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Events for Wednesday, September 2, 2015
9:00 AM-4:00 PM
The Boys of Summer: Baseball Meets Art Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery
9:00 AM-7:00 PM
The Automobile: Design Considerations and Local Manifestations Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center
10:00 AM-5:00 PM
Resistance: Work by Najee Dorsey Community Folk Art Center (Read a review!)
10:00 AM-6:00 PM
2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou Light Work Gallery
10:00 AM-6:00 PM
Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989) Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)
10:00 AM-4:00 PM
Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection Onondaga Historical Association
10:00 AM-4:00 PM
Patterns in History: Vintage Quilts of Onondaga County Onondaga Historical Association
11:00 AM-4:30 PM
James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings Syracuse University Art Museum
11:00 AM-4:30 PM
The New Humanists: Introspective Impressions from the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum
11:00 AM-4:30 PM
British Prints in the Age of Pop Syracuse University Art Museum
12:00 PM-5:00 PM
Playing With Perception: Photographs by Florence Henri Everson Museum of Art
2:00 PM
Miró Quartet: Beethoven's Fingerprints Skaneateles Festival
Events for Thursday, September 3, 2015
9:00 AM-4:00 PM
The Boys of Summer: Baseball Meets Art Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery
9:00 AM-5:00 PM
The Automobile: Design Considerations and Local Manifestations Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center
10:00 AM-5:00 PM
Resistance: Work by Najee Dorsey Community Folk Art Center (Read a review!)
10:00 AM-6:00 PM
2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou Light Work Gallery
10:00 AM-6:00 PM
Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989) Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)
10:00 AM-4:00 PM
Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection Onondaga Historical Association
10:00 AM-4:00 PM
Patterns in History: Vintage Quilts of Onondaga County Onondaga Historical Association
11:00 AM-8:00 PM
James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings Syracuse University Art Museum
11:00 AM-8:00 PM
The New Humanists: Introspective Impressions from the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum
11:00 AM-8:00 PM
British Prints in the Age of Pop Syracuse University Art Museum
12:00 PM-8:00 PM
Playing With Perception: Photographs by Florence Henri Everson Museum of Art
7:00 PM-9:00 PM
Jazz in the City CNY Jazz Arts Foundation, featuring Four 80 East with Jeff Kashiwa
7:30 PM
Miranda Lambert's Roadside Bars & Pink Guitars Tour
8:00 PM
An Evening with the Miro Quartet Skaneateles Festival
8:00 PM-11:00 PM
Summer Review 2015 Urban Video Project
Events for Friday, September 4, 2015
9:00 AM-4:00 PM
The Boys of Summer: Baseball Meets Art Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery
9:00 AM-5:00 PM
The Automobile: Design Considerations and Local Manifestations Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center
10:00 AM-5:00 PM
Resistance: Work by Najee Dorsey Community Folk Art Center (Read a review!)
10:00 AM-6:00 PM
2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou Light Work Gallery
10:00 AM-6:00 PM
Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989) Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)
10:00 AM-4:00 PM
Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection Onondaga Historical Association
10:00 AM-4:00 PM
Patterns in History: Vintage Quilts of Onondaga County Onondaga Historical Association
11:00 AM-4:30 PM
James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings Syracuse University Art Museum
11:00 AM-4:30 PM
The New Humanists: Introspective Impressions from the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum
11:00 AM-4:30 PM
British Prints in the Age of Pop Syracuse University Art Museum
12:00 PM-5:00 PM
Playing With Perception: Photographs by Florence Henri Everson Museum of Art
7:30 PM-10:30 PM
Urban Cinematheque 2015 Art Fair + Outdoor Film: Mad Max Everson Museum of Art
8:00 PM
Cabaret: Korrie & Josh Taylor Central New York Playhouse
8:00 PM
The Miro and Aeolus Quartets Skaneateles Festival
8:00 PM-11:00 PM
Summer Review 2015 Urban Video Project
Events for Saturday, September 5, 2015
10:00 AM-5:00 PM
Playing With Perception: Photographs by Florence Henri Everson Museum of Art
11:00 AM-5:00 PM
Resistance: Work by Najee Dorsey Community Folk Art Center (Read a review!)
11:00 AM-4:00 PM
Patterns in History: Vintage Quilts of Onondaga County Onondaga Historical Association
11:00 AM-4:00 PM
Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection Onondaga Historical Association
11:00 AM-4:30 PM
The New Humanists: Introspective Impressions from the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum
11:00 AM-4:30 PM
James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings Syracuse University Art Museum
11:00 AM-4:30 PM
British Prints in the Age of Pop Syracuse University Art Museum
12:30 PM
Snow White Magic Circle Children's Theatre
1:00 PM-6:00 PM
2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou Light Work Gallery
1:00 PM-6:00 PM
Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989) Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)
7:30 PM
Festival Finale Skaneateles Festival, featuring Joshua Redman & Brooklyn Rider
8:00 PM
Improv Comedy Night Don't Feed the Actors
8:00 PM-11:00 PM
Summer Review 2015 Urban Video Project
Events for Sunday, September 6, 2015
11:00 AM-4:00 PM
Patterns in History: Vintage Quilts of Onondaga County Onondaga Historical Association
11:00 AM-4:00 PM
Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection Onondaga Historical Association
11:00 AM-4:30 PM
James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings Syracuse University Art Museum
11:00 AM-4:30 PM
The New Humanists: Introspective Impressions from the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum
11:00 AM-4:30 PM
British Prints in the Age of Pop Syracuse University Art Museum
12:00 PM-5:00 PM
Playing With Perception: Photographs by Florence Henri Everson Museum of Art
1:00 PM-6:00 PM
Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989) Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)
1:00 PM-6:00 PM
2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou Light Work Gallery
Events for Monday, September 7, 2015
9:00 AM-4:00 PM
The Boys of Summer: Baseball Meets Art Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery
9:00 AM-5:00 PM
The Automobile: Design Considerations and Local Manifestations Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center
Events for Tuesday, September 8, 2015
9:00 AM-4:00 PM
The Boys of Summer: Baseball Meets Art Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery
9:00 AM-5:00 PM
The Automobile: Design Considerations and Local Manifestations Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center
10:00 AM-5:00 PM
Resistance: Work by Najee Dorsey Community Folk Art Center (Read a review!)
10:00 AM-9:00 PM
2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou Light Work Gallery
10:00 AM-9:00 PM
Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989) Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)
11:00 AM-4:30 PM
British Prints in the Age of Pop Syracuse University Art Museum
11:00 AM-4:30 PM
James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings Syracuse University Art Museum
11:00 AM-4:30 PM
The New Humanists: Introspective Impressions from the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum
Events for Wednesday, September 9, 2015
9:00 AM-4:00 PM
The Boys of Summer: Baseball Meets Art Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery
9:00 AM-7:00 PM
The Automobile: Design Considerations and Local Manifestations Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center
10:00 AM-5:00 PM
Resistance: Work by Najee Dorsey Community Folk Art Center (Read a review!)
10:00 AM-9:00 PM
2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou Light Work Gallery
10:00 AM-9:00 PM
Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989) Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)
10:00 AM-4:00 PM
Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection Onondaga Historical Association
10:00 AM-4:00 PM
A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection Onondaga Historical Association
10:00 AM-4:00 PM
Patterns in History: Vintage Quilts of Onondaga County Onondaga Historical Association
11:00 AM-4:30 PM
James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings Syracuse University Art Museum
11:00 AM-4:30 PM
The New Humanists: Introspective Impressions from the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum
11:00 AM-4:30 PM
British Prints in the Age of Pop Syracuse University Art Museum
12:00 PM-2:00 PM
Jazz at the Plaza: Dave Solazzo CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
12:00 PM-5:00 PM
Playing With Perception: Photographs by Florence Henri Everson Museum of Art
12:15 PM
Lunchtime Lectures: James Rosenquist and the American Print Syracuse University Art Museum
7:00 PM
OCC Percussion Concert Onondaga Community College
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
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The Boys of Summer: Baseball Meets Art Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery
Price: Free Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St.,
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9:00 AM - 7:00 PM, September 2 |
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The Automobile: Design Considerations and Local Manifestations Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center
Price: Free Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University,
Syracuse
"The Automobile" provides a sampling of the ways in which the automobile evolved in the Syracuse area and a glimpse into the innovations of some of the most significant mid-20th-century automobile designers. The centerpiece of the exhibition is the air-cooled Franklin car, the most famous of Syracuse's automobile lines, with its remarkably flexible and durable wooden frame. The exhibition will also include drawings, sketches, and photographs from SCRC's industrial design collections by designers Howard A. Darrin, Claude Hill, Raymond Loewy, Budd Steinhilber, and Walter Dorwin Teague. Darrin was known for his designs for exotic luxury and sports cars. Claude Hill created some important concept car designs, while Raymond Loewy's photographs document a number of striking Studebaker model designs. Budd Steinhilber was a member of the design team for the revolutionary rear-engine 1948 Tucker automobile, and Walter Dorwin Teague designed for both the Ford Motor Company and the Marmon Motor Company.
