Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Windows Project: Rebecca Soderholm: Crescendoe
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Tamil Pasanga (The Local Kids)
601 Tully

Price: Free
601 Tully St.
Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Natural Vistas, Intimate Views
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

Past Abstractions: Works by Diana Godfrey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Falling Back to Find the Future
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Works by Kathryn Burke Petrillo.

Keep the Rumors Alive
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Crossings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

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

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

When We Just Existed
Community Folk Art Center

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

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

Corporeal Contours
Community Folk Art Center

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

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

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

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

2013 Student Invitational
Light Work Gallery

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

2013 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Strange Tongue
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Read a review!

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

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

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

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

Benjamin Faga: Authentic Syracuse
The Warehouse Gallery

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

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

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

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

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

The Addams Family
Broadway in Syracuse

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

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

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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Windows Project: Rebecca Soderholm: Crescendoe
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Tamil Pasanga (The Local Kids)
601 Tully

Price: Free
601 Tully St.
Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Natural Vistas, Intimate Views
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

Past Abstractions: Works by Diana Godfrey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Falling Back to Find the Future
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Works by Kathryn Burke Petrillo.

Keep the Rumors Alive
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Crossings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

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

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

When We Just Existed
Community Folk Art Center

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

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

Corporeal Contours
Community Folk Art Center

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

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

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

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

2013 Student Invitational
Light Work Gallery

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

2013 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

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

"Zombies and colors and mugs, oh my!"

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

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

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

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

Syracuse VA's Creative Arts Festival
Szozda Gallery

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

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

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

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

Strange Tongue
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Read a review!

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

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

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

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

Benjamin Faga: Authentic Syracuse
The Warehouse Gallery

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

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

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

FND 0098: Ten Years Out
XL Projects

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

A group of alumni from the Class of 2002 from SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts will present "FND 0098: Ten Years Out," an exhibition that investigates the first-year art and design foundation experience and its role in shaping young artists' work and life.

VPA's foundation curriculum is designed to provide the most rigorous introductory courses necessary for a complete education in art and design. Foundation and its effectiveness is a major topic of conversation at many colleges and universities; "FND 0098" was formed in response to these discussions. In the exhibition, fledgling foundation projects appear alongside participants' current work, juxtaposing then and now. The exhibition will also feature original work dedicated to the foundation experience.

"FND 0098" is also a reunion celebration that honors 10 years of contact and community between its participants since their graduation from Syracuse University. The artists include Erin Borja, Andrew Camp, Jessie Anne Clark, Holly Faurot, Cameron Norbert, Sarah Paulson, Hoang Pham, and Alicia Traveria. Clark is the exhibition curator.

For more information about the exhibition, contact Clark at 315-278-2339 or jessie@thejessicaclarkshow.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours or contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com.

Rationalize & Perpetuate: Video Installation by Sandra Stephens
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

"What If...?" Film Series: Fixing the Future
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

In Fixing the Future, host David Brancaccio, of public radio's Marketplace and NOW on PBS, visits people and organizations across America that are attempting a revolution: the reinvention of the American economy. By featuring communities using sustainable and innovative approaches to create jobs and build prosperity, Fixing the Future inspires hope and renewal in a people overwhelmed by economic collapse. The film highlights effective, local practices such as local business alliances, community banking, time banking/hour exchange, worker cooperatives and local currencies. (2012, 72 minutes, directed by Ellen Spiro)

The "What If...?" Film Series, presented in collaboration with the Rosamond Gifford Foundation, screens films depicting community efforts to improve their communities and the world.

Amy Giller Heyman and Ida Trebicka, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Music for one or two pianos, four hands.

Faculty Recital Series: Andrew Waggoner and Friends
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Works by von Biber, Beethoven, and Andrew Waggoner, performed by faculty members Janet Brown, soprano; Caroline Stinson, 'cello; Steven Heyman, piano; and Andrew Waggoner, violin.

The Addams Family
Broadway in Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Windows Project: Rebecca Soderholm: Crescendoe
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Tamil Pasanga (The Local Kids)
601 Tully

Price: Free
601 Tully St.
Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Natural Vistas, Intimate Views
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

Past Abstractions: Works by Diana Godfrey

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

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

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

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

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

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

Opening: Drawn Digital
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

There will be an opening reception this evening 5:00-7:00 pm.

Drawn Digital, featuring graphic designers who illustrate, is a celebration of creating images, under direct manipulation of the artist, through the use of pen and ink as well as digital tools and applications.

