Monday, June 1, 2009

Window Projects: Museum of the City of Lost and Found
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Museum of the City of Lost and Found, Marion Wilson's latest sculpture project, is a continuation of her public art project launched in conjunction with the 2008 New Orleans Biennial. The exhibition is a combination of hexagram patterns of i-ching (a symbol system used to identify order in random events) collaboratively painted on the wall by the artist, community members, faculty and students at Syracuse University; miniature "igloo" and cast resin objects; and a short video of Wilson's bicycle (mobile museum) performance in New Orleans edited by Jessica Posner. Wilson invites audience participation by filling out Lost and Found Report cards (available throughout the exhibition), her method of collecting stories about viewers' personal losses, chances, findings and discoveries.

Marion Wilson uses igloos as a nomadic structure of native materials to remind us of our basic human need for shelter and protection. In addition, it is a reference to fundamentals of human existence and the Italian Arte Povera artist Mario Merz (1925-2003). In New Orleans, Wilson's sculpture was originally mounted on a constructed bicycle able to roam the city streets within the St. Roch neighborhood and the French Market. In Syracuse, Wilson will exhibit her 'mobile museum' at the Warehouse Gallery, thus, creating a "museum inside a museum." Although the installation in the Window Projects will remain through June 6, its appearance will continuously change through the continual addition of found materials collected by the artist. Wilson will be guided in selecting these additional materials by outside interviews with the general public in the greater Syracuse community.

Postcards to (and from!) the Past
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit is a collaboration between the Arts Branch of the YMCA's after school arts program at Salem Hyde Elementary School, the Onondaga Historical Association, and Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. On display at the YMCA will be replications of over 100 century-old postcards mailed back and forth between students in the YMCA's program (asking questions of various historical figures from the Syracuse area), and staff members of the OHA (who responded to the students' questions in character). Sometimes poignant, sometimes funny, the kids' questions show an active engagement with their own history—and the postcards themselves are a delight to anyone interested in the area's past. The exhibit is continued across the street at the OHA, and guests are invited and encouraged to visit both galleries to see the complete show.

The Gallery as Studio: Drawings on Delirium
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A world-renowned Uruguayan artist, Ricardo Lanzarini comes from Montevideo to Syracuse to recreate the mundane and the extraordinary in his drawings on delirium made to unexpected scales. The exhibition comes to life at The Point of Contact Gallery where the space has turned into an artist's studio. The work of the exhibit is to be produced entirely on site and directly onto the walls of the gallery in the weeks leading up to the opening. Lanzarini will also share this experiment with students from Syracuse University's Fine Arts Department who will join in the creative process.

Lanzarini's work balances extremes of scale, crafting an extensive abstract image from precise, miniscule characters, whose everyday activities serve as a window into a miniature world, frozen in time. These drawings sarcastically explore the two major paradigms in figurative art of the 20th century: Social and Fantastic Realism

The exhibit will last through the summer and then Lanzarini returns to Point of Contact to perform an "erasure" of the work on September 4. The book catalogue documenting the entire project will be presented at the close.

Spring Loaded
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery
Associated Artists of Syracuse

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

Featuring works by Joan Applebaum, Lesley Brooks, A. Brooks Decker, Lorraine Doyle, Joy Englehart, Marcia Ferber, Roscha Folger, Patricia Gancarz, Mimi George, Helga Gilber, Carol Ginsky, Marion Lapham, Howard McLaughlin, Kathleen O'Brien, Ute Oestreicher, E.A. Pilbeam, Mary Raineri, Pamela Sunshine, Yolanda Tooley, Clara Towell.

Threads of a Culture: Hadbakah Images by Selma Hurwitz
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

Price: Free
Winnick Hillel Center for Jewish Life
102 Walnut Place (corner of Harrison St.), Syracuse

Selma Hurwitz is an internationally-known artist whose works portray personal and social themes of universal impact, as well as basic motifs of love, beauty, valor and tyranny. In 1964, she created her own medium, hadbakah (Hebrew for "gluing"), which is glued-thread painting. Instead of using a brush, the artist glues various individual threads, particularly those that are metalized, to a specially prepared surface. Careful planning of thread direction and location, as well as meticulous maneuvering of the threads during the gluing process, achieves the desired shading and design.

Hurwitz has exhibited work in numerous solo shows, including those at the Russell Senate Office Building Rotunda and the First Baptist Church in Washington, DC; the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles; the American Jewish Historical Society in Waltham, MA; and the Herzl Institute in New York City. Her work is part of numerous collections, including the Israel Museum, Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial and Knesset, all in Jerusalem; the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California; and the National Endowment for the Arts Library in Washington, DC.

For more information about the exhibition, contact April Maw at 315-443-7095 or aamaw@syr.edu.

Limbo: Works of Admas Habteslasie
Light Work Gallery

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

"Limbo" depicts a graceful yet unusually honest and insightful snapshot of Eritrea, an East African country suspended in an unsettled state between war and peace.

Eritrea warred with neighboring Ethiopia for 30 years before gaining independence in 1991. Then, in 1998, they entered another war with Ethiopia that lasted two years. Today, the war-torn country is yet again at the brink of war with their neighbor. Years of unrest have left the people of Eritrea waiting for life to improve. According to Habteslasie: "Transitory states become permanent; empty villas, destroyed old buildings and unfinished new buildings dot the landscape, monuments to the suspension of history. The collision between Eritrea's proud historical narrative and the bleak ennui of the present has produced an obsessive focus on the future. Reconstruction and infrastructure development are energetically driven forward whilst the economy remains essentially shut off from the outside world." The images in "Limbo" capture both destruction and construction, both the unhealed wounds of war and a fierce optimism and hope for a brighter future.

