Greensboro, NC based abstract painter, Genia Yusim loves to use the expressive power of color, line and texture in her acrylic and oil paintings on canvas and works on paper. She 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. Following a decade long career as a textile designer in North Carolina, United States she completed a program in art education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is currently pursuing her passion for painting and exhibiting her work. Art-making for Genia is a way of processing her experiences and abstraction is the result of this process. Genia finds inspiration in the world around her and in experimenting with styles and media. She uses various acrylic painting techniques: opaque and transparent colors, watercolor effect, flat surfaces and the texture of energetic brushstrokes.