Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Windows Project: Rebecca Soderholm: Crescendoe
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Photographer Rebecca Soderholm focuses on Upstate New York, its people and landscape, while capturing a collective human spirit in today's world.

For the Window Projects, "Crescendoe," is titled after one of the many tanneries that produced leather gloves in Johnston, NY, during the first half of the 20th century, nearby where the work for this exhibition was created. Developed as three panels that fit the large Warehouse Gallery windows, Soderholm accentuates the three-dimensionality of a fence, underlines the painterly qualities of a photographed landscape, and reveals her own fascination with the beauty of often forgotten landscapes.

Born in Syracuse, Soderholm received her B.F.A. in Photojournalism from the Rochester Institute of Technology and her M.F.A. in Photography from Yale University, School of Art where she studied with Todd Papageorge and Gregory Crewdson. An Assistant Professor of Photography at Drew University (Madison, New Jersey), Soderholm's most recent exhibition, "Upstate," was shown at 511 Gallery in New York City in the Spring of 2012. She currently lives in Upstate New York and Madison, NJ. This is her first solo museum show.

Through Time and Space: Quilts and Collage by Sharon Bottle Souva

Onondaga County Central Library
The Galleries of Syracuse, 447 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Sharon's work includes elements of the tradition of quilt making while exploring contemporary design.

Natural Vistas, Intimate Views
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Paintings by Karen Burns and photography by David LoParco depict local landscapes.

Past Abstractions: Works by Diana Godfrey

St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

"Past Abstractions" highlights some of the abstract pastel/collages and mixed-media paintings of Diana Godfrey. The artist's colorful, nonrepresentational art has been shown in many galleries and venues in Central New York and the Northeast.

Note that the venue is closed daily 12:00-1:00 pm.

Gallery Exhibit: Vessels Ceremonial and Mundane: Works by David MacDonald
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

This gallery exhibit by celebrated sculptor David MacDonald features several vessel forms of varying sizes, including both intimate and large scale pieces.

Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985 is the first major exhibition on the notorious American publisher Grove Press. Founded by Barney Rosset in 1951, Grove Press became one of the 20th-century's great avant-garde publishing houses. What began as a small independent publisher on Grove Street in New York City's Greenwich Village grew into a multimillion dollar publishing company that has been credited with introducing important authors from around the world to American readers during the postwar period.

Taking its cue from the 1948 film Strange Victory, which Rosset produced in collaboration with left-wing documentary filmmaker Leo Hurwitz after WWII, the exhibition traces the history and evolution of Grove Press, from its role at the center of national censorship trials over the first American editions of Lady Chatterley's Lover and Tropic of Cancer, to its publication of politically-engaged works including The Wretched of the Earth, Red Star over China, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, to its scandalous and very profitable Victorian Library. Each book published by Grove, the exhibition reveals, was in its own way, a "strange victory." For while Grove altered the American literary landscape and its relationship to social mores, equality, and freedom of expression, Grove also aggressively deployed savvy marketing strategies, became embroiled in labor union battles, floundered in its own success, and offended the sensibilities of not only "squares," but feminists, Marxists, academics, and many others. Strange Victories tells the complicated story of Grove's many literary and political achievements, whose profound influence on American culture endures today.

Falling Back to Find the Future
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Works by Kathryn Burke Petrillo.

Keep the Rumors Alive
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jeff Robinson: metal and glass sculpture
Charles Golden: mixed media wall hangings
Sharon Alama: mixed media jewelry

Crossings
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Crossings" is a multi-faceted outcome of how the work of two artists, Nayda Collazo-Lloréns and Patricia Villalobos Echeverría, relates to each other in terms of location, mapping, identity, memory and multiplicity. "Crossings" is a first-time collaboration, convergence, and juxtaposition of these two artistic practices. The show will present a series of 13 works on paper, and a two-channel video installation titled PLEXUS13NP.

Nayda Collazo-Lloréns: Originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, she is a New York City based artist engaged in a multi-disciplinary practice that includes drawing, print, installation, video, text-based works and public interventions. Through her practice, she examines the way in which we perceive and process information, dealing with concepts of navigation, language and hyper-connectivity.

Patricia Villalobos Echeverría Born in Tennessee to Salvadoran parents and raised in Managua, Nicaragua, Villalobos describes her work as a hybrid. Her print, video and installation work explores how reproducible forms of representation can alter our notions of singularity and the various states of flux that we enter: some physical, others virtual. She a Professor of Art at Western Michigan University.

When We Just Existed
Community Folk Art Center

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

In her exhibit "When We Just Existed," artist Deborah Roberts investigates children's innocence, and how their sense of self is shaped by their environments, as well as the residual effects this may have on adults. In many of her paintings, Roberts uses her prepubescent self as the subject, adding a personal dimension to her pieces that will help you think of your own childhood. In her work, she makes references to the lynching in African American history and the racial tensions that children may experience.

Corporeal Contours
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Corporeal Contours" features the work of two distinguished artists, Firelei Baez and Andrea Chung, each displaying their personal ideas of identity in relation to the world around them. A large part of the exhibition also seeks to expose the hyper-exoticism of tourism companies, while also confronting issues of racial identity in Caribbean and American societies.

The artists each use very personal experiences to create an array of compelling silhouetted forms and prints. For her on-going series Can I Pass (2010), Baez incorporates aspects from her transcultural background to examine the United States' "brown paper bag test" and the Dominican Republic's "fan test." She uses art as a medium to challenge these tests, tracing her outline and painting her skin tone for each day within the form over the course of an entire month. Within her works, Baez is able to explore idealized body types, race, and skin tones within the greater social scheme across both countries.

For her series, Chung analyzes post colonial culture by using old logos and slogans from tourist advertisements, and archival photographs to create her thought-provoking prints. She focuses on race, class, and contemporary society in Jamaica and Trinidad, as well as the exotic identity assumed by tourist companies. Chung is also able to address the increasingly popular skin bleaching practices in Jamaica, exposing a deeper dimension of self image and controversy in her work.

2013 Student Invitational
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Adam Magyar: Kontinuum
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Hungarian artist Adam Magyar has been receiving international attention with art that explore concept of urban life. Magyar depicts the synergies of people, the cities they inhabit, and the technological support structures created to facilitate urban life. He explores the flow of time and life through multiple photography and video-based series, three of which will be presented in Syracuse.

Magyar uses unconventional devices, like an industrial machine-vision camera that relies on scanning technology. Utilizing software and drivers which he programs himself, Magyar creates constructed images that capture moments in time and place that can neither be seen with the bare eye nor conventional optical cameras. The beautiful images combine the aesthetics of classic photography with a technology that redefines our understanding of linear time and singular space in a perfect blend of science and art. In his works, Magyar scrutinizes the transience of life and man's inherent urge to leave some trace behind.

2013 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibition, mounted in conjunction with Syracuse Opera's April performances of The Marriage of Figaro, will feature items of a wedding nature from OHA's collection, including wedding dresses, invitations, and even a piece of anniversary cake from 1896.

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Onondaga Historical Association presents a new exhibit with a focus on paintings, photos, diary entries and quotes to illustrate the experience of eight veterans who served at Gettysburg in one of the following locally-based regiments. Also included in the exhibit is a three-part framed battlefield map that shows the military maneuvering that took place over the course of three days of fighting, July 1-3, 1863.

Sight Unseen: Stereographs from the OHA Collection, 1850-1930
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Since OHA's inception, it has amassed a collection of over 2,000 stereographs, or stereo views, of Onondaga County and beyond. Archived in the research holdings, these 3-D photographs have never before been exhibited. Guest curator Colleen Woolpert offers an overview of the collection, providing insight into the little known history of stereo photography while taking us back into the past with the aid of exhibition stereoscopes. The exhibit includes Syracuse views taken by local photographers as well as nationally-marketed views, historic stereoscopes, books, and related 3-D ephemera. It also looks at the combined industries of photography, publishing, manufacturing and marketing that contributed to the enormous popularity of the stereograph.

Within: Cast Resin Sculpture by Arlene Abend
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Artist statement: "The cast resin works of 'Within' represent both mystery and metaphor. The use of clear resin and lost wax surfaces allows me to capture, reflect and diffract light to create a constantly changing vision. The surfaces of the sculpture act as a mirror or prism and offer the contrast of surprise yet familiarity. I find a strong connection between the material and myself. Time disappears. There is a kind of magic that takes place during the act of creating art."

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Oh My! Works by Ken Nichols and Steve Nyland
Szozda Gallery

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

"Zombies and colors and mugs, oh my!"

The March show displays the colorful works of two diversely different styled artists who are new to this space. Ken Nichols' visceral paintings and Steve Nyland's audacious ones contrast intricately to produce "Oh My!"

Of the two artists in this show, Nichols has been at his craft for a much longer time than Nyland, but both share common ground in that they each found renewed voice in painting again after time away. However, in doing so, it is the personal motivation that compels the difference between the two along with their startling unusual styles that are being paired in the same exhibit.

Nyland, the younger artist, took up the palette again after working in various internet related ventures. He says that after "misplacing painting" for awhile, his return to it is like "the science fiction fantasy of a young boy with purple blue hair who just learned to paint again."

Nichols also began painting again after a somewhat long hiatus. And also like Nyland, the return brought with it some form of freed expression, but the similarity between the two ends there. Nichols, being a graphic designer for the last 35 years, calls himself a "Decorative Expressionist" and "paints for the fun of it, not to unburden my soul," he says.

Syracuse VA's Creative Arts Festival
Szozda Gallery

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

Delavan Center and Szozda Gallery are pleased to present a portion of the Syracuse VA's Creative Arts Festival. The key purpose of the Veterans Creative Arts competition and Festival is to recognize Veterans for their creative accomplishments and to educate and demonstrate to communities throughout the country the therapeutic benefits of the arts.

Nationwide, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical facilities use the creative arts as one form of rehabilitative treatment to help Veterans recover from and cope with physical and emotional disabilities. Across the country each year, Veterans treated at VA facilities compete in a local creative arts competition. The competition includes 53 categories in the visual arts division this year that range from oil painting to leatherwork to paint-by-number kits. In addition, there are 120 categories in the performing arts pertaining to all aspects of music, dance, drama and creative writing. A national selection committee chooses first, second and third place winners among all of the entries. Select winners are invited to attend the National Veterans Creative Arts Festival each year.

Join us in honoring the hard work and creativity of some of our area vets!

American Moderns 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Organized by the Brooklyn Museum, "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell" explores a wide variety of American art from the first half of the 20th century. The exhibition consists of 53 paintings and four sculptures by such prominent artists as Georgia O'Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Milton Avery, Stuart Davis, and Arthur Dove. Drastic social, political and economical changes during this time period challenged artists to define what could be considered "modern" from a wide variety of definitions. From abstraction and cityscapes to realism and nature, these works selected from the Brooklyn Museum's permanent collection offer a new perspective on American modern art.

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Strange Tongue
Everson Museum of Art

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

In her first solo exhibition at the Everson, Yvonne Buchanan presents a sound installation entitled Strange Tongue, a contemporary altered version of a well-known American gospel song by Mahalia Jackson. All associations to the lyrics have been excised, leaving a wordless voice, emphasizing the expression of sorrow and hope. The audio track can be accessed by dialing (315) 703-3063 and pressing 13.

Messages of Sisterhood: Works by Favianna Rodríguez
La Casita Cultural Center

Price: Free
La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

A native of Oakland, CA, Favianna Rodriguez is renowned for her vibrant posters about issues of war, immigration, globalization, workers' rights, racism, homophobia, sexism and other contemporary issues. "Messages of Sisterhood" commemorates Women's History Month, focusing on the role of women in the struggles for social justice.

Rodriguez has lectured widely on the use of art in civic engagement and on the work of artists who are bridging the community and museum. Her works appear in collections at Bellas Artes (Mexico City), The Glasgow Print Studio (Glasgow, Scotland) and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Benjamin Faga: Authentic Syracuse
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Emerging artist Benjamin Faga addresses the influence of globalization, technology, and its impact on our global society. Faga often uses a variety of media (photography, installation art, sculpture, public art, video, performance art, writing, and design) while collaborating with local communities. For his installation "Authentic Syracuse," Faga focuses on food as an indicator of cultural diversity and identity. In the vault, Faga will create a market atmosphere with international spices on display, while the main gallery will be made to look and operate like a tourism office center where visitors can read, see, and learn about Syracuse's many offerings as a diverse city that is home to immigrants from around the world.

