Sunday, June 10, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

The Locks of the New York State Canal System
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Pen and ink drawings of artist Ray Sax will be on display. The 57 drawings were created by Sax over a four year period that began in 1988 with a picnic to Lock 24 in Baldwinsville with his wife Betty. Enjoying the experience, they kept going from one lock to the next, Ray drawing each one.

The exhibition of these drawings will bring new attention to the beauty and engineering of Barge Canal structures. Visitors to the exhibit will be reminded that the Erie Canal is not merely a thing of the past, but a remarkable body of water that connects east and west.

Captured
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Mixed-media artist Amy E. Bartell and photographer Jeanann Wieners freeze moments in time in a show of their works titled "Captured."

In "Captured," artist/activist Bartell takes the viewer to the circus for an exploration of the literal and metaphorical visions reminiscent of what one might expect to experience there.

To set the tone of her circus imagery, Bartell worked in mixed media -- gouache, pencil, pastel on stretched paper and cradled clayboard. She describes the process as layering color, line and texture, building the surface from light to dark. She applies the paint with brushes, knives and cloths, 'adding and subtracting, drawing and erasing, pushing and pulling the tension of surface and materials while remembering that art is a process of translation; the media chosen defines the voice of the narrator.'

Wieners, well established professionally in video and film work, describes her idealistic 'moments' portrayed by her street photography displayed in the show by comparing the difference in video production and its controlling factors verses her abandon of control in street photography. She says that in the former art form there is need to scout locations, build sets, rig lights, direct actors, and count 'takes' before the narrative is revealed over time. By contrast, the mindset of her chosen art form requires her only to embrace opportunity and anticipate that 'instant in time when the perfect combination of form, color, light and narrative occurs and is, in a single frame, captured.'

Shaker Boxes: Works by Fred Weisskopf
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

As this month's featured artist, Fred has made a special selection of shaker boxes. There will also be a display showing steps involved in the making of traditional shaker boxes.

Flower Power
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"Flower Power" presents an eclectic mix of styles and art media. This group exhibition celebrates the beauty of flowers and the vessels used to contain them. The show includes photography, wood, sculpture, fiber art, and ceramics. Participating artists include Justin Campbell, Suzanne Fluty, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Mary Giehl, Vicki Hartman, Dave LoParco, Colleen McCall, Kate Money, Melissa Montgomery, Brooks Oliver, Kala Stein, Dan Tracy, Jeanann Wieners, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

Form and Landscape: New Work by Jeremy Randall
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

This exhibition marks the first time that Jeremy Randall's architectural ceramic vessels will be paired with his landscape drawings.

Randall's work was recently selected for inclusion in a November show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He also has exhibited this year at Craftboston Spring, Baltimore Clayworks, the Paradise City Arts Festival in Northampton, MA, and Studio 550 in Nashua, NH. Altogether, his works have been shown in more than 60 exhibitions nationwide; images have appeared in Ceramic Arts Daily, Clay Times, Ceramic Review, Stone Canoe, and "500 Vases" and "500 Cups" (Lark Books).

Randall uses color to elevate forms to be celebrated, while conjuring the nostalgia for something old that is still recognized today. His drawings combine graphite and acrylic paint on panel. The colors relate to his ceramic work, and lend a soft energy to the landscape being referenced.

Randall, recognized by Ceramics Monthly as an Emerging Artist for 2009, is digital imaging/web specialist and head of installations at Imagine, studio manager and visiting professor of art at Cazenovia College, and adjunct professor of ceramics at Syracuse University, his alma mater.

His work is held in the permanent collection of the Southern Illinois University Museum and the private Meyerhoff Collection in Baltimore. In addition to Imagine and Gandee Gallery locally, he is represented by galleries in Montana, Ohio, Georgia and Massachusetts.

Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Three well-known Central New York political cartoonists, Joe Glisson, Tim Atseff, and Frank Cammuso, are the featured cartoonists for an exhibition entitled "Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place." With insightful humor, these artists and their historic predecessors produced a wide variety of editorial cartoons that illustrated important issues of their time. Starting with cartoons from the Civil War era through the present day, "Take No Prisoners" is an opportunity to experience historic subjects as the current events they once were, and to see how election issues of the past compare with those of the present-day.

Timeless Imagery: Associated Artists of CNY's 85th Anniversary Exhibition
Onondaga Historical Association
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Since 1927, Associated Artists has sought to bring together the best artists and their art for the benefit of the central New York community. The exhibit at OHA will showcase 85 years of juried arts competition winning entries from regional artists. "Timeless Imagery" is an opportunity to observe in one gallery the history of Central New York's changing art scene.

People, Place and Progress: Local Landscapes in Paint and Print
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 suggested donation
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In a partnership between the Everson Museum of Art and the Onondaga Historical Association, this exhibit will include paintings from the collections of both institutions. The works will feature local historical scenes such as views of the Erie Canal, rural vistas, area waterfalls and gorges, plus local architectural landmarks, former breweries, stagecoach inns and sections of downtown Syracuse.

The exhibition will also pair the paintings with historic photos and prints, documenting either the particular image or the actual historic landscape that inspired the artists. The works will explore how the artist chose to interpret that Central New York setting and why those places help shape our regional identity.

Julie Blackmon: Other Tales from Home
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5 adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Authentic and dysfunctional, Julie Blackmon's photographs of family life strike a resonating chord in both children and adult viewers. Boys and girls run free in the backyard or the living room among scattered toys while preoccupied grown-ups hover on the edges. Inspired by humorous 17th-century Dutch paintings and her own childhood as the eldest of nine, Blackmon digitally reconstructs scenes of family life with humor and an eye for the underlying chaos. The exhibition contains selections from her past series, Domestic Vacations, along with photographs from her latest body of work.

Celebrating 90 Years of Design at Syracuse University
XL Projects

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

An exhibition of work by current students in the environmental and interior design and industrial and interaction design programs in the Department of Design. The programs are celebrating their 90th anniversaries.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours or email Andrew Havenhand, ahavenhand@yahoo.com.

Melding Time and Process: Works by Richard Harvey
Redhouse

Price: Free
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Exploring the psychological and emotive potential of the human face, Harvey creates figurative art inspired by a diverse range of art historical influences including Byzantine iconography, African sculpture, and Expressionist painting. Elements of typography, signage and graffiti reflect his background in graphic design.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

Dance Theater of Syracuse Annual Performance

Price: $12.50 in advance, $15 at the door
Nottingham High School
3100 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The performance will feature the Dance Theater of Syracuse Ensemble, pre-professional students, and several ensemble premieres. Program highlights include new works by guest choreographers Renee Monique Brown, a veteran of the Broadway Show The Color Purple, and Edward Franklin, a former member of the Ailey company and current artistic director of Flick Contemporary in Atlanta.

The program will also feature new works by Brandon Ellis, DTS artistic director, and DTS instructors Hanni Schwarzlander, Amber Wells Schermerhorn, Brandon Jones, and Chevaun Jackson.

Advance tickets are available at the Dance Theater of Syracuse, 117 Harvard Place, Syracuse. For more information, phone 315-396-0536, or email dancetheaterofsyracuse@ymail.com; or visit www.facebook.com/dancetheaterofsyracuse.

Syracuse Balloonfest

Price: $10 regular, free for ages 12 and under
Jamesville Beach
Apulia Rd., Jamesville

Balloon flight: 6:00 am, 6:00-7:30 pm (weather permitting)
Balloon glow: 9:00 pm (weather permitting)

Music
1:00-2:30 pm: Charlie Orlando
3:00-4:30 pm: Turnip Stampede
5:00-6:00 pm: Hard Promises (Tom Petty Tribute)
7:00-9:00 pm: Hotel California (Eagles Tribute)

Free parking. (Train service to the event is no longer available.)

For more information, phone 315-703-9620.

Greek Cultural Festival

Price: Free
St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Church
325 Waring Rd., Syracuse

Greek food, music, dancing.

For more information, visit the website.

Polish Festival

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

12:00 pm: The Noise Boys (from Syracuse)
1:00 pm: Lechowia Dance Company (from Toronto)
2:00 pm: Eddie Forman Orchestra (from Hadley, MA)
3:00 pm: Scholarship Awards, Tom Kotapka piano, Miss Polonia Awards
4:00 pm: Eddie Forman Orchestra

Syracuse Stories Documentary
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Didn't get to the July 2011 Syracuse Stories All-Arts Festival? Attend the documentary premiere and meet the filmmaker, Courtney Rile.

Great Day In Havana (2001)
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Documentary that chronicles the famous Cuban city in the 1990s through the perspectives of 11 artists and their music, movies, dance, paintings, sculpture, poetry, and performance art (73 minutes).

Presented by Doug Igelsrud and Pastors for Peace.

Diamond Someday

Price: $5 suggested donation
St. Stephen's Lutheran Church
DeWitt St. and Mertens Ave., Syracuse

Bluegrass music will be the driving force at the Dr. Lee Miller Music Festival. The fundraiser for the church will also include a barbecue.

Cirque du Soleil: Dralion

Price: $35-$75 regular, $28-$61 children 12 and under, $31.50-$63 military/seniors/students
War Memorial at Oncenter
800 S. State St., Syracuse

Fusing the 3000 year-old tradition of Chinese acrobatic arts with the multidisciplinary approach of Cirque du Soleil, Dralion (pronounced "Dra-lee-on") draws its inspiration from Eastern philosophy and its never-ending quest for harmony between humans and nature. The show's name is derived from its two emblematic creatures: the dragon, symbolizing the East, and the lion, symbolizing the West.

In Dralion, the four elements that govern the natural order take on a human form. Thus embodied, each element is represented by its own evocative colour: air is blue; water is green; fire is red; earth is ochre. In the world of Dralion, cultures blend, Man and Nature are one, and balance is achieved.

For more information, visit www.cirquedusoleil.com/dralion.

Tickets are available through Ticketmaster.com, or in person at the Oncenter Box Office.

Cirque du Soleil: Dralion

Price: $35-$75 regular, $28-$61 children 12 and under, $31.50-$63 military/seniors/students
War Memorial at Oncenter
800 S. State St., Syracuse

Fusing the 3000 year-old tradition of Chinese acrobatic arts with the multidisciplinary approach of Cirque du Soleil, Dralion (pronounced "Dra-lee-on") draws its inspiration from Eastern philosophy and its never-ending quest for harmony between humans and nature. The show's name is derived from its two emblematic creatures: the dragon, symbolizing the East, and the lion, symbolizing the West.

In Dralion, the four elements that govern the natural order take on a human form. Thus embodied, each element is represented by its own evocative colour: air is blue; water is green; fire is red; earth is ochre. In the world of Dralion, cultures blend, Man and Nature are one, and balance is achieved.

