Collage and Assemblage

About Jacqueline Alexander-Sykes:

“Creating is my centering and my focus”, says JACQUELINE ALEXANDER-SYKES, a multi-talented artist who utilizes color, shape and perspective to create striking forms figures and landscapes.  Her pallet includes working with acrylic, oils, watercolor and 35mm camera.

Within the past 40 years Jacqueline has found her voice in the creative process, a voice that speaks eloquently through painting, photography and other creative endeavors.  After receiving her Bachelors of Arts degree in Art History from San Jose State University. Jacqueline traveled to Africa and studied in Ghana during the summer of 1974.  A few of her many accomplishments are, the design of a mural located on Venice Boulevard (across from the Helms Bakery building), two Public Art projects with the Department of Cultural Affairs at the J. Serra Library and Good Beginnings Day Care, and a published photograph in a book entitled “Black Women for Beginners” by S. Pearl Sharp.  She has also been included in several recent exhibitions at the Los Angeles Photography Center, Art-n-Barbee, The Watts Towers Art Center, the California Afro American Museum at Exposition Park and Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery Barnsdall Park.

Since 1979 Jacqueline has lived and worked at St. Elmo Village, in Mid City Los Angeles.  The Village has been an avenue for Jacqueline to share and teach the process of creativity to others as well as being a place of creativity where she can explore and develop as an artist and exhibit her work.  For the past six years her work with youth has extended to be a Discussion Leader for the Getty Multicultural Internship Program, in which college interns are mentored.  As a Board of Directors Member and Administrative Director of St. Elmo Village, Jacqueline has been an important part of the day to day work that the Village accomplishes in the community.  In 2019 Jacqueline became St. Elmo Village’s first female Board President and Executive Director after the passing of her husband Roderick Sykes, cofounder for the Village.

As a visual artist Jacqueline Alexander-Sykes continues to develop by borrowing from and recreating the “material” that life has to offer.  Recently she has partnered with her husband, Roderick Sykes to paint two of the Los Angeles City Angels.  In 2000 she painted two panels for the CRA/TNI (Community Redevelopment Agency / Targeted Neighborhood Initiative) that have been installed at Alta Loma Elementary School.  Among her other public art commissions are art for the Junipero Serra Branch Library as part of the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, Public Art Program, creating art for the walls of Raymond Avenue Elementary School and producing three painted panels for Good Beginnings Pre School.  The most recent mural was painted for Walter N. Marks Realty Inc. on the Helms Bakery property.

Jacqueline considers painting and photography to be her “Third Eye”.  All of life is a picture to be captured and enjoyed.  “The creative process can save lives, it saved mine.”

About Terrick Gutierrez:

Terrick Gutierrez (b. 1994) is an LA-based interdisciplinary artist, creative technologist, activist, researcher, and curator. He is a child of Belizean and Mexican immigrants and his work explores urban life through the lens of the rapidly changing built environment such as liquor stores, public housing projects, and other cultural and physical landscapes that have shaped the city. Social issues including food insecurity, cultural erasure and displacement are themes found throughout his work which also explores personal histories addressing topics such as race, identity, and migration. Gutierrez earned his Bachelor of Arts in psychology with a minor in art from Morehouse College and a Master of Professional Studies in interactive telecommunications from New York University in 2019. He has exhibited across the country, including Atlanta, New York, and Los Angeles, and his work is in private collections on both the East and West Coast

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