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Leia Genis

Leia Genis is a trans artist and writer currently based in Atlanta. Her writing has been published in Hyperallergic, Frieze, Burnaway, Art Papers and Number: Inc. Magazine. Genis is a graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design and is also an avid cyclist with a competition history at the national level.

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An expansive indoor space contains three enormous illuminated video panels showing the surface of the sun, a nebula-like explosion, and a blue celestial body, with several silhouetted visitors standing in front of each.

Ryoji Ikeda’s “Data-Verse” at the High Is an Ego Killer

By Leia Genis
An installation of a large, tie-dye-stained fabric suspended from the ceiling in a loose U-shape, evoking a hammock or draped banner, presented in a white-walled gallery space as part of the Innervisions: Black Abstraction exhibition.

In Atlanta, ‘Innervisions’ Conjures Black Abstraction as Ab-Ex’s Twin

By Leia Genis
A close-up of one of Demery’s suspended black head wind chimes shows the silver chain passing through the crown and a circular metal ring, with wooden figurines and black metal chimes hanging below a wide collar-shaped ring.

How Artist Kevin Demery Is Reshaping Implicit Understandings in Kansas City

By Leia Genis
An installation view at the Birmingham Museum of Art shows five historical Islamic prayer rugs surrounding Faig Ahmed’s surreal, multicolored rug artwork that visually distorts traditional motifs by stretching them downward.

In ‘Illuminated Threads,’ Artist Faig Ahmed Distorts Pious History

By Leia Genis
A hyperrealistic painting of a Black man wearing a red and black sports jacket, standing confidently in front of an ornate, brightly patterned floral wallpaper that intertwines with his figure, creating a sense of layered visual complexity.

The Hunter Museum’s ‘Fresh Take’ Provides a Stale View

By Leia Genis
A set of four square paintings, each with a stylized eye and the words "be gay do crime" in various colors, are mounted on a white wall, featuring a bold graphic design with hand-drawn elements.

8 Gallery and Museum Exhibitions to See in Atlanta This March

By Leia Genis
A black and white photograph captures a girl standing in a kitchen wearing a sequined leotard and holding a baton at her waist, her entire face obscured by a hanging spider plant, creating an eerie visual effect akin to a surrealist painting.

In Atlanta, Sally Mann’s Affecting Look at the Naïve Boldness of Adolescence

By Leia Genis
A painting depicts a night scene with dark, angular building silhouettes framing the composition. Above, a glowing white streetlamp with a red light beneath it contrasts against the deep blue sky, where a moon and swirling clouds are visible.

In Her “New Yorks,” Georgia O’Keeffe Finds Where Discernability Falls Apart

By Leia Genis
A photo of a woman in a dressing room, wearing a tutu and holding pointe shoes, looking directly at the camera with a calm, focused expression while her reflection appears in the mirror behind her.

Ming Smith Conjures the Future at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art

By Leia Genis
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