For more information, visit www.cirquedusoleil.com/dralion.

Tickets are available through Ticketmaster.com, or in person at the Oncenter Box Office.

Monday, June 11, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Exploring the Digital Landscape: Works by Carl Hoffner

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Carl Hoffner's artwork surrounds the viewer in a cacophony of color. His contemporary landscapes of the Central New York region vibrate with intense color. Says Hoffner, "In my work I explore the inherent abstractions and extraordinary color within Upstate New York’s wealth of natural beauty."

While Hoffner also works in traditional lithograph, the work being exhibited here is part of his digital portfolio. Hoffner uses the computer paired with a Wacom tablet, and Corel painter software to draw and paint directly on the computer. Hoffner explains, "I have found this to be a liberating artistic experience bringing back the play in my art as well as offering a chance to re-explore my passion for painting and color." The completed digital paintings are produced in limited editions using giclee inkjet printing technology.

Hoffner received his MFA from Syracuse University and a BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He taught in the art department of OCC in the 1980s. His work is in collections in the United States and abroad including galleries in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Europe, United Kingdom, and Australia. Hoffner currently resides in Fayetteville, NY.

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

Larry Hoyt: Painting, Photgraphy, and Drawings
Westcott Community Art Gallery

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

The Locks of the New York State Canal System
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Pen and ink drawings of artist Ray Sax will be on display. The 57 drawings were created by Sax over a four year period that began in 1988 with a picnic to Lock 24 in Baldwinsville with his wife Betty. Enjoying the experience, they kept going from one lock to the next, Ray drawing each one.

The exhibition of these drawings will bring new attention to the beauty and engineering of Barge Canal structures. Visitors to the exhibit will be reminded that the Erie Canal is not merely a thing of the past, but a remarkable body of water that connects east and west.

Form and Landscape: New Work by Jeremy Randall
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

This exhibition marks the first time that Jeremy Randall's architectural ceramic vessels will be paired with his landscape drawings.

Randall's work was recently selected for inclusion in a November show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He also has exhibited this year at Craftboston Spring, Baltimore Clayworks, the Paradise City Arts Festival in Northampton, MA, and Studio 550 in Nashua, NH. Altogether, his works have been shown in more than 60 exhibitions nationwide; images have appeared in Ceramic Arts Daily, Clay Times, Ceramic Review, Stone Canoe, and "500 Vases" and "500 Cups" (Lark Books).

Randall uses color to elevate forms to be celebrated, while conjuring the nostalgia for something old that is still recognized today. His drawings combine graphite and acrylic paint on panel. The colors relate to his ceramic work, and lend a soft energy to the landscape being referenced.

Randall, recognized by Ceramics Monthly as an Emerging Artist for 2009, is digital imaging/web specialist and head of installations at Imagine, studio manager and visiting professor of art at Cazenovia College, and adjunct professor of ceramics at Syracuse University, his alma mater.

His work is held in the permanent collection of the Southern Illinois University Museum and the private Meyerhoff Collection in Baltimore. In addition to Imagine and Gandee Gallery locally, he is represented by galleries in Montana, Ohio, Georgia and Massachusetts.

Mission Modern: The Paintings of Darryl Hughto
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

This show seamlessly juxtaposes Darryl Hughto's contemporary land and seascape paintings with Dalton's Mission-era furnishings. Hughto's recent paintings are a continuation into the 21st century of a feeling for man in and of the land in the American painting tradition. The show reveals the ongoing nature of American art and culture from past to present.

Shaker Boxes: Works by Fred Weisskopf
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

As this month's featured artist, Fred has made a special selection of shaker boxes. There will also be a display showing steps involved in the making of traditional shaker boxes.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

College Swing (1938)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $3.50 non-members, $3 members
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Directed by Raoul Walsh. Cast includes George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bob Hope, Martha Raye, Betty Grable, Jackie Coogan, John Payne, Edward Everett Horton, Ben Blue.

We conclude our season with this musical-comedy entry in Paramount's popular all-star "college" series. A 200-year-old agreement results in a scatterbrained co-ed (Gracie Allen) becoming the head of a distinguished university! The great cast provides plenty of comedy along with tuneful singing and dancing. A fun show!

Liverpool Community Chorus
Liverpool is the Place

Price: Free
Johnson Park
Corner of Vine and Oswego Streets, Liverpool

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Native Hands: Claywork by Tammy Tarbell
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Exploring the Digital Landscape: Works by Carl Hoffner

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Carl Hoffner's artwork surrounds the viewer in a cacophony of color. His contemporary landscapes of the Central New York region vibrate with intense color. Says Hoffner, "In my work I explore the inherent abstractions and extraordinary color within Upstate New York’s wealth of natural beauty."

While Hoffner also works in traditional lithograph, the work being exhibited here is part of his digital portfolio. Hoffner uses the computer paired with a Wacom tablet, and Corel painter software to draw and paint directly on the computer. Hoffner explains, "I have found this to be a liberating artistic experience bringing back the play in my art as well as offering a chance to re-explore my passion for painting and color." The completed digital paintings are produced in limited editions using giclee inkjet printing technology.

Hoffner received his MFA from Syracuse University and a BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He taught in the art department of OCC in the 1980s. His work is in collections in the United States and abroad including galleries in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Europe, United Kingdom, and Australia. Hoffner currently resides in Fayetteville, NY.

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

Larry Hoyt: Painting, Photgraphy, and Drawings
Westcott Community Art Gallery

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Structure and Space
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Chris Baker: gouache landscape and cityscape paintings
David Webster: ceramics
Jen Palmer: metal and stone jewelry
Richard Henry: oil and watercolor rural landscape paintings

The Unexpected Journey: Works By Beverly McIver and How I See the World: Works by Spencer McClay
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Our summer exhibition will feature acclaimed artist Beverly McIver and California-based weaver Spencer McClay. These two artists offer different and refreshing perspectives on disability.

"The Unexpected Journey: Works by Beverly McIver" is a selection of paintings that examine McIver's unpredictable relationship with her mentally disabled sister, Renee.

"How I See the World: Works by Spencer McClay" is a collection of vibrant hand-woven wall sculptures by an artist with a unique vision and sensibility for the materials he uses.

Read a review!

Focal Points: Photography by Mia Burse
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Focal Points" is a collection of black and white photos that capture the essence and spirit of the Trayvon Martin case in Syracuse. The exhibition chronicles the Syracuse "One Million Hoodie March" that stretched from Franklin Square to Clinton Square on March 30, 2012. Burse's exhibition also features personal statements from various community members on how the Trayvon Martin case affected them.

Mia Burse is a freelance photojournalist whose local clientele includes Syracuse University South Side Initiative, Syracuse City School District, the NAACP Syracuse/Onondaga, and the Central New York National Organization for Women. Burse was recognized by the Central New York Business Journal as a 40 Under Forty in 2010, and was honored as a Diversity Achiever by the YWCA Syracuse for her commitment to diversity and eliminating racism.

The Locks of the New York State Canal System
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Pen and ink drawings of artist Ray Sax will be on display. The 57 drawings were created by Sax over a four year period that began in 1988 with a picnic to Lock 24 in Baldwinsville with his wife Betty. Enjoying the experience, they kept going from one lock to the next, Ray drawing each one.

The exhibition of these drawings will bring new attention to the beauty and engineering of Barge Canal structures. Visitors to the exhibit will be reminded that the Erie Canal is not merely a thing of the past, but a remarkable body of water that connects east and west.

Form and Landscape: New Work by Jeremy Randall
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

This exhibition marks the first time that Jeremy Randall's architectural ceramic vessels will be paired with his landscape drawings.

Randall's work was recently selected for inclusion in a November show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He also has exhibited this year at Craftboston Spring, Baltimore Clayworks, the Paradise City Arts Festival in Northampton, MA, and Studio 550 in Nashua, NH. Altogether, his works have been shown in more than 60 exhibitions nationwide; images have appeared in Ceramic Arts Daily, Clay Times, Ceramic Review, Stone Canoe, and "500 Vases" and "500 Cups" (Lark Books).

Randall uses color to elevate forms to be celebrated, while conjuring the nostalgia for something old that is still recognized today. His drawings combine graphite and acrylic paint on panel. The colors relate to his ceramic work, and lend a soft energy to the landscape being referenced.

Randall, recognized by Ceramics Monthly as an Emerging Artist for 2009, is digital imaging/web specialist and head of installations at Imagine, studio manager and visiting professor of art at Cazenovia College, and adjunct professor of ceramics at Syracuse University, his alma mater.

His work is held in the permanent collection of the Southern Illinois University Museum and the private Meyerhoff Collection in Baltimore. In addition to Imagine and Gandee Gallery locally, he is represented by galleries in Montana, Ohio, Georgia and Massachusetts.

Mission Modern: The Paintings of Darryl Hughto
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

This show seamlessly juxtaposes Darryl Hughto's contemporary land and seascape paintings with Dalton's Mission-era furnishings. Hughto's recent paintings are a continuation into the 21st century of a feeling for man in and of the land in the American painting tradition. The show reveals the ongoing nature of American art and culture from past to present.

Shaker Boxes: Works by Fred Weisskopf
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

As this month's featured artist, Fred has made a special selection of shaker boxes. There will also be a display showing steps involved in the making of traditional shaker boxes.

Julie Blackmon: Other Tales from Home
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5 adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Authentic and dysfunctional, Julie Blackmon's photographs of family life strike a resonating chord in both children and adult viewers. Boys and girls run free in the backyard or the living room among scattered toys while preoccupied grown-ups hover on the edges. Inspired by humorous 17th-century Dutch paintings and her own childhood as the eldest of nine, Blackmon digitally reconstructs scenes of family life with humor and an eye for the underlying chaos. The exhibition contains selections from her past series, Domestic Vacations, along with photographs from her latest body of work.

People, Place and Progress: Local Landscapes in Paint and Print
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 suggested donation
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In a partnership between the Everson Museum of Art and the Onondaga Historical Association, this exhibit will include paintings from the collections of both institutions. The works will feature local historical scenes such as views of the Erie Canal, rural vistas, area waterfalls and gorges, plus local architectural landmarks, former breweries, stagecoach inns and sections of downtown Syracuse.

The exhibition will also pair the paintings with historic photos and prints, documenting either the particular image or the actual historic landscape that inspired the artists. The works will explore how the artist chose to interpret that Central New York setting and why those places help shape our regional identity.

Living Collections
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

A series of paintings portraying children's collections in unusual environments by Pennsylvania artist, Elody Gyekis.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Native Hands: Claywork by Tammy Tarbell
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Exploring the Digital Landscape: Works by Carl Hoffner

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Carl Hoffner's artwork surrounds the viewer in a cacophony of color. His contemporary landscapes of the Central New York region vibrate with intense color. Says Hoffner, "In my work I explore the inherent abstractions and extraordinary color within Upstate New York’s wealth of natural beauty."

