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Ginger Williams CookPandora2025
2025
$4,300
£3,258.49
€3,755.03
CA$6,081.39
A$6,540.02
CHF 3,496.96
MX$78,870.80
NOK 44,221.48
SEK 40,291.46
DKK 28,058.43
About the Item
Ginger Williams Cook says of her work...
My previous solo exhibition, entitled Abundance of Apollo: The Celestial Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes of Greek Mythology, served as a point of reference for this new body of work, titled The Curse.
The Curse accentuates feminine archetypes within Greek mythology through a lens of reclamation, resilience, and renewal. The series illuminates key figures - Medusa, Persephone, Demeter, Cassandra, and Pandora - as gestural, vibrant meditations on the gravity of inherited myth and ancestral burden. These narrative paintings work to reclaim the reputations of their subjects—not as monsters or collateral damage shaped by a masculine-god-complex, but as figures worthy of autonomy, freedom, and dignity in the face of the gods who sought to control them.
Pandora was the first mortal woman, created by the gods at Zeus’s command as retribution for Prometheus stealing fire for mankind. Hephaestus formed her from earth and water; Aphrodite granted her beauty; Hermes gave her a cunning mind and a deceitful tongue; and Hera bestowed curiosity. As a wedding gift, Zeus gave Pandora a sealed storage jar (pithos), which she opened, releasing the multitude of evils trapped inside. Only hope remained, suggesting that even in despair, humanity retains a necessary spark of resilience. Pandora’s story leaves her with a legacy of blame for the world’s suffering - simply for being exactly as she was designed.
Pandora is portrayed as burdened by guilt for unleashing these evils. The bangles cuffed to her wrists symbolize her permanent connection to this mythic transgression. Her figure, illuminated in warm tones against a dark backdrop, reflects the curiosity that ushered in the end of the Golden Age and the onset of human hardship. The flowers drifting from a dead stalk function as small messengers of hope released into the world.
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Ginger Williams Cook is a painter, published illustrator, and arts educator based in Jackson, MS. Her paintings have been featured in numerous exhibitions, publications, and media. Ginger's journey into motherhood and coping through art is featured in an HBO Documentary, The Dead Mothers Club. Her painting comparing phantom limb sensation to grief was selected as the documentary's featured poster.
She is an avid sketchbook artist who cultivates an intuitive drawing practice to document the mundane. Ginger uses digital illustration to develop mockups, experimenting with imagery, color palettes, and composition. The techniques in her artwork combine washes of acrylic paint that take shape with colored pencils and pastels, serving as a visual conversation between two hemispheres - the creator and the corrector dancing through a changing process. The common thread in her work is emotional attachment to physical objects, and the power nostalgia has to unlock a memory.
- Creator:Ginger Williams Cook (1981, American)
- Creation Year:2025
- Dimensions:Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 24 in (60.96 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New Orleans, LA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU105217450832
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