Pink Sand #2 Painting

Since 1979, Ginny Sykes has built a career in the arts in a wide array of media including public art, performance, painting, video, ceramics and more. She began her research into questions of gender and female empowerment in high school, painting her first portrait of a woman at 6 feet tall. She engages collaboratively with musicians, dancers, video artists, and other performers to bring to life the complexity of identities women negotiate and to critique patriarchal codes that have over-determined artistic content through much of history. Her work incorporates Jungian ideas, symbol, and myth to resist classifications of a (non-existent) universalized female experience.