Wisconsin-born and London-based, Faga studied at the University of Minnesota and received his MA in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art in London, UK. His work was included in national and international group exhibitions, such as "Talk to Me" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and "Pork" at Bermondsey Project Space in London. This is his first solo museum show in the United States.

Industrial and Interaction Design Thesis Projects
XL Projects

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

The work of 17 students in SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts will be on display. The exhibit presents the degree-culminating work of fifth-year thesis students in the Industrial and Interaction Design program in the Department of Design.

The work in this show draws on a spectrum of design practices, from speculative projects that provoke future imagination to projects that critically frame the very idea of making and designing to objects created for mass production. From the experiential to the quantitative, from the academic to the commercial, or from the theoretical to the practical, the work presents us with things that channel our inquisitiveness, curiosity, and optimism about the world.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

The Dance of Flute and Harp
Civic Morning Musicals
Martha Grener, flute; Lacey Lee, harp

Price: Free
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Music of Jongen, Ibert, Piazzolla, Ravel, and Katherine Hoover.

University Singers Homecoming Concert
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Dr. John Warren, conductor

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

Following their tour of the Midwest and Chicago, the University Singers return to Setnor Auditorium to present their tour program. University Singers is one of Syracuse University and the Setnor School of Music's premier choral ensembles.

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. Additional parking is available in Irving Garage. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Gaelic Storm
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Spring Sonnet Marathon
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Noble Room, Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

People with a penchant for poetry are invited to attend SU's first annual Spring Sonnet Marathon. The program includes a sonnet reading from 1:00-5:00 pm, followed by an open-mic session and reception from 5:00-6:00 pm. Readings will feature classic and original texts and will be done solo, in pairs, and as a group.

This event is a celebration of the sonnet, and will feature works by not only the more canonical sonneteers William Shakespeare, John Milton, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, to name a few, but also students and faculty members. People of all ages and backgrounds are encouraged to attend.

For more information or to sign up to read, contact organizers Melissa Welshans and Ashley O'Mara at SUSonnetMarathon@gmail.com.

Sarah C. Harwell
Raymond Carver Reading Series

Price: Free
Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Sarah C. Harwell is the author of Sit Down Traveler (Antilever Press, 2012) and associate director of SU's Creative Writing Program.

The reading will be preceded by a question and answer session 3:45-4:30 pm. Parking is available in SU's paid lots.

A Midsummer Night's Dream
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
William Fennelly, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In Shakespeare's hands, magic and romance and the very midsummer madness make for intoxication, enchantment, and rollicking, frolicking comedy. Get on your mud boots and your donkey ears (is there any character more wonderfully over-the-top than Bottom?) 'cause it's off to the woods with four eager young lovers, a band of hapless rustics, and rival camps of puckish sprites. "All will be well!" Oberon bellows, but it will be a myriad of magical moments and a few hours of laughter before that happens.

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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
William Fennelly, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In Shakespeare's hands, magic and romance and the very midsummer madness make for intoxication, enchantment, and rollicking, frolicking comedy. Get on your mud boots and your donkey ears (is there any character more wonderfully over-the-top than Bottom?) 'cause it's off to the woods with four eager young lovers, a band of hapless rustics, and rival camps of puckish sprites. "All will be well!" Oberon bellows, but it will be a myriad of magical moments and a few hours of laughter before that happens.

Read a Review!

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Windows Project: Rebecca Soderholm: Crescendoe
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Photographer Rebecca Soderholm focuses on Upstate New York, its people and landscape, while capturing a collective human spirit in today's world.

For the Window Projects, "Crescendoe," is titled after one of the many tanneries that produced leather gloves in Johnston, NY, during the first half of the 20th century, nearby where the work for this exhibition was created. Developed as three panels that fit the large Warehouse Gallery windows, Soderholm accentuates the three-dimensionality of a fence, underlines the painterly qualities of a photographed landscape, and reveals her own fascination with the beauty of often forgotten landscapes.

Born in Syracuse, Soderholm received her B.F.A. in Photojournalism from the Rochester Institute of Technology and her M.F.A. in Photography from Yale University, School of Art where she studied with Todd Papageorge and Gregory Crewdson. An Assistant Professor of Photography at Drew University (Madison, New Jersey), Soderholm's most recent exhibition, "Upstate," was shown at 511 Gallery in New York City in the Spring of 2012. She currently lives in Upstate New York and Madison, NJ. This is her first solo museum show.

Through Time and Space: Quilts and Collage by Sharon Bottle Souva

Onondaga County Central Library
The Galleries of Syracuse, 447 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Sharon's work includes elements of the tradition of quilt making while exploring contemporary design.

Natural Vistas, Intimate Views
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Paintings by Karen Burns and photography by David LoParco depict local landscapes.

Past Abstractions: Works by Diana Godfrey

St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

"Past Abstractions" highlights some of the abstract pastel/collages and mixed-media paintings of Diana Godfrey. The artist's colorful, nonrepresentational art has been shown in many galleries and venues in Central New York and the Northeast.

Note that the venue is closed daily 12:00-1:00 pm.

Gallery Exhibit: Vessels Ceremonial and Mundane: Works by David MacDonald
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

This gallery exhibit by celebrated sculptor David MacDonald features several vessel forms of varying sizes, including both intimate and large scale pieces.

Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985 is the first major exhibition on the notorious American publisher Grove Press. Founded by Barney Rosset in 1951, Grove Press became one of the 20th-century's great avant-garde publishing houses. What began as a small independent publisher on Grove Street in New York City's Greenwich Village grew into a multimillion dollar publishing company that has been credited with introducing important authors from around the world to American readers during the postwar period.

Taking its cue from the 1948 film Strange Victory, which Rosset produced in collaboration with left-wing documentary filmmaker Leo Hurwitz after WWII, the exhibition traces the history and evolution of Grove Press, from its role at the center of national censorship trials over the first American editions of Lady Chatterley's Lover and Tropic of Cancer, to its publication of politically-engaged works including The Wretched of the Earth, Red Star over China, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, to its scandalous and very profitable Victorian Library. Each book published by Grove, the exhibition reveals, was in its own way, a "strange victory." For while Grove altered the American literary landscape and its relationship to social mores, equality, and freedom of expression, Grove also aggressively deployed savvy marketing strategies, became embroiled in labor union battles, floundered in its own success, and offended the sensibilities of not only "squares," but feminists, Marxists, academics, and many others. Strange Victories tells the complicated story of Grove's many literary and political achievements, whose profound influence on American culture endures today.

Falling Back to Find the Future
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Works by Kathryn Burke Petrillo.

Keep the Rumors Alive
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jeff Robinson: metal and glass sculpture
Charles Golden: mixed media wall hangings
Sharon Alama: mixed media jewelry

Crossings
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Crossings" is a multi-faceted outcome of how the work of two artists, Nayda Collazo-Lloréns and Patricia Villalobos Echeverría, relates to each other in terms of location, mapping, identity, memory and multiplicity. "Crossings" is a first-time collaboration, convergence, and juxtaposition of these two artistic practices. The show will present a series of 13 works on paper, and a two-channel video installation titled PLEXUS13NP.

Nayda Collazo-Lloréns: Originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, she is a New York City based artist engaged in a multi-disciplinary practice that includes drawing, print, installation, video, text-based works and public interventions. Through her practice, she examines the way in which we perceive and process information, dealing with concepts of navigation, language and hyper-connectivity.

Patricia Villalobos Echeverría Born in Tennessee to Salvadoran parents and raised in Managua, Nicaragua, Villalobos describes her work as a hybrid. Her print, video and installation work explores how reproducible forms of representation can alter our notions of singularity and the various states of flux that we enter: some physical, others virtual. She a Professor of Art at Western Michigan University.

When We Just Existed
Community Folk Art Center

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

In her exhibit "When We Just Existed," artist Deborah Roberts investigates children's innocence, and how their sense of self is shaped by their environments, as well as the residual effects this may have on adults. In many of her paintings, Roberts uses her prepubescent self as the subject, adding a personal dimension to her pieces that will help you think of your own childhood. In her work, she makes references to the lynching in African American history and the racial tensions that children may experience.

Corporeal Contours
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Corporeal Contours" features the work of two distinguished artists, Firelei Baez and Andrea Chung, each displaying their personal ideas of identity in relation to the world around them. A large part of the exhibition also seeks to expose the hyper-exoticism of tourism companies, while also confronting issues of racial identity in Caribbean and American societies.

The artists each use very personal experiences to create an array of compelling silhouetted forms and prints. For her on-going series Can I Pass (2010), Baez incorporates aspects from her transcultural background to examine the United States' "brown paper bag test" and the Dominican Republic's "fan test." She uses art as a medium to challenge these tests, tracing her outline and painting her skin tone for each day within the form over the course of an entire month. Within her works, Baez is able to explore idealized body types, race, and skin tones within the greater social scheme across both countries.

For her series, Chung analyzes post colonial culture by using old logos and slogans from tourist advertisements, and archival photographs to create her thought-provoking prints. She focuses on race, class, and contemporary society in Jamaica and Trinidad, as well as the exotic identity assumed by tourist companies. Chung is also able to address the increasingly popular skin bleaching practices in Jamaica, exposing a deeper dimension of self image and controversy in her work.

Adam Magyar: Kontinuum
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Hungarian artist Adam Magyar has been receiving international attention with art that explore concept of urban life. Magyar depicts the synergies of people, the cities they inhabit, and the technological support structures created to facilitate urban life. He explores the flow of time and life through multiple photography and video-based series, three of which will be presented in Syracuse.

Magyar uses unconventional devices, like an industrial machine-vision camera that relies on scanning technology. Utilizing software and drivers which he programs himself, Magyar creates constructed images that capture moments in time and place that can neither be seen with the bare eye nor conventional optical cameras. The beautiful images combine the aesthetics of classic photography with a technology that redefines our understanding of linear time and singular space in a perfect blend of science and art. In his works, Magyar scrutinizes the transience of life and man's inherent urge to leave some trace behind.

2013 Student Invitational
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

2013 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Sight Unseen: Stereographs from the OHA Collection, 1850-1930
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Since OHA's inception, it has amassed a collection of over 2,000 stereographs, or stereo views, of Onondaga County and beyond. Archived in the research holdings, these 3-D photographs have never before been exhibited. Guest curator Colleen Woolpert offers an overview of the collection, providing insight into the little known history of stereo photography while taking us back into the past with the aid of exhibition stereoscopes. The exhibit includes Syracuse views taken by local photographers as well as nationally-marketed views, historic stereoscopes, books, and related 3-D ephemera. It also looks at the combined industries of photography, publishing, manufacturing and marketing that contributed to the enormous popularity of the stereograph.

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Onondaga Historical Association presents a new exhibit with a focus on paintings, photos, diary entries and quotes to illustrate the experience of eight veterans who served at Gettysburg in one of the following locally-based regiments. Also included in the exhibit is a three-part framed battlefield map that shows the military maneuvering that took place over the course of three days of fighting, July 1-3, 1863.

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibition, mounted in conjunction with Syracuse Opera's April performances of The Marriage of Figaro, will feature items of a wedding nature from OHA's collection, including wedding dresses, invitations, and even a piece of anniversary cake from 1896.

Within: Cast Resin Sculpture by Arlene Abend
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Artist statement: "The cast resin works of 'Within' represent both mystery and metaphor. The use of clear resin and lost wax surfaces allows me to capture, reflect and diffract light to create a constantly changing vision. The surfaces of the sculpture act as a mirror or prism and offer the contrast of surprise yet familiarity. I find a strong connection between the material and myself. Time disappears. There is a kind of magic that takes place during the act of creating art."

Read a review!

Syracuse VA's Creative Arts Festival
Szozda Gallery

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

Delavan Center and Szozda Gallery are pleased to present a portion of the Syracuse VA's Creative Arts Festival. The key purpose of the Veterans Creative Arts competition and Festival is to recognize Veterans for their creative accomplishments and to educate and demonstrate to communities throughout the country the therapeutic benefits of the arts.