Habteslasie was born in Kuwait, and his parents are Eritrean. He received his master's degree from the London College of Communication in photojournalism and documentary photography. His photographic projects look at the ideas of identity, history, and the re-evaluation of our relationship with historical process. His work has been exhibited at venues such as Flowers East and 198 Gallery in London. His work has also been published in Source Magazine.

As It Happens: Artists-in-Residence at Light Work
Light Work Gallery

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

Josh Brilliant curates a selection of images by recent Light Work Artists-in-Residence, including Amy Stein, Kelli Connell, Cristina Fraire, Krista Steinke, and Christine Osinski. Brilliant is currently an MFA candidate in the Museum Studies program at Syracuse University.

Curious Works
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Kyle Mort, paintings
Curtis W. Readel, money prints and collages
Roger Bisbing, small assemblies

If I Had a Million
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

1932 film starring W.C. Fields, Gary Cooper, George Raft, Charles Laughton, and others.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Window Projects: Museum of the City of Lost and Found
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Museum of the City of Lost and Found, Marion Wilson's latest sculpture project, is a continuation of her public art project launched in conjunction with the 2008 New Orleans Biennial. The exhibition is a combination of hexagram patterns of i-ching (a symbol system used to identify order in random events) collaboratively painted on the wall by the artist, community members, faculty and students at Syracuse University; miniature "igloo" and cast resin objects; and a short video of Wilson's bicycle (mobile museum) performance in New Orleans edited by Jessica Posner. Wilson invites audience participation by filling out Lost and Found Report cards (available throughout the exhibition), her method of collecting stories about viewers' personal losses, chances, findings and discoveries.

Marion Wilson uses igloos as a nomadic structure of native materials to remind us of our basic human need for shelter and protection. In addition, it is a reference to fundamentals of human existence and the Italian Arte Povera artist Mario Merz (1925-2003). In New Orleans, Wilson's sculpture was originally mounted on a constructed bicycle able to roam the city streets within the St. Roch neighborhood and the French Market. In Syracuse, Wilson will exhibit her 'mobile museum' at the Warehouse Gallery, thus, creating a "museum inside a museum." Although the installation in the Window Projects will remain through June 6, its appearance will continuously change through the continual addition of found materials collected by the artist. Wilson will be guided in selecting these additional materials by outside interviews with the general public in the greater Syracuse community.

Postcards to (and from!) the Past
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit is a collaboration between the Arts Branch of the YMCA's after school arts program at Salem Hyde Elementary School, the Onondaga Historical Association, and Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. On display at the YMCA will be replications of over 100 century-old postcards mailed back and forth between students in the YMCA's program (asking questions of various historical figures from the Syracuse area), and staff members of the OHA (who responded to the students' questions in character). Sometimes poignant, sometimes funny, the kids' questions show an active engagement with their own history—and the postcards themselves are a delight to anyone interested in the area's past. The exhibit is continued across the street at the OHA, and guests are invited and encouraged to visit both galleries to see the complete show.

The Gallery as Studio: Drawings on Delirium
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A world-renowned Uruguayan artist, Ricardo Lanzarini comes from Montevideo to Syracuse to recreate the mundane and the extraordinary in his drawings on delirium made to unexpected scales. The exhibition comes to life at The Point of Contact Gallery where the space has turned into an artist's studio. The work of the exhibit is to be produced entirely on site and directly onto the walls of the gallery in the weeks leading up to the opening. Lanzarini will also share this experiment with students from Syracuse University's Fine Arts Department who will join in the creative process.

Lanzarini's work balances extremes of scale, crafting an extensive abstract image from precise, miniscule characters, whose everyday activities serve as a window into a miniature world, frozen in time. These drawings sarcastically explore the two major paradigms in figurative art of the 20th century: Social and Fantastic Realism

The exhibit will last through the summer and then Lanzarini returns to Point of Contact to perform an "erasure" of the work on September 4. The book catalogue documenting the entire project will be presented at the close.

Spring Loaded
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery
Associated Artists of Syracuse

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

Featuring works by Joan Applebaum, Lesley Brooks, A. Brooks Decker, Lorraine Doyle, Joy Englehart, Marcia Ferber, Roscha Folger, Patricia Gancarz, Mimi George, Helga Gilber, Carol Ginsky, Marion Lapham, Howard McLaughlin, Kathleen O'Brien, Ute Oestreicher, E.A. Pilbeam, Mary Raineri, Pamela Sunshine, Yolanda Tooley, Clara Towell.

The Curiosity of Change
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Anne Novado-Cappuccilli: Drawings and Paintings
John Lombardi: Works in Stone

37th Annual Teen Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

CFAC is honored to host the longest running collaborative exhibition in the Greater Syracuse area that features the work of under-represented teen artists. Participating students attend Syracuse City High Schools and suburban Onondaga County High Schools. A panel of professional local artists serve as judges for the competition. Prizes are awarded to winners in two-dimensional and three-dimensional categories.

As It Happens: Artists-in-Residence at Light Work
Light Work Gallery

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

Josh Brilliant curates a selection of images by recent Light Work Artists-in-Residence, including Amy Stein, Kelli Connell, Cristina Fraire, Krista Steinke, and Christine Osinski. Brilliant is currently an MFA candidate in the Museum Studies program at Syracuse University.

Limbo: Works of Admas Habteslasie
Light Work Gallery

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

"Limbo" depicts a graceful yet unusually honest and insightful snapshot of Eritrea, an East African country suspended in an unsettled state between war and peace.

