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Indianapolis U.S.A Fun City Finder "Chitra Ramanathan: Freelance Indianapolis artist and art educator" by Katelyn Coyne: Arts, People February 17, 2010 Indianapolis Dance and Indianapolis Art Presentation by KATELYN COYNE in ARTS , THEATRE

Pike Performing Arts Center is known as an important Indianapolis performing artsvenue. Not only is its stage used regularly by Indianapolis dance groups like Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre, but it also houses the work of Indianapolis artists in its Gallery Seven. This weekend browse through Chitra Ramanathan’s latest work in Gallery Seven, then enjoy Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre’s production ofReincarnation. Gallery Seven is open FREE to Indianapolis people Monday through Friday and on weekends 90 minutes before any performance time. Tickets to see Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre’s Reincarnation are $25.00 each. Don’t miss either of these thought provoking Indianapolis events at Pike Performing Arts Center.

“Formless Forms” by Chitra RamanthanChitra Ramanathan’s work fills walls of Gallery Seven at Pike Performing Arts Center. This Indianapolis art show runs now through July 13. Ramanthan’s predominately large scale body of mixed media paintings are characterized by intense color and multiple layers of textures that interact with light to “challenge the boundaries of their two dimensional surfaces.” Her work is inspired by short lived garden blooms and cyclical seasons both of which the artist compares with the continually evolving ephemeral, fleeting happiness of their “formless form.”

Ramanathan coined this phrase to describe her concept. Hints of circles signify the human life cycle, trying times followed by happy phases. Her work is deeply influenced by her roots in India and the commonly held belief in the life and rebirth cycle. Her use of varied surfaces for her paintings create what was described as “tactile works that resonate with quite harmony” by Manhattan Arts Internationalmagazine.Ramanathan recently returned to the Circle City after completing a residency with Camac Centre D’Art – Marney Art Centre in France. The

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seasonal gardens their have long inspired Ramanathan. Don’t miss your chance to see this artists work for FREE in Pike Performing Arts Center’s Indianapolis art gallery: Gallery Seven.

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Saatchi Online Message from Charles Saactchi:On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 9:39 PM, Charles wrote:Hello,Very happy to see your work on the gallery site.I am thrilled that the standard is so high from such a variety of artists such as yourself, and hope it will be interesting to gallery owners, exhibition curators and collectors to see such diverse work.All my best, CCharles Saatchi The Saatchi Gallery - Contemporary Art in London

*"Pursuit of happiness", Interview with Chitra Ramanathan by Kasey Jackson for the Indianapolis Star newspaper's Fishers|Geist Magazine, June-July 2007

* ”Paintings Give Form to the Ephemeral”, interview/profile: Della Pacheco, the Indianapolis Business Journal, Women in Business Section, April 9-15, 2007

Chitra Ramanathan, solo Exhibi tion of Paintings, Pike Performing Arts Center, Indianapolis, June 10, 2010 , Indianapolis, USA.

Review, June 10, 2010Indianapolis Indiana USA, Fun City Finder, June 6, 2010: "Pike Performing Arts Center Presents Dance and Indianapolis Art"

2006 Viewers Choice Award, Exhibition, Print Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA: “Impromptu Show “ 4 Star Gallery, Indianapolis

• 2004 Awarded site-specific commission by the MGM Mirage, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

• 1994 “Outstanding Achievement in the Painting Discipline” Product Grant Award, LIQUITEX Excellence in Art, Binney & Smith, Inc. U.S.A

• 1995 “Outstanding Achievement in the Painting Discipline,” Product Grant Award,, LIQUITEX Excellence in Art, Binney & Smith, Inc. U.S.A

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Chitra Ramanathan - Residency report and experiences in France |Artistay.org, 2010

* IndyStar.com Second Annual Spotlight Art @Clowes Showcases Six Multicultural Artists, Theme of Courage and Hope By Lisa Vielee , News from You, April 13, 2010


* I feel fortunate that my work has got accepted so favorably-people who come across my paintings on various web sites have been writing to me, and many of them have become collectors of my work. I have also done a fair amount of donating work to worthy causes particularly auctions to benefit children's causes globally. I wish to continue painting as long as I live, and would like to work on more public and corporate art commissions, maybe liven up buildings and offices that people see every day to provide an example"- "Pursuit of happiness", Interview with Chitra Ramanathan by Kasey Jackson for the Indianapolis Star newspaper's Fishers|Geist Magazine, June-July 2007

