Tuesday, August 21, 2012

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

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

Kim McGraw: Birches
Weeks Art Gallery at Baltimore Woods

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

"Birches" is an exhibit and sale of mixed media collage by Syracuse artist Kim McGraw.

Having always been attracted to birch trees, McGraw found that simply drawing and painting them was not ultimately satisfying. Doing some research into birches revealed that birch bark was used in times past as a writing surface. This led to the idea of using newsprint in her mixed media collages to represent the birches.

McGraw was awarded her BFA and MSAE from The Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. She has exhibited her work both in Massachusetts and the greater Syracuse area. A permanent exhibit of her work is on display at Anyela's Vineyard in Skaneateles, The artist currently teaches art at Solvay High School and resides in Syracuse with her husband and son.

Wild New York: The Photography of Chris Murray
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Natural Abstractions
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Fernando Llosa: oil paintings, sumi ink drawings, stone assemblage
David Harper: wood and mixed media sculpture
Carol Ackles: ceramic bead jewelry

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

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

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

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

Precious Hues
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Precious Hues features Sharon Bottle Souva's colorful fiber art and Dana Blythe Stenson's fine metals and semi precious stone jewelry. Both artists pieces are inspired by nature and express their interpretation of the beauty found around us.

Visions of Skaneateles
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Visions of Skaneateles features watercolors by Lucie Wellner and photographs by James Peluso.

Wellner, of Pompey, has been painting with watercolors since 1997. Her work has been seen in some 30 exhibitions throughout the region.

Peluso, of Skaneateles, is owner of Alexandria Photography. His images in the show were "captured over a period of time, as I saw cool things when I was out and about in Skaneateles," he says.

TONY: 2012
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the exhibition "The Other New York: 2012," featuring the photographic work of Sarah Averill, Bang-Geul Han, Mark McLoughlin, Jan Nagle, and Matthew Walker. This exhibition is part of a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaborion among 14 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties.

Julie Blackmon: Other Tales from Home
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

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

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

Painting by Tricia Pucci
Echo

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

The first show of Tricia Pucci, an emerging artist based in Philadelphia where she is currently working on her degree in Interior Design at the Moore School of Art and Design.

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

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

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

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

Kim McGraw: Birches
Weeks Art Gallery at Baltimore Woods

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

"Birches" is an exhibit and sale of mixed media collage by Syracuse artist Kim McGraw.

Having always been attracted to birch trees, McGraw found that simply drawing and painting them was not ultimately satisfying. Doing some research into birches revealed that birch bark was used in times past as a writing surface. This led to the idea of using newsprint in her mixed media collages to represent the birches.

McGraw was awarded her BFA and MSAE from The Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. She has exhibited her work both in Massachusetts and the greater Syracuse area. A permanent exhibit of her work is on display at Anyela's Vineyard in Skaneateles, The artist currently teaches art at Solvay High School and resides in Syracuse with her husband and son.

Wild New York: The Photography of Chris Murray
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Natural Abstractions
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Fernando Llosa: oil paintings, sumi ink drawings, stone assemblage
David Harper: wood and mixed media sculpture
Carol Ackles: ceramic bead jewelry

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

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

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

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

Precious Hues
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Precious Hues features Sharon Bottle Souva's colorful fiber art and Dana Blythe Stenson's fine metals and semi precious stone jewelry. Both artists pieces are inspired by nature and express their interpretation of the beauty found around us.

Visions of Skaneateles
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Visions of Skaneateles features watercolors by Lucie Wellner and photographs by James Peluso.

Wellner, of Pompey, has been painting with watercolors since 1997. Her work has been seen in some 30 exhibitions throughout the region.

Peluso, of Skaneateles, is owner of Alexandria Photography. His images in the show were "captured over a period of time, as I saw cool things when I was out and about in Skaneateles," he says.

TONY: 2012
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the exhibition "The Other New York: 2012," featuring the photographic work of Sarah Averill, Bang-Geul Han, Mark McLoughlin, Jan Nagle, and Matthew Walker. This exhibition is part of a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaborion among 14 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Radiant Hues: Works by Therese Verley Strodel
Redhouse

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

Large-scale abstract paintings celebrate the use of color through myriad layering of acrylic paint.

