Geeta Dave

GEETA DAVE

Geeta Dave was born and grew up in India, where she absorbed the artistic traditions of her native country at the side of her father, the renowned artist Balvant Joshi. She received her Master’s in creative painting from MS University in Baroda, India. Geeta Dave has lived in Baton Rouge, Louisiana for the last 36 years.

She is an artist, muralist, and art educator. Her paintings are filled with soft, poetic ancestral forms. Surreal images of humans are often integrated into parts of nature which represent her personal journey of life. Many of her paintings represent women and their ongoing struggles for identity and equality throughout the world.

She has completed many large scale murals and public art projects in her homeland of India and in Baton Rouge and other Louisiana cities. Included in her commissioned projects are The Life-U Mural Prism Group; Department of Defense Starbase Mars mural for their Youth Program; two projects for the Baton Rouge Coca Cola Company: their 100th Anniversary Project and for LSU Stadium, Coca-Cola Suite; Spanish and Native American culture mural for Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism and Shreveport Regional Arts Council, Baton Rouge Green Our Light Has Come park project; and, fore murals for the Baton Rouge Zoo.

As an Art Educator, Geeta has been the director for many mural projects involving art students in Baton Rouge and its surrounding towns. These murals are now permanent displays in airports, libraries, schools, and downtown outdoor areas. She gives her best to her community and has received many honors and awards for her work with the students.

Geeta has had twenty art exhibits. They have been held in museums, art galleries, and universities in Alabama, New York, Illinois, Louisiana, and many cities in India.

She has been honored by thirteen awards for her art in the United States, India, Russia, and Switzerland. Among these distinguished honors are the Ford Foundation’s National Performance Network Award, Arts Ambassador Award ,Michael Crespo Visual Artist Fellowship Award by Cary Saurage,The Baton Rouge Arts Council,The Scholastic Art and Writing Golden Residency Award, and an Artist Residency at the Sam and Adele Golden Foundation in upstate New York.


You are welcome to explore her work through her website and social media.

https://geetadave.com/

@geetadave_art


Prakriti :

I strongly believe in the power of balance in nature. Every being has a voice and true meaning on this earth. Everything is in balance, but it is fragile. It is our responsibility to protect and preserve this balance. In my paintings I have worked with two different forms of nature that symbolize an inner strength and motivating force in life. I have been advocating saving our nature, and I characterize it as a woman, the symbol of Prakriti-Nature. Prakriti word comes from Sanskrit roots, Prakriti refers to the feminine aspect of all life forms in nature.


Geeta