Leia Genis

Leia Genis is a trans artist and writer currently based in Atlanta. Her writing has been published in HyperallergicFrieze, Observer, ArtsATL, Burnaway, and others. 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.

Patterns in Abstraction is a permanent-collection exhibition presenting textile artworks from Black female artists from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries curated to answer a question: “How can quilts made by Black women change the way we tell the history of abstract art?”

Maker Once Known, Untitled, ca. 1930s. Cotton. Courtesy High Museum of Art, Atlanta.

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