While Hoffner also works in traditional lithograph, the work being exhibited here is part of his digital portfolio. Hoffner uses the computer paired with a Wacom tablet, and Corel painter software to draw and paint directly on the computer. Hoffner explains, "I have found this to be a liberating artistic experience bringing back the play in my art as well as offering a chance to re-explore my passion for painting and color." The completed digital paintings are produced in limited editions using giclee inkjet printing technology.

Hoffner received his MFA from Syracuse University and a BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He taught in the art department of OCC in the 1980s. His work is in collections in the United States and abroad including galleries in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Europe, United Kingdom, and Australia. Hoffner currently resides in Fayetteville, NY.

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

Larry Hoyt: Painting, Photgraphy, and Drawings
Westcott Community Art Gallery

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Structure and Space
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Chris Baker: gouache landscape and cityscape paintings
David Webster: ceramics
Jen Palmer: metal and stone jewelry
Richard Henry: oil and watercolor rural landscape paintings

Focal Points: Photography by Mia Burse
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Focal Points" is a collection of black and white photos that capture the essence and spirit of the Trayvon Martin case in Syracuse. The exhibition chronicles the Syracuse "One Million Hoodie March" that stretched from Franklin Square to Clinton Square on March 30, 2012. Burse's exhibition also features personal statements from various community members on how the Trayvon Martin case affected them.

Mia Burse is a freelance photojournalist whose local clientele includes Syracuse University South Side Initiative, Syracuse City School District, the NAACP Syracuse/Onondaga, and the Central New York National Organization for Women. Burse was recognized by the Central New York Business Journal as a 40 Under Forty in 2010, and was honored as a Diversity Achiever by the YWCA Syracuse for her commitment to diversity and eliminating racism.

The Unexpected Journey: Works By Beverly McIver and How I See the World: Works by Spencer McClay
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Our summer exhibition will feature acclaimed artist Beverly McIver and California-based weaver Spencer McClay. These two artists offer different and refreshing perspectives on disability.

"The Unexpected Journey: Works by Beverly McIver" is a selection of paintings that examine McIver's unpredictable relationship with her mentally disabled sister, Renee.

"How I See the World: Works by Spencer McClay" is a collection of vibrant hand-woven wall sculptures by an artist with a unique vision and sensibility for the materials he uses.

Read a review!

The Locks of the New York State Canal System
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Pen and ink drawings of artist Ray Sax will be on display. The 57 drawings were created by Sax over a four year period that began in 1988 with a picnic to Lock 24 in Baldwinsville with his wife Betty. Enjoying the experience, they kept going from one lock to the next, Ray drawing each one.

The exhibition of these drawings will bring new attention to the beauty and engineering of Barge Canal structures. Visitors to the exhibit will be reminded that the Erie Canal is not merely a thing of the past, but a remarkable body of water that connects east and west.

Form and Landscape: New Work by Jeremy Randall
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

This exhibition marks the first time that Jeremy Randall's architectural ceramic vessels will be paired with his landscape drawings.

Randall's work was recently selected for inclusion in a November show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He also has exhibited this year at Craftboston Spring, Baltimore Clayworks, the Paradise City Arts Festival in Northampton, MA, and Studio 550 in Nashua, NH. Altogether, his works have been shown in more than 60 exhibitions nationwide; images have appeared in Ceramic Arts Daily, Clay Times, Ceramic Review, Stone Canoe, and "500 Vases" and "500 Cups" (Lark Books).

Randall uses color to elevate forms to be celebrated, while conjuring the nostalgia for something old that is still recognized today. His drawings combine graphite and acrylic paint on panel. The colors relate to his ceramic work, and lend a soft energy to the landscape being referenced.

Randall, recognized by Ceramics Monthly as an Emerging Artist for 2009, is digital imaging/web specialist and head of installations at Imagine, studio manager and visiting professor of art at Cazenovia College, and adjunct professor of ceramics at Syracuse University, his alma mater.

His work is held in the permanent collection of the Southern Illinois University Museum and the private Meyerhoff Collection in Baltimore. In addition to Imagine and Gandee Gallery locally, he is represented by galleries in Montana, Ohio, Georgia and Massachusetts.

Mission Modern: The Paintings of Darryl Hughto
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

This show seamlessly juxtaposes Darryl Hughto's contemporary land and seascape paintings with Dalton's Mission-era furnishings. Hughto's recent paintings are a continuation into the 21st century of a feeling for man in and of the land in the American painting tradition. The show reveals the ongoing nature of American art and culture from past to present.

Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Three well-known Central New York political cartoonists, Joe Glisson, Tim Atseff, and Frank Cammuso, are the featured cartoonists for an exhibition entitled "Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place." With insightful humor, these artists and their historic predecessors produced a wide variety of editorial cartoons that illustrated important issues of their time. Starting with cartoons from the Civil War era through the present day, "Take No Prisoners" is an opportunity to experience historic subjects as the current events they once were, and to see how election issues of the past compare with those of the present-day.

Timeless Imagery: Associated Artists of CNY's 85th Anniversary Exhibition
Onondaga Historical Association
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Since 1927, Associated Artists has sought to bring together the best artists and their art for the benefit of the central New York community. The exhibit at OHA will showcase 85 years of juried arts competition winning entries from regional artists. "Timeless Imagery" is an opportunity to observe in one gallery the history of Central New York's changing art scene.

Melding Time and Process: Works by Richard Harvey
Redhouse

Price: Free
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Exploring the psychological and emotive potential of the human face, Harvey creates figurative art inspired by a diverse range of art historical influences including Byzantine iconography, African sculpture, and Expressionist painting. Elements of typography, signage and graffiti reflect his background in graphic design.

Shaker Boxes: Works by Fred Weisskopf
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

As this month's featured artist, Fred has made a special selection of shaker boxes. There will also be a display showing steps involved in the making of traditional shaker boxes.

People, Place and Progress: Local Landscapes in Paint and Print
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 suggested donation
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In a partnership between the Everson Museum of Art and the Onondaga Historical Association, this exhibit will include paintings from the collections of both institutions. The works will feature local historical scenes such as views of the Erie Canal, rural vistas, area waterfalls and gorges, plus local architectural landmarks, former breweries, stagecoach inns and sections of downtown Syracuse.

The exhibition will also pair the paintings with historic photos and prints, documenting either the particular image or the actual historic landscape that inspired the artists. The works will explore how the artist chose to interpret that Central New York setting and why those places help shape our regional identity.

Julie Blackmon: Other Tales from Home
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5 adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Authentic and dysfunctional, Julie Blackmon's photographs of family life strike a resonating chord in both children and adult viewers. Boys and girls run free in the backyard or the living room among scattered toys while preoccupied grown-ups hover on the edges. Inspired by humorous 17th-century Dutch paintings and her own childhood as the eldest of nine, Blackmon digitally reconstructs scenes of family life with humor and an eye for the underlying chaos. The exhibition contains selections from her past series, Domestic Vacations, along with photographs from her latest body of work.

Captured
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Mixed-media artist Amy E. Bartell and photographer Jeanann Wieners freeze moments in time in a show of their works titled "Captured."

In "Captured," artist/activist Bartell takes the viewer to the circus for an exploration of the literal and metaphorical visions reminiscent of what one might expect to experience there.

To set the tone of her circus imagery, Bartell worked in mixed media -- gouache, pencil, pastel on stretched paper and cradled clayboard. She describes the process as layering color, line and texture, building the surface from light to dark. She applies the paint with brushes, knives and cloths, 'adding and subtracting, drawing and erasing, pushing and pulling the tension of surface and materials while remembering that art is a process of translation; the media chosen defines the voice of the narrator.'

Wieners, well established professionally in video and film work, describes her idealistic 'moments' portrayed by her street photography displayed in the show by comparing the difference in video production and its controlling factors verses her abandon of control in street photography. She says that in the former art form there is need to scout locations, build sets, rig lights, direct actors, and count 'takes' before the narrative is revealed over time. By contrast, the mindset of her chosen art form requires her only to embrace opportunity and anticipate that 'instant in time when the perfect combination of form, color, light and narrative occurs and is, in a single frame, captured.'

Living Collections
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

A series of paintings portraying children's collections in unusual environments by Pennsylvania artist, Elody Gyekis.

In Our View: A Community Perspective
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibition is the culmination of a community art project in which ArtRage worked with community members and organizations in the Hawley-Green and Northside neighborhoods. ArtRage got cameras into the hands of neighborhood residents and asked them to capture their lives and community through documentary photography. A professional photographer and Syracuse University graduate student, Daniel Aguilera, worked with residents to guide them on the social documentary process. Curated by a community panel, this exhibition is not only a testimony to the times in which we live, but a social-bonding experience for our diverse neighborhood -- a neighborhood whose current residents include refugees from many war-torn nations, long time city dwellers of mixed income, and a population of people new to the area working to establish roots in a community of their choice -- all living side-by-side as neighbors.

Exhibition Partners: Catholic Charities, Hawley-Green Neighbors, NEDHA, Northeast Community Center, Northside UP.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

The Honky Tonk Hindooz
Liverpool is the Place

Price: Free
Johnson Park
Corner of Vine and Oswego Streets, Liverpool

Folk rock

Flux Pavilion, with Cookie Monsta, Brown And Gammon, Direktor
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Native Hands: Claywork by Tammy Tarbell
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Exploring the Digital Landscape: Works by Carl Hoffner

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Carl Hoffner's artwork surrounds the viewer in a cacophony of color. His contemporary landscapes of the Central New York region vibrate with intense color. Says Hoffner, "In my work I explore the inherent abstractions and extraordinary color within Upstate New York’s wealth of natural beauty."

While Hoffner also works in traditional lithograph, the work being exhibited here is part of his digital portfolio. Hoffner uses the computer paired with a Wacom tablet, and Corel painter software to draw and paint directly on the computer. Hoffner explains, "I have found this to be a liberating artistic experience bringing back the play in my art as well as offering a chance to re-explore my passion for painting and color." The completed digital paintings are produced in limited editions using giclee inkjet printing technology.

Hoffner received his MFA from Syracuse University and a BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He taught in the art department of OCC in the 1980s. His work is in collections in the United States and abroad including galleries in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Europe, United Kingdom, and Australia. Hoffner currently resides in Fayetteville, NY.

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

Larry Hoyt: Painting, Photgraphy, and Drawings
Westcott Community Art Gallery

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Structure and Space
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Chris Baker: gouache landscape and cityscape paintings
David Webster: ceramics
Jen Palmer: metal and stone jewelry
Richard Henry: oil and watercolor rural landscape paintings

The Unexpected Journey: Works By Beverly McIver and How I See the World: Works by Spencer McClay
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Our summer exhibition will feature acclaimed artist Beverly McIver and California-based weaver Spencer McClay. These two artists offer different and refreshing perspectives on disability.

