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Artist Profile: Chitra Ramanathan
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* Artist Chitra Ramanathan's extensive body of paintings portraying happiness as a visual entity with a "formless form", created through intense colors and varieties of found texture materials
* Predominantly large-scale painting
Chitra Ramanathan's body of mixed-media paintings are characterized by intense colours and multiple layers of textures that interact with light to "challenge the boundaries of their two-dimensional surfaces", inspired by the short-lived garden blooms and cyclical seasons that 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, trying times followed by happy phases and of life and rebirth influenced by her roots from India. Her paintings on varied surfaces have been described as "tactile works that resonate with a quiet harmony" by Manhattan Arts International magazine, New York.
Her work has attracted visiting artist lectures to institutions within the U.S and abroad, including a 2005 invitation from Professor Dr. Maurice Cockrill to London's Royal Academy of Arts for a visual presentation of her body of work and conducting student tutorials at the Royal Academy Schools.
Chitra earned her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Painting with Honours in 1993 from the College of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, during which period she also allotted time to study Painting and Art History in Paris, France, with extended time spent at Claude Monet's garden in Giverny, France and other parts of Europe that influenced her later work. She completed a M.B.A from the same university in 1997.
She is Painting Faculty in Drawing, Acrylics, and Mixed-media Painting at the Indianapolis Art Center, USA, accepting invitational visiting artist lectures, adjunct professor positions, artist residencies, collaborative team projects, exhibition jury requests, site-specific public art commissions, freelance assignments, and invitations to teach courses from educational institutions.