Nationwide, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical facilities use the creative arts as one form of rehabilitative treatment to help Veterans recover from and cope with physical and emotional disabilities. Across the country each year, Veterans treated at VA facilities compete in a local creative arts competition. The competition includes 53 categories in the visual arts division this year that range from oil painting to leatherwork to paint-by-number kits. In addition, there are 120 categories in the performing arts pertaining to all aspects of music, dance, drama and creative writing. A national selection committee chooses first, second and third place winners among all of the entries. Select winners are invited to attend the National Veterans Creative Arts Festival each year.

Join us in honoring the hard work and creativity of some of our area vets!

Oh My! Works by Ken Nichols and Steve Nyland
Szozda Gallery

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

"Zombies and colors and mugs, oh my!"

The March show displays the colorful works of two diversely different styled artists who are new to this space. Ken Nichols' visceral paintings and Steve Nyland's audacious ones contrast intricately to produce "Oh My!"

Of the two artists in this show, Nichols has been at his craft for a much longer time than Nyland, but both share common ground in that they each found renewed voice in painting again after time away. However, in doing so, it is the personal motivation that compels the difference between the two along with their startling unusual styles that are being paired in the same exhibit.

Nyland, the younger artist, took up the palette again after working in various internet related ventures. He says that after "misplacing painting" for awhile, his return to it is like "the science fiction fantasy of a young boy with purple blue hair who just learned to paint again."

Nichols also began painting again after a somewhat long hiatus. And also like Nyland, the return brought with it some form of freed expression, but the similarity between the two ends there. Nichols, being a graphic designer for the last 35 years, calls himself a "Decorative Expressionist" and "paints for the fun of it, not to unburden my soul," he says.

Tea Bowls: A Contemporary Approach
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The tea bowl, with its seemingly inexhaustible form, is beloved by potters and collectors alike. Its intimate scale encourages spontaneity and experimentation. Today's ceramic artists connect to the ancient Japanese tradition of the Tea Ceremony and the countless unknown potters from the past while maintaining their unique aesthetic voice though the creation of the tea bowl. This exhibition represents contemporary voices in clay--from wood-fire to earthenware, traditional to unconventional. "Tea Bowls: A Contemporary Approach," is co-curated by John Jessiman and Jen Gandee.

Strange Tongue
Everson Museum of Art

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

In her first solo exhibition at the Everson, Yvonne Buchanan presents a sound installation entitled Strange Tongue, a contemporary altered version of a well-known American gospel song by Mahalia Jackson. All associations to the lyrics have been excised, leaving a wordless voice, emphasizing the expression of sorrow and hope. The audio track can be accessed by dialing (315) 703-3063 and pressing 13.

American Moderns 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Organized by the Brooklyn Museum, "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell" explores a wide variety of American art from the first half of the 20th century. The exhibition consists of 53 paintings and four sculptures by such prominent artists as Georgia O'Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Milton Avery, Stuart Davis, and Arthur Dove. Drastic social, political and economical changes during this time period challenged artists to define what could be considered "modern" from a wide variety of definitions. From abstraction and cityscapes to realism and nature, these works selected from the Brooklyn Museum's permanent collection offer a new perspective on American modern art.

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Messages of Sisterhood: Works by Favianna Rodríguez
La Casita Cultural Center

Price: Free
La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

A native of Oakland, CA, Favianna Rodriguez is renowned for her vibrant posters about issues of war, immigration, globalization, workers' rights, racism, homophobia, sexism and other contemporary issues. "Messages of Sisterhood" commemorates Women's History Month, focusing on the role of women in the struggles for social justice.

Rodriguez has lectured widely on the use of art in civic engagement and on the work of artists who are bridging the community and museum. Her works appear in collections at Bellas Artes (Mexico City), The Glasgow Print Studio (Glasgow, Scotland) and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Benjamin Faga: Authentic Syracuse
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Emerging artist Benjamin Faga addresses the influence of globalization, technology, and its impact on our global society. Faga often uses a variety of media (photography, installation art, sculpture, public art, video, performance art, writing, and design) while collaborating with local communities. For his installation "Authentic Syracuse," Faga focuses on food as an indicator of cultural diversity and identity. In the vault, Faga will create a market atmosphere with international spices on display, while the main gallery will be made to look and operate like a tourism office center where visitors can read, see, and learn about Syracuse's many offerings as a diverse city that is home to immigrants from around the world.

Wisconsin-born and London-based, Faga studied at the University of Minnesota and received his MA in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art in London, UK. His work was included in national and international group exhibitions, such as "Talk to Me" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and "Pork" at Bermondsey Project Space in London. This is his first solo museum show in the United States.

Industrial and Interaction Design Thesis Projects
XL Projects

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

The work of 17 students in SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts will be on display. The exhibit presents the degree-culminating work of fifth-year thesis students in the Industrial and Interaction Design program in the Department of Design.

The work in this show draws on a spectrum of design practices, from speculative projects that provoke future imagination to projects that critically frame the very idea of making and designing to objects created for mass production. From the experiential to the quantitative, from the academic to the commercial, or from the theoretical to the practical, the work presents us with things that channel our inquisitiveness, curiosity, and optimism about the world.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Steve Nyland: A 21st-Century Painter
bc Restaurant

bc Restaurant
247 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Academic Art ...Teachers That Do
Eureka Crafts
Featuring Jacqueline Adamo, Kevin Mulder

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Opening Reception for "Academic Art...Teachers That Do." Meet local teacher, artist Jacqueline Adamo and her student, artist Kevin Mulder. Jacqueline will be showing her floral oil mono prints and Kevin his mixed media/pen & ink pop art prints.

What Was I Thinking
Petit Branch Library

Petit Branch Library
105 Victoria Pl., Syracuse

Annual multimedia celebration of Women's History Month.

Live Demonstrations and Displays
Syracuse Ceramic Guild

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

Syracuse Ceramic Guild features live wheel throwing demonstrations in the studio and fine ceramic work for sale in the gallery. A variety of fine ceramic pieces from artists all around the Finger Lakes region will be on display for viewing and sale.

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

Visitors should use the Syracuse Ceramic Guild entrance on the Wyoming St. side of the Delavan Center, where free parking is available.

TH3 Artist Open: Syracuse VA's Creative Arts Festival
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Join us for an evening of music, poetry and art. Visual artists, poets and musicians exhibiting in Syracuse VA's Creative Arts Festival will perform and speak about their work in an informal setting.

Yvonne Buchanan: in Court (Basketball)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Yvonne Buchanan's video work creates micro-narratives of the ghostly presence of histories. Individual, family and community experiences of otherness, and the perpetual small and large traumas sustained, is the focus of her recent work. She is particularly interested in the strategies employed to endure these experiences, especially ideas of religiosity and beliefs in the afterlife. Her subject is often the black body as object and symbol, the embodiment of curiosity, and a "dark" and weighty presence. In constructing her work, she frequently uses the loop, in creating a circular story, one that can be read differently, as scenes repeat.

The piece in Court features a basketball court, where the hopes and dreams of young black men are played out, at the same time as it seems to fluctuate between a site for sport and a cage. The projection of the piece at the UVP Everson venue, with its close proximity to the Onondaga County jail, takes on a special and literal resonance with the audible but invisible play of the inmates on the rooftop court of the correctional facility.

Total runtime: 13:22

Dark Girls: The Story of Color, Gender, and Race
Community Folk Art Center

Hergenhan Auditorium, Newhouse 3
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This thought-provoking, poignant film explores the debate regarding colorism within the African American community. Using the honest interviews of women of all different hues, this emotional exposé seeks to gain a deeper understanding of these taboo issues. We will be joined by D. Channsin Berry for a panel discussion about the film and how it has changed the way we look at these aspects of African American culture. The panel will include Syracuse University and Syracuse community experts. (Directed by D. Channsin Berry and Bill Duke)

The Beauty Is Relentless: Duke & Battersby
Urban Video Project

Price: Free
Watson Theater, Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave. (Syracuse University), Syracuse

The literary post-punk short movies of Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby have been tearing up the festival/gallery circuit for the past 15 years with their blend of bedroom pop, perverse animations and hopes for fame. "The Beauty is Relentless: The Short Movies of Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby" is a collection of award-winning scripts, creative writings and critical missives by scholars, video legends and animal experts, including Steve Reinke, Sarah Hollenberg, Akira Lippit, and Tom Sherman.

The artists will present their work in a lecture followed by a catered reception and signing of their new book.

Ted Neeley and The Little Big Band

Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Ted Neeley hits the road again, this time without the robe. Fronting the Little Big Band, Ted takes a musical and story-filled look back at his early days as a pioneer of rock musicals, with selections from Hair, Tommy, Sgt. Pepper's, and of course, Jesus Christ Superstar. Tales untold of the making of the seminal Norman Jewison film can be expected, along with music from Ted's new album, a few surprise covers, and a sneak peek at some upcoming projects. From his roots in Texas to the bright lights of Broadway, come along for the ride!

Tickets can be purchased in person at The Oncenter Box Office, by calling 315-435-2121, or online at www.ticketmaster.com.

Jennifer Holliday
Syracuse University Pulse Performing Arts Series

Price: $20 general; $16 SU faculty/staff/alumni/Pulse partners; $5 students with SU ID.
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Jennifer Holliday is a Tony-award winning actress for her role in the Broadway musical "Dreamgirls."

Tickets available at Schine Box Office. Parking available at Booth and University Ave Garages for $4.

Poetry and Essay Reading
Petit Branch Library

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

Readers will include Zoe Cornwall, Linda Griggs, Martin Willitts, and Lanika Mabry. Open mic following the scheduled readers.

The Music Man, Jr.
Lyncourt School Drama Club

Price: $5 in advance, $6 at the door
Lyncourt School
2707 Court St., Syracuse

Deadly Inheritance
Acme Mystery Company

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

The matriarch of a wealthy family is gravely ill and wishing to settle her estate. First, her long lost younger son must be declared officially dead. That's where the fun begins! Join in as you and the other intensely greedy relatives gather to memorialize "Little Dickie" and battle for position to receive the lion's share of the family's $13 billion fortune. Be careful at this gathering, however, the next memorial could be for you.

A Midsummer Night's Dream
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
William Fennelly, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Prior to tonight's performance, enjoy complimentary appetizers from BitterSweet, half-price drinks, and an art project at Drink n' Design Happy Hour 6:00-7:15 pm.

The Everson Museum of Art is partnering with Syracuse Stage for a fun, mess-free art project in Stage's Sutton Pavilion. Join a staff member from the Everson in making your own flair inspired by the museum's current exhibition, "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell." Happy Hour attendees will have the opportunity to win prizes for their designs, as well as enter for a chance to win free tickets to the American Moderns exhibit.

In Shakespeare's hands, magic and romance and the very midsummer madness make for intoxication, enchantment, and rollicking, frolicking comedy. Get on your mud boots and your donkey ears (is there any character more wonderfully over-the-top than Bottom?) 'cause it's off to the woods with four eager young lovers, a band of hapless rustics, and rival camps of puckish sprites. "All will be well!" Oberon bellows, but it will be a myriad of magical moments and a few hours of laughter before that happens.

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The District Festival: Grey Gardens
Rarely Done Productions

Price: $20 (or $50 for one ticket to all three District Festival shows)
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

What happens when American royalty falls from grace? The hilarious and heartbreaking story of Big Edie and Little Edie Bouvier Beale, the eccentric aunt and cousin of American royalty, Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis. Once the brightest and most popular faces on the social register who become East Hampton's most notorious recluses. Book by Doug Wright; music and lyrics by Scott Frankel and Michael Korie.

Presented as part of The District Festival.

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Friday, March 22, 2013

Windows Project: Rebecca Soderholm: Crescendoe
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Photographer Rebecca Soderholm focuses on Upstate New York, its people and landscape, while capturing a collective human spirit in today's world.

For the Window Projects, "Crescendoe," is titled after one of the many tanneries that produced leather gloves in Johnston, NY, during the first half of the 20th century, nearby where the work for this exhibition was created. Developed as three panels that fit the large Warehouse Gallery windows, Soderholm accentuates the three-dimensionality of a fence, underlines the painterly qualities of a photographed landscape, and reveals her own fascination with the beauty of often forgotten landscapes.

Born in Syracuse, Soderholm received her B.F.A. in Photojournalism from the Rochester Institute of Technology and her M.F.A. in Photography from Yale University, School of Art where she studied with Todd Papageorge and Gregory Crewdson. An Assistant Professor of Photography at Drew University (Madison, New Jersey), Soderholm's most recent exhibition, "Upstate," was shown at 511 Gallery in New York City in the Spring of 2012. She currently lives in Upstate New York and Madison, NJ. This is her first solo museum show.

