I believe it was sometime around 2013 that Richard Prince posted images of Genieve Figgis’ work. Around the same time Wini also discovered her and alerted me to her beautiful paintings. While our tastes have always somewhat aligned this was the first time in our relationship that we simultaneously discovered an artist and both equally loved the art. By 2015, I was regularly reaching out to Harper of Harper's Books, the first gallery to show her in the U.S. & asking about the availability of her work. At the beginning of the summer of 2016, he invited us to the opening of HEAVY METAL PICNIC, his 2nd solo show of hers.
For those who don’t know, Genieve has since become a rockstar in the art world and is represented around the world by mega gallery, Almine Rech.
A death in my family & a well paying job, allowed Wini & I to buy some work from the 2016 show, still lovingly hung in our home. At that show and dinner, we got to meet & befriend the shy Genieve and I’ve stayed in touch with her since. In fact, I'm so excited because she's one of the artists that will be featured in Volume 2 of Blurring Books’ “hit”, The Unbelievably Fantastic Artists’ Sticker Book.
Side note: When we bought the paintings from Harper, he kindly gifted me an almost complete set of the 1980’s Fiorucci sticker set, which gets shown as part of our exhibitions of “100 Years of Culture told Through Adhesive Materials - STICKERS”. He also gave me a couple of Prince books that is now my collection/obsession, and has slowly taken over Wini’s table in our bedroom 😎
