BOULDER, Colo. — How the world perceives women in history, including mythological women and how the body ages, fascinates local artist Sherry Wiggins.
“I think there is a double thing about older women being misrepresented in a certain way, and all women being misrepresented,” said Wiggins, an interdisciplinary artist who combines digital work, installations, public and performative art, and sculpture.
“I think there is a sort of double feminist thing to my work.”
Her most recent performative artwork, called "My Cleopatra (with a snake and a cigarette)," shows at Boulder’s East Window Gallery through February and is Wiggins take on a “world-weary Cleopatra.” The collaboration with Portuguese photographer Luís Felipe Brancofeatures Wiggins wearing a gold gown, colorfully beaded necklace, jet-black wig, and colorful eye makeup.