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RANI was born in a little town called Ronkonkoma, NY, out on Lawng Eyeland.

She snuck off to the Big Apple to attend Columbia University where she majored in nothing to do with studio art.

Thereafter she earned her graduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and was largely successful through the memorization via doodling extensively in the margins of her textbooks.

Rani's work centers around the human experience, the manifestation and disintigration of ego in its many forms, the connectedness of all life on the planet, it's current realities and its unlimited potential. Surrealism meets impressionism in her iconic work, which has been dubbed, "Visionary Pop Art."

Most recently, Rani studied with Amanda Sage, Daniel Mirante and Adam Scott Miller in a sustainable eco-village in Ventimiglia, Italy in an intensive program sponsored by the Vienna Academy of Visionary Art. Previously, Rani had the honor of studying with great visionary artists such as Ann McCoy at Columbia University, and repeatedly with Alex Grey and his wife, Allyson Grey, both at the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors (CoSM) and Omega's campuses in Wappengers Falls and Rhinebeck, NY. She has also taken select courses with Ephraim Rubenstein, Leonid Gervits and other legendary artists at The Art Students League of New York.

Rani's unique pieces and murals have been collected, commissioned, and auctioned for the benefit of charities including the Equal Justice Foundation, Power to the People solar projects in rural Nicaragua, Brooklyn Waterfront Artist's Coalition, the 5th Gear Multimedia's Impact! Art Show to create social awareness, the Sacramento Lawyers for the Arts Creative Merger II project, and the Sacramento Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Cost of War art show. Rani has participated in the Governor's Island Art Fair in NYC and has had solo shows in NYC's East Village and Berkeley, California.

Previously, Rani teamed up with Pro Bono Partnership in New York and California Lawyers for the Arts, to help keep artists apprised of their rights, remedies and resources and to help bring youth art programs to underserved communities.

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