Artist talk and reception on Wed April 3 from 11 AM to 1:30 PM.

Christopher Art Gallery at Prairie State College

202 S. Halsted St. Chicago Heights, IL 60411

Gallery Hours: Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Opening Reception Thursday November 16 4-7 PM

Also open during Bridgeport 3rd Fridays, Friday November 17 5-8 PM

Solo Exhibition featuring 20 intimate colored pencil drawings. Curated by Dani Melen

Gallery CPAG

3314 S Morgan St., Unit 1 Chicago, IL 60608

Gallery Hours Tues-Thurs 10 AM-3 PM or by appointment

Exhibition runs through January 6, 2024

Top Artists Initiative Berlin will be represented at the Supermarket Art Fair in Stockholm, Sweden from May 26-29, 2022: Kim Dotty Hachmann, Julia Hurter, Kia Kali, Mathias Roth, Miriam Smidt, and Ginny Sykes

This year’s prestigious Supermarket Art Fair is all about “Holy Fluff, Holy Straw, Holy Fuzz, or Holy Lint”

The art fair centers around ideas where the spiritual meets the playful, and the serious and the yearning resonating with the lighthearted and the joyful.

This is the first time the video triptych “Sister Rituals Trilogy” created by Ginny Sykes and Kim Dotty Hachmann will be screened, embedded in a site-specific, fluffy landscape installation.

Threaded together is a group exhibition curated by Alma Art Interiors and LKM Consulting, pairing furnishings and the spirit of home with art in a gallery setting.

The show features a large variety of artists and mediums, emphasizing the phrase “We are all bound together by fragile threads.”

Fashion, Fiber, Feminism is a group exhibition featuring a selection of banners from the 100 Women Project, curated by Caren Rudman

100 Women: Collaborations Beyond the Veil presents large scale photographic banners of contemporary women to address the historical lack of visibility of women in public space. Unlike singular bronze or stone statues that valorize men as heroic, via war or conquest, this chorus of women suggests another kind of monument that is non-hierarchical, fluid and transparent, interdependent and connected. Originally conceived to mark the 100th anniversary of the United States’ 19th Amendment, the banners are a gesture to offset the present gap and encourage future representation of real women, rather than as abstract attributes such as chastity or virtue, or muses for others. Each woman stands with a hand to the heart and one on the abdomen, to acknowledge and honor these seats of wisdom long disavowed by patriarchy.

100 Women: Collaborations Beyond the Veil elevates a diverse group of women as a corrective, healing gesture and creates a contemporary visual archive of women on the subject of liberty. Each woman metaphorically stands for the multitudes of women being affected by new restrictive voting laws, laws that disregard women’s bodily autonomy, and laws that particularly and disproportionately impact poor women and women of color who already experience unequal treatment across cultural, economic, and political sectors.

The right to self-determination has always been a contested right for women. 100 Women: Collaborations Beyond the Veil alludes to what we miss when women are denied rightful representation in the form of public monuments and reconnects people with the truth of women’s leadership in history, by offering meaningful, contemporary examples of the impact that each woman has in the world, especially when in solidarity with other women. 

Earth Abundance will feature a series of site specific temporary installations created in different parts of the world by Ginny Sykes.

From 2011 to 2016, Ginny created these temporary site specific/responsive installations using natural materials, many of which she found on site. These humble offerings or markers were intended to be temporary symbols of presence and passing through, later to be re-absorbed into the landscape without causing it any harm.

The form in the installations symbolizes a mirrored and twinned feminine subject, which has been used in her work since 1991 after spontaneously appearing in a painting she made upon returning from Italy.

Over the years this form carried various meanings, while providing Ginny a way to dialogue with the journey of self-exploration via performance, drawing, printmaking, and mixed media. Combining this symbol with the landscape was meant as a reverent attunement to connect her spirit to that of the land her body temporarily inhabits.

Related yet created 26 years apart; the two works created by Ginny Sykes in this exhibition consist of a drawing created in 1995 and a corresponding sculpture in 2021. Both pieces are abstracted, totemic figures at different points in Ginny’s life in which she was approaching a personal threshold that heralded significant internal changes.

Ginny created the drawing as a still-young woman of 38 on the cusp of entering mid-life, and struggling to emerge fully. The figure’s high key energy expresses a feeling of sharp focus within an inner withdrawal of protection. The sculptural figure, created when Ginny was 64, is aligned with attending to the deeper inner work of age, opening to softness, acceptance, and letting go.

A selection of 10 banners from Sykes’ 100 Women: Collaborations Beyond the Veil will open at the newly renovated, historic Legler Regional Library on February 16th. Created to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment and the suffragists who made it possible, Collaborations Beyond the Veil challenges the way women are and are not traditionally memorialized in public spaces, by positing realistic portraits of living and dynamic women.

Sykes’ Collaboration Beyond the Veil will be on display at the Legler through April 2021, to coincide with the library’s own 100th anniversary, Black History Month and Women’s History Month.

The exhibit will include 10 banners featuring predominantly women of color, and three short videos by Sykes: 100 Women: Collaborations Beyond the Veil features all 100 project participants within a historic framework of the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment; an interview with Sykes; and the premiere of Unprecedented, No More.

View 100 Women: Collaborations Beyond the Veil at the Legler Regional Library Feb 16th - June 30, 2021

100 Women: Collaborations Beyond the Veil exhibits at the Woodson Regional Public Library, opening August 27th. Six banners from Sykes’ series will be available to view in their lobby, open to the public during the library’s regular business hours.

Collaborations Beyond the Veil reimagines the way women are memorialized in public spaces by embodying the vivid histories of one hundred living women through portraiture and community.

100 Women: Collaborations Beyond the Veil will be on display August 27th - December 3rd.

Build: A Sculpture Show opens at Oliva Gallery on March 6 with a reception from 5-10 pm. Sykes’ sculpture Blue Round will be exhibited. The group show is dedicated to Mary Ellen Croteau, an artist whose work directly addresses the absurdities of social norms, and lays bare the underlying bias and sexist assumptions on which our culture is constructed.

Build: A Sculpture Show runs March 6 - April 5.

Artegiro Artist in Residence, Conzano, Italy

The Florence Dance Center
Borgo della Stella, 23/red (Piazza Carmine)
Florence, Italy

Solo exhibition of paintings and works on paper on the subject of balancing the archetypal masculine and feminine energies within human consciousness. Comprising evolving movements, which bend first this way, then that way, toward a gradual rapport.

The opening will include a feminist adaptation of Sleeping Beauty entitled Her Awakening, directed by Ginny Sykes and performed with Florence Dance Center dancers Idi Nazaydin, Lyona Kim and Kyriaki Petrou.  With original music by Victor Sanders.