Graphic designer/illustrators included are Jim Brenneman, Nick Machia, Jeff Madison, John Paone, and Mitzie Testani. These artists, not only share an expertise in the use of graphic tablets and of bitmap and vector-based applications ("painting" and "drawing" programs), but a love for drawing and a unique sensibility over their subject matters. Renaissance Architecture, imagination, and everyday life in central New York are some of their forms of inspiration.

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

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

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

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

Falling Back to Find the Future
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Works by Kathryn Burke Petrillo.

Keep the Rumors Alive
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Crossings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

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

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

When We Just Existed
Community Folk Art Center

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

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

Corporeal Contours
Community Folk Art Center

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

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

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

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

2013 Student Invitational
Light Work Gallery

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

2013 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

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

"Zombies and colors and mugs, oh my!"

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

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

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

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

Syracuse VA's Creative Arts Festival
Szozda Gallery

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

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

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

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

Tea Bowls: A Contemporary Approach
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

Strange Tongue
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Benjamin Faga: Authentic Syracuse
The Warehouse Gallery

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

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

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

FND 0098: Ten Years Out
XL Projects

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

There will be an opening reception this evening 6:00-8:00 pm.

A group of alumni from the Class of 2002 from SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts will present "FND 0098: Ten Years Out," an exhibition that investigates the first-year art and design foundation experience and its role in shaping young artists' work and life.

VPA's foundation curriculum is designed to provide the most rigorous introductory courses necessary for a complete education in art and design. Foundation and its effectiveness is a major topic of conversation at many colleges and universities; "FND 0098" was formed in response to these discussions. In the exhibition, fledgling foundation projects appear alongside participants' current work, juxtaposing then and now. The exhibition will also feature original work dedicated to the foundation experience.

"FND 0098" is also a reunion celebration that honors 10 years of contact and community between its participants since their graduation from Syracuse University. The artists include Erin Borja, Andrew Camp, Jessie Anne Clark, Holly Faurot, Cameron Norbert, Sarah Paulson, Hoang Pham, and Alicia Traveria. Clark is the exhibition curator.

For more information about the exhibition, contact Clark at 315-278-2339 or jessie@thejessicaclarkshow.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours or contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com.

Rationalize & Perpetuate: Video Installation by Sandra Stephens
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

Yvonne Buchanan: in Court (Basketball)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Total runtime: 13:22

Mirror Dance
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Eggers Hall, Room 220
Maxwell School, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Mirror Dance (2005) is the story of Cuban-born identical twins who become estranged through politics when one moves to the United States and the other remains behind. Though separated for almost 40 years, both continue to share a passion for dance.

Presented as part of "Moving Borders: The Culture and Politics of Displacement in and from Latin America and the Caribbean," a yearlong symposium.

Celtic Woman

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

The enchanting musical ensemble Celtic Woman combines the talents of four gifted Irish women--vocalists Chloë Agnew, Lisa Lambe, and Susan McFadden, and violinist Máiréad Nesbitt--whose dazzling performances combine the sounds and sensibility of Irish traditional music with memorable original compositions and contemporary pop standards. The 2013 tour boasts an exciting new stage production and the return of such enduring fan favorites as "You Raise Me Up" and "Orinoco Flow."

Since its formation in 2004, Celtic Woman has emerged as both a spectacular commercial success and a global cultural phenomenon. The group's uplifting mix of timeless tradition and contemporary craft has transcended national and cultural borders to touch the hearts of a devoted international fan base, who've embraced Celtic Woman's hugely successful Public Television specials and made their CDs and DVDs into multi-platinum best-sellers. The group's albums have sold more than seven million copies around the world. Like all of their albums, Celtic Woman's two 2012 releases, the acclaimed Believe CD/DVD and the holiday-themed CD Home For Christmas, both debuted at #1 on Billboard's World Music chart--marking eight consecutive chart-topping albums for the group.

Having sold nearly 3 million concert tickets worldwide, Celtic Woman has won a dedicated and loyal audience in America, where their elaborately staged, visually stunning concert tours consistently draw sellout crowds. Singing songs of love, loss, hope and inspiration, Celtic Woman celebrates the emotional resonance of Ireland's centuries-old musical and cultural heritage while taking advantage of the limitless options of state-of-the-art production. The result is a breathtaking musical and theatrical experience to be enjoyed by multiple generations of concert goers.

