Saturday, September 22, 2012

Windows Project: TONY 2012
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

For this project, Jeffrey Einhorn created a site-specific installation "A Portrait of the Artist as a Giant Deflating Head" to address the fine line between performance art and sculpture while emphasizing wittily the unstable state of things or a disorder of a system.

This Window Projects exhibition is part of The Other New York: 2012, a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with 14 Syracuse partner art organizations to highlight artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties.

Play on Light
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Adriana Meiss: Pastel landscapes
John Franklin: Turned wood and sculptural vessels
Paul Riccardi: Pastel florals and still-lifes
Judy McCumber: Silver and gemstone jewelry

TONY: 2012: Variography
Erie Canal Museum

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

This exhibit features Buffalo artist Michael Bosworth's "Variography" -- a pair of installations, one inside the historic Syracuse Weighlock Building and the other outside and directly across the former Erie Canal (now Erie Blvd.) from the Weighlock. Inside there will be four-foot tall brick columns containing magic-lantern projectors, while outside will stand a camera obscurae built of cement on heavy wooden tripods.

Michael Bosworth is a nationally exhibiting artist and a professor in the photography department of Villa Maria College. He received his M.F.A. from the University of New Mexico, a B.F.A. and B.A. at UB. His commissioned public art projects include Fluid Culture, Main Street/Art Street, and Herd About Buffalo.

The Erie Canal Museum is proud to be a part of The Other New York: 2012 (TONY: 2012), an unprecedented community-wide, multi-venue contemporary art exhibition. TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse and XL Projects.

The Other New York: 2012
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison 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-The Norton Putter Gallery, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact, Red House Arts Center, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse and XL Projects.

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.

Prophecy: Peter B. Jones
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Prophecy" is a timely exhibition pertaining to Indigenous prophecies. By incorporating themes of ecology, creation, demise and the future according to the Mayan calendar, traditional Iroquois teachings and other cultural beliefs, Jones provides a visual representation of the foretold truths.

The Tall and Short of It
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The exhibit features pottery by Jim Burke and paintings by Lisa Noviasky. Jim Burke's pottery combines function and style which makes his pieces both useful and unique. Lisa Noviasky paints with colors that best reflect the essence and emotional connection to the scene she is capturing.

Fibers Expo: Wearable, Warm and Wonderful
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

To mark the expansion of its fibers collection, Imagine will present "Wearable, Warm and Wonderful," an exhibition of fiber art.

Works will be featured by:
* Luc Ends by Lucinda Snyder, of Rochester, who creates playful purses.
* Pandemonium Millinery, of Seattle, represented by its elegant faux fur hats and scarves.
* Miss Fitt Hats, of Durham, NC, which crafts hand-felted merino wool hats, scarves, mittens and other adornments.
* Maruca Design, of Boulder, CO, which designs and produces handbags, wallets and cosmetics cases, while embracing principles of the Arts & Crafts movement.
* Laurel Moranz, of Skaneateles, who creates rayon chenille scarves, shawls and snoods.
* Ginny Spina, of Jamesville, who designs scarves made from vintage kimono silk.

Lynette Blake: Within and Beyond
Weeks Art Gallery at Baltimore Woods

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

Lynette Blake's oil paintings draw the viewer in through complex layers of shape and color. The use of overlapping imagery conveys a depth that extends deep below the surface of the canvas. Objects, whether used directly or evoked by abstract shapes, float in and out of light illuminating them with a pervasive warm glow. The effect is otherworldly -- a feeling of being outside time and space is conveyed.

Blake has exhibited her work throughout the Northeast, and is currently represented locally by the Szozda Gallery in Syracuse, as well as national venues. She studied art at Brown University in Rhode Island and currently resides in Upstate NY.

More information on the Weeks Gallery at Baltimore Woods can be found at www.baltimorewoods.org.

Faces, Forms and Illusions: Works by Scott Hutchison
Redhouse

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

Scott Hutchison is a painter living in the Washington DC metro area. His work combines contemporary realism and animation. An exploration of the human figure continues to be the leitmotiv of Hutchison's work with a long-standing interest in self portraiture.

Hutchison says:
"My animations combine traditional painting and drawing techniques with digital technology to create animated portraits, which are displayed on small LCD panels, or projected, large-scale. Dozens of individual stills portray my face, changing only slightly from one image to the next. When the images are unified digitally, an animation is created. Each video is comprised of multiple painted or drawn self-portraits that, although similar, possess slight variations of color and treatment. When animated, the paint and mark move across the surface, resulting in a portrait that is in constant flux."

An American Vision: East Meets West
Szozda Gallery

Price: Free
Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The fall season opens with new works by two popular local artists, Phil Parsons and Bob Niedzwiecki, who reveal the striking beauty between vastly different American landscapes of lush vegetation versus dry earth.

For Parsons, this show represents the latest installment of his familiar "Roadside Series," in which rural Central New York is prominent. This series of new images is done with a commitment to the realist movement, somewhat a departure for Parsons who says he is "not exclusively a traditional painter."

New works by realist painter Niedzwiecki deviate from the gentle, subtle Central New York landscapes for which he is typically known. A vacation return to the Southwest became the inspiration for capturing the beauty of landscapes that he fell in love with long before while living in Colorado and Arizona.

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.

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.

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.

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.

TONY: 2012: "Manifest Destiny and the American West" and "Last House"
Onondaga Historical Association

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

These exhibits are mounted as part of the The Other New York (TONY): 2012, Syracuse's art biennial. OHA's TONY: 2012 exhibits are artistically presented interpretations of dynamic social trends that are part of the historic legacy of Central New York.

In a three-dimensional display employing nearly 1,000 images set in glass jars, "Manifest Destiny and the American West," an exhibit by Buffalo artist Robert Hirsch, asks the visitor to think about how our nation's geographic progression across the continent has shaped American culture. The desire to exploit the salt brine reserves on Onondaga Lake contributed to a westward migration of settlers across Central New York in the post-American Revolution era, while the construction of the Erie Canal enhanced this movement through the 19th century and enabled many travelers to reach lands in the farther reaches of the American continent.

"Last House" is a multi-channel video installation by media artist Carl Lee that explores the aesthetics and means of a house demolition in Buffalo. Cities like Buffalo and Syracuse are faced with a large number of abandoned houses. This video asks us to think about what we gain and lose in demolishing them. This installation will be accompanied by three paintings by Western New York artist Amy Greenan of vacant houses in Syracuse awaiting an uncertain future, including "Not Here, Not Now," her interpretation of 711 Tully Street, which seems poised to have a different fate on Syracuse's Near West Side than that if the house in Last House.

Onondaga Historical Association is proud to be one of 14 Central New York venues for TONY: 2012. TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse, and XL Projects.

TONY: 2012
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Other New York: 2012 (Tony: 2012) is an ambitious project that 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 offers 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.

The artists included in the SUArt Galleries TONY: 2012 are Tammy Brackett, Juan Cruz, Sara Di Donato, Matthew Glaysher, Amy Greenan, Sue Huggins Leopard, Barbara Page, James Skvarch.

The SUArt Galleries is one of 14 venues participating in this citywide celebration of the visual arts. Please take the time to visit the exhibitions at the other TONY venues to see the wealth of talent that resides and works upstate.

Karl Schrag: Memories and Premonitions
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Syracuse University Art Galleries is celebrating the career and life of Karl Schrag, American painter and printmaker, who would have been 100 years old this year. "Karl Schrag: Memories and Premonitions" is the first major examination of the artist's work since his death in 1995. The exhibition includes 70 original works of art by the influential artist, including paintings, prints and drawings.

Syracuse University has had a long and rewarding association with Karl Schrag and his family. It began in 1962 with a gift of a gouache painting titled "Coast in Autumn." Later the relationship grew with the first of numerous exhibitions, more gifts of artwork, and occasional lectures to students in the University's School of Art. Some 50 years later, S.U.'s art collection is much richer because of the 250-plus Karl Schrag artworks we maintain, and the continued support of Schrag Family.

2012 is also the centenary year of Karl Schrag's birth and gives us an opportunity to reinvestigate the talent, imagination, and sensitivity Schrag brought to his landscapes, still-life paintings, and portraits. A master of color, light, composition, and draftsmanship, Schrag captures nature and its great forces through an investigation of the lasting impressions each of us retain through experience. He engages his viewer with subtle mark making as well as with the bold calligraphic strokes so often associated with his work. His palette of almost Fauvist intensity adds dimension and passion to the landscapes he created.

Schrag's art career spanned more than 60 years and he had strong ties to the New York City art scene. After studying at the Art Students League, he joined S.W. Hayter's prestigious printmaking studio Atelier 17, working alongside artists Miró, Chagall and Jackson Pollock. Schrag was named director of the Atelier in 1950 and later began a long teaching career at Cooper Union, where he taught drawing and graphic arts from 1954-1968. Schrag had a direct impact on many of his students, including the Syracuse University-based artist Jerome Witkin. A student of Schrag at Cooper Union and a well-established contemporary artist, Witkin has commented on Schrags masterful handling of the landscape, and the evocative power of his vision.

The art selected for this exhibit will convey the artist's ability to see the landscape as if for the first time, the surprise of that special view, the recognition of his ability to feel wonder when looking at nature or figures, and the reward associated with seeing the world through his eyes.

TONY: 2012 (The Other New York)
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The Everson Biennial, titled "The Other New York: 2012," is being exhibited in community art galleries across Syracuse this year. ArtRage is honored to participate by exhibiting the work of four artists chosen in collaboration with the Everson Museum.

Ben Altman, Neil Chowdhury, Bob Gates and Paul Pearce, the four photographers whose works comprise this exhibit, present work that, while distinctive, shares a key characteristic. All are documentary photographers who are a bit wary of being seen as truth tellers. Fully understanding that the "objective photograph" is a myth, their photographic work -- both in the process of its creation and the images presented -- casts into doubt our traditional notions of documentation, objectivity and veracity. Nonetheless, each photographer is visualizing a certain truth, which may be one we do not know, or one that we prefer to avoid knowing. Participating in the artist's unflinching gaze, we become complicit witnesses to situations -- torture, poverty, social class, and the effects of war -- often conveniently rendered invisible.

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Guided TONY: 2012 Art Crawl
Everson Museum of Art

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

Join us for an art experience that celebrates TONY: 2012 and the connectivity between and unity among the downtown venues in our beautiful city! Walking tour of TONY: 2012 venues starts at the Everson Museum of Art.

Saturday, September 22:
Everson Museum of Art
Onondaga Historical Association
Erie Canal Museum
Warehouse Gallery
XL Projects

Sunday, September 23:
Everson Museum of Art
Point of Contact
Community Folk Art Center
ArtRage
SUArt Galleries*
Light Work*

* Visitors will be able to park free of charge in the VIP lot on College Place across the street from Shaffer Art Building, Syracuse University. Spaces are limited.

Lov U
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Lov U" is a multimedia installation by Senga Nengudi.

Colorado-based Senga Nengudi is a key figure of the Black Arts Movement in the 1970s and 1980s. Known primarily for performance-based art installations, her work focuses on movement and the human body, is multidisciplinary in nature and international in scope, with cultural references to Africa, the African Diaspora, and Asia. For her multimedia, performance-based exhibition "Lov U," Nengudi explores the physical senses of being human, and includes photographs and video to reflect on the essence of love. Drawn to discarded, everyday materials, the ephemerality of Nengudi's work is a metaphor for life's transience.

The Other New York (TONY): 2012
XL Projects

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

XL Projects will present the work of seven artists selected for "The Other New York (TONY): 2012," a communitywide, multi-venue contemporary art exhibition featuring artists currently living in New York State outside of the New York City metropolitan area.

The artists showing work at XL Projects -- Michael Barletta, Daniel Buckingham, Jay Carrier, Meredith Davenport, Kara Daving, Tom DeLooza, and Fernando Orellana -- are among the 63 artists selected from 235 submissions for TONY: 2012. The work that will be on view at XL includes large sculpture, video, photography, kinetic sculpture, large-scale painting, and a large window graphic across the front of the venue.

TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with 14 art institutions and cultural organizations in Syracuse: ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse, and XL Projects.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours. For more information about TONY: 2012 and the other exhibiting artists and venues, visit everson.org.

TONY 2012: Karen Brummund
Urban Video Project

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

The Everson is I.M. Pei's first museum commission. His art museums are commonly seen as art objects for art objects. They are sculptures in the landscape. Shortly after the Everson, Pei built the Johnson Museum of Art in Ithaca. In this site-specific video installation, images of the form and materials of both art museums are projected onto the Everson Museum. The images capture the light, surfaces, and depth of the architecture. The video uses images from two different buildings, analyzing how Pei's ideas bridge individual communities. These disparate places are abstractly connected through the architect's development. The plaza is not only infused with the presence of the Pei's forms, but also the conversation that takes place through his practice.

This video by Karen Brummund is part of The Other New York: 2012, a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration 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.

Video projection begins at dusk.

Hadiyah Robinson
Laugh-a-Cuse Comedy

Price: $15
Sophistications Jazz Cafe
441 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Laugh-a-Cuse Comedy presents Hadiyah Robinson from BET and MTV. Show also includes local comedians Anna Phillips, JT, and T. Bunt as well as special performances from local poets. Salt City Slam champion, Mal Tempo, will appear in the 7pm show. Underground Poetry Spot's Yaya will appear in the 9pm show. Hosted by Kenneth McLaurin.