Through Time and Space: Quilts and Collage by Sharon Bottle Souva

Onondaga County Central Library
The Galleries of Syracuse, 447 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Sharon's work includes elements of the tradition of quilt making while exploring contemporary design.

Natural Vistas, Intimate Views
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Paintings by Karen Burns and photography by David LoParco depict local landscapes.

Past Abstractions: Works by Diana Godfrey

St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

"Past Abstractions" highlights some of the abstract pastel/collages and mixed-media paintings of Diana Godfrey. The artist's colorful, nonrepresentational art has been shown in many galleries and venues in Central New York and the Northeast.

Note that the venue is closed daily 12:00-1:00 pm.

Gallery Exhibit: Vessels Ceremonial and Mundane: Works by David MacDonald
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

This gallery exhibit by celebrated sculptor David MacDonald features several vessel forms of varying sizes, including both intimate and large scale pieces.

Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985 is the first major exhibition on the notorious American publisher Grove Press. Founded by Barney Rosset in 1951, Grove Press became one of the 20th-century's great avant-garde publishing houses. What began as a small independent publisher on Grove Street in New York City's Greenwich Village grew into a multimillion dollar publishing company that has been credited with introducing important authors from around the world to American readers during the postwar period.

Taking its cue from the 1948 film Strange Victory, which Rosset produced in collaboration with left-wing documentary filmmaker Leo Hurwitz after WWII, the exhibition traces the history and evolution of Grove Press, from its role at the center of national censorship trials over the first American editions of Lady Chatterley's Lover and Tropic of Cancer, to its publication of politically-engaged works including The Wretched of the Earth, Red Star over China, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, to its scandalous and very profitable Victorian Library. Each book published by Grove, the exhibition reveals, was in its own way, a "strange victory." For while Grove altered the American literary landscape and its relationship to social mores, equality, and freedom of expression, Grove also aggressively deployed savvy marketing strategies, became embroiled in labor union battles, floundered in its own success, and offended the sensibilities of not only "squares," but feminists, Marxists, academics, and many others. Strange Victories tells the complicated story of Grove's many literary and political achievements, whose profound influence on American culture endures today.

Falling Back to Find the Future
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Works by Kathryn Burke Petrillo.

Keep the Rumors Alive
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jeff Robinson: metal and glass sculpture
Charles Golden: mixed media wall hangings
Sharon Alama: mixed media jewelry

Crossings
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Crossings" is a multi-faceted outcome of how the work of two artists, Nayda Collazo-Lloréns and Patricia Villalobos Echeverría, relates to each other in terms of location, mapping, identity, memory and multiplicity. "Crossings" is a first-time collaboration, convergence, and juxtaposition of these two artistic practices. The show will present a series of 13 works on paper, and a two-channel video installation titled PLEXUS13NP.

Nayda Collazo-Lloréns: Originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, she is a New York City based artist engaged in a multi-disciplinary practice that includes drawing, print, installation, video, text-based works and public interventions. Through her practice, she examines the way in which we perceive and process information, dealing with concepts of navigation, language and hyper-connectivity.

Patricia Villalobos Echeverría Born in Tennessee to Salvadoran parents and raised in Managua, Nicaragua, Villalobos describes her work as a hybrid. Her print, video and installation work explores how reproducible forms of representation can alter our notions of singularity and the various states of flux that we enter: some physical, others virtual. She a Professor of Art at Western Michigan University.

When We Just Existed
Community Folk Art Center

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

In her exhibit "When We Just Existed," artist Deborah Roberts investigates children's innocence, and how their sense of self is shaped by their environments, as well as the residual effects this may have on adults. In many of her paintings, Roberts uses her prepubescent self as the subject, adding a personal dimension to her pieces that will help you think of your own childhood. In her work, she makes references to the lynching in African American history and the racial tensions that children may experience.

Corporeal Contours
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Corporeal Contours" features the work of two distinguished artists, Firelei Baez and Andrea Chung, each displaying their personal ideas of identity in relation to the world around them. A large part of the exhibition also seeks to expose the hyper-exoticism of tourism companies, while also confronting issues of racial identity in Caribbean and American societies.

The artists each use very personal experiences to create an array of compelling silhouetted forms and prints. For her on-going series Can I Pass (2010), Baez incorporates aspects from her transcultural background to examine the United States' "brown paper bag test" and the Dominican Republic's "fan test." She uses art as a medium to challenge these tests, tracing her outline and painting her skin tone for each day within the form over the course of an entire month. Within her works, Baez is able to explore idealized body types, race, and skin tones within the greater social scheme across both countries.

For her series, Chung analyzes post colonial culture by using old logos and slogans from tourist advertisements, and archival photographs to create her thought-provoking prints. She focuses on race, class, and contemporary society in Jamaica and Trinidad, as well as the exotic identity assumed by tourist companies. Chung is also able to address the increasingly popular skin bleaching practices in Jamaica, exposing a deeper dimension of self image and controversy in her work.

2013 Student Invitational
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Adam Magyar: Kontinuum
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Hungarian artist Adam Magyar has been receiving international attention with art that explore concept of urban life. Magyar depicts the synergies of people, the cities they inhabit, and the technological support structures created to facilitate urban life. He explores the flow of time and life through multiple photography and video-based series, three of which will be presented in Syracuse.

Magyar uses unconventional devices, like an industrial machine-vision camera that relies on scanning technology. Utilizing software and drivers which he programs himself, Magyar creates constructed images that capture moments in time and place that can neither be seen with the bare eye nor conventional optical cameras. The beautiful images combine the aesthetics of classic photography with a technology that redefines our understanding of linear time and singular space in a perfect blend of science and art. In his works, Magyar scrutinizes the transience of life and man's inherent urge to leave some trace behind.

2013 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Sight Unseen: Stereographs from the OHA Collection, 1850-1930
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Since OHA's inception, it has amassed a collection of over 2,000 stereographs, or stereo views, of Onondaga County and beyond. Archived in the research holdings, these 3-D photographs have never before been exhibited. Guest curator Colleen Woolpert offers an overview of the collection, providing insight into the little known history of stereo photography while taking us back into the past with the aid of exhibition stereoscopes. The exhibit includes Syracuse views taken by local photographers as well as nationally-marketed views, historic stereoscopes, books, and related 3-D ephemera. It also looks at the combined industries of photography, publishing, manufacturing and marketing that contributed to the enormous popularity of the stereograph.

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibition, mounted in conjunction with Syracuse Opera's April performances of The Marriage of Figaro, will feature items of a wedding nature from OHA's collection, including wedding dresses, invitations, and even a piece of anniversary cake from 1896.

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Onondaga Historical Association presents a new exhibit with a focus on paintings, photos, diary entries and quotes to illustrate the experience of eight veterans who served at Gettysburg in one of the following locally-based regiments. Also included in the exhibit is a three-part framed battlefield map that shows the military maneuvering that took place over the course of three days of fighting, July 1-3, 1863.

Within: Cast Resin Sculpture by Arlene Abend
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Artist statement: "The cast resin works of 'Within' represent both mystery and metaphor. The use of clear resin and lost wax surfaces allows me to capture, reflect and diffract light to create a constantly changing vision. The surfaces of the sculpture act as a mirror or prism and offer the contrast of surprise yet familiarity. I find a strong connection between the material and myself. Time disappears. There is a kind of magic that takes place during the act of creating art."

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Oh My! Works by Ken Nichols and Steve Nyland
Szozda Gallery

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

"Zombies and colors and mugs, oh my!"

The March show displays the colorful works of two diversely different styled artists who are new to this space. Ken Nichols' visceral paintings and Steve Nyland's audacious ones contrast intricately to produce "Oh My!"

Of the two artists in this show, Nichols has been at his craft for a much longer time than Nyland, but both share common ground in that they each found renewed voice in painting again after time away. However, in doing so, it is the personal motivation that compels the difference between the two along with their startling unusual styles that are being paired in the same exhibit.

Nyland, the younger artist, took up the palette again after working in various internet related ventures. He says that after "misplacing painting" for awhile, his return to it is like "the science fiction fantasy of a young boy with purple blue hair who just learned to paint again."

Nichols also began painting again after a somewhat long hiatus. And also like Nyland, the return brought with it some form of freed expression, but the similarity between the two ends there. Nichols, being a graphic designer for the last 35 years, calls himself a "Decorative Expressionist" and "paints for the fun of it, not to unburden my soul," he says.

Syracuse VA's Creative Arts Festival
Szozda Gallery

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

Delavan Center and Szozda Gallery are pleased to present a portion of the Syracuse VA's Creative Arts Festival. The key purpose of the Veterans Creative Arts competition and Festival is to recognize Veterans for their creative accomplishments and to educate and demonstrate to communities throughout the country the therapeutic benefits of the arts.

Nationwide, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical facilities use the creative arts as one form of rehabilitative treatment to help Veterans recover from and cope with physical and emotional disabilities. Across the country each year, Veterans treated at VA facilities compete in a local creative arts competition. The competition includes 53 categories in the visual arts division this year that range from oil painting to leatherwork to paint-by-number kits. In addition, there are 120 categories in the performing arts pertaining to all aspects of music, dance, drama and creative writing. A national selection committee chooses first, second and third place winners among all of the entries. Select winners are invited to attend the National Veterans Creative Arts Festival each year.

Join us in honoring the hard work and creativity of some of our area vets!

Tea Bowls: A Contemporary Approach
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The tea bowl, with its seemingly inexhaustible form, is beloved by potters and collectors alike. Its intimate scale encourages spontaneity and experimentation. Today's ceramic artists connect to the ancient Japanese tradition of the Tea Ceremony and the countless unknown potters from the past while maintaining their unique aesthetic voice though the creation of the tea bowl. This exhibition represents contemporary voices in clay--from wood-fire to earthenware, traditional to unconventional. "Tea Bowls: A Contemporary Approach," is co-curated by John Jessiman and Jen Gandee.

American Moderns 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Organized by the Brooklyn Museum, "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell" explores a wide variety of American art from the first half of the 20th century. The exhibition consists of 53 paintings and four sculptures by such prominent artists as Georgia O'Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Milton Avery, Stuart Davis, and Arthur Dove. Drastic social, political and economical changes during this time period challenged artists to define what could be considered "modern" from a wide variety of definitions. From abstraction and cityscapes to realism and nature, these works selected from the Brooklyn Museum's permanent collection offer a new perspective on American modern art.

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Strange Tongue
Everson Museum of Art

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

In her first solo exhibition at the Everson, Yvonne Buchanan presents a sound installation entitled Strange Tongue, a contemporary altered version of a well-known American gospel song by Mahalia Jackson. All associations to the lyrics have been excised, leaving a wordless voice, emphasizing the expression of sorrow and hope. The audio track can be accessed by dialing (315) 703-3063 and pressing 13.

Messages of Sisterhood: Works by Favianna Rodríguez
La Casita Cultural Center

Price: Free
La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

A native of Oakland, CA, Favianna Rodriguez is renowned for her vibrant posters about issues of war, immigration, globalization, workers' rights, racism, homophobia, sexism and other contemporary issues. "Messages of Sisterhood" commemorates Women's History Month, focusing on the role of women in the struggles for social justice.

Rodriguez has lectured widely on the use of art in civic engagement and on the work of artists who are bridging the community and museum. Her works appear in collections at Bellas Artes (Mexico City), The Glasgow Print Studio (Glasgow, Scotland) and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Benjamin Faga: Authentic Syracuse
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Emerging artist Benjamin Faga addresses the influence of globalization, technology, and its impact on our global society. Faga often uses a variety of media (photography, installation art, sculpture, public art, video, performance art, writing, and design) while collaborating with local communities. For his installation "Authentic Syracuse," Faga focuses on food as an indicator of cultural diversity and identity. In the vault, Faga will create a market atmosphere with international spices on display, while the main gallery will be made to look and operate like a tourism office center where visitors can read, see, and learn about Syracuse's many offerings as a diverse city that is home to immigrants from around the world.

Wisconsin-born and London-based, Faga studied at the University of Minnesota and received his MA in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art in London, UK. His work was included in national and international group exhibitions, such as "Talk to Me" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and "Pork" at Bermondsey Project Space in London. This is his first solo museum show in the United States.