Eritrea warred with neighboring Ethiopia for 30 years before gaining independence in 1991. Then, in 1998, they entered another war with Ethiopia that lasted two years. Today, the war-torn country is yet again at the brink of war with their neighbor. Years of unrest have left the people of Eritrea waiting for life to improve. According to Habteslasie: "Transitory states become permanent; empty villas, destroyed old buildings and unfinished new buildings dot the landscape, monuments to the suspension of history. The collision between Eritrea's proud historical narrative and the bleak ennui of the present has produced an obsessive focus on the future. Reconstruction and infrastructure development are energetically driven forward whilst the economy remains essentially shut off from the outside world." The images in "Limbo" capture both destruction and construction, both the unhealed wounds of war and a fierce optimism and hope for a brighter future.

Habteslasie was born in Kuwait, and his parents are Eritrean. He received his master's degree from the London College of Communication in photojournalism and documentary photography. His photographic projects look at the ideas of identity, history, and the re-evaluation of our relationship with historical process. His work has been exhibited at venues such as Flowers East and 198 Gallery in London. His work has also been published in Source Magazine.

Curious Works
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Kyle Mort, paintings
Curtis W. Readel, money prints and collages
Roger Bisbing, small assemblies

PostSecret
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In November 2004, Frank Warren began a community art project by handing out postcards to strangers and leaving them in public places in his Washington, D.C. neighborhood. Each self-addressed card invited people to anonymously share a secret. Two requirements were: the secret had to be true and it had to be something that had never been told to another person. Today Warren has been mailed more than 100,000 highly personal and artfully decorated postcards illustrating the soulful secrets never voiced. This extraordinary project has become an international phenomenon with thousands of people participating in scheduled PostSecret events throughout the United States, and through the PostSecret website and blog.

This exhibition features 450 postcards bringing together the most powerful, poignant and beautifully intimate secrets Warren has received in the past four years. In many cases, the illustrations on the cards are just as compelling as the accompanying text.

Sitting Still
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"What does the world look like from a non-violent point of view? What would happen if the youth of Syracuse city and Syracuse University joined together to explore this question?" These are the questions that led Anne Beffel, a New York based public artist and Associate Professor of Art at Syracuse University and Pam McLaughlin, Everson Curator of Education and Public Programs to bring the Sitting Still contemplative video project to high school students from the Syracuse City School District. Beffel and McLaughlin worked together for over a year to put video cameras in the hands eight young artists, so that they could stop, look, and listen as scenes unfolded before them ranging from those that inspired awe to those that compelled participation and intervention. Within the context of four workshops at the SU Warehouse e-tags studio, students engaged in making video art from a perfectly still point of view, and then used their artworks as the basis for sharing their diverse visions. The workshops were at the heart of this process of opening up to environments -- both physical and social.

Vicktory Dogs Exhibition
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Pit bulls victimized in the notorious dog-fighting ring of former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick are the subject of the exhibition. "Vicktory Dogs" is the brainchild of Cyrus Mejia, who, along with his wife and a group of animal lovers, founded Best Friends Animal Society, the nation's largest sanctuary for abused and abandoned animals.

The exhibition features giclée prints of 22 dogs rescued by Best Friends after Vick's indictment. By depicting the dogs up close in his painting, Mejia hopes people will confront their own prejudices about pit bulls in general and will think twice about exploiting them or fearing them, or both.

Sound Scores: Paper, Wood, Stone and Glass
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibition of works by Andrew Deutsch and Stephen Vitiello, "Sound Scores: Paper, Wood, Stone and Glass," is an installation composed of audio and video pieces as well as photographs, prints and sculpture. Deutsch and Vitiello are musicians, composers and sound artists who have been collaborating since 1999. For this, their first co-exhibition, the artists provided each other with musical scores for the other to perform. In so doing, they emphasize the visual nature of sound scores, shedding light on this complex, seemingly inaccessible medium called sound art.

In Vitiello's work viewers will see a shift from landscape photographs (7 Studies for Graphic Scores, 2007) to abstract black-and-white prints (Pond Set, 2008) that continue to refer to landscape through black lines that evoke both reeds and musical notes. In the background of his videos, Deutsch includes imagery from the "Notgeld" (emergency money that was put into circulation in Germany during the economic crisis of the 1920s) as a reflection on our difficult economic times. Deutsch also uses these collectibles in the making of his own sound scores; he has created a narrative referring to the films of Fritz Lang, to illustrated children's books, and to early 20th-century European artistic abstraction, where sound and sight blend into a common experience.

Composer-in-the-Schools Concert
Society for New Music
Nottingham Quadrant

Nottingham High School
3100 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Premiere of a work by Manlius composer Marc Mellits, performed by the H.W. Smith Elementary, Ed Smith Elementary, Levy Middle School and Nottingham High bands, working with directors Ray Sturge, Richard Fields, Vanessa Ryder, and Julie Stuetzle.

Crowns
Syracuse Stage
Patdro Harris, director

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

Get ready for some soul stirring, funny and powerful stories, stories from the church elders, stories with hattitude, enough hattitude to set the choir singing. That's hattitude, as in hat, as in Crown, as in the elegant cranial adornments favored by certain elegant church-going ladies of the South. Sing about it, dance about it, boast about it, even dream about it, a Crown is a joyous expression of culture and tradition, and as we find in this rollicking celebratory play by Regina Taylor, tradition and culture can be just the balm to salve the wounded soul. That's worth singing about whether the style is gospel, freedom song or hip-hop.

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Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Window Projects: Museum of the City of Lost and Found
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Museum of the City of Lost and Found, Marion Wilson's latest sculpture project, is a continuation of her public art project launched in conjunction with the 2008 New Orleans Biennial. The exhibition is a combination of hexagram patterns of i-ching (a symbol system used to identify order in random events) collaboratively painted on the wall by the artist, community members, faculty and students at Syracuse University; miniature "igloo" and cast resin objects; and a short video of Wilson's bicycle (mobile museum) performance in New Orleans edited by Jessica Posner. Wilson invites audience participation by filling out Lost and Found Report cards (available throughout the exhibition), her method of collecting stories about viewers' personal losses, chances, findings and discoveries.

