Monday, February 1, 2010

Once Upon a Time: Works of Katya Krenina
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Art Exhibition: Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Gallery Exhibition: James Williams II
Onondaga Community College

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

James Williams II believes that the vital essence of life starts with our relationships. Without relationships we have no identity, self-worth, or defining of involvement to the world we live in. For example, a father's identity comes from his relationship with his children, just as a wife's identity comes from her relationship with her husband. It is through his relationship with God that brings his identity as a Christian and the focus of his work together. It is the purpose of Williams' work to separate the distant religious experience from the close relationship with God experience.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Storytelling: An Experiment In Visual Narrative -- Works by Pedro Roth
Point of Contact Gallery

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

From Buenos Aires, Argentina, following two superbly triumphant solo exhibitions at the Sivori Museum and at the prestigious Recoleta Center this year, Pedro Roth comes to The Point of Contact Gallery to present "Storytelling...an experiment in visual narrative.

For this rich display of drawings that is a development of the work he presented in Argentina, "Roth invents a world of multiple figures, drawn to life in a Buenos Aires café while listening to stories about lost loves, departed pets, and friends, and the refusal to go out and love again..." writes the show's curator, Pedro Cuperman.

The Loneliness of Nature: Works by James Domroe
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Photographs of "The Loneliness of Nature" were manipulated in Photoshop to heighten and bring contrast to the starkness of the photos.

Also a short film, "How to be Happy", running time 5 min.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

The Imp of Love: Works by Rachel Herman
Light Work Gallery

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

Artist Statement: My interest in photography grew out of the desire to make the ineffable effable, the impossibility of making the invisible visible. This series asks questions about how love, a very particular kind of love, can be made visible. I photograph couples, once-lovers but who are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined any more, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively—even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward, or confusedly poignant. They have an abiding affection for one another, but an affection that is often loaded, layered, complicated, or unrequited.

Cryptopocalypse: Tattoo Art of David "D.J." Rose
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

David "D.J." Rose is a tattooist and artist in the folk art tradition. He has no formal art training. His devotion to his craft has driven him deeply into the study of symbolism, as to best manifest his clients' desires to transform their lives using crude tools to apply ancient talismans. He co-owns Halo Tattoo in Syracuse, New York. He is driven to create and proclaim as is commanded "both for glory and for beauty".

The gallery is open by appointment. Phone 315-425-0405 to make an appointment.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Once Upon a Time: Works of Katya Krenina
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Art Exhibition: Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Gallery Exhibition: James Williams II
Onondaga Community College

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

James Williams II believes that the vital essence of life starts with our relationships. Without relationships we have no identity, self-worth, or defining of involvement to the world we live in. For example, a father's identity comes from his relationship with his children, just as a wife's identity comes from her relationship with her husband. It is through his relationship with God that brings his identity as a Christian and the focus of his work together. It is the purpose of Williams' work to separate the distant religious experience from the close relationship with God experience.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Storytelling: An Experiment In Visual Narrative -- Works by Pedro Roth
Point of Contact Gallery

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

From Buenos Aires, Argentina, following two superbly triumphant solo exhibitions at the Sivori Museum and at the prestigious Recoleta Center this year, Pedro Roth comes to The Point of Contact Gallery to present "Storytelling...an experiment in visual narrative.

For this rich display of drawings that is a development of the work he presented in Argentina, "Roth invents a world of multiple figures, drawn to life in a Buenos Aires café while listening to stories about lost loves, departed pets, and friends, and the refusal to go out and love again..." writes the show's curator, Pedro Cuperman.

The Loneliness of Nature: Works by James Domroe
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Photographs of "The Loneliness of Nature" were manipulated in Photoshop to heighten and bring contrast to the starkness of the photos.

Also a short film, "How to be Happy", running time 5 min.

Markings of Time and Place
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Amy Bartell: Acrylic and mixed-media paintings examining the topography of time and an ever-changing horizon
Paul Molesky: Sculptural and functional stoneware ceramics finished with clay slip and shino glazes
Ban Bacich: Mixed-media box assemblages combining fragments that invoke a narrative

Tesoros del Pueblo: El Arte Folklorico de Mexico/Treasures of the People: The Folk Art of Mexico
Community Folk Art Center

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

Tesoros del Pueblo features folk art and photographs from the collection of Dr. Alejandro Garcia, Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University. Garcia began collecting Mexican folk art several years ago as a means to connect with his heritage. Garcia explains, "This collection, in essence, represents who I am, my pride in the richness of Mexican culture, and my celebration of the artistry of Mexican individuals who, in their carving, painting, sewing, and molding, present all of us with precious gifts."

The Imp of Love: Works by Rachel Herman
Light Work Gallery

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

Artist Statement: My interest in photography grew out of the desire to make the ineffable effable, the impossibility of making the invisible visible. This series asks questions about how love, a very particular kind of love, can be made visible. I photograph couples, once-lovers but who are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined any more, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively—even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward, or confusedly poignant. They have an abiding affection for one another, but an affection that is often loaded, layered, complicated, or unrequited.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

Cryptopocalypse: Tattoo Art of David "D.J." Rose
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

David "D.J." Rose is a tattooist and artist in the folk art tradition. He has no formal art training. His devotion to his craft has driven him deeply into the study of symbolism, as to best manifest his clients' desires to transform their lives using crude tools to apply ancient talismans. He co-owns Halo Tattoo in Syracuse, New York. He is driven to create and proclaim as is commanded "both for glory and for beauty".

The gallery is open by appointment. Phone 315-425-0405 to make an appointment.

At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer" examines the pivotal interrelationship of three mid-century artists who helped define the course of American photography: Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer. This is the first full comparison of their work and exploration of their robust, prescient exchange of ideas about photography, abstraction and metaphor. Self-taught, they helped shape the evolution of the medium as an art form. Their work is an important bridge between classic mid-century photography and hybrid artistic approaches to the medium today.

Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

Read a review!

The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series: Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to present the first installment of the The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, featuring Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held. The series takes the place of the long running Biennial exhibition, which will return in 2012.

Pepper has created a site-specific installation, exploring language through an unexpected use of materials and space. Pepper describes her work in her artist statement as suggesting "...that objects and ideas are under constant transformation, randomly blending time, memory, reality and place as a transitional location ripe for imagining, just this side of dreaming."

For the past 34 years, the Everson has featured Central New York Artists in the Everson Biennial, a juried exhibition traditionally featuring about fifty artists in one group show. This year, the Everson introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, for contemporary art exhibitions showcasing the work of artists living in New York State, particularly the Central New York Region. The new format presents small-scale focused exhibitions and site-specific installations of new work. The exhibitions will take place in the Robineau Gallery on the main level of the museum, while collaborative pieces and site-specific installations may be presented in auxiliary spaces throughout the museum including the main Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court and the Mather Court located on the lower level.

Alyson Shotz: Drawing Through Space
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

With the assistance of Syracuse University students, Brooklyn-based Shotz created her works on site, thus turning The Warehouse Gallery into a form of laboratory. Shotz is one of today's ground-breaking artists transforming contemporary art through a fusion of technology and handcrafted steel wire and yarn artworks. Her use of this material is a means of combining sculpture with drawing to address issues of light, space, time and motion. Strikingly beautiful, her wire sculpture in the vault and three wall drawings project optical experiences where questions of perception and misperception lead to further examination of the impact of 21st-century technology on the arts.

Read a review!

Windows Project: Confederacy of Dunces
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Hamilton-based Lynette K. Stephenson created an installation about New Orleans consisting of 60 hand-felted wool dunce caps. This exhibition is inspired by John Kennedy Toole's novel A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) set in New Orleans, where Stephenson's family home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, and based on her previous body of paintings, The Red Cross Series, which led to the idea for this site-specific project. In this work Stephenson engages in a dialogue about present-day social issues referring to New Orleans, the tragedy of the Hurricane and the universal symbol of the Red Cross.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Rascher Saxophone Quartet

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

Eric Moe Rough winds do shake the darling buds
Rob Deemer Ashur Square
Zdenek Lukas Rondo
Xenakis XA
Bach Contrapunctus No. 4, 10, 13 & 14 from "Art of the Fugue"

Note: There is a basketball game at the dome that night, but there will be parking for the concert in the Harrison or Leemann lots on Harrison Street.