Tickets are available at Ticketmaster.com, Ticketmaster phone 1-800-745-3000, and Landmark Theatre Box Office, 315-475-7980.

The Bumpy Road: Don Karp
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Don Karp is the author of this memoir, The Bumpy Road: Culture Shock, including: The Woodstock Fest, Mental Hospitals, and Living in Mexico. He is a former Syracuse resident and was a member of the Syracuse Peace Council, Mental Patients Liberation Project, Peace and the Freedom Party. He also lived in the Boston area and Western Massachusetts for 20 years. He currently lives in Central Mexico. Join him at ArtRage as he uses his writing and visual images to take you on his journey with him.

Deadly Inheritance
Acme Mystery Company

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

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

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

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

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

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Preview: Noises Off
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: $10 regular, $7.50 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Noises Off, 1982 play by English playwright Michael Frayn, is a play-within-a-play about an ambitious director and his troupe of mediocre actors. The cast and crew are putting together a silly sex comedy titled "Nothing On"--a single-set farce in which lovers frolic, doors slam, clothes are tossed away, and embarrassing hijinks ensue. Written by Michael Frayn.

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Friday, March 29, 2013

Windows Project: Rebecca Soderholm: Crescendoe
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Tamil Pasanga (The Local Kids)
601 Tully

Price: Free
601 Tully St.
Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Natural Vistas, Intimate Views
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

Past Abstractions: Works by Diana Godfrey

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

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

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

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

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

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

Drawn Digital
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Drawn Digital, featuring graphic designers who illustrate, is a celebration of creating images, under direct manipulation of the artist, through the use of pen and ink as well as digital tools and applications.

Graphic designer/illustrators included are Jim Brenneman, Nick Machia, Jeff Madison, John Paone, and Mitzie Testani. These artists, not only share an expertise in the use of graphic tablets and of bitmap and vector-based applications ("painting" and "drawing" programs), but a love for drawing and a unique sensibility over their subject matters. Renaissance Architecture, imagination, and everyday life in central New York are some of their forms of inspiration.

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

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

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

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

Falling Back to Find the Future
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Works by Kathryn Burke Petrillo.

Keep the Rumors Alive
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Crossings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

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

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

When We Just Existed
Community Folk Art Center

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

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

Corporeal Contours
Community Folk Art Center

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

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

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

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

2013 Student Invitational
Light Work Gallery

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

2013 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

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

"Zombies and colors and mugs, oh my!"

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

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

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

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

Syracuse VA's Creative Arts Festival
Szozda Gallery

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

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

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

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

Tea Bowls: A Contemporary Approach
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

Strange Tongue
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Benjamin Faga: Authentic Syracuse
The Warehouse Gallery

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

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

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

FND 0098: Ten Years Out
XL Projects

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

A group of alumni from the Class of 2002 from SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts will present "FND 0098: Ten Years Out," an exhibition that investigates the first-year art and design foundation experience and its role in shaping young artists' work and life.

VPA's foundation curriculum is designed to provide the most rigorous introductory courses necessary for a complete education in art and design. Foundation and its effectiveness is a major topic of conversation at many colleges and universities; "FND 0098" was formed in response to these discussions. In the exhibition, fledgling foundation projects appear alongside participants' current work, juxtaposing then and now. The exhibition will also feature original work dedicated to the foundation experience.

"FND 0098" is also a reunion celebration that honors 10 years of contact and community between its participants since their graduation from Syracuse University. The artists include Erin Borja, Andrew Camp, Jessie Anne Clark, Holly Faurot, Cameron Norbert, Sarah Paulson, Hoang Pham, and Alicia Traveria. Clark is the exhibition curator.

For more information about the exhibition, contact Clark at 315-278-2339 or jessie@thejessicaclarkshow.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours or contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com.

Rationalize & Perpetuate: Video Installation by Sandra Stephens
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

Yvonne Buchanan: in Court (Basketball)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Total runtime: 13:22

Dieselboy, with Mike Parkay, Pulse, Jussle, Mike Tronik, Peeps
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Cirque D'Or

Price: $59, $39, $29
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Cirque D'Or is made up of almost 30 Chinese acrobats, aerial artists, contortionists and ballet dancers between the ages of 18 and 22, formerly of the troupe New Shanghai Circus.

Reasons to be Pretty
Black Box Players
Amy Woschnik, director

Price: Free, but reservations required
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Neil LaBute's play centers on four young working-class friends and lovers who become increasingly dissatisfied with their dead-end lives and each other.