Marion Wilson uses igloos as a nomadic structure of native materials to remind us of our basic human need for shelter and protection. In addition, it is a reference to fundamentals of human existence and the Italian Arte Povera artist Mario Merz (1925-2003). In New Orleans, Wilson's sculpture was originally mounted on a constructed bicycle able to roam the city streets within the St. Roch neighborhood and the French Market. In Syracuse, Wilson will exhibit her 'mobile museum' at the Warehouse Gallery, thus, creating a "museum inside a museum." Although the installation in the Window Projects will remain through June 6, its appearance will continuously change through the continual addition of found materials collected by the artist. Wilson will be guided in selecting these additional materials by outside interviews with the general public in the greater Syracuse community.

Postcards to (and from!) the Past
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit is a collaboration between the Arts Branch of the YMCA's after school arts program at Salem Hyde Elementary School, the Onondaga Historical Association, and Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. On display at the YMCA will be replications of over 100 century-old postcards mailed back and forth between students in the YMCA's program (asking questions of various historical figures from the Syracuse area), and staff members of the OHA (who responded to the students' questions in character). Sometimes poignant, sometimes funny, the kids' questions show an active engagement with their own history—and the postcards themselves are a delight to anyone interested in the area's past. The exhibit is continued across the street at the OHA, and guests are invited and encouraged to visit both galleries to see the complete show.

The Gallery as Studio: Drawings on Delirium
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A world-renowned Uruguayan artist, Ricardo Lanzarini comes from Montevideo to Syracuse to recreate the mundane and the extraordinary in his drawings on delirium made to unexpected scales. The exhibition comes to life at The Point of Contact Gallery where the space has turned into an artist's studio. The work of the exhibit is to be produced entirely on site and directly onto the walls of the gallery in the weeks leading up to the opening. Lanzarini will also share this experiment with students from Syracuse University's Fine Arts Department who will join in the creative process.

Lanzarini's work balances extremes of scale, crafting an extensive abstract image from precise, miniscule characters, whose everyday activities serve as a window into a miniature world, frozen in time. These drawings sarcastically explore the two major paradigms in figurative art of the 20th century: Social and Fantastic Realism

The exhibit will last through the summer and then Lanzarini returns to Point of Contact to perform an "erasure" of the work on September 4. The book catalogue documenting the entire project will be presented at the close.

Spring Loaded
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery
Associated Artists of Syracuse

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

Featuring works by Joan Applebaum, Lesley Brooks, A. Brooks Decker, Lorraine Doyle, Joy Englehart, Marcia Ferber, Roscha Folger, Patricia Gancarz, Mimi George, Helga Gilber, Carol Ginsky, Marion Lapham, Howard McLaughlin, Kathleen O'Brien, Ute Oestreicher, E.A. Pilbeam, Mary Raineri, Pamela Sunshine, Yolanda Tooley, Clara Towell.

The Curiosity of Change
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Anne Novado-Cappuccilli: Drawings and Paintings
John Lombardi: Works in Stone

37th Annual Teen Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

CFAC is honored to host the longest running collaborative exhibition in the Greater Syracuse area that features the work of under-represented teen artists. Participating students attend Syracuse City High Schools and suburban Onondaga County High Schools. A panel of professional local artists serve as judges for the competition. Prizes are awarded to winners in two-dimensional and three-dimensional categories.

Limbo: Works of Admas Habteslasie
Light Work Gallery

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

"Limbo" depicts a graceful yet unusually honest and insightful snapshot of Eritrea, an East African country suspended in an unsettled state between war and peace.

Eritrea warred with neighboring Ethiopia for 30 years before gaining independence in 1991. Then, in 1998, they entered another war with Ethiopia that lasted two years. Today, the war-torn country is yet again at the brink of war with their neighbor. Years of unrest have left the people of Eritrea waiting for life to improve. According to Habteslasie: "Transitory states become permanent; empty villas, destroyed old buildings and unfinished new buildings dot the landscape, monuments to the suspension of history. The collision between Eritrea's proud historical narrative and the bleak ennui of the present has produced an obsessive focus on the future. Reconstruction and infrastructure development are energetically driven forward whilst the economy remains essentially shut off from the outside world." The images in "Limbo" capture both destruction and construction, both the unhealed wounds of war and a fierce optimism and hope for a brighter future.

Habteslasie was born in Kuwait, and his parents are Eritrean. He received his master's degree from the London College of Communication in photojournalism and documentary photography. His photographic projects look at the ideas of identity, history, and the re-evaluation of our relationship with historical process. His work has been exhibited at venues such as Flowers East and 198 Gallery in London. His work has also been published in Source Magazine.

As It Happens: Artists-in-Residence at Light Work
Light Work Gallery

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

Josh Brilliant curates a selection of images by recent Light Work Artists-in-Residence, including Amy Stein, Kelli Connell, Cristina Fraire, Krista Steinke, and Christine Osinski. Brilliant is currently an MFA candidate in the Museum Studies program at Syracuse University.

Curious Works
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Kyle Mort, paintings
Curtis W. Readel, money prints and collages
Roger Bisbing, small assemblies

(Shade/Light) Red Excursions
Redhouse

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

Patrick Blackburn's newest multimedia installation creates an environment which seduces visitors and subtly asks them to leave their preconception of viewing art aside. Instead, visitors are invited to experience the artwork in the present moment. Blackburn explores the use of familiar media objects as a means of experiencing audio and visual art.