Summer Medley
Szozda Gallery

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

A mix of new works in a variety of media and styles by six local artists: Emily Elizabeth, Linda Esterley, Phil Parsons, Ray Trudell, Fred Wellner, and Laura J. Wellner.

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

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

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

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

Julie Blackmon: Other Tales from Home
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

Painting by Tricia Pucci
Echo

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

The first show of Tricia Pucci, an emerging artist based in Philadelphia where she is currently working on her degree in Interior Design at the Moore School of Art and Design.

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

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

Hunger Games
Flicks on the Crick

Price: Free
Sound Garden
310 W. Jefferson St., Syracuse

Starting at dusk, film will be projected on the side of Sound Garden's building. Blankets and lawn chairs are recommended.

For more information or to check for weather delays or cancellations, visit the Flicks on the Crick Facebook page.

Cinema Under the Stars: Sci-Fi Cult Classics Night: The Incredible Shrinking Man
Urban Video Project

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

Scott Carey is a businessman who is on vacation on a boat, off the California coast, with his wife Louise when he suddenly becomes contaminated by a radioactive cloud. At the time, Louise was below deck, so she wasn't affected. Six months later, the previously 6-foot-tall man notices that his shirt seems too big. He blames it on the cleaners. He continues to get smaller and after visiting a laboratory an antidote is found. This briefly arrests his shrinking when is he just 36 inches tall. However, the antidote stops working and he continues to shrink. Eventually he is reduced to living in a dollhouse. After nearly being killed by his own cat, he winds up trapped in a basement and has to battle a voracious spider. The Incredible Shrinking Man won the very first Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. Directed by Jack Arnold, 81 minutes, 1957.

FamilyFest: The Pinched String
Skaneateles Festival

Price: Free
First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The French say that a harpsichord string is pinched and not plucked. Come spend time with Andrew Appel and the Four Nations Ensemble and find out why the harpsichord was the most beloved of keyboard instruments for more than 200 years. Bach in Germany, Handel in England, Couperin and Rameau in France, and Scarlatti in Spain, loved the instrument and loved to play it alone and they loved it even more with a cello and a violin as friends. Maybe you will come away in love with the harpsichord and its pinched strings!

Alan Taylor & Two Feet Short
Liverpool is the Place

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

Folk music, and annual John Denver Memorial Food Drive

Tickling the Ivories: Organ Recital
Skaneateles Festival
Featuring Chelsea Chen, organ

First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Marcel Dupré Prelude and Fugue in G Minor, Op. 7, No. 3
Debussy Children's Corner
Chelsea Chen Taiwanese Suite (2003)
Petr Eben Moto Ostinato from Sunday Music
Ola Gjeilo Sinfonietta
Gershwin I Got Rhythm
Ad Wammes Miroir
Maurice Duruflé Toccata from Suite, Op. 5

Thursday, August 23, 2012

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

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

Kim McGraw: Birches
Weeks Art Gallery at Baltimore Woods

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

"Birches" is an exhibit and sale of mixed media collage by Syracuse artist Kim McGraw.

Having always been attracted to birch trees, McGraw found that simply drawing and painting them was not ultimately satisfying. Doing some research into birches revealed that birch bark was used in times past as a writing surface. This led to the idea of using newsprint in her mixed media collages to represent the birches.

McGraw was awarded her BFA and MSAE from The Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. She has exhibited her work both in Massachusetts and the greater Syracuse area. A permanent exhibit of her work is on display at Anyela's Vineyard in Skaneateles, The artist currently teaches art at Solvay High School and resides in Syracuse with her husband and son.

Wild New York: The Photography of Chris Murray
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Natural Abstractions
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Fernando Llosa: oil paintings, sumi ink drawings, stone assemblage
David Harper: wood and mixed media sculpture
Carol Ackles: ceramic bead jewelry

My Recovery Story
Community Folk Art Center

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

A month-long exhibition sponsored by Syracuse Behavioral Healthcare, "My Recovery Story" features a collection of photographs taken by community members. The photographs chronicle their recovery from substance abuse addictions. For more information about the center and their exhibition click here.

