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Raman’s works make frequent nods to 1960s and ‘70s nostalgia that reveal his penchant for arresting colors as well as an ever-present tinge of the rock & roll ethos.
Raman draws inspiration for his paintings from disparate sources. Influences as expansive as Picasso and Warhol, Jagger and Richards, and Hemingway and Fitzgerald all collide on his canvas.
Raman’s works have been shown at solo and group exhibits at venues and galleries in New York City, Miami, Cape Cod, as well as in the DMV region. His Love In Six Lines series has been featured as large-size, street-art murals in various neighborhoods in Washington, DC. His works also are in collectors’ homes throughout the country.
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Ravi Raman - RTunes68
Silver Spring, MD
"Sunny with a Chance of Nostalgia"
Ravi Raman likens his arrival in America at the age of five to television going from black and white to high-definition, fifty-foot tall, 4D cinema. Inundated by American pop culture – television, movies, literature, fashion, art, and especially music – he consumed all of it with such a voracious appetite that its influences still permeate each of his paintings. Raman’s works make frequent nods to 1960s and ‘70s nostalgia that reveal his penchant for arresting colors as well as an ever-present tinge of the rock & roll ethos.
Raman draws inspiration for his paintings from disparate sources. Influences as expansive as Picasso and Warhol, Jagger and Richards, and Hemingway and Fitzgerald all collide on his canvas.
Raman’s works have been shown at solo and group exhibits at venues and galleries in New York City, Miami, Cape Cod, as well as in the DMV region. His Love In Six Lines series has been featured as large-size, street-art murals in various neighborhoods in Washington, DC. His works also are in collectors’ homes throughout the country.
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How do your pieces come to life? Tell us one interesting thing about your creative process?
"In a word, music. I always have music playing when I paint. A musical backdrop is essential to my creative process. I can only compare it to meditating where I shut out all other distractions, “turn off (my) mind, relax, and float downstream,” as the Beatles’ song goes, and enter a head space where I can create. What I’m painting and the music I’m listening to at that moment might be unrelated, but I believe that music does have a subliminal, below-the-surface influence on my work."
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What do you want people to do or feel when they encounter your creations?
"I’d like them to view my art and feel a sense of possibility – that life can be a grand celebration and sometimes even larger than life. My inspirations and influences include artists, musicians, and writers who all are larger-than-life figures – Picasso, Warhol, Jagger and Richards, Hemingway, Fitzgerald. I’d like people to feel that same sense of grandeur from my art."
Ravi Raman - RTunes68