Blackburn is an artist, musician, composer and producer of audio and visual landscapes. He has worked in the design and production of numerous gallery installation and limited editions music albums and sound artworks. In his own artwork, Blackburn uses emergent technologies and behavioral patterns such as music generated by a system that ostensibly has no inputs. Thus his artwork cannot be called a composition in the traditional sense but rather open-end soundscapes, designed to continue indefinitely, without a chance to ever repeat. His work continues to create itself even in the audience's absence.

Sitting Still
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"What does the world look like from a non-violent point of view? What would happen if the youth of Syracuse city and Syracuse University joined together to explore this question?" These are the questions that led Anne Beffel, a New York based public artist and Associate Professor of Art at Syracuse University and Pam McLaughlin, Everson Curator of Education and Public Programs to bring the Sitting Still contemplative video project to high school students from the Syracuse City School District. Beffel and McLaughlin worked together for over a year to put video cameras in the hands eight young artists, so that they could stop, look, and listen as scenes unfolded before them ranging from those that inspired awe to those that compelled participation and intervention. Within the context of four workshops at the SU Warehouse e-tags studio, students engaged in making video art from a perfectly still point of view, and then used their artworks as the basis for sharing their diverse visions. The workshops were at the heart of this process of opening up to environments -- both physical and social.

PostSecret
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In November 2004, Frank Warren began a community art project by handing out postcards to strangers and leaving them in public places in his Washington, D.C. neighborhood. Each self-addressed card invited people to anonymously share a secret. Two requirements were: the secret had to be true and it had to be something that had never been told to another person. Today Warren has been mailed more than 100,000 highly personal and artfully decorated postcards illustrating the soulful secrets never voiced. This extraordinary project has become an international phenomenon with thousands of people participating in scheduled PostSecret events throughout the United States, and through the PostSecret website and blog.

This exhibition features 450 postcards bringing together the most powerful, poignant and beautifully intimate secrets Warren has received in the past four years. In many cases, the illustrations on the cards are just as compelling as the accompanying text.

Vicktory Dogs Exhibition
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Pit bulls victimized in the notorious dog-fighting ring of former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick are the subject of the exhibition. "Vicktory Dogs" is the brainchild of Cyrus Mejia, who, along with his wife and a group of animal lovers, founded Best Friends Animal Society, the nation's largest sanctuary for abused and abandoned animals.

The exhibition features giclée prints of 22 dogs rescued by Best Friends after Vick's indictment. By depicting the dogs up close in his painting, Mejia hopes people will confront their own prejudices about pit bulls in general and will think twice about exploiting them or fearing them, or both.

Sound Scores: Paper, Wood, Stone and Glass
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibition of works by Andrew Deutsch and Stephen Vitiello, "Sound Scores: Paper, Wood, Stone and Glass," is an installation composed of audio and video pieces as well as photographs, prints and sculpture. Deutsch and Vitiello are musicians, composers and sound artists who have been collaborating since 1999. For this, their first co-exhibition, the artists provided each other with musical scores for the other to perform. In so doing, they emphasize the visual nature of sound scores, shedding light on this complex, seemingly inaccessible medium called sound art.

In Vitiello's work viewers will see a shift from landscape photographs (7 Studies for Graphic Scores, 2007) to abstract black-and-white prints (Pond Set, 2008) that continue to refer to landscape through black lines that evoke both reeds and musical notes. In the background of his videos, Deutsch includes imagery from the "Notgeld" (emergency money that was put into circulation in Germany during the economic crisis of the 1920s) as a reflection on our difficult economic times. Deutsch also uses these collectibles in the making of his own sound scores; he has created a narrative referring to the films of Fritz Lang, to illustrated children's books, and to early 20th-century European artistic abstraction, where sound and sight blend into a common experience.

Beyond Boundaries Art Exhibit and Silent Auction
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This is the 16th annual Beyond Boundaries Silent Auction. It is held every year as both a fundraiser and as a presentation of a collection of work from a culturally diverse mix of CNY established and emerging artists. It serves to continue an education fund for three communities in Ghana (CENSUDI in Bolgatanga, the Liberian refugee camp in Buduburam and the community library in Wora Wora).

Additional information can be found at www.beyondboundariescny.org, or contact Mardea Warner at 315-479-5757, mardeamardea@yahoo.com.

Raster-Noton Electronica Night, with Alva Noto and Byetone
Redhouse

Price: $12
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Syracuse joins Toronto, Boston and New York as the only cities to host renowned raster-noton electronica artists Alva Noto and Byetone in North America this year.

Having emerged from the fusion of the Rastermusic and Noton labels in 1999, raster-noton has since established itself as the single most influential German platform for experimental, electronic music. Run by Noton's Carsten Nicolai (aka Alva Noto) and Olaf Bender (aka Byetone, co-founder of Rastermusic alongside Frank Bretschneider), raster-noton's field of activity expands far beyond that of a traditional record label, encompassing work in design, media art, sound installation, special collaborative projects and sonic research. There is no other imprint like raster-noton in the world today and their vision looks well into the future.

Berlin based sound artist Carsten Nicolai (Alva Noto) has established himself as a leading figure in the realm of electronic sound and visual designers who are using art and music as hybrid tools to create microscopic views of creative processes. For several years now, Nicolai has experimented with sound under the pseudonym, Noto, to create his own code of signs, acoustic and visual symbols. As Alva Noto he leads those experiments into the field of electronic music.