For more information, phone 315-443-2191.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Once Upon a Time: Works of Katya Krenina
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Art Exhibition: Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Gallery Exhibition: James Williams II
Onondaga Community College

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

James Williams II believes that the vital essence of life starts with our relationships. Without relationships we have no identity, self-worth, or defining of involvement to the world we live in. For example, a father's identity comes from his relationship with his children, just as a wife's identity comes from her relationship with her husband. It is through his relationship with God that brings his identity as a Christian and the focus of his work together. It is the purpose of Williams' work to separate the distant religious experience from the close relationship with God experience.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Storytelling: An Experiment In Visual Narrative -- Works by Pedro Roth
Point of Contact Gallery

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

From Buenos Aires, Argentina, following two superbly triumphant solo exhibitions at the Sivori Museum and at the prestigious Recoleta Center this year, Pedro Roth comes to The Point of Contact Gallery to present "Storytelling...an experiment in visual narrative.

For this rich display of drawings that is a development of the work he presented in Argentina, "Roth invents a world of multiple figures, drawn to life in a Buenos Aires café while listening to stories about lost loves, departed pets, and friends, and the refusal to go out and love again..." writes the show's curator, Pedro Cuperman.

The Loneliness of Nature: Works by James Domroe
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Photographs of "The Loneliness of Nature" were manipulated in Photoshop to heighten and bring contrast to the starkness of the photos.

Also a short film, "How to be Happy", running time 5 min.

Markings of Time and Place
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Amy Bartell: Acrylic and mixed-media paintings examining the topography of time and an ever-changing horizon
Paul Molesky: Sculptural and functional stoneware ceramics finished with clay slip and shino glazes
Ban Bacich: Mixed-media box assemblages combining fragments that invoke a narrative

Tesoros del Pueblo: El Arte Folklorico de Mexico/Treasures of the People: The Folk Art of Mexico
Community Folk Art Center

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

Tesoros del Pueblo features folk art and photographs from the collection of Dr. Alejandro Garcia, Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University. Garcia began collecting Mexican folk art several years ago as a means to connect with his heritage. Garcia explains, "This collection, in essence, represents who I am, my pride in the richness of Mexican culture, and my celebration of the artistry of Mexican individuals who, in their carving, painting, sewing, and molding, present all of us with precious gifts."

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

The Imp of Love: Works by Rachel Herman
Light Work Gallery

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

Artist Statement: My interest in photography grew out of the desire to make the ineffable effable, the impossibility of making the invisible visible. This series asks questions about how love, a very particular kind of love, can be made visible. I photograph couples, once-lovers but who are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined any more, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively—even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward, or confusedly poignant. They have an abiding affection for one another, but an affection that is often loaded, layered, complicated, or unrequited.

Cryptopocalypse: Tattoo Art of David "D.J." Rose
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

David "D.J." Rose is a tattooist and artist in the folk art tradition. He has no formal art training. His devotion to his craft has driven him deeply into the study of symbolism, as to best manifest his clients' desires to transform their lives using crude tools to apply ancient talismans. He co-owns Halo Tattoo in Syracuse, New York. He is driven to create and proclaim as is commanded "both for glory and for beauty".

The gallery is open by appointment. Phone 315-425-0405 to make an appointment.

At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer" examines the pivotal interrelationship of three mid-century artists who helped define the course of American photography: Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer. This is the first full comparison of their work and exploration of their robust, prescient exchange of ideas about photography, abstraction and metaphor. Self-taught, they helped shape the evolution of the medium as an art form. Their work is an important bridge between classic mid-century photography and hybrid artistic approaches to the medium today.

Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

Read a review!

The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series: Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to present the first installment of the The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, featuring Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held. The series takes the place of the long running Biennial exhibition, which will return in 2012.

Pepper has created a site-specific installation, exploring language through an unexpected use of materials and space. Pepper describes her work in her artist statement as suggesting "...that objects and ideas are under constant transformation, randomly blending time, memory, reality and place as a transitional location ripe for imagining, just this side of dreaming."

For the past 34 years, the Everson has featured Central New York Artists in the Everson Biennial, a juried exhibition traditionally featuring about fifty artists in one group show. This year, the Everson introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, for contemporary art exhibitions showcasing the work of artists living in New York State, particularly the Central New York Region. The new format presents small-scale focused exhibitions and site-specific installations of new work. The exhibitions will take place in the Robineau Gallery on the main level of the museum, while collaborative pieces and site-specific installations may be presented in auxiliary spaces throughout the museum including the main Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court and the Mather Court located on the lower level.

Elongating the Thread
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Elongating the Thread" features the work of fiber and textile artists Jappie King Black, Anne Cofer, Annet Couwenberg, Jennifer Gandee, Mary Kester, Susan Krueger, Laura Reinhard, Barbara Jean Weingart, and Victoria Zacek.

The selected work in "Elongating the Thread" highlights the breadth of work based in the fiber and textile arts program in VPA's School of Art and Design and the success of the participants to explore their individual studio practices on a national level. The diversity of the group is evident through the variety of media (wool, silk, copper, steel, clay, and doilies) and concepts (weight, domesticity, identity, nature, war, and the subconscious) explored by the artists.

The exhibition is curated and coordinated by Cofer, Mary Giehl, and Olivia Robinson, all faculty members in the fiber and textile arts program. Many of the exhibiting artists are active members of the local artistic community and continue to make Central New York their home.

For more information, email Robinson at orobinso@syr.edu, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours, or visit vpa.syr.edu/xlprojects.

Windows Project: Confederacy of Dunces
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Hamilton-based Lynette K. Stephenson created an installation about New Orleans consisting of 60 hand-felted wool dunce caps. This exhibition is inspired by John Kennedy Toole's novel A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) set in New Orleans, where Stephenson's family home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, and based on her previous body of paintings, The Red Cross Series, which led to the idea for this site-specific project. In this work Stephenson engages in a dialogue about present-day social issues referring to New Orleans, the tragedy of the Hurricane and the universal symbol of the Red Cross.

Alyson Shotz: Drawing Through Space
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

With the assistance of Syracuse University students, Brooklyn-based Shotz created her works on site, thus turning The Warehouse Gallery into a form of laboratory. Shotz is one of today's ground-breaking artists transforming contemporary art through a fusion of technology and handcrafted steel wire and yarn artworks. Her use of this material is a means of combining sculpture with drawing to address issues of light, space, time and motion. Strikingly beautiful, her wire sculpture in the vault and three wall drawings project optical experiences where questions of perception and misperception lead to further examination of the impact of 21st-century technology on the arts.

Read a review!

Breach of Peace: Eric Etheridge's Photographs of the Freedom Riders
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

In the spring and summer of 1961, several hundred Americans—blacks and whites, men and women—converged on Jackson, Mississippi, to challenge state segregation laws. The Freedom Riders, as they came to be known, were determined to open up the South to civil rights: it was illegal for bus and train stations to discriminate, but most did and were not interested in change. Over 300 people were arrested and convicted of the charge "breach of the peace."

Artist and author Eric Etheridge's exhibit, Breach of Peace, collects the mug shots of those arrested, which were only recently made public, and juxtaposes them with present-day photographs of the Riders and their recollections about the experience. The group, half black and half white (a quarter were women), was remarkably young; in their faces we see strength, courage, defiance, dignity, and, occasionally, fear.

Works of Young Geniuses
Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Jeremy Mastrangelo, violin, and SSO Octet

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

Mendelssohn Octet, Op. 20
Mozart Quartet in C, K. 157

The Price
Syracuse Stage

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

It's flat out great drama the way only a modern master like Arthur Miller can write it. From the author of American classics such as All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, and The Crucible, Miller's The Price is taut, truthful and deeply engaging, and belongs with the best of his plays. In an overstuffed attic apartment, two long-estranged brothers, one a cop, the other a doctor, agree to meet to sell off what remains of their deceased father's furniture and find themselves in an emotional renegotiation of the past. Regrets, resentments, and recriminations expose the high price each has paid for lost opportunities and lessons learned. A drama of redemptive power.

Read a Review!

