From DEADLINE DETROIT

By Alan Stamm

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You've likely seen Detroit painter Sydney G. James' murals in Eastern Market and perhaps on an East Grand Boulevard building now displaying "The Girl with the D Earring," a nine-story addition to a planned creative center called Chroma Detroit.

This fall she began a residency program at the University of Michigan, where James is preparing smaller-scale works for a solo exhibit opening Nov. 9 at a campus gallery in the Institute for the Humanities. It'll be titled "Watch Me Work. Portraits of Self."