Comedy seemed to be a natural fit for Hadiyah Robinson very early on. After first taking the plunge, she was a finalist in the NBC Stand Up For Diversity showcase, a semifinalist in the Ladies of Laughter competition, and a featured comedian in the New York Underground Comedy Festival. Hadiyah made her television debut on BET's Comic View in 2005 and returned in 2008 for BET's One Mic Stand and most recently appeared as a featured guest on The Mo'Nique Show where she performed as well as sat down with the Oscar Winner.

Along with her stage performances, Hadiyah has been a commentator on MTV's Yo Momma, BET's Do's and Don'ts of the Hip Hop Awards, The Maury Povich Show as well as a contestant on TV One's Get the Hookup. Her stage performances include such noted comedy clubs as Caroline's on Broadway, Gotham, The New York Comedy Club, The Laugh Factory, and Comix. She's even taken her act across the ocean to Amsterdam's RAI Theater as a Queen of Comedy as well as performing for the troops in Germany and South Korea. She has worked with such noted comedians as Donnell Rawlings, Joe Torrey, Sheryl Underwood, Tess Drake, Talent, Capone and many more. She has appeared on Sirius Satellite on Jamie Foxx's Fox Hole Radio, 98.7 KISS FM Crank Squad, the Urban Hang Suite, Everyday Radio and DTF Radio.

Food and drinks are available for purchase. Admission permitted to ages 25 and older only. Tickets are available at the door (cash only) or online at www.brownpapertickets.com. For more information, email Laughacuse315@gmail.com or call 315-345-9669.

Equinox Show
Salt City Improv Theater

Price: 58 regular, $6 students
Salt City Improv Theatre
Shoppingtown Mall, Sears Wing, Dewitt

This month, our show falls on the Autumn Equinox. That's the day when we have the same amount of daylight as we do night. That's really cool, because...ummm...because...OK, we don't know why this is important. We're told it has something to do with pagans and balancing an egg on its end (the egg's...not the pagan's.)

Join us as the SCiT house team, Pork Pie Hat, will be serving up equal parts of awesomeness and hilarity, with their special brand of improv comedy (in the style of the hit TV show, "Whose Line Is It, Anyway.")

Hadiyah Robinson
Laugh-a-Cuse Comedy

Price: $15
Sophistications Jazz Cafe
441 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Laugh-a-Cuse Comedy presents Hadiyah Robinson from BET and MTV. Show also includes local comedians Anna Phillips, JT, and T. Bunt as well as special performances from local poets. Salt City Slam champion, Mal Tempo, will appear in the 7pm show. Underground Poetry Spot's Yaya will appear in the 9pm show. Hosted by Kenneth McLaurin.

Comedy seemed to be a natural fit for Hadiyah Robinson very early on. After first taking the plunge, she was a finalist in the NBC Stand Up For Diversity showcase, a semifinalist in the Ladies of Laughter competition, and a featured comedian in the New York Underground Comedy Festival. Hadiyah made her television debut on BET's Comic View in 2005 and returned in 2008 for BET's One Mic Stand and most recently appeared as a featured guest on The Mo'Nique Show where she performed as well as sat down with the Oscar Winner.

Along with her stage performances, Hadiyah has been a commentator on MTV's Yo Momma, BET's Do's and Don'ts of the Hip Hop Awards, The Maury Povich Show as well as a contestant on TV One's Get the Hookup. Her stage performances include such noted comedy clubs as Caroline's on Broadway, Gotham, The New York Comedy Club, The Laugh Factory, and Comix. She's even taken her act across the ocean to Amsterdam's RAI Theater as a Queen of Comedy as well as performing for the troops in Germany and South Korea. She has worked with such noted comedians as Donnell Rawlings, Joe Torrey, Sheryl Underwood, Tess Drake, Talent, Capone and many more. She has appeared on Sirius Satellite on Jamie Foxx's Fox Hole Radio, 98.7 KISS FM Crank Squad, the Urban Hang Suite, Everyday Radio and DTF Radio.

Food and drinks are available for purchase. Admission permitted to ages 25 and older only. Tickets are available at the door (cash only) or online at www.brownpapertickets.com. For more information, email Laughacuse315@gmail.com or call 315-345-9669.

Great Syracuse OktoberFest

Price: $3
Regional Market
2100 Park St., Syracuse

Enjoy authentic German entertainment, food and beverages.

For more information, phone 800-234-4797.

Somewhere Between
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences
Human Rights Film Festival

Price: Free
Life Sciences Complex Auditorium
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An intimate look at the lives of four of the thousands of girls who ended up at Chinese orphanages due to China's One Child Policy and were subsequently adopted by non-Chinese families in the US. (Linda Goldstein Knowlton, 94 mins, USA, 2011)

Skype Q&A with director, Linda Goldstein Knowlton.

The festival is part of Syracuse Symposium 2012: Memory Media Archive and is presented by the SU Humanities Center, the Newhouse School and the Alexia Foundation for World Peace.

Call Me Kuchu
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences
Human Rights Film Festival

Price: Free
Life Sciences Complex Auditorium
Syracuse University, Syracuse

David Kato, Uganda's first openly gay man, and fellow activists work courageously to defeat new legislation that threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. (Malika Zouhali-Worrall and Katherine Fairfax Wright, 87 mins, USA, 2012)

Skype Q&A with co-directors Malika Zouhali-Worrall and Katherine Fairfax Wright.

The festival is part of Syracuse Symposium 2012: Memory Media Archive and is presented by the SU Humanities Center, the Newhouse School and the Alexia Foundation for World Peace.

Undesired; Valley of Saints
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences
Human Rights Film Festival

Price: Free
Life Sciences Complex Auditorium
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Undesired
A photographic exploration of the cultural traditions and societal pressures underlying the pervasive discrimination and violence against women in India. (Walter Astrada, 13 mins, USA, 2010)

Valley of Saints
Filmed during a military curfew in Kashmir, Syeed's poignant debut feature follows Gulzar, a young boatman on Dal Lake, who discovers it is not only the conflict that threatens his homeland. (Musa Syeed, 82 mins, India/USA, 2012)

The festival is part of Syracuse Symposium 2012: Memory Media Archive and is presented by the SU Humanities Center, the Newhouse School and the Alexia Foundation for World Peace.

Tipperary Hill Music Festival

Price: Free
Pass Arboretum
Tompkins St., Syracuse

The Tom Dooley Choraliers are celebrating their 50th anniversary this year and will open the even at 12:00 noon. The DeSantis Orchestra, also celebrating a milestone this year -- 65 years on the Syracuse music scene, will close out the event.

In between, there will be over 20 acts on five stages, including The Easy Ramblers, Two Hour Delay, Tim Herron Corporation, Perry-Mulhauser Band, Boots-n-Shorts, Kim Monroe & Chris Eves, and The Flyin' Column.

For more information, visit www.tipphillmusicfest.org.

Fall Choir Kickoff
DeWitt Community Church
The Master's Touch Chorale
Featuring Joseph Martin, piano

Price: $9 in advance, $10 at the door
Dewitt Community Church
3600 Erie Blvd. East, Dewitt

Christian music sensation Joseph Martin and The Master's Touch Chorale are hosting the first annual Fall Choir Kickoff, featuring more than 120 singers and instrumentalists.

The event, organized and presented by DCC's Worship Arts Ministry, is preceded by a choir workshop that day. Afterward, workshop participants -- some from as far away as Rhode Island and Massachusetts -- will team up with Martin, The Master's Touch Chorale, and the DCC Chancel Choir for a mass concert.

Martin is no stranger to Christian and secular audiences. A former classical pianist and music professor at The University of Texas at Austin, he has enjoyed considerable success as a sacred composer, conductor, and performer. Martin and his music have been featured at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Washington National Cathedral, and Lawrence Welk Theater (Branson, MO), as well as at thousands of churches nationwide.

The Master's Touch Chorale is composed of 40 Christian singers from 22 areas churches and 17 denominations. Since its inception in 1993, the group has performed throughout the region, and has been invited three times to sing at The White House. Its repertoire spans from Beethoven to bluegrass.

*VENUE CHANGE* Keller Williams, with special guests Donna the Buffalo
Paper Mill Island

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

John Dean and Friends
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.

Dormouse Series: Pinkalicious, The Musical
Rarely Done Productions
David Cotter, director

Price: $15 ages 13 and over, $12 ages 6-12, $10 ages 5 and under
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Pinkalicious can't stop eating pink cupcakes despite warnings from her parents. Her pink indulgence lands her at the doctor's office with Pinkititis, an affliction that turns her pink, from head to toe -- a dream come true for this pink loving enthusiast. But when her hue goes too far, only Pinkalicious can figure out a way to get out of this predicament. Based on the popular children's book Pinkalicious by Elizabeth Kann and Victoria Kann.

Book and lyrics by Elizabeth Kann and Victoria Kann; music, lyrics and orchestrations by John Gregor. Choreographed by Jodi Bova-Mele.

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The Three Little Princess Pigs
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

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

Dormouse Series: Pinkalicious, The Musical
Rarely Done Productions
David Cotter, director

Price: $15 ages 13 and over, $12 ages 6-12, $10 ages 5 and under
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Pinkalicious can't stop eating pink cupcakes despite warnings from her parents. Her pink indulgence lands her at the doctor's office with Pinkititis, an affliction that turns her pink, from head to toe -- a dream come true for this pink loving enthusiast. But when her hue goes too far, only Pinkalicious can figure out a way to get out of this predicament. Based on the popular children's book Pinkalicious by Elizabeth Kann and Victoria Kann.

Book and lyrics by Elizabeth Kann and Victoria Kann; music, lyrics and orchestrations by John Gregor. Choreographed by Jodi Bova-Mele.

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Cry for Peace: Voices from the Congo (world premiere)
Syracuse Stage

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

Written by Ping Chong and Kyle Bass with Sara Zatz. Cyprien Mihigo, dramaturg/cultural consultant, in collaboration with the performers and the Congolese community of Syracuse

Based on in-depth interviews, Cry From Peace: Voices from the Congo brings to the stage five real people, including survivors and refugees from the recent Congolese civil war, members of once opposing tribes—the abductor and the violated--struggling to leave the past behind and form a peaceful community in Central New York. A composition of interwoven personal narratives, powerful images and beautiful songs, Cry for Peace is a rich theatrical experience—a searing, moving and hopeful hymn to the power of the human spirit. From the creators of the acclaimed Tales from the Salt City.

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The Real Inspector Hound
Appleseed Productions
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $18 regular, $15 student/senior
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Rave reviews greeted this farce by Tom Stoppard when it was recently revived in London. Feuding theatre critics Moon and Birdfoot, the first a fusty philanderer and the second a pompous and vindictive second stringer, are swept into the whodunit they are viewing. In the hilarious spoof of Agatha Christie-like melodramas that follows, the body under the sofa proves to be the missing first-string critic.

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Barefoot in the Park
Covey Theatre Company
Garrett Heater, director

Price: $21
BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Newlyweds Paul and Corie Bratter have moved from their honeymoon suite in the Plaza Hotel to their run-down 5-floor walkup in Manhattan. It's cold, leaky, and attracts unwanted guests such as Corie's sensitive mother Ethel and Victor Velasco, the eccentric resident of the attic who is known as the 'Bluebeard of 48th St.' Patrons who enjoyed previous Covey productions like Avenue Q and The Graduate will certainly fall in love with this delightful Valentine to the trials and joys of young love.

Starring Sara Weiler, Jesse Orton, Karis Wiggins, Ed Mastin, Bil Hughes, and Bernie Kaplan.

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Red Light View and Brew: Steel Magnolias, a Drag Reading
Redhouse

Price: $10, includes one beer or wine from cafe
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Join the six hysterical Southern Belles (in drag!) who spend their time bonding in Truvy's Beauty Parlor. It is a moving story of a close-knit circle of friends whose lives come together there. Laugh, cry, and drink (whenever the rules apply) with these iconic stage and film characters. Starring local actors Dan Tursi, Gennaro Parlato, Stephfond Brunson, David Cotter, Michael Connor, and Jimmy Curtin in this staged reading.

This is the first of the new View and Brew series -- a twist on an old favorite. Each month the Redhouse will present a different classic film, either as a live reading or a screening, and create our own fun drinking game rules. Even better, the admission includes your first drink.

Cry for Peace: Voices from the Congo (world premiere)
Syracuse Stage

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

Written by Ping Chong and Kyle Bass with Sara Zatz. Cyprien Mihigo, dramaturg/cultural consultant, in collaboration with the performers and the Congolese community of Syracuse

Based on in-depth interviews, Cry From Peace: Voices from the Congo brings to the stage five real people, including survivors and refugees from the recent Congolese civil war, members of once opposing tribes—the abductor and the violated--struggling to leave the past behind and form a peaceful community in Central New York. A composition of interwoven personal narratives, powerful images and beautiful songs, Cry for Peace is a rich theatrical experience—a searing, moving and hopeful hymn to the power of the human spirit. From the creators of the acclaimed Tales from the Salt City.

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Sunday, September 23, 2012

Windows Project: TONY 2012
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

For this project, Jeffrey Einhorn created a site-specific installation "A Portrait of the Artist as a Giant Deflating Head" to address the fine line between performance art and sculpture while emphasizing wittily the unstable state of things or a disorder of a system.

This Window Projects exhibition is part of The Other New York: 2012, a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with 14 Syracuse partner art organizations to highlight artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties.

TONY: 2012: Variography
Erie Canal Museum

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

This exhibit features Buffalo artist Michael Bosworth's "Variography" -- a pair of installations, one inside the historic Syracuse Weighlock Building and the other outside and directly across the former Erie Canal (now Erie Blvd.) from the Weighlock. Inside there will be four-foot tall brick columns containing magic-lantern projectors, while outside will stand a camera obscurae built of cement on heavy wooden tripods.

Michael Bosworth is a nationally exhibiting artist and a professor in the photography department of Villa Maria College. He received his M.F.A. from the University of New Mexico, a B.F.A. and B.A. at UB. His commissioned public art projects include Fluid Culture, Main Street/Art Street, and Herd About Buffalo.

The Erie Canal Museum is proud to be a part of The Other New York: 2012 (TONY: 2012), an unprecedented community-wide, multi-venue contemporary art exhibition. TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse and XL Projects.

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.

Susan Worsham: Bittersweet/Bloodwork
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

When Susan Worsham was just 18, her brother took his own life after severing his spinal cord in a motorcycle accident. As a young girl she had already lost her father to a heart attack, and finally in 2004, she lost her mother as well. In the words of Worsham, "Shortly after my mother passed I came across a set of antique veterinary slides. They were some of the most interesting things that I had ever seen. I framed ninety of them in a long wooden frame resembling the shape of the slide itself. It was the first piece of art that I made after my mother died. I called the piece a watercolor because of the collection of pastel colors, but it was also a sort of poem when you got close and read the titles ... Rabbit's Lung, Fowl's Spleen, and even Human Umbilical Cord. They seemed to hold beauty and death at the same time."

Worsham went on to photograph her old childhood home as well as her oldest neighbor, Margaret Daniel. Margaret is one of the last remaining threads from Worsham's childhood and was the last person to see her brother alive. She made him her homemade bread, and he finished the whole loaf before he shot himself. The story came full circle one day when Margaret brought out her dissection kit and microscope slides. She had been a biology teacher and was holding on to the same sort of slides that fascinated Worsham. Margaret's microscope and slides have since become a metaphor for Worsham's desire to look deeper into the landscape of her childhood--from the flora and fauna to the feelings, Margaret calls it "blood work."

In addition to Worsham's touching photographs made in and around Virginia, this exhibition features a selection of Margaret's dissection tools alongside her microscope, as well as audio recordings of their various conversations about plants, life, and death. All together, the photographs and accompaniments in Bittersweet/Bloodwork speak of the poetry of childhood, nature, discovery, love, and loss.

An American Vision: East Meets West
Szozda Gallery

Price: Free
Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The fall season opens with new works by two popular local artists, Phil Parsons and Bob Niedzwiecki, who reveal the striking beauty between vastly different American landscapes of lush vegetation versus dry earth.

For Parsons, this show represents the latest installment of his familiar "Roadside Series," in which rural Central New York is prominent. This series of new images is done with a commitment to the realist movement, somewhat a departure for Parsons who says he is "not exclusively a traditional painter."

New works by realist painter Niedzwiecki deviate from the gentle, subtle Central New York landscapes for which he is typically known. A vacation return to the Southwest became the inspiration for capturing the beauty of landscapes that he fell in love with long before while living in Colorado and Arizona.

The Tall and Short of It
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The exhibit features pottery by Jim Burke and paintings by Lisa Noviasky. Jim Burke's pottery combines function and style which makes his pieces both useful and unique. Lisa Noviasky paints with colors that best reflect the essence and emotional connection to the scene she is capturing.

Fibers Expo: Wearable, Warm and Wonderful
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

To mark the expansion of its fibers collection, Imagine will present "Wearable, Warm and Wonderful," an exhibition of fiber art.

Works will be featured by:
* Luc Ends by Lucinda Snyder, of Rochester, who creates playful purses.
* Pandemonium Millinery, of Seattle, represented by its elegant faux fur hats and scarves.
* Miss Fitt Hats, of Durham, NC, which crafts hand-felted merino wool hats, scarves, mittens and other adornments.
* Maruca Design, of Boulder, CO, which designs and produces handbags, wallets and cosmetics cases, while embracing principles of the Arts & Crafts movement.
* Laurel Moranz, of Skaneateles, who creates rayon chenille scarves, shawls and snoods.
* Ginny Spina, of Jamesville, who designs scarves made from vintage kimono silk.

TONY: 2012: "Manifest Destiny and the American West" and "Last House"
Onondaga Historical Association

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

These exhibits are mounted as part of the The Other New York (TONY): 2012, Syracuse's art biennial. OHA's TONY: 2012 exhibits are artistically presented interpretations of dynamic social trends that are part of the historic legacy of Central New York.

In a three-dimensional display employing nearly 1,000 images set in glass jars, "Manifest Destiny and the American West," an exhibit by Buffalo artist Robert Hirsch, asks the visitor to think about how our nation's geographic progression across the continent has shaped American culture. The desire to exploit the salt brine reserves on Onondaga Lake contributed to a westward migration of settlers across Central New York in the post-American Revolution era, while the construction of the Erie Canal enhanced this movement through the 19th century and enabled many travelers to reach lands in the farther reaches of the American continent.

"Last House" is a multi-channel video installation by media artist Carl Lee that explores the aesthetics and means of a house demolition in Buffalo. Cities like Buffalo and Syracuse are faced with a large number of abandoned houses. This video asks us to think about what we gain and lose in demolishing them. This installation will be accompanied by three paintings by Western New York artist Amy Greenan of vacant houses in Syracuse awaiting an uncertain future, including "Not Here, Not Now," her interpretation of 711 Tully Street, which seems poised to have a different fate on Syracuse's Near West Side than that if the house in Last House.

Onondaga Historical Association is proud to be one of 14 Central New York venues for TONY: 2012. TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse, and XL Projects.

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.

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.

Karl Schrag: Memories and Premonitions
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Syracuse University Art Galleries is celebrating the career and life of Karl Schrag, American painter and printmaker, who would have been 100 years old this year. "Karl Schrag: Memories and Premonitions" is the first major examination of the artist's work since his death in 1995. The exhibition includes 70 original works of art by the influential artist, including paintings, prints and drawings.

Syracuse University has had a long and rewarding association with Karl Schrag and his family. It began in 1962 with a gift of a gouache painting titled "Coast in Autumn." Later the relationship grew with the first of numerous exhibitions, more gifts of artwork, and occasional lectures to students in the University's School of Art. Some 50 years later, S.U.'s art collection is much richer because of the 250-plus Karl Schrag artworks we maintain, and the continued support of Schrag Family.

2012 is also the centenary year of Karl Schrag's birth and gives us an opportunity to reinvestigate the talent, imagination, and sensitivity Schrag brought to his landscapes, still-life paintings, and portraits. A master of color, light, composition, and draftsmanship, Schrag captures nature and its great forces through an investigation of the lasting impressions each of us retain through experience. He engages his viewer with subtle mark making as well as with the bold calligraphic strokes so often associated with his work. His palette of almost Fauvist intensity adds dimension and passion to the landscapes he created.

Schrag's art career spanned more than 60 years and he had strong ties to the New York City art scene. After studying at the Art Students League, he joined S.W. Hayter's prestigious printmaking studio Atelier 17, working alongside artists Miró, Chagall and Jackson Pollock. Schrag was named director of the Atelier in 1950 and later began a long teaching career at Cooper Union, where he taught drawing and graphic arts from 1954-1968. Schrag had a direct impact on many of his students, including the Syracuse University-based artist Jerome Witkin. A student of Schrag at Cooper Union and a well-established contemporary artist, Witkin has commented on Schrags masterful handling of the landscape, and the evocative power of his vision.

The art selected for this exhibit will convey the artist's ability to see the landscape as if for the first time, the surprise of that special view, the recognition of his ability to feel wonder when looking at nature or figures, and the reward associated with seeing the world through his eyes.

TONY: 2012
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Other New York: 2012 (Tony: 2012) is an ambitious project that 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 offers 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.

The artists included in the SUArt Galleries TONY: 2012 are Tammy Brackett, Juan Cruz, Sara Di Donato, Matthew Glaysher, Amy Greenan, Sue Huggins Leopard, Barbara Page, James Skvarch.

The SUArt Galleries is one of 14 venues participating in this citywide celebration of the visual arts. Please take the time to visit the exhibitions at the other TONY venues to see the wealth of talent that resides and works upstate.

Guided TONY: 2012 Art Crawl
Everson Museum of Art

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

Join us for an art experience that celebrates TONY: 2012 and the connectivity between and unity among the downtown venues in our beautiful city! Walking tour of TONY: 2012 venues starts at the Everson Museum of Art.

Saturday, September 22:
Everson Museum of Art
Onondaga Historical Association
Erie Canal Museum
Warehouse Gallery
XL Projects

Sunday, September 23:
Everson Museum of Art
Point of Contact
Community Folk Art Center
ArtRage
SUArt Galleries*
Light Work*

* Visitors will be able to park free of charge in the VIP lot on College Place across the street from Shaffer Art Building, Syracuse University. Spaces are limited.

Prophecy: Peter B. Jones
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Prophecy" is a timely exhibition pertaining to Indigenous prophecies. By incorporating themes of ecology, creation, demise and the future according to the Mayan calendar, traditional Iroquois teachings and other cultural beliefs, Jones provides a visual representation of the foretold truths.

The Other New York: 2012
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison 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-The Norton Putter Gallery, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact, Red House Arts Center, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse and XL Projects.

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.

The Other New York (TONY): 2012
XL Projects

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

XL Projects will present the work of seven artists selected for "The Other New York (TONY): 2012," a communitywide, multi-venue contemporary art exhibition featuring artists currently living in New York State outside of the New York City metropolitan area.

The artists showing work at XL Projects -- Michael Barletta, Daniel Buckingham, Jay Carrier, Meredith Davenport, Kara Daving, Tom DeLooza, and Fernando Orellana -- are among the 63 artists selected from 235 submissions for TONY: 2012. The work that will be on view at XL includes large sculpture, video, photography, kinetic sculpture, large-scale painting, and a large window graphic across the front of the venue.

TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with 14 art institutions and cultural organizations in Syracuse: ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse, and XL Projects.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours. For more information about TONY: 2012 and the other exhibiting artists and venues, visit everson.org.

Westcott Street Cultural Fair

Price: Free
Westcott Business District
Westcott St., Syraucuse

Acoustic Stage
12:45 pm: Mark Zane & Friends
1:30 pm: Swing This!
2:25 pm: Juanita Horan
3:10 pm: Diamond Someday
4:05 pm: The Milkweeds
5:30 pm: Charley Orlando

Multicultural Stage:
12:30 pm: Celtic fiddle master Joe Davoli
1:45 pm: Puente Flamenco
3:00 pm: Jonathon Dinkin and Klezmercuse
4:15 pm: Adanfo Ensemble
5:30 pm: Kembuyu Marimba Ensemble

Main Stage:
12:30 pm: White Picket Fence
2:10 pm: Skip Murphy & Friends
3:50 pm: Carolyn Kelly Blues Band
5:30 pm: Grupo Pagan

Dance Stage:
12:30 pm: Syracuse Irish Step Dancers
1:25 pm: Bassett Street Hounds
2:00 pm: African Drummers
3:15 pm: Dance Theatre of Syracuse
4:45 pm: Wacheva's dancers and drummers

Kids Stage:
12:30 pm: Chem-Mystery: The Magic of Science
1:20 pm: Earth Songs by Mama Pajamas Playhouse
3:00 pm: Marc the Zani
4:45 pm: The Dark Stars

Plus a break dance competition, belly dancing, and more.

For information, visit www.westcottfair.org.

Great Syracuse OktoberFest

Price: $3
Regional Market
2100 Park St., Syracuse

Enjoy authentic German entertainment, food and beverages.

For more information, phone 800-234-4797.

Munyurangabo
Cinema Syracuse

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Filmed entirely in Rwanda with local actors, it is the first narrative feature film in the Kinyarwanda language. Munyurangabo seeks justice for his parents, who were killed in the genocide, while Sangwa wants to return to the home he left years ago. Although the two boys had planned to stay only a few hours, they end up spending several days. But, because they are from two different tribes, their friendship is sorely tried. Sangwa's parents distrust Munyurangabo, and warn their son that Hutus and Tutsis are supposed to be enemies.

Un-Caged: Art as Nature
Society for New Music

Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A birthday tribute to one of the most innovative composers of our times, John Cage. This year marks the centennial of Cage's birth, and what better way to honor him than with a "happening." The MusiCircus will include amplified cactus, tuned conch shells, a toy piano, pieces including A Dinner Party for John Cage's 100th (2012, Stephen Montague), and Cage's 3rd Construction, Imaginary Landscape, Child of Tree, 4'33", Three, Inlets, Telephones and Birds, Fontana Mix, and more.

SU Symphony Orchestra
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
James Tapia, conductor
Featuring Caroline Stinson, cello

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

The program will include Ouvertüre Die Zauberharfe by Schubert, Concerto for Cello and Orchestra by Lutoslawski and Symphony No. 5 in E minor, op. 64 by Tchaikovsky.

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage; parking for patrons with disabilities is available in the Q1 lot. Patrons should mention that they are attending the concert.

The Real Inspector Hound
Appleseed Productions
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $18 regular, $15 student, $12 senior
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Rave reviews greeted this farce by Tom Stoppard when it was recently revived in London. Feuding theatre critics Moon and Birdfoot, the first a fusty philanderer and the second a pompous and vindictive second stringer, are swept into the whodunit they are viewing. In the hilarious spoof of Agatha Christie-like melodramas that follows, the body under the sofa proves to be the missing first-string critic.