For tickets, phone 315-308-1227 or visit blackboxplayers.ticketleap.com/rtbp.

Bad Friday Comedy Showcase
Central New York Playhouse

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

Headlined by Anna Phillips and featuring the best of Upstate comedians, including Anna Hall of Rochester, Brock Shields of Binghamton, Jaye McBride of Albany, Kenneth McLaurin of Ithaca, and T. Blunt of Syracuse.

Noises Off
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: $20 regular, $15 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Noises Off, 1982 play by English playwright Michael Frayn, is a play-within-a-play about an ambitious director and his troupe of mediocre actors. The cast and crew are putting together a silly sex comedy titled "Nothing On"--a single-set farce in which lovers frolic, doors slam, clothes are tossed away, and embarrassing hijinks ensue. Written by Michael Frayn.

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

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

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

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Saturday, March 30, 2013

Windows Project: Rebecca Soderholm: Crescendoe
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Tamil Pasanga (The Local Kids)
601 Tully

Price: Free
601 Tully St.
Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Natural Vistas, Intimate Views
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

Keep the Rumors Alive
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Read a review!

Strange Tongue
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

"Zombies and colors and mugs, oh my!"

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

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

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

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

Syracuse VA's Creative Arts Festival
Szozda Gallery

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

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

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

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

When We Just Existed
Community Folk Art Center

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

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

Corporeal Contours
Community Folk Art Center

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

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

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

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

Tea Bowls: A Contemporary Approach
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Rationalize & Perpetuate: Video Installation by Sandra Stephens
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

Benjamin Faga: Authentic Syracuse
The Warehouse Gallery

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

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

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

FND 0098: Ten Years Out
XL Projects

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

A group of alumni from the Class of 2002 from SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts will present "FND 0098: Ten Years Out," an exhibition that investigates the first-year art and design foundation experience and its role in shaping young artists' work and life.

VPA's foundation curriculum is designed to provide the most rigorous introductory courses necessary for a complete education in art and design. Foundation and its effectiveness is a major topic of conversation at many colleges and universities; "FND 0098" was formed in response to these discussions. In the exhibition, fledgling foundation projects appear alongside participants' current work, juxtaposing then and now. The exhibition will also feature original work dedicated to the foundation experience.

"FND 0098" is also a reunion celebration that honors 10 years of contact and community between its participants since their graduation from Syracuse University. The artists include Erin Borja, Andrew Camp, Jessie Anne Clark, Holly Faurot, Cameron Norbert, Sarah Paulson, Hoang Pham, and Alicia Traveria. Clark is the exhibition curator.

For more information about the exhibition, contact Clark at 315-278-2339 or jessie@thejessicaclarkshow.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours or contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com.

Yvonne Buchanan: in Court (Basketball)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Total runtime: 13:22

5 Broken Cameras
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

A Palestinian farmer's chronicle of his nonviolent resistance to the Israeli army. The first-ever Palestinian film to be nominated for best documentary feature by A.M.P.A.S, the critically-acclaimed 5 Broken Cameras is a deeply personal, first-hand account of life and non-violent resistance in Bil'in, a West Bank village surrounded by Israeli settlements. Shot by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son, Gibreel, the film was co-directed by Burnat and Guy Davidi, an Israeli filmmaker.

Structured in chapters around the destruction of each one of Burnat's cameras, the filmmakers' collaboration follows one family's evolution over five years of village upheaval. As the years pass in front of the camera, we witness Gibreel grow from a newborn baby into a young boy who observes the world unfolding around him with the astute powers of perception that only children possess. Burnat watches from behind the lens as olive trees are bulldozed, protests intensify and lives are lost in this cinematic diary and unparalleled record of life in the West Bank. (2011, 94 minutes, directed by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi. Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary)

Sponsored by Central New York Working for A Just Peace in Palestine & Israel.

Vision of Sound
Society for New Music

Price: $15 regular, $12 seniors, $10 students
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exciting pairing of composers and choreographers, bringing movement to newly composed works.

Music by Jesse Benjamin Jones, Mark Olivieri, Nicholas Omiccioli, Sam Pellman, Nicolas Scherzinger, and Zhou Tian; choreography by Melanie Aceto, Missy Pfohl Smith, and Cheryl Wilkins Mitchell.

