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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Monday, June 18, 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.

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.

Seven Indigenous Short Films from the Sundance Festival
ArtRage Gallery

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

Choke (2010, 6 min, directed by Michelle Latimer)
Ebony Society (2010, 15 min, directed by Tammy Davis)
?E?ANX [The Cave] (2009, 12 min, directed by Helen Haig-Brown)
The Rocket Boy (2010, 15 min, directed by Donavan Seschillie)
Stones (2009, 20 min, directed by Ty Sanga, Hawaiian with English subtitles)
Redemption (2010, 17 min, directed by Katie Wolfe)
Wapawekka (2010, 16 min, directed by Danis Goulet, Canada, Cree and English with English subtitles)

Presented by Tom Huff to benefit Sculpture/Culture and the ArtRage Gallery.

The Fab Cats
Liverpool is the Place

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

Tuesday, June 19, 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.

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.

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.

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.

"What If...?" Series: Rebuilding Places of the Heart (Episode 2)
Gifford Foundation

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

A episode of the PBS Designing Healthy Communities series that was filmed in Syracuse.

Parents and children under seige. When U.S. industry and manufacturing collapsed or went elsewhere, cities like Elgin, IL, and Syracuse, NY, (like many communities in the United States) were left with the task of redefining themselves for a new paradigm. Leading the way to a greener, more sustainable Elgin is a group of high school students. Despite many innovative programs to get Syracuse back on its feet, the city struggles with the larger problem of Lake Onondaga, the most polluted lake in our nation. Local Native American Onondaga tribal leader, Oren Lyons, serves as conscience in the movement to restore Lake Onondaga for "Seven Generations to come." And in Riverside, CA, 16-year old science prodigy, Otana Jakpor, has a personal reason for her war against air pollution. She takes her battle all the way to the White House.

An Evening of Classical Music
Temple Society of Concord
Featuring Rhimmon Simchy-Gross, piano

Price: Free (donations accepted)
Temple Society of Concord
910 Madison St., Syracuse

An encore performance by Syracuse-native Rhimmon Simchy-Gross as he performs for "seasoned citizens" and young people alike!

Wednesday, June 20, 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.

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.'

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.

Dave Baker's Tribute to Sinatra
Liverpool is the Place

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

Tour Send-Off Concert
Syracuse Children's Chorus
Stephanie Mowery, conductor

Price: Suggested donation: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students
Dewitt Community Church
3600 Erie Blvd. East, Dewitt

Syracuse Children's Chorus touring ensemble of 32 singers will be attending the Windy City Youth Choral Festival in Chicago from June 27 to July 1.

This tour send-off concert will feature masterworks, jazz, gospel, American folk, contemporary and multicultural songs.

Thursday, June 21, 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.

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.

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.

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.

Constructions and Mermaids
Petit Branch Library

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

Husband and wife Mickey Mahan and Deborah Thorna will be exhibiting recent work. Mickey's Constructions are abstract works consisting of oils and found objects. Foam armatures, acrylics, and a variety of other objects comprise Deborah's three dimensional Mermaids.

Works by Scott Foley and Stephanie Wysluzaly
Syracuse Ceramic Guild

Price: Free
Delavan Center, #119
112 Wyoming St., Syracuse

A two-person exhibit and sale featuring the work of Scott Foley and Stephanie Wysluzaly. (Entrance to the gallery is on Wyoming Street.)

Scott Foley creates his pieces at Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute. It is mostly functional ware with some sculptural pieces done in collaboration with his clay partner, Cindy Panella. His pieces are primarily stoneware and porcelain fired in wood and salt kilns. All work is oven, dishwasher, and microwave safe. No lead is used in any of the glazes.

Stephanie Wysluzaly's work is functional, with a striking emphasis on texture and glaze. Each piece is an individual work of art that needs to be held to be appreciated. She likes visitors to touch her work directly, and has set up a drink station for that purpose. Come by and experience her cups in person! They are mostly stoneware and porcelain fired in wood and salt kilns. All work is oven, dishwasher, and microwave safe. No lead is used in any of the glazes.

For more information, contact Karen Nadolski, at 315-443-3972 or knadolsk@uc.syr.edu.

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.

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.

