About My Work:
Born in Thiruvananthapuram, India, Chitra Ramanathan is a contemporary Indian American visual artist and educator. She produces predominantly large scale abstract conceptual mixedmedia paintings, drawings, prints, site-specific installation works.

During the mid-1990s Chitra began developing what emerged as a thematic body of paintings comparing the mental emotion of happiness as a visual entity defined as fleeting and ephemeral, to short-lived garden books and continually evolving seasonal changes. Her rendition of intense colors and variety of textural materials explored on diverse surfaces such as canvas, Plexiglas, paper or anodized aluminum, when viewed under any light situation visually "challenge or "extend" out beyond the confines of their otherwise two-dimensional surfaces. They explore color, line, "formless forms" as she calls her abstracted figures that mysteriously peek out of colorful details, while hints at circular forms signify the human life cycle influenced by her roots from India, They culminate in compositions  and assemblages to form an ongoing dialogue.

Pricing Information:
Email: chitraramanathan8@gmail.com

Artist Statement/Bio:
Educator and professional artist Chitra Ramanathan's current series of predominantly large-scale multi-media paintings portray the mental emotion of happiness as a visual entity through intense colors and multiple layers of textures that attract light from various angles, pushing the boundaries of her paintings beyond the confines of a two-dimensional surface. They are inspired by short-lived garden blooms and constantly changing seasons in nature, characteristics that attribute to the ephemeral, fleeting and enticingly beautiful happiness' "formless form": a phrase she has coined to describe her concept. The hint of circles almost always present in her works signify the cycle of human life: trying times followed by happy phases in a positive sense, and of life and rebirth influenced by her roots from India.

Museum and Corporate Collections:
Brevard Art Museum of Arts and Sciences, Melbourne, Florida, USA

Affiliations:
Lecture at Royal Academy of Arts located in Piccadilly, London by famed painter keeper and head of the Academy, Maurice Cockrill on October 24 and 25, 2005. Member, Committee on Cultural Diversity Practices, College Art Association, New York. 2007-2010. (Active member of CAA since 1997 & Member, Ser