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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, September 2 |
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Resistance: Work by Najee Dorsey Community Folk Art Center
Price: Free Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St.,
Syracuse
Our exhibition season opens with "Resistance" by artist, collector, and founder/CEO of Black Art in America Najee Dorsey. His mixed media works features a number of the heroes of the civil rights movements as well as 20th century activists. An essay entitled My Art is my Voice, written by Dr. Kamasi C. Hill describes the works stating, "Najee Dorsey's mixed media series "Resistance," is an artistic commentary on the various ways individuals have used their voice and bodies to "resist" and fight against the powers that be. Partially inspired by the Occupy Movement, Dorsey's renditions include the Haitian Freedom Fighter Toussaint L'ouverture, A Native American man taking up modern arms, and an ode to unsung she-ro Claudette Colvin, amongst others."
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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, September 2 |
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2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou Light Work Gallery
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University,
Syracuse
Allison Beondé is a visual artist currently living in Syracuse. She holds her B.F.A. from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in partnership with Tufts University. She has exhibited work in the Boston area and is the recipient of a 2015 Traveling Fellowship through the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Thilde Jensen was born in Denmark and moved to New York City in 1997. Six years later, her life and career as a documentary and editorial photographer were cut short by a sudden development of severe environmental illness. Jensen's first monograph, The Canaries, is about environmental illness and was published in 2013. It has since received much international acclaim. Her book was selected by many as one of the best photobooks of the year 2013. The Canaries was shortlisted for the Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award 2013, longlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2014, nominated for the Kassel Best Photobook Award 2014, and is in the collection at MoMA. The project has been exhibited in solo shows at Light Work and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY; featured in the New York Times, Esquire Russia, Wired.com rawfile, Vision Magazine China, Business Insider, Slate.com; and selected for Slate.com's Best Photography Shows of 2012. The Canaries was featured in the TONY: 2012 exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. Jensen is a 2013 NYFA Fellowship recipient. Costa Sakellariou is a photographer currently living and working in Binghamton, NY. From the mid-1980s until 1992, he was a working photographer based in Athens, Islamabad, and New Delhi. His clients were the weekly news magazines and his work was represented by JB Pictures in New York City. In 1992, he began work on a long-term project on the dwindling Greek population of Istanbul. The project was published as a book titled The Last Greeks of Istanbul, and was one of the first photobooks to be published in Greece. The Benaki Museum plans to acquire a portfolio of the work for their permanent photography collection. In 1998, Sakellariou and his wife moved to Binghamton. A year later, he began teaching photography at Binghamton University, where he continues to teach today.
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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, September 2 |
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Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989) Light Work Gallery
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University,
Syracuse
Light Work, in partnership with Autograph ABP, is pleased to present Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989), a solo retrospective of the work of this seminal and highly influential figure in 1980s Black British and African contemporary art. Although his career was cut short by his untimely death at the age of 34, Fani-Kayode nonetheless remains an important influence in contemporary photography. Curated in collaboration with Mark Sealy and Rene´e Mussai of Autograph ABP, whose co-founder and first chair was Fani-Kayode, the exhibition features a selection of his most important photographic works produced between 1985-1989, including large-scale color works and arresting black and white images. Fani-Kayode's photographic portraits explore complex personal and politically engaged notions of desire, spirituality and cultural dislocation. They depict the black male body as a focal point both to interpret and probe the boundaries of spiritual and erotic fantasy, and of cultural and sexual difference. Ancestral rituals and a provocative, multi-layered symbolism fuse with archetypal motifs from European and African cultures and subcultures, inspired by what Yoruba priests call "the technique of ecstasy." Hence Fani-Kayode uses the medium of photography not only to question issues of sexuality and homoerotic desire, but also to address themes of diaspora and belonging, and the tensions between his homosexuality and his Yoruba upbringing. This exhibition coincides with the introduction of new punitive legislation in Nigeria, Fani-Kayode's country of birth, as well as other countries in Africa in recent years outlawing same-sex marriages and membership in gay rights organizations.
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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, September 2 |
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Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection Onondaga Historical Association
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St.,
Syracuse
The OHA is displaying some of the unique and exceptional local history objects that curatorial staff collected during the past two years. This exhibit will include unusual items recently donated to OHA, such as a framed potato chip--the first chip produced by Jean's Foods in the 1940s; a "Glass Victory Washboard," as well as a "Camp Fire Girls Ceremonial Gown" from 1944-45. Adorning the walls will be art both by local artists and of local history. Alongside a framed photograph of the last train that rumbled down Washington Street c. 1936 will be a series of paintings by renowned Syracuse impressionist Hall Groat, including "Syracuse City Hall," "Alarm, Syracuse, NY," "Parade Day, Salina St. Syracuse," and "Canal Days, Clinton Square, Syracuse, NY." New additions from the archival collection will introduce sheet music from the 1895 Syracuse Post March and the diary of a local high school student reacting to the 1963 Kennedy assassination.
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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, September 2 |
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Patterns in History: Vintage Quilts of Onondaga County Onondaga Historical Association
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St.,
Syracuse
Approximately 20 crazy, patchwork, signature, applique, log cabin, and children's quilts, as well as individual quilt squares from the 1850s to the early 20th century, will adorn OHA's second floor gallery this summer and fall. Decorated with beautiful fabrics, patterns, and embroidered characters, OHA's collection represents the array of vintage quilts once used throughout Onondaga County. While some quilts were primarily utilitarian, made to keep their users warm, others were elaborate show pieces that highlighted the artistic skill of the maker. The collection also contains several quilts created to commemorate local people and/or events. A selection of intricate, colorful and even amusing quilts of excellent quality will be on display for all to see! During the quilt exhibit, OHA will raffle off a new quilt made by local quilter and businesswoman Joan Ford. The lap-sized quilt, named "Diamond Jubilee," is nearly all hand-pieced with floral fabrics cut into hexagons and triangles. The hand-quilting and hand embroidered details add to the vintage look of this special quilt.
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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, September 2 |
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James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings Syracuse University Art Museum
Price: Free Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University,
Syracuse
The SU Art Galleries is pleased to announce the exhibition "James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings." Developed in collaboration with the Oklahoma State Museum of Art and curated by Sarah C. Bancroft, co-curator of the artist's 2003 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, "Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings" investigates the impact Rosenquist has had, and continues to have, on American art. The exhibition presents over 35 works from the artist's long career, including examples of his earliest abstractions from the 1950s and his exploration and evolution into Pop Art. James Rosenquist (American, b. 1933) became well known in the 1960s as a leader in the American Pop art movement alongside contemporaries Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Claes Oldenburg, and for more than five decades has created seminal works in printmaking, collage, drawing, and painting.
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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, September 2 |
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The New Humanists: Introspective Impressions from the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum
Price: Free Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University,
Syracuse
The New Humanists: Introspective Impressions from the Syracuse University Art Collection, curated by Assistant Director Andrew Saluti, examines the swell of post-World War II visual artists making work rooted in the psychological state of humanity, creating prints derived from introspection, observation and reflection.
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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, September 2 |
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British Prints in the Age of Pop Syracuse University Art Museum
Price: Free Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University,
Syracuse
British Prints in the Age of Pop, curated by SUArt Director Domenic Iacono, examines a selection of artists who embraced the Pop art movement popularized by American artists, and generated a body of work that looked at the cinema, comic book art, advertising, popular music, and product packaging as sources for their art.
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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, September 2 |
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Playing With Perception: Photographs by Florence Henri Everson Museum of Art
Price: $5 suggested donation Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
Drawn from the Everson's collection, this exhibition presents a selection of photographs by Florence Henri, an accomplished artist of the early 20th century who remains relatively unknown today. Henri studied painting with some of the major avant-garde artists of the 20th century, including Fernand Leger and Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, before turning to photography. Intrigued by notions of playing with perception in life as well as art, the androgynous Henri frequently utilized mirrors in her works to create reflections, distort images, and challenge reality. Her abstract compositions, portraits, and advertising images exploited the possibilities of photography and share affinities with the works of contemporaries like Herbert Bayer, Adolph Baron de Meyer, and Man Ray.
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2:00 PM, September 2 |
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Miró Quartet: Beethoven's Fingerprints Skaneateles Festival
First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St.,
Skaneateles
Hear Beethoven's exuberant "Razumovsky" Quartet, Op. 59, No. 3, with a multimedia introduction by Festival Artistic Director, Aaron Wunsch, followed by a Q&A with the Miró Quartet.
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Thursday, September 3, 2015
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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, September 3 |
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The Boys of Summer: Baseball Meets Art Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery
Price: Free Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, September 3 |
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The Automobile: Design Considerations and Local Manifestations Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center
Price: Free Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University,
Syracuse
"The Automobile" provides a sampling of the ways in which the automobile evolved in the Syracuse area and a glimpse into the innovations of some of the most significant mid-20th-century automobile designers. The centerpiece of the exhibition is the air-cooled Franklin car, the most famous of Syracuse's automobile lines, with its remarkably flexible and durable wooden frame. The exhibition will also include drawings, sketches, and photographs from SCRC's industrial design collections by designers Howard A. Darrin, Claude Hill, Raymond Loewy, Budd Steinhilber, and Walter Dorwin Teague. Darrin was known for his designs for exotic luxury and sports cars. Claude Hill created some important concept car designs, while Raymond Loewy's photographs document a number of striking Studebaker model designs. Budd Steinhilber was a member of the design team for the revolutionary rear-engine 1948 Tucker automobile, and Walter Dorwin Teague designed for both the Ford Motor Company and the Marmon Motor Company.
