28 x 22 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Untitled (face on yellow)
c. 1973
synthetics on canvas
50 x 58 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Great Head
1973
synthetics on canvas
50 x 58 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Myself as Magician
1972
synthetic polymer transfer and charcoal on canvas
22 x 26 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Myself/flesyM
1972
synthetic polymer and cordl on canvas
24 x 14 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Untitled (moon watch)
1972
acrylic and synthetic polymer on canvas
28 x 22 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Hovering
1972
acrylic and synthetic polymer transfer on canvas
24 x 16 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Untitled (elliptical blue)
1971
mixed media on canvas
28 x 36 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Untitled (elliptical green)
1971
mixed media on canvas
28 x 36 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Personage
1971
synthetic on canvas
58 1/2 x 50 inches

Dominick Di Meo

The Bride Revisited (cigars)
1971
synthetic polymer transfer, collage, water stain, and cord on linen
34 x 28 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Untitle
1971
acrylic, synthetic polymer, and charcoal on linen
30 1/2 x 42 1/4 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Untitled (white personage)
c. 1970
synthetic on canvas
50 x 56 1/2 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Untitled
c. 1970
acrylic, polymer, shaped elements, and tacks on three canvases
18 x 20 x 3 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Surprise in the Garden
1970
acrylic, Swedish putty, rope, and sculptural elements mounted on canvas
17 x 13 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Untitled (collage sea with man's face on top)
1970
acrylic, synthetic polymer, and collage on canvas
28 1/4 x 20 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Startled Personage
c. 1968
acrylic, spray paint, and tranfer on canvas
48 x 36 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Untitled (yellow background with skull)
1968
acrylic, plastic, and sythetic polymer on wood panel
18 x 12 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Portrait of LBJ
c. 1967
photomontage and acrylic on canvas
24 1/2 x 23 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Untitled (eye and ear and hair on black)
1967
acrylic and synthetic polymer transfer on canvas
19 x 20 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Floating Menace
1967
charcoal and synthetic polymer on canvas
74 x 60 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Untitled (crossed leg and breast)
1966
acrylic and synthetic polymer transfer on canvas
12 x 10 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Study for a Monument (1)
1966
acrylic and synthetic polymer transfer on canvas
12 x 14 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Study for a Monument (2)
1966
acrylic and synthetic polymer transfer on canvas
12 x 14 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Study for a Monument (3)
1966
acrylic and synthetic polymer transfer on canvas
12 x 14 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Study for a Monument (4)
1966
acrylic and synthetic polymer transfer on canvas
12 x 14 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Study for a Monument with Cigar
1966
acrylic and synthetic polymer transfer on canvas
12 x 14 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Torsoe - D
1965-66
acrylic and charcoal on canvas
96 x 49 3/4 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Untitled (fan and sunglasses)
1965
synthetic on canvas
36 x 50 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Woman by the Sea
1965
oil and synthetic transfer on canvas
61 x 53 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Untitled (Little Red Riding Hood)
1965
acrylic and collage on canvas
17 x 30 1/4 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Untitled (blue and orange with black figures)
1965
acrylic and synthetic polymer on canvas
74 x 60 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Aroused by a Tongue, Venus Turning in Her Dream Stirs the Constellations
1964-65
synthetic and charcoal on canvas
72 x 50 inches

Dominick Di Meo

The Somnambulator
1964
oil and synthetic on canvas
50 x 72 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Untitled (naked ladies)
1964
synthetic, charcoal, and transfer on canvas
48 x 68 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Chase: Real and Imagined
1964
synthetics on canvas
50 x 62 inches

Dominick Di Meo

The Soft Torso Breathes
1964
synthetic on canvas
62 x 50 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Moon Phase (Harlequinade)
1964
synthetic on canvas
50 x 60 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Night
1964
synthetic polymer and synthetic on canvas
50 x 58 inches

Dominick Di Meo

A Little Memorial to Julian Griman
1963
graphite, black ink wash, acrylic, acrylic wash, and black pen on paper
26 x 19 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Untitled
1963
graphite on paper
26 x 19 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Nighttime with Starfish
1963
plastic and water-based pigment on hemp
20 x 14 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Untitled (numbers creature)
c. 1962
graphite rubbing with ink wash on paper
25 x 19 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Torso / Landscape
1962
vinyl, sand, and plaster
20 x 14 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Untitled
1962
black ink and graphite on paper
19 x 26 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Untitled
1959
acrylic, plastic wood, and sculptural elements mounted on wood board
25 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 3 inches

Dominick Di Meo

Untitled
1950s
graphite rubbing on paper
13 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches

Dominick Di Meo, 1952

BIO

b. 1927

Lives and works in New York City.

An inspiration to subsequent artists, including Jim Nutt, Gladys Nilsson, and Art Green, Dominick Di Meo is one of Chicago’s key transitional figures and an artist of immense power and sensitivity. One of the original members of the so-called Monster Roster, a 1950s group of Chicago artists that included Leon Golub, Nancy Spero, Cosmo Campoli, George Cohen, June Leaf, Ted Halkin, and Seymour Rosofsky, Di Meo’s Chicago-era work was ferociously unique and personal.

His early paintings and drawings featured stressed, existentially tormented figures. He was deeply moved by his encounters with the catacombs of Mexico and Rome, and his dark, haunting images began to acquire a set of common icons, which included skulls and disarticulated limbs and bones. By the late ’50s, Di Meo was making reliefs, utilizing papier-mache, plastic, wood, layers of vinyl and plaster. In 1961, Di Meo spent a year in Italy, traveling, living in Florence, and working feverishly on his reliefs.

When he returned to Chicago, he began painting large scale, creating a stunning series of works that combine synthetic polymer and various methods of stenciling. Playful and somewhat lighter in tone, but still possessed of a dark sense of humor, these works were the last Di Meo showed during his tenure in Chicago.

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