Pariah
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Pariah, directed by Dee Rees and produced by Spike Lee, is a coming-of-age story about an African American teenage girl living in Brooklyn who uses poetry to cope with her home life and coming out as a lesbian. Living with an annoying younger sister and parents whose marriage is strained at best, she escapes home by entering the gay club scene with her older lesbian friend Laura. Rees shows lesbianism in a way that is not contextualized by sexual experimentation or immature teen angst, but real feelings that the audience knows will continue for the protagonist.

Co-sponsored by the SU LGBT Center, this film was the 2011 Sundance Film Festival Official Selection.

James Taylor

Price: $61.50, $81.50
Onondaga County War Memorial
800 S. State St., Syracuse

James Taylor and his band are coming to Syracuse for one intimate and memorable night!

James Taylor's music embodies the art of songwriting in its most personal and universal forms. He is a master at describing specific, even autobiographical situations in a way that resonates with people everywhere. As a recording and touring artist, Taylor has set a precedent to which countless young musicians have aspired. His warm baritone is among the most recognized voices in popular music and his distinctive style of guitar-playing has been enormously influential. He has sold more than fifty million albums throughout his career and has earned 40 gold, platinum, and multi-platinum awards and five Grammy Awards. His songs have had a profound influence on songwriters and music lovers from all walks of life: "Fire and Rain," "Country Road," "Something in the Way She Moves," "Mexico," "Shower the People," "Your Smiling Face," "Carolina In My Mind," "Sweet Baby James," "Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight," "You Can Close Your Eyes," "Walking Man," "Never Die Young," "Shed a Little Light," "Copperline," and many more.

In a career marked by artistic triumphs, this past year for Taylor has been notable for both creative virtuosity and recognition of exceptional achievement. In March 2011, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama in a ceremony at the White House. Taylor was also honored with a Carnegie Hall Perspectives series, which consisted of four concert evenings presented by Carnegie Hall and featuring Taylor and personally selected musical guests.

Come spend an unforgettable night with America’s iconic singer-songwriter James Taylor!

Tickets available at Ticketmaster.com, all Ticketmaster locations, or charge by phone: 1-800-745-3000.

Word Thursday: Michael Burkard
601 Tully

Price: Free
601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Our monthly reading series, Word Thursday, will feature a special event with poet Michael Burkard. Burkard will read some of his best and latest work, then respond to audience questions about the art and craft of poetry. Michael Burkard is a 2011 Art Fellowship Recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts.

For more information, contact Literary Coordinator Rob Mengert at rsmenger@syr.edu.

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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Friday, June 22, 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.

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.

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.

60/60
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $30 (reservations recommended)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Imagine 60 original works of art. Imagine them created in just 60 minutes. Imagine the creativity electrifying the plaza.

Imagine yourself as a part of it.

Join the Everson Museum of Art Members' Council for a summer evening focused on the creation of art. Mingle with 60 area artists as they complete original works of art while you enjoy complimentary hors d'oeuvres by Phoebe's, soft drinks and water, and a cash bar.

Stroll through the tents, chat with the artists and vote for your favorite work of art in a variety of categories, all to the musical stylings of ValDaniel Martins and Kyle Dolbear. Enter the raffle for a chance to win one of the unique works of art being completed on the spot. The drawing will take place at 6:30 pm.

Participating Artists: Linda Abbey, Carol Adamec, Jacqueline Adamo, Jeff Allen, Dennis Andrukat, Eileen Arnold, Jamie Ashlaw, Joan Back, Sarah Barter, Michael Berman, Marty Blake, Marnie Blount-Gowan, James F Brenneman II, Judith Brown-Roenbeck, Cynthia Cameron, Matt Capucilli, Stephen Carpenter, Meredith Cantor-Feller, Virginia Clapp, Erin Davies, Patrice Downes-Centore, Vykky Ebner, Marsha Egan, Cookie Falcone, Sandra Fioramonti, John Fitzsimmons, Susan Fix and MOYA students, Mary Fragapane, James Giles, Bonnie Goetzke, Andrew Gunter, Judith Hand, Tom Huff, Peter Huntington, Erin Lachut, Miriam Levinson, Donald Marshall, Ty Marshall, Lori McCall, Tara McClung, Howard McLaughlin, Susan Murphy, Ken Nichols, Lisa Noviasky, Mary Padgett, Sonya Parrish, Sandra Philips, Ceil Pigula, Quinn Pinner, Marc Pittarelli, Caren Samuels, Tim See, Hilary Small, Sharon Bottle Souva, Therese Verley Strodel, Rebekah Tanner, Sally Taylor, Barbara Vural, James Walker, Michael Weismore, Lucie Wellner.

To reserve tickets, visit www.everson.org/events/6060.php.

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.

Syracuse Parks & Rec Stan Colella All-Star Band
Syracuse Jazz Fest
Joe Carello, conductor

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Main Stage (Jamesville Beach)
Jamesville Beach Park, Jamesville

Harri Stojka's Tribute To Gypsy Swing (Part 1)
Syracuse Jazz Fest

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Main Stage (Jamesville Beach)
Jamesville Beach Park, Jamesville

Born in Vienna in 1957 as a Roma gypsy, Stojka began playing guitar at age six. "My Daddy, who was a singer, forced me really to play and to get into gypsy music," Harri recalls. "As a Roma gypsy, I grew up with Hungarian and Viennese gypsy music. And from that it's just one step to Django Reinhardt, who was a Sinti gypsy."

Cyrille Aimee & Diego Figueiredo
Syracuse Jazz Fest

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Main Stage (Jamesville Beach)
Jamesville Beach Park, Jamesville

Cyrille Aimee has proven herself to be an unstoppable, undeniable talent in the modern age of jazz and pop music. Internationally renowned and praised for her unparalleled abilities, Cyrille's vocal stylings are synonymous with musical genius. Her culturally rich background has supplied her with the driving force of Dominican rhythm and the incredible swing of the French Gypsies. Taking these natural abilities with her across the world, she has done nothing short of receiving rave reviews and a loyal following in each country she graces with her voice.

Mingo Fishtrap
Syracuse Jazz Fest

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Main Stage (Jamesville Beach)
Jamesville Beach Park, Jamesville

With a sound dancing between gutbucket soul, N'awlins grit-down funk, and horn fueled Motown pop, Mingo Fishtrap is an anomaly in the contemporary music scene. With each album, the group gravitates closer to the classic sounds that inspired them to learn their craft. What's old is new again; with young audiences flocking to see a live show that lays its musical roots more in 1967 than 2012. And that's just fine with bandleader Roger Blevins, Jr.

Gregory Porter
Syracuse Jazz Fest

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Main Stage (Jamesville Beach)
Jamesville Beach Park, Jamesville

With a voice that can caress or confront, embrace or exhort, Grammy nominee, Gregory Porter exhibits such an incredible degree of vocal mastery that no less a jazz luminary than Wynton Marsalis has gone on record to call him "a fantastic young singer," which makes the fact that Water (out now from Motema Music) is his recording debut even more impressive.

Kenny G
Syracuse Jazz Fest

Price: Free
Jamesville Beach
Apulia Rd., Jamesville

In a recording career that spans almost three decades and 23 albums, Grammy Award-winning saxophonist Kenny G has grafted elements of R&B, pop and Latin to a jazz foundation solidifying his reputation as the premiere artist in contemporary jazz. Since the early '80s, his combination of unparalleled instrumental chops and indelible melodies has resulted in sales of more than 75 million records worldwide (45 million in the U.S. alone) and more than a dozen climbs to the top of Billboard's contemporary jazz chart.

Henry IV, Part I
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Price: Pay what you can
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

Come to a new space in an old place as we begin our history cycle at Thornden Park. In the three-quarter round setting on the grass in the middle of the gorgeous amphitheater, we present Henry IV, Part 1. Don't miss this exciting, inaugural production of our pay-what-you-want series. You will see the funniest and most detailed portrait of Falstaff in all of Shakespeare's works as we catch him carousing with Prince Hal and faking his bravery.

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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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Saturday, June 23, 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

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.

Art in the Park
Marcellus/Skaneateles Art Guild

Marcellus Park
Route 175 and Platt Road, Marcellus

Fine art, fine crafts, LouLou Lollipop the Clown, and musical entertainment.

For more information, call 315-636-8775 or email judithkhand@gmail.com or JKBenter13108@yahoo.com.