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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, September 3 |
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Resistance: Work by Najee Dorsey Community Folk Art Center
Price: Free Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St.,
Syracuse
Our exhibition season opens with "Resistance" by artist, collector, and founder/CEO of Black Art in America Najee Dorsey. His mixed media works features a number of the heroes of the civil rights movements as well as 20th century activists. An essay entitled My Art is my Voice, written by Dr. Kamasi C. Hill describes the works stating, "Najee Dorsey's mixed media series "Resistance," is an artistic commentary on the various ways individuals have used their voice and bodies to "resist" and fight against the powers that be. Partially inspired by the Occupy Movement, Dorsey's renditions include the Haitian Freedom Fighter Toussaint L'ouverture, A Native American man taking up modern arms, and an ode to unsung she-ro Claudette Colvin, amongst others."
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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, September 3 |
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2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou Light Work Gallery
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University,
Syracuse
Allison Beondé is a visual artist currently living in Syracuse. She holds her B.F.A. from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in partnership with Tufts University. She has exhibited work in the Boston area and is the recipient of a 2015 Traveling Fellowship through the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Thilde Jensen was born in Denmark and moved to New York City in 1997. Six years later, her life and career as a documentary and editorial photographer were cut short by a sudden development of severe environmental illness. Jensen's first monograph, The Canaries, is about environmental illness and was published in 2013. It has since received much international acclaim. Her book was selected by many as one of the best photobooks of the year 2013. The Canaries was shortlisted for the Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award 2013, longlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2014, nominated for the Kassel Best Photobook Award 2014, and is in the collection at MoMA. The project has been exhibited in solo shows at Light Work and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY; featured in the New York Times, Esquire Russia, Wired.com rawfile, Vision Magazine China, Business Insider, Slate.com; and selected for Slate.com's Best Photography Shows of 2012. The Canaries was featured in the TONY: 2012 exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. Jensen is a 2013 NYFA Fellowship recipient. Costa Sakellariou is a photographer currently living and working in Binghamton, NY. From the mid-1980s until 1992, he was a working photographer based in Athens, Islamabad, and New Delhi. His clients were the weekly news magazines and his work was represented by JB Pictures in New York City. In 1992, he began work on a long-term project on the dwindling Greek population of Istanbul. The project was published as a book titled The Last Greeks of Istanbul, and was one of the first photobooks to be published in Greece. The Benaki Museum plans to acquire a portfolio of the work for their permanent photography collection. In 1998, Sakellariou and his wife moved to Binghamton. A year later, he began teaching photography at Binghamton University, where he continues to teach today.
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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, September 3 |
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Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989) Light Work Gallery
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University,
Syracuse
Light Work, in partnership with Autograph ABP, is pleased to present Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989), a solo retrospective of the work of this seminal and highly influential figure in 1980s Black British and African contemporary art. Although his career was cut short by his untimely death at the age of 34, Fani-Kayode nonetheless remains an important influence in contemporary photography. Curated in collaboration with Mark Sealy and Rene´e Mussai of Autograph ABP, whose co-founder and first chair was Fani-Kayode, the exhibition features a selection of his most important photographic works produced between 1985-1989, including large-scale color works and arresting black and white images. Fani-Kayode's photographic portraits explore complex personal and politically engaged notions of desire, spirituality and cultural dislocation. They depict the black male body as a focal point both to interpret and probe the boundaries of spiritual and erotic fantasy, and of cultural and sexual difference. Ancestral rituals and a provocative, multi-layered symbolism fuse with archetypal motifs from European and African cultures and subcultures, inspired by what Yoruba priests call "the technique of ecstasy." Hence Fani-Kayode uses the medium of photography not only to question issues of sexuality and homoerotic desire, but also to address themes of diaspora and belonging, and the tensions between his homosexuality and his Yoruba upbringing. This exhibition coincides with the introduction of new punitive legislation in Nigeria, Fani-Kayode's country of birth, as well as other countries in Africa in recent years outlawing same-sex marriages and membership in gay rights organizations.
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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, September 3 |
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Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection Onondaga Historical Association
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St.,
Syracuse
The OHA is displaying some of the unique and exceptional local history objects that curatorial staff collected during the past two years. This exhibit will include unusual items recently donated to OHA, such as a framed potato chip--the first chip produced by Jean's Foods in the 1940s; a "Glass Victory Washboard," as well as a "Camp Fire Girls Ceremonial Gown" from 1944-45. Adorning the walls will be art both by local artists and of local history. Alongside a framed photograph of the last train that rumbled down Washington Street c. 1936 will be a series of paintings by renowned Syracuse impressionist Hall Groat, including "Syracuse City Hall," "Alarm, Syracuse, NY," "Parade Day, Salina St. Syracuse," and "Canal Days, Clinton Square, Syracuse, NY." New additions from the archival collection will introduce sheet music from the 1895 Syracuse Post March and the diary of a local high school student reacting to the 1963 Kennedy assassination.
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Patterns in History: Vintage Quilts of Onondaga County Onondaga Historical Association
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St.,
Syracuse
Approximately 20 crazy, patchwork, signature, applique, log cabin, and children's quilts, as well as individual quilt squares from the 1850s to the early 20th century, will adorn OHA's second floor gallery this summer and fall. Decorated with beautiful fabrics, patterns, and embroidered characters, OHA's collection represents the array of vintage quilts once used throughout Onondaga County. While some quilts were primarily utilitarian, made to keep their users warm, others were elaborate show pieces that highlighted the artistic skill of the maker. The collection also contains several quilts created to commemorate local people and/or events. A selection of intricate, colorful and even amusing quilts of excellent quality will be on display for all to see! During the quilt exhibit, OHA will raffle off a new quilt made by local quilter and businesswoman Joan Ford. The lap-sized quilt, named "Diamond Jubilee," is nearly all hand-pieced with floral fabrics cut into hexagons and triangles. The hand-quilting and hand embroidered details add to the vintage look of this special quilt.
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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, September 3 |
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James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings Syracuse University Art Museum
Price: Free Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University,
Syracuse
The SU Art Galleries is pleased to announce the exhibition "James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings." Developed in collaboration with the Oklahoma State Museum of Art and curated by Sarah C. Bancroft, co-curator of the artist's 2003 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, "Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings" investigates the impact Rosenquist has had, and continues to have, on American art. The exhibition presents over 35 works from the artist's long career, including examples of his earliest abstractions from the 1950s and his exploration and evolution into Pop Art. James Rosenquist (American, b. 1933) became well known in the 1960s as a leader in the American Pop art movement alongside contemporaries Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Claes Oldenburg, and for more than five decades has created seminal works in printmaking, collage, drawing, and painting.
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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, September 3 |
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The New Humanists: Introspective Impressions from the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum
Price: Free Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University,
Syracuse
The New Humanists: Introspective Impressions from the Syracuse University Art Collection, curated by Assistant Director Andrew Saluti, examines the swell of post-World War II visual artists making work rooted in the psychological state of humanity, creating prints derived from introspection, observation and reflection.
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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, September 3 |
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British Prints in the Age of Pop Syracuse University Art Museum
Price: Free Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University,
Syracuse
British Prints in the Age of Pop, curated by SUArt Director Domenic Iacono, examines a selection of artists who embraced the Pop art movement popularized by American artists, and generated a body of work that looked at the cinema, comic book art, advertising, popular music, and product packaging as sources for their art.
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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, September 3 |
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Playing With Perception: Photographs by Florence Henri Everson Museum of Art
Price: $5 suggested donation Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
Drawn from the Everson's collection, this exhibition presents a selection of photographs by Florence Henri, an accomplished artist of the early 20th century who remains relatively unknown today. Henri studied painting with some of the major avant-garde artists of the 20th century, including Fernand Leger and Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, before turning to photography. Intrigued by notions of playing with perception in life as well as art, the androgynous Henri frequently utilized mirrors in her works to create reflections, distort images, and challenge reality. Her abstract compositions, portraits, and advertising images exploited the possibilities of photography and share affinities with the works of contemporaries like Herbert Bayer, Adolph Baron de Meyer, and Man Ray.
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8:00 PM - 11:00 PM, September 3 |
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Summer Review 2015 Urban Video Project
Price: Free Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
UVP's annual Summer Review 2015 features all of the works included in the 2014-2015 curatorial program, "Celestial Navigation: A Year Into the Afro Future." The following works will be played on a continuous loop: "Isaac Julien: Western Union: Small Boats (The Leopard)," "Sanford Biggers: Shuffle & Shake," "Jeannette Ehlers: Black Bullets," and "Cauleen Smith: Crow Requiem." "Xaviera Simmons: Number Sixteen" will be screened for a limited, solo review from July 9-18.
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7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, September 3 |
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Jazz in the City CNY Jazz Arts Foundation Featuring Four 80 East with Jeff Kashiwa
Price: Free LeMoyne Plaza
1135 Salt Springs Rd.,
Syracuse
International contemporary jazz saxophonist Jeff Kashiwa will be featured fronting Toronto's Four 80 East, a staple of the international smooth jazz circuit. Kashiwa, a former member of the Rippingtons who still occasionally reunites with them on tour, has nine CDs to his credit, and is the founding member of the "Sax Pack" with Steve Cole and Kim Waters. Lawn chairs are suggested for all those attending.
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7:30 PM, September 3 |
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Miranda Lambert's Roadside Bars & Pink Guitars Tour
Lakeview Amphitheater
490 Restoration Way,
Syracuse
Opening concert at the new Lakeview Amphitheater. Tickets available at the box office, at Ticketmaster.com, and at LiveNation.com.
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8:00 PM, September 3 |
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An Evening with the Miro Quartet Skaneateles Festival
Price: $28, $24 regular; $26, $22 students/seniors First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St.,
Skaneateles
Haydn Quartet Op. 76, No. 2 (Quinten) Beethoven Quartet Op. 59, No. 3 Schumann Piano Quintet Featuring the Miró Quartet; Aaron Wunsch, piano
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Friday, September 4, 2015
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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, September 4 |
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The Boys of Summer: Baseball Meets Art Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery
Price: Free Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, September 4 |
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The Automobile: Design Considerations and Local Manifestations Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center
Price: Free Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University,
Syracuse
"The Automobile" provides a sampling of the ways in which the automobile evolved in the Syracuse area and a glimpse into the innovations of some of the most significant mid-20th-century automobile designers. The centerpiece of the exhibition is the air-cooled Franklin car, the most famous of Syracuse's automobile lines, with its remarkably flexible and durable wooden frame. The exhibition will also include drawings, sketches, and photographs from SCRC's industrial design collections by designers Howard A. Darrin, Claude Hill, Raymond Loewy, Budd Steinhilber, and Walter Dorwin Teague. Darrin was known for his designs for exotic luxury and sports cars. Claude Hill created some important concept car designs, while Raymond Loewy's photographs document a number of striking Studebaker model designs. Budd Steinhilber was a member of the design team for the revolutionary rear-engine 1948 Tucker automobile, and Walter Dorwin Teague designed for both the Ford Motor Company and the Marmon Motor Company.
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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, September 4 |
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Resistance: Work by Najee Dorsey Community Folk Art Center
Price: Free Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St.,
Syracuse
Our exhibition season opens with "Resistance" by artist, collector, and founder/CEO of Black Art in America Najee Dorsey. His mixed media works features a number of the heroes of the civil rights movements as well as 20th century activists. An essay entitled My Art is my Voice, written by Dr. Kamasi C. Hill describes the works stating, "Najee Dorsey's mixed media series "Resistance," is an artistic commentary on the various ways individuals have used their voice and bodies to "resist" and fight against the powers that be. Partially inspired by the Occupy Movement, Dorsey's renditions include the Haitian Freedom Fighter Toussaint L'ouverture, A Native American man taking up modern arms, and an ode to unsung she-ro Claudette Colvin, amongst others."
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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, September 4 |
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2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou Light Work Gallery
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University,
Syracuse
Allison Beondé is a visual artist currently living in Syracuse. She holds her B.F.A. from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in partnership with Tufts University. She has exhibited work in the Boston area and is the recipient of a 2015 Traveling Fellowship through the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Thilde Jensen was born in Denmark and moved to New York City in 1997. Six years later, her life and career as a documentary and editorial photographer were cut short by a sudden development of severe environmental illness. Jensen's first monograph, The Canaries, is about environmental illness and was published in 2013. It has since received much international acclaim. Her book was selected by many as one of the best photobooks of the year 2013. The Canaries was shortlisted for the Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award 2013, longlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2014, nominated for the Kassel Best Photobook Award 2014, and is in the collection at MoMA. The project has been exhibited in solo shows at Light Work and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY; featured in the New York Times, Esquire Russia, Wired.com rawfile, Vision Magazine China, Business Insider, Slate.com; and selected for Slate.com's Best Photography Shows of 2012. The Canaries was featured in the TONY: 2012 exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. Jensen is a 2013 NYFA Fellowship recipient. Costa Sakellariou is a photographer currently living and working in Binghamton, NY. From the mid-1980s until 1992, he was a working photographer based in Athens, Islamabad, and New Delhi. His clients were the weekly news magazines and his work was represented by JB Pictures in New York City. In 1992, he began work on a long-term project on the dwindling Greek population of Istanbul. The project was published as a book titled The Last Greeks of Istanbul, and was one of the first photobooks to be published in Greece. The Benaki Museum plans to acquire a portfolio of the work for their permanent photography collection. In 1998, Sakellariou and his wife moved to Binghamton. A year later, he began teaching photography at Binghamton University, where he continues to teach today.
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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, September 4 |
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Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989) Light Work Gallery
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University,
Syracuse
Light Work, in partnership with Autograph ABP, is pleased to present Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989), a solo retrospective of the work of this seminal and highly influential figure in 1980s Black British and African contemporary art. Although his career was cut short by his untimely death at the age of 34, Fani-Kayode nonetheless remains an important influence in contemporary photography. Curated in collaboration with Mark Sealy and Rene´e Mussai of Autograph ABP, whose co-founder and first chair was Fani-Kayode, the exhibition features a selection of his most important photographic works produced between 1985-1989, including large-scale color works and arresting black and white images. Fani-Kayode's photographic portraits explore complex personal and politically engaged notions of desire, spirituality and cultural dislocation. They depict the black male body as a focal point both to interpret and probe the boundaries of spiritual and erotic fantasy, and of cultural and sexual difference. Ancestral rituals and a provocative, multi-layered symbolism fuse with archetypal motifs from European and African cultures and subcultures, inspired by what Yoruba priests call "the technique of ecstasy." Hence Fani-Kayode uses the medium of photography not only to question issues of sexuality and homoerotic desire, but also to address themes of diaspora and belonging, and the tensions between his homosexuality and his Yoruba upbringing. This exhibition coincides with the introduction of new punitive legislation in Nigeria, Fani-Kayode's country of birth, as well as other countries in Africa in recent years outlawing same-sex marriages and membership in gay rights organizations.
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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, September 4 |
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Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection Onondaga Historical Association
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St.,
Syracuse
The OHA is displaying some of the unique and exceptional local history objects that curatorial staff collected during the past two years. This exhibit will include unusual items recently donated to OHA, such as a framed potato chip--the first chip produced by Jean's Foods in the 1940s; a "Glass Victory Washboard," as well as a "Camp Fire Girls Ceremonial Gown" from 1944-45. Adorning the walls will be art both by local artists and of local history. Alongside a framed photograph of the last train that rumbled down Washington Street c. 1936 will be a series of paintings by renowned Syracuse impressionist Hall Groat, including "Syracuse City Hall," "Alarm, Syracuse, NY," "Parade Day, Salina St. Syracuse," and "Canal Days, Clinton Square, Syracuse, NY." New additions from the archival collection will introduce sheet music from the 1895 Syracuse Post March and the diary of a local high school student reacting to the 1963 Kennedy assassination.
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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, September 4 |
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Patterns in History: Vintage Quilts of Onondaga County Onondaga Historical Association
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St.,
Syracuse
Approximately 20 crazy, patchwork, signature, applique, log cabin, and children's quilts, as well as individual quilt squares from the 1850s to the early 20th century, will adorn OHA's second floor gallery this summer and fall. Decorated with beautiful fabrics, patterns, and embroidered characters, OHA's collection represents the array of vintage quilts once used throughout Onondaga County. While some quilts were primarily utilitarian, made to keep their users warm, others were elaborate show pieces that highlighted the artistic skill of the maker. The collection also contains several quilts created to commemorate local people and/or events. A selection of intricate, colorful and even amusing quilts of excellent quality will be on display for all to see! During the quilt exhibit, OHA will raffle off a new quilt made by local quilter and businesswoman Joan Ford. The lap-sized quilt, named "Diamond Jubilee," is nearly all hand-pieced with floral fabrics cut into hexagons and triangles. The hand-quilting and hand embroidered details add to the vintage look of this special quilt.
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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, September 4 |
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James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings Syracuse University Art Museum
Price: Free Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University,
Syracuse
The SU Art Galleries is pleased to announce the exhibition "James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings." Developed in collaboration with the Oklahoma State Museum of Art and curated by Sarah C. Bancroft, co-curator of the artist's 2003 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, "Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings" investigates the impact Rosenquist has had, and continues to have, on American art. The exhibition presents over 35 works from the artist's long career, including examples of his earliest abstractions from the 1950s and his exploration and evolution into Pop Art. James Rosenquist (American, b. 1933) became well known in the 1960s as a leader in the American Pop art movement alongside contemporaries Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Claes Oldenburg, and for more than five decades has created seminal works in printmaking, collage, drawing, and painting.
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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, September 4 |
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The New Humanists: Introspective Impressions from the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum
Price: Free Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University,
Syracuse
The New Humanists: Introspective Impressions from the Syracuse University Art Collection, curated by Assistant Director Andrew Saluti, examines the swell of post-World War II visual artists making work rooted in the psychological state of humanity, creating prints derived from introspection, observation and reflection.
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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, September 4 |
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British Prints in the Age of Pop Syracuse University Art Museum
Price: Free Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University,
Syracuse
British Prints in the Age of Pop, curated by SUArt Director Domenic Iacono, examines a selection of artists who embraced the Pop art movement popularized by American artists, and generated a body of work that looked at the cinema, comic book art, advertising, popular music, and product packaging as sources for their art.
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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, September 4 |
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Playing With Perception: Photographs by Florence Henri Everson Museum of Art
Price: $5 suggested donation Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
Drawn from the Everson's collection, this exhibition presents a selection of photographs by Florence Henri, an accomplished artist of the early 20th century who remains relatively unknown today. Henri studied painting with some of the major avant-garde artists of the 20th century, including Fernand Leger and Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, before turning to photography. Intrigued by notions of playing with perception in life as well as art, the androgynous Henri frequently utilized mirrors in her works to create reflections, distort images, and challenge reality. Her abstract compositions, portraits, and advertising images exploited the possibilities of photography and share affinities with the works of contemporaries like Herbert Bayer, Adolph Baron de Meyer, and Man Ray.
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8:00 PM - 11:00 PM, September 4 |
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Summer Review 2015 Urban Video Project
Price: Free Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
UVP's annual Summer Review 2015 features all of the works included in the 2014-2015 curatorial program, "Celestial Navigation: A Year Into the Afro Future." The following works will be played on a continuous loop: "Isaac Julien: Western Union: Small Boats (The Leopard)," "Sanford Biggers: Shuffle & Shake," "Jeannette Ehlers: Black Bullets," and "Cauleen Smith: Crow Requiem." "Xaviera Simmons: Number Sixteen" will be screened for a limited, solo review from July 9-18.
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7:30 PM - 10:30 PM, September 4 |
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Urban Cinematheque 2015 Art Fair + Outdoor Film: Mad Max Everson Museum of Art
Price: Free Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
Explore the downtown arts and culture scene. The Who's Who of local arts and cultural organizations will be on hand before the film starts with information and opportunities to get involved. Popcorn and lemonade provided.
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8:00 PM, September 4 |
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Cabaret: Korrie & Josh Taylor Central New York Playhouse
Price: $10 in advance, $12 at the door CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage),
Dewitt
Husband and wife team Korrie and Josh Taylor star in their own cabaret.
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8:00 PM, September 4 |
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The Miro and Aeolus Quartets Skaneateles Festival
Price: $28, $24 regular; $26, $22 students/seniors First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St.,
Skaneateles
Dan Welcher Museon Polemos for String Octet Mendelssohn Octet There will be a pre-concert discussion with the musicians beginning at 7:00 pm. Members of the Miró and Aeolus Quartets discuss their experiences in what is arguably the most intense and rewarding of all musical ensembles, the professional string quartet.
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Saturday, September 5, 2015
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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, September 5 |
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Playing With Perception: Photographs by Florence Henri Everson Museum of Art
Price: $5 suggested donation Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
Drawn from the Everson's collection, this exhibition presents a selection of photographs by Florence Henri, an accomplished artist of the early 20th century who remains relatively unknown today. Henri studied painting with some of the major avant-garde artists of the 20th century, including Fernand Leger and Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, before turning to photography. Intrigued by notions of playing with perception in life as well as art, the androgynous Henri frequently utilized mirrors in her works to create reflections, distort images, and challenge reality. Her abstract compositions, portraits, and advertising images exploited the possibilities of photography and share affinities with the works of contemporaries like Herbert Bayer, Adolph Baron de Meyer, and Man Ray.
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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, September 5 |
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Resistance: Work by Najee Dorsey Community Folk Art Center
Price: Free Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St.,
Syracuse
Our exhibition season opens with "Resistance" by artist, collector, and founder/CEO of Black Art in America Najee Dorsey. His mixed media works features a number of the heroes of the civil rights movements as well as 20th century activists. An essay entitled My Art is my Voice, written by Dr. Kamasi C. Hill describes the works stating, "Najee Dorsey's mixed media series "Resistance," is an artistic commentary on the various ways individuals have used their voice and bodies to "resist" and fight against the powers that be. Partially inspired by the Occupy Movement, Dorsey's renditions include the Haitian Freedom Fighter Toussaint L'ouverture, A Native American man taking up modern arms, and an ode to unsung she-ro Claudette Colvin, amongst others."
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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, September 5 |
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Patterns in History: Vintage Quilts of Onondaga County Onondaga Historical Association
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St.,
Syracuse
Approximately 20 crazy, patchwork, signature, applique, log cabin, and children's quilts, as well as individual quilt squares from the 1850s to the early 20th century, will adorn OHA's second floor gallery this summer and fall. Decorated with beautiful fabrics, patterns, and embroidered characters, OHA's collection represents the array of vintage quilts once used throughout Onondaga County. While some quilts were primarily utilitarian, made to keep their users warm, others were elaborate show pieces that highlighted the artistic skill of the maker. The collection also contains several quilts created to commemorate local people and/or events. A selection of intricate, colorful and even amusing quilts of excellent quality will be on display for all to see! During the quilt exhibit, OHA will raffle off a new quilt made by local quilter and businesswoman Joan Ford. The lap-sized quilt, named "Diamond Jubilee," is nearly all hand-pieced with floral fabrics cut into hexagons and triangles. The hand-quilting and hand embroidered details add to the vintage look of this special quilt.
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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, September 5 |
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Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection Onondaga Historical Association
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St.,
Syracuse
The OHA is displaying some of the unique and exceptional local history objects that curatorial staff collected during the past two years. This exhibit will include unusual items recently donated to OHA, such as a framed potato chip--the first chip produced by Jean's Foods in the 1940s; a "Glass Victory Washboard," as well as a "Camp Fire Girls Ceremonial Gown" from 1944-45. Adorning the walls will be art both by local artists and of local history. Alongside a framed photograph of the last train that rumbled down Washington Street c. 1936 will be a series of paintings by renowned Syracuse impressionist Hall Groat, including "Syracuse City Hall," "Alarm, Syracuse, NY," "Parade Day, Salina St. Syracuse," and "Canal Days, Clinton Square, Syracuse, NY." New additions from the archival collection will introduce sheet music from the 1895 Syracuse Post March and the diary of a local high school student reacting to the 1963 Kennedy assassination.
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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, September 5 |
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The New Humanists: Introspective Impressions from the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum
Price: Free Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University,
Syracuse
The New Humanists: Introspective Impressions from the Syracuse University Art Collection, curated by Assistant Director Andrew Saluti, examines the swell of post-World War II visual artists making work rooted in the psychological state of humanity, creating prints derived from introspection, observation and reflection.
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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, September 5 |
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James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings Syracuse University Art Museum
Price: Free Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University,
Syracuse
The SU Art Galleries is pleased to announce the exhibition "James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings." Developed in collaboration with the Oklahoma State Museum of Art and curated by Sarah C. Bancroft, co-curator of the artist's 2003 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, "Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings" investigates the impact Rosenquist has had, and continues to have, on American art. The exhibition presents over 35 works from the artist's long career, including examples of his earliest abstractions from the 1950s and his exploration and evolution into Pop Art. James Rosenquist (American, b. 1933) became well known in the 1960s as a leader in the American Pop art movement alongside contemporaries Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Claes Oldenburg, and for more than five decades has created seminal works in printmaking, collage, drawing, and painting.
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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, September 5 |
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British Prints in the Age of Pop Syracuse University Art Museum
Price: Free Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University,
Syracuse
British Prints in the Age of Pop, curated by SUArt Director Domenic Iacono, examines a selection of artists who embraced the Pop art movement popularized by American artists, and generated a body of work that looked at the cinema, comic book art, advertising, popular music, and product packaging as sources for their art.
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1:00 PM - 6:00 PM, September 5 |
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2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou Light Work Gallery
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University,
Syracuse
Allison Beondé is a visual artist currently living in Syracuse. She holds her B.F.A. from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in partnership with Tufts University. She has exhibited work in the Boston area and is the recipient of a 2015 Traveling Fellowship through the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Thilde Jensen was born in Denmark and moved to New York City in 1997. Six years later, her life and career as a documentary and editorial photographer were cut short by a sudden development of severe environmental illness. Jensen's first monograph, The Canaries, is about environmental illness and was published in 2013. It has since received much international acclaim. Her book was selected by many as one of the best photobooks of the year 2013. The Canaries was shortlisted for the Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award 2013, longlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2014, nominated for the Kassel Best Photobook Award 2014, and is in the collection at MoMA. The project has been exhibited in solo shows at Light Work and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY; featured in the New York Times, Esquire Russia, Wired.com rawfile, Vision Magazine China, Business Insider, Slate.com; and selected for Slate.com's Best Photography Shows of 2012. The Canaries was featured in the TONY: 2012 exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. Jensen is a 2013 NYFA Fellowship recipient. Costa Sakellariou is a photographer currently living and working in Binghamton, NY. From the mid-1980s until 1992, he was a working photographer based in Athens, Islamabad, and New Delhi. His clients were the weekly news magazines and his work was represented by JB Pictures in New York City. In 1992, he began work on a long-term project on the dwindling Greek population of Istanbul. The project was published as a book titled The Last Greeks of Istanbul, and was one of the first photobooks to be published in Greece. The Benaki Museum plans to acquire a portfolio of the work for their permanent photography collection. In 1998, Sakellariou and his wife moved to Binghamton. A year later, he began teaching photography at Binghamton University, where he continues to teach today.
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Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989) Light Work Gallery
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University,
Syracuse
Light Work, in partnership with Autograph ABP, is pleased to present Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989), a solo retrospective of the work of this seminal and highly influential figure in 1980s Black British and African contemporary art. Although his career was cut short by his untimely death at the age of 34, Fani-Kayode nonetheless remains an important influence in contemporary photography. Curated in collaboration with Mark Sealy and Rene´e Mussai of Autograph ABP, whose co-founder and first chair was Fani-Kayode, the exhibition features a selection of his most important photographic works produced between 1985-1989, including large-scale color works and arresting black and white images. Fani-Kayode's photographic portraits explore complex personal and politically engaged notions of desire, spirituality and cultural dislocation. They depict the black male body as a focal point both to interpret and probe the boundaries of spiritual and erotic fantasy, and of cultural and sexual difference. Ancestral rituals and a provocative, multi-layered symbolism fuse with archetypal motifs from European and African cultures and subcultures, inspired by what Yoruba priests call "the technique of ecstasy." Hence Fani-Kayode uses the medium of photography not only to question issues of sexuality and homoerotic desire, but also to address themes of diaspora and belonging, and the tensions between his homosexuality and his Yoruba upbringing. This exhibition coincides with the introduction of new punitive legislation in Nigeria, Fani-Kayode's country of birth, as well as other countries in Africa in recent years outlawing same-sex marriages and membership in gay rights organizations.
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Summer Review 2015 Urban Video Project
Price: Free Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
UVP's annual Summer Review 2015 features all of the works included in the 2014-2015 curatorial program, "Celestial Navigation: A Year Into the Afro Future." The following works will be played on a continuous loop: "Isaac Julien: Western Union: Small Boats (The Leopard)," "Sanford Biggers: Shuffle & Shake," "Jeannette Ehlers: Black Bullets," and "Cauleen Smith: Crow Requiem." "Xaviera Simmons: Number Sixteen" will be screened for a limited, solo review from July 9-18.
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Comedy |
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8:00 PM, September 5 |
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Improv Comedy Night Don't Feed the Actors
Price: $25 dinner & show, $12 show only CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage),
Dewitt
DFtA specializes in audience interactive improv and is one of the longest-running improv troupes in Central New York. Having toured all over the area, their large stable of theatrically trained actors rotate in and out of each show, ensuring a unique experience each time. Come enjoy an evening of improv in the style of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" and Drew Carey's "Improvaganza." The performance will be preceded by dinner at 6:30 pm.
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7:30 PM, September 5 |
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Festival Finale Skaneateles Festival Featuring Joshua Redman & Brooklyn Rider
Price: $28, $22 Brook Farm
2.5 miles south of the village on Route 41A,
Skaneateles
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12:30 PM, September 5 |
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Snow White Magic Circle Children's Theatre
Price: $5 Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St.,
Syracuse
Interactive retelling of the children's classic. Children are invited to dress up as a princess or prince and join the Royal Court.
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Sunday, September 6, 2015
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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, September 6 |
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Patterns in History: Vintage Quilts of Onondaga County Onondaga Historical Association
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St.,
Syracuse
Approximately 20 crazy, patchwork, signature, applique, log cabin, and children's quilts, as well as individual quilt squares from the 1850s to the early 20th century, will adorn OHA's second floor gallery this summer and fall. Decorated with beautiful fabrics, patterns, and embroidered characters, OHA's collection represents the array of vintage quilts once used throughout Onondaga County. While some quilts were primarily utilitarian, made to keep their users warm, others were elaborate show pieces that highlighted the artistic skill of the maker. The collection also contains several quilts created to commemorate local people and/or events. A selection of intricate, colorful and even amusing quilts of excellent quality will be on display for all to see! During the quilt exhibit, OHA will raffle off a new quilt made by local quilter and businesswoman Joan Ford. The lap-sized quilt, named "Diamond Jubilee," is nearly all hand-pieced with floral fabrics cut into hexagons and triangles. The hand-quilting and hand embroidered details add to the vintage look of this special quilt.
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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, September 6 |
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Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection Onondaga Historical Association
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St.,
Syracuse
The OHA is displaying some of the unique and exceptional local history objects that curatorial staff collected during the past two years. This exhibit will include unusual items recently donated to OHA, such as a framed potato chip--the first chip produced by Jean's Foods in the 1940s; a "Glass Victory Washboard," as well as a "Camp Fire Girls Ceremonial Gown" from 1944-45. Adorning the walls will be art both by local artists and of local history. Alongside a framed photograph of the last train that rumbled down Washington Street c. 1936 will be a series of paintings by renowned Syracuse impressionist Hall Groat, including "Syracuse City Hall," "Alarm, Syracuse, NY," "Parade Day, Salina St. Syracuse," and "Canal Days, Clinton Square, Syracuse, NY." New additions from the archival collection will introduce sheet music from the 1895 Syracuse Post March and the diary of a local high school student reacting to the 1963 Kennedy assassination.
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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, September 6 |
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James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings Syracuse University Art Museum
Price: Free Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University,
Syracuse
The SU Art Galleries is pleased to announce the exhibition "James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings." Developed in collaboration with the Oklahoma State Museum of Art and curated by Sarah C. Bancroft, co-curator of the artist's 2003 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, "Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings" investigates the impact Rosenquist has had, and continues to have, on American art. The exhibition presents over 35 works from the artist's long career, including examples of his earliest abstractions from the 1950s and his exploration and evolution into Pop Art. James Rosenquist (American, b. 1933) became well known in the 1960s as a leader in the American Pop art movement alongside contemporaries Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Claes Oldenburg, and for more than five decades has created seminal works in printmaking, collage, drawing, and painting.
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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, September 6 |
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The New Humanists: Introspective Impressions from the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum
Price: Free Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University,
Syracuse
The New Humanists: Introspective Impressions from the Syracuse University Art Collection, curated by Assistant Director Andrew Saluti, examines the swell of post-World War II visual artists making work rooted in the psychological state of humanity, creating prints derived from introspection, observation and reflection.
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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, September 6 |
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British Prints in the Age of Pop Syracuse University Art Museum
Price: Free Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University,
Syracuse
British Prints in the Age of Pop, curated by SUArt Director Domenic Iacono, examines a selection of artists who embraced the Pop art movement popularized by American artists, and generated a body of work that looked at the cinema, comic book art, advertising, popular music, and product packaging as sources for their art.
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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, September 6 |
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Playing With Perception: Photographs by Florence Henri Everson Museum of Art
Price: $5 suggested donation Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
Drawn from the Everson's collection, this exhibition presents a selection of photographs by Florence Henri, an accomplished artist of the early 20th century who remains relatively unknown today. Henri studied painting with some of the major avant-garde artists of the 20th century, including Fernand Leger and Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, before turning to photography. Intrigued by notions of playing with perception in life as well as art, the androgynous Henri frequently utilized mirrors in her works to create reflections, distort images, and challenge reality. Her abstract compositions, portraits, and advertising images exploited the possibilities of photography and share affinities with the works of contemporaries like Herbert Bayer, Adolph Baron de Meyer, and Man Ray.
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1:00 PM - 6:00 PM, September 6 |
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Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989) Light Work Gallery
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University,
Syracuse
Light Work, in partnership with Autograph ABP, is pleased to present Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989), a solo retrospective of the work of this seminal and highly influential figure in 1980s Black British and African contemporary art. Although his career was cut short by his untimely death at the age of 34, Fani-Kayode nonetheless remains an important influence in contemporary photography. Curated in collaboration with Mark Sealy and Rene´e Mussai of Autograph ABP, whose co-founder and first chair was Fani-Kayode, the exhibition features a selection of his most important photographic works produced between 1985-1989, including large-scale color works and arresting black and white images. Fani-Kayode's photographic portraits explore complex personal and politically engaged notions of desire, spirituality and cultural dislocation. They depict the black male body as a focal point both to interpret and probe the boundaries of spiritual and erotic fantasy, and of cultural and sexual difference. Ancestral rituals and a provocative, multi-layered symbolism fuse with archetypal motifs from European and African cultures and subcultures, inspired by what Yoruba priests call "the technique of ecstasy." Hence Fani-Kayode uses the medium of photography not only to question issues of sexuality and homoerotic desire, but also to address themes of diaspora and belonging, and the tensions between his homosexuality and his Yoruba upbringing. This exhibition coincides with the introduction of new punitive legislation in Nigeria, Fani-Kayode's country of birth, as well as other countries in Africa in recent years outlawing same-sex marriages and membership in gay rights organizations.
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2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou Light Work Gallery
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University,
Syracuse
Allison Beondé is a visual artist currently living in Syracuse. She holds her B.F.A. from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in partnership with Tufts University. She has exhibited work in the Boston area and is the recipient of a 2015 Traveling Fellowship through the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Thilde Jensen was born in Denmark and moved to New York City in 1997. Six years later, her life and career as a documentary and editorial photographer were cut short by a sudden development of severe environmental illness. Jensen's first monograph, The Canaries, is about environmental illness and was published in 2013. It has since received much international acclaim. Her book was selected by many as one of the best photobooks of the year 2013. The Canaries was shortlisted for the Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award 2013, longlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2014, nominated for the Kassel Best Photobook Award 2014, and is in the collection at MoMA. The project has been exhibited in solo shows at Light Work and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY; featured in the New York Times, Esquire Russia, Wired.com rawfile, Vision Magazine China, Business Insider, Slate.com; and selected for Slate.com's Best Photography Shows of 2012. The Canaries was featured in the TONY: 2012 exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. Jensen is a 2013 NYFA Fellowship recipient. Costa Sakellariou is a photographer currently living and working in Binghamton, NY. From the mid-1980s until 1992, he was a working photographer based in Athens, Islamabad, and New Delhi. His clients were the weekly news magazines and his work was represented by JB Pictures in New York City. In 1992, he began work on a long-term project on the dwindling Greek population of Istanbul. The project was published as a book titled The Last Greeks of Istanbul, and was one of the first photobooks to be published in Greece. The Benaki Museum plans to acquire a portfolio of the work for their permanent photography collection. In 1998, Sakellariou and his wife moved to Binghamton. A year later, he began teaching photography at Binghamton University, where he continues to teach today.
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Monday, September 7, 2015
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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, September 7 |
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The Boys of Summer: Baseball Meets Art Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery
Price: Free Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, September 7 |
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The Automobile: Design Considerations and Local Manifestations Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center
Price: Free Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University,
Syracuse
"The Automobile" provides a sampling of the ways in which the automobile evolved in the Syracuse area and a glimpse into the innovations of some of the most significant mid-20th-century automobile designers. The centerpiece of the exhibition is the air-cooled Franklin car, the most famous of Syracuse's automobile lines, with its remarkably flexible and durable wooden frame. The exhibition will also include drawings, sketches, and photographs from SCRC's industrial design collections by designers Howard A. Darrin, Claude Hill, Raymond Loewy, Budd Steinhilber, and Walter Dorwin Teague. Darrin was known for his designs for exotic luxury and sports cars. Claude Hill created some important concept car designs, while Raymond Loewy's photographs document a number of striking Studebaker model designs. Budd Steinhilber was a member of the design team for the revolutionary rear-engine 1948 Tucker automobile, and Walter Dorwin Teague designed for both the Ford Motor Company and the Marmon Motor Company.
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Tuesday, September 8, 2015
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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, September 8 |
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The Boys of Summer: Baseball Meets Art Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery
Price: Free Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, September 8 |
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The Automobile: Design Considerations and Local Manifestations Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center
Price: Free Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University,
Syracuse
"The Automobile" provides a sampling of the ways in which the automobile evolved in the Syracuse area and a glimpse into the innovations of some of the most significant mid-20th-century automobile designers. The centerpiece of the exhibition is the air-cooled Franklin car, the most famous of Syracuse's automobile lines, with its remarkably flexible and durable wooden frame. The exhibition will also include drawings, sketches, and photographs from SCRC's industrial design collections by designers Howard A. Darrin, Claude Hill, Raymond Loewy, Budd Steinhilber, and Walter Dorwin Teague. Darrin was known for his designs for exotic luxury and sports cars. Claude Hill created some important concept car designs, while Raymond Loewy's photographs document a number of striking Studebaker model designs. Budd Steinhilber was a member of the design team for the revolutionary rear-engine 1948 Tucker automobile, and Walter Dorwin Teague designed for both the Ford Motor Company and the Marmon Motor Company.
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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, September 8 |
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Resistance: Work by Najee Dorsey Community Folk Art Center
Price: Free Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St.,
Syracuse
Our exhibition season opens with "Resistance" by artist, collector, and founder/CEO of Black Art in America Najee Dorsey. His mixed media works features a number of the heroes of the civil rights movements as well as 20th century activists. An essay entitled My Art is my Voice, written by Dr. Kamasi C. Hill describes the works stating, "Najee Dorsey's mixed media series "Resistance," is an artistic commentary on the various ways individuals have used their voice and bodies to "resist" and fight against the powers that be. Partially inspired by the Occupy Movement, Dorsey's renditions include the Haitian Freedom Fighter Toussaint L'ouverture, A Native American man taking up modern arms, and an ode to unsung she-ro Claudette Colvin, amongst others."
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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, September 8 |
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2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou Light Work Gallery
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University,
Syracuse
Allison Beondé is a visual artist currently living in Syracuse. She holds her B.F.A. from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in partnership with Tufts University. She has exhibited work in the Boston area and is the recipient of a 2015 Traveling Fellowship through the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Thilde Jensen was born in Denmark and moved to New York City in 1997. Six years later, her life and career as a documentary and editorial photographer were cut short by a sudden development of severe environmental illness. Jensen's first monograph, The Canaries, is about environmental illness and was published in 2013. It has since received much international acclaim. Her book was selected by many as one of the best photobooks of the year 2013. The Canaries was shortlisted for the Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award 2013, longlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2014, nominated for the Kassel Best Photobook Award 2014, and is in the collection at MoMA. The project has been exhibited in solo shows at Light Work and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY; featured in the New York Times, Esquire Russia, Wired.com rawfile, Vision Magazine China, Business Insider, Slate.com; and selected for Slate.com's Best Photography Shows of 2012. The Canaries was featured in the TONY: 2012 exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. Jensen is a 2013 NYFA Fellowship recipient. Costa Sakellariou is a photographer currently living and working in Binghamton, NY. From the mid-1980s until 1992, he was a working photographer based in Athens, Islamabad, and New Delhi. His clients were the weekly news magazines and his work was represented by JB Pictures in New York City. In 1992, he began work on a long-term project on the dwindling Greek population of Istanbul. The project was published as a book titled The Last Greeks of Istanbul, and was one of the first photobooks to be published in Greece. The Benaki Museum plans to acquire a portfolio of the work for their permanent photography collection. In 1998, Sakellariou and his wife moved to Binghamton. A year later, he began teaching photography at Binghamton University, where he continues to teach today.
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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, September 8 |
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Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989) Light Work Gallery
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University,
Syracuse
Light Work, in partnership with Autograph ABP, is pleased to present Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989), a solo retrospective of the work of this seminal and highly influential figure in 1980s Black British and African contemporary art. Although his career was cut short by his untimely death at the age of 34, Fani-Kayode nonetheless remains an important influence in contemporary photography. Curated in collaboration with Mark Sealy and Rene´e Mussai of Autograph ABP, whose co-founder and first chair was Fani-Kayode, the exhibition features a selection of his most important photographic works produced between 1985-1989, including large-scale color works and arresting black and white images. Fani-Kayode's photographic portraits explore complex personal and politically engaged notions of desire, spirituality and cultural dislocation. They depict the black male body as a focal point both to interpret and probe the boundaries of spiritual and erotic fantasy, and of cultural and sexual difference. Ancestral rituals and a provocative, multi-layered symbolism fuse with archetypal motifs from European and African cultures and subcultures, inspired by what Yoruba priests call "the technique of ecstasy." Hence Fani-Kayode uses the medium of photography not only to question issues of sexuality and homoerotic desire, but also to address themes of diaspora and belonging, and the tensions between his homosexuality and his Yoruba upbringing. This exhibition coincides with the introduction of new punitive legislation in Nigeria, Fani-Kayode's country of birth, as well as other countries in Africa in recent years outlawing same-sex marriages and membership in gay rights organizations.
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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, September 8 |
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British Prints in the Age of Pop Syracuse University Art Museum
Price: Free Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University,
Syracuse
British Prints in the Age of Pop, curated by SUArt Director Domenic Iacono, examines a selection of artists who embraced the Pop art movement popularized by American artists, and generated a body of work that looked at the cinema, comic book art, advertising, popular music, and product packaging as sources for their art.
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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, September 8 |
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James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings Syracuse University Art Museum
Price: Free Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University,
Syracuse
The SU Art Galleries is pleased to announce the exhibition "James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings." Developed in collaboration with the Oklahoma State Museum of Art and curated by Sarah C. Bancroft, co-curator of the artist's 2003 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, "Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings" investigates the impact Rosenquist has had, and continues to have, on American art. The exhibition presents over 35 works from the artist's long career, including examples of his earliest abstractions from the 1950s and his exploration and evolution into Pop Art. James Rosenquist (American, b. 1933) became well known in the 1960s as a leader in the American Pop art movement alongside contemporaries Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Claes Oldenburg, and for more than five decades has created seminal works in printmaking, collage, drawing, and painting.
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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, September 8 |
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The New Humanists: Introspective Impressions from the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum
Price: Free Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University,
Syracuse
The New Humanists: Introspective Impressions from the Syracuse University Art Collection, curated by Assistant Director Andrew Saluti, examines the swell of post-World War II visual artists making work rooted in the psychological state of humanity, creating prints derived from introspection, observation and reflection.
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Wednesday, September 9, 2015
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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, September 9 |
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The Boys of Summer: Baseball Meets Art Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery
Price: Free Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St.,
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9:00 AM - 7:00 PM, September 9 |
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The Automobile: Design Considerations and Local Manifestations Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center
Price: Free Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University,
Syracuse
"The Automobile" provides a sampling of the ways in which the automobile evolved in the Syracuse area and a glimpse into the innovations of some of the most significant mid-20th-century automobile designers. The centerpiece of the exhibition is the air-cooled Franklin car, the most famous of Syracuse's automobile lines, with its remarkably flexible and durable wooden frame. The exhibition will also include drawings, sketches, and photographs from SCRC's industrial design collections by designers Howard A. Darrin, Claude Hill, Raymond Loewy, Budd Steinhilber, and Walter Dorwin Teague. Darrin was known for his designs for exotic luxury and sports cars. Claude Hill created some important concept car designs, while Raymond Loewy's photographs document a number of striking Studebaker model designs. Budd Steinhilber was a member of the design team for the revolutionary rear-engine 1948 Tucker automobile, and Walter Dorwin Teague designed for both the Ford Motor Company and the Marmon Motor Company.
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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, September 9 |
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Resistance: Work by Najee Dorsey Community Folk Art Center
Price: Free Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St.,
Syracuse
Our exhibition season opens with "Resistance" by artist, collector, and founder/CEO of Black Art in America Najee Dorsey. His mixed media works features a number of the heroes of the civil rights movements as well as 20th century activists. An essay entitled My Art is my Voice, written by Dr. Kamasi C. Hill describes the works stating, "Najee Dorsey's mixed media series "Resistance," is an artistic commentary on the various ways individuals have used their voice and bodies to "resist" and fight against the powers that be. Partially inspired by the Occupy Movement, Dorsey's renditions include the Haitian Freedom Fighter Toussaint L'ouverture, A Native American man taking up modern arms, and an ode to unsung she-ro Claudette Colvin, amongst others."
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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, September 9 |
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2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou Light Work Gallery
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University,
Syracuse
Allison Beondé is a visual artist currently living in Syracuse. She holds her B.F.A. from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in partnership with Tufts University. She has exhibited work in the Boston area and is the recipient of a 2015 Traveling Fellowship through the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Thilde Jensen was born in Denmark and moved to New York City in 1997. Six years later, her life and career as a documentary and editorial photographer were cut short by a sudden development of severe environmental illness. Jensen's first monograph, The Canaries, is about environmental illness and was published in 2013. It has since received much international acclaim. Her book was selected by many as one of the best photobooks of the year 2013. The Canaries was shortlisted for the Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award 2013, longlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2014, nominated for the Kassel Best Photobook Award 2014, and is in the collection at MoMA. The project has been exhibited in solo shows at Light Work and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY; featured in the New York Times, Esquire Russia, Wired.com rawfile, Vision Magazine China, Business Insider, Slate.com; and selected for Slate.com's Best Photography Shows of 2012. The Canaries was featured in the TONY: 2012 exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. Jensen is a 2013 NYFA Fellowship recipient. Costa Sakellariou is a photographer currently living and working in Binghamton, NY. From the mid-1980s until 1992, he was a working photographer based in Athens, Islamabad, and New Delhi. His clients were the weekly news magazines and his work was represented by JB Pictures in New York City. In 1992, he began work on a long-term project on the dwindling Greek population of Istanbul. The project was published as a book titled The Last Greeks of Istanbul, and was one of the first photobooks to be published in Greece. The Benaki Museum plans to acquire a portfolio of the work for their permanent photography collection. In 1998, Sakellariou and his wife moved to Binghamton. A year later, he began teaching photography at Binghamton University, where he continues to teach today.
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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, September 9 |
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Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989) Light Work Gallery
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University,
Syracuse
Light Work, in partnership with Autograph ABP, is pleased to present Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989), a solo retrospective of the work of this seminal and highly influential figure in 1980s Black British and African contemporary art. Although his career was cut short by his untimely death at the age of 34, Fani-Kayode nonetheless remains an important influence in contemporary photography. Curated in collaboration with Mark Sealy and Rene´e Mussai of Autograph ABP, whose co-founder and first chair was Fani-Kayode, the exhibition features a selection of his most important photographic works produced between 1985-1989, including large-scale color works and arresting black and white images. Fani-Kayode's photographic portraits explore complex personal and politically engaged notions of desire, spirituality and cultural dislocation. They depict the black male body as a focal point both to interpret and probe the boundaries of spiritual and erotic fantasy, and of cultural and sexual difference. Ancestral rituals and a provocative, multi-layered symbolism fuse with archetypal motifs from European and African cultures and subcultures, inspired by what Yoruba priests call "the technique of ecstasy." Hence Fani-Kayode uses the medium of photography not only to question issues of sexuality and homoerotic desire, but also to address themes of diaspora and belonging, and the tensions between his homosexuality and his Yoruba upbringing. This exhibition coincides with the introduction of new punitive legislation in Nigeria, Fani-Kayode's country of birth, as well as other countries in Africa in recent years outlawing same-sex marriages and membership in gay rights organizations.
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Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection Onondaga Historical Association
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St.,
Syracuse
The OHA is displaying some of the unique and exceptional local history objects that curatorial staff collected during the past two years. This exhibit will include unusual items recently donated to OHA, such as a framed potato chip--the first chip produced by Jean's Foods in the 1940s; a "Glass Victory Washboard," as well as a "Camp Fire Girls Ceremonial Gown" from 1944-45. Adorning the walls will be art both by local artists and of local history. Alongside a framed photograph of the last train that rumbled down Washington Street c. 1936 will be a series of paintings by renowned Syracuse impressionist Hall Groat, including "Syracuse City Hall," "Alarm, Syracuse, NY," "Parade Day, Salina St. Syracuse," and "Canal Days, Clinton Square, Syracuse, NY." New additions from the archival collection will introduce sheet music from the 1895 Syracuse Post March and the diary of a local high school student reacting to the 1963 Kennedy assassination.
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A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection Onondaga Historical Association
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St.,
Syracuse
This exhibit highlights artwork created by local women artists whose work is represented in OHA's collection. The exhibition features over 40 paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures ranging from the mid-19th century through the end of the 20th century.
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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, September 9 |
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Patterns in History: Vintage Quilts of Onondaga County Onondaga Historical Association
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St.,
Syracuse
Approximately 20 crazy, patchwork, signature, applique, log cabin, and children's quilts, as well as individual quilt squares from the 1850s to the early 20th century, will adorn OHA's second floor gallery this summer and fall. Decorated with beautiful fabrics, patterns, and embroidered characters, OHA's collection represents the array of vintage quilts once used throughout Onondaga County. While some quilts were primarily utilitarian, made to keep their users warm, others were elaborate show pieces that highlighted the artistic skill of the maker. The collection also contains several quilts created to commemorate local people and/or events. A selection of intricate, colorful and even amusing quilts of excellent quality will be on display for all to see! During the quilt exhibit, OHA will raffle off a new quilt made by local quilter and businesswoman Joan Ford. The lap-sized quilt, named "Diamond Jubilee," is nearly all hand-pieced with floral fabrics cut into hexagons and triangles. The hand-quilting and hand embroidered details add to the vintage look of this special quilt.
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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, September 9 |
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James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings Syracuse University Art Museum
Price: Free Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University,
Syracuse
The SU Art Galleries is pleased to announce the exhibition "James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings." Developed in collaboration with the Oklahoma State Museum of Art and curated by Sarah C. Bancroft, co-curator of the artist's 2003 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, "Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings" investigates the impact Rosenquist has had, and continues to have, on American art. The exhibition presents over 35 works from the artist's long career, including examples of his earliest abstractions from the 1950s and his exploration and evolution into Pop Art. James Rosenquist (American, b. 1933) became well known in the 1960s as a leader in the American Pop art movement alongside contemporaries Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Claes Oldenburg, and for more than five decades has created seminal works in printmaking, collage, drawing, and painting.
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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, September 9 |
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The New Humanists: Introspective Impressions from the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum
Price: Free Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University,
Syracuse
The New Humanists: Introspective Impressions from the Syracuse University Art Collection, curated by Assistant Director Andrew Saluti, examines the swell of post-World War II visual artists making work rooted in the psychological state of humanity, creating prints derived from introspection, observation and reflection.
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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, September 9 |
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British Prints in the Age of Pop Syracuse University Art Museum
Price: Free Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University,
Syracuse
British Prints in the Age of Pop, curated by SUArt Director Domenic Iacono, examines a selection of artists who embraced the Pop art movement popularized by American artists, and generated a body of work that looked at the cinema, comic book art, advertising, popular music, and product packaging as sources for their art.
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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, September 9 |
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Playing With Perception: Photographs by Florence Henri Everson Museum of Art
Price: $5 suggested donation Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
Drawn from the Everson's collection, this exhibition presents a selection of photographs by Florence Henri, an accomplished artist of the early 20th century who remains relatively unknown today. Henri studied painting with some of the major avant-garde artists of the 20th century, including Fernand Leger and Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, before turning to photography. Intrigued by notions of playing with perception in life as well as art, the androgynous Henri frequently utilized mirrors in her works to create reflections, distort images, and challenge reality. Her abstract compositions, portraits, and advertising images exploited the possibilities of photography and share affinities with the works of contemporaries like Herbert Bayer, Adolph Baron de Meyer, and Man Ray.
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Lecture |
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12:15 PM, September 9 |
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Lunchtime Lectures: James Rosenquist and the American Print Syracuse University Art Museum
Price: Free Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University,
Syracuse
Andrew Saluti, Assistant Director of SUArt Galleries, will lead a gallery talk about James Rosenquist and the American Print.
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Music |
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12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, September 9 |
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Jazz at the Plaza: Dave Solazzo CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Price: Free LeMoyne Plaza
1135 Salt Springs Rd.,
Syracuse
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7:00 PM, September 9 |
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OCC Percussion Concert Onondaga Community College
Price: Free OCC Recital Hall
Onondaga Community College,
Syracuse
Featuring works of John Cage.
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