Her work integrates contemporary labor strikes into the visual language of social realism, asserting that these efforts are not anomalies but regularities.
Leia Genis
Leia Genis is a trans artist and writer currently based in Atlanta, Georgia. Her writing has been published in Frieze, Burnaway, Art Papers, and Numbers Inc. Magazine. Genis is a graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) and is also an avid cyclist with a competition history at the national level.
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Kelli Connell’s Queer Americana
She does not refuse the romanticized American landscape that Edward Weston and Charis Wilson helped visualize, but her photographs filter it through a lens of lesbian desire.
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Can’t-Miss Events During Atlanta Art Week
As our Freaknik celebrations of the 1980s and ’90s showed, if there’s one thing this city knows how to do well, it’s how to throw a party.
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You’re Sleeping on Atlanta’s Art Scene
The city’s teeming with creative offerings, from the new Atlanta Art Fair and a Jeffrey Gibson show to Ming Smith’s first major museum survey and José Ibarra Rizo’s tender photography.
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Why Are We Celebrating Dutch Imperialism in 2024?
An exhibition relishes in the opulence of the objects produced by Dutch globalism while disingenuously acknowledging its destruction on unpictured shores.
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A Show Asks How We Can Reclaim Our Bodies
Embodiment and its expressions recur as themes in Hand to Mouth, a show that centers artists’ self-determination.
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Shanequa Gay Completes a Work Begun a Century Ago
Gateway to the South is cemented firmly in the South and within the artist’s own ancestry.
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Look to the Past and Fear for the Future
Artist Cao Fei asks us to consider how long the benefits of new technologies may last, and what will remain after they’re gone.