The
Artist-Painter Chitra Ramanathan of MGM Mirage's Cafe Bellagio Interior
Commission Fame Contributes Conceptual Textural Mini Paintings to
the Gallery of the Machine Exhibit/Sale at Indianapolis
Released on
= February 10, 2005, 5:48 pm
Press Release
Author = About Chitra Ramanathan
Industry = Education
Press Release
Summary = The artist and painter Chitra Ramanathan, who completed
a Major Commission by the MGM Mirage Group for permanent display
in the interior of their Cafe Bellagio in Las Vegas late last year,
has recently created and
contributed a series of ten original colorful, textured conceptual
paintings in her signature style to the Gallery of the Machine.
Each of her paintings measures six and a half inch by five inch
in dimension. The Gallery of the Machine, located in the Indianapolis
Artsgarden from February through May 2005, is later proposed to
be moved to the Indianpolis Museum of Art as permanent exhibit.
Press Release
Body = In April, the Gallery of the Machine is to be unveiled in
the Artsgarden at the Indianapolis Arts Council’s annual meeting.
Funded with a $5,000 Fast Track grant from the city’s Cultural
Development Commission, it is a vending
machine that has been loaded with pieces of original artwork by
local artists. Proceeds from the sale of the artworks will benefit
the Passion for Arts Fund, which is the Indianpolis Museum of Art's
annual operating fund. This particular model of the vending machine
sells art instead of candy or gum when money is fed into it, and
will be up for display and sale of artwork through August 30, 2005.
Chitra Ramanathan,
a U.S. citizen has held several solo and group exhibitions of her
paintings on Broadway, New York since 1995, following a large solo
exhibition of her paintings at the ARC Gallery/Educational Foundation
in Chicago, Illinois in 1994.
Since then, her work has been acquired through the worldwide web
as well as through contacts by individual collectors and business
enterprises for collections around the United States and in Europe.
Ramanathan is best known for her mixed media
conceptual abstract large-scale acrylic paintings.
Chitra Ramanathan
earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and her Masters degree
in Business Administration both from the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. Ramanathan is most known for her
often large scale, colorful, mixed media acrylic, abstract paintings
in her signature style. She is a Services to Artists Committee member
of the College Art Association of America, New York, an artist member
of the Arts Council of Indianapolis, an Art Center faculty at Indianapolis
Art Center and a member/volunteer of the Lilly House at the Indianapolis
Museum of Art.
Websites featuring
Chitra Ramanathan paintings/biography:
http://www.galleries-online.co.uk/art_gal_img.cfm?imageid
Web Site = www.galleries-online.co.uk/art_gal_img.cfm?imageid
Contact Details
= Chitra Ramanathan
10445 Stonegate Drive
Fortville, IN 46040
cramanat@aol.com
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