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.

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.

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.

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.

All-County High School All-Star Jazz Band
Syracuse Jazz Fest
Steve Frank, conductor

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Main Stage (Jamesville Beach)
Jamesville Beach Park, Jamesville

Harri Stojka's Tribute To Gypsy Swing (Part 2)
Syracuse Jazz Fest

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Main Stage (Jamesville Beach)
Jamesville Beach Park, Jamesville

Born in Vienna in 1957 as a Roma gypsy, Stojka began playing guitar at age six. "My Daddy, who was a singer, forced me really to play and to get into gypsy music," Harri recalls. "As a Roma gypsy, I grew up with Hungarian and Viennese gypsy music. And from that it's just one step to Django Reinhardt, who was a Sinti gypsy."

Jaimoe's Jasssz Band
Syracuse Jazz Fest

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Main Stage (Jamesville Beach)
Jamesville Beach Park, Jamesville

Legendary drummer and founding member of the Allman Brothers Band, Jaimoe and his Jasssz Band play American music. They combine elements of jazz, blues, rock-n-roll, and R&B into a unique blend that captures the spirit and stirs the soul. Their repertoire ranges from new interpretations of classic tunes, as well as original songs that are classics in the making.

Billy Vera Big Band
Syracuse Jazz Fest

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Main Stage (Jamesville Beach)
Jamesville Beach Park, Jamesville

Born May 28, 1944 in Riverside, California, Billy was named after his father, Bill McCord, who worked as a staff announcer for NBC in New York, where Billy grew up. His mom, Ann Ryan, was one of the Ray Charles Singers on record and TV with Perry Como.

Donovan
Syracuse Jazz Fest

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Main Stage (Jamesville Beach)
Jamesville Beach Park, Jamesville

Donovan was born Donovan Philips Leitch in, Glasgow, Scotland as part of the post-war baby-boom in1946. On April 14, 2012, he took his rightful place among his peers when he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. He is a legendary poet, folk-rock and pop-troubadour who remains an important part of popular culture since his career began in 1965. He is one of the preeminent members of British Rock Royalty.

Average White Band
Syracuse Jazz Fest

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Main Stage (Jamesville Beach)
Jamesville Beach Park, Jamesville

AWB is widely regarded as one of the best soul and funk bands in the history of music. Though perhaps best known for their timeless instrumental mega-hit "Pick Up the Pieces," the band's strength actually lies in its consistently accomplished song-writing, stretching across several gold selling albums and multi-Grammy nominations for the legendary Atlantic Records.

Henry IV, Part I
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Price: Pay what you can
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

Come to a new space in an old place as we begin our history cycle at Thornden Park. In the three-quarter round setting on the grass in the middle of the gorgeous amphitheater, we present Henry IV, Part 1. Don't miss this exciting, inaugural production of our pay-what-you-want series. You will see the funniest and most detailed portrait of Falstaff in all of Shakespeare's works as we catch him carousing with Prince Hal and faking his bravery.

Read a review!

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.

Read a Review!

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.

Read a Review!

Sunday, June 24, 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.

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.

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.

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.

Greater Syracuse Honors Middle School Concert Band
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Bradley Ethington, Justin Mertz and Brent Paris, conductor

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The band will perform Huckeby's Abington Ridge Overture, Curnow's Korean Folk Rhapsody, Susato's The Battle Pavane, Smith's Ash Lawn Echoes and Saucedo's Sneak Attack!.

The band is composed of 6th-, 7th- and 8th-grade band students nominated by their band directors.

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage; parking for patrons with disabilities is available in the Q1 lot. Patrons should mention that they are attending the concert. For more information, phone 315-443-2191.

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.

Read a Review!

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.

Read a Review!

Henry IV, Part I
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Price: Pay what you can
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

Come to a new space in an old place as we begin our history cycle at Thornden Park. In the three-quarter round setting on the grass in the middle of the gorgeous amphitheater, we present Henry IV, Part 1. Don't miss this exciting, inaugural production of our pay-what-you-want series. You will see the funniest and most detailed portrait of Falstaff in all of Shakespeare's works as we catch him carousing with Prince Hal and faking his bravery.

Read a review!

The Tempest
Redhouse

Price: Free
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., 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!

Read a review!