Artist Statement
My work, whatever the medium, is pretty much always, at it’s heart, Storytelling. My story, a story I heard, an idea expressed through storytelling–storytelling is one of the highest forms of communication, and humans have used this practice as long as we have been able to form words. To tell stories is to speak in large lovely metaphors, to tell stories in images is divine. I am possibly the most literal of artists, so I try to bury the stories deep in whatever I am doing, so the viewer really has to dig around and discover the piece over time. Like a movie so visually stunning a viewer can barely follow the plot, I very much want the work to be viewed frequently and repeatedly, and I leave many bread crumbs to mine. Historically, I have had a penchant for also burying myself and my work beneath steps of process, hiding out in art at arm’s length. Slightly more comfortable for me, but always feeling like a cop out. So buried they were, they were almost invisible. It is just recently that I have decided to shed the smoke and mirrors for more direct visual communication, and what I had always feared,people seeing me, is actually a relief. My stories are pouring out, whether due to maturity or perhaps the times we are living in, I know not, but the stripped down exactness of the tales feel, to me, completely honest.
Artist Bio
Genevieve Geer, a born and bred New Englander, slowly zig zagged her way down the East Coast after high school, attending Parsons School of Design in New York City and The Museum School in Boston. She majored in portraiture, illustration, film and animation at various moments, and once released from the confines of education, embraced a life of experiences. Experimentation and mediums lit her path, seeking new mediums and skills became her reason. From embroidery to wood, from book binding to papermaking, from cake decorating to metal, she collected skills at a furious pace, always with the eyes and glee of a beginner.
In 2007 glass snagged her heart, and so she began a life dedicated to A Most Fickle Mistress. The learning curve was steep, but the options were endless, so many processes, so many beautiful colors, so much amazement and such incredible frustration…
She began her training by managing a glass studio in Philadelphia, then working as an apprentice for glass artists, then a two year stint at Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center where she lived and worked 24/7 as a glass assistant to fellows and the Center.
In 2013 she combined all of her experience and started Le Puppet Regime in Philadelphia, specializing in articulated, illustrated stained glass. With her business she traveled to shows up and down the eastern seaboard, and into the midwest, attending craft shows and art shows with her famous blue puppet stage booth, selling her art. In 2018 she opened a Brick and Mortar in Philadelphia, and when the pandemic of 2020 swept through the world, she switched entirely to an online gallery approach. In 2022, she and her husband Sam Geer decided to leave Philly and purchase a 100 year old train station in Marathon, NY where they now live and work.