Industrial and Interaction Design Thesis Projects
XL Projects

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

The work of 17 students in SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts will be on display. The exhibit presents the degree-culminating work of fifth-year thesis students in the Industrial and Interaction Design program in the Department of Design.

The work in this show draws on a spectrum of design practices, from speculative projects that provoke future imagination to projects that critically frame the very idea of making and designing to objects created for mass production. From the experiential to the quantitative, from the academic to the commercial, or from the theoretical to the practical, the work presents us with things that channel our inquisitiveness, curiosity, and optimism about the world.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Yvonne Buchanan: in Court (Basketball)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Yvonne Buchanan's video work creates micro-narratives of the ghostly presence of histories. Individual, family and community experiences of otherness, and the perpetual small and large traumas sustained, is the focus of her recent work. She is particularly interested in the strategies employed to endure these experiences, especially ideas of religiosity and beliefs in the afterlife. Her subject is often the black body as object and symbol, the embodiment of curiosity, and a "dark" and weighty presence. In constructing her work, she frequently uses the loop, in creating a circular story, one that can be read differently, as scenes repeat.

The piece in Court features a basketball court, where the hopes and dreams of young black men are played out, at the same time as it seems to fluctuate between a site for sport and a cage. The projection of the piece at the UVP Everson venue, with its close proximity to the Onondaga County jail, takes on a special and literal resonance with the audible but invisible play of the inmates on the rooftop court of the correctional facility.

Total runtime: 13:22

Jazz@Sitrus
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Michael and Anjela Lynn

Price: Free
Sitrus on the Hill
Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel, Syracuse

Woodworks, with The Collective; Go Down, Moses
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Senior Percussion Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Jared Bloch, percussion

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

Chris Crockarell Brooms Hilda
Elliot Carter "Canaries" from Eight Pieces for Four Timpani
David Amram Native American Portraits
Susan Powell Carpe Diem
Ney Rosauro Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra
Leroy Anderson Fiddle Faddle

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. Additional parking is available in Irving Garage. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Open Mic
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Author Rebecca Stott, scheduled to appear tonight, has had to postpone her trip to the States. In her absence, we will hold an open mic reading! Bring a poem, excerpt from a story or essay, song, whatever you like, as long as you can read/perform it in 3 minutes or less.

The Music Man, Jr.
Lyncourt School Drama Club

Price: $5 in advance, $6 at the door
Lyncourt School
2707 Court St., Syracuse

Buy One, Get Death Free
Central New York Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

Price: $10
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

This interactive murder mystery, written by our own Greg J. Hipius, will star 10 actors, and of course all of you.

Suddenly, Last Summer
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

Tennessee Williams' drama ricochets through a New Orleans family after the mysterious death of a son traveling in Europe.

Catharine Holly, a poor relation of a prominent New Orleans family, seems to be insane after her cousin Sebastian dies under mysterious circumstances while on a trip to Europe.

Sebastian's mother, Violet Venable, trying to cloud the truth about her son's death, threatens to lobotomize Catharine for her incoherent utterances relating to Sebastian's demise. Under the influence of a truth serum, Catharine tells the gruesome story of Sebastian's death at the hands of local boys.

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The District Festival: The Full Monty
Redhouse

Price: $20 (or $50 for one ticket to all three District Festival shows)
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

A group of unemployed steel workers are frustrated with life, women, and work, so they decide to become the sexiest Chippendale strippers Buffalo has ever seen. Be sure not to miss this incredibly catchy pop score and one hysterical journey featuring some of the most loveable characters you will ever meet! Book by Terrance McNally; music and lyrics by David Yazbek.

Presented as part of The District Festival.

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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
William Fennelly, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In Shakespeare's hands, magic and romance and the very midsummer madness make for intoxication, enchantment, and rollicking, frolicking comedy. Get on your mud boots and your donkey ears (is there any character more wonderfully over-the-top than Bottom?) 'cause it's off to the woods with four eager young lovers, a band of hapless rustics, and rival camps of puckish sprites. "All will be well!" Oberon bellows, but it will be a myriad of magical moments and a few hours of laughter before that happens.

Read a Review!

Saturday, March 23, 2013

Windows Project: Rebecca Soderholm: Crescendoe
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Photographer Rebecca Soderholm focuses on Upstate New York, its people and landscape, while capturing a collective human spirit in today's world.

For the Window Projects, "Crescendoe," is titled after one of the many tanneries that produced leather gloves in Johnston, NY, during the first half of the 20th century, nearby where the work for this exhibition was created. Developed as three panels that fit the large Warehouse Gallery windows, Soderholm accentuates the three-dimensionality of a fence, underlines the painterly qualities of a photographed landscape, and reveals her own fascination with the beauty of often forgotten landscapes.

Born in Syracuse, Soderholm received her B.F.A. in Photojournalism from the Rochester Institute of Technology and her M.F.A. in Photography from Yale University, School of Art where she studied with Todd Papageorge and Gregory Crewdson. An Assistant Professor of Photography at Drew University (Madison, New Jersey), Soderholm's most recent exhibition, "Upstate," was shown at 511 Gallery in New York City in the Spring of 2012. She currently lives in Upstate New York and Madison, NJ. This is her first solo museum show.

Tamil Pasanga (The Local Kids)
601 Tully

Price: Free
601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Krithika Sathyamurthy's art practice has been shaped by her South Indian heritage and experiences of growing up as a 21st century immigrant in the United States. As she adapted to Western culture, Sathyamurthy parted with many of the Indian values and traditions she held onto when she was younger. In her work, she addresses the internal conflicts of being an immigrant and also focuses on how Western culture has influenced the way she views important issues of 21st century India. As Sathyamurthy re-investigates her roots, her paintings reflect how her thoughts on India's political, social, and educational agenda is deeply influenced by her experiences as an immigrant and a female citizen of America.

"Tamil Pasanga" (The Local Kids) is a series of paintings that reveal several points of rupture as she reflects on the flawed Indian educational system. Having studied in the U.S., she understands that the existing education system in India poses a threat to its goals of achieving inclusive growth. In "Tamil Pasanga," elements of surface, repetition of ghosted figures, and haunting atmosphere, help create moments of hostility, as well as moments of vulnerability through the viscosity of the paint.

Through Time and Space: Quilts and Collage by Sharon Bottle Souva

Onondaga County Central Library
The Galleries of Syracuse, 447 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Sharon's work includes elements of the tradition of quilt making while exploring contemporary design.

Natural Vistas, Intimate Views
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Paintings by Karen Burns and photography by David LoParco depict local landscapes.

Keep the Rumors Alive
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jeff Robinson: metal and glass sculpture
Charles Golden: mixed media wall hangings
Sharon Alama: mixed media jewelry

Strange Tongue
Everson Museum of Art

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

In her first solo exhibition at the Everson, Yvonne Buchanan presents a sound installation entitled Strange Tongue, a contemporary altered version of a well-known American gospel song by Mahalia Jackson. All associations to the lyrics have been excised, leaving a wordless voice, emphasizing the expression of sorrow and hope. The audio track can be accessed by dialing (315) 703-3063 and pressing 13.

American Moderns 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Organized by the Brooklyn Museum, "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell" explores a wide variety of American art from the first half of the 20th century. The exhibition consists of 53 paintings and four sculptures by such prominent artists as Georgia O'Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Milton Avery, Stuart Davis, and Arthur Dove. Drastic social, political and economical changes during this time period challenged artists to define what could be considered "modern" from a wide variety of definitions. From abstraction and cityscapes to realism and nature, these works selected from the Brooklyn Museum's permanent collection offer a new perspective on American modern art.

Read a review!

Oh My! Works by Ken Nichols and Steve Nyland
Szozda Gallery

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

"Zombies and colors and mugs, oh my!"

The March show displays the colorful works of two diversely different styled artists who are new to this space. Ken Nichols' visceral paintings and Steve Nyland's audacious ones contrast intricately to produce "Oh My!"

Of the two artists in this show, Nichols has been at his craft for a much longer time than Nyland, but both share common ground in that they each found renewed voice in painting again after time away. However, in doing so, it is the personal motivation that compels the difference between the two along with their startling unusual styles that are being paired in the same exhibit.

Nyland, the younger artist, took up the palette again after working in various internet related ventures. He says that after "misplacing painting" for awhile, his return to it is like "the science fiction fantasy of a young boy with purple blue hair who just learned to paint again."

Nichols also began painting again after a somewhat long hiatus. And also like Nyland, the return brought with it some form of freed expression, but the similarity between the two ends there. Nichols, being a graphic designer for the last 35 years, calls himself a "Decorative Expressionist" and "paints for the fun of it, not to unburden my soul," he says.

Syracuse VA's Creative Arts Festival
Szozda Gallery

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

Delavan Center and Szozda Gallery are pleased to present a portion of the Syracuse VA's Creative Arts Festival. The key purpose of the Veterans Creative Arts competition and Festival is to recognize Veterans for their creative accomplishments and to educate and demonstrate to communities throughout the country the therapeutic benefits of the arts.

Nationwide, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical facilities use the creative arts as one form of rehabilitative treatment to help Veterans recover from and cope with physical and emotional disabilities. Across the country each year, Veterans treated at VA facilities compete in a local creative arts competition. The competition includes 53 categories in the visual arts division this year that range from oil painting to leatherwork to paint-by-number kits. In addition, there are 120 categories in the performing arts pertaining to all aspects of music, dance, drama and creative writing. A national selection committee chooses first, second and third place winners among all of the entries. Select winners are invited to attend the National Veterans Creative Arts Festival each year.

Join us in honoring the hard work and creativity of some of our area vets!

Corporeal Contours
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Corporeal Contours" features the work of two distinguished artists, Firelei Baez and Andrea Chung, each displaying their personal ideas of identity in relation to the world around them. A large part of the exhibition also seeks to expose the hyper-exoticism of tourism companies, while also confronting issues of racial identity in Caribbean and American societies.

The artists each use very personal experiences to create an array of compelling silhouetted forms and prints. For her on-going series Can I Pass (2010), Baez incorporates aspects from her transcultural background to examine the United States' "brown paper bag test" and the Dominican Republic's "fan test." She uses art as a medium to challenge these tests, tracing her outline and painting her skin tone for each day within the form over the course of an entire month. Within her works, Baez is able to explore idealized body types, race, and skin tones within the greater social scheme across both countries.

For her series, Chung analyzes post colonial culture by using old logos and slogans from tourist advertisements, and archival photographs to create her thought-provoking prints. She focuses on race, class, and contemporary society in Jamaica and Trinidad, as well as the exotic identity assumed by tourist companies. Chung is also able to address the increasingly popular skin bleaching practices in Jamaica, exposing a deeper dimension of self image and controversy in her work.

When We Just Existed
Community Folk Art Center

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

In her exhibit "When We Just Existed," artist Deborah Roberts investigates children's innocence, and how their sense of self is shaped by their environments, as well as the residual effects this may have on adults. In many of her paintings, Roberts uses her prepubescent self as the subject, adding a personal dimension to her pieces that will help you think of your own childhood. In her work, she makes references to the lynching in African American history and the racial tensions that children may experience.

Tea Bowls: A Contemporary Approach
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The tea bowl, with its seemingly inexhaustible form, is beloved by potters and collectors alike. Its intimate scale encourages spontaneity and experimentation. Today's ceramic artists connect to the ancient Japanese tradition of the Tea Ceremony and the countless unknown potters from the past while maintaining their unique aesthetic voice though the creation of the tea bowl. This exhibition represents contemporary voices in clay--from wood-fire to earthenware, traditional to unconventional. "Tea Bowls: A Contemporary Approach," is co-curated by John Jessiman and Jen Gandee.

Sight Unseen: Stereographs from the OHA Collection, 1850-1930
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Since OHA's inception, it has amassed a collection of over 2,000 stereographs, or stereo views, of Onondaga County and beyond. Archived in the research holdings, these 3-D photographs have never before been exhibited. Guest curator Colleen Woolpert offers an overview of the collection, providing insight into the little known history of stereo photography while taking us back into the past with the aid of exhibition stereoscopes. The exhibit includes Syracuse views taken by local photographers as well as nationally-marketed views, historic stereoscopes, books, and related 3-D ephemera. It also looks at the combined industries of photography, publishing, manufacturing and marketing that contributed to the enormous popularity of the stereograph.