Olaf Bender (Byetone) has built a dynamic, multidisciplinary career in experimental art for almost a quarter century. Bridging the worlds of film, sound and visuals, he is renowned for his inventiveness and his ability to synthesize different forms into a cohesive whole. Bender creates his music digitally, using sine waves to weave a complex sonic fabric, accented by clicks and effects, taking the listener to an alternate sonic reality, where the rules of the physical world are forgotten.

Crowns
Syracuse Stage
Patdro Harris, director

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

Get ready for some soul stirring, funny and powerful stories, stories from the church elders, stories with hattitude, enough hattitude to set the choir singing. That's hattitude, as in hat, as in Crown, as in the elegant cranial adornments favored by certain elegant church-going ladies of the South. Sing about it, dance about it, boast about it, even dream about it, a Crown is a joyous expression of culture and tradition, and as we find in this rollicking celebratory play by Regina Taylor, tradition and culture can be just the balm to salve the wounded soul. That's worth singing about whether the style is gospel, freedom song or hip-hop.

Read a Review!

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Window Projects: Museum of the City of Lost and Found
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Museum of the City of Lost and Found, Marion Wilson's latest sculpture project, is a continuation of her public art project launched in conjunction with the 2008 New Orleans Biennial. The exhibition is a combination of hexagram patterns of i-ching (a symbol system used to identify order in random events) collaboratively painted on the wall by the artist, community members, faculty and students at Syracuse University; miniature "igloo" and cast resin objects; and a short video of Wilson's bicycle (mobile museum) performance in New Orleans edited by Jessica Posner. Wilson invites audience participation by filling out Lost and Found Report cards (available throughout the exhibition), her method of collecting stories about viewers' personal losses, chances, findings and discoveries.

Marion Wilson uses igloos as a nomadic structure of native materials to remind us of our basic human need for shelter and protection. In addition, it is a reference to fundamentals of human existence and the Italian Arte Povera artist Mario Merz (1925-2003). In New Orleans, Wilson's sculpture was originally mounted on a constructed bicycle able to roam the city streets within the St. Roch neighborhood and the French Market. In Syracuse, Wilson will exhibit her 'mobile museum' at the Warehouse Gallery, thus, creating a "museum inside a museum." Although the installation in the Window Projects will remain through June 6, its appearance will continuously change through the continual addition of found materials collected by the artist. Wilson will be guided in selecting these additional materials by outside interviews with the general public in the greater Syracuse community.

Postcards to (and from!) the Past
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit is a collaboration between the Arts Branch of the YMCA's after school arts program at Salem Hyde Elementary School, the Onondaga Historical Association, and Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. On display at the YMCA will be replications of over 100 century-old postcards mailed back and forth between students in the YMCA's program (asking questions of various historical figures from the Syracuse area), and staff members of the OHA (who responded to the students' questions in character). Sometimes poignant, sometimes funny, the kids' questions show an active engagement with their own history—and the postcards themselves are a delight to anyone interested in the area's past. The exhibit is continued across the street at the OHA, and guests are invited and encouraged to visit both galleries to see the complete show.

The Gallery as Studio: Drawings on Delirium
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A world-renowned Uruguayan artist, Ricardo Lanzarini comes from Montevideo to Syracuse to recreate the mundane and the extraordinary in his drawings on delirium made to unexpected scales. The exhibition comes to life at The Point of Contact Gallery where the space has turned into an artist's studio. The work of the exhibit is to be produced entirely on site and directly onto the walls of the gallery in the weeks leading up to the opening. Lanzarini will also share this experiment with students from Syracuse University's Fine Arts Department who will join in the creative process.

Lanzarini's work balances extremes of scale, crafting an extensive abstract image from precise, miniscule characters, whose everyday activities serve as a window into a miniature world, frozen in time. These drawings sarcastically explore the two major paradigms in figurative art of the 20th century: Social and Fantastic Realism

The exhibit will last through the summer and then Lanzarini returns to Point of Contact to perform an "erasure" of the work on September 4. The book catalogue documenting the entire project will be presented at the close.

Spring Loaded
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery
Associated Artists of Syracuse

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

Featuring works by Joan Applebaum, Lesley Brooks, A. Brooks Decker, Lorraine Doyle, Joy Englehart, Marcia Ferber, Roscha Folger, Patricia Gancarz, Mimi George, Helga Gilber, Carol Ginsky, Marion Lapham, Howard McLaughlin, Kathleen O'Brien, Ute Oestreicher, E.A. Pilbeam, Mary Raineri, Pamela Sunshine, Yolanda Tooley, Clara Towell.

The Complete Works of Alexandra Crosby
Westcott Community Center

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

The Curiosity of Change
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Anne Novado-Cappuccilli: Drawings and Paintings
John Lombardi: Works in Stone

37th Annual Teen Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

CFAC is honored to host the longest running collaborative exhibition in the Greater Syracuse area that features the work of under-represented teen artists. Participating students attend Syracuse City High Schools and suburban Onondaga County High Schools. A panel of professional local artists serve as judges for the competition. Prizes are awarded to winners in two-dimensional and three-dimensional categories.

As It Happens: Artists-in-Residence at Light Work
Light Work Gallery

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

Josh Brilliant curates a selection of images by recent Light Work Artists-in-Residence, including Amy Stein, Kelli Connell, Cristina Fraire, Krista Steinke, and Christine Osinski. Brilliant is currently an MFA candidate in the Museum Studies program at Syracuse University.

Limbo: Works of Admas Habteslasie
Light Work Gallery

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

"Limbo" depicts a graceful yet unusually honest and insightful snapshot of Eritrea, an East African country suspended in an unsettled state between war and peace.