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Once Upon a Time: Works of Katya Krenina
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Art Exhibition: Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Gallery Exhibition: James Williams II
Onondaga Community College

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

James Williams II believes that the vital essence of life starts with our relationships. Without relationships we have no identity, self-worth, or defining of involvement to the world we live in. For example, a father's identity comes from his relationship with his children, just as a wife's identity comes from her relationship with her husband. It is through his relationship with God that brings his identity as a Christian and the focus of his work together. It is the purpose of Williams' work to separate the distant religious experience from the close relationship with God experience.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Storytelling: An Experiment In Visual Narrative -- Works by Pedro Roth
Point of Contact Gallery

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

From Buenos Aires, Argentina, following two superbly triumphant solo exhibitions at the Sivori Museum and at the prestigious Recoleta Center this year, Pedro Roth comes to The Point of Contact Gallery to present "Storytelling...an experiment in visual narrative.

For this rich display of drawings that is a development of the work he presented in Argentina, "Roth invents a world of multiple figures, drawn to life in a Buenos Aires café while listening to stories about lost loves, departed pets, and friends, and the refusal to go out and love again..." writes the show's curator, Pedro Cuperman.

Everything is Illustrated and Winter Solstice
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium
2 Clinton Square, Syracuse

Everything is Illustrated: Gallery A
Recent work by Eva Calazada, Tian Chen, Barbara Morey, and Benjamin Petrie

Winter Solstice: Gallery B
Works by Cala Glatz, Julia Kester, Jonathan LaPlante, and Beth Mand

The Loneliness of Nature: Works by James Domroe
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Photographs of "The Loneliness of Nature" were manipulated in Photoshop to heighten and bring contrast to the starkness of the photos.

Also a short film, "How to be Happy", running time 5 min.

Markings of Time and Place
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Amy Bartell: Acrylic and mixed-media paintings examining the topography of time and an ever-changing horizon
Paul Molesky: Sculptural and functional stoneware ceramics finished with clay slip and shino glazes
Ban Bacich: Mixed-media box assemblages combining fragments that invoke a narrative

Tesoros del Pueblo: El Arte Folklorico de Mexico/Treasures of the People: The Folk Art of Mexico
Community Folk Art Center

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

Tesoros del Pueblo features folk art and photographs from the collection of Dr. Alejandro Garcia, Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University. Garcia began collecting Mexican folk art several years ago as a means to connect with his heritage. Garcia explains, "This collection, in essence, represents who I am, my pride in the richness of Mexican culture, and my celebration of the artistry of Mexican individuals who, in their carving, painting, sewing, and molding, present all of us with precious gifts."

The Imp of Love: Works by Rachel Herman
Light Work Gallery

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

Artist Statement: My interest in photography grew out of the desire to make the ineffable effable, the impossibility of making the invisible visible. This series asks questions about how love, a very particular kind of love, can be made visible. I photograph couples, once-lovers but who are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined any more, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively—even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward, or confusedly poignant. They have an abiding affection for one another, but an affection that is often loaded, layered, complicated, or unrequited.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

Cryptopocalypse: Tattoo Art of David "D.J." Rose
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

David "D.J." Rose is a tattooist and artist in the folk art tradition. He has no formal art training. His devotion to his craft has driven him deeply into the study of symbolism, as to best manifest his clients' desires to transform their lives using crude tools to apply ancient talismans. He co-owns Halo Tattoo in Syracuse, New York. He is driven to create and proclaim as is commanded "both for glory and for beauty".

The gallery is open by appointment. Phone 315-425-0405 to make an appointment.

Domestic Flourish: Works by Jen Allen
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Jen Allen is a passionate potter. She proudly proclaims "Handcrafted pottery has the capacity to nourish the home, the hand and the mind." Her goal as an artist is to keep the handmade an integral part of the contemporary home, and her beautifully crafted pottery on view reflects this philosophy.

Allen's utilitarian pottery forms "describe contrasts between modesty and generosity, grace and awkwardness" while they relate to her love of sewing through details such as folds, seams, darts, and pillow-like handles. The exterior surfaces, inspired by a fondness for textile design, juxtapose bold pattern with quiet, glazed expanses. All of her work is created with porcelain because of the material's inherit brightness and luminosity.

At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer" examines the pivotal interrelationship of three mid-century artists who helped define the course of American photography: Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer. This is the first full comparison of their work and exploration of their robust, prescient exchange of ideas about photography, abstraction and metaphor. Self-taught, they helped shape the evolution of the medium as an art form. Their work is an important bridge between classic mid-century photography and hybrid artistic approaches to the medium today.

Art: 2003-2009
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Art: 2003-2009" pays tribute to a group of artists aligned with the gallery since its inception over six years ago. The exhibit runs the gamut of artistic endeavors. Among the artists included in the show are: Lydia Benscher, Jamie Ashlaw, Eric W. Shute, A. Brooks Decker, Frank Calidonna, Harry R. Freeman-Jones, Diana Godfrey, Tom Hussey, John Dowling, Roscha Folger, Ruth Wynn, Wendy Harris, R. Jason Howard, Stephen Perrone, Kathleen Schneider, Arthur Brangman, Crystal LaPoint, Thomas Barnes, Tom Townsley, Kyle Mort, Andrea Hall, Stephen Ryan, Patrice Downes Centore, Robert Glisson, James Skvarch, and Vincent Fitches. The gallery is also planning to show works by Amy E. Bartell, Jim Dieso, Douglas Biklen, Tom Champion, Diane Lansing, Robert Carroll, Lauren Ritchie, Phil Austin, Sandy Clift, James R. Walker, Vivian Geiger, Richard Karuzas, Rudy Hellmann, Jennifer Colvin, Richard Schultz, Fred Wellner, Laura J. Wellner, Joyce Day Homan, Linda Esterley, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Mary Kester, and C. J. Hodge.

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Wild Card Exhibit: Serious Art for Children
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A new collection of works by noted illustrator and painter Connie Carroll, created for children of any age, meant to encourage an appreciation for the arts even in young children. This group of paintings bears a lighthearted and whimsical approach. The work in this series adds colorful dimension to common enjoyable experiences or fantasies for children, such as space travel or other adventures. In her artist statement, Carroll thanks "children of all ages, from one to one hundred" for joining her in exploring the fantasies depicted in these paintings.

Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

Read a review!

The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series: Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to present the first installment of the The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, featuring Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held. The series takes the place of the long running Biennial exhibition, which will return in 2012.

Pepper has created a site-specific installation, exploring language through an unexpected use of materials and space. Pepper describes her work in her artist statement as suggesting "...that objects and ideas are under constant transformation, randomly blending time, memory, reality and place as a transitional location ripe for imagining, just this side of dreaming."

For the past 34 years, the Everson has featured Central New York Artists in the Everson Biennial, a juried exhibition traditionally featuring about fifty artists in one group show. This year, the Everson introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, for contemporary art exhibitions showcasing the work of artists living in New York State, particularly the Central New York Region. The new format presents small-scale focused exhibitions and site-specific installations of new work. The exhibitions will take place in the Robineau Gallery on the main level of the museum, while collaborative pieces and site-specific installations may be presented in auxiliary spaces throughout the museum including the main Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court and the Mather Court located on the lower level.

Elongating the Thread
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Elongating the Thread" features the work of fiber and textile artists Jappie King Black, Anne Cofer, Annet Couwenberg, Jennifer Gandee, Mary Kester, Susan Krueger, Laura Reinhard, Barbara Jean Weingart, and Victoria Zacek.

The selected work in "Elongating the Thread" highlights the breadth of work based in the fiber and textile arts program in VPA's School of Art and Design and the success of the participants to explore their individual studio practices on a national level. The diversity of the group is evident through the variety of media (wool, silk, copper, steel, clay, and doilies) and concepts (weight, domesticity, identity, nature, war, and the subconscious) explored by the artists.

The exhibition is curated and coordinated by Cofer, Mary Giehl, and Olivia Robinson, all faculty members in the fiber and textile arts program. Many of the exhibiting artists are active members of the local artistic community and continue to make Central New York their home.

For more information, email Robinson at orobinso@syr.edu, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours, or visit vpa.syr.edu/xlprojects.

