Artist Information:
Chitra Ramanathan
Fortville, IN
United States
Member Since: Jun 2009
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Artist Statement:
Chitra Ramanathan, in her own
words:
Through my body of work I
portray the subject of
happiness as a visual
interpretation. To achieve
this goal, I employ intense,
vibrant colors combining them
with intricate textural
materials, arriving at
predominantly large collages
that convey the universal
mental emotion. Since
happiness has no recognizable
form, I refer to the hint of
figures and circular
ima...gery as 'formless
forms", a phrase I have coined
to describe the abstract
imagery. As happiness is a
lifelong pursuit and yet could
be elusive as an ongoing goal
in the human life cycle, I
refer to the feeling as
fleeting and temporary,
comparing the emotion to
continually evolving ephemeral
garden blooms and cyclical
seasons in nature, as both are
transient, changing and
evolving.
Though my current body of work
is conceptual with mixed-media
collage and acrylics as prime
mediums, I am equally
comfortable with portrait and
landscape painting and drawing
or painting with pencil,
charcoal or oil since I have
experimented with different
mediums since early childhood.
Serendipity intervening
however, some large public art
commissions I have completed
in recent years have been
requested after viewing my
conceptual work with
organizations requesting that
I replicate ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Selected Exhibitions:
2010
SPOTLIGHT Artists Gallery
Opening Night Reception
Spotlight Art @ Clowes:
Invitational Exhibition: "One
Night, One Stage, One Reason"
"to raise money for the
Indiana AIDS Fund and HIV/AIDS
education and prevention".
Venue: Clowes Memorial Hall of
Butler University,
Indianapolis, Indiana USA.
April 12 – May 24, 2010.
Solo ...
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Artist Galleries:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Reviews:
MAGAZINE REVIEWS & ARTICLES *
Indicates articles)
• * Profile: “Rendezvous
Artist”, Profile Article,
Indianapolis Star
Newspaper’s Fishers>Geist
Magazine, July/August 2007
• * ”Paintings Give Form
to the Ephemeral”,
interview/profile,
Indianapolis Business Journal,
Women in Business Section,
April 9-15, 2007
• * Indianapolis Monthly
Home Magazine, Profile:
“Secret Success”, July
2006
• CAA News, ...
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Collections:
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Commissions:
Artist Residency:
Invitational artist residency
at Champagne Ardenne, France,
April 2010. Grant by Camac -
Centre D'Art - Marnay Art
Centre, France and
Transcultural International
Exchange in the Arts
March-April 2008: Washington
Township School Foundation
grant commission to create
permanent wall mural painting
for children in the front
lobby of ...
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Chitra Ramanathan's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Chitra Ramanathan's Portfolio.
Chitra Ramanathan, in her own words:
Through my body of work I portray the subject of happiness as a visual interpretation. To achieve this goal, I employ intense, vibrant colors combining them with intricate textural materials, arriving at predominantly large collages that convey the universal mental emotion. Since happiness has no recognizable form, I refer to the hint of figures and circular ima...gery as 'formless forms", a phrase I have coined to describe the abstract imagery. As happiness is a lifelong pursuit and yet could be elusive as an ongoing goal in the human life cycle, I refer to the feeling as fleeting and temporary, comparing the emotion to continually evolving ephemeral garden blooms and cyclical seasons in nature, as both are transient, changing and evolving.
Though my current body of work is conceptual with mixed-media collage and acrylics as prime mediums, I am equally comfortable with portrait and landscape painting and drawing or painting with pencil, charcoal or oil since I have experimented with different mediums since early childhood.
Serendipity intervening however, some large public art commissions I have completed in recent years have been requested after viewing my conceptual work with organizations requesting that I replicate ... |
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