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Onondaga Historical Association presents a new exhibit with a focus on paintings, photos, diary entries and quotes to illustrate the experience of eight veterans who served at Gettysburg in one of the following locally-based regiments. Also included in the exhibit is a three-part framed battlefield map that shows the military maneuvering that took place over the course of three days of fighting, July 1-3, 1863.

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibition, mounted in conjunction with Syracuse Opera's April performances of The Marriage of Figaro, will feature items of a wedding nature from OHA's collection, including wedding dresses, invitations, and even a piece of anniversary cake from 1896.

Benjamin Faga: Authentic Syracuse
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Emerging artist Benjamin Faga addresses the influence of globalization, technology, and its impact on our global society. Faga often uses a variety of media (photography, installation art, sculpture, public art, video, performance art, writing, and design) while collaborating with local communities. For his installation "Authentic Syracuse," Faga focuses on food as an indicator of cultural diversity and identity. In the vault, Faga will create a market atmosphere with international spices on display, while the main gallery will be made to look and operate like a tourism office center where visitors can read, see, and learn about Syracuse's many offerings as a diverse city that is home to immigrants from around the world.

Wisconsin-born and London-based, Faga studied at the University of Minnesota and received his MA in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art in London, UK. His work was included in national and international group exhibitions, such as "Talk to Me" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and "Pork" at Bermondsey Project Space in London. This is his first solo museum show in the United States.

Industrial and Interaction Design Thesis Projects
XL Projects

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

There will be a closing reception this afternoon 3:30-5:30 pm.

The work of 17 students in SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts will be on display. The exhibit presents the degree-culminating work of fifth-year thesis students in the Industrial and Interaction Design program in the Department of Design.

The work in this show draws on a spectrum of design practices, from speculative projects that provoke future imagination to projects that critically frame the very idea of making and designing to objects created for mass production. From the experiential to the quantitative, from the academic to the commercial, or from the theoretical to the practical, the work presents us with things that channel our inquisitiveness, curiosity, and optimism about the world.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Opening: Rationalize & Perpetuate: Video Installation by Sandra Stephens
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

There will be an opening reception this evening 7:00-9:00 pm.

Sandra Stephens' work takes an in-depth look at how culture and those around us contribute to our construction of identities. Pieces will look at race, class, gender and sexuality. She will explore the influence of war on simplifying the view of the "other", visual culture and its effects on identity, and how these both affect the lives and identities of children. Her work will also touch on stereotyping, with newer and older work that takes different approaches. She is interested in how and why we stereotype, and in how stereotyping contributes to historic and current-day events. Employing technologies of interactivity and projection, the pieces will pull the viewer in and play with perceptions of the projected image and its blurred relationship to reality. Although the work will touch on disturbing themes, hope will also be expressed through the innocence of children, who are shown to be in many ways much more enlightened than adults.

Yvonne Buchanan: in Court (Basketball)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Yvonne Buchanan's video work creates micro-narratives of the ghostly presence of histories. Individual, family and community experiences of otherness, and the perpetual small and large traumas sustained, is the focus of her recent work. She is particularly interested in the strategies employed to endure these experiences, especially ideas of religiosity and beliefs in the afterlife. Her subject is often the black body as object and symbol, the embodiment of curiosity, and a "dark" and weighty presence. In constructing her work, she frequently uses the loop, in creating a circular story, one that can be read differently, as scenes repeat.

The piece in Court features a basketball court, where the hopes and dreams of young black men are played out, at the same time as it seems to fluctuate between a site for sport and a cage. The projection of the piece at the UVP Everson venue, with its close proximity to the Onondaga County jail, takes on a special and literal resonance with the audible but invisible play of the inmates on the rooftop court of the correctional facility.

Total runtime: 13:22

Improv Comedy Night
Don't Feed the Actors

Price: $20 dinner and show, $10 show only
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

The performance will be preceded by dinner at 6:30 pm.

DFtA specializes in audience interactive improv and is one of the longest-running improv troupes in Central New York. Having toured all over the area, their large stable of theatrically trained actors rotate in and out of each show, ensuring a unique experience each time. Come enjoy an evening of improv in the style of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" and Drew Carey's "Improvaganza."

Our "Game Show" Show
Salt City Improv Theater

Price: $5
Salt City Improv Theatre
Shoppingtown Mall, Sears Wing, Dewitt

This month, we pay homage to that great American institution -- the TV game show. Lets face it: we all love to watch other humans degrade themselves publicly for buckets of cash and fabulous prizes. The Game Show provides us with the sophisticated pageantry of the Roman Colosseum coupled with the intellectual stimulation of a Honey Boo Boo marathon.  We might actually play a game show-type game as part of our show -- sort of a show within a show (think of it as the Russian nesting dolls of comedy!)  Who knows, someone may win something fun (likely) or really valuable (highly unlikely).

So...Come On Down!...for a hilarious night of improv comedy with the SCiT house team, Pork Pie Hat (short-form improv in the style of the hit TV show, Whose Line Is It, Anyway.)  The Price Is Right!

Joanne Perry and The Unstoppables
Steeple Coffeehouse

Price: $7 in advance, $10 at the door
Fayetteville United Church
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

Admission includes beverage and dessert.

For more information, phone 315-663-7415.

Women's Choir Invitational: A celebration of 125 Years of Women in Song at SU
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

The Syracuse University Women's Choir presents their annual Women's Choir Invitational and Choral Festival. The SU Women's Choir will be joined by the Women's Choir of the College of William and Mary from Williamsburg, VA. The choirs will join together to sing Amani, A Song For Peace, by Jim Papoulis.

This year's Women's Choir presentations are in celebration of 125 Years of Women in Song at Syracuse University. Dr. Jamie Barlett conducts the Women's Choir of the College of William and Mary. Dr. Barbara Tagg is the artistic director for the Invitational, and is the conductor of the SU Women's Choir.

The College of William and Mary Women's Choir
Repertoire to be selected from the following:
Matthew Levine Son of Spirit
Eleanor Daley Ubi Caritas
Maurice Duruflé Tota Pulchra es
arr. Nina Gilbert Artsa Alinu
Greg Gilpin Nothing Gonna Stumble My Feet
Alessandro Grandi Hodie Nobis de Caelo
Brian Hulse Songs of Mind (2012)
arr. Philip Lawson Danny Boy
György Orbán Fülemüle
Aulis Sallinen Songs from the Sea, Op. 33
Franz Schubert Trinklied am Mai

The Syracuse University Women's Choir
Johannes Brahms Ave Maria
Jocelyn Hagen Joy
David N. Johnson The Lone Wild Bird
Kala Pierson The Turning Earth
Don Raye and Hugie Prince Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy

Combined Choirs
Jim Papoulis Amani (A Song for Peace)

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. Additional parking is available in Irving Garage. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Jimkata, with Aqueous, Steep
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Beauty and the Beast
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the children's classic.

The District Festival: I Remember Mama
Appleseed Productions

Price: $20 (or $50 for one ticket to all three District Festival shows)
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Some stories are timeless. Based on the fictionalized memoir Mama's Bank Account, by Kathryn Forbes, a loving family of Norwegian immigrants carves out a life on Steiner Street in San Francisco during the 1910s. The story, written by John Van Druten, depicts many locales around the city and is populated by more than 20 characters. The first production opened on Broadway in 1944 and was produced by Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein. A feature film followed in 1948, along with a musical adaptation and a long-running TV series during the 1950s. Appleseed Productions first staged "...Mama" in 1997, at the John H. Mulroy Civic Center. The 2013 Festival production includes four actors from the original cast, and kicks-off the company's celebration of its 20th anniversary year.

Presented as part of The District Festival.

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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
William Fennelly, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In Shakespeare's hands, magic and romance and the very midsummer madness make for intoxication, enchantment, and rollicking, frolicking comedy. Get on your mud boots and your donkey ears (is there any character more wonderfully over-the-top than Bottom?) 'cause it's off to the woods with four eager young lovers, a band of hapless rustics, and rival camps of puckish sprites. "All will be well!" Oberon bellows, but it will be a myriad of magical moments and a few hours of laughter before that happens.

Read a Review!

Suddenly, Last Summer
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

Tennessee Williams' drama ricochets through a New Orleans family after the mysterious death of a son traveling in Europe.

Catharine Holly, a poor relation of a prominent New Orleans family, seems to be insane after her cousin Sebastian dies under mysterious circumstances while on a trip to Europe.

Sebastian's mother, Violet Venable, trying to cloud the truth about her son's death, threatens to lobotomize Catharine for her incoherent utterances relating to Sebastian's demise. Under the influence of a truth serum, Catharine tells the gruesome story of Sebastian's death at the hands of local boys.

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The District Festival: Grey Gardens
Rarely Done Productions

Price: $20 (or $50 for one ticket to all three District Festival shows)
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

What happens when American royalty falls from grace? The hilarious and heartbreaking story of Big Edie and Little Edie Bouvier Beale, the eccentric aunt and cousin of American royalty, Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis. Once the brightest and most popular faces on the social register who become East Hampton's most notorious recluses. Book by Doug Wright; music and lyrics by Scott Frankel and Michael Korie.

Presented as part of The District Festival.

Read a Review!

A Midsummer Night's Dream
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
William Fennelly, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In Shakespeare's hands, magic and romance and the very midsummer madness make for intoxication, enchantment, and rollicking, frolicking comedy. Get on your mud boots and your donkey ears (is there any character more wonderfully over-the-top than Bottom?) 'cause it's off to the woods with four eager young lovers, a band of hapless rustics, and rival camps of puckish sprites. "All will be well!" Oberon bellows, but it will be a myriad of magical moments and a few hours of laughter before that happens.

Read a Review!

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Windows Project: Rebecca Soderholm: Crescendoe
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Photographer Rebecca Soderholm focuses on Upstate New York, its people and landscape, while capturing a collective human spirit in today's world.

For the Window Projects, "Crescendoe," is titled after one of the many tanneries that produced leather gloves in Johnston, NY, during the first half of the 20th century, nearby where the work for this exhibition was created. Developed as three panels that fit the large Warehouse Gallery windows, Soderholm accentuates the three-dimensionality of a fence, underlines the painterly qualities of a photographed landscape, and reveals her own fascination with the beauty of often forgotten landscapes.

Born in Syracuse, Soderholm received her B.F.A. in Photojournalism from the Rochester Institute of Technology and her M.F.A. in Photography from Yale University, School of Art where she studied with Todd Papageorge and Gregory Crewdson. An Assistant Professor of Photography at Drew University (Madison, New Jersey), Soderholm's most recent exhibition, "Upstate," was shown at 511 Gallery in New York City in the Spring of 2012. She currently lives in Upstate New York and Madison, NJ. This is her first solo museum show.

Tamil Pasanga (The Local Kids)
601 Tully

Price: Free
601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Krithika Sathyamurthy's art practice has been shaped by her South Indian heritage and experiences of growing up as a 21st century immigrant in the United States. As she adapted to Western culture, Sathyamurthy parted with many of the Indian values and traditions she held onto when she was younger. In her work, she addresses the internal conflicts of being an immigrant and also focuses on how Western culture has influenced the way she views important issues of 21st century India. As Sathyamurthy re-investigates her roots, her paintings reflect how her thoughts on India's political, social, and educational agenda is deeply influenced by her experiences as an immigrant and a female citizen of America.

"Tamil Pasanga" (The Local Kids) is a series of paintings that reveal several points of rupture as she reflects on the flawed Indian educational system. Having studied in the U.S., she understands that the existing education system in India poses a threat to its goals of achieving inclusive growth. In "Tamil Pasanga," elements of surface, repetition of ghosted figures, and haunting atmosphere, help create moments of hostility, as well as moments of vulnerability through the viscosity of the paint.

American Moderns 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

To celebrate the inaugural Syracuse Half Marathon, the Everson will open its doors early today. Are you running? Show your race bib to receive 20% off adult admission to "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell" through March 31.

Organized by the Brooklyn Museum, "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell" explores a wide variety of American art from the first half of the 20th century. The exhibition consists of 53 paintings and four sculptures by such prominent artists as Georgia O'Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Milton Avery, Stuart Davis, and Arthur Dove. Drastic social, political and economical changes during this time period challenged artists to define what could be considered "modern" from a wide variety of definitions. From abstraction and cityscapes to realism and nature, these works selected from the Brooklyn Museum's permanent collection offer a new perspective on American modern art.

Read a review!