Eritrea warred with neighboring Ethiopia for 30 years before gaining independence in 1991. Then, in 1998, they entered another war with Ethiopia that lasted two years. Today, the war-torn country is yet again at the brink of war with their neighbor. Years of unrest have left the people of Eritrea waiting for life to improve. According to Habteslasie: "Transitory states become permanent; empty villas, destroyed old buildings and unfinished new buildings dot the landscape, monuments to the suspension of history. The collision between Eritrea's proud historical narrative and the bleak ennui of the present has produced an obsessive focus on the future. Reconstruction and infrastructure development are energetically driven forward whilst the economy remains essentially shut off from the outside world." The images in "Limbo" capture both destruction and construction, both the unhealed wounds of war and a fierce optimism and hope for a brighter future.

Habteslasie was born in Kuwait, and his parents are Eritrean. He received his master's degree from the London College of Communication in photojournalism and documentary photography. His photographic projects look at the ideas of identity, history, and the re-evaluation of our relationship with historical process. His work has been exhibited at venues such as Flowers East and 198 Gallery in London. His work has also been published in Source Magazine.

Curious Works
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Kyle Mort, paintings
Curtis W. Readel, money prints and collages
Roger Bisbing, small assemblies

(Shade/Light) Red Excursions
Redhouse

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

Patrick Blackburn's newest multimedia installation creates an environment which seduces visitors and subtly asks them to leave their preconception of viewing art aside. Instead, visitors are invited to experience the artwork in the present moment. Blackburn explores the use of familiar media objects as a means of experiencing audio and visual art.

Blackburn is an artist, musician, composer and producer of audio and visual landscapes. He has worked in the design and production of numerous gallery installation and limited editions music albums and sound artworks. In his own artwork, Blackburn uses emergent technologies and behavioral patterns such as music generated by a system that ostensibly has no inputs. Thus his artwork cannot be called a composition in the traditional sense but rather open-end soundscapes, designed to continue indefinitely, without a chance to ever repeat. His work continues to create itself even in the audience's absence.

All Forms: Studio Pottery '09
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Featuring works by 13 artists.

Wild Card Exhibit: Color Etchings from Florence by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna
Delavan Art Gallery

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

Fusion
Delavan Art Gallery

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

John F. Fitzsimmons, paintings
Diana Godfrey, mixed media collage
Pam Steele, metal and glass wall sculptures
Catharine Westlake, acrylics and monotypes

PostSecret
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In November 2004, Frank Warren began a community art project by handing out postcards to strangers and leaving them in public places in his Washington, D.C. neighborhood. Each self-addressed card invited people to anonymously share a secret. Two requirements were: the secret had to be true and it had to be something that had never been told to another person. Today Warren has been mailed more than 100,000 highly personal and artfully decorated postcards illustrating the soulful secrets never voiced. This extraordinary project has become an international phenomenon with thousands of people participating in scheduled PostSecret events throughout the United States, and through the PostSecret website and blog.

This exhibition features 450 postcards bringing together the most powerful, poignant and beautifully intimate secrets Warren has received in the past four years. In many cases, the illustrations on the cards are just as compelling as the accompanying text.

Sitting Still
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"What does the world look like from a non-violent point of view? What would happen if the youth of Syracuse city and Syracuse University joined together to explore this question?" These are the questions that led Anne Beffel, a New York based public artist and Associate Professor of Art at Syracuse University and Pam McLaughlin, Everson Curator of Education and Public Programs to bring the Sitting Still contemplative video project to high school students from the Syracuse City School District. Beffel and McLaughlin worked together for over a year to put video cameras in the hands eight young artists, so that they could stop, look, and listen as scenes unfolded before them ranging from those that inspired awe to those that compelled participation and intervention. Within the context of four workshops at the SU Warehouse e-tags studio, students engaged in making video art from a perfectly still point of view, and then used their artworks as the basis for sharing their diverse visions. The workshops were at the heart of this process of opening up to environments -- both physical and social.

Vicktory Dogs Exhibition
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Pit bulls victimized in the notorious dog-fighting ring of former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick are the subject of the exhibition. "Vicktory Dogs" is the brainchild of Cyrus Mejia, who, along with his wife and a group of animal lovers, founded Best Friends Animal Society, the nation's largest sanctuary for abused and abandoned animals.

The exhibition features giclée prints of 22 dogs rescued by Best Friends after Vick's indictment. By depicting the dogs up close in his painting, Mejia hopes people will confront their own prejudices about pit bulls in general and will think twice about exploiting them or fearing them, or both.

Sound Scores: Paper, Wood, Stone and Glass
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibition of works by Andrew Deutsch and Stephen Vitiello, "Sound Scores: Paper, Wood, Stone and Glass," is an installation composed of audio and video pieces as well as photographs, prints and sculpture. Deutsch and Vitiello are musicians, composers and sound artists who have been collaborating since 1999. For this, their first co-exhibition, the artists provided each other with musical scores for the other to perform. In so doing, they emphasize the visual nature of sound scores, shedding light on this complex, seemingly inaccessible medium called sound art.

In Vitiello's work viewers will see a shift from landscape photographs (7 Studies for Graphic Scores, 2007) to abstract black-and-white prints (Pond Set, 2008) that continue to refer to landscape through black lines that evoke both reeds and musical notes. In the background of his videos, Deutsch includes imagery from the "Notgeld" (emergency money that was put into circulation in Germany during the economic crisis of the 1920s) as a reflection on our difficult economic times. Deutsch also uses these collectibles in the making of his own sound scores; he has created a narrative referring to the films of Fritz Lang, to illustrated children's books, and to early 20th-century European artistic abstraction, where sound and sight blend into a common experience.

Beyond Boundaries Art Exhibit and Silent Auction
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This is the 16th annual Beyond Boundaries Silent Auction. It is held every year as both a fundraiser and as a presentation of a collection of work from a culturally diverse mix of CNY established and emerging artists. It serves to continue an education fund for three communities in Ghana (CENSUDI in Bolgatanga, the Liberian refugee camp in Buduburam and the community library in Wora Wora).

