Art is about what happened to us and how our lives are affected. Fall on the Little Phoenix Mountain is an abstraction inspired by a memorable experience. One mid-September day in 2019, I was standing on the terrace of a house, near the top of the Little Phoenix Mountain in Western North Carolina. I was looking at a still green maple nearby, wondering what color it would turn, and thinking that I would never find out, because I was going to leave the next day. But the chilly wind picked up that night, and the next morning when I looked at the maple, to my great surprise and delight, I saw that most of its leaves had turned yellow and orange.

Genia Yusim was born in Moscow, Russia and studied design and art at the Moscow Technological Institute, where she received a diploma in fashion and textile design. While still a student she began participating in juried fine art exhibitions in Moscow. Since 1994 she lives in Greensboro, NC, USA. In 2006, following a decade long career as a textile designer, she enrolled at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and completed a program in art education. Genia Yusim’s work has been selected for, among other shows, the 2017 North Carolina Artists Exhibition, Raleigh Fine Arts Society, Raleigh, NC, and the Dimensions 2016, National Juried Fine Art Competition and Exhibition, Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts, Winston- Salem, NC and can be found in collector’s homes and businesses, including PNC Bank, in the United States and abroad.

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