Buoyant and lyrical, the visions of Genevi? Esson are carried to realization in a flow of dancing electricity which embra ces and bolsters the spirit of the denizens depicted. A wily legerdemain of implementation transfers a blithe and musing anima directly from the notions of the artist to the heart of the beholder.
A St. Louis, Missouri native with a B.A. in Painti ng from Webster University, Esson has
won awards for music album cover art and was featured on the program cover for the Riverport Amphitheatre. Locally, her paintings have been exhibited at the St. Louis Artists Guild: the Randall and Componere gallerie s; St. Peter's Cultural Art Center and the Wittenberg and Art Attack
galleries, among other sites. In New York, she has exhibited at the Great Salt Marsh and, on Guam, at the Guam Gallery of Art. Currently she is showing at The Blue Rose Gallery in Chica go.
"My art is an extension of my inner world. The subject matter is surreal and dream-like...The
environment reflected in some of my pieces is of a world with too much going on in it, becoming a myopic soup of chaos or strangeness...The tap estry of music is another theme running through my pictures, bringing with it an abundance of movement...The scope of the human mind is infinite, with boundless possibilities to be explored, which is what makes art so exciting..."