Alyson Shotz: Drawing Through Space
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

With the assistance of Syracuse University students, Brooklyn-based Shotz created her works on site, thus turning The Warehouse Gallery into a form of laboratory. Shotz is one of today's ground-breaking artists transforming contemporary art through a fusion of technology and handcrafted steel wire and yarn artworks. Her use of this material is a means of combining sculpture with drawing to address issues of light, space, time and motion. Strikingly beautiful, her wire sculpture in the vault and three wall drawings project optical experiences where questions of perception and misperception lead to further examination of the impact of 21st-century technology on the arts.

Read a review!

Windows Project: Confederacy of Dunces
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Hamilton-based Lynette K. Stephenson created an installation about New Orleans consisting of 60 hand-felted wool dunce caps. This exhibition is inspired by John Kennedy Toole's novel A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) set in New Orleans, where Stephenson's family home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, and based on her previous body of paintings, The Red Cross Series, which led to the idea for this site-specific project. In this work Stephenson engages in a dialogue about present-day social issues referring to New Orleans, the tragedy of the Hurricane and the universal symbol of the Red Cross.

Breach of Peace: Eric Etheridge's Photographs of the Freedom Riders
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

In the spring and summer of 1961, several hundred Americans—blacks and whites, men and women—converged on Jackson, Mississippi, to challenge state segregation laws. The Freedom Riders, as they came to be known, were determined to open up the South to civil rights: it was illegal for bus and train stations to discriminate, but most did and were not interested in change. Over 300 people were arrested and convicted of the charge "breach of the peace."

Artist and author Eric Etheridge's exhibit, Breach of Peace, collects the mug shots of those arrested, which were only recently made public, and juxtaposes them with present-day photographs of the Riders and their recollections about the experience. The group, half black and half white (a quarter were women), was remarkably young; in their faces we see strength, courage, defiance, dignity, and, occasionally, fear.

Go Red For Women Art Reception
Redhouse

Price: $10 suggested donation
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Red House will Go Red For Women when the American Heart Association holds this public art reception and fundraiser. Live music, guest speakers, and artwork and photography submitted by the community, all for a very worthy cause.

Artist Talk
The Warehouse Gallery
Featuring Alyson Shotz, sculptor

The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Sculptor Alyson Shotz will give a lecture on the role of light in her works.

Big Louie and the Gang that Couldn't Think Straight
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $25.95 plus tax and gratuities (includes meal and show)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

You and the rest of the Bangalone Gang are in deep trouble. Big Louie's been beaned by a bocci ball and now he ain't thinking so good. The gang's got to figure out what to do before arch rival gang leader "Muscles" Marinara has you rubbed out. You better move fast. Word on the street is that ruthless hitman Jake "The Weasel" is on the way.

The Price
Syracuse Stage

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

It's flat out great drama the way only a modern master like Arthur Miller can write it. From the author of American classics such as All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, and The Crucible, Miller's The Price is taut, truthful and deeply engaging, and belongs with the best of his plays. In an overstuffed attic apartment, two long-estranged brothers, one a cop, the other a doctor, agree to meet to sell off what remains of their deceased father's furniture and find themselves in an emotional renegotiation of the past. Regrets, resentments, and recriminations expose the high price each has paid for lost opportunities and lessons learned. A drama of redemptive power.

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Friday, February 5, 2010

Once Upon a Time: Works of Katya Krenina
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Art Exhibition: Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Gallery Exhibition: James Williams II
Onondaga Community College

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

James Williams II believes that the vital essence of life starts with our relationships. Without relationships we have no identity, self-worth, or defining of involvement to the world we live in. For example, a father's identity comes from his relationship with his children, just as a wife's identity comes from her relationship with her husband. It is through his relationship with God that brings his identity as a Christian and the focus of his work together. It is the purpose of Williams' work to separate the distant religious experience from the close relationship with God experience.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Everything is Illustrated and Winter Solstice
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium
2 Clinton Square, Syracuse

Everything is Illustrated: Gallery A
Recent work by Eva Calazada, Tian Chen, Barbara Morey, and Benjamin Petrie

Winter Solstice: Gallery B
Works by Cala Glatz, Julia Kester, Jonathan LaPlante, and Beth Mand

The Loneliness of Nature: Works by James Domroe
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Photographs of "The Loneliness of Nature" were manipulated in Photoshop to heighten and bring contrast to the starkness of the photos.

Also a short film, "How to be Happy", running time 5 min.

Markings of Time and Place
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Amy Bartell: Acrylic and mixed-media paintings examining the topography of time and an ever-changing horizon
Paul Molesky: Sculptural and functional stoneware ceramics finished with clay slip and shino glazes
Ban Bacich: Mixed-media box assemblages combining fragments that invoke a narrative

Tesoros del Pueblo: El Arte Folklorico de Mexico/Treasures of the People: The Folk Art of Mexico
Community Folk Art Center

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

Tesoros del Pueblo features folk art and photographs from the collection of Dr. Alejandro Garcia, Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University. Garcia began collecting Mexican folk art several years ago as a means to connect with his heritage. Garcia explains, "This collection, in essence, represents who I am, my pride in the richness of Mexican culture, and my celebration of the artistry of Mexican individuals who, in their carving, painting, sewing, and molding, present all of us with precious gifts."

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

The Imp of Love: Works by Rachel Herman
Light Work Gallery

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

Artist Statement: My interest in photography grew out of the desire to make the ineffable effable, the impossibility of making the invisible visible. This series asks questions about how love, a very particular kind of love, can be made visible. I photograph couples, once-lovers but who are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined any more, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively—even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward, or confusedly poignant. They have an abiding affection for one another, but an affection that is often loaded, layered, complicated, or unrequited.

Cryptopocalypse: Tattoo Art of David "D.J." Rose
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

David "D.J." Rose is a tattooist and artist in the folk art tradition. He has no formal art training. His devotion to his craft has driven him deeply into the study of symbolism, as to best manifest his clients' desires to transform their lives using crude tools to apply ancient talismans. He co-owns Halo Tattoo in Syracuse, New York. He is driven to create and proclaim as is commanded "both for glory and for beauty".

The gallery is open by appointment. Phone 315-425-0405 to make an appointment.

Domestic Flourish: Works by Jen Allen
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Jen Allen is a passionate potter. She proudly proclaims "Handcrafted pottery has the capacity to nourish the home, the hand and the mind." Her goal as an artist is to keep the handmade an integral part of the contemporary home, and her beautifully crafted pottery on view reflects this philosophy.

Allen's utilitarian pottery forms "describe contrasts between modesty and generosity, grace and awkwardness" while they relate to her love of sewing through details such as folds, seams, darts, and pillow-like handles. The exterior surfaces, inspired by a fondness for textile design, juxtapose bold pattern with quiet, glazed expanses. All of her work is created with porcelain because of the material's inherit brightness and luminosity.

At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer" examines the pivotal interrelationship of three mid-century artists who helped define the course of American photography: Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer. This is the first full comparison of their work and exploration of their robust, prescient exchange of ideas about photography, abstraction and metaphor. Self-taught, they helped shape the evolution of the medium as an art form. Their work is an important bridge between classic mid-century photography and hybrid artistic approaches to the medium today.

Wild Card Exhibit: Serious Art for Children
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A new collection of works by noted illustrator and painter Connie Carroll, created for children of any age, meant to encourage an appreciation for the arts even in young children. This group of paintings bears a lighthearted and whimsical approach. The work in this series adds colorful dimension to common enjoyable experiences or fantasies for children, such as space travel or other adventures. In her artist statement, Carroll thanks "children of all ages, from one to one hundred" for joining her in exploring the fantasies depicted in these paintings.

Art: 2003-2009
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Art: 2003-2009" pays tribute to a group of artists aligned with the gallery since its inception over six years ago. The exhibit runs the gamut of artistic endeavors. Among the artists included in the show are: Lydia Benscher, Jamie Ashlaw, Eric W. Shute, A. Brooks Decker, Frank Calidonna, Harry R. Freeman-Jones, Diana Godfrey, Tom Hussey, John Dowling, Roscha Folger, Ruth Wynn, Wendy Harris, R. Jason Howard, Stephen Perrone, Kathleen Schneider, Arthur Brangman, Crystal LaPoint, Thomas Barnes, Tom Townsley, Kyle Mort, Andrea Hall, Stephen Ryan, Patrice Downes Centore, Robert Glisson, James Skvarch, and Vincent Fitches. The gallery is also planning to show works by Amy E. Bartell, Jim Dieso, Douglas Biklen, Tom Champion, Diane Lansing, Robert Carroll, Lauren Ritchie, Phil Austin, Sandy Clift, James R. Walker, Vivian Geiger, Richard Karuzas, Rudy Hellmann, Jennifer Colvin, Richard Schultz, Fred Wellner, Laura J. Wellner, Joyce Day Homan, Linda Esterley, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Mary Kester, and C. J. Hodge.