2013 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

2013 Student Invitational
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Oh My! Works by Ken Nichols and Steve Nyland
Szozda Gallery

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

"Zombies and colors and mugs, oh my!"

The March show displays the colorful works of two diversely different styled artists who are new to this space. Ken Nichols' visceral paintings and Steve Nyland's audacious ones contrast intricately to produce "Oh My!"

Of the two artists in this show, Nichols has been at his craft for a much longer time than Nyland, but both share common ground in that they each found renewed voice in painting again after time away. However, in doing so, it is the personal motivation that compels the difference between the two along with their startling unusual styles that are being paired in the same exhibit.

Nyland, the younger artist, took up the palette again after working in various internet related ventures. He says that after "misplacing painting" for awhile, his return to it is like "the science fiction fantasy of a young boy with purple blue hair who just learned to paint again."

Nichols also began painting again after a somewhat long hiatus. And also like Nyland, the return brought with it some form of freed expression, but the similarity between the two ends there. Nichols, being a graphic designer for the last 35 years, calls himself a "Decorative Expressionist" and "paints for the fun of it, not to unburden my soul," he says.

Syracuse VA's Creative Arts Festival
Szozda Gallery

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

Delavan Center and Szozda Gallery are pleased to present a portion of the Syracuse VA's Creative Arts Festival. The key purpose of the Veterans Creative Arts competition and Festival is to recognize Veterans for their creative accomplishments and to educate and demonstrate to communities throughout the country the therapeutic benefits of the arts.

Nationwide, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical facilities use the creative arts as one form of rehabilitative treatment to help Veterans recover from and cope with physical and emotional disabilities. Across the country each year, Veterans treated at VA facilities compete in a local creative arts competition. The competition includes 53 categories in the visual arts division this year that range from oil painting to leatherwork to paint-by-number kits. In addition, there are 120 categories in the performing arts pertaining to all aspects of music, dance, drama and creative writing. A national selection committee chooses first, second and third place winners among all of the entries. Select winners are invited to attend the National Veterans Creative Arts Festival each year.

Join us in honoring the hard work and creativity of some of our area vets!

Tea Bowls: A Contemporary Approach
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The tea bowl, with its seemingly inexhaustible form, is beloved by potters and collectors alike. Its intimate scale encourages spontaneity and experimentation. Today's ceramic artists connect to the ancient Japanese tradition of the Tea Ceremony and the countless unknown potters from the past while maintaining their unique aesthetic voice though the creation of the tea bowl. This exhibition represents contemporary voices in clay--from wood-fire to earthenware, traditional to unconventional. "Tea Bowls: A Contemporary Approach," is co-curated by John Jessiman and Jen Gandee.

Sight Unseen: Stereographs from the OHA Collection, 1850-1930
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Since OHA's inception, it has amassed a collection of over 2,000 stereographs, or stereo views, of Onondaga County and beyond. Archived in the research holdings, these 3-D photographs have never before been exhibited. Guest curator Colleen Woolpert offers an overview of the collection, providing insight into the little known history of stereo photography while taking us back into the past with the aid of exhibition stereoscopes. The exhibit includes Syracuse views taken by local photographers as well as nationally-marketed views, historic stereoscopes, books, and related 3-D ephemera. It also looks at the combined industries of photography, publishing, manufacturing and marketing that contributed to the enormous popularity of the stereograph.

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibition, mounted in conjunction with Syracuse Opera's April performances of The Marriage of Figaro, will feature items of a wedding nature from OHA's collection, including wedding dresses, invitations, and even a piece of anniversary cake from 1896.

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Onondaga Historical Association presents a new exhibit with a focus on paintings, photos, diary entries and quotes to illustrate the experience of eight veterans who served at Gettysburg in one of the following locally-based regiments. Also included in the exhibit is a three-part framed battlefield map that shows the military maneuvering that took place over the course of three days of fighting, July 1-3, 1863.

Strange Tongue
Everson Museum of Art

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

In her first solo exhibition at the Everson, Yvonne Buchanan presents a sound installation entitled Strange Tongue, a contemporary altered version of a well-known American gospel song by Mahalia Jackson. All associations to the lyrics have been excised, leaving a wordless voice, emphasizing the expression of sorrow and hope. The audio track can be accessed by dialing (315) 703-3063 and pressing 13.

Industrial and Interaction Design Thesis Projects
XL Projects

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

The work of 17 students in SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts will be on display. The exhibit presents the degree-culminating work of fifth-year thesis students in the Industrial and Interaction Design program in the Department of Design.

The work in this show draws on a spectrum of design practices, from speculative projects that provoke future imagination to projects that critically frame the very idea of making and designing to objects created for mass production. From the experiential to the quantitative, from the academic to the commercial, or from the theoretical to the practical, the work presents us with things that channel our inquisitiveness, curiosity, and optimism about the world.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Junior Flute Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Erica Hughes, flute

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

Katherine Hoover Kokopeli
Charles Griffes Poem
Philippe Gaubert "Soir dAutomne" from 3 Aquarelles for flute, cello, and piano
Bohuslav Martinu Flute Sonata

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. Additional parking is available in Irving Garage. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

The District Festival: The Full Monty
Redhouse

Price: $20 (or $50 for one ticket to all three District Festival shows)
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

A group of unemployed steel workers are frustrated with life, women, and work, so they decide to become the sexiest Chippendale strippers Buffalo has ever seen. Be sure not to miss this incredibly catchy pop score and one hysterical journey featuring some of the most loveable characters you will ever meet! Book by Terrance McNally; music and lyrics by David Yazbek.

Presented as part of The District Festival.

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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
William Fennelly, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In Shakespeare's hands, magic and romance and the very midsummer madness make for intoxication, enchantment, and rollicking, frolicking comedy. Get on your mud boots and your donkey ears (is there any character more wonderfully over-the-top than Bottom?) 'cause it's off to the woods with four eager young lovers, a band of hapless rustics, and rival camps of puckish sprites. "All will be well!" Oberon bellows, but it will be a myriad of magical moments and a few hours of laughter before that happens.

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The District Festival: I Remember Mama
Appleseed Productions

Price: $20 (or $50 for one ticket to all three District Festival shows)
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Some stories are timeless. Based on the fictionalized memoir Mama's Bank Account, by Kathryn Forbes, a loving family of Norwegian immigrants carves out a life on Steiner Street in San Francisco during the 1910s. The story, written by John Van Druten, depicts many locales around the city and is populated by more than 20 characters. The first production opened on Broadway in 1944 and was produced by Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein. A feature film followed in 1948, along with a musical adaptation and a long-running TV series during the 1950s. Appleseed Productions first staged "...Mama" in 1997, at the John H. Mulroy Civic Center. The 2013 Festival production includes four actors from the original cast, and kicks-off the company's celebration of its 20th anniversary year.

Presented as part of The District Festival.

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Monday, March 25, 2013

Windows Project: Rebecca Soderholm: Crescendoe
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Photographer Rebecca Soderholm focuses on Upstate New York, its people and landscape, while capturing a collective human spirit in today's world.

For the Window Projects, "Crescendoe," is titled after one of the many tanneries that produced leather gloves in Johnston, NY, during the first half of the 20th century, nearby where the work for this exhibition was created. Developed as three panels that fit the large Warehouse Gallery windows, Soderholm accentuates the three-dimensionality of a fence, underlines the painterly qualities of a photographed landscape, and reveals her own fascination with the beauty of often forgotten landscapes.

Born in Syracuse, Soderholm received her B.F.A. in Photojournalism from the Rochester Institute of Technology and her M.F.A. in Photography from Yale University, School of Art where she studied with Todd Papageorge and Gregory Crewdson. An Assistant Professor of Photography at Drew University (Madison, New Jersey), Soderholm's most recent exhibition, "Upstate," was shown at 511 Gallery in New York City in the Spring of 2012. She currently lives in Upstate New York and Madison, NJ. This is her first solo museum show.

Tamil Pasanga (The Local Kids)
601 Tully

Price: Free
601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Krithika Sathyamurthy's art practice has been shaped by her South Indian heritage and experiences of growing up as a 21st century immigrant in the United States. As she adapted to Western culture, Sathyamurthy parted with many of the Indian values and traditions she held onto when she was younger. In her work, she addresses the internal conflicts of being an immigrant and also focuses on how Western culture has influenced the way she views important issues of 21st century India. As Sathyamurthy re-investigates her roots, her paintings reflect how her thoughts on India's political, social, and educational agenda is deeply influenced by her experiences as an immigrant and a female citizen of America.

"Tamil Pasanga" (The Local Kids) is a series of paintings that reveal several points of rupture as she reflects on the flawed Indian educational system. Having studied in the U.S., she understands that the existing education system in India poses a threat to its goals of achieving inclusive growth. In "Tamil Pasanga," elements of surface, repetition of ghosted figures, and haunting atmosphere, help create moments of hostility, as well as moments of vulnerability through the viscosity of the paint.

Through Time and Space: Quilts and Collage by Sharon Bottle Souva

Onondaga County Central Library
The Galleries of Syracuse, 447 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Sharon's work includes elements of the tradition of quilt making while exploring contemporary design.

Natural Vistas, Intimate Views
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Paintings by Karen Burns and photography by David LoParco depict local landscapes.

Past Abstractions: Works by Diana Godfrey

St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

"Past Abstractions" highlights some of the abstract pastel/collages and mixed-media paintings of Diana Godfrey. The artist's colorful, nonrepresentational art has been shown in many galleries and venues in Central New York and the Northeast.

Note that the venue is closed daily 12:00-1:00 pm.

Gallery Exhibit: Vessels Ceremonial and Mundane: Works by David MacDonald
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

This gallery exhibit by celebrated sculptor David MacDonald features several vessel forms of varying sizes, including both intimate and large scale pieces.

Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985 is the first major exhibition on the notorious American publisher Grove Press. Founded by Barney Rosset in 1951, Grove Press became one of the 20th-century's great avant-garde publishing houses. What began as a small independent publisher on Grove Street in New York City's Greenwich Village grew into a multimillion dollar publishing company that has been credited with introducing important authors from around the world to American readers during the postwar period.

Taking its cue from the 1948 film Strange Victory, which Rosset produced in collaboration with left-wing documentary filmmaker Leo Hurwitz after WWII, the exhibition traces the history and evolution of Grove Press, from its role at the center of national censorship trials over the first American editions of Lady Chatterley's Lover and Tropic of Cancer, to its publication of politically-engaged works including The Wretched of the Earth, Red Star over China, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, to its scandalous and very profitable Victorian Library. Each book published by Grove, the exhibition reveals, was in its own way, a "strange victory." For while Grove altered the American literary landscape and its relationship to social mores, equality, and freedom of expression, Grove also aggressively deployed savvy marketing strategies, became embroiled in labor union battles, floundered in its own success, and offended the sensibilities of not only "squares," but feminists, Marxists, academics, and many others. Strange Victories tells the complicated story of Grove's many literary and political achievements, whose profound influence on American culture endures today.

Falling Back to Find the Future
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Works by Kathryn Burke Petrillo.

Crossings
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Crossings" is a multi-faceted outcome of how the work of two artists, Nayda Collazo-Lloréns and Patricia Villalobos Echeverría, relates to each other in terms of location, mapping, identity, memory and multiplicity. "Crossings" is a first-time collaboration, convergence, and juxtaposition of these two artistic practices. The show will present a series of 13 works on paper, and a two-channel video installation titled PLEXUS13NP.

Nayda Collazo-Lloréns: Originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, she is a New York City based artist engaged in a multi-disciplinary practice that includes drawing, print, installation, video, text-based works and public interventions. Through her practice, she examines the way in which we perceive and process information, dealing with concepts of navigation, language and hyper-connectivity.

Patricia Villalobos Echeverría Born in Tennessee to Salvadoran parents and raised in Managua, Nicaragua, Villalobos describes her work as a hybrid. Her print, video and installation work explores how reproducible forms of representation can alter our notions of singularity and the various states of flux that we enter: some physical, others virtual. She a Professor of Art at Western Michigan University.

2013 Student Invitational
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

2013 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Messages of Sisterhood: Works by Favianna Rodríguez
La Casita Cultural Center

Price: Free
La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

A native of Oakland, CA, Favianna Rodriguez is renowned for her vibrant posters about issues of war, immigration, globalization, workers' rights, racism, homophobia, sexism and other contemporary issues. "Messages of Sisterhood" commemorates Women's History Month, focusing on the role of women in the struggles for social justice.

