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Ginger Williams Cook
Persephone

2025

$4,300
£3,286.54
€3,830.69
CA$6,163.55
A$6,309.74
CHF 3,577.13
MX$76,558.05
NOK 42,157.57
SEK 42,392.96
DKK 28,634.70

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. Persephone was abducted while picking flowers, forced into a chariot, and taken to the Underworld by her uncle Hades. Her father, Zeus, had secretly agreed to give her to Hades to appease him, hiding this betrayal from her mother, Demeter. Persephone was later coerced into eating pomegranate seeds to seal her fate as Queen of the Dead. Because consuming food from the Underworld binds one to it, Persephone was required to spend part of each year there for eternity. Persephone’s absence marks winter, when the earth grows cold and barren. The painting of Persephone is composed as a flattened profile to represent the delineation of seasons. The portion of her face that is unseen recedes into darkness behind a veil. Her languid gaze rests beneath a pronounced brow line bearing the weight of a heavy crown. Her head is encased in a somber spring palette and accentuated with an innocent flower chain. _______ 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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  • Framing:
    Framing Options Available
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  • Gallery Location:
    New Orleans, LA
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU105217451532

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