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The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series: Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to present the first installment of the The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, featuring Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held. The series takes the place of the long running Biennial exhibition, which will return in 2012.

Pepper has created a site-specific installation, exploring language through an unexpected use of materials and space. Pepper describes her work in her artist statement as suggesting "...that objects and ideas are under constant transformation, randomly blending time, memory, reality and place as a transitional location ripe for imagining, just this side of dreaming."

For the past 34 years, the Everson has featured Central New York Artists in the Everson Biennial, a juried exhibition traditionally featuring about fifty artists in one group show. This year, the Everson introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, for contemporary art exhibitions showcasing the work of artists living in New York State, particularly the Central New York Region. The new format presents small-scale focused exhibitions and site-specific installations of new work. The exhibitions will take place in the Robineau Gallery on the main level of the museum, while collaborative pieces and site-specific installations may be presented in auxiliary spaces throughout the museum including the main Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court and the Mather Court located on the lower level.

Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

Read a review!

Elongating the Thread
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Elongating the Thread" features the work of fiber and textile artists Jappie King Black, Anne Cofer, Annet Couwenberg, Jennifer Gandee, Mary Kester, Susan Krueger, Laura Reinhard, Barbara Jean Weingart, and Victoria Zacek.

The selected work in "Elongating the Thread" highlights the breadth of work based in the fiber and textile arts program in VPA's School of Art and Design and the success of the participants to explore their individual studio practices on a national level. The diversity of the group is evident through the variety of media (wool, silk, copper, steel, clay, and doilies) and concepts (weight, domesticity, identity, nature, war, and the subconscious) explored by the artists.

The exhibition is curated and coordinated by Cofer, Mary Giehl, and Olivia Robinson, all faculty members in the fiber and textile arts program. Many of the exhibiting artists are active members of the local artistic community and continue to make Central New York their home.

For more information, email Robinson at orobinso@syr.edu, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours, or visit vpa.syr.edu/xlprojects.

Windows Project: Confederacy of Dunces
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Hamilton-based Lynette K. Stephenson created an installation about New Orleans consisting of 60 hand-felted wool dunce caps. This exhibition is inspired by John Kennedy Toole's novel A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) set in New Orleans, where Stephenson's family home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, and based on her previous body of paintings, The Red Cross Series, which led to the idea for this site-specific project. In this work Stephenson engages in a dialogue about present-day social issues referring to New Orleans, the tragedy of the Hurricane and the universal symbol of the Red Cross.

Alyson Shotz: Drawing Through Space
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

With the assistance of Syracuse University students, Brooklyn-based Shotz created her works on site, thus turning The Warehouse Gallery into a form of laboratory. Shotz is one of today's ground-breaking artists transforming contemporary art through a fusion of technology and handcrafted steel wire and yarn artworks. Her use of this material is a means of combining sculpture with drawing to address issues of light, space, time and motion. Strikingly beautiful, her wire sculpture in the vault and three wall drawings project optical experiences where questions of perception and misperception lead to further examination of the impact of 21st-century technology on the arts.

Read a review!

Breach of Peace: Eric Etheridge's Photographs of the Freedom Riders
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

In the spring and summer of 1961, several hundred Americans—blacks and whites, men and women—converged on Jackson, Mississippi, to challenge state segregation laws. The Freedom Riders, as they came to be known, were determined to open up the South to civil rights: it was illegal for bus and train stations to discriminate, but most did and were not interested in change. Over 300 people were arrested and convicted of the charge "breach of the peace."

Artist and author Eric Etheridge's exhibit, Breach of Peace, collects the mug shots of those arrested, which were only recently made public, and juxtaposes them with present-day photographs of the Riders and their recollections about the experience. The group, half black and half white (a quarter were women), was remarkably young; in their faces we see strength, courage, defiance, dignity, and, occasionally, fear.

Reich Percussion Sextet
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

This concert will feature a performance of Steve Reich's Sextet. The performers include Andy Russo, Marc Mellits, Jenifer Vacanti, Jon Lee, Jeff Moore, and Rob Bridge.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Everson Uncorked
Everson Museum of Art
Featuring Rick Balestra Duo

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Live musical entertainment by the Rick Balestra Duo (guitar and bass), new installation of sculpture by Tim Scott and Jen Pepper, and a cash wine bar.

Flying Home CD Release Party
Featuring Tom Bronzetti

Price: $7
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Phone 315-657-3689 for reservations.

Emma's Revolution
Folkus Project

Price: $15
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Taking their name and inspiration from the boldness and fiery passion of Emma Goldman, Emma's Revolution is the duo of activist musicians Pat Humphries and Sandy Opatow, who write songs that become traditions. They have staked their claim as inheritors of Goldman's personal and political legacy, captured in her famous attribution, "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution." But the Goldman reference is more than a catchy moniker. They write powerful, passionate songs about the lives of real people, focusing their political passions to testify for love, peace, equality, and justice.

Force from the North Concert Series
Spark Contemporary Art Space
Featuring The Junction and Dinosaur Bones

Price: $5
Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Junction
Upbeat/Indie/Groove + Melodic/Jazz = Incredibly Catchy Sound

Dinosaur Bones
Concrete/Hawaiian/Indie

Pops Series: Bravo Broadway Rocks!
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Syracuse Symphony Pops Chorus
Ron Spigelman, conductor
Featuring Vocalists Susan Egan, Capathia Jenkins, Rob Evan, Doug LaBrecque

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

These vibrant performers will bring you Broadway as you've never heard it before, with music from shows such as Jesus Christ Superstar, The Wiz, Jekyll and Hyde, Hairspray, Movin' Out, Lion King, Rent, Dance of the Vampires, Cats, Tommy, Wicked, Chess and Dreamgirls. If you love Broadway, youll love this show!

Ani DiFranco, with Gaby Moreno
Westcott Theater

Price: $38 in advance; TBA at door
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Ani DiFranco has written hundreds of songs, played thousands of shows, captured the imaginations of legions of followers, and jammed with folkies, orchestras, rappers, rock-and-roll hall-of-famers, jazz musicians, poets, pop superstars, storytellers, and a martial arts legend. Since Ani bucked the major label system in the early-'90s, opting to release her music on her own terms, the self-described Little Folksinger has been the subject of all kinds of hyperbole. She's been called "fiercely independent" (Rolling Stone), "inspirational" (All Music Guide), "the ultimate do-it-yourself songwriter" (The New York Times), etc. As the cracks in the music industry get larger and more big-name artists follow Ani's leadRadiohead, Madonna, and Nine Inch Nails among themmaybe people will just start calling her "smart." On her new album, Red Letter Year, she takes more advantage of her freedom than ever before. Conceived, sculpted and refined over the course of two yearsa lifetime compared to a typical Ani recording sessionthe album is an impeccably crafted, multi-layered sonic achievement.

Santee Frazier, poet
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Santee Frazier is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. He holds a BFA from the Institute
of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Syracuse University. He is the recipient of various awards including The Truman Capote Scholarship and a Syracuse University Fellowship. His poems have appeared in American Poet, Narrative Magazine, Ontario Review, and other literary journals. His first collection of poems, Dark Thirty, was released by the University of Arizona Press in the spring of 2009.

Run for Your Wife
CNY Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

Price: Dinner theater: $27 single; $50 couple. Show only: $18 (limited availability)
Fire and Ice Banquet Hall, The Locker Room
528 Hiawatha Blvd., Syracuse

John Smith is your ordinary London cab driver. He owns his own car, sets his own hours, is hard working, punctual and lives a very ordinary life...with the exception of his two wives, Mary and Barbara. One night John stops an old women from getting mugged and gets knocked unconscious. After being checked over at the hospital, he is taken to his home with Mary by a local police officer, Detective Troughton. However, that morning, he supposed to be with at his home with Barbara. After realizing his predicament, John tries to get home to Barbara while keeping both his first wife Mary and Detective Troughton from finding out about his second wife. Enlisting the help of his upstairs slacker neighbor, Stanley Gardener, John heaps one lie upon another to get back to Barbara and back on his very precise schedule. All appears to be well until another police officer, Detective Porterhouse, arrives from a neighboring district investigating the case of two cab drivers named John Smith, both mugged on the same night but having different addresses. Quick thinking Stanley exaggerates several more lies to create a new John Smith for Detective Porterhouse, while keeping the truth from Mary. As the lies pile up and craziness ensues, Stanley and John try valiantly to keep the nosy detectives busy, John's suspicious wives from running into each other, their sex lives straight and all of their stories together. In the grand tradition of Faulty Towers, Mr. Bean and The Benny Hill Show, Run for Your Wife is a fast paced, slapstick, laugh a minute romp that leaves you in stitches and begging for more.

Performance stars David Vickers, Anne Freund, Rachelle Clavin, Gerrit Vander Werff Jr., Daniel Rowlands, Greg J. Hipius, and Greg Holtham.

Dinner 6:30 pm, show begins at 8:00 pm.

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The Insanity of Mary Girard
Appleseed Productions
Deborah Pearson, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

In 1790, Mary Girard is committed to an asylum. Having become pregnant by another man, her husband has had her declared legally insane. Mary sits in a chair as the "furies" dance around and impersonate people from her past. By the end of this haunting and highly theatrical piece, she really is insane.

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The Price
Syracuse Stage

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

It's flat out great drama the way only a modern master like Arthur Miller can write it. From the author of American classics such as All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, and The Crucible, Miller's The Price is taut, truthful and deeply engaging, and belongs with the best of his plays. In an overstuffed attic apartment, two long-estranged brothers, one a cop, the other a doctor, agree to meet to sell off what remains of their deceased father's furniture and find themselves in an emotional renegotiation of the past. Regrets, resentments, and recriminations expose the high price each has paid for lost opportunities and lessons learned. A drama of redemptive power.

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Saturday, February 6, 2010

Once Upon a Time: Works of Katya Krenina
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Art: 2003-2009
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Art: 2003-2009" pays tribute to a group of artists aligned with the gallery since its inception over six years ago. The exhibit runs the gamut of artistic endeavors. Among the artists included in the show are: Lydia Benscher, Jamie Ashlaw, Eric W. Shute, A. Brooks Decker, Frank Calidonna, Harry R. Freeman-Jones, Diana Godfrey, Tom Hussey, John Dowling, Roscha Folger, Ruth Wynn, Wendy Harris, R. Jason Howard, Stephen Perrone, Kathleen Schneider, Arthur Brangman, Crystal LaPoint, Thomas Barnes, Tom Townsley, Kyle Mort, Andrea Hall, Stephen Ryan, Patrice Downes Centore, Robert Glisson, James Skvarch, and Vincent Fitches. The gallery is also planning to show works by Amy E. Bartell, Jim Dieso, Douglas Biklen, Tom Champion, Diane Lansing, Robert Carroll, Lauren Ritchie, Phil Austin, Sandy Clift, James R. Walker, Vivian Geiger, Richard Karuzas, Rudy Hellmann, Jennifer Colvin, Richard Schultz, Fred Wellner, Laura J. Wellner, Joyce Day Homan, Linda Esterley, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Mary Kester, and C. J. Hodge.

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Wild Card Exhibit: Serious Art for Children
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A new collection of works by noted illustrator and painter Connie Carroll, created for children of any age, meant to encourage an appreciation for the arts even in young children. This group of paintings bears a lighthearted and whimsical approach. The work in this series adds colorful dimension to common enjoyable experiences or fantasies for children, such as space travel or other adventures. In her artist statement, Carroll thanks "children of all ages, from one to one hundred" for joining her in exploring the fantasies depicted in these paintings.

Markings of Time and Place
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Amy Bartell: Acrylic and mixed-media paintings examining the topography of time and an ever-changing horizon
Paul Molesky: Sculptural and functional stoneware ceramics finished with clay slip and shino glazes
Ban Bacich: Mixed-media box assemblages combining fragments that invoke a narrative

The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series: Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to present the first installment of the The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, featuring Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held. The series takes the place of the long running Biennial exhibition, which will return in 2012.

Pepper has created a site-specific installation, exploring language through an unexpected use of materials and space. Pepper describes her work in her artist statement as suggesting "...that objects and ideas are under constant transformation, randomly blending time, memory, reality and place as a transitional location ripe for imagining, just this side of dreaming."

For the past 34 years, the Everson has featured Central New York Artists in the Everson Biennial, a juried exhibition traditionally featuring about fifty artists in one group show. This year, the Everson introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, for contemporary art exhibitions showcasing the work of artists living in New York State, particularly the Central New York Region. The new format presents small-scale focused exhibitions and site-specific installations of new work. The exhibitions will take place in the Robineau Gallery on the main level of the museum, while collaborative pieces and site-specific installations may be presented in auxiliary spaces throughout the museum including the main Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court and the Mather Court located on the lower level.

Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

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Tesoros del Pueblo: El Arte Folklorico de Mexico/Treasures of the People: The Folk Art of Mexico
Community Folk Art Center

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

Tesoros del Pueblo features folk art and photographs from the collection of Dr. Alejandro Garcia, Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University. Garcia began collecting Mexican folk art several years ago as a means to connect with his heritage. Garcia explains, "This collection, in essence, represents who I am, my pride in the richness of Mexican culture, and my celebration of the artistry of Mexican individuals who, in their carving, painting, sewing, and molding, present all of us with precious gifts."

Domestic Flourish: Works by Jen Allen
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Jen Allen is a passionate potter. She proudly proclaims "Handcrafted pottery has the capacity to nourish the home, the hand and the mind." Her goal as an artist is to keep the handmade an integral part of the contemporary home, and her beautifully crafted pottery on view reflects this philosophy.

Allen's utilitarian pottery forms "describe contrasts between modesty and generosity, grace and awkwardness" while they relate to her love of sewing through details such as folds, seams, darts, and pillow-like handles. The exterior surfaces, inspired by a fondness for textile design, juxtapose bold pattern with quiet, glazed expanses. All of her work is created with porcelain because of the material's inherit brightness and luminosity.

At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer" examines the pivotal interrelationship of three mid-century artists who helped define the course of American photography: Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer. This is the first full comparison of their work and exploration of their robust, prescient exchange of ideas about photography, abstraction and metaphor. Self-taught, they helped shape the evolution of the medium as an art form. Their work is an important bridge between classic mid-century photography and hybrid artistic approaches to the medium today.

Breach of Peace: Eric Etheridge's Photographs of the Freedom Riders
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

In the spring and summer of 1961, several hundred Americans—blacks and whites, men and women—converged on Jackson, Mississippi, to challenge state segregation laws. The Freedom Riders, as they came to be known, were determined to open up the South to civil rights: it was illegal for bus and train stations to discriminate, but most did and were not interested in change. Over 300 people were arrested and convicted of the charge "breach of the peace."

Artist and author Eric Etheridge's exhibit, Breach of Peace, collects the mug shots of those arrested, which were only recently made public, and juxtaposes them with present-day photographs of the Riders and their recollections about the experience. The group, half black and half white (a quarter were women), was remarkably young; in their faces we see strength, courage, defiance, dignity, and, occasionally, fear.

Art Exhibition: Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Elongating the Thread
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Elongating the Thread" features the work of fiber and textile artists Jappie King Black, Anne Cofer, Annet Couwenberg, Jennifer Gandee, Mary Kester, Susan Krueger, Laura Reinhard, Barbara Jean Weingart, and Victoria Zacek.

The selected work in "Elongating the Thread" highlights the breadth of work based in the fiber and textile arts program in VPA's School of Art and Design and the success of the participants to explore their individual studio practices on a national level. The diversity of the group is evident through the variety of media (wool, silk, copper, steel, clay, and doilies) and concepts (weight, domesticity, identity, nature, war, and the subconscious) explored by the artists.

