The Artist-painter Chitra Ramanathan of MGM Mirage Cafe Bellagio Painting Commission Fame Has Created Ten paintings for the Gallery of the Machine Exhibit/Sale at the Indianapolis ArtsGarden

Released on = February 14, 2005, 11:10 am

Press Release Author = About Chitra Ramanathan

Industry = Entertainment

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 has succesfully 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 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. Several websites feature her biography as well as images of her colorful, often large scale, 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 Indianpolis,an Art Center faculty at Indianapolis Art Center and a member/volunteer of the Lilly House at the
Indianapolis Museum of Art.

Website featuring Chitra Ramanathan paintings/biography:

http://www.galleries-online.co.uk/art_gal_img.cfm?imageid

Web Site = http://hometown.aol.com/cramanat/myhomepage/

Contact Details = Chitra Ramanathan
10445 Stonegate Drive
Fortville, IN 46040
cramanat@aol.com