Boston Chamber Music Society
Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music

Price: $20 regular, $15 senior, $10 student
Lincoln Middle School
1613 James St., Syracuse

Beethoven String Trio in C minor, Op. 9, No. 3
Max Bruch Eight Pieces, Op. 83 for clarinet, viola and piano
Stravinsky L'Histoire du Soldat Suite for clarinet, violin and piano
Schumann Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 47

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Kapslap, with Natronic, Lionheart, Bass 3oyz
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Beauty and the Beast
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the children's classic.

Reasons to be Pretty
Black Box Players
Amy Woschnik, director

Price: Free, but reservations required
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Neil LaBute's play centers on four young working-class friends and lovers who become increasingly dissatisfied with their dead-end lives and each other.

For tickets, phone 315-308-1227 or visit blackboxplayers.ticketleap.com/rtbp.

The Truth, Sistah to Sistah
Onondaga Community College

Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The Truth, Sistah to Sistah, by Debra McClendon-Boddie and Annette Adams-Brown, is a musical journey between Big & Lil Sis about the impact of women & music on Civil Rights. This is a fundraiser with monies raised from this play going to Pretty Girls Rock, Simply Because They Have to... Mentoring Program. If you would like to purchase ticket(s), please call 315-447-0380.

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

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

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

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Reasons to be Pretty
Black Box Players
Amy Woschnik, director

Price: Free, but reservations required
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Neil LaBute's play centers on four young working-class friends and lovers who become increasingly dissatisfied with their dead-end lives and each other.

For tickets, phone 315-308-1227 or visit blackboxplayers.ticketleap.com/rtbp.

Cabaret Series: All Grown Up, with Kimberly Panek
Central New York Playhouse

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

Up-and-coming performer Kimberly Panek joins our cabaret lineup, with special guests Dan Williams, Tim Quartier, and Sue Borenstein. Join us for a night of original songs and covers.

Noises Off
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: $20 regular, $15 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Noises Off, 1982 play by English playwright Michael Frayn, is a play-within-a-play about an ambitious director and his troupe of mediocre actors. The cast and crew are putting together a silly sex comedy titled "Nothing On"--a single-set farce in which lovers frolic, doors slam, clothes are tossed away, and embarrassing hijinks ensue. Written by Michael Frayn.

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Jesus Christ Superstar
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts
Bob Brown, director

Price: $30, $25, $20
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The annual Lenten tradition is back for one night only! Join Salt City Center for the Performing Arts as they present their 33rd production of Jesus Christ Superstar. The show will feature Henry Wilson as Jesus, Jason Vaughn as Judas, Cathleen O'Brien Brown as Mary Magdelene, and 2012 Tony Award Nominee Phillip Boykin as Caiaphas, with music direction by John LeRoy and choreography by Tara Huss Davis.

Tickets are available at the OnCenter Box Office, 315-435-2121, or at www.ticketmaster.com.

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

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

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

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Sunday, March 31, 2013

Windows Project: Rebecca Soderholm: Crescendoe
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Tamil Pasanga (The Local Kids)
601 Tully

Price: Free
601 Tully St.
Syracuse

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

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

2013 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

2013 Student Invitational
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

"Zombies and colors and mugs, oh my!"

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

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

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

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

Syracuse VA's Creative Arts Festival
Szozda Gallery

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

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

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

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

Tea Bowls: A Contemporary Approach
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Love and Marriage
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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Strange Tongue
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

FND 0098: Ten Years Out
XL Projects

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

A group of alumni from the Class of 2002 from SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts will present "FND 0098: Ten Years Out," an exhibition that investigates the first-year art and design foundation experience and its role in shaping young artists' work and life.

VPA's foundation curriculum is designed to provide the most rigorous introductory courses necessary for a complete education in art and design. Foundation and its effectiveness is a major topic of conversation at many colleges and universities; "FND 0098" was formed in response to these discussions. In the exhibition, fledgling foundation projects appear alongside participants' current work, juxtaposing then and now. The exhibition will also feature original work dedicated to the foundation experience.

"FND 0098" is also a reunion celebration that honors 10 years of contact and community between its participants since their graduation from Syracuse University. The artists include Erin Borja, Andrew Camp, Jessie Anne Clark, Holly Faurot, Cameron Norbert, Sarah Paulson, Hoang Pham, and Alicia Traveria. Clark is the exhibition curator.

For more information about the exhibition, contact Clark at 315-278-2339 or jessie@thejessicaclarkshow.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours or contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com.

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

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

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

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Reasons to be Pretty
Black Box Players
Amy Woschnik, director

Price: Free, but reservations required
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Neil LaBute's play centers on four young working-class friends and lovers who become increasingly dissatisfied with their dead-end lives and each other.