Additional information can be found at www.beyondboundariescny.org, or contact Mardea Warner at 315-479-5757, mardeamardea@yahoo.com.

Tanks & Trees: The War Show
Orange Line Gallery

Price: Free
Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A soldier's intimate look at Iraq. Featuring photographs from Steven Robinson, photos and video from anonymous sources, and video from the Syracuse Peace Council.

Monkeys Wear Cement Shoes

Price: $5
Hollywood Theater
2221 Brewerton Rd, Mattydale

You've witnessed the Godfather, you've seen the Goodfellas, and you know the Sopranos. Now meet the Tony Cronies, a gang of Mob Toughs competing with rival gang The Vinnies, who have crossed a line that can only be uncrossed by one thing: Revenge. They say revenge is a dish best served cold, and that money is the root of all evil. But what do they say when revenge and money collide?

Monkeys Wear Cement Shoes, a mod-parody movie, was filmed in and around the Syracuse area.

For more information, visit www.myspace.com/monkeyswearcementshoes.

Homestyle Homicide: The Freagan Family Reunion
Acme Mystery Company

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

Interactive comedy murder mystery.

Crowns
Syracuse Stage
Patdro Harris, director

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

Get ready for some soul stirring, funny and powerful stories, stories from the church elders, stories with hattitude, enough hattitude to set the choir singing. That's hattitude, as in hat, as in Crown, as in the elegant cranial adornments favored by certain elegant church-going ladies of the South. Sing about it, dance about it, boast about it, even dream about it, a Crown is a joyous expression of culture and tradition, and as we find in this rollicking celebratory play by Regina Taylor, tradition and culture can be just the balm to salve the wounded soul. That's worth singing about whether the style is gospel, freedom song or hip-hop.

Read a Review!

Preview: Bingo: The Musical
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $5
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Bingo is a splashy, zippy, outrageously funny new musical. Come meet Vern, Honey and Patsy -- three pals that have driven through a terrible storm in the name of their weekly obsession. In between the number calling, strange rituals and fierce competitions, love blossoms and long-lost friends unite. Book by Michael Heitzman and Ilene Reid; music and lyrics by Michael Heitzman Ilene Reid and David Holcenberg.

Read a Review!

Friday, June 5, 2009

Window Projects: Museum of the City of Lost and Found
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Museum of the City of Lost and Found, Marion Wilson's latest sculpture project, is a continuation of her public art project launched in conjunction with the 2008 New Orleans Biennial. The exhibition is a combination of hexagram patterns of i-ching (a symbol system used to identify order in random events) collaboratively painted on the wall by the artist, community members, faculty and students at Syracuse University; miniature "igloo" and cast resin objects; and a short video of Wilson's bicycle (mobile museum) performance in New Orleans edited by Jessica Posner. Wilson invites audience participation by filling out Lost and Found Report cards (available throughout the exhibition), her method of collecting stories about viewers' personal losses, chances, findings and discoveries.

Marion Wilson uses igloos as a nomadic structure of native materials to remind us of our basic human need for shelter and protection. In addition, it is a reference to fundamentals of human existence and the Italian Arte Povera artist Mario Merz (1925-2003). In New Orleans, Wilson's sculpture was originally mounted on a constructed bicycle able to roam the city streets within the St. Roch neighborhood and the French Market. In Syracuse, Wilson will exhibit her 'mobile museum' at the Warehouse Gallery, thus, creating a "museum inside a museum." Although the installation in the Window Projects will remain through June 6, its appearance will continuously change through the continual addition of found materials collected by the artist. Wilson will be guided in selecting these additional materials by outside interviews with the general public in the greater Syracuse community.

Postcards to (and from!) the Past
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit is a collaboration between the Arts Branch of the YMCA's after school arts program at Salem Hyde Elementary School, the Onondaga Historical Association, and Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. On display at the YMCA will be replications of over 100 century-old postcards mailed back and forth between students in the YMCA's program (asking questions of various historical figures from the Syracuse area), and staff members of the OHA (who responded to the students' questions in character). Sometimes poignant, sometimes funny, the kids' questions show an active engagement with their own history—and the postcards themselves are a delight to anyone interested in the area's past. The exhibit is continued across the street at the OHA, and guests are invited and encouraged to visit both galleries to see the complete show.

The Gallery as Studio: Drawings on Delirium
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A world-renowned Uruguayan artist, Ricardo Lanzarini comes from Montevideo to Syracuse to recreate the mundane and the extraordinary in his drawings on delirium made to unexpected scales. The exhibition comes to life at The Point of Contact Gallery where the space has turned into an artist's studio. The work of the exhibit is to be produced entirely on site and directly onto the walls of the gallery in the weeks leading up to the opening. Lanzarini will also share this experiment with students from Syracuse University's Fine Arts Department who will join in the creative process.

Lanzarini's work balances extremes of scale, crafting an extensive abstract image from precise, miniscule characters, whose everyday activities serve as a window into a miniature world, frozen in time. These drawings sarcastically explore the two major paradigms in figurative art of the 20th century: Social and Fantastic Realism

The exhibit will last through the summer and then Lanzarini returns to Point of Contact to perform an "erasure" of the work on September 4. The book catalogue documenting the entire project will be presented at the close.

Spring Loaded
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery
Associated Artists of Syracuse

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

Featuring works by Joan Applebaum, Lesley Brooks, A. Brooks Decker, Lorraine Doyle, Joy Englehart, Marcia Ferber, Roscha Folger, Patricia Gancarz, Mimi George, Helga Gