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.