The exhibition is curated and coordinated by Cofer, Mary Giehl, and Olivia Robinson, all faculty members in the fiber and textile arts program. Many of the exhibiting artists are active members of the local artistic community and continue to make Central New York their home.

For more information, email Robinson at orobinso@syr.edu, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours, or visit vpa.syr.edu/xlprojects.

Alyson Shotz: Drawing Through Space
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

With the assistance of Syracuse University students, Brooklyn-based Shotz created her works on site, thus turning The Warehouse Gallery into a form of laboratory. Shotz is one of today's ground-breaking artists transforming contemporary art through a fusion of technology and handcrafted steel wire and yarn artworks. Her use of this material is a means of combining sculpture with drawing to address issues of light, space, time and motion. Strikingly beautiful, her wire sculpture in the vault and three wall drawings project optical experiences where questions of perception and misperception lead to further examination of the impact of 21st-century technology on the arts.

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Windows Project: Confederacy of Dunces
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Hamilton-based Lynette K. Stephenson created an installation about New Orleans consisting of 60 hand-felted wool dunce caps. This exhibition is inspired by John Kennedy Toole's novel A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) set in New Orleans, where Stephenson's family home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, and based on her previous body of paintings, The Red Cross Series, which led to the idea for this site-specific project. In this work Stephenson engages in a dialogue about present-day social issues referring to New Orleans, the tragedy of the Hurricane and the universal symbol of the Red Cross.

Comic Bob Marley

Price: $23.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Detective Greenly from Boondock Saints I & II
Originally from Maine, Bob Marley began performing stand up comedy in his hometown of Portland. He moved to Boston early in his career, gaining experience in a city known for spawning comedy all-stars. Seen on The Tonight Show, David Letterman, and Comedy Central Presents, he now has a weekly radio call in segment with several radio stations around the country called "The World According to Bob." Bob was also the Winner of this year's XM/Sirius Superbowl of Comedy, and he continually makes new fans around the country.

For more information, phone 315-435-2121.

SaturdaySCREENINGS: The Long Walk Home (1989)
ArtRage Gallery

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

Montgomery, Alabama, 1955: A white socialite and her black maid must decide how each will respond to the famous bus boycott led by Martin Luther King, the birth of the Civil Rights movement. Directed by Richard Pearce, with Sissy Spacek and Whoopi Goldberg.

Family Series: Fantastic Fairy Tales: Legends From Around The World
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Ron Spigelman, conductor
Featuring Vera Mariner, soprano/narrator

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

Vera Mariner returns to the SSO to enthrall and enchant us with fairy tales from around the world. From the classic German tales of the Brothers Grimm, to England's Peter Rabbit stories, Russia's Snow Maiden, and more, we'll explore your favorite storybook characters and stories, all accompanied by the full symphony orchestra. Come dressed as your favorite fairytale character and see if you can win a prize for best costume.

Canibus, with M80 and more
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Ages 18+ admitted.

Folkstrings
Redhouse

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Folkstrings is Andy Revutsky (mandolin and vocals), Bill Hider (vocals and guitar), Terry Hill (vocals and guitar), Mike Kester (banjo, guitar, kazoo and vocals) and Mary Kester (vocals and Irish penny whistle). Folkstrings plays a little gospel, a touch of blues, a hint of bluegrass, and a whole lot of folk. Their music is of the late 60's and early 70's, and includes Peter, Paul and Mary, Tom Paxton, John Denver, The Kingston Trio, and Bob Dylan.

Phantom Chemistry and Juice Break
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Price: $5
Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Pops Series: Bravo Broadway Rocks!
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Syracuse Symphony Pops Chorus
Ron Spigelman, conductor
Featuring Vocalists Susan Egan, Capathia Jenkins, Rob Evan, Doug LaBrecque

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

These vibrant performers will bring you Broadway as you've never heard it before, with music from shows such as Jesus Christ Superstar, The Wiz, Jekyll and Hyde, Hairspray, Movin' Out, Lion King, Rent, Dance of the Vampires, Cats, Tommy, Wicked, Chess and Dreamgirls. If you love Broadway, youll love this show!

Underground, Over the Moon
Open Hand Theater
Theatre Figuren

Price: $8 adults, $6 children
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

The journey of a small family is interspersed with "dreams" of Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth and filled with secret hiding places, secret codes, secret dreams and, of course, flying cows. This lyrical look at the quest for freedom is a magical experience of music and puppetry inspired by our country's greatest hardship and triumph—slavery and the underground railroad. Its characters are legendary, but they came together and risked their lives in the struggle against injustice. Theatre Figüren has performed throughout Western New York and beyond. Performer Michele Costa was the 1992 recipient of the David R. Fendrick Theatre Award.

Beauty and the Beast
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive adaptation of the children's classic.

The Price
Syracuse Stage

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

It's flat out great drama the way only a modern master like Arthur Miller can write it. From the author of American classics such as All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, and The Crucible, Miller's The Price is taut, truthful and deeply engaging, and belongs with the best of his plays. In an overstuffed attic apartment, two long-estranged brothers, one a cop, the other a doctor, agree to meet to sell off what remains of their deceased father's furniture and find themselves in an emotional renegotiation of the past. Regrets, resentments, and recriminations expose the high price each has paid for lost opportunities and lessons learned. A drama of redemptive power.

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Run for Your Wife
CNY Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

Price: Dinner theater: $27 single; $50 couple. Show only: $18 (limited availability)
Fire and Ice Banquet Hall, The Locker Room
528 Hiawatha Blvd., Syracuse

John Smith is your ordinary London cab driver. He owns his own car, sets his own hours, is hard working, punctual and lives a very ordinary life...with the exception of his two wives, Mary and Barbara. One night John stops an old women from getting mugged and gets knocked unconscious. After being checked over at the hospital, he is taken to his home with Mary by a local police officer, Detective Troughton. However, that morning, he supposed to be with at his home with Barbara. After realizing his predicament, John tries to get home to Barbara while keeping both his first wife Mary and Detective Troughton from finding out about his second wife. Enlisting the help of his upstairs slacker neighbor, Stanley Gardener, John heaps one lie upon another to get back to Barbara and back on his very precise schedule. All appears to be well until another police officer, Detective Porterhouse, arrives from a neighboring district investigating the case of two cab drivers named John Smith, both mugged on the same night but having different addresses. Quick thinking Stanley exaggerates several more lies to create a new John Smith for Detective Porterhouse, while keeping the truth from Mary. As the lies pile up and craziness ensues, Stanley and John try valiantly to keep the nosy detectives busy, John's suspicious wives from running into each other, their sex lives straight and all of their stories together. In the grand tradition of Faulty Towers, Mr. Bean and The Benny Hill Show, Run for Your Wife is a fast paced, slapstick, laugh a minute romp that leaves you in stitches and begging for more.

Performance stars David Vickers, Anne Freund, Rachelle Clavin, Gerrit Vander Werff Jr., Daniel Rowlands, Greg J. Hipius, and Greg Holtham.

Dinner 6:30 pm, show begins at 8:00 pm.

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Death by Disco
Without a Cue Productions

Price: $34.50 includes dinner and show
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

Welcome to the Land of Oz Discoteria, the world's first and thankfully, only, disco-cafeteria. A place where disco never dies as long as the mirror balls glint in the light of the sterno flames. Contestants have gathered for the moderately aptly named "3rd Annual World Championship of Disco Championship." The dancers are ready to show their moves, but they might not realize that tonight some of the competition will definitely be stiff.

The show is an interactive murder mystery show that gets members of the audience involved. If you love disco, and even if you despise it, this show will have you intrigued, laughing, and of course dancing, by the end of the night.

For reservations, phone 315-469-6969.

The Insanity of Mary Girard
Appleseed Productions
Deborah Pearson, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

In 1790, Mary Girard is committed to an asylum. Having become pregnant by another man, her husband has had her declared legally insane. Mary sits in a chair as the "furies" dance around and impersonate people from her past. By the end of this haunting and highly theatrical piece, she really is insane.