For tickets, phone 315-308-1227 or visit blackboxplayers.ticketleap.com/rtbp.

Monday, April 1, 2013

Windows Project: Rebecca Soderholm: Crescendoe
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Tamil Pasanga (The Local Kids)
601 Tully

Price: Free
601 Tully St.
Syracuse

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

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

Art Exhibit by Tom Hussey

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

Auburn, NY, artist Tom Hussey will include in his exhibit landscape and figurative renderings in oil, acrylic and pastel.

Natural Vistas, Intimate Views
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

Past Abstractions: Works by Diana Godfrey

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

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

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

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

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

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

Drawn Digital
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Drawn Digital, featuring graphic designers who illustrate, is a celebration of creating images, under direct manipulation of the artist, through the use of pen and ink as well as digital tools and applications.

Graphic designer/illustrators included are Jim Brenneman, Nick Machia, Jeff Madison, John Paone, and Mitzie Testani. These artists, not only share an expertise in the use of graphic tablets and of bitmap and vector-based applications ("painting" and "drawing" programs), but a love for drawing and a unique sensibility over their subject matters. Renaissance Architecture, imagination, and everyday life in central New York are some of their forms of inspiration.

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

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

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

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

Crossings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

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

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

2013 Student Invitational
Light Work Gallery

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

2013 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

Wonder Man (1945)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Director: H. Bruce Humberstone. Cast: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, Steve Cochran, Donald Woods, S.Z. Sakall, Allen Jenkins, Otto Kruger.
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Danny Kaye's birth, we open our season with this classic Kaye musical-comedy from the Goldwyn studio. Danny plays a dual role as twin brothers&.one a brash nightclub comic and the other a shy and serious bookworm. When the comic is murdered, his spirit returns and guides the shy brother in capturing the killer. Kaye's in top form and the film has great Oscar-winning special effects. In color!

Lisa See
Friends of the Central Library Author Series

Price: $25
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Lisa See is often referred to as a "book club favorite" but her writing and work about her Chinese heritage go far beyond that realm. She has done extensive civic work winning her the honor of National Woman of the Year by the Organization of Chinese American Women in 2001, and was the recipient of the Chinese American Museum's History Maker Award in 2003. Her first book, On Gold Mountain (1995) was a national bestseller and a New York Times Notable Book. It traced the journey of her great-grandfather Fong See, who overcame obstacles to become the 100-year-old godfather of Los Angeles' Chinatown and patriarch of his sprawling family. From her international bestseller Snow Flower and the Secret Fan to her bestseller Shanghai Girls, See's novels are heavily influenced by her Chinese heritage and fascination with what she refers to as "forgotten history." She has served as guest curator for an exhibit on the Chinese-American experience for the Autry Museum of Western Heritage and the Smithsonian. She also helped to develop an interactive space for children at the Autry Museum that focuses on her biracial, bicultural family as seen through the eyes of her father as a 7-year-old child. She developed a walking tour of L.A.'s Chinatown and helped to create the inaugural exhibition for the Chinese American Museum in Los Angeles.

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Windows Project: Rebecca Soderholm: Crescendoe
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Tamil Pasanga (The Local Kids)
601 Tully

Price: Free
601 Tully St.
Syracuse

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

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

Art Exhibit by Tom Hussey

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

Auburn, NY, artist Tom Hussey will include in his exhibit landscape and figurative renderings in oil, acrylic and pastel.

Natural Vistas, Intimate Views
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

Past Abstractions: Works by Diana Godfrey

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

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

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

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

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

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

Drawn Digital
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Drawn Digital, featuring graphic designers who illustrate, is a celebration of creating images, under direct manipulation of the artist, through the use of pen and ink as well as digital tools and applications.

Graphic designer/illustrators included are Jim Brenneman, Nick Machia, Jeff Madison, John Paone, and Mitzie Testani. These artists, not only share an expertise in the use of graphic tablets and of bitmap and vector-based applications ("painting" and "drawing" programs), but a love for drawing and a unique sensibility over their subject matters. Renaissance Architecture, imagination, and everyday life in central New York are some of their forms of inspiration.

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

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

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

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

Keep the Rumors Alive
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Crossings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

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

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

When We Just Existed
Community Folk Art Center

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

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

Corporeal Contours
Community Folk Art Center

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

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

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

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

2013 Student Invitational
Light Work Gallery

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

2013 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

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