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Exhibition Opening: Susan Sykes: Baltimore East Side 2005-2015

Exhibition Opening: Susan Sykes: Baltimore East Side 2005-2015

Susan Sykes: Baltimore East Side 2005 – 2015
Amalie Rothschild Gallery
On View: May 6 – 28
Opening reception: Friday, May 6 | 6 – 8pm

The Creative Alliance is pleased to present Susan Sykes’ premier exhibition in the Amalie Rothschild Gallery opening May 6, 2016 and running until May 28. Sykes will exhibit a selection of her realistic watercolors depicting scenes of daily life from Baltimore’s east side, produced from 2005 – 2015. Sykes is a Baltimore native who began studying at the Maryland Institute’s Saturday classes when she was seven years old. When she was nine she studied in private evening classes with the then-fledgling painter Joe Shepperd. She later went on to get her Bachelor’s of Art at University of Maryland, did her graduate study at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC, and by the time she was old enough to buy a drink, she had her first one-woman show at the infamous Martick’s bar—a former speakeasy on Mulberry Street in New York City.

Moving to New York gave her the chance to be featured in many small galleries, win awards in national art associations, and have three one-woman shows in up-and-coming Soho galleries, where she raised her daughter and lived happily for 28 years. Susan became a Madison Avenue illustrator specializing in print, editorial, and television for 27 years. She was an adjunct instructor at Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) for four years, and at the National College of Art and Design at Trinity University, Dublin, IR for two years.

In the winter of 1995 Susan had her first one-woman show at the world famous O.K. Harris gallery in Soho, which was owned and managed by the redoubtable Ivan Karp—discoverer and dealer of Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Ralph Goings, Roy Lichtenstein, and many others. Her focus was women working at night in Manhattan, presented as photorealist pencil drawings. She remained in the Karp stable for twelve years. In 2007, Susan moved on to Louis K. Meisel’s 57thStreet gallery where she was reviewed in her first Meisel show in April 2007. She was featured there for eight years, and at the same time held two one-woman shows in Baltimore at Robert Antresian’s Gallery in Hampden.

Susan packed up and moved to western Maryland where she bought a studio and joined Creative Alliance in 2015. Her observations of Baltimore citizens engaged in their daily lives are presented in the realism to which she has been—and always will be—devoted and committed.

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