Jill Sykes

I was born and raised in Los Angeles and completed my formal artist training at Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles and the Academy of Art/Lone Mountain College in San Francisco. I worked as a Graphic Designer and Illustrator in the fields of Film and Business Advertising, Animation and Educational
Media, as well as designing and implementing countless corporate logos. Over time my work became focused on painting, and in the late 1990's I enrolled at the Santa Monica School of Design, Art & Architecture. This led to my current
work in oils and printmaking - explorations of color, shape, movement and mood.
My paintings have been exhibited widely here in Los Angeles and across the country including the Museum of Art + History (MOAH) in Lancaster, USC Hillel Art Gallery and Tobey C. Moss Gallery. I was also recently featured on HGTV’S “Extreme Homes” in an episode highlighting my work on “Sycamore House,” a project where I designed a “shadow” motif of sycamore trees that was sandblasted onto the entire outside of a new home in Pacific Palisades.
I am drawn to the negative spaces of branches and leaves; the elegance and energy of natural forms and the visual dialog between figuration and abstraction. Ultimately what I have come to...

Santa Monica School of Design, Art & Architecture, Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA
The Academy of Art and Lone Mountain College, San Francisco, CA
Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 YUCCA FOREST, Museum of Art + History, Lancaster, CA
2010 SYCAMORE HOUSE, Pacific Palisades, CA (www.sycamorehouseonline.com)
2010 AIA LOS ANGELES HOME TOURS (www.aialosangeles.org/content/home-tours)
2006 REMARKABLE GIFTS, The Colony Theatre Gallery, Burbank, CA
2005 SMALL BITES, The Lot, Hollywood, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1996-15 BREWERY ART WALK (semi-annual), The Brewery, Los Angeles, CA
2004-11 VENICE ART WALK SILENT AUCTION (yearly), Venice, CA
2015 ART ABOUT AGRICULTURE, Santa Paula Art Museum, Santa Paula, CA
ART & HOME II: An Evening With LA Family Housing, Room & Board, Culver City, CA
CALIFORNIA GIRLS, Presented by Saatchi Art, Helms Bakery District, Culver City, CA
L I N E: A FOUR ARTIST SHOW, FM Fine Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
WATER WORKS II, Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA
WATER WORKS II, Porch Gallery, Ojai, CA
OLD BROADS, Red Pipe Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA
144 (ii), bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2014 ART & HOME: An Evening With LA Family Housing, Room & Board, Culver City, CA
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