{"id":27518,"date":"2024-01-10T19:32:23","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T20:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/?p=27518"},"modified":"2024-01-10T21:08:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T21:08:37","slug":"sydney-g-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/sydney-g-james\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney G. James"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo credit: Lamar Landers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sydney G. James<\/a> (b. 1979, Detroit, MI) is a fine arts painter and muralist living and working in <\/i>Detroit. James began her career as art director of an advertising agency after earning her BFA <\/i>from Detroit\u2019s College of Creative Studies in 2001. In 2004, James moved to Los Angeles to work <\/i>as a visual artist in the film and television industry and earned a master\u2019s degree in secondary <\/i>education. Since returning to her native city in 2011, James has become known as the eminent <\/i>muralist of the Detroit art scene, transforming the city\u2019s skyline and artistic legacy as well as <\/i>completing murals across the country, including New Orleans, LA; Brooklyn, NY; Atlanta, GA; Los <\/i>Angeles, CA; Worcester, MA; and Hawaii.<\/i><\/p>\n

James was awarded a 2017 Kresge Arts in Detroit Fellowship and served as a 2021 Kresge Artist <\/i>Fellowship panelist in Visual Arts. Her work has been exhibited at Detroit\u2019s Museum of <\/i>Contemporary Art and Design (MOCAD), the Charles H. Wright Museum, Inner State Gallery, <\/i>PlayGround Detroit Gallery, Collective Detroit Gallery, Detroit Artist Market, Red Bull House of <\/i>Art, Janice Charach Gallery, and was included in the Arts, Beats and Lyrics traveling exhibition. <\/i>James\u2019 work has also been featured by major marketing brands including Vans shoes, PepsiCo, <\/i>Ford Motor Company, Detroit Pistons, and Detroit Lions. James is a co-founder of the bi-annual<\/i><\/p>\n

BLKOUT Walls street mural festival which debuted in Detroit in 2021, created as a direct response <\/i>to the lack of diversity and artist remuneration across the country\u2019s creative economies. In 2022, <\/i>James participated in th<\/i>e <\/i><\/span>International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) Residency in Brooklyn, <\/i>NY.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Sydney G. James, Serving Tee Liberation, 2023. Acrylic, t-shirts, fabric, and gel medium on canvas, 14.5x8ft.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Sydney G. James, Bereavement_ (non-binary), 2023. Acrylic, fabric, gel medium, and satin trim on canvas, 96 x 120 inches .<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Sydney G. James, The Westside Johnsons, 2022. Acrylic, gel medium, and upholstery trim on raw canvas, 10x6ft<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo credit: Lamar Landers Sydney G. James (b. 1979, Detroit, MI) is a fine arts painter and muralist living and working in Detroit. James began her career as art director of an advertising agency after earning her BFA from Detroit\u2019s College of Creative Studies in 2001. In 2004, James moved to Los Angeles to work […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-interview","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27553,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27518\/revisions\/27553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}