Gina Higgins was born in New Orleans, the son of a photographer and a pianist, so from an early age she was involved in the art world. From early childhood, Gina watched the process of creating photographs in her father’s office, followed her mother’s stage transformations, and, quite naturally, became interested in one of the areas of art – artistic drawing.

She started her career as an illustrator for fashion magazines. At the age of 17, Gina was offered to study classical drawing and painting in Italy and France. Of course, she couldn’t pass up this opportunity. Learning the basics of art, Gina Higgins was looking for herself.

As a teenager, Gina became interested in the work of photographers Edward Steichen and Irving Penn, Hitchcock films, and especially Hollywood cinema of the 40s and 50s. Gradually, she came to her own style of drawing – noir style.

Gina’s characters seem to be taken by surprise. Each of them was doing something a second before the flash, but then the villain photographer clicked the shutter and a beam of light snatched out of the darkness the figure of a dancer, seductively curving in front of a lonely spectator. But the man sat down near the bar, prepared for the “jump”.

Gina’s signature feature is blurry shapes on a black background. It doesn’t matter where the action takes place – in a dark city alley, in a nightclub, in a bar or in a hotel room. The only important thing is that the author has already begun to write the story, laid the foundation for the plot, but did not complete it, leaving the viewer the opportunity to come up with an ending. What it will be depends on the person on the other side of the canvas.

Gina prefers multi-dimensional art that relies on several different forms at once. The artist draws inspiration from film noir, literature, music, dance and, of course, photography. Graceful and mysterious heroes are fickle, they exist only here and only now. In just a few seconds, fantasy will draw its own story for the viewer. Of course, it will be noir.