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Dormouse Series: Pinkalicious, The Musical
Rarely Done Productions
David Cotter, director

Price: $15 ages 13 and over, $12 ages 6-12, $10 ages 5 and under
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Pinkalicious can't stop eating pink cupcakes despite warnings from her parents. Her pink indulgence lands her at the doctor's office with Pinkititis, an affliction that turns her pink, from head to toe -- a dream come true for this pink loving enthusiast. But when her hue goes too far, only Pinkalicious can figure out a way to get out of this predicament. Based on the popular children's book Pinkalicious by Elizabeth Kann and Victoria Kann.

Book and lyrics by Elizabeth Kann and Victoria Kann; music, lyrics and orchestrations by John Gregor. Choreographed by Jodi Bova-Mele.

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Cry for Peace: Voices from the Congo (world premiere)
Syracuse Stage

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

Written by Ping Chong and Kyle Bass with Sara Zatz. Cyprien Mihigo, dramaturg/cultural consultant, in collaboration with the performers and the Congolese community of Syracuse

Based on in-depth interviews, Cry From Peace: Voices from the Congo brings to the stage five real people, including survivors and refugees from the recent Congolese civil war, members of once opposing tribes—the abductor and the violated--struggling to leave the past behind and form a peaceful community in Central New York. A composition of interwoven personal narratives, powerful images and beautiful songs, Cry for Peace is a rich theatrical experience—a searing, moving and hopeful hymn to the power of the human spirit. From the creators of the acclaimed Tales from the Salt City.

Read a Review!

Dormouse Series: Pinkalicious, The Musical
Rarely Done Productions
David Cotter, director

Price: $15 ages 13 and over, $12 ages 6-12, $10 ages 5 and under
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Pinkalicious can't stop eating pink cupcakes despite warnings from her parents. Her pink indulgence lands her at the doctor's office with Pinkititis, an affliction that turns her pink, from head to toe -- a dream come true for this pink loving enthusiast. But when her hue goes too far, only Pinkalicious can figure out a way to get out of this predicament. Based on the popular children's book Pinkalicious by Elizabeth Kann and Victoria Kann.

Book and lyrics by Elizabeth Kann and Victoria Kann; music, lyrics and orchestrations by John Gregor. Choreographed by Jodi Bova-Mele.

Read a review!

Monday, September 24, 2012

Windows Project: TONY 2012
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

For this project, Jeffrey Einhorn created a site-specific installation "A Portrait of the Artist as a Giant Deflating Head" to address the fine line between performance art and sculpture while emphasizing wittily the unstable state of things or a disorder of a system.

This Window Projects exhibition is part of The Other New York: 2012, a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with 14 Syracuse partner art organizations to highlight artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties.

Lynette Blake: Within and Beyond
Weeks Art Gallery at Baltimore Woods

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

Lynette Blake's oil paintings draw the viewer in through complex layers of shape and color. The use of overlapping imagery conveys a depth that extends deep below the surface of the canvas. Objects, whether used directly or evoked by abstract shapes, float in and out of light illuminating them with a pervasive warm glow. The effect is otherworldly -- a feeling of being outside time and space is conveyed.

Blake has exhibited her work throughout the Northeast, and is currently represented locally by the Szozda Gallery in Syracuse, as well as national venues. She studied art at Brown University in Rhode Island and currently resides in Upstate NY.

More information on the Weeks Gallery at Baltimore Woods can be found at www.baltimorewoods.org.

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.

TONY: 2012: Ink Geographies
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Feels like writing, but the artist is quick to make clear that it is not. Signs, representations ... of what? A mental process, a journey, from diverse points of origin through our individual timelines, our personal twists and turns. As a script emerges, something is set free, though it leaves a mark, an imprint. The artist's essential playground is a space to explore geometric archetypes that can only be found inside one another; all are one. A sacred mandala? Images contract and expand and there is order, not chaos. No more chaotic than life emerging from the womb, contraction, expansion; a beating heart, where life is felt, contraction, expansion...an ever-expanding universe, contracts only to further expand. We don't know how to will it into action. A similar experience with ink takes form in this experiment by Oscar Garcés. It flows from a playful doodle, "el virus," he calls it. And before you know it, connects with something else, an altered state of consciousness. Everything else disappears as it takes over.

The Point of Contact Gallery presents the first solo show by Cuban-born, Syracuse-based artist Oscar Garcés, as part of The Other New York: TONY 2012, a community-wide biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 14 venues in Syracuse. This program also commemorates the celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month at Point of Contact.

Born in Santiago, Cuba in 1987, Garcés came to the United States in 2000. During his years residing first in Florida, when he began to develop as a visual artist, Garcés received multiple recognitions, including a Golden Key Award for best portfolio by Scholastics. Later in Syracuse, Garcés won a "Best of Show" Award at the Community Folk Art Center in 2005. He has also shown his paintings at the Warehouse Gallery's Window Project and at La Casita Cultural Center Gallery.

TONY 2012: "The Other New York" seeks to highlight the work and talent of different rising artists from the Central New York area.

Phonography
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

Cell phone photography, featuring works of 75 Central New York and international artists. Amazing, imaginative, creative, innovative, fun photos you'll love!

Assembly-line Architecture: Repetition and Innovation in the Work of Marcel Breuer
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The exhibit, curated by Teresa Harris, architectural historian and project coordinator for the Marcel Breuer Digital Archive, showcases original drawings, photographs and documents from Breuer's long career.

Like many modern architects, Marcel Breuer found inspiration in the repetition characteristic of industrial processes, often relying on modular units or a standard kit of parts to create his buildings and interiors. The limits imposed by these systems stimulated subtle formal and spatial innovation so that no two designs were exactly alike, despite common components.

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

TONY: 2012: Variography
Erie Canal Museum

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

This exhibit features Buffalo artist Michael Bosworth's "Variography" -- a pair of installations, one inside the historic Syracuse Weighlock Building and the other outside and directly across the former Erie Canal (now Erie Blvd.) from the Weighlock. Inside there will be four-foot tall brick columns containing magic-lantern projectors, while outside will stand a camera obscurae built of cement on heavy wooden tripods.

Michael Bosworth is a nationally exhibiting artist and a professor in the photography department of Villa Maria College. He received his M.F.A. from the University of New Mexico, a B.F.A. and B.A. at UB. His commissioned public art projects include Fluid Culture, Main Street/Art Street, and Herd About Buffalo.

The Erie Canal Museum is proud to be a part of The Other New York: 2012 (TONY: 2012), an unprecedented community-wide, multi-venue contemporary art exhibition. TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse and XL Projects.

The Tall and Short of It
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The exhibit features pottery by Jim Burke and paintings by Lisa Noviasky. Jim Burke's pottery combines function and style which makes his pieces both useful and unique. Lisa Noviasky paints with colors that best reflect the essence and emotional connection to the scene she is capturing.

Fibers Expo: Wearable, Warm and Wonderful
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

To mark the expansion of its fibers collection, Imagine will present "Wearable, Warm and Wonderful," an exhibition of fiber art.

Works will be featured by:
* Luc Ends by Lucinda Snyder, of Rochester, who creates playful purses.
* Pandemonium Millinery, of Seattle, represented by its elegant faux fur hats and scarves.
* Miss Fitt Hats, of Durham, NC, which crafts hand-felted merino wool hats, scarves, mittens and other adornments.
* Maruca Design, of Boulder, CO, which designs and produces handbags, wallets and cosmetics cases, while embracing principles of the Arts & Crafts movement.
* Laurel Moranz, of Skaneateles, who creates rayon chenille scarves, shawls and snoods.
* Ginny Spina, of Jamesville, who designs scarves made from vintage kimono silk.

Susan Worsham: Bittersweet/Bloodwork
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

When Susan Worsham was just 18, her brother took his own life after severing his spinal cord in a motorcycle accident. As a young girl she had already lost her father to a heart attack, and finally in 2004, she lost her mother as well. In the words of Worsham, "Shortly after my mother passed I came across a set of antique veterinary slides. They were some of the most interesting things that I had ever seen. I framed ninety of them in a long wooden frame resembling the shape of the slide itself. It was the first piece of art that I made after my mother died. I called the piece a watercolor because of the collection of pastel colors, but it was also a sort of poem when you got close and read the titles ... Rabbit's Lung, Fowl's Spleen, and even Human Umbilical Cord. They seemed to hold beauty and death at the same time."

Worsham went on to photograph her old childhood home as well as her oldest neighbor, Margaret Daniel. Margaret is one of the last remaining threads from Worsham's childhood and was the last person to see her brother alive. She made him her homemade bread, and he finished the whole loaf before he shot himself. The story came full circle one day when Margaret brought out her dissection kit and microscope slides. She had been a biology teacher and was holding on to the same sort of slides that fascinated Worsham. Margaret's microscope and slides have since become a metaphor for Worsham's desire to look deeper into the landscape of her childhood--from the flora and fauna to the feelings, Margaret calls it "blood work."

In addition to Worsham's touching photographs made in and around Virginia, this exhibition features a selection of Margaret's dissection tools alongside her microscope, as well as audio recordings of their various conversations about plants, life, and death. All together, the photographs and accompaniments in Bittersweet/Bloodwork speak of the poetry of childhood, nature, discovery, love, and loss.

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.

Faces, Forms and Illusions: Works by Scott Hutchison
Redhouse

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

Scott Hutchison is a painter living in the Washington DC metro area. His work combines contemporary realism and animation. An exploration of the human figure continues to be the leitmotiv of Hutchison's work with a long-standing interest in self portraiture.

Hutchison says:
"My animations combine traditional painting and drawing techniques with digital technology to create animated portraits, which are displayed on small LCD panels, or projected, large-scale. Dozens of individual stills portray my face, changing only slightly from one image to the next. When the images are unified digitally, an animation is created. Each video is comprised of multiple painted or drawn self-portraits that, although similar, possess slight variations of color and treatment. When animated, the paint and mark move across the surface, resulting in a portrait that is in constant flux."

Framed Un Framed
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

An exhibition of artists with a dual practice, featuring Abby Carter, Samantha Harmon, Lori Hawke, Stephanie Koenig, Lynette K Stephenson, and Marion Wilson.

Puerto Rican Bomba and Plena: A Graphic History
La Casita Cultural Center

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

The exhibit presents the works of nine Puerto Rican master artists who were commissioned to create screen prints to capture the spirit of the annual Bomba and Plena Festivals held in Puerto Rico. Their posters have been collected and preserved by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture in San Juan.

Featured artists are José R. Alicea, Luis Alonso, Luis Germán Cajigas, Jesús Cardona, Sixto Cotto, David Goitia, Samuel Lind, Luis Maisonet Ramos, and Nelson Sambolin.

Meet Nero Wolfe (1936)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Director: Herbert J. Biberman.
Cast: Edward Arnold, Lionel Stander, Victor Jory, Dennie Moore, Nana Bryant, Russell Hardie, Joan Perry, John Qualen.

Arnold is perfectly cast in the first of only two films that featured Rex Stout's weighty (literally!) armchair detective, Nero Wolfe, trying to connect the murders of a college president and an auto mechanic. Look for a young Rita Hayworth, billed here under her original name, Rita Cansino.

Coheed and Cambria, with Three
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Windows Project: TONY 2012
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

For this project, Jeffrey Einhorn created a site-specific installation "A Portrait of the Artist as a Giant Deflating Head" to address the fine line between performance art and sculpture while emphasizing wittily the unstable state of things or a disorder of a system.

This Window Projects exhibition is part of The Other New York: 2012, a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with 14 Syracuse partner art organizations to highlight artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties.

Lynette Blake: Within and Beyond
Weeks Art Gallery at Baltimore Woods

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

Lynette Blake's oil paintings draw the viewer in through complex layers of shape and color. The use of overlapping imagery conveys a depth that extends deep below the surface of the canvas. Objects, whether used directly or evoked by abstract shapes, float in and out of light illuminating them with a pervasive warm glow. The effect is otherworldly -- a feeling of being outside time and space is conveyed.

Blake has exhibited her work throughout the Northeast, and is currently represented locally by the Szozda Gallery in Syracuse, as well as national venues. She studied art at Brown University in Rhode Island and currently resides in Upstate NY.

More information on the Weeks Gallery at Baltimore Woods can be found at www.baltimorewoods.org.

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.

TONY: 2012: Ink Geographies
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Feels like writing, but the artist is quick to make clear that it is not. Signs, representations ... of what? A mental process, a journey, from diverse points of origin through our individual timelines, our personal twists and turns. As a script emerges, something is set free, though it leaves a mark, an imprint. The artist's essential playground is a space to explore geometric archetypes that can only be found inside one another; all are one. A sacred mandala? Images contract and expand and there is order, not chaos. No more chaotic than life emerging from the womb, contraction, expansion; a beating heart, where life is felt, contraction, expansion...an ever-expanding universe, contracts only to further expand. We don't know how to will it into action. A similar experience with ink takes form in this experiment by Oscar Garcés. It flows from a playful doodle, "el virus," he calls it. And before you know it, connects with something else, an altered state of consciousness. Everything else disappears as it takes over.

The Point of Contact Gallery presents the first solo show by Cuban-born, Syracuse-based artist Oscar Garcés, as part of The Other New York: TONY 2012, a community-wide biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 14 venues in Syracuse. This program also commemorates the celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month at Point of Contact.

Born in Santiago, Cuba in 1987, Garcés came to the United States in 2000. During his years residing first in Florida, when he began to develop as a visual artist, Garcés received multiple recognitions, including a Golden Key Award for best portfolio by Scholastics. Later in Syracuse, Garcés won a "Best of Show" Award at the Community Folk Art Center in 2005. He has also shown his paintings at the Warehouse Gallery's Window Project and at La Casita Cultural Center Gallery.

TONY 2012: "The Other New York" seeks to highlight the work and talent of different rising artists from the Central New York area.

Phonography
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

Cell phone photography, featuring works of 75 Central New York and international artists. Amazing, imaginative, creative, innovative, fun photos you'll love!

Assembly-line Architecture: Repetition and Innovation in the Work of Marcel Breuer
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The exhibit, curated by Teresa Harris, architectural historian and project coordinator for the Marcel Breuer Digital Archive, showcases original drawings, photographs and documents from Breuer's long career.

Like many modern architects, Marcel Breuer found inspiration in the repetition characteristic of industrial processes, often relying on modular units or a standard kit of parts to create his buildings and interiors. The limits imposed by these systems stimulated subtle formal and spatial innovation so that no two designs were exactly alike, despite common components.

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

Play on Light
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Adriana Meiss: Pastel landscapes
John Franklin: Turned wood and sculptural vessels
Paul Riccardi: Pastel florals and still-lifes
Judy McCumber: Silver and gemstone jewelry

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.

TONY: 2012: Variography
Erie Canal Museum

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

This exhibit features Buffalo artist Michael Bosworth's "Variography" -- a pair of installations, one inside the historic Syracuse Weighlock Building and the other outside and directly across the former Erie Canal (now Erie Blvd.) from the Weighlock. Inside there will be four-foot tall brick columns containing magic-lantern projectors, while outside will stand a camera obscurae built of cement on heavy wooden tripods.

Michael Bosworth is a nationally exhibiting artist and a professor in the photography department of Villa Maria College. He received his M.F.A. from the University of New Mexico, a B.F.A. and B.A. at UB. His commissioned public art projects include Fluid Culture, Main Street/Art Street, and Herd About Buffalo.

The Erie Canal Museum is proud to be a part of The Other New York: 2012 (TONY: 2012), an unprecedented community-wide, multi-venue contemporary art exhibition. TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse and XL Projects.

The Tall and Short of It
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The exhibit features pottery by Jim Burke and paintings by Lisa Noviasky. Jim Burke's pottery combines function and style which makes his pieces both useful and unique. Lisa Noviasky paints with colors that best reflect the essence and emotional connection to the scene she is capturing.

Fibers Expo: Wearable, Warm and Wonderful
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

To mark the expansion of its fibers collection, Imagine will present "Wearable, Warm and Wonderful," an exhibition of fiber art.

Works will be featured by:
* Luc Ends by Lucinda Snyder, of Rochester, who creates playful purses.
* Pandemonium Millinery, of Seattle, represented by its elegant faux fur hats and scarves.
* Miss Fitt Hats, of Durham, NC, which crafts hand-felted merino wool hats, scarves, mittens and other adornments.
* Maruca Design, of Boulder, CO, which designs and produces handbags, wallets and cosmetics cases, while embracing principles of the Arts & Crafts movement.
* Laurel Moranz, of Skaneateles, who creates rayon chenille scarves, shawls and snoods.
* Ginny Spina, of Jamesville, who designs scarves made from vintage kimono silk.

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.

Susan Worsham: Bittersweet/Bloodwork
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

When Susan Worsham was just 18, her brother took his own life after severing his spinal cord in a motorcycle accident. As a young girl she had already lost her father to a heart attack, and finally in 2004, she lost her mother as well. In the words of Worsham, "Shortly after my mother passed I came across a set of antique veterinary slides. They were some of the most interesting things that I had ever seen. I framed ninety of them in a long wooden frame resembling the shape of the slide itself. It was the first piece of art that I made after my mother died. I called the piece a watercolor because of the collection of pastel colors, but it was also a sort of poem when you got close and read the titles ... Rabbit's Lung, Fowl's Spleen, and even Human Umbilical Cord. They seemed to hold beauty and death at the same time."

Worsham went on to photograph her old childhood home as well as her oldest neighbor, Margaret Daniel. Margaret is one of the last remaining threads from Worsham's childhood and was the last person to see her brother alive. She made him her homemade bread, and he finished the whole loaf before he shot himself. The story came full circle one day when Margaret brought out her dissection kit and microscope slides. She had been a biology teacher and was holding on to the same sort of slides that fascinated Worsham. Margaret's microscope and slides have since become a metaphor for Worsham's desire to look deeper into the landscape of her childhood--from the flora and fauna to the feelings, Margaret calls it "blood work."

In addition to Worsham's touching photographs made in and around Virginia, this exhibition features a selection of Margaret's dissection tools alongside her microscope, as well as audio recordings of their various conversations about plants, life, and death. All together, the photographs and accompaniments in Bittersweet/Bloodwork speak of the poetry of childhood, nature, discovery, love, and loss.

Faces, Forms and Illusions: Works by Scott Hutchison
Redhouse

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

Scott Hutchison is a painter living in the Washington DC metro area. His work combines contemporary realism and animation. An exploration of the human figure continues to be the leitmotiv of Hutchison's work with a long-standing interest in self portraiture.

Hutchison says:
"My animations combine traditional painting and drawing techniques with digital technology to create animated portraits, which are displayed on small LCD panels, or projected, large-scale. Dozens of individual stills portray my face, changing only slightly from one image to the next. When the images are unified digitally, an animation is created. Each video is comprised of multiple painted or drawn self-portraits that, although similar, possess slight variations of color and treatment. When animated, the paint and mark move across the surface, resulting in a portrait that is in constant flux."

Framed Un Framed
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

An exhibition of artists with a dual practice, featuring Abby Carter, Samantha Harmon, Lori Hawke, Stephanie Koenig, Lynette K Stephenson, and Marion Wilson.

TONY: 2012
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Other New York: 2012 (Tony: 2012) is an ambitious project that 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 offers 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.

The artists included in the SUArt Galleries TONY: 2012 are Tammy Brackett, Juan Cruz, Sara Di Donato, Matthew Glaysher, Amy Greenan, Sue Huggins Leopard, Barbara Page, James Skvarch.

The SUArt Galleries is one of 14 venues participating in this citywide celebration of the visual arts. Please take the time to visit the exhibitions at the other TONY venues to see the wealth of talent that resides and works upstate.

Karl Schrag: Memories and Premonitions
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Syracuse University Art Galleries is celebrating the career and life of Karl Schrag, American painter and printmaker, who would have been 100 years old this year. "Karl Schrag: Memories and Premonitions" is the first major examination of the artist's work since his death in 1995. The exhibition includes 70 original works of art by the influential artist, including paintings, prints and drawings.

Syracuse University has had a long and rewarding association with Karl Schrag and his family. It began in 1962 with a gift of a gouache painting titled "Coast in Autumn." Later the relationship grew with the first of numerous exhibitions, more gifts of artwork, and occasional lectures to students in the University's School of Art. Some 50 years later, S.U.'s art collection is much richer because of the 250-plus Karl Schrag artworks we maintain, and the continued support of Schrag Family.

2012 is also the centenary year of Karl Schrag's birth and gives us an opportunity to reinvestigate the talent, imagination, and sensitivity Schrag brought to his landscapes, still-life paintings, and portraits. A master of color, light, composition, and draftsmanship, Schrag captures nature and its great forces through an investigation of the lasting impressions each of us retain through experience. He engages his viewer with subtle mark making as well as with the bold calligraphic strokes so often associated with his work. His palette of almost Fauvist intensity adds dimension and passion to the landscapes he created.

Schrag's art career spanned more than 60 years and he had strong ties to the New York City art scene. After studying at the Art Students League, he joined S.W. Hayter's prestigious printmaking studio Atelier 17, working alongside artists Miró, Chagall and Jackson Pollock. Schrag was named director of the Atelier in 1950 and later began a long teaching career at Cooper Union, where he taught drawing and graphic arts from 1954-1968. Schrag had a direct impact on many of his students, including the Syracuse University-based artist Jerome Witkin. A student of Schrag at Cooper Union and a well-established contemporary artist, Witkin has commented on Schrags masterful handling of the landscape, and the evocative power of his vision.

The art selected for this exhibit will convey the artist's ability to see the landscape as if for the first time, the surprise of that special view, the recognition of his ability to feel wonder when looking at nature or figures, and the reward associated with seeing the world through his eyes.

The Other New York: 2012
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison 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-The Norton Putter Gallery, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact, Red House Arts Center, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse and XL Projects.

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.

Prophecy: Peter B. Jones
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Prophecy" is a timely exhibition pertaining to Indigenous prophecies. By incorporating themes of ecology, creation, demise and the future according to the Mayan calendar, traditional Iroquois teachings and other cultural beliefs, Jones provides a visual representation of the foretold truths.

Puerto Rican Bomba and Plena: A Graphic History
La Casita Cultural Center

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

The exhibit presents the works of nine Puerto Rican master artists who were commissioned to create screen prints to capture the spirit of the annual Bomba and Plena Festivals held in Puerto Rico. Their posters have been collected and preserved by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture in San Juan.

Featured artists are José R. Alicea, Luis Alonso, Luis Germán Cajigas, Jesús Cardona, Sixto Cotto, David Goitia, Samuel Lind, Luis Maisonet Ramos, and Nelson Sambolin.

Lov U
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Lov U" is a multimedia installation by Senga Nengudi.

Colorado-based Senga Nengudi is a key figure of the Black Arts Movement in the 1970s and 1980s. Known primarily for performance-based art installations, her work focuses on movement and the human body, is multidisciplinary in nature and international in scope, with cultural references to Africa, the African Diaspora, and Asia. For her multimedia, performance-based exhibition "Lov U," Nengudi explores the physical senses of being human, and includes photographs and video to reflect on the essence of love. Drawn to discarded, everyday materials, the ephemerality of Nengudi's work is a metaphor for life's transience.

On Continuum
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Featuring Brian Zhang Li

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Auditorium
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Windows Project: TONY 2012
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

For this project, Jeffrey Einhorn created a site-specific installation "A Portrait of the Artist as a Giant Deflating Head" to address the fine line between performance art and sculpture while emphasizing wittily the unstable state of things or a disorder of a system.

This Window Projects exhibition is part of The Other New York: 2012, a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with 14 Syracuse partner art organizations to highlight artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties.

Lynette Blake: Within and Beyond
Weeks Art Gallery at Baltimore Woods

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

Lynette Blake's oil paintings draw the viewer in through complex layers of shape and color. The use of overlapping imagery conveys a depth that extends deep below the surface of the canvas. Objects, whether used directly or evoked by abstract shapes, float in and out of light illuminating them with a pervasive warm glow. The effect is otherworldly -- a feeling of being outside time and space is conveyed.

Blake has exhibited her work throughout the Northeast, and is currently represented locally by the Szozda Gallery in Syracuse, as well as national venues. She studied art at Brown University in Rhode Island and currently resides in Upstate NY.

More information on the Weeks Gallery at Baltimore Woods can be found at www.baltimorewoods.org.

TONY: 2012: Ink Geographies
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Feels like writing, but the artist is quick to make clear that it is not. Signs, representations ... of what? A mental process, a journey, from diverse points of origin through our individual timelines, our personal twists and turns. As a script emerges, something is set free, though it leaves a mark, an imprint. The artist's essential playground is a space to explore geometric archetypes that can only be found inside one another; all are one. A sacred mandala? Images contract and expand and there is order, not chaos. No more chaotic than life emerging from the womb, contraction, expansion; a beating heart, where life is felt, contraction, expansion...an ever-expanding universe, contracts only to further expand. We don't know how to will it into action. A similar experience with ink takes form in this experiment by Oscar Garcés. It flows from a playful doodle, "el virus," he calls it. And before you know it, connects with something else, an altered state of consciousness. Everything else disappears as it takes over.

The Point of Contact Gallery presents the first solo show by Cuban-born, Syracuse-based artist Oscar Garcés, as part of The Other New York: TONY 2012, a community-wide biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 14 venues in Syracuse. This program also commemorates the celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month at Point of Contact.

Born in Santiago, Cuba in 1987, Garcés came to the United States in 2000. During his years residing first in Florida, when he began to develop as a visual artist, Garcés received multiple recognitions, including a Golden Key Award for best portfolio by Scholastics. Later in Syracuse, Garcés won a "Best of Show" Award at the Community Folk Art Center in 2005. He has also shown his paintings at the Warehouse Gallery's Window Project and at La Casita Cultural Center Gallery.

TONY 2012: "The Other New York" seeks to highlight the work and talent of different rising artists from the Central New York area.

Phonography
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

Cell phone photography, featuring works of 75 Central New York and international artists. Amazing, imaginative, creative, innovative, fun photos you'll love!

Assembly-line Architecture: Repetition and Innovation in the Work of Marcel Breuer
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The exhibit, curated by Teresa Harris, architectural historian and project coordinator for the Marcel Breuer Digital Archive, showcases original drawings, photographs and documents from Breuer's long career.

Like many modern architects, Marcel Breuer found inspiration in the repetition characteristic of industrial processes, often relying on modular units or a standard kit of parts to create his buildings and interiors. The limits imposed by these systems stimulated subtle formal and spatial innovation so that no two designs were exactly alike, despite common components.

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

Play on Light
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Adriana Meiss: Pastel landscapes
John Franklin: Turned wood and sculptural vessels
Paul Riccardi: Pastel florals and still-lifes
Judy McCumber: Silver and gemstone 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.

TONY: 2012: Variography
Erie Canal Museum

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

This exhibit features Buffalo artist Michael Bosworth's "Variography" -- a pair of installations, one inside the historic Syracuse Weighlock Building and the other outside and directly across the former Erie Canal (now Erie Blvd.) from the Weighlock. Inside there will be four-foot tall brick columns containing magic-lantern projectors, while outside will stand a camera obscurae built of cement on heavy wooden tripods.

Michael Bosworth is a nationally exhibiting artist and a professor in the photography department of Villa Maria College. He received his M.F.A. from the University of New Mexico, a B.F.A. and B.A. at UB. His commissioned public art projects include Fluid Culture, Main Street/Art Street, and Herd About Buffalo.

The Erie Canal Museum is proud to be a part of The Other New York: 2012 (TONY: 2012), an unprecedented community-wide, multi-venue contemporary art exhibition. TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse and XL Projects.

The Tall and Short of It
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The exhibit features pottery by Jim Burke and paintings by Lisa Noviasky. Jim Burke's pottery combines function and style which makes his pieces both useful and unique. Lisa Noviasky paints with colors that best reflect the essence and emotional connection to the scene she is capturing.

Fibers Expo: Wearable, Warm and Wonderful
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

To mark the expansion of its fibers collection, Imagine will present "Wearable, Warm and Wonderful," an exhibition of fiber art.

Works will be featured by:
* Luc Ends by Lucinda Snyder, of Rochester, who creates playful purses.
* Pandemonium Millinery, of Seattle, represented by its elegant faux fur hats and scarves.
* Miss Fitt Hats, of Durham, NC, which crafts hand-felted merino wool hats, scarves, mittens and other adornments.
* Maruca Design, of Boulder, CO, which designs and produces handbags, wallets and cosmetics cases, while embracing principles of the Arts & Crafts movement.
* Laurel Moranz, of Skaneateles, who creates rayon chenille scarves, shawls and snoods.
* Ginny Spina, of Jamesville, who designs scarves made from vintage kimono silk.

Susan Worsham: Bittersweet/Bloodwork
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

When Susan Worsham was just 18, her brother took his own life after severing his spinal cord in a motorcycle accident. As a young girl she had already lost her father to a heart attack, and finally in 2004, she lost her mother as well. In the words of Worsham, "Shortly after my mother passed I came across a set of antique veterinary slides. They were some of the most interesting things that I had ever seen. I framed ninety of them in a long wooden frame resembling the shape of the slide itself. It was the first piece of art that I made after my mother died. I called the piece a watercolor because of the collection of pastel colors, but it was also a sort of poem when you got close and read the titles ... Rabbit's Lung, Fowl's Spleen, and even Human Umbilical Cord. They seemed to hold beauty and death at the same time."

Worsham went on to photograph her old childhood home as well as her oldest neighbor, Margaret Daniel. Margaret is one of the last remaining threads from Worsham's childhood and was the last person to see her brother alive. She made him her homemade bread, and he finished the whole loaf before he shot himself. The story came full circle one day when Margaret brought out her dissection kit and microscope slides. She had been a biology teacher and was holding on to the same sort of slides that fascinated Worsham. Margaret's microscope and slides have since become a metaphor for Worsham's desire to look deeper into the landscape of her childhood--from the flora and fauna to the feelings, Margaret calls it "blood work."

In addition to Worsham's touching photographs made in and around Virginia, this exhibition features a selection of Margaret's dissection tools alongside her microscope, as well as audio recordings of their various conversations about plants, life, and death. All together, the photographs and accompaniments in Bittersweet/Bloodwork speak of the poetry of childhood, nature, discovery, love, and loss.

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.

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.

TONY: 2012: "Manifest Destiny and the American West" and "Last House"
Onondaga Historical Association

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

These exhibits are mounted as part of the The Other New York (TONY): 2012, Syracuse's art biennial. OHA's TONY: 2012 exhibits are artistically presented interpretations of dynamic social trends that are part of the historic legacy of Central New York.

In a three-dimensional display employing nearly 1,000 images set in glass jars, "Manifest Destiny and the American West," an exhibit by Buffalo artist Robert Hirsch, asks the visitor to think about how our nation's geographic progression across the continent has shaped American culture. The desire to exploit the salt brine reserves on Onondaga Lake contributed to a westward migration of settlers across Central New York in the post-American Revolution era, while the construction of the Erie Canal enhanced this movement through the 19th century and enabled many travelers to reach lands in the farther reaches of the American continent.

"Last House" is a multi-channel video installation by media artist Carl Lee that explores the aesthetics and means of a house demolition in Buffalo. Cities like Buffalo and Syracuse are faced with a large number of abandoned houses. This video asks us to think about what we gain and lose in demolishing them. This installation will be accompanied by three paintings by Western New York artist Amy Greenan of vacant houses in Syracuse awaiting an uncertain future, including "Not Here, Not Now," her interpretation of 711 Tully Street, which seems poised to have a different fate on Syracuse's Near West Side than that if the house in Last House.

Onondaga Historical Association is proud to be one of 14 Central New York venues for TONY: 2012. TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse, and XL Projects.

Faces, Forms and Illusions: Works by Scott Hutchison
Redhouse

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

Scott Hutchison is a painter living in the Washington DC metro area. His work combines contemporary realism and animation. An exploration of the human figure continues to be the leitmotiv of Hutchison's work with a long-standing interest in self portraiture.

Hutchison says:
"My animations combine traditional painting and drawing techniques with digital technology to create animated portraits, which are displayed on small LCD panels, or projected, large-scale. Dozens of individual stills portray my face, changing only slightly from one image to the next. When the images are unified digitally, an animation is created. Each video is comprised of multiple painted or drawn self-portraits that, although similar, possess slight variations of color and treatment. When animated, the paint and mark move across the surface, resulting in a portrait that is in constant flux."

An American Vision: East Meets West
Szozda Gallery

Price: Free
Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The fall season opens with new works by two popular local artists, Phil Parsons and Bob Niedzwiecki, who reveal the striking beauty between vastly different American landscapes of lush vegetation versus dry earth.

For Parsons, this show represents the latest installment of his familiar "Roadside Series," in which rural Central New York is prominent. This series of new images is done with a commitment to the realist movement, somewhat a departure for Parsons who says he is "not exclusively a traditional painter."

New works by realist painter Niedzwiecki deviate from the gentle, subtle Central New York landscapes for which he is typically known. A vacation return to the Southwest became the inspiration for capturing the beauty of landscapes that he fell in love with long before while living in Colorado and Arizona.

Framed Un Framed
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

An exhibition of artists with a dual practice, featuring Abby Carter, Samantha Harmon, Lori Hawke, Stephanie Koenig, Lynette K Stephenson, and Marion Wilson.

Karl Schrag: Memories and Premonitions
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Syracuse University Art Galleries is celebrating the career and life of Karl Schrag, American painter and printmaker, who would have been 100 years old this year. "Karl Schrag: Memories and Premonitions" is the first major examination of the artist's work since his death in 1995. The exhibition includes 70 original works of art by the influential artist, including paintings, prints and drawings.

Syracuse University has had a long and rewarding association with Karl Schrag and his family. It began in 1962 with a gift of a gouache painting titled "Coast in Autumn." Later the relationship grew with the first of numerous exhibitions, more gifts of artwork, and occasional lectures to students in the University's School of Art. Some 50 years later, S.U.'s art collection is much richer because of the 250-plus Karl Schrag artworks we maintain, and the continued support of Schrag Family.

2012 is also the centenary year of Karl Schrag's birth and gives us an opportunity to reinvestigate the talent, imagination, and sensitivity Schrag brought to his landscapes, still-life paintings, and portraits. A master of color, light, composition, and draftsmanship, Schrag captures nature and its great forces through an investigation of the lasting impressions each of us retain through experience. He engages his viewer with subtle mark making as well as with the bold calligraphic strokes so often associated with his work. His palette of almost Fauvist intensity adds dimension and passion to the landscapes he created.

Schrag's art career spanned more than 60 years and he had strong ties to the New York City art scene. After studying at the Art Students League, he joined S.W. Hayter's prestigious printmaking studio Atelier 17, working alongside artists Miró, Chagall and Jackson Pollock. Schrag was named director of the Atelier in 1950 and later began a long teaching career at Cooper Union, where he taught drawing and graphic arts from 1954-1968. Schrag had a direct impact on many of his students, including the Syracuse University-based artist Jerome Witkin. A student of Schrag at Cooper Union and a well-established contemporary artist, Witkin has commented on Schrags masterful handling of the landscape, and the evocative power of his vision.

The art selected for this exhibit will convey the artist's ability to see the landscape as if for the first time, the surprise of that special view, the recognition of his ability to feel wonder when looking at nature or figures, and the reward associated with seeing the world through his eyes.

TONY: 2012
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Other New York: 2012 (Tony: 2012) is an ambitious project that 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 offers 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.

The artists included in the SUArt Galleries TONY: 2012 are Tammy Brackett, Juan Cruz, Sara Di Donato, Matthew Glaysher, Amy Greenan, Sue Huggins Leopard, Barbara Page, James Skvarch.

The SUArt Galleries is one of 14 venues participating in this citywide celebration of the visual arts. Please take the time to visit the exhibitions at the other TONY venues to see the wealth of talent that resides and works upstate.

Prophecy: Peter B. Jones
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Prophecy" is a timely exhibition pertaining to Indigenous prophecies. By incorporating themes of ecology, creation, demise and the future according to the Mayan calendar, traditional Iroquois teachings and other cultural beliefs, Jones provides a visual representation of the foretold truths.

The Other New York: 2012
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison 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-The Norton Putter Gallery, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact, Red House Arts Center, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse and XL Projects.

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.

Puerto Rican Bomba and Plena: A Graphic History
La Casita Cultural Center

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

The exhibit presents the works of nine Puerto Rican master artists who were commissioned to create screen prints to capture the spirit of the annual Bomba and Plena Festivals held in Puerto Rico. Their posters have been collected and preserved by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture in San Juan.

Featured artists are José R. Alicea, Luis Alonso, Luis Germán Cajigas, Jesús Cardona, Sixto Cotto, David Goitia, Samuel Lind, Luis Maisonet Ramos, and Nelson Sambolin.

Lov U
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Lov U" is a multimedia installation by Senga Nengudi.

Colorado-based Senga Nengudi is a key figure of the Black Arts Movement in the 1970s and 1980s. Known primarily for performance-based art installations, her work focuses on movement and the human body, is multidisciplinary in nature and international in scope, with cultural references to Africa, the African Diaspora, and Asia. For her multimedia, performance-based exhibition "Lov U," Nengudi explores the physical senses of being human, and includes photographs and video to reflect on the essence of love. Drawn to discarded, everyday materials, the ephemerality of Nengudi's work is a metaphor for life's transience.

The Other New York (TONY): 2012
XL Projects

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

XL Projects will present the work of seven artists selected for "The Other New York (TONY): 2012," a communitywide, multi-venue contemporary art exhibition featuring artists currently living in New York State outside of the New York City metropolitan area.

The artists showing work at XL Projects -- Michael Barletta, Daniel Buckingham, Jay Carrier, Meredith Davenport, Kara Daving, Tom DeLooza, and Fernando Orellana -- are among the 63 artists selected from 235 submissions for TONY: 2012. The work that will be on view at XL includes large sculpture, video, photography, kinetic sculpture, large-scale painting, and a large window graphic across the front of the venue.

TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with 14 art institutions and cultural organizations in Syracuse: ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse, and XL Projects.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours. For more information about TONY: 2012 and the other exhibiting artists and venues, visit everson.org.

TONY: 2012 (The Other New York)
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The Everson Biennial, titled "The Other New York: 2012," is being exhibited in community art galleries across Syracuse this year. ArtRage is honored to participate by exhibiting the work of four artists chosen in collaboration with the Everson Museum.

Ben Altman, Neil Chowdhury, Bob Gates and Paul Pearce, the four photographers whose works comprise this exhibit, present work that, while distinctive, shares a key characteristic. All are documentary photographers who are a bit wary of being seen as truth tellers. Fully understanding that the "objective photograph" is a myth, their photographic work -- both in the process of its creation and the images presented -- casts into doubt our traditional notions of documentation, objectivity and veracity. Nonetheless, each photographer is visualizing a certain truth, which may be one we do not know, or one that we prefer to avoid knowing. Participating in the artist's unflinching gaze, we become complicit witnesses to situations -- torture, poverty, social class, and the effects of war -- often conveniently rendered invisible.

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Urbanized
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Auditorium
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

A documentary film by Gary Hustwit.

Following the screening, join a discussion on the future of cities with Pamela Puchalski, the film's associate producer; Rob Simpson, Centerstate CEO president; Jonathan Solomon, associate dean; Linda Dickerson Hartsock, Connective Corridor director; and Francisco Sanin, professor.

Woodwind Whimsy
Civic Morning Musicals
Lake Effect Winds

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

Music by Joseph Haydn, Jacques Ibert, and Karl Goepfart.

Papadosio, with Dopapod and Third Nature
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Windows Project: TONY 2012
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

For this project, Jeffrey Einhorn created a site-specific installation "A Portrait of the Artist as a Giant Deflating Head" to address the fine line between performance art and sculpture while emphasizing wittily the unstable state of things or a disorder of a system.

This Window Projects exhibition is part of The Other New York: 2012, a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with 14 Syracuse partner art organizations to highlight artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties.

Lynette Blake: Within and Beyond
Weeks Art Gallery at Baltimore Woods

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

Lynette Blake's oil paintings draw the viewer in through complex layers of shape and color. The use of overlapping imagery conveys a depth that extends deep below the surface of the canvas. Objects, whether used directly or evoked by abstract shapes, float in and out of light illuminating them with a pervasive warm glow. The effect is otherworldly -- a feeling of being outside time and space is conveyed.

Blake has exhibited her work throughout the Northeast, and is currently represented locally by the Szozda Gallery in Syracuse, as well as national venues. She studied art at Brown University in Rhode Island and currently resides in Upstate NY.

More information on the Weeks Gallery at Baltimore Woods can be found at www.baltimorewoods.org.

TONY: 2012: Ink Geographies
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Feels like writing, but the artist is quick to make clear that it is not. Signs, representations ... of what? A mental process, a journey, from diverse points of origin through our individual timelines, our personal twists and turns. As a script emerges, something is set free, though it leaves a mark, an imprint. The artist's essential playground is a space to explore geometric archetypes that can only be found inside one another; all are one. A sacred mandala? Images contract and expand and there is order, not chaos. No more chaotic than life emerging from the womb, contraction, expansion; a beating heart, where life is felt, contraction, expansion...an ever-expanding universe, contracts only to further expand. We don't know how to will it into action. A similar experience with ink takes form in this experiment by Oscar Garcés. It flows from a playful doodle, "el virus," he calls it. And before you know it, connects with something else, an altered state of consciousness. Everything else disappears as it takes over.

The Point of Contact Gallery presents the first solo show by Cuban-born, Syracuse-based artist Oscar Garcés, as part of The Other New York: TONY 2012, a community-wide biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 14 venues in Syracuse. This program also commemorates the celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month at Point of Contact.

Born in Santiago, Cuba in 1987, Garcés came to the United States in 2000. During his years residing first in Florida, when he began to develop as a visual artist, Garcés received multiple recognitions, including a Golden Key Award for best portfolio by Scholastics. Later in Syracuse, Garcés won a "Best of Show" Award at the Community Folk Art Center in 2005. He has also shown his paintings at the Warehouse Gallery's Window Project and at La Casita Cultural Center Gallery.

TONY 2012: "The Other New York" seeks to highlight the work and talent of different rising artists from the Central New York area.

Phonography
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

Cell phone photography, featuring works of 75 Central New York and international artists. Amazing, imaginative, creative, innovative, fun photos you'll love!

Assembly-line Architecture: Repetition and Innovation in the Work of Marcel Breuer
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The exhibit, curated by Teresa Harris, architectural historian and project coordinator for the Marcel Breuer Digital Archive, showcases original drawings, photographs and documents from Breuer's long career.

Like many modern architects, Marcel Breuer found inspiration in the repetition characteristic of industrial processes, often relying on modular units or a standard kit of parts to create his buildings and interiors. The limits imposed by these systems stimulated subtle formal and spatial innovation so that no two designs were exactly alike, despite common components.

Investigations
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

There will be an opening reception this evening at 5:00 pm.

An exhibition of the work and design process of Stephan Jaklitsch and Mark Gardner through sketches, models, renderings, construction drawings, and photographs of six projects. Their work addresses specific conditions of site, use, the psychology of experience, sustainability, techniques of construction craft in detail, and materiality of building.

Jaklitsch/Gardner Architects (J/GA) is an award-winning NYC-based design practice that focuses on urban scale projects, buildings, interiors, and objects. Award-winning projects include the Marc Jacobs Tokyo Flagship Building (2010); a bike rack for the NYC Dept. of Transportation that was exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (2008); and the Marc Jacobs International Showroom (2012).

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

Play on Light
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Adriana Meiss: Pastel landscapes
John Franklin: Turned wood and sculptural vessels
Paul Riccardi: Pastel florals and still-lifes
Judy McCumber: Silver and gemstone jewelry

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.

TONY: 2012: Variography
Erie Canal Museum

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

This exhibit features Buffalo artist Michael Bosworth's "Variography" -- a pair of installations, one inside the historic Syracuse Weighlock Building and the other outside and directly across the former Erie Canal (now Erie Blvd.) from the Weighlock. Inside there will be four-foot tall brick columns containing magic-lantern projectors, while outside will stand a camera obscurae built of cement on heavy wooden tripods.

Michael Bosworth is a nationally exhibiting artist and a professor in the photography department of Villa Maria College. He received his M.F.A. from the University of New Mexico, a B.F.A. and B.A. at UB. His commissioned public art projects include Fluid Culture, Main Street/Art Street, and Herd About Buffalo.

The Erie Canal Museum is proud to be a part of The Other New York: 2012 (TONY: 2012), an unprecedented community-wide, multi-venue contemporary art exhibition. TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse and XL Projects.

The Tall and Short of It
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The exhibit features pottery by Jim Burke and paintings by Lisa Noviasky. Jim Burke's pottery combines function and style which makes his pieces both useful and unique. Lisa Noviasky paints with colors that best reflect the essence and emotional connection to the scene she is capturing.

Fibers Expo: Wearable, Warm and Wonderful
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

To mark the expansion of its fibers collection, Imagine will present "Wearable, Warm and Wonderful," an exhibition of fiber art.

Works will be featured by:
* Luc Ends by Lucinda Snyder, of Rochester, who creates playful purses.
* Pandemonium Millinery, of Seattle, represented by its elegant faux fur hats and scarves.
* Miss Fitt Hats, of Durham, NC, which crafts hand-felted merino wool hats, scarves, mittens and other adornments.
* Maruca Design, of Boulder, CO, which designs and produces handbags, wallets and cosmetics cases, while embracing principles of the Arts & Crafts movement.
* Laurel Moranz, of Skaneateles, who creates rayon chenille scarves, shawls and snoods.
* Ginny Spina, of Jamesville, who designs scarves made from vintage kimono silk.

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.

Susan Worsham: Bittersweet/Bloodwork
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

When Susan Worsham was just 18, her brother took his own life after severing his spinal cord in a motorcycle accident. As a young girl she had already lost her father to a heart attack, and finally in 2004, she lost her mother as well. In the words of Worsham, "Shortly after my mother passed I came across a set of antique veterinary slides. They were some of the most interesting things that I had ever seen. I framed ninety of them in a long wooden frame resembling the shape of the slide itself. It was the first piece of art that I made after my mother died. I called the piece a watercolor because of the collection of pastel colors, but it was also a sort of poem when you got close and read the titles ... Rabbit's Lung, Fowl's Spleen, and even Human Umbilical Cord. They seemed to hold beauty and death at the same time."

Worsham went on to photograph her old childhood home as well as her oldest neighbor, Margaret Daniel. Margaret is one of the last remaining threads from Worsham's childhood and was the last person to see her brother alive. She made him her homemade bread, and he finished the whole loaf before he shot himself. The story came full circle one day when Margaret brought out her dissection kit and microscope slides. She had been a biology teacher and was holding on to the same sort of slides that fascinated Worsham. Margaret's microscope and slides have since become a metaphor for Worsham's desire to look deeper into the landscape of her childhood--from the flora and fauna to the feelings, Margaret calls it "blood work."

In addition to Worsham's touching photographs made in and around Virginia, this exhibition features a selection of Margaret's dissection tools alongside her microscope, as well as audio recordings of their various conversations about plants, life, and death. All together, the photographs and accompaniments in Bittersweet/Bloodwork speak of the poetry of childhood, nature, discovery, love, and loss.

TONY: 2012: "Manifest Destiny and the American West" and "Last House"
Onondaga Historical Association

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

These exhibits are mounted as part of the The Other New York (TONY): 2012, Syracuse's art biennial. OHA's TONY: 2012 exhibits are artistically presented interpretations of dynamic social trends that are part of the historic legacy of Central New York.

In a three-dimensional display employing nearly 1,000 images set in glass jars, "Manifest Destiny and the American West," an exhibit by Buffalo artist Robert Hirsch, asks the visitor to think about how our nation's geographic progression across the continent has shaped American culture. The desire to exploit the salt brine reserves on Onondaga Lake contributed to a westward migration of settlers across Central New York in the post-American Revolution era, while the construction of the Erie Canal enhanced this movement through the 19th century and enabled many travelers to reach lands in the farther reaches of the American continent.

"Last House" is a multi-channel video installation by media artist Carl Lee that explores the aesthetics and means of a house demolition in Buffalo. Cities like Buffalo and Syracuse are faced with a large number of abandoned houses. This video asks us to think about what we gain and lose in demolishing them. This installation will be accompanied by three paintings by Western New York artist Amy Greenan of vacant houses in Syracuse awaiting an uncertain future, including "Not Here, Not Now," her interpretation of 711 Tully Street, which seems poised to have a different fate on Syracuse's Near West Side than that if the house in Last House.

Onondaga Historical Association is proud to be one of 14 Central New York venues for TONY: 2012. TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse, and XL Projects.

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.

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.

Faces, Forms and Illusions: Works by Scott Hutchison
Redhouse

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

Scott Hutchison is a painter living in the Washington DC metro area. His work combines contemporary realism and animation. An exploration of the human figure continues to be the leitmotiv of Hutchison's work with a long-standing interest in self portraiture.

Hutchison says:
"My animations combine traditional painting and drawing techniques with digital technology to create animated portraits, which are displayed on small LCD panels, or projected, large-scale. Dozens of individual stills portray my face, changing only slightly from one image to the next. When the images are unified digitally, an animation is created. Each video is comprised of multiple painted or drawn self-portraits that, although similar, possess slight variations of color and treatment. When animated, the paint and mark move across the surface, resulting in a portrait that is in constant flux."

An American Vision: East Meets West
Szozda Gallery

Price: Free
Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The fall season opens with new works by two popular local artists, Phil Parsons and Bob Niedzwiecki, who reveal the striking beauty between vastly different American landscapes of lush vegetation versus dry earth.

For Parsons, this show represents the latest installment of his familiar "Roadside Series," in which rural Central New York is prominent. This series of new images is done with a commitment to the realist movement, somewhat a departure for Parsons who says he is "not exclusively a traditional painter."

New works by realist painter Niedzwiecki deviate from the gentle, subtle Central New York landscapes for which he is typically known. A vacation return to the Southwest became the inspiration for capturing the beauty of landscapes that he fell in love with long before while living in Colorado and Arizona.

Framed Un Framed
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

An exhibition of artists with a dual practice, featuring Abby Carter, Samantha Harmon, Lori Hawke, Stephanie Koenig, Lynette K Stephenson, and Marion Wilson.

TONY: 2012
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Other New York: 2012 (Tony: 2012) is an ambitious project that 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 offers 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.

The artists included in the SUArt Galleries TONY: 2012 are Tammy Brackett, Juan Cruz, Sara Di Donato, Matthew Glaysher, Amy Greenan, Sue Huggins Leopard, Barbara Page, James Skvarch.

The SUArt Galleries is one of 14 venues participating in this citywide celebration of the visual arts. Please take the time to visit the exhibitions at the other TONY venues to see the wealth of talent that resides and works upstate.

Karl Schrag: Memories and Premonitions
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Syracuse University Art Galleries is celebrating the career and life of Karl Schrag, American painter and printmaker, who would have been 100 years old this year. "Karl Schrag: Memories and Premonitions" is the first major examination of the artist's work since his death in 1995. The exhibition includes 70 original works of art by the influential artist, including paintings, prints and drawings.

Syracuse University has had a long and rewarding association with Karl Schrag and his family. It began in 1962 with a gift of a gouache painting titled "Coast in Autumn." Later the relationship grew with the first of numerous exhibitions, more gifts of artwork, and occasional lectures to students in the University's School of Art. Some 50 years later, S.U.'s art collection is much richer because of the 250-plus Karl Schrag artworks we maintain, and the continued support of Schrag Family.

2012 is also the centenary year of Karl Schrag's birth and gives us an opportunity to reinvestigate the talent, imagination, and sensitivity Schrag brought to his landscapes, still-life paintings, and portraits. A master of color, light, composition, and draftsmanship, Schrag captures nature and its great forces through an investigation of the lasting impressions each of us retain through experience. He engages his viewer with subtle mark making as well as with the bold calligraphic strokes so often associated with his work. His palette of almost Fauvist intensity adds dimension and passion to the landscapes he created.

Schrag's art career spanned more than 60 years and he had strong ties to the New York City art scene. After studying at the Art Students League, he joined S.W. Hayter's prestigious printmaking studio Atelier 17, working alongside artists Miró, Chagall and Jackson Pollock. Schrag was named director of the Atelier in 1950 and later began a long teaching career at Cooper Union, where he taught drawing and graphic arts from 1954-1968. Schrag had a direct impact on many of his students, including the Syracuse University-based artist Jerome Witkin. A student of Schrag at Cooper Union and a well-established contemporary artist, Witkin has commented on Schrags masterful handling of the landscape, and the evocative power of his vision.

The art selected for this exhibit will convey the artist's ability to see the landscape as if for the first time, the surprise of that special view, the recognition of his ability to feel wonder when looking at nature or figures, and the reward associated with seeing the world through his eyes.

The Other New York: 2012
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison 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-The Norton Putter Gallery, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact, Red House Arts Center, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse and XL Projects.

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.

Prophecy: Peter B. Jones
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Prophecy" is a timely exhibition pertaining to Indigenous prophecies. By incorporating themes of ecology, creation, demise and the future according to the Mayan calendar, traditional Iroquois teachings and other cultural beliefs, Jones provides a visual representation of the foretold truths.

Puerto Rican Bomba and Plena: A Graphic History
La Casita Cultural Center

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

The exhibit presents the works of nine Puerto Rican master artists who were commissioned to create screen prints to capture the spirit of the annual Bomba and Plena Festivals held in Puerto Rico. Their posters have been collected and preserved by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture in San Juan.