* Profile: “Secret Success”, Indianapolis Monthly Home Magazine, July 2006

*"City walkers get art views", S.L.Berry, Indianapolis Star, July 28, 2006; page G.33

* "Works find new spaces", S.L.Berry, Indianapolis Star, July 16, 2006;, page. I.1

*"The Big 3, S.L.Berry, Indianapolis Star, January 13, 2006, page g.32

Press Box.co.uk, London - Chitra Ramanathan, Royal Academy of Arts Lecture 2005

*CAA News, Newsletter of the College Art Association, NYC; Volume 30, Number 5, "Solo Exhibition by Artist Members", September 2005

* PR WEB Worldwide Press Release, “The Artist Chitra Ramanathan to Lecture at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK” September 25, 2005

* “Artist Chitra Ramanathan receives Hotel Bellagio Las Vegas

Commission”, University of Illinois Alumni Newsletter, August 2005

* Awards and Grants, People in the News, CAA News, Newsletter of the College Art Association, NYC; November 2004

* PR WEB Worldwide Press Release, December 9, 2004

* PR WEB Worldwide Press Release, October 27, 2004

* Academe, People in the News, CAA News, Newsletter of the College Art Association, New York City, Volume 29, Number 4, July 2004

* "Happy Art", Melissa Merli, Staff Writer, The Champaign-Urbana News Gazette, Champaign, Illinois, USA. Sunday, February 23, 2003

• CAA News, "Solo Exhibition by Artist Members", November 2001

* The Champaign-Urbana News Gazette, "New Exhibition Series Opens at the Springer Cultural Center, 2000

* Krish Krishnan, "CHITRA RAMANATHAN" KALA Arts Quarterly, Toronto, Canada, January 2000

* Levina Melwani, New York Correspondent, India Today Magazine, New York, USA. “IN PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS”, May 1998

* Louis Rodriguez Aranguren, “PINTORA HINDU CHITRA RAMANATHAN SEDUCE A NEW YORK CON EL EMBRUJO DEL COLOR Y ALEGORIAS METAFISCAS” ("Hindu Painter Chitra Ramanathan Seduces New York with enchantment of color and metaphysical allegories") Nosotros Magazine, New York, USA. April 1995

* “Midwest Artist Slates Show in N.Y”, India Abroad Magazine, USA. March 31 1995

* Claude LeSuer, “Six Original Talents at Montserrat Gallery”, ARTSPEAK, New York USA.1995

* Gordon Dane, “Reviews & Previews” Manhattan Arts International, New York, USA. Autumn, 1995

* “UI Fine Art Student Wins Grant”, Features; University of Illinois News in Brief, The Champaign-Urbana News Gazette, Champaign, Illinois USA. May 14 1995

* Gisele Atterberry, “Complexities Abound in ‘Simple’ Works”, The Champaign-Urbana News Gazette, December 3 1993

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Hi Chitra, Your works are beautiful and sign of a great artist.

"Says a recent collector, an art connoisseur and former staffer of the Indianapolis Museum of Art: "Chitra is a wonderful teacher who helps each individual student. As an artist, she is inspiring. Her work is in great collections, including the Bellagio in Las Vegas. I proudly own one of her works. Anyone would be proud to add one of her works to a collection." Service Category: Artist/ Teacher Year first hired: 2004 (hired more than once)Top Qualities: Expert, High Integrity, Creative"--Alice Irvan, President, AirVanConsulting LLC, Indianapolis. Source: LinkedIn

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Hi Citra,Your paintings are wonderful.some are really awakening .I admire and appreciate your paintings. With regards Janaki

"E/Motions" Group exhibition at Agora Gallery, Broadyway, New York: Chitra Ramanathan employs paint, anodized aluminum, and Plexiglas to create tactile works that resonate with a quiet harmony. Originally from India, her work reflects that spiritual culture". -Reviews & Previews by Gordon Dane for Manhattan Arts International magazine, New York, Fall 1995

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subjectivity of each individual's unique pursuit of happiness. Her painting procedure often entails making mental notes of a scene in nature, including the lighting, colors, and textures. She then uses these impressions in her studio to replicate the subject matter in an abstracted form, using rich physical textures, intense colors, and varied media". Interview with Chitra Ramanathan, University of Illinois School of Art and Design Alumni Foundation 2005

"Chitra's artwork invokes emotions through her layering of color and texture"- Karla Becker, Indianapolis. Co-author of textbook, "Composing Technical Documents", previously used at Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis.


