Medium: Mixed media

Size: 18″ x 24″

Year: 2005

Read more about Chitra Ramanathan

$ 2,000.00

Born in Thiruvananthapuram, India, Chitra Ramanathan is a contemporary Indian American visual artist and educator. She produces predominantly large scale abstract conceptual mixed media and acrylic paintings, drawings, prints, and site-specific public art installations including murals.
Chitra’s body of predominantly large-scale paintings expressed through intense colors and multiple layers of textures, interact with light to “challenge the boundaries of their two-dimensional surfaces”. They are inspired by the short-lived beauty of garden blooms and cyclical change in seasons, characteristics that the artist compares with the continually evolving, 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 paintings 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.
Her paintings on varied medium such as anodized aluminum, Plexiglas, linen, paper and canvas, have been described as “tactile works that resonate with a quiet harmony” and “Simply luxurious” by Manhattan Arts Magazine, New York, reviewing her 1995 exhibition of paintings at Agora Gallery. To quote UIUC Alumini News, “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”. Her art has been acquired by individual as well as corporate collectors including educational institutions around the United States and in Europe.
Chitra earned her second Bachelors of Fine Arts in Painting with Honors in 1993 from the The School of Art and Design - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, 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 also received a Masters degree in Business Administration from the College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA in 1997. Earlier, she received a Bachelors degree in Fine Arts from Stella Maris College, Chennai, India.
During the mid-1990s Chitra began developing that developed into a thematic series of colorful paintings, and prints in her unique style of abstraction, comparing the mental emotion of happiness as a visual entity defined as fleeting and ephemeral, to short-lived garden blooms and continually evolving seasonal changes. Her rendition of intense colors and varieties 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. Her work explores color, line and bring to life varied “formless forms” as she calls her abstracted forms that mysteriously peek out of colorful details, while hints at circles signify the human life cycle. They culminate in compositions and assemblages to form an ongoing dialogue that offers endless possibilities to the viewer imagination.

Her commissioned works to date, range from 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 collection created based on works derived from her own originals constituting of a pair of large paintings for the Café Bellagio housed inside the Bellagio Conservatory and Botanical Gardens - Las Vegas, and 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 follo! wing a January 2006 solo retrospective exhibition of her body of work at the Indianapolis Arts Garden at Circle Center, Indianapolis.

Medium: Mixed Media

Size: 30″ x 20″

Year: 2003

Read more about Parag  Kundargi

   $  6000

Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas

Size: 23.62″ x 23.62″

Year: 2009

Read more about Parag Kundargi

   $ 450.00

I am a Visual Artist (Painter) from India. I received my Six years diploma in Fine Arts at an art school in my home town Pune majoring in portraits and non-representative paintings. My art school years were difficult and very challenging. I was pushed to prove myself and my ideals by the faculty. But it was also here that I learned what kind of artist I wanted to be and what I would and would not comprise as an artist. After graduation I moved to a community workshop in Gallery from Pune.
Here I gained confidence and understood the working of a professional art world. I met several artist from all over India and the rest of the world, working in different media. It was a very Creative.

I have participation various computation in live experience increased my portfolio
And my knowledge also. That’s my view my painting is very different I thinking is
Very different how use simple faction forms use in my painting nature
: I am naturally drawn towards forms, lines and elements which are under pronounced. Something which is not all open at the first glance. I love forms or objects that demands the viewer to dig deeper. Subtlety keeps the mystery alive and ever changing. Personally I find it very interesting, and so I try to replicate that in my paintings. I believe the relationship between “The observer” and “The Painting” should be mutual. My painting does its part by being available to the observer and the observer in turn should take time to get to know and understand the painting. My works may not be for audience who are impatient or demand instant gratification.
I am trying to sell my Paintings from my res. and trying to get contacts Globally

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 28″ x 25″

Year: 2008

Read more about Vishal Mandaviya

   $ 2000.00

More information about Vishal will be post soon….

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 36″ x 66″

Year: 2009

Read more about Sanjay Punekar

   $ 5000.00

Qualification : Gov. Diploma in Fine Art 2003,

Diploma in Art Education 2004

Abhinav Kala Mahavidyalaya

Tilak road, Pune. Maharastra.

Awards : Hindustan Times Award

 

: Alliance francaise Da Poona, (Indo French

Cultural Centre) 2003

 

: Avantika international Art Exhibition Delhi-2002

 

: Nehru BAL samiti award New Delhi 2008

Participation :

¨ ‘Pupra’ Centre for Art And Culture, Japan 2003

¨ ( Kiandoczech Republic)-2003

¨ Bombay Art Society, Mumbai-2003

¨ Art Society of India, Mubai-2003

¨ Camlin Art Foundation Mumbai-2005

¨ All India Kalidas Art Academy, (Ujjan M.P)-2002

¨ 68 All India Art Exhibition, Amritser ( Punjab) 2002

¨ South centre Zone Cultural Centre, Nagpur- 2003

¨ Oak Smrurti All India Art Exhibition, Pune-2000,2001, 2002

¨ All India Art Exhibition, Gulbarga Karnataka 2003

¨ Kalankan Prayas 1st All India Art Exhibition, Jharkhand-2001

¨ Aifacs State Art Exhibition Mumbai - 2001, 2005

¨ All India Student Competition, Ujjan ( M.P) -2002

 

Solo shows and Group shows

¨ Habitat art center delhi 2007, 2008

¨ Mystiq art gallery delhi 2007,2008

¨ The Ashoka gallery delhi 2008

¨ Chatak Show, Nehru Center Art Gallery, Mumbai-2003

¨ Tangent Art Gallery, Mumbai-2003

¨ Monsoon Show, Pradarshak Art gallery Mumbai - 2002,2003

¨ Shree Ganesh Show India Art Gallery Pune-2004

¨ Empress Garden Group show organized by nag Foundation, Pune 2005

¨ (15 young Artist Niharika Group)Nehru memorial hall, Pune 2003

¨ ( 5 Group Show) at bal Gandharv kala Dalan Pune-1999

 

Camp: All India Artist Camp, Ghaziabad, Delhi-2007

Mood Indigo, Mumbai, 2002

7th National Art Festival Ujjain- 2002

Marine Art Foundation Seascape Camp, Mumbai-2002

State Level on the spot land scape camp, Mumbai-2001 satara-2000,

Nashik 2002

15 young artists Camp, Pune-2003

 

Collections

¨ Gilles. Belgium

¨ Ait-chaalal. Belgium

¨ The Tosawasi International Committee Japan.

¨ Indian oil cor. Delhi

¨ ONGC, Delhi

¨ Pupra Center for Art and Cultural, Japan( Kingdoczech Republic)

¨ Camlin Ltd. ( Mr. Dandekar)

¨ Mrs. Anupama, Australia

¨ Aniha Art Gallery Delhi

¨ Many Private Collection at Pune, Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi, Derhadun and abroad