Tracy Ginsberg: Multi-Media and Performance Artist
I was amazed to discover that multimedia artist, Tracey Ginsberg, shared my passion for exploring the female experience and reviving goddess energy. Though only 34 years old, she has no memory of ever NOT making art, and found her goddess focus while still a child.
“My earliest images were of women,” she says.
Ginsberg’s vision was a big one. She proceeded to tackle it in a big way. She has painted a graffiti series, Urban Odes on walls and buildings in San Francisco and NewYork. On pagan holidays, she creates ephemeral earth-works on beaches and hillsides as altars to the goddess.
She developed a unique artistic vocabulary called her “Goddess Alphabet,” containing dozens of icons of women, including Tara, the great Tibetan Mother Creator goddess; the seeds of a pomegranate, and birthing and vagina images. Animal and nature images are part of the lexicon. These icons are screened, painted, drawn, sewn and woven throughout her work like a secret code. Different fabrics, paints, crayons, lace, mirrors, sheet music, hand and footprints, are also used, demonstrating women’s gift for reconciling opposites, and bringing dissimilar elements together in harmonious whole.
In 2002, she founded and became the Creative Director of fulcrumProjects, an experimental, multidisciplinary art company that produces interactive, collaborative installations and performance pieces.
A fulcrumProjects piece, Homage to the 21 Taras, recently shown at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, fuses Ginsberg’s visual art with original music, dance, and singing contributed by other company members. Floating panels were silk-screened with images of Tara and other elements of the “Goddess Alphabet.” Dancers whirled and spun through the panels. A singer, whose voice embodied the mystery and power of the goddess, chanted her mantra. Audience response to the goddess message was overwhelming.
“My art is something I do for my own healing. It’s my story. It may apply to you. Your story’s what’s important. We need more women out there, telling their stories.”
In all her work, Ginsberg’s core intention as an artist remains unwavering.
“Our world is in crazy imbalance. We’re missing the balance of female energy. My work is to reaffirm and reconnect with the sacred female influence - and it’s focus on life, love, peace, and nurturing. If we don’t, we’ll self-destruct.”
 What’s your story? Your inspiration? What do you love? Whatever it is, listen carefully. Everyone is an artist, charged with contributing something to the mosaic of the world.
Take your love, and apply it to yourself first. Then spread it around. Hold fast to the inspiration of love and joy. We need it so badly. |
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 Gypsy
Visit Tracy’s websites: www.tracyginsberg.com and www.fulcrumprojects.org
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