Chitra - contemporary artist

 "Picture Windows 2006: Urban Interpretations", a public art project of the Arts Council of Indianapolis-Site-specific installation at the Chase Towers near Monument Circle, Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A.  July 2006-February 2007

 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.

 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

 (Press-Release.com) February 6, 2005 -- The artist and painter Chitra Ramanathan has been featured in "The Artists Bluebook 2004 - 32,000 North American Artists - 16th Century to August 2004"- by Lonnie Pierson Dunbier, Editor.

The book is a 9"x14" spiral bound, 448 page, easy-to-use portable guide and a directory of www.AskART.com artists' database as of August 2004. The directory contains details beginning with the Old Masters dating from the 16th century to biography/artwork descriptions of professional contemporary artists. To quote from www.askART.com, it contains "market values for artworks and other pertinent information at a glance". From the www.askART.com website page "Books on this artist".

Chitra Ramanathan has held several solo and group exhibitions in the United States, notably on Broadway, New York City since 1995, beginning with a major solo exhibition at Chicago's ARC Gallery/Educational Foundation in 1994. Her work was well-received in New York resulting in rave reviews, and several of her mostly large-scale, conceptual mixed media abstract paintings in her signature style that she is known for, are now with collections around the United States and in Europe.

Chitra earned her Bachelors degree in Fine Arts with Honors in Painting and her Masters degree in Business Administration, both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Chitra recently completed a commission for the MGM Mirage Group for their Cafe Bellagio located inside the Bellagio Conservatory indoor botanical garden of the Hotel Bellagio in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. This entailed creating two four feet by six feet paintings signed by the artist on permanent display in the interior of the Cafe Bellagio as of October 2004. Photos at left & below. Please click on thumbnail images to enlarge.
Above: "Coruscation" 2000, upon which the work (right) was loosely based for the Bellagio Conservatory.

 Above: "A Momentary Glance" 1999, upon which the work (right) was loosely based for the Bellagio Conservatory.