"A Melodious Dream" - "ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL .." Terry Wiley, Artist, www. fineartamerica.com

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Artist Chitra Ramanathan's Donation of Artwork to the Madam C.J.Walker Theatre Center Indianapolis

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* Chitra Ramanathan, solo Exhibi tion of Paintings, Pike Performing Arts Center, Indianapolis, June 10, 2010 , Indianapolis, USA. Review, June 10, 2010

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"Says a recent collector, an art connoisseur and former staffer of the Indianapolis Museum of Art: "Chitra is a wonderful teacher who helps each individual student. As an artist, she is inspiring. Her work is in great collections, including the Bellagio in Las Vegas. I proudly own one of her works. Anyone would be proud to add one of her works to a collection." Service Category: Artist/ Teacher Year first hired: 2004 (hired more than once)Top Qualities: Expert, High Integrity, Creative"--Alice Irvan, President, AirVanConsulting LLC, Indianapolis. Source: LinkedIn

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Hi Citra,Your paintings are wonderful.some are really awakening .I admire and appreciate your paintings. With regards Janaki

"E/Motions" Group exhibition at Agora Gallery, Broadyway, New York: Chitra Ramanathan employs paint, anodized aluminum, and Plexiglas to create tactile works that resonate with a quiet harmony. Originally from India, her work reflects that spiritual culture". -Reviews & Previews by Gordon Dane for Manhattan Arts


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International magazine, New York, Fall 1995

"Chitra's paintings exemplify her love of nature as well as the subjectivity of each individual's unique pursuit of happiness. Her painting procedure often entails making mental notes of a scene in nature, including the lighting, colors, and textures. She then uses these impressions in her studio to replicate the subject matter in an abstracted form, using rich physical textures, intense colors, and varied media". Interview with Chitra Ramanathan, University of Illinois School of Art and Design Alumni Foundation 2005

"Chitra's artwork invokes emotions through her layering of color and texture"- Karla Becker, Indianapolis. Co-author of textbook, "Composing Technical Documents", previously used at Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis.


"A Melodious Dream" - "ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL .." Terry Wiley, Artist, www. fineartamerica.com

Link to video _ Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2009

Artist Chitra Ramanathan's Donation of Artwork to the Madam C.J.Walker Theatre Center Indianapolis

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http://www.chitraramanathan.com/

Born in Kerala, India, Chitra Ramanathan is a contemporary visual artist, educator and muralist. She is primarily a painter. Guided by unexpected flashes of inspiration, the artist's abstract images express her ongoing creative journey through a unique body of thematic paintings which has produced delight, inspiration and peace to lovers of her artwork. Her mixed-media paintings are uniquely characteristic of intense colors and multiple layers of varied textural materials that interact with light to "challenge the boundaries of their two-dimensional surfaces". They are inspired by short-lived garden blooms and cyclical seasons both of which the artist compares with the continually evolving, ephemeral, fleeting happiness' "formless form": a phrase she has coined to describe her concept. Hints of circles signify the human life-cycle which allude to trying times followed by happy phases, as a continuous cycle of life and rebirth influenced by her roots from India.

The paintings are created on varieties textural materials that are layered on diverse surfaces, be it canvas, plexiglas, linen, paper or anodized aluminum, and succeed in creating the illusion of extending the images beyond the confines of their otherwise two-dimensional surfaces under any light situation. They explore color, form and line that emerge as “formless forms” as Chitra Ramanathan calls her abstracted images that mysteriously peek out of colorful details, while hints at circles that are also an integral part of her work signify the human life cycle. As a whole, the artist's compositions and assemblages present an ongoing dialogue that offers endless possibilities to the viewer imagination. An invitational solo retrospective exhibition of a large selection from Chitra's body of work took place at the Indianapolis Artsgarden, near Monument Circle, Indianapolis, USA in January 2006.