Rodriguez has lectured widely on the use of art in civic engagement and on the work of artists who are bridging the community and museum. Her works appear in collections at Bellas Artes (Mexico City), The Glasgow Print Studio (Glasgow, Scotland) and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

The Addams Family
Broadway in Syracuse

Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The Addams Family is a smash-hit musical comedy that brings the darkly delirious world of Gomez, Morticia, Uncle Fester, Grandma, Wednesday, Pugsley and, of course, Lurch to spooky and spectacular life. A "visually satisfying, rib-tickling, lunatic musical that will entertain you to death!" according to Toronto Post City, this magnificently macabre new musical comedy is created by Jersey Boys authors Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice, Drama Desk-winning composer/lyricist Andrew Lippa (The Wild Party), choreographer Sergio Trujillo (Jersey Boys) and Olivier Award-winning director/designers Phelim McDermott & Julian Crouch (Shockheaded Peter) with production supervision by four-time Tony Award winner Jerry Zaks.
Come meet the family. We'll leave the lights off for you.

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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Windows Project: Rebecca Soderholm: Crescendoe
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Photographer Rebecca Soderholm focuses on Upstate New York, its people and landscape, while capturing a collective human spirit in today's world.

For the Window Projects, "Crescendoe," is titled after one of the many tanneries that produced leather gloves in Johnston, NY, during the first half of the 20th century, nearby where the work for this exhibition was created. Developed as three panels that fit the large Warehouse Gallery windows, Soderholm accentuates the three-dimensionality of a fence, underlines the painterly qualities of a photographed landscape, and reveals her own fascination with the beauty of often forgotten landscapes.

Born in Syracuse, Soderholm received her B.F.A. in Photojournalism from the Rochester Institute of Technology and her M.F.A. in Photography from Yale University, School of Art where she studied with Todd Papageorge and Gregory Crewdson. An Assistant Professor of Photography at Drew University (Madison, New Jersey), Soderholm's most recent exhibition, "Upstate," was shown at 511 Gallery in New York City in the Spring of 2012. She currently lives in Upstate New York and Madison, NJ. This is her first solo museum show.

Tamil Pasanga (The Local Kids)
601 Tully

Price: Free
601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Krithika Sathyamurthy's art practice has been shaped by her South Indian heritage and experiences of growing up as a 21st century immigrant in the United States. As she adapted to Western culture, Sathyamurthy parted with many of the Indian values and traditions she held onto when she was younger. In her work, she addresses the internal conflicts of being an immigrant and also focuses on how Western culture has influenced the way she views important issues of 21st century India. As Sathyamurthy re-investigates her roots, her paintings reflect how her thoughts on India's political, social, and educational agenda is deeply influenced by her experiences as an immigrant and a female citizen of America.

"Tamil Pasanga" (The Local Kids) is a series of paintings that reveal several points of rupture as she reflects on the flawed Indian educational system. Having studied in the U.S., she understands that the existing education system in India poses a threat to its goals of achieving inclusive growth. In "Tamil Pasanga," elements of surface, repetition of ghosted figures, and haunting atmosphere, help create moments of hostility, as well as moments of vulnerability through the viscosity of the paint.

Through Time and Space: Quilts and Collage by Sharon Bottle Souva

Onondaga County Central Library
The Galleries of Syracuse, 447 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Sharon's work includes elements of the tradition of quilt making while exploring contemporary design.

Natural Vistas, Intimate Views
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Paintings by Karen Burns and photography by David LoParco depict local landscapes.

Past Abstractions: Works by Diana Godfrey

St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

"Past Abstractions" highlights some of the abstract pastel/collages and mixed-media paintings of Diana Godfrey. The artist's colorful, nonrepresentational art has been shown in many galleries and venues in Central New York and the Northeast.

Note that the venue is closed daily 12:00-1:00 pm.

Gallery Exhibit: Vessels Ceremonial and Mundane: Works by David MacDonald
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

This gallery exhibit by celebrated sculptor David MacDonald features several vessel forms of varying sizes, including both intimate and large scale pieces.

Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985 is the first major exhibition on the notorious American publisher Grove Press. Founded by Barney Rosset in 1951, Grove Press became one of the 20th-century's great avant-garde publishing houses. What began as a small independent publisher on Grove Street in New York City's Greenwich Village grew into a multimillion dollar publishing company that has been credited with introducing important authors from around the world to American readers during the postwar period.

Taking its cue from the 1948 film Strange Victory, which Rosset produced in collaboration with left-wing documentary filmmaker Leo Hurwitz after WWII, the exhibition traces the history and evolution of Grove Press, from its role at the center of national censorship trials over the first American editions of Lady Chatterley's Lover and Tropic of Cancer, to its publication of politically-engaged works including The Wretched of the Earth, Red Star over China, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, to its scandalous and very profitable Victorian Library. Each book published by Grove, the exhibition reveals, was in its own way, a "strange victory." For while Grove altered the American literary landscape and its relationship to social mores, equality, and freedom of expression, Grove also aggressively deployed savvy marketing strategies, became embroiled in labor union battles, floundered in its own success, and offended the sensibilities of not only "squares," but feminists, Marxists, academics, and many others. Strange Victories tells the complicated story of Grove's many literary and political achievements, whose profound influence on American culture endures today.

Falling Back to Find the Future
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Works by Kathryn Burke Petrillo.

Keep the Rumors Alive
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jeff Robinson: metal and glass sculpture
Charles Golden: mixed media wall hangings
Sharon Alama: mixed media jewelry

Crossings
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Crossings" is a multi-faceted outcome of how the work of two artists, Nayda Collazo-Lloréns and Patricia Villalobos Echeverría, relates to each other in terms of location, mapping, identity, memory and multiplicity. "Crossings" is a first-time collaboration, convergence, and juxtaposition of these two artistic practices. The show will present a series of 13 works on paper, and a two-channel video installation titled PLEXUS13NP.

Nayda Collazo-Lloréns: Originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, she is a New York City based artist engaged in a multi-disciplinary practice that includes drawing, print, installation, video, text-based works and public interventions. Through her practice, she examines the way in which we perceive and process information, dealing with concepts of navigation, language and hyper-connectivity.

Patricia Villalobos Echeverría Born in Tennessee to Salvadoran parents and raised in Managua, Nicaragua, Villalobos describes her work as a hybrid. Her print, video and installation work explores how reproducible forms of representation can alter our notions of singularity and the various states of flux that we enter: some physical, others virtual. She a Professor of Art at Western Michigan University.

When We Just Existed
Community Folk Art Center

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

In her exhibit "When We Just Existed," artist Deborah Roberts investigates children's innocence, and how their sense of self is shaped by their environments, as well as the residual effects this may have on adults. In many of her paintings, Roberts uses her prepubescent self as the subject, adding a personal dimension to her pieces that will help you think of your own childhood. In her work, she makes references to the lynching in African American history and the racial tensions that children may experience.

Corporeal Contours
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Corporeal Contours" features the work of two distinguished artists, Firelei Baez and Andrea Chung, each displaying their personal ideas of identity in relation to the world around them. A large part of the exhibition also seeks to expose the hyper-exoticism of tourism companies, while also confronting issues of racial identity in Caribbean and American societies.

The artists each use very personal experiences to create an array of compelling silhouetted forms and prints. For her on-going series Can I Pass (2010), Baez incorporates aspects from her transcultural background to examine the United States' "brown paper bag test" and the Dominican Republic's "fan test." She uses art as a medium to challenge these tests, tracing her outline and painting her skin tone for each day within the form over the course of an entire month. Within her works, Baez is able to explore idealized body types, race, and skin tones within the greater social scheme across both countries.

For her series, Chung analyzes post colonial culture by using old logos and slogans from tourist advertisements, and archival photographs to create her thought-provoking prints. She focuses on race, class, and contemporary society in Jamaica and Trinidad, as well as the exotic identity assumed by tourist companies. Chung is also able to address the increasingly popular skin bleaching practices in Jamaica, exposing a deeper dimension of self image and controversy in her work.

2013 Student Invitational
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

2013 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Strange Tongue
Everson Museum of Art

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

In her first solo exhibition at the Everson, Yvonne Buchanan presents a sound installation entitled Strange Tongue, a contemporary altered version of a well-known American gospel song by Mahalia Jackson. All associations to the lyrics have been excised, leaving a wordless voice, emphasizing the expression of sorrow and hope. The audio track can be accessed by dialing (315) 703-3063 and pressing 13.

American Moderns 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Organized by the Brooklyn Museum, "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell" explores a wide variety of American art from the first half of the 20th century. The exhibition consists of 53 paintings and four sculptures by such prominent artists as Georgia O'Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Milton Avery, Stuart Davis, and Arthur Dove. Drastic social, political and economical changes during this time period challenged artists to define what could be considered "modern" from a wide variety of definitions. From abstraction and cityscapes to realism and nature, these works selected from the Brooklyn Museum's permanent collection offer a new perspective on American modern art.

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Messages of Sisterhood: Works by Favianna Rodríguez
La Casita Cultural Center

Price: Free
La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

A native of Oakland, CA, Favianna Rodriguez is renowned for her vibrant posters about issues of war, immigration, globalization, workers' rights, racism, homophobia, sexism and other contemporary issues. "Messages of Sisterhood" commemorates Women's History Month, focusing on the role of women in the struggles for social justice.

Rodriguez has lectured widely on the use of art in civic engagement and on the work of artists who are bridging the community and museum. Her works appear in collections at Bellas Artes (Mexico City), The Glasgow Print Studio (Glasgow, Scotland) and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Benjamin Faga: Authentic Syracuse
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Emerging artist Benjamin Faga addresses the influence of globalization, technology, and its impact on our global society. Faga often uses a variety of media (photography, installation art, sculpture, public art, video, performance art, writing, and design) while collaborating with local communities. For his installation "Authentic Syracuse," Faga focuses on food as an indicator of cultural diversity and identity. In the vault, Faga will create a market atmosphere with international spices on display, while the main gallery will be made to look and operate like a tourism office center where visitors can read, see, and learn about Syracuse's many offerings as a diverse city that is home to immigrants from around the world.

Wisconsin-born and London-based, Faga studied at the University of Minnesota and received his MA in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art in London, UK. His work was included in national and international group exhibitions, such as "Talk to Me" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and "Pork" at Bermondsey Project Space in London. This is his first solo museum show in the United States.

That 1 Guy, with Captain Ahab's Motorcycle Club
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

The Addams Family
Broadway in Syracuse

Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The Addams Family is a smash-hit musical comedy that brings the darkly delirious world of Gomez, Morticia, Uncle Fester, Grandma, Wednesday, Pugsley and, of course, Lurch to spooky and spectacular life. A "visually satisfying, rib-tickling, lunatic musical that will entertain you to death!" according to Toronto Post City, this magnificently macabre new musical comedy is created by Jersey Boys authors Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice, Drama Desk-winning composer/lyricist Andrew Lippa (The Wild Party), choreographer Sergio Trujillo (Jersey Boys) and Olivier Award-winning director/designers Phelim McDermott & Julian Crouch (Shockheaded Peter) with production supervision by four-time Tony Award winner Jerry Zaks.
Come meet the family. We'll leave the lights off for you.

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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Windows Project: Rebecca Soderholm: Crescendoe
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Photographer Rebecca Soderholm focuses on Upstate New York, its people and landscape, while capturing a collective human spirit in today's world.

For the Window Projects, "Crescendoe," is titled after one of the many tanneries that produced leather gloves in Johnston, NY, during the first half of the 20th century, nearby where the work for this exhibition was created. Developed as three panels that fit the large Warehouse Gallery windows, Soderholm accentuates the three-dimensionality of a fence, underlines the painterly qualities of a photographed landscape, and reveals her own fascination with the beauty of often forgotten landscapes.

Born in Syracuse, Soderholm received her B.F.A. in Photojournalism from the Rochester Institute of Technology and her M.F.A. in Photography from Yale University, School of Art where she studied with Todd Papageorge and Gregory Crewdson. An Assistant Professor of Photography at Drew University (Madison, New Jersey), Soderholm's most recent exhibition, "Upstate," was shown at 511 Gallery in New York City in the Spring of 2012. She currently lives in Upstate New York and Madison, NJ. This is her first solo museum show.