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The Price
Syracuse Stage

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

It's flat out great drama the way only a modern master like Arthur Miller can write it. From the author of American classics such as All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, and The Crucible, Miller's The Price is taut, truthful and deeply engaging, and belongs with the best of his plays. In an overstuffed attic apartment, two long-estranged brothers, one a cop, the other a doctor, agree to meet to sell off what remains of their deceased father's furniture and find themselves in an emotional renegotiation of the past. Regrets, resentments, and recriminations expose the high price each has paid for lost opportunities and lessons learned. A drama of redemptive power.

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Sunday, February 7, 2010

The Imp of Love: Works by Rachel Herman
Light Work Gallery

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

Artist Statement: My interest in photography grew out of the desire to make the ineffable effable, the impossibility of making the invisible visible. This series asks questions about how love, a very particular kind of love, can be made visible. I photograph couples, once-lovers but who are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined any more, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively—even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward, or confusedly poignant. They have an abiding affection for one another, but an affection that is often loaded, layered, complicated, or unrequited.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

Domestic Flourish: Works by Jen Allen
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Jen Allen is a passionate potter. She proudly proclaims "Handcrafted pottery has the capacity to nourish the home, the hand and the mind." Her goal as an artist is to keep the handmade an integral part of the contemporary home, and her beautifully crafted pottery on view reflects this philosophy.

Allen's utilitarian pottery forms "describe contrasts between modesty and generosity, grace and awkwardness" while they relate to her love of sewing through details such as folds, seams, darts, and pillow-like handles. The exterior surfaces, inspired by a fondness for textile design, juxtapose bold pattern with quiet, glazed expanses. All of her work is created with porcelain because of the material's inherit brightness and luminosity.

At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer" examines the pivotal interrelationship of three mid-century artists who helped define the course of American photography: Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer. This is the first full comparison of their work and exploration of their robust, prescient exchange of ideas about photography, abstraction and metaphor. Self-taught, they helped shape the evolution of the medium as an art form. Their work is an important bridge between classic mid-century photography and hybrid artistic approaches to the medium today.

The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series: Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to present the first installment of the The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, featuring Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held. The series takes the place of the long running Biennial exhibition, which will return in 2012.

Pepper has created a site-specific installation, exploring language through an unexpected use of materials and space. Pepper describes her work in her artist statement as suggesting "...that objects and ideas are under constant transformation, randomly blending time, memory, reality and place as a transitional location ripe for imagining, just this side of dreaming."

For the past 34 years, the Everson has featured Central New York Artists in the Everson Biennial, a juried exhibition traditionally featuring about fifty artists in one group show. This year, the Everson introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, for contemporary art exhibitions showcasing the work of artists living in New York State, particularly the Central New York Region. The new format presents small-scale focused exhibitions and site-specific installations of new work. The exhibitions will take place in the Robineau Gallery on the main level of the museum, while collaborative pieces and site-specific installations may be presented in auxiliary spaces throughout the museum including the main Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court and the Mather Court located on the lower level.

Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

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Once Upon a Time: Works of Katya Krenina
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Art Exhibition: Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Elongating the Thread
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Elongating the Thread" features the work of fiber and textile artists Jappie King Black, Anne Cofer, Annet Couwenberg, Jennifer Gandee, Mary Kester, Susan Krueger, Laura Reinhard, Barbara Jean Weingart, and Victoria Zacek.

The selected work in "Elongating the Thread" highlights the breadth of work based in the fiber and textile arts program in VPA's School of Art and Design and the success of the participants to explore their individual studio practices on a national level. The diversity of the group is evident through the variety of media (wool, silk, copper, steel, clay, and doilies) and concepts (weight, domesticity, identity, nature, war, and the subconscious) explored by the artists.

The exhibition is curated and coordinated by Cofer, Mary Giehl, and Olivia Robinson, all faculty members in the fiber and textile arts program. Many of the exhibiting artists are active members of the local artistic community and continue to make Central New York their home.

For more information, email Robinson at orobinso@syr.edu, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours, or visit vpa.syr.edu/xlprojects.

Contemporary Film Series: Black History: Lost, Stolen, or Strayed?
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Significant." "Moving." "Devastating." These are words that were used to describe this news report on African-American history when it aired in July of 1968. In fact, this program was so highly acclaimed that CBS News rebroadcast it, again in prime time, only three weeks later. Featured segments spotlight the changing image of black Americans through film and TV clips ranging from The Birth of a Nation, to Amos 'n' Andy, to Guess Who's Coming to Dinner; Freedom Day School in Philadelphia, where African-American children were taught about their heritage and racial identity; and some of America's less familiar black heroes including Daniel Hale Williams, the first doctor to perform open heart surgery in America. A young Bill Cosby hosts. Produced by CBS News. 55 minutes. Presented in celebration of Black History Month.

Howard Zinn: A Celebration of an Activist's Life
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Screening of You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (2004, 78 minutes)
Zinn biography/documentary film by Deb Ellis and Denis Mueller, narrated by Matt Damon.

Screening will be followed by a discussion about how Howard and his work inspired audience members' lives and activism. Coffee and dessert will be served.

It's a Pirate's Life for Me: Writing Fiction for Teens
University Neighbors Lecture Series
Featuring Tamora Pierce

Price: $10 regular, $5 with student ID
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Tamora Pierce started life as a hillbilly with a spelling mistake on her birth certificate. She is now the New York Times bestselling author of fantasy books for teens. Tamora's books have appeared on the American Library Association's yearly Best Books for Young Adults lists, the New York Public Library's Books for the Teen Age list, and VOYA's (Voice of Youth Advocates) yearly Best Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror lists. Her books include The Song of the Lioness quartet, The Circle of Magic quartet, and the Beka Cooper series. Tamora and her husband decided to move to Syracuse after spending months at a time here recording 11 of her books for Full Cast Audio. Adults, as well as teens, find much to enjoy in her books, and her lecture will appeal to all.

Central New York Flute Ensemble
Arts Alive in Liverpool

Price: Free
Liverpool Public Library
310 Tulip St., Liverpool

Winter Concert
Onondaga Civic Symphony Orchestra
Erik Kibelsbeck, conductor
Featuring Fred Karpoff, piano

Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3, "Scottish"
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1

The Price
Syracuse Stage

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

It's flat out great drama the way only a modern master like Arthur Miller can write it. From the author of American classics such as All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, and The Crucible, Miller's The Price is taut, truthful and deeply engaging, and belongs with the best of his plays. In an overstuffed attic apartment, two long-estranged brothers, one a cop, the other a doctor, agree to meet to sell off what remains of their deceased father's furniture and find themselves in an emotional renegotiation of the past. Regrets, resentments, and recriminations expose the high price each has paid for lost opportunities and lessons learned. A drama of redemptive power.

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Monday, February 8, 2010

Once Upon a Time: Works of Katya Krenina
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Art Exhibition: Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Gallery Exhibition: James Williams II
Onondaga Community College

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

James Williams II believes that the vital essence of life starts with our relationships. Without relationships we have no identity, self-worth, or defining of involvement to the world we live in. For example, a father's identity comes from his relationship with his children, just as a wife's identity comes from her relationship with her husband. It is through his relationship with God that brings his identity as a Christian and the focus of his work together. It is the purpose of Williams' work to separate the distant religious experience from the close relationship with God experience.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

The Loneliness of Nature: Works by James Domroe
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Photographs of "The Loneliness of Nature" were manipulated in Photoshop to heighten and bring contrast to the starkness of the photos.

Also a short film, "How to be Happy", running time 5 min.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

The Imp of Love: Works by Rachel Herman
Light Work Gallery

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

Artist Statement: My interest in photography grew out of the desire to make the ineffable effable, the impossibility of making the invisible visible. This series asks questions about how love, a very particular kind of love, can be made visible. I photograph couples, once-lovers but who are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined any more, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively—even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward, or confusedly poignant. They have an abiding affection for one another, but an affection that is often loaded, layered, complicated, or unrequited.

Cryptopocalypse: Tattoo Art of David "D.J." Rose
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

David "D.J." Rose is a tattooist and artist in the folk art tradition. He has no formal art training. His devotion to his craft has driven him deeply into the study of symbolism, as to best manifest his clients' desires to transform their lives using crude tools to apply ancient talismans. He co-owns Halo Tattoo in Syracuse, New York. He is driven to create and proclaim as is commanded "both for glory and for beauty".

The gallery is open by appointment. Phone 315-425-0405 to make an appointment.