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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 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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Exhibitions for Chitra Ramanathan:
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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 exhibition, GALLERY SEVEN, Pike Performing Arts Center, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. June 1 - July 2, 2010.
2009
Invitational exhibition, The Brevard Art Museum , Melbourne, Florida, USA. May 15 - July 12, 2009.
"A Postcard is Worth 1000 Words Exhibition", APW Gallery Long Island City, New York, USA. June 5 - June 29, 2009:
Past:
Bi-annual Faculty Exhibition, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. September 2007
* “Chitra Ramanathan: Recent Paintings”, Retrospective Solo Exhibition, Indianapolis Arts Garden, Indiana, USA. January 1-31, 2006
“Naturally Inspired” Art exhibition of “en plein air” paintings, White River Gardens, Indianapolis, USA. September 1-November 19, 2006
”Impromptu Show”, 4 Star Gallery Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. April 2006
Bi-annual Faculty Exhibition, Indianapolis Art Center Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. August 26-September 29, 2005 September-October 2007
"Nine", Exhibition of Paintings, Springer Cultural Center Champaign, Illinois, USA. April 18-30, 2003
"ARTISTS AGAINST •AIDS" 2003 Eleventh Annual Exhibition, Champaign, Illinois, USA. Paintings.April 19-May 4, 2002
"ARTISTS AGAINST AIDS" 2002 Tenth Annual Exhibition & Benefit Show, Champaign, Illinois, USA. Paintings /Prints February 26 - March 17, 2003
INTERNATIONAL GALLERIES, Urbana, Illinois, USA: Solo exhibition of paintings, August 18 - September 14, 2001
* MONTSERRAT GALLERY SoHo, Broadway, New York, USA: Solo exhibition. "Recent Paintings". April 22 - May 10, 1998
* MONTSERRAT GALLERY SoHo, Broadway, New York, USA: Paintings. April 22 - May 10, 1997
Agora Gallery SoHo, Broadway, New York, USA: Paintings & Sculpture. November 4 - November 18, 1995
MONTSERRAT GALLERY SoHo, Broadway, New York, USA: Paintings. April 22-May 10, 1995
*Arc Gallery /Educational Foundation, Chicago Illinois, USA: Solo exhibition. Paintings, Prints & Sculpture. May 31-June 25, 1994
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