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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:
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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 for Chitra Ramanathan:
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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 Crooked Creek Elementary School, Marion County, Indianapolis, completed April 5 2008
Commissions:
"Picture Windows 2006: Urban Interpretations" July 2006-February 2007: “Picture Windows: Urban Interpretations” was developed by Public Art Indianapolis, a program managed by the Arts Council of Indianapolis and funded by the Indianapolis Cultural Development Commission. Its intent is to bring locally created artwork to high traffic or transitional areas by commissioning artists to produce site-specific work for each window.
MGM Mirage, Las Vegas, to create two 4 ft X 6 ft signed paintings based on two of Chitra Ramanathan's 1999 and 2000 originals, on permanent display in the Conservatory garden of the Bellagio, Las Vegas since October 2004
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