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

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

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

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

Precious Hues
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Precious Hues features Sharon Bottle Souva's colorful fiber art and Dana Blythe Stenson's fine metals and semi precious stone jewelry. Both artists pieces are inspired by nature and express their interpretation of the beauty found around us.

Visions of Skaneateles
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Visions of Skaneateles features watercolors by Lucie Wellner and photographs by James Peluso.

Wellner, of Pompey, has been painting with watercolors since 1997. Her work has been seen in some 30 exhibitions throughout the region.

Peluso, of Skaneateles, is owner of Alexandria Photography. His images in the show were "captured over a period of time, as I saw cool things when I was out and about in Skaneateles," he says.

TONY: 2012
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the exhibition "The Other New York: 2012," featuring the photographic work of Sarah Averill, Bang-Geul Han, Mark McLoughlin, Jan Nagle, and Matthew Walker. This exhibition is part of a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaborion among 14 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Radiant Hues: Works by Therese Verley Strodel
Redhouse

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

Large-scale abstract paintings celebrate the use of color through myriad layering of acrylic paint.

Summer Medley
Szozda Gallery

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

A mix of new works in a variety of media and styles by six local artists: Emily Elizabeth, Linda Esterley, Phil Parsons, Ray Trudell, Fred Wellner, and Laura J. Wellner.

Flower Power
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

Julie Blackmon: Other Tales from Home
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

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

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

Painting by Tricia Pucci
Echo

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

The first show of Tricia Pucci, an emerging artist based in Philadelphia where she is currently working on her degree in Interior Design at the Moore School of Art and Design.

UVP Annual Summer Review 2012
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

*SOLD OUT* Tickling the Ivories: Solo Piano Recital
Skaneateles Festival
Featuring Peter Serkin, piano

First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Beethoven 11 Bagatelles, Op. 119
Beethoven Sonata in A-flat Major, Op. 110
Beethoven 6 Bagatelles, Op. 126
Beethoven Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 81a, "Les Adieux"

Homestyle Homicide: The Freagan Family Reunion
Acme Mystery Company

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

Come a runnin', cousins, 'cause it's time again for the annual family reunion and the whole Freagan family is gonna be there! We're gonna have vittles, singin', hootin' and hollerin', and, of course, no family gatherin' would be complete without the annual pig-callin' contest! Dang! You might even win a big ol' slop bucket full of cash money! Yeehaw! Best watch yer step around the pig farm this year, though. Word is that Pa's been hittin' the moonshine a might too hard and is about to lose the farm to that no good snake, Beauregard Hogwallerin! When the girls find out, somebody could end up on the barbecue!

For reservations, phone 315-475-1807 or email syracuse@meatballs.com.

Friday, August 24, 2012

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

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

Kim McGraw: Birches
Weeks Art Gallery at Baltimore Woods

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

"Birches" is an exhibit and sale of mixed media collage by Syracuse artist Kim McGraw.

Having always been attracted to birch trees, McGraw found that simply drawing and painting them was not ultimately satisfying. Doing some research into birches revealed that birch bark was used in times past as a writing surface. This led to the idea of using newsprint in her mixed media collages to represent the birches.

McGraw was awarded her BFA and MSAE from The Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. She has exhibited her work both in Massachusetts and the greater Syracuse area. A permanent exhibit of her work is on display at Anyela's Vineyard in Skaneateles, The artist currently teaches art at Solvay High School and resides in Syracuse with her husband and son.

Wild New York: The Photography of Chris Murray
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Natural Abstractions
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Fernando Llosa: oil paintings, sumi ink drawings, stone assemblage
David Harper: wood and mixed media sculpture
Carol Ackles: ceramic bead jewelry

My Recovery Story
Community Folk Art Center

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

A month-long exhibition sponsored by Syracuse Behavioral Healthcare, "My Recovery Story" features a collection of photographs taken by community members. The photographs chronicle their recovery from substance abuse addictions. For more information about the center and their exhibition click here.

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

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

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

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

Precious Hues
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Precious Hues features Sharon Bottle Souva's colorful fiber art and Dana Blythe Stenson's fine metals and semi precious stone jewelry. Both artists pieces are inspired by nature and express their interpretation of the beauty found around us.

Visions of Skaneateles
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Visions of Skaneateles features watercolors by Lucie Wellner and photographs by James Peluso.

Wellner, of Pompey, has been painting with watercolors since 1997. Her work has been seen in some 30 exhibitions throughout the region.

Peluso, of Skaneateles, is owner of Alexandria Photography. His images in the show were "captured over a period of time, as I saw cool things when I was out and about in Skaneateles," he says.

TONY: 2012
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the exhibition "The Other New York: 2012," featuring the photographic work of Sarah Averill, Bang-Geul Han, Mark McLoughlin, Jan Nagle, and Matthew Walker. This exhibition is part of a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaborion among 14 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Radiant Hues: Works by Therese Verley Strodel
Redhouse

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

Large-scale abstract paintings celebrate the use of color through myriad layering of acrylic paint.

Summer Medley
Szozda Gallery

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

A mix of new works in a variety of media and styles by six local artists: Emily Elizabeth, Linda Esterley, Phil Parsons, Ray Trudell, Fred Wellner, and Laura J. Wellner.

Flower Power
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

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

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

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

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

Julie Blackmon: Other Tales from Home
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

Painting by Tricia Pucci
Echo

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

The first show of Tricia Pucci, an emerging artist based in Philadelphia where she is currently working on her degree in Interior Design at the Moore School of Art and Design.

UVP Annual Summer Review 2012
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

Skaneateles Community Band
Philip Krasicky, conductor

Price: Free
Clift Park
Genesee St., Skaneateles

Bring lawn chairs or blankets for seating.

Tickling the Ivories
Skaneateles Festival
Featuring Four Nations Ensemble

First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Francois Couperin Septiéme Ordre
Vivaldi Sonata for Cello and Continuo in E minor
J.S. Bach Sonata V in F minor for Violin and Harpsichord, BWV1018
J.C. Bach Concerto for harpsichord and strings in G major
Louis Nicolas Clérambault Medée: Cantata for voice and instruments

Four Nations Ensemble is comprised of Tatania Chulochnikova & Andrew Fouts, violin; Loretta O'Sullivan, cello; Andrew Appel, harpsichord and director and guest soprano Dominique Labelle.

Saturday, August 25, 2012

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

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

Natural Abstractions
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Fernando Llosa: oil paintings, sumi ink drawings, stone assemblage
David Harper: wood and mixed media sculpture
Carol Ackles: ceramic bead jewelry

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

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

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

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

Julie Blackmon: Other Tales from Home
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

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

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

Precious Hues
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Precious Hues features Sharon Bottle Souva's colorful fiber art and Dana Blythe Stenson's fine metals and semi precious stone jewelry. Both artists pieces are inspired by nature and express their interpretation of the beauty found around us.

Visions of Skaneateles
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Visions of Skaneateles features watercolors by Lucie Wellner and photographs by James Peluso.

Wellner, of Pompey, has been painting with watercolors since 1997. Her work has been seen in some 30 exhibitions throughout the region.

Peluso, of Skaneateles, is owner of Alexandria Photography. His images in the show were "captured over a period of time, as I saw cool things when I was out and about in Skaneateles," he says.

Kim McGraw: Birches
Weeks Art Gallery at Baltimore Woods

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

"Birches" is an exhibit and sale of mixed media collage by Syracuse artist Kim McGraw.

Having always been attracted to birch trees, McGraw found that simply drawing and painting them was not ultimately satisfying. Doing some research into birches revealed that birch bark was used in times past as a writing surface. This led to the idea of using newsprint in her mixed media collages to represent the birches.

McGraw was awarded her BFA and MSAE from The Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. She has exhibited her work both in Massachusetts and the greater Syracuse area. A permanent exhibit of her work is on display at Anyela's Vineyard in Skaneateles, The artist currently teaches art at Solvay High School and resides in Syracuse with her husband and son.

Radiant Hues: Works by Therese Verley Strodel
Redhouse

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

Large-scale abstract paintings celebrate the use of color through myriad layering of acrylic paint.

Summer Medley
Szozda Gallery

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

A mix of new works in a variety of media and styles by six local artists: Emily Elizabeth, Linda Esterley, Phil Parsons, Ray Trudell, Fred Wellner, and Laura J. Wellner.

TONY: 2012 (The Other New York)
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Other New York: 2012 is a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 12 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties. The project will offer diverse arts venues and outdoor public spaces for contemporary creative expression on a scale not before seen in Syracuse. In addition, TONY: 2012 demonstrates the power of artistic partnerships to boost public awareness of the arts by presenting opportunities for the community to connect with exhibitions, programs, and events offered simultaneously throughout the city.

TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact, Red House Arts Center, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, and the City of Syracuse. Alternative art spaces in the form of freight containers will provide temporary exhibition/installation sites. The containers will be strategically located in the city to link arts venues and encourage visitors to walk and experience art along the way.

Community Folk Art Center TONY 2012 featured artists are Elizabeth Leader, Michael Moody, Abisay Puentes, Sandra Stephens, who each use their art to engage in a larger conversation about significant but often overlooked social issues, including racial identity and urban decay.

My Recovery Story
Community Folk Art Center

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

A month-long exhibition sponsored by Syracuse Behavioral Healthcare, "My Recovery Story" features a collection of photographs taken by community members. The photographs chronicle their recovery from substance abuse addictions. For more information about the center and their exhibition click here.

Painting by Tricia Pucci
Echo

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

The first show of Tricia Pucci, an emerging artist based in Philadelphia where she is currently working on her degree in Interior Design at the Moore School of Art and Design.

Flower Power
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

UVP Annual Summer Review 2012
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Tickling the Ivories: Music Viva!
Skaneateles Festival
Musica Viva Band
Featuring Alexander Sevastian, accordion

Brook Farm
2.5 miles south of the village on Route 41A, Skaneateles

International accordion champion Alexander Sevastian and his dazzling Musica Viva Band, composed of Bill Bridges, Colin Meier, and Vasyl Papoduike, bring an exhilarating program of French, Italian, Argentinean, and gypsy tunes to Brook Farm.

Paolo Pizzigoni Light and Shadows
Louis Ferrari Domino
Camille Privat Papillons Noir
Astor Piazzolla Contrabajeando
Piazzolla Sentido Unico
Eduardo Arolas La Cachila
Piazzolla Adios Nonino
Medard Ferrero Averse
Albert Vossen Merry Go Around
Traditional Deux Guitars
Aram Khatchaturian Sabre Dance

Rain location: Skaneateles High School

A Night at the Sands: Music, Laughter, and Drinks with Dean Martin

Price: $15 advance; $18 at door
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Michael Patrick Dominick stars as the comical Dean Martin in this reenactment of the Las Vegas musical variety comedy acts of the 1960s. From "Ain't That a Kick in the Head" to "You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You," you'll sing along to the hits and laugh until you cry as Dino takes the stage at the famous Sand Hotel for a performance you're sure to never forget!

For tickets, phone 215-272-5032 or e-mail michaelpatrickdominick@gmail.com. For more information, visit michaelpatrickdominick.com.

The Three Little Princess Pigs
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

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

Sunday, August 26, 2012

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

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

TONY: 2012
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the exhibition "The Other New York: 2012," featuring the photographic work of Sarah Averill, Bang-Geul Han, Mark McLoughlin, Jan Nagle, and Matthew Walker. This exhibition is part of a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaborion among 14 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties.

Summer Medley
Szozda Gallery

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

A mix of new works in a variety of media and styles by six local artists: Emily Elizabeth, Linda Esterley, Phil Parsons, Ray Trudell, Fred Wellner, and Laura J. Wellner.

Precious Hues
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Precious Hues features Sharon Bottle Souva's colorful fiber art and Dana Blythe Stenson's fine metals and semi precious stone jewelry. Both artists pieces are inspired by nature and express their interpretation of the beauty found around us.

Flower Power
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

Visions of Skaneateles
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Visions of Skaneateles features watercolors by Lucie Wellner and photographs by James Peluso.

Wellner, of Pompey, has been painting with watercolors since 1997. Her work has been seen in some 30 exhibitions throughout the region.

Peluso, of Skaneateles, is owner of Alexandria Photography. His images in the show were "captured over a period of time, as I saw cool things when I was out and about in Skaneateles," he says.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Julie Blackmon: Other Tales from Home
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

Radiant Hues: Works by Therese Verley Strodel
Redhouse

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

Large-scale abstract paintings celebrate the use of color through myriad layering of acrylic paint.

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

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

Monday, August 27, 2012

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

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

Kim McGraw: Birches
Weeks Art Gallery at Baltimore Woods

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

"Birches" is an exhibit and sale of mixed media collage by Syracuse artist Kim McGraw.

Having always been attracted to birch trees, McGraw found that simply drawing and painting them was not ultimately satisfying. Doing some research into birches revealed that birch bark was used in times past as a writing surface. This led to the idea of using newsprint in her mixed media collages to represent the birches.

McGraw was awarded her BFA and MSAE from The Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. She has exhibited her work both in Massachusetts and the greater Syracuse area. A permanent exhibit of her work is on display at Anyela's Vineyard in Skaneateles, The artist currently teaches art at Solvay High School and resides in Syracuse with her husband and son.

Gallery Exhibit: Claude Freeman, Woods and Water
Onondaga Community College

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

Artist Statement: "Through my drawings I am creating a personal image of reality. It is not a reproduction of nature buy my expression of my emotions, sensations, and feelings, how that unique place impresses me. A photographed image preserves a visual event, but a drawing can entail the experience of seeing, of understanding atmosphere and space. In my drawings I try, for a change, to see things in black and white. I believe it is the only way to explore a uniquely natural landscape. The black and white landscapes have an almost mystical charm that changes with the time of day and season."

Claude Freeman is a Professor Emeritus at SUNY ESF where he taught Landscape Architecture for over 40 years. He now teaches drawing at the Art Department at OCC. Over many years his drawings have been accepted at numerous juried Art Shows including those at the Gibson Gallery in Potsdam, NY, the Lake Placid Center of the Arts in Lake Placid, NY, the Kirkland Art Center in Clinton, NY, Shelburne Farm's Art Exhibition in Shelburne, VT, and the Delavan Art Gallery, in Syracuse. Mr. Freeman has received a variety of awards and recognition for his artwork.

Wild New York: The Photography of Chris Murray
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

Precious Hues
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Precious Hues features Sharon Bottle Souva's colorful fiber art and Dana Blythe Stenson's fine metals and semi precious stone jewelry. Both artists pieces are inspired by nature and express their interpretation of the beauty found around us.

Visions of Skaneateles
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Visions of Skaneateles features watercolors by Lucie Wellner and photographs by James Peluso.

Wellner, of Pompey, has been painting with watercolors since 1997. Her work has been seen in some 30 exhibitions throughout the region.

Peluso, of Skaneateles, is owner of Alexandria Photography. His images in the show were "captured over a period of time, as I saw cool things when I was out and about in Skaneateles," he says.

TONY: 2012
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the exhibition "The Other New York: 2012," featuring the photographic work of Sarah Averill, Bang-Geul Han, Mark McLoughlin, Jan Nagle, and Matthew Walker. This exhibition is part of a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaborion among 14 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties.

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

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

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

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

Kim McGraw: Birches
Weeks Art Gallery at Baltimore Woods

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

"Birches" is an exhibit and sale of mixed media collage by Syracuse artist Kim McGraw.

Having always been attracted to birch trees, McGraw found that simply drawing and painting them was not ultimately satisfying. Doing some research into birches revealed that birch bark was used in times past as a writing surface. This led to the idea of using newsprint in her mixed media collages to represent the birches.

McGraw was awarded her BFA and MSAE from The Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. She has exhibited her work both in Massachusetts and the greater Syracuse area. A permanent exhibit of her work is on display at Anyela's Vineyard in Skaneateles, The artist currently teaches art at Solvay High School and resides in Syracuse with her husband and son.

Gallery Exhibit: Claude Freeman, Woods and Water
Onondaga Community College

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

Artist Statement: "Through my drawings I am creating a personal image of reality. It is not a reproduction of nature buy my expression of my emotions, sensations, and feelings, how that unique place impresses me. A photographed image preserves a visual event, but a drawing can entail the experience of seeing, of understanding atmosphere and space. In my drawings I try, for a change, to see things in black and white. I believe it is the only way to explore a uniquely natural landscape. The black and white landscapes have an almost mystical charm that changes with the time of day and season."

Claude Freeman is a Professor Emeritus at SUNY ESF where he taught Landscape Architecture for over 40 years. He now teaches drawing at the Art Department at OCC. Over many years his drawings have been accepted at numerous juried Art Shows including those at the Gibson Gallery in Potsdam, NY, the Lake Placid Center of the Arts in Lake Placid, NY, the Kirkland Art Center in Clinton, NY, Shelburne Farm's Art Exhibition in Shelburne, VT, and the Delavan Art Gallery, in Syracuse. Mr. Freeman has received a variety of awards and recognition for his artwork.

Wild New York: The Photography of Chris Murray
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Natural Abstractions
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Fernando Llosa: oil paintings, sumi ink drawings, stone assemblage
David Harper: wood and mixed media sculpture
Carol Ackles: ceramic bead jewelry

My Recovery Story
Community Folk Art Center

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

A month-long exhibition sponsored by Syracuse Behavioral Healthcare, "My Recovery Story" features a collection of photographs taken by community members. The photographs chronicle their recovery from substance abuse addictions. For more information about the center and their exhibition click here.

TONY: 2012 (The Other New York)
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Other New York: 2012 is a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 12 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties. The project will offer diverse arts venues and outdoor public spaces for contemporary creative expression on a scale not before seen in Syracuse. In addition, TONY: 2012 demonstrates the power of artistic partnerships to boost public awareness of the arts by presenting opportunities for the community to connect with exhibitions, programs, and events offered simultaneously throughout the city.

TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact, Red House Arts Center, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, and the City of Syracuse. Alternative art spaces in the form of freight containers will provide temporary exhibition/installation sites. The containers will be strategically located in the city to link arts venues and encourage visitors to walk and experience art along the way.

Community Folk Art Center TONY 2012 featured artists are Elizabeth Leader, Michael Moody, Abisay Puentes, Sandra Stephens, who each use their art to engage in a larger conversation about significant but often overlooked social issues, including racial identity and urban decay.

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

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

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

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

Precious Hues
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Precious Hues features Sharon Bottle Souva's colorful fiber art and Dana Blythe Stenson's fine metals and semi precious stone jewelry. Both artists pieces are inspired by nature and express their interpretation of the beauty found around us.

Visions of Skaneateles
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Visions of Skaneateles features watercolors by Lucie Wellner and photographs by James Peluso.

Wellner, of Pompey, has been painting with watercolors since 1997. Her work has been seen in some 30 exhibitions throughout the region.

Peluso, of Skaneateles, is owner of Alexandria Photography. His images in the show were "captured over a period of time, as I saw cool things when I was out and about in Skaneateles," he says.

TONY: 2012
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce the exhibition "The Other New York: 2012," featuring the photographic work of Sarah Averill, Bang-Geul Han, Mark McLoughlin, Jan Nagle, and Matthew Walker. This exhibition is part of a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaborion among 14 art organizations in Syracuse. This ambitious project aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties.

Julie Blackmon: Other Tales from Home
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

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

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

Painting by Tricia Pucci
Echo

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

The first show of Tricia Pucci, an emerging artist based in Philadelphia where she is currently working on her degree in Interior Design at the Moore School of Art and Design.

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

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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