Location: United States
Ramani Rangan was born in 1941 in war torn England to an Indian family of professional artists. As a youth he spent most of his free time sketching whatever caught his eye in nature, Regents Park, the London Zoo, the Natural History Museum, the British Museum, and the National Art Gallery. He also attended art classes in London.
1968: The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark, (Privately studied with professors) and took classes with sculptor, Kurt Harold Isenstien.
1968: Founded the “The Chagall Group” with seven artists in Copenhagen.
1972-1980: Free State Christiania, Denmark. Founded the “The Arts Center Christiania.” The Balearic Isles, Spain, Winter art retreats.
1973-1976: Skt. Peders Art Gallery, Copenhagen Center. Curator/ Manager.
1981-1997: Santa Fe, New Mexico exhibited in local galleries.
1997-2011: Gloucester, Mass., taught art and showed.
2012-2013 Gloucester, Mass., Art Teacher and creative mentoring.
2013 -2015: Gloucester and Hamilton, Mass. 9 Art Showings in multiple locations.
2013: “All Women of African origin”. Designed cover and other illustrations for a book.
2015: Designs for sustainable dwelling interiors. (Danish order).
2015-2019: Writing and self-publishing a Memoir, “Gathering Moments in Time” by Ramani Rangan. A autobiography including his artwork.
2015: Roskilde, Denmark, Guest Teaching Artist for children’s discovery of coastal marine life.
2017-2019, 2020: Hamilton. Mass., Annual Flying Horse Sculpture Show, Pingree High School.
“Aboriginal Vision”, 16 ft Painted driftwood assembly.
“Kidnapped at the Border”, 15 ft Aluminum sheet and wire. Children taken and caged at the Border.
“Mutra” 7 ft Mobile on stand painted wood, Yogic hand sign for Meditation.
2018: Copenhagen, Denmark. Guest lecturer, ‘Mindfulness and Creativity’, at ‘Next’ Danish Vocational Education Institute Copenhagen.
2020: Boston, Mass., Guest Lecturer, ‘Mindfulness and Creativity’, for International students.
2021: Addison and Gilbert Hospital, Gloucester, Mass. “Sacred Spirit Icons”, acrylic and collage on canvas.
Ramani seeks to capture the mythos behind the mask of life yet honor the mask.
Each painting and collage I see as being directed by the subject as the story/myth unfolds. These paintings and collages are examples of series' reflecting the surface tension of our times and my internal dynamic response. 'The Honest Man' is seeing 'The Blackman' as an unlimited potential, not a category that he has put on himself as a response to the unfounded rage he faces, each moment of his life in The 'United' States of America.
Each painting and collage I see as being directed by the subject as the story/myth unfolds. These paintings and collages are examples of series' reflecting the surface tension of our times and my internal dynamic response. 'The Honest Man' is seeing 'The Blackman' as an unlimited potential, not a category that he has put on himself as a response to the unfounded rage he faces, each moment of his life in The 'United' States of America.
There is a moment when eyes meet. This moment drops all other moments, past and future. This moment releases all other considerations and the whole universe lines up to celebrate a union of to seekers.
The artist have witnesses rites of passage as a guest at San Domingo Pueblo and Zuni Pueblo. Beyond what we experience with our 5 senses, there is an unlimited resource. We know its there but have forgotten how to enter it. 'Rites of Passage' is about being naked, free and awakened. It is our birthright hidden underneath many layers of what is, forever changing, "The Norm". The norm adopted, is artificial; a collage of plastic, concrete and steel glued together in a web where we are the flies. Most adults including the artist in first and second world countries are lost to their core, blinded by the light of modern insanity. Through his art he is creating his Rites of Passage.
As child of 6 - 8 years old, the artist had a continuing night and day dream of a hunter/gatherer, at the dawn of humankind, noticing a bright star changing its position the night sky. From one moment to another his consciousness changed forever. It was the first time for a human to have an experience outside needing to survive. Each one of us are born as timeless traveler. No matter what we do in live and how it effects us it is always, no matter how dormant, in the background waiting for its chance to change everything including how we understand time and space. The 'Timeless Traveler' is who we are, dancing to the music of the universe.
Shamans Dream is a mix-media acrylics paint and collage. The artist was inspired by several illustrated books and documentaries about shamanism around the world in the past and now. The unity of what is described by all that take the journey into the mind whatever means they have used be it drum beats to sacred mushrooms it is always the same. They are taken through different levels. The first can be seeing reptiles or insects. Then beyond that, this is where the knowledge that is being sought is revealed. In the age of Quantum Reality, that the Universe is mostly dark matter and space, and everything we know of is connected, we to it and it to us. Is the Shamans Dream reaching out for the dark and the light nature of the unlimited?
“The Honest Man”
“I am, You are”
“Rites of Passage”
“Timeless Traveler”
“Shamans Dream”
“The Awakening ”
