PROFILE

"Ginger Placek, or Ginga as her friends and the art and fashion communities know her, was raised in San Diego, CA without any formal exposure to the art world and its conventions, yet in recent years, her reputation has risen to a considerable degree of prestige both locally and nationally in the entertainment circles for her fashion pieces, canvases, art and music events, and other objets d'art. As a direct recipient of the graffiti art lineage that gained notoriety and canonization in the '80s, she has taken an organic approach with it's evolved cachet and melded it with a contemporary metropolitan aesthetic that effortlessly dodges the obvious and ubiquitous styles in the various communities she's involved in today.

1/8 Fresh Designs is her highly personalized "haute couture" fashion house that she started in 2003. Each piece is hand made by Ginga and depending on the degree of involvement on the part of the client, she adds nearly any desirable detail to the pieces she creates. In the very same tradition as the Salon des Refuse, she has also started curating exhibitions for those artists she deems as not getting deserved attention from the local art "cogniscenti." In this sense as well, she is breaking new ground as the popularity of these events has grown into a loyal following."