Chitra's paintings has been exhibited regionally, nationally and most recently the Wisbech and the Fenland Museum at Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom in 2010, and have been included in corporate, public and private collections including educational institutions. Within the U.S, her predominantly large scale abstract conceptual mixed media paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture have been exhibited in art galleries on Broadway, New York, Chicago, Indianapolis.

Also an educator, Chitra Ramanathan currently teaches classes in acrylics and mixed media painting at the Vero Beach Museum of Art, FLorida, USA. She received her Bachelors degree in Painting in 1993 and Masters degree in Business Administration in 1997 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA.

She has also been awarded different invitational site-specific public art commissions. Her commissioned works to date:

* A permanent wall painting for children measuring 13.8 feet wide and 4 feet high for the front lobby of Crooked Creek Elementary School in Marion County, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA completed in April 2008

* A site-specific public art project made possible through a grant to the school by the Metropolitan School Foundation, a public school district in Indianapolis

*A 2004 permanent site-specific public art commission for the MGM Mirage that the artists created a pair of large paintings based on works derived from her own originals for the Café Bellagio housed inside the Bellagio Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in Las Vegas

* Five large-scale mixed-media paintings commissioned by the Arts Council of Indianapolis exhibited at Chase Towers, Monument Circle Indianapolis from July 2006 to February 2007, an annual project of the Arts Council of Indianapolis supported by the Indianapolis Cultural Development Commission, following a January 2006 solo retrospective exhibition of her body of work at the Indianapolis Arts Garden.

* A pair of paintings, one measuring 58 inches x 62 inches, and the other measuring 38 inches x 48 inches, are permanently displayed in the conference area of the College of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Champaign, Illinois. This was a gift to the college by the artist in 1996.

Future/ongoing interests:

*Art direction, set creation/set design/set construction projects to design, build, construct and paint custom props, creating murals.

*Consult and develop themes for churches, casinos, schools, hospitals or corporate projects.

*Teach holiday courses in Drawing and Painting mediums

Above: Acquisition: Private collection, New York - "Exuberance", acrylics on canvas, 5 ft x 6 feet, 1997- substantially inspired by a photgraph of the reflections in lake at Monet's garden.

Quotes of Chitra Ramanathan

"My art has grown with me since early childhood; as far back as I can recollect! It has always given me this intense inner peace and joy".

"I feel happiness is like a garden. Seasons change and it's the same with the mental state of happiness. (Optimistically) good times follow difficult phases in life - it's a cyclical concept.."

"I wish to continue painting as long as I live. I would like to work on more public and corporate art commissions, maybe liven up buildings and offices that people see every day..." - Interview profile by Della Pacheco, Women in Business section, the Indianapolis Business Journal , Indiana U.S.A, April 2007.

"I consider happiness to be irresistible, fleeting, and ephemeral. You can never really capture it but instead imagine it in so many colorful ways. I try to put these emotions down each time I set out to create.

Right from the beginning, I think of the visual impact of my finished paintings being exposed to natural versus artificial light and of different times of day, because of the presence of iridescent hues in many a piece. Similarly, textures can "play" with the eye when viewed under different light settings. I have progressively explored methods to capture the best effects of color, light and texture Color, light and texture play very important roles in my work, as well as process and minute details in the tradition of Indian Miniatures" - Interview profile by Melissa Merle, The News - Gazette .com, Illinois U.S.A, 2003.

"My drawings are the backbones of my paintings."

"I feel fortunate that my work has got accepted so favorably - people who come across my paintings on various websites have been writing to me, and many have become collectors of my work. I am thankful that my work has traveled to different parts of the U.S and Europe. I have done a fair amount of donating work to worthy causes. Currently some of my paintings are designated for auction, proceeds from sales to reach organizations committed that benefit causes that benefit children on a global scale.

"Water - I love water! It is so essential for life on our planet. Rivers, seascapes - anything portraying the vast expanses of it in different kinds of lighting might be interesting" (When asked about the most beautiful thing (featuring landscape as subject) to paint - Profile interview by Kasey Jackson,The Indianapolis Star Media Group: Fishers Geist Magazine, Indiana, USA July 2007

Links to this website:

Chitra Ramanathan | Artsy Home

http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/chitra-ramanathan.html

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2993868/bio

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