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Gita worked as a licensing illustrator for more than 20 years in order to develop her chops. It also turned out to be a period of mentoring by master artists who advised her to never give up her own work. She never did.
A late arriver, by choice, to the current art scene, hiding and developing her art in the southern sierras, Gita worked to, as Gauguin said, "add one new link in the chain... that is art. She is comfortable with her connection to artists of the past.
Understanding her role as an artist in society, she sees her duty and performs her works in that context, both publicly and privately. Gita's goals are to see and communicate clearly, paint with full power and historic intention, and to be responsible by respecting her own work and the works of others. Her work is active and observed. She would define herself as a diary maker, Dionysian and expressionistic. Her intention is never a depiction, it is all experiential. Her works are records of a time and a place.
Her considers all of her subjects heroic: portraits from The 5000 Faces Project and The Diptych Portrait Series; people doing things as in the BakersfieldALIVE! Series; artists while they create: featuring circus performers, bhangra and ballet dancers, an opera performance, jazz players ; panoramic vistas, as in The Landscape Heritage Project, and cattle in the sierras. She has recently painted her first complete 360 degree view of a desert valley, a painting that is more about wind, air and water than it is about land.
Gita splits her time between public works and performances of her art, looking for new venues to expose people to art, speaking, teaching, and working on her pieces.
Her work is displayed in both private and public places in Southern California; Washington State; Queretaro, Mexico, Japan and Washington DC.