"The Unexpected Journey: Works by Beverly McIver" is a selection of paintings that examine McIver's unpredictable relationship with her mentally disabled sister, Renee.

"How I See the World: Works by Spencer McClay" is a collection of vibrant hand-woven wall sculptures by an artist with a unique vision and sensibility for the materials he uses.

Read a review!

Focal Points: Photography by Mia Burse
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Focal Points" is a collection of black and white photos that capture the essence and spirit of the Trayvon Martin case in Syracuse. The exhibition chronicles the Syracuse "One Million Hoodie March" that stretched from Franklin Square to Clinton Square on March 30, 2012. Burse's exhibition also features personal statements from various community members on how the Trayvon Martin case affected them.

Mia Burse is a freelance photojournalist whose local clientele includes Syracuse University South Side Initiative, Syracuse City School District, the NAACP Syracuse/Onondaga, and the Central New York National Organization for Women. Burse was recognized by the Central New York Business Journal as a 40 Under Forty in 2010, and was honored as a Diversity Achiever by the YWCA Syracuse for her commitment to diversity and eliminating racism.

The Locks of the New York State Canal System
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Pen and ink drawings of artist Ray Sax will be on display. The 57 drawings were created by Sax over a four year period that began in 1988 with a picnic to Lock 24 in Baldwinsville with his wife Betty. Enjoying the experience, they kept going from one lock to the next, Ray drawing each one.

The exhibition of these drawings will bring new attention to the beauty and engineering of Barge Canal structures. Visitors to the exhibit will be reminded that the Erie Canal is not merely a thing of the past, but a remarkable body of water that connects east and west.

Form and Landscape: New Work by Jeremy Randall
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

This exhibition marks the first time that Jeremy Randall's architectural ceramic vessels will be paired with his landscape drawings.

Randall's work was recently selected for inclusion in a November show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He also has exhibited this year at Craftboston Spring, Baltimore Clayworks, the Paradise City Arts Festival in Northampton, MA, and Studio 550 in Nashua, NH. Altogether, his works have been shown in more than 60 exhibitions nationwide; images have appeared in Ceramic Arts Daily, Clay Times, Ceramic Review, Stone Canoe, and "500 Vases" and "500 Cups" (Lark Books).

Randall uses color to elevate forms to be celebrated, while conjuring the nostalgia for something old that is still recognized today. His drawings combine graphite and acrylic paint on panel. The colors relate to his ceramic work, and lend a soft energy to the landscape being referenced.

Randall, recognized by Ceramics Monthly as an Emerging Artist for 2009, is digital imaging/web specialist and head of installations at Imagine, studio manager and visiting professor of art at Cazenovia College, and adjunct professor of ceramics at Syracuse University, his alma mater.

His work is held in the permanent collection of the Southern Illinois University Museum and the private Meyerhoff Collection in Baltimore. In addition to Imagine and Gandee Gallery locally, he is represented by galleries in Montana, Ohio, Georgia and Massachusetts.

Mission Modern: The Paintings of Darryl Hughto
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

This show seamlessly juxtaposes Darryl Hughto's contemporary land and seascape paintings with Dalton's Mission-era furnishings. Hughto's recent paintings are a continuation into the 21st century of a feeling for man in and of the land in the American painting tradition. The show reveals the ongoing nature of American art and culture from past to present.

Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Three well-known Central New York political cartoonists, Joe Glisson, Tim Atseff, and Frank Cammuso, are the featured cartoonists for an exhibition entitled "Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place." With insightful humor, these artists and their historic predecessors produced a wide variety of editorial cartoons that illustrated important issues of their time. Starting with cartoons from the Civil War era through the present day, "Take No Prisoners" is an opportunity to experience historic subjects as the current events they once were, and to see how election issues of the past compare with those of the present-day.

Timeless Imagery: Associated Artists of CNY's 85th Anniversary Exhibition
Onondaga Historical Association
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Since 1927, Associated Artists has sought to bring together the best artists and their art for the benefit of the central New York community. The exhibit at OHA will showcase 85 years of juried arts competition winning entries from regional artists. "Timeless Imagery" is an opportunity to observe in one gallery the history of Central New York's changing art scene.

Melding Time and Process: Works by Richard Harvey
Redhouse

Price: Free
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Exploring the psychological and emotive potential of the human face, Harvey creates figurative art inspired by a diverse range of art historical influences including Byzantine iconography, African sculpture, and Expressionist painting. Elements of typography, signage and graffiti reflect his background in graphic design.

Shaker Boxes: Works by Fred Weisskopf
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

As this month's featured artist, Fred has made a special selection of shaker boxes. There will also be a display showing steps involved in the making of traditional shaker boxes.

Flower Power
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"Flower Power" presents an eclectic mix of styles and art media. This group exhibition celebrates the beauty of flowers and the vessels used to contain them. The show includes photography, wood, sculpture, fiber art, and ceramics. Participating artists include Justin Campbell, Suzanne Fluty, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Mary Giehl, Vicki Hartman, Dave LoParco, Colleen McCall, Kate Money, Melissa Montgomery, Brooks Oliver, Kala Stein, Dan Tracy, Jeanann Wieners, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

Julie Blackmon: Other Tales from Home
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5 adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Authentic and dysfunctional, Julie Blackmon's photographs of family life strike a resonating chord in both children and adult viewers. Boys and girls run free in the backyard or the living room among scattered toys while preoccupied grown-ups hover on the edges. Inspired by humorous 17th-century Dutch paintings and her own childhood as the eldest of nine, Blackmon digitally reconstructs scenes of family life with humor and an eye for the underlying chaos. The exhibition contains selections from her past series, Domestic Vacations, along with photographs from her latest body of work.

People, Place and Progress: Local Landscapes in Paint and Print
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 suggested donation
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In a partnership between the Everson Museum of Art and the Onondaga Historical Association, this exhibit will include paintings from the collections of both institutions. The works will feature local historical scenes such as views of the Erie Canal, rural vistas, area waterfalls and gorges, plus local architectural landmarks, former breweries, stagecoach inns and sections of downtown Syracuse.

The exhibition will also pair the paintings with historic photos and prints, documenting either the particular image or the actual historic landscape that inspired the artists. The works will explore how the artist chose to interpret that Central New York setting and why those places help shape our regional identity.

Captured
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Mixed-media artist Amy E. Bartell and photographer Jeanann Wieners freeze moments in time in a show of their works titled "Captured."

In "Captured," artist/activist Bartell takes the viewer to the circus for an exploration of the literal and metaphorical visions reminiscent of what one might expect to experience there.

To set the tone of her circus imagery, Bartell worked in mixed media -- gouache, pencil, pastel on stretched paper and cradled clayboard. She describes the process as layering color, line and texture, building the surface from light to dark. She applies the paint with brushes, knives and cloths, 'adding and subtracting, drawing and erasing, pushing and pulling the tension of surface and materials while remembering that art is a process of translation; the media chosen defines the voice of the narrator.'

Wieners, well established professionally in video and film work, describes her idealistic 'moments' portrayed by her street photography displayed in the show by comparing the difference in video production and its controlling factors verses her abandon of control in street photography. She says that in the former art form there is need to scout locations, build sets, rig lights, direct actors, and count 'takes' before the narrative is revealed over time. By contrast, the mindset of her chosen art form requires her only to embrace opportunity and anticipate that 'instant in time when the perfect combination of form, color, light and narrative occurs and is, in a single frame, captured.'

Celebrating 90 Years of Design at Syracuse University
XL Projects

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

An exhibition of work by current students in the environmental and interior design and industrial and interaction design programs in the Department of Design. The programs are celebrating their 90th anniversaries.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours or email Andrew Havenhand, ahavenhand@yahoo.com.

Living Collections
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

A series of paintings portraying children's collections in unusual environments by Pennsylvania artist, Elody Gyekis.

In Our View: A Community Perspective
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibition is the culmination of a community art project in which ArtRage worked with community members and organizations in the Hawley-Green and Northside neighborhoods. ArtRage got cameras into the hands of neighborhood residents and asked them to capture their lives and community through documentary photography. A professional photographer and Syracuse University graduate student, Daniel Aguilera, worked with residents to guide them on the social documentary process. Curated by a community panel, this exhibition is not only a testimony to the times in which we live, but a social-bonding experience for our diverse neighborhood -- a neighborhood whose current residents include refugees from many war-torn nations, long time city dwellers of mixed income, and a population of people new to the area working to establish roots in a community of their choice -- all living side-by-side as neighbors.

Exhibition Partners: Catholic Charities, Hawley-Green Neighbors, NEDHA, Northeast Community Center, Northside UP.

UVP Annual Summer Review 2012
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This year's Annual Summer Review will feature all the past videos from the 2011-2012 programming year running together in a continuous loop. If you missed one of the past year's artists, now's your chance! On view will be works by Pae White, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, John Knecht, and William Wegman.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

Spring Concert
Lyncourt Community Band
Tony DeAngelis and Ron Nuzzo, conductor

Price: Free
Lyncourt School
2707 Court St., Syracuse

A concert of popular concert band marches. Parking available in the lower lot and the former Syracuse China lot.

A Tomb With a View
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $32.50 (includes meal, show, tax and gratuities)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

The mega-corporation Arrested Developments has come to the old Possum Estate, site of the tragic mining disaster oh, so many years ago, with the desire to turn it into a shopping mall. This has caused great concern among those living on (and below) the estate. In fact, the zombie descendants of the miners trapped in the disaster have hired a lawyer and are planning a class-action lawsuit. The local newspaper is going to have a field day with this one. Gather around, good townsfolk (and walking dead) you don't want to be ate, er, late.

La Cage Aux Folles
TheaterFIRST Productions

Price: $30-$34
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

La Cage aux Folles tells the story of Georges, the owner of a glitzy nightclub in lovely Saint-Tropez, and his partner Albin, who moonlights as the glamorous chanteuse Zaza. When Georges' son brings his fiancée's conservative parents home to meet the flashy pair, the bonds of family are put to the test as the feather boas fly! La Cage aux Folles is a tuneful and touching tale of one family's struggle to stay together... stay fabulous... and above all else, stay true to themselves!

Starring Bob Brown and Frank Fiumano.

For more information, phone 315-703-3007.

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Bunked!
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Bunked!: A New Musical is a comedic coming of age story of five summer camp counselors, three male and two female, during the pivotal summer before the beginning of college. With easily relatable characters that are experiencing their first taste of independence, Bunked! taps into the uncertainty of trying to find yourself while forging your first adult relationships.

Exploring themes of sexual orientation, first loves, and growing up, the show asks the fundamental questions "who am I?, "where do I belong?" and "how do I make a name for myself?" in a manner that is both humorous and poignant. Winner of the New York International Fringe Festival's "Best Overall Production of a Musical." Book and Lyrics by Alaina Kunin; music, book, lyrics by Bradford Proctor; musical director Chris Widomski.

This show is intended for mature audiences only.

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Friday, June 15, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Native Hands: Claywork by Tammy Tarbell
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Exploring the Digital Landscape: Works by Carl Hoffner

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Carl Hoffner's artwork surrounds the viewer in a cacophony of color. His contemporary landscapes of the Central New York region vibrate with intense color. Says Hoffner, "In my work I explore the inherent abstractions and extraordinary color within Upstate New York’s wealth of natural beauty."

While Hoffner also works in traditional lithograph, the work being exhibited here is part of his digital portfolio. Hoffner uses the computer paired with a Wacom tablet, and Corel painter software to draw and paint directly on the computer. Hoffner explains, "I have found this to be a liberating artistic experience bringing back the play in my art as well as offering a chance to re-explore my passion for painting and color." The completed digital paintings are produced in limited editions using giclee inkjet printing technology.

Hoffner received his MFA from Syracuse University and a BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He taught in the art department of OCC in the 1980s. His work is in collections in the United States and abroad including galleries in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Europe, United Kingdom, and Australia. Hoffner currently resides in Fayetteville, NY.

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

Larry Hoyt: Painting, Photgraphy, and Drawings
Westcott Community Art Gallery

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Structure and Space
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Chris Baker: gouache landscape and cityscape paintings
David Webster: ceramics
Jen Palmer: metal and stone jewelry
Richard Henry: oil and watercolor rural landscape paintings

Focal Points: Photography by Mia Burse
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Focal Points" is a collection of black and white photos that capture the essence and spirit of the Trayvon Martin case in Syracuse. The exhibition chronicles the Syracuse "One Million Hoodie March" that stretched from Franklin Square to Clinton Square on March 30, 2012. Burse's exhibition also features personal statements from various community members on how the Trayvon Martin case affected them.

Mia Burse is a freelance photojournalist whose local clientele includes Syracuse University South Side Initiative, Syracuse City School District, the NAACP Syracuse/Onondaga, and the Central New York National Organization for Women. Burse was recognized by the Central New York Business Journal as a 40 Under Forty in 2010, and was honored as a Diversity Achiever by the YWCA Syracuse for her commitment to diversity and eliminating racism.

The Unexpected Journey: Works By Beverly McIver and How I See the World: Works by Spencer McClay
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Our summer exhibition will feature acclaimed artist Beverly McIver and California-based weaver Spencer McClay. These two artists offer different and refreshing perspectives on disability.

"The Unexpected Journey: Works by Beverly McIver" is a selection of paintings that examine McIver's unpredictable relationship with her mentally disabled sister, Renee.

"How I See the World: Works by Spencer McClay" is a collection of vibrant hand-woven wall sculptures by an artist with a unique vision and sensibility for the materials he uses.

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The Locks of the New York State Canal System
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Pen and ink drawings of artist Ray Sax will be on display. The 57 drawings were created by Sax over a four year period that began in 1988 with a picnic to Lock 24 in Baldwinsville with his wife Betty. Enjoying the experience, they kept going from one lock to the next, Ray drawing each one.

The exhibition of these drawings will bring new attention to the beauty and engineering of Barge Canal structures. Visitors to the exhibit will be reminded that the Erie Canal is not merely a thing of the past, but a remarkable body of water that connects east and west.

Form and Landscape: New Work by Jeremy Randall
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

This exhibition marks the first time that Jeremy Randall's architectural ceramic vessels will be paired with his landscape drawings.

Randall's work was recently selected for inclusion in a November show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He also has exhibited this year at Craftboston Spring, Baltimore Clayworks, the Paradise City Arts Festival in Northampton, MA, and Studio 550 in Nashua, NH. Altogether, his works have been shown in more than 60 exhibitions nationwide; images have appeared in Ceramic Arts Daily, Clay Times, Ceramic Review, Stone Canoe, and "500 Vases" and "500 Cups" (Lark Books).

Randall uses color to elevate forms to be celebrated, while conjuring the nostalgia for something old that is still recognized today. His drawings combine graphite and acrylic paint on panel. The colors relate to his ceramic work, and lend a soft energy to the landscape being referenced.

Randall, recognized by Ceramics Monthly as an Emerging Artist for 2009, is digital imaging/web specialist and head of installations at Imagine, studio manager and visiting professor of art at Cazenovia College, and adjunct professor of ceramics at Syracuse University, his alma mater.

His work is held in the permanent collection of the Southern Illinois University Museum and the private Meyerhoff Collection in Baltimore. In addition to Imagine and Gandee Gallery locally, he is represented by galleries in Montana, Ohio, Georgia and Massachusetts.

Mission Modern: The Paintings of Darryl Hughto
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

This show seamlessly juxtaposes Darryl Hughto's contemporary land and seascape paintings with Dalton's Mission-era furnishings. Hughto's recent paintings are a continuation into the 21st century of a feeling for man in and of the land in the American painting tradition. The show reveals the ongoing nature of American art and culture from past to present.

Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Three well-known Central New York political cartoonists, Joe Glisson, Tim Atseff, and Frank Cammuso, are the featured cartoonists for an exhibition entitled "Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place." With insightful humor, these artists and their historic predecessors produced a wide variety of editorial cartoons that illustrated important issues of their time. Starting with cartoons from the Civil War era through the present day, "Take No Prisoners" is an opportunity to experience historic subjects as the current events they once were, and to see how election issues of the past compare with those of the present-day.

Timeless Imagery: Associated Artists of CNY's 85th Anniversary Exhibition
Onondaga Historical Association
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Since 1927, Associated Artists has sought to bring together the best artists and their art for the benefit of the central New York community. The exhibit at OHA will showcase 85 years of juried arts competition winning entries from regional artists. "Timeless Imagery" is an opportunity to observe in one gallery the history of Central New York's changing art scene.

Melding Time and Process: Works by Richard Harvey
Redhouse

Price: Free
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Exploring the psychological and emotive potential of the human face, Harvey creates figurative art inspired by a diverse range of art historical influences including Byzantine iconography, African sculpture, and Expressionist painting. Elements of typography, signage and graffiti reflect his background in graphic design.

Shaker Boxes: Works by Fred Weisskopf
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

As this month's featured artist, Fred has made a special selection of shaker boxes. There will also be a display showing steps involved in the making of traditional shaker boxes.

Flower Power
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"Flower Power" presents an eclectic mix of styles and art media. This group exhibition celebrates the beauty of flowers and the vessels used to contain them. The show includes photography, wood, sculpture, fiber art, and ceramics. Participating artists include Justin Campbell, Suzanne Fluty, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Mary Giehl, Vicki Hartman, Dave LoParco, Colleen McCall, Kate Money, Melissa Montgomery, Brooks Oliver, Kala Stein, Dan Tracy, Jeanann Wieners, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

People, Place and Progress: Local Landscapes in Paint and Print
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 suggested donation
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In a partnership between the Everson Museum of Art and the Onondaga Historical Association, this exhibit will include paintings from the collections of both institutions. The works will feature local historical scenes such as views of the Erie Canal, rural vistas, area waterfalls and gorges, plus local architectural landmarks, former breweries, stagecoach inns and sections of downtown Syracuse.

The exhibition will also pair the paintings with historic photos and prints, documenting either the particular image or the actual historic landscape that inspired the artists. The works will explore how the artist chose to interpret that Central New York setting and why those places help shape our regional identity.

Julie Blackmon: Other Tales from Home
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5 adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Authentic and dysfunctional, Julie Blackmon's photographs of family life strike a resonating chord in both children and adult viewers. Boys and girls run free in the backyard or the living room among scattered toys while preoccupied grown-ups hover on the edges. Inspired by humorous 17th-century Dutch paintings and her own childhood as the eldest of nine, Blackmon digitally reconstructs scenes of family life with humor and an eye for the underlying chaos. The exhibition contains selections from her past series, Domestic Vacations, along with photographs from her latest body of work.

Captured
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Mixed-media artist Amy E. Bartell and photographer Jeanann Wieners freeze moments in time in a show of their works titled "Captured."

In "Captured," artist/activist Bartell takes the viewer to the circus for an exploration of the literal and metaphorical visions reminiscent of what one might expect to experience there.

To set the tone of her circus imagery, Bartell worked in mixed media -- gouache, pencil, pastel on stretched paper and cradled clayboard. She describes the process as layering color, line and texture, building the surface from light to dark. She applies the paint with brushes, knives and cloths, 'adding and subtracting, drawing and erasing, pushing and pulling the tension of surface and materials while remembering that art is a process of translation; the media chosen defines the voice of the narrator.'

Wieners, well established professionally in video and film work, describes her idealistic 'moments' portrayed by her street photography displayed in the show by comparing the difference in video production and its controlling factors verses her abandon of control in street photography. She says that in the former art form there is need to scout locations, build sets, rig lights, direct actors, and count 'takes' before the narrative is revealed over time. By contrast, the mindset of her chosen art form requires her only to embrace opportunity and anticipate that 'instant in time when the perfect combination of form, color, light and narrative occurs and is, in a single frame, captured.'

Celebrating 90 Years of Design at Syracuse University
XL Projects

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

An exhibition of work by current students in the environmental and interior design and industrial and interaction design programs in the Department of Design. The programs are celebrating their 90th anniversaries.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours or email Andrew Havenhand, ahavenhand@yahoo.com.

Living Collections
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

A series of paintings portraying children's collections in unusual environments by Pennsylvania artist, Elody Gyekis.

In Our View: A Community Perspective
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibition is the culmination of a community art project in which ArtRage worked with community members and organizations in the Hawley-Green and Northside neighborhoods. ArtRage got cameras into the hands of neighborhood residents and asked them to capture their lives and community through documentary photography. A professional photographer and Syracuse University graduate student, Daniel Aguilera, worked with residents to guide them on the social documentary process. Curated by a community panel, this exhibition is not only a testimony to the times in which we live, but a social-bonding experience for our diverse neighborhood -- a neighborhood whose current residents include refugees from many war-torn nations, long time city dwellers of mixed income, and a population of people new to the area working to establish roots in a community of their choice -- all living side-by-side as neighbors.

Exhibition Partners: Catholic Charities, Hawley-Green Neighbors, NEDHA, Northeast Community Center, Northside UP.

