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Artist Statement:
Statement
Happiness... it lies in the
joy of achievement, in the
thrill of creative effort -
Vincent Van Gogh
My present career as a
conceptual artist emerged
after I received my Bachelors
degree in Painting in the
1990s. An opportunity for a
solo exhibition at the Arc
Gallery/Educational Foundation
at Chicago in 1994 was
followed by exhibitions at
different art galleries on
Broadway's Soho District, New
York City, New York that
earned me many a praise from
critics. During this time, I
received the Binney and Smith
Inc. Liquitex Student Grant
Award for 1994 and 1995. The
award is a designation for
"Outstanding achievement in
the Painting discipline".
In the meantime, I began
developing what emerged as a
thematic body of paintings
comparing the mental emotion
of Happiness as a visual
entity as fleeting and
ephemeral, to short-lived
garden blooms and continually
evolving seasons. My usage of
intense colors and variety of
textural materials when
combined with any light
situation visually"challenge"
the boundaries of their
two-dimensional surfaces. The
abstract figuration alluding
to human forms and the
presence of circles in my work
signify ongoing human
life-cycle, trying phases
followed by happy spells in a
positive ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Selected Exhibitions
2009 Exhibitions:
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 ...
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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:
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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