Featured artists are José R. Alicea, Luis Alonso, Luis Germán Cajigas, Jesús Cardona, Sixto Cotto, David Goitia, Samuel Lind, Luis Maisonet Ramos, and Nelson Sambolin.

Lov U
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Lov U" is a multimedia installation by Senga Nengudi.

Colorado-based Senga Nengudi is a key figure of the Black Arts Movement in the 1970s and 1980s. Known primarily for performance-based art installations, her work focuses on movement and the human body, is multidisciplinary in nature and international in scope, with cultural references to Africa, the African Diaspora, and Asia. For her multimedia, performance-based exhibition "Lov U," Nengudi explores the physical senses of being human, and includes photographs and video to reflect on the essence of love. Drawn to discarded, everyday materials, the ephemerality of Nengudi's work is a metaphor for life's transience.

The Other New York (TONY): 2012
XL Projects

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

XL Projects will present the work of seven artists selected for "The Other New York (TONY): 2012," a communitywide, multi-venue contemporary art exhibition featuring artists currently living in New York State outside of the New York City metropolitan area.

The artists showing work at XL Projects -- Michael Barletta, Daniel Buckingham, Jay Carrier, Meredith Davenport, Kara Daving, Tom DeLooza, and Fernando Orellana -- are among the 63 artists selected from 235 submissions for TONY: 2012. The work that will be on view at XL includes large sculpture, video, photography, kinetic sculpture, large-scale painting, and a large window graphic across the front of the venue.

TONY: 2012 is organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with 14 art institutions and cultural organizations in Syracuse: ArtRage, Community Folk Art Center, Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, Onondaga Historical Association, Point of Contact, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, SUArt Galleries, Urban Video Project, The Warehouse Gallery, City of Syracuse, and XL Projects.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours. For more information about TONY: 2012 and the other exhibiting artists and venues, visit everson.org.

TONY: 2012 (The Other New York)
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The Everson Biennial, titled "The Other New York: 2012," is being exhibited in community art galleries across Syracuse this year. ArtRage is honored to participate by exhibiting the work of four artists chosen in collaboration with the Everson Museum.

Ben Altman, Neil Chowdhury, Bob Gates and Paul Pearce, the four photographers whose works comprise this exhibit, present work that, while distinctive, shares a key characteristic. All are documentary photographers who are a bit wary of being seen as truth tellers. Fully understanding that the "objective photograph" is a myth, their photographic work -- both in the process of its creation and the images presented -- casts into doubt our traditional notions of documentation, objectivity and veracity. Nonetheless, each photographer is visualizing a certain truth, which may be one we do not know, or one that we prefer to avoid knowing. Participating in the artist's unflinching gaze, we become complicit witnesses to situations -- torture, poverty, social class, and the effects of war -- often conveniently rendered invisible.

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Raw Revelations: The Reunion of Hand Tools and Production
The Warehouse Gallery

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

A reception and demonstrations will be held this evening 6:00-8:00 pm. During the reception and throughout the exhibition, patrons may enter a drawing for a basic woodworking tool kit, which will be on display in the gallery. The winner will be announced and contacted at the close of the exhibition.

In recent years, the connection between process and product has slowly separated, creating a rift between the two. Consumers often do not know who is designing and constructing the products they buy. However, a rising movement is reuniting the experience of creating something by hand and the finished product. Craftspeople worldwide are continuing the tradition of working with their hands and their cherished hand tools, forging a connection with what they make.

This new exhibition illuminates the idea of this connection between history, design and craftsmanship through a sensory experience for the viewers. The show invites the public to learn about the history of hand tools and woodworking, witness part of the process of creating a wooden stool by hand and find out how to reconnect the process of creating something with the final product.

Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on West Fayette Street or the first-floor door on West Washington Street. For more information or to make group reservations, contact Bradley Hudson, exhibition facilitator, at bjhudson@syr.edu.

TONY 2012: Karen Brummund
Urban Video Project

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

The Everson is I.M. Pei's first museum commission. His art museums are commonly seen as art objects for art objects. They are sculptures in the landscape. Shortly after the Everson, Pei built the Johnson Museum of Art in Ithaca. In this site-specific video installation, images of the form and materials of both art museums are projected onto the Everson Museum. The images capture the light, surfaces, and depth of the architecture. The video uses images from two different buildings, analyzing how Pei's ideas bridge individual communities. These disparate places are abstractly connected through the architect's development. The plaza is not only infused with the presence of the Pei's forms, but also the conversation that takes place through his practice.

This video by Karen Brummund is part of The Other New York: 2012, a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration 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.

Video projection begins at dusk.

Traveling Exhibit: Abraham Lincoln's Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
OnCenter Convention Center
800 South State St., Syracuse

To mark the sesquicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, a traveling exhibit will offer an unprecedented display of the document, written in Lincoln's own hand, in eight cities across New York State. For one day only, "The First Step to Freedom: Abraham Lincoln's Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation" exhibition will come to Syracuse. Also central to this exhibition will be Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s original manuscript of a speech he delivered in 1962 in celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation's centennial. The documents included in this exhibition stand as important markers in the path to freedom for African Americans and are among New York State's greatest treasures.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held at 9:00 am at the entrance to the exhibit at the Nicholas J. Pirro Convention Center. In attendance will be state and local officials. Welcoming remarks will be by Onondaga Historical Association Executive Director Gregg Tripoli.

"The First Step to Freedom: Abraham Lincoln's Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation exhibition" was designed and developed by the New York State Museum using collections and images from the New York State Library and the New York State Archives with the intention of having these unique documents available for viewing by New Yorkers in every region across the state. The exhibit launches a three-year commemoration of the sesquicentennial of the Civil War and Lincoln's issuance of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862.

Lincoln's handwritten 1862 Preliminary Proclamation is the only surviving copy of this document in the President's hand. Lincoln donated it to the U.S. Sanitary Commission which raffled the document at an Albany Army Relief Association Fair in 1864, where it was won by abolitionist hero Gerrit Smith, and later purchased by the New York State Legislature. Though Lincoln's final proclamation burned in the Chicago fire, this Preliminary Proclamation survived the State Capitol fire of 1911 and has been preserved by the State Library.

On September 12, 1962, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered the speech contained in the exhibition to the New York State Civil War Centennial Commission. Dr. King contended that the descendants of slaves were still waiting for full civil rights. He argued that the document proved that government could be a powerful force for social justice and urged Governor Nelson Rockefeller and President John F. Kennedy to hasten integration and progress towards full civil rights.

For more information on the central New York stop of The First Step to Freedom: Abraham Lincolns Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, contact Lynne Pascale, Director of Development at OHA at 315-428-1864, ext. 314, lynne.pascale@cnyhistory.org, or visit the State Education website, EngageNY.org.

Season Launch Party
Syracuse Opera

Jewish Community Center
5655 Thompson Rd., Dewitt

The Jewish Community Center will be presenting a new and innovative preview of Syracuse Opera's 2012-13 Season. Director of Music Douglas Kinney Frost will host the event and will be joined by the immensely talented artists of Syracuse Opera. Following the preview there will be an exclusive meet and greet with the Syracuse Opera Artists in the JCC lounge. Stop out and enjoy light refreshments and one-time only specials and promotions from both Syracuse Opera and the JCC. This evening is not to be missed.

Seating is limited. Call Terry LaCasse at 315-445-2360 to reserve your spot today.

Journeys: Music of Travel and Trade
Treehouse Musicians

Price: Free ($5 donation recommended)
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Violist and composer Leanne Darling joins the Treehouse Musicians for a "musical travelogue," featuring traditional and contemporary music from around the world, including three new pieces written for the Treehouse Musicians.

The core members of the quintet are soprano Laura Enslin; Alina Plourde, oboe; the husband-and-wife team of Anita and Eric Gustafson on violin and viola, respectively; and cellist Zachary Sweet. They will be joined by guest artist Leanne Darling, a violist and composer based in New York City. The program contains three pieces commissioned by the Treehouse Musicians:

Eastern Passage, by violist/composer Leanne Darling, celebrating the legacy of the Silk Road
Erie Canal Lament, by Anita Gustafson and arranged by her husband, Eric
Road Trip, by Syracuse composer Paola Marquez, drawing on South American and African rhythms
The program also includes music of W. A. Mozart, Moondog, and Eddie Harris.

For more information about the Treehouse Musicians, call Alina Plourde at 315-422-4582, or visit treehousemusicians.com.

John Brown's Body
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Salt City Poetry Slam
ArtRage Gallery
Underground Poetry Spot

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

Seneca Wilson and Mozart Guerrier from the Underground Poetry Spot host the Salt City Slam series.

Slammers and judges will be chosen at random each night. Competitors will have three minutes and two rounds to impress crowds and judges by earning scores for their performances. Each night will also feature national artists.

Tonight's final slam in the series will feature all prior winners to compete for a cash prize and for the title Syracuse Salt City Slam Champion.

For more information, contact Mozart Guerrier, Salt City Slams Project Manager, slamsaltcity@gmail.com or visit Underground Poetry Spot's website.

Salt City Slam Finals
Underground Poetry Spot

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

The Sound of Murder
Acme Mystery Company

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

High on a hill died a lonely goatherd and some people around the Abbey are beginning to get the idea that sweet little Maria just might be a budding serial killer. Is she now 16, going on 17? What exactly are her favorite things? Mother Abbess and her new assistant, Sister Adolph, are calling in all nuns and townsfolk to decide what to do. Even the pompous Captain Von Trumpp and his bratty children will be there. Don't be late. You don't want Sister Adolph shaking her carrot at you.

Friday, September 28, 2012

Windows Project: TONY 2012
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

For this project, Jeffrey Einhorn created a site-specific installation "A Portrait of the Artist as a Giant Deflating Head" to address the fine line between performance art and sculpture while emphasizing wittily the unstable state of things or a disorder of a system.

This Window Projects exhibition is part of The Other New York: 2012, a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition organized by the Everson Museum of Art in collaboration with 14 Syracuse partner art organizations to highlight artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties.

Lynette Blake: Within and Beyond
Weeks Art Gallery at Baltimore Woods

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

Lynette Blake's oil paintings draw the viewer in through complex layers of shape and color. The use of overlapping imagery conveys a depth that extends deep below the surface of the canvas. Objects, whether used directly or evoked by abstract shapes, float in and out of light illuminating them with a pervasive warm glow. The effect is otherworldly -- a feeling of being outside time and space is conveyed.

Blake has exhibited her work throughout the Northeast, and is currently represented locally by the Szozda Gallery in Syracuse, as well as national venues. She studied art at Brown University in Rhode Island and currently resides in Upstate NY.

More information on the Weeks Gallery at Baltimore Woods can be found at www.baltimorewoods.org.

TONY: 2012: Ink Geographies
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Feels like writing, but the artist is quick to make clear that it is not. Signs, representations ... of what? A mental process, a journey, from diverse points of origin through our individual timelines, our personal twists and turns. As a script emerges, something is set free, though it leaves a mark, an imprint. The artist's essential playground is a space to explore geometric archetypes that can only be found inside one another; all are one. A sacred mandala? Images contract and expand and there is order, not chaos. No more chaotic than life emerging from the womb, contraction, expansion; a beating heart, where life is felt, contraction, expansion...an ever-expanding universe, contracts only to further expand. We don't know how to will it into action. A similar experience with ink takes form in this experiment by Oscar Garcés. It flows from a playful doodle, "el virus," he calls it. And before you know it, connects with something else, an altered state of consciousness. Everything else disappears as it takes over.

The Point of Contact Gallery presents the first solo show by Cuban-born, Syracuse-based artist Oscar Garcés, as part of The Other New York: TONY 2012, a community-wide biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 14 venues in Syracuse. This program also commemorates the celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month at Point of Contact.

Born in Santiago, Cuba in 1987, Garcés came to the United States in 2000. During his years residing first in Florida, when he began to develop as a visual artist, Garcés received multiple recognitions, including a Golden Key Award for best portfolio by Scholastics. Later in Syracuse, Garcés won a "Best of Show" Award at the Community Folk Art Center in 2005. He has also shown his paintings at the Warehouse Gallery's Window Project and at La Casita Cultural Center Gallery.

TONY 2012: "The Other New York" seeks to highlight the work and talent of different rising artists from the Central New York area.

Phonography
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

Cell phone photography, featuring works of 75 Central New York and international artists. Amazing, imaginative, creative, innovative, fun photos you'll love!

Assembly-line Architecture: Repetition and Innovation in the Work of Marcel Breuer
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The exhibit, curated by Teresa Harris, architectural historian and project coordinator for the Marcel Breuer Digital Archive, showcases original drawings, photographs and documents from Breuer's long career.

Like many modern architects, Marcel Breuer found inspiration in the repetition characteristic of industrial processes, often relying on modular units or a standard kit of parts to create his buildings and interiors. The limits imposed by these systems stimulated subtle formal and spatial innovation so that no two designs were exactly alike, despite common components.

Investigations
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

An exhibition of the work and design process of Stephan Jaklitsch and Mark Gardner through sketches, models, renderings, construction drawings, and photographs of six projects. Their work addresses specific conditions of site, use, the psychology of experience, sustainability, techniques of construction craft in detail, and materiality of building.

Jaklitsch/Gardner Architects (J/GA) is an award-winning NYC-based design practice that focuses on urban scale projects, buildings, interiors, and objects. Award-winning projects include the Marc Jacobs Tokyo Flagship Building (2010); a bike rack for the NYC Dept. of Transportation that was exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (2008); and the Marc Jacobs International Showroom (2012).