UVP Annual Summer Review 2012
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This year's Annual Summer Review will feature all the past videos from the 2011-2012 programming year running together in a continuous loop. If you missed one of the past year's artists, now's your chance! On view will be works by Pae White, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, John Knecht, and William Wegman.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

Oakwood Revisited Summer Ghostwalk
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: $12 regular, $10 OHA members. $2 discount for advance purchase by June 12.
Oakwood Cemetery
940 Comstock Ave., Syracuse

Onondaga Historical Association will host their history-themed summer Ghostwalk in historic Oakwood Cemetery where participants will be guided to visit "ghosts" of the famous and infamous of Central New York. The "ghosts," costumed actors, tell their characters' stories while standing at their grave site. Characters from Syracuse's past, including a convicted criminal, inventor, artist, military officer, and a "shady lady", will be portrayed in various places around the older portion of the cemetery, which was built in 1859. The program will include a variety of new characters not seen in prior Ghostwalks.

Participants should enter from the East Colvin Street entrance and drive to the gothic-style Chapel, which was dedicated in 1880 and boasts a 70-foot tower made of Onondaga limestone. Parking is available there. Check-in and the tour begin at the Chapel.

Ghostwalks start at 6:00 pm with tours leaving every 15 minutes until 7:15 pm, rain or shine. Tours last an hour and a half. Reservations are strongly advised.

For more information and reservations, call Karen at 315-428-1864, ext. 312.

Jazz@Sitrus
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring J.T. Hall with Colleen Prossner

Sitrus on the Hill
Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel, Syracuse

Pops Concert
Onondaga Civic Symphony Orchestra
Erik Kibelsbeck, conductor
Featuring Mary Molnar, soprano; Max Buckholtz and Dara Anissi, mandolins

Drivers Village (formerly Penn Can Mall)
5885 E. Circle Dr., Cicero

J. Strauss Overture & Czardas from "Die Fledermaus"
J. Strauss Pizzicato Polka
Vivaldi Concerto for Two Mandolins
On Stage with Cole Porter, arr. by Warrington
Gershwin The Man I Love
M. Bucholtz Cyrus the Doctor
Berlin A Symphonic Portrait, arr. Hawley Ades

An Evening With Jane Monheit
Syracuse Stage

Price: Concert only: $40 regular, $35 Stage subscribers and guests under 40. Cocktail reception, dinner, concert: $200 patron, $300 VIP
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Grammy-nominee and jazz vocalist extraordinaire Jane Monheit will perform in concert to benefit Syracuse Stage. This event will be Syracuse Stage's primary fundraiser for the year and replaces the annual Beaux Arts Ball.

Since her debut album, Never Never Land, garnered top debut recording by the Jazz Journalist's Association, Monheit has recorded nine more CDs, earned two Grammy nominations, performed with leading symphony orchestras and appeared in major performance venues here and abroad including The White House, The Kennedy Center and New York's famed Birdland Jazz Club, The Blue Note and The Rainbow Room. Her latest CD is titled Home and features a three-piece band of Michael Kanaan, Neal Miner and Rick Montalbano, who will appear with her in Syracuse.

How I Became a Pirate
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $15 adults, $10 children
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The musical, by Janet Yates Vogt and Mark Friedman, is based on Melinda Long's popular children's book. Young Jeremy Jacob meets up with a band of pirates while at the beach digging in the sand. He spends some time aboard the vessel, living the pirate life on the open seas. Meanwhile, his crew mates learn about Jeremy’s life as a young boy in present day boy who plays soccer.

To reserve tickets, call 315-445-4523. For more information, call the Gifford Family Theatre at 315-445-4230 or email giffordthtr@lemoyne.edu.

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The Tempest
Redhouse

Price: Free
Museum of Science and Technology (MOST) lawn
West Jefferson St., Syracuse

Enjoy an entirely different look at this classic Shakespearean text as the Redhouse transports audience goers to a Native American drum circle, complete with headdresses, drumming, and dance! Using the wilderness as a natural backdrop and stage, this exciting 60-minute production will be traveling across public park grounds and natural settings across CNY. Made up of professional actors from across the country, watch as they bring to life one of Shakespeare's most fantastical plays!

Rain location: Redhouse

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Tomfoolery
Appleseed Productions
Mark Allen Holt, director

Price: $20 regular; $17 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

During the 1950s and 60s, Harvard-trained mathematician Tom Lehrer inflicted upon the world a series of albums chock full of his satirical compositions. Over the decades these comedic songs, including such dubious classics as "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" and "The Masochism Tango", have developed a cult status among those of a slightly-twisted disposition. Some of these fans were even obsessive enough to assemble their favorites into a night of musical theater quite unlike any other. Join us as we leave all good sense behind and explore the singular comedic genius of Tom Lehrer. Adapted by Cameron Mackintosh and Robin Ray. Musical Direction by Dan Williams.

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La Cage Aux Folles
TheaterFIRST Productions

Price: $30-$34
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

La Cage aux Folles tells the story of Georges, the owner of a glitzy nightclub in lovely Saint-Tropez, and his partner Albin, who moonlights as the glamorous chanteuse Zaza. When Georges' son brings his fiancée's conservative parents home to meet the flashy pair, the bonds of family are put to the test as the feather boas fly! La Cage aux Folles is a tuneful and touching tale of one family's struggle to stay together... stay fabulous... and above all else, stay true to themselves!

Starring Bob Brown and Frank Fiumano.

For more information, phone 315-703-3007.

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Bunked!
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Bunked!: A New Musical is a comedic coming of age story of five summer camp counselors, three male and two female, during the pivotal summer before the beginning of college. With easily relatable characters that are experiencing their first taste of independence, Bunked! taps into the uncertainty of trying to find yourself while forging your first adult relationships.

Exploring themes of sexual orientation, first loves, and growing up, the show asks the fundamental questions "who am I?, "where do I belong?" and "how do I make a name for myself?" in a manner that is both humorous and poignant. Winner of the New York International Fringe Festival's "Best Overall Production of a Musical." Book and Lyrics by Alaina Kunin; music, book, lyrics by Bradford Proctor; musical director Chris Widomski.

This show is intended for mature audiences only.

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Saturday, June 16, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Native Hands: Claywork by Tammy Tarbell
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Structure and Space
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Chris Baker: gouache landscape and cityscape paintings
David Webster: ceramics
Jen Palmer: metal and stone jewelry
Richard Henry: oil and watercolor rural landscape paintings

The Locks of the New York State Canal System
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Pen and ink drawings of artist Ray Sax will be on display. The 57 drawings were created by Sax over a four year period that began in 1988 with a picnic to Lock 24 in Baldwinsville with his wife Betty. Enjoying the experience, they kept going from one lock to the next, Ray drawing each one.

The exhibition of these drawings will bring new attention to the beauty and engineering of Barge Canal structures. Visitors to the exhibit will be reminded that the Erie Canal is not merely a thing of the past, but a remarkable body of water that connects east and west.

Julie Blackmon: Other Tales from Home
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5 adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Authentic and dysfunctional, Julie Blackmon's photographs of family life strike a resonating chord in both children and adult viewers. Boys and girls run free in the backyard or the living room among scattered toys while preoccupied grown-ups hover on the edges. Inspired by humorous 17th-century Dutch paintings and her own childhood as the eldest of nine, Blackmon digitally reconstructs scenes of family life with humor and an eye for the underlying chaos. The exhibition contains selections from her past series, Domestic Vacations, along with photographs from her latest body of work.

People, Place and Progress: Local Landscapes in Paint and Print
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 suggested donation
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In a partnership between the Everson Museum of Art and the Onondaga Historical Association, this exhibit will include paintings from the collections of both institutions. The works will feature local historical scenes such as views of the Erie Canal, rural vistas, area waterfalls and gorges, plus local architectural landmarks, former breweries, stagecoach inns and sections of downtown Syracuse.

The exhibition will also pair the paintings with historic photos and prints, documenting either the particular image or the actual historic landscape that inspired the artists. The works will explore how the artist chose to interpret that Central New York setting and why those places help shape our regional identity.

Shaker Boxes: Works by Fred Weisskopf
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

As this month's featured artist, Fred has made a special selection of shaker boxes. There will also be a display showing steps involved in the making of traditional shaker boxes.

Form and Landscape: New Work by Jeremy Randall
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

This exhibition marks the first time that Jeremy Randall's architectural ceramic vessels will be paired with his landscape drawings.

Randall's work was recently selected for inclusion in a November show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He also has exhibited this year at Craftboston Spring, Baltimore Clayworks, the Paradise City Arts Festival in Northampton, MA, and Studio 550 in Nashua, NH. Altogether, his works have been shown in more than 60 exhibitions nationwide; images have appeared in Ceramic Arts Daily, Clay Times, Ceramic Review, Stone Canoe, and "500 Vases" and "500 Cups" (Lark Books).

Randall uses color to elevate forms to be celebrated, while conjuring the nostalgia for something old that is still recognized today. His drawings combine graphite and acrylic paint on panel. The colors relate to his ceramic work, and lend a soft energy to the landscape being referenced.

Randall, recognized by Ceramics Monthly as an Emerging Artist for 2009, is digital imaging/web specialist and head of installations at Imagine, studio manager and visiting professor of art at Cazenovia College, and adjunct professor of ceramics at Syracuse University, his alma mater.

His work is held in the permanent collection of the Southern Illinois University Museum and the private Meyerhoff Collection in Baltimore. In addition to Imagine and Gandee Gallery locally, he is represented by galleries in Montana, Ohio, Georgia and Massachusetts.

Exploring the Digital Landscape: Works by Carl Hoffner

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Carl Hoffner's artwork surrounds the viewer in a cacophony of color. His contemporary landscapes of the Central New York region vibrate with intense color. Says Hoffner, "In my work I explore the inherent abstractions and extraordinary color within Upstate New York’s wealth of natural beauty."

While Hoffner also works in traditional lithograph, the work being exhibited here is part of his digital portfolio. Hoffner uses the computer paired with a Wacom tablet, and Corel painter software to draw and paint directly on the computer. Hoffner explains, "I have found this to be a liberating artistic experience bringing back the play in my art as well as offering a chance to re-explore my passion for painting and color." The completed digital paintings are produced in limited editions using giclee inkjet printing technology.

Hoffner received his MFA from Syracuse University and a BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He taught in the art department of OCC in the 1980s. His work is in collections in the United States and abroad including galleries in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Europe, United Kingdom, and Australia. Hoffner currently resides in Fayetteville, NY.

Mission Modern: The Paintings of Darryl Hughto
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

This show seamlessly juxtaposes Darryl Hughto's contemporary land and seascape paintings with Dalton's Mission-era furnishings. Hughto's recent paintings are a continuation into the 21st century of a feeling for man in and of the land in the American painting tradition. The show reveals the ongoing nature of American art and culture from past to present.

Melding Time and Process: Works by Richard Harvey
Redhouse

Price: Free
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Exploring the psychological and emotive potential of the human face, Harvey creates figurative art inspired by a diverse range of art historical influences including Byzantine iconography, African sculpture, and Expressionist painting. Elements of typography, signage and graffiti reflect his background in graphic design.

Captured
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Mixed-media artist Amy E. Bartell and photographer Jeanann Wieners freeze moments in time in a show of their works titled "Captured."

In "Captured," artist/activist Bartell takes the viewer to the circus for an exploration of the literal and metaphorical visions reminiscent of what one might expect to experience there.

To set the tone of her circus imagery, Bartell worked in mixed media -- gouache, pencil, pastel on stretched paper and cradled clayboard. She describes the process as layering color, line and texture, building the surface from light to dark. She applies the paint with brushes, knives and cloths, 'adding and subtracting, drawing and erasing, pushing and pulling the tension of surface and materials while remembering that art is a process of translation; the media chosen defines the voice of the narrator.'

Wieners, well established professionally in video and film work, describes her idealistic 'moments' portrayed by her street photography displayed in the show by comparing the difference in video production and its controlling factors verses her abandon of control in street photography. She says that in the former art form there is need to scout locations, build sets, rig lights, direct actors, and count 'takes' before the narrative is revealed over time. By contrast, the mindset of her chosen art form requires her only to embrace opportunity and anticipate that 'instant in time when the perfect combination of form, color, light and narrative occurs and is, in a single frame, captured.'

The Unexpected Journey: Works By Beverly McIver and How I See the World: Works by Spencer McClay
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Our summer exhibition will feature acclaimed artist Beverly McIver and California-based weaver Spencer McClay. These two artists offer different and refreshing perspectives on disability.

"The Unexpected Journey: Works by Beverly McIver" is a selection of paintings that examine McIver's unpredictable relationship with her mentally disabled sister, Renee.

"How I See the World: Works by Spencer McClay" is a collection of vibrant hand-woven wall sculptures by an artist with a unique vision and sensibility for the materials he uses.

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Focal Points: Photography by Mia Burse
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Focal Points" is a collection of black and white photos that capture the essence and spirit of the Trayvon Martin case in Syracuse. The exhibition chronicles the Syracuse "One Million Hoodie March" that stretched from Franklin Square to Clinton Square on March 30, 2012. Burse's exhibition also features personal statements from various community members on how the Trayvon Martin case affected them.

Mia Burse is a freelance photojournalist whose local clientele includes Syracuse University South Side Initiative, Syracuse City School District, the NAACP Syracuse/Onondaga, and the Central New York National Organization for Women. Burse was recognized by the Central New York Business Journal as a 40 Under Forty in 2010, and was honored as a Diversity Achiever by the YWCA Syracuse for her commitment to diversity and eliminating racism.

Living Collections
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

A series of paintings portraying children's collections in unusual environments by Pennsylvania artist, Elody Gyekis.

Flower Power
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"Flower Power" presents an eclectic mix of styles and art media. This group exhibition celebrates the beauty of flowers and the vessels used to contain them. The show includes photography, wood, sculpture, fiber art, and ceramics. Participating artists include Justin Campbell, Suzanne Fluty, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Mary Giehl, Vicki Hartman, Dave LoParco, Colleen McCall, Kate Money, Melissa Montgomery, Brooks Oliver, Kala Stein, Dan Tracy, Jeanann Wieners, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

Art on the Porches
Greater Strathmore Neighborhood Association

Price: Free
Ruskin Avenue
Strathmore neighborhood, Syracuse

Local artists will show and sell their work in the Historic Strathmore Neighborhood! Music, dancers, indie bands, painters, potters, and more will help celebrate our 11th annual festival!

Held in cooperation with the Strathmore by the Park Tour of Homes and the Strathmore Festival (www.strathmorebythepark.org).

Timeless Imagery: Associated Artists of CNY's 85th Anniversary Exhibition
Onondaga Historical Association
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Since 1927, Associated Artists has sought to bring together the best artists and their art for the benefit of the central New York community. The exhibit at OHA will showcase 85 years of juried arts competition winning entries from regional artists. "Timeless Imagery" is an opportunity to observe in one gallery the history of Central New York's changing art scene.

Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Three well-known Central New York political cartoonists, Joe Glisson, Tim Atseff, and Frank Cammuso, are the featured cartoonists for an exhibition entitled "Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place." With insightful humor, these artists and their historic predecessors produced a wide variety of editorial cartoons that illustrated important issues of their time. Starting with cartoons from the Civil War era through the present day, "Take No Prisoners" is an opportunity to experience historic subjects as the current events they once were, and to see how election issues of the past compare with those of the present-day.

In Our View: A Community Perspective
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibition is the culmination of a community art project in which ArtRage worked with community members and organizations in the Hawley-Green and Northside neighborhoods. ArtRage got cameras into the hands of neighborhood residents and asked them to capture their lives and community through documentary photography. A professional photographer and Syracuse University graduate student, Daniel Aguilera, worked with residents to guide them on the social documentary process. Curated by a community panel, this exhibition is not only a testimony to the times in which we live, but a social-bonding experience for our diverse neighborhood -- a neighborhood whose current residents include refugees from many war-torn nations, long time city dwellers of mixed income, and a population of people new to the area working to establish roots in a community of their choice -- all living side-by-side as neighbors.

Exhibition Partners: Catholic Charities, Hawley-Green Neighbors, NEDHA, Northeast Community Center, Northside UP.

Celebrating 90 Years of Design at Syracuse University
XL Projects

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

An exhibition of work by current students in the environmental and interior design and industrial and interaction design programs in the Department of Design. The programs are celebrating their 90th anniversaries.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours or email Andrew Havenhand, ahavenhand@yahoo.com.

UVP Annual Summer Review 2012
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This year's Annual Summer Review will feature all the past videos from the 2011-2012 programming year running together in a continuous loop. If you missed one of the past year's artists, now's your chance! On view will be works by Pae White, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, John Knecht, and William Wegman.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

Maurice (1987)
ArtRage Gallery

Price: $5 suggested donation
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This luscious screen version of E. M. Forster's classic novel depicts the struggle for gay acceptance in Edwardian England where homosexuality was outlawed. With compelling sensitivity it shows how two university chums fall in love against all odds -- and how each deals with it in a different way. With Hugh Grant, Rupert Graves, James Wilby. Winner: Silver Lion and Best Actor awards, Venice Film Festival (2 hr 19 min)

Oakwood Revisited Summer Ghostwalk
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: $12 regular, $10 OHA members. $2 discount for advance purchase by June 12.
Oakwood Cemetery
940 Comstock Ave., Syracuse

Onondaga Historical Association will host their history-themed summer Ghostwalk in historic Oakwood Cemetery where participants will be guided to visit "ghosts" of the famous and infamous of Central New York. The "ghosts," costumed actors, tell their characters' stories while standing at their grave site. Characters from Syracuse's past, including a convicted criminal, inventor, artist, military officer, and a "shady lady", will be portrayed in various places around the older portion of the cemetery, which was built in 1859. The program will include a variety of new characters not seen in prior Ghostwalks.

Participants should enter from the East Colvin Street entrance and drive to the gothic-style Chapel, which was dedicated in 1880 and boasts a 70-foot tower made of Onondaga limestone. Parking is available there. Check-in and the tour begin at the Chapel.

Ghostwalks start at 6:00 pm with tours leaving every 15 minutes until 7:15 pm, rain or shine. Tours last an hour and a half. Reservations are strongly advised.

For more information and reservations, call Karen at 315-428-1864, ext. 312.

Ani DiFranco and Martin Sexton
Paper Mill Island

Paper Mill Island
Baldwinsville

After 20 years in the music biz, self-described "Little Folksinger" Ani DiFranco is still technically little, although her influence on fellow musicians, activists, and indie-minded people the world over has been huge. She still proudly identifies as a folksinger, too, but her understanding of that term has always been far more expansive than a bin at the record store or a category on iTunes, with ample room for soul, funk, jazz, electronic music, spoken word, and a marching band or two. Ani has never stopped evolving, experimenting, testing the limits of what can be said and sung.

Martin Sexton's music blends many genres of American music, including soul, gospel, country, rock, blues, and R&B. He is known for his wide vocal range and ability to improvise. He is also known for beatboxing and scat singing guitar solos. In 2007, his song "Diner" reached a wide TV audience when it appeared in the Scrubs episode "My Night to Remember." Other songs have been featured on NBC's Parenthood "Diggin Me", Showtime's Brotherhood "Can't Stop Thinking Bout You" and others, Sexton has collaborated with many artist including John Mayer "Can't Stop Thinking Bout You" video and Peter Frampton Frampton & Sexton Jammy Awards at Madison Square Garden.

Stompin' With the Berwald
Berwald Singers
Ian Kirkpatrick, conductor

Price: $10 regular, $5 children ages 6-12, free for 5 and under
Blessed Sacrament Church
3127 James St., Syracuse

Come join the Berwald Singers for an entertaining evening of upbeat songs from the past. Desserts and beverages will be served.

Tickets can be purchased in advance at 315-412-4012.

Francis Perri Presents Rainy Day Blues

Price: $10
BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

How I Became a Pirate
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $15 adults, $10 children
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The musical, by Janet Yates Vogt and Mark Friedman, is based on Melinda Long's popular children's book. Young Jeremy Jacob meets up with a band of pirates while at the beach digging in the sand. He spends some time aboard the vessel, living the pirate life on the open seas. Meanwhile, his crew mates learn about Jeremy’s life as a young boy in present day boy who plays soccer.

To reserve tickets, call 315-445-4523. For more information, call the Gifford Family Theatre at 315-445-4230 or email giffordthtr@lemoyne.edu.

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The Three Little Princess Pigs
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

Price: $5
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Our own original, interactive, comedic version of the traditional three little pigs story, starring Mae-Mae, Dixie, and Priscilla Pig, who foil the big bad wolf with their combination of southern charm, and, of course, help from the children in the audience.

How I Became a Pirate
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $15 adults, $10 children
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The musical, by Janet Yates Vogt and Mark Friedman, is based on Melinda Long's popular children's book. Young Jeremy Jacob meets up with a band of pirates while at the beach digging in the sand. He spends some time aboard the vessel, living the pirate life on the open seas. Meanwhile, his crew mates learn about Jeremy’s life as a young boy in present day boy who plays soccer.

To reserve tickets, call 315-445-4523. For more information, call the Gifford Family Theatre at 315-445-4230 or email giffordthtr@lemoyne.edu.

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Tomfoolery
Appleseed Productions
Mark Allen Holt, director

Price: $20 regular; $17 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

During the 1950s and 60s, Harvard-trained mathematician Tom Lehrer inflicted upon the world a series of albums chock full of his satirical compositions. Over the decades these comedic songs, including such dubious classics as "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" and "The Masochism Tango", have developed a cult status among those of a slightly-twisted disposition. Some of these fans were even obsessive enough to assemble their favorites into a night of musical theater quite unlike any other. Join us as we leave all good sense behind and explore the singular comedic genius of Tom Lehrer. Adapted by Cameron Mackintosh and Robin Ray. Musical Direction by Dan Williams.

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La Cage Aux Folles
TheaterFIRST Productions

Price: $30-$34
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

La Cage aux Folles tells the story of Georges, the owner of a glitzy nightclub in lovely Saint-Tropez, and his partner Albin, who moonlights as the glamorous chanteuse Zaza. When Georges' son brings his fiancée's conservative parents home to meet the flashy pair, the bonds of family are put to the test as the feather boas fly! La Cage aux Folles is a tuneful and touching tale of one family's struggle to stay together... stay fabulous... and above all else, stay true to themselves!

Starring Bob Brown and Frank Fiumano.

For more information, phone 315-703-3007.

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Bunked!
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Bunked!: A New Musical is a comedic coming of age story of five summer camp counselors, three male and two female, during the pivotal summer before the beginning of college. With easily relatable characters that are experiencing their first taste of independence, Bunked! taps into the uncertainty of trying to find yourself while forging your first adult relationships.

Exploring themes of sexual orientation, first loves, and growing up, the show asks the fundamental questions "who am I?, "where do I belong?" and "how do I make a name for myself?" in a manner that is both humorous and poignant. Winner of the New York International Fringe Festival's "Best Overall Production of a Musical." Book and Lyrics by Alaina Kunin; music, book, lyrics by Bradford Proctor; musical director Chris Widomski.

This show is intended for mature audiences only.

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Sunday, June 17, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

The Locks of the New York State Canal System
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Pen and ink drawings of artist Ray Sax will be on display. The 57 drawings were created by Sax over a four year period that began in 1988 with a picnic to Lock 24 in Baldwinsville with his wife Betty. Enjoying the experience, they kept going from one lock to the next, Ray drawing each one.

The exhibition of these drawings will bring new attention to the beauty and engineering of Barge Canal structures. Visitors to the exhibit will be reminded that the Erie Canal is not merely a thing of the past, but a remarkable body of water that connects east and west.

Captured
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Mixed-media artist Amy E. Bartell and photographer Jeanann Wieners freeze moments in time in a show of their works titled "Captured."

In "Captured," artist/activist Bartell takes the viewer to the circus for an exploration of the literal and metaphorical visions reminiscent of what one might expect to experience there.

To set the tone of her circus imagery, Bartell worked in mixed media -- gouache, pencil, pastel on stretched paper and cradled clayboard. She describes the process as layering color, line and texture, building the surface from light to dark. She applies the paint with brushes, knives and cloths, 'adding and subtracting, drawing and erasing, pushing and pulling the tension of surface and materials while remembering that art is a process of translation; the media chosen defines the voice of the narrator.'

Wieners, well established professionally in video and film work, describes her idealistic 'moments' portrayed by her street photography displayed in the show by comparing the difference in video production and its controlling factors verses her abandon of control in street photography. She says that in the former art form there is need to scout locations, build sets, rig lights, direct actors, and count 'takes' before the narrative is revealed over time. By contrast, the mindset of her chosen art form requires her only to embrace opportunity and anticipate that 'instant in time when the perfect combination of form, color, light and narrative occurs and is, in a single frame, captured.'

Shaker Boxes: Works by Fred Weisskopf
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

As this month's featured artist, Fred has made a special selection of shaker boxes. There will also be a display showing steps involved in the making of traditional shaker boxes.

Flower Power
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"Flower Power" presents an eclectic mix of styles and art media. This group exhibition celebrates the beauty of flowers and the vessels used to contain them. The show includes photography, wood, sculpture, fiber art, and ceramics. Participating artists include Justin Campbell, Suzanne Fluty, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Mary Giehl, Vicki Hartman, Dave LoParco, Colleen McCall, Kate Money, Melissa Montgomery, Brooks Oliver, Kala Stein, Dan Tracy, Jeanann Wieners, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

Form and Landscape: New Work by Jeremy Randall
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

This exhibition marks the first time that Jeremy Randall's architectural ceramic vessels will be paired with his landscape drawings.

Randall's work was recently selected for inclusion in a November show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He also has exhibited this year at Craftboston Spring, Baltimore Clayworks, the Paradise City Arts Festival in Northampton, MA, and Studio 550 in Nashua, NH. Altogether, his works have been shown in more than 60 exhibitions nationwide; images have appeared in Ceramic Arts Daily, Clay Times, Ceramic Review, Stone Canoe, and "500 Vases" and "500 Cups" (Lark Books).

Randall uses color to elevate forms to be celebrated, while conjuring the nostalgia for something old that is still recognized today. His drawings combine graphite and acrylic paint on panel. The colors relate to his ceramic work, and lend a soft energy to the landscape being referenced.

Randall, recognized by Ceramics Monthly as an Emerging Artist for 2009, is digital imaging/web specialist and head of installations at Imagine, studio manager and visiting professor of art at Cazenovia College, and adjunct professor of ceramics at Syracuse University, his alma mater.

His work is held in the permanent collection of the Southern Illinois University Museum and the private Meyerhoff Collection in Baltimore. In addition to Imagine and Gandee Gallery locally, he is represented by galleries in Montana, Ohio, Georgia and Massachusetts.

Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Three well-known Central New York political cartoonists, Joe Glisson, Tim Atseff, and Frank Cammuso, are the featured cartoonists for an exhibition entitled "Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place." With insightful humor, these artists and their historic predecessors produced a wide variety of editorial cartoons that illustrated important issues of their time. Starting with cartoons from the Civil War era through the present day, "Take No Prisoners" is an opportunity to experience historic subjects as the current events they once were, and to see how election issues of the past compare with those of the present-day.

Timeless Imagery: Associated Artists of CNY's 85th Anniversary Exhibition
Onondaga Historical Association
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Since 1927, Associated Artists has sought to bring together the best artists and their art for the benefit of the central New York community. The exhibit at OHA will showcase 85 years of juried arts competition winning entries from regional artists. "Timeless Imagery" is an opportunity to observe in one gallery the history of Central New York's changing art scene.

People, Place and Progress: Local Landscapes in Paint and Print
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 suggested donation
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In a partnership between the Everson Museum of Art and the Onondaga Historical Association, this exhibit will include paintings from the collections of both institutions. The works will feature local historical scenes such as views of the Erie Canal, rural vistas, area waterfalls and gorges, plus local architectural landmarks, former breweries, stagecoach inns and sections of downtown Syracuse.

The exhibition will also pair the paintings with historic photos and prints, documenting either the particular image or the actual historic landscape that inspired the artists. The works will explore how the artist chose to interpret that Central New York setting and why those places help shape our regional identity.

Julie Blackmon: Other Tales from Home
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5 adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Authentic and dysfunctional, Julie Blackmon's photographs of family life strike a resonating chord in both children and adult viewers. Boys and girls run free in the backyard or the living room among scattered toys while preoccupied grown-ups hover on the edges. Inspired by humorous 17th-century Dutch paintings and her own childhood as the eldest of nine, Blackmon digitally reconstructs scenes of family life with humor and an eye for the underlying chaos. The exhibition contains selections from her past series, Domestic Vacations, along with photographs from her latest body of work.

Celebrating 90 Years of Design at Syracuse University
XL Projects

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

An exhibition of work by current students in the environmental and interior design and industrial and interaction design programs in the Department of Design. The programs are celebrating their 90th anniversaries.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours or email Andrew Havenhand, ahavenhand@yahoo.com.

Melding Time and Process: Works by Richard Harvey
Redhouse

Price: Free
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Exploring the psychological and emotive potential of the human face, Harvey creates figurative art inspired by a diverse range of art historical influences including Byzantine iconography, African sculpture, and Expressionist painting. Elements of typography, signage and graffiti reflect his background in graphic design.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

West of Westcott: Avondale, Trinity, Greenwood and Thornden Park Westcott Architecture and History Walking Tour
Westcott East Neighborhood Association
Featuring Sam Gruber, architectural historian

Price: Free
Petit Branch Library
105 Victoria Pl., Syracuse

Tour begins at Petit Library, ends at Edmund Mill Rose Garden, Thornden Park. Rain date: June 24 at 1:00 pm.

For more information, contact Westcott East Neighborhood Association, 315-440-9341.

U.A.D., with Mike Houston and Anjela Lee, and The Media Unit
Southwest Showcase Sunday

Price: Free
Spirit of Jubilee Park
South Ave. (100 Block), Syracuse

Bastarda to Lyra Viole
Schola Cantorum of Syracuse

Price: $15 regular, $10 students/seniors
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

Virtuosic music in the viola bastarda and related styles, by Schola's viol consort, Gamba Obscura.

Tomfoolery
Appleseed Productions
Mark Allen Holt, director

Price: $20 regular; $17 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

During the 1950s and 60s, Harvard-trained mathematician Tom Lehrer inflicted upon the world a series of albums chock full of his satirical compositions. Over the decades these comedic songs, including such dubious classics as "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" and "The Masochism Tango", have developed a cult status among those of a slightly-twisted disposition. Some of these fans were even obsessive enough to assemble their favorites into a night of musical theater quite unlike any other. Join us as we leave all good sense behind and explore the singular comedic genius of Tom Lehrer. Adapted by Cameron Mackintosh and Robin Ray. Musical Direction by Dan Williams.

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La Cage Aux Folles
TheaterFIRST Productions

Price: $30-$34
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

La Cage aux Folles tells the story of Georges, the owner of a glitzy nightclub in lovely Saint-Tropez, and his partner Albin, who moonlights as the glamorous chanteuse Zaza. When Georges' son brings his fiancée's conservative parents home to meet the flashy pair, the bonds of family are put to the test as the feather boas fly! La Cage aux Folles is a tuneful and touching tale of one family's struggle to stay together... stay fabulous... and above all else, stay true to themselves!

Starring Bob Brown and Frank Fiumano.

For more information, phone 315-703-3007.

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The Tempest
Redhouse

Price: Free
Clift Park
Genesee St., Skaneateles

Enjoy an entirely different look at this classic Shakespearean text as the Redhouse transports audience goers to a Native American drum circle, complete with headdresses, drumming, and dance! Using the wilderness as a natural backdrop and stage, this exciting 60-minute production will be traveling across public park grounds and natural settings across CNY. Made up of professional actors from across the country, watch as they bring to life one of Shakespeare's most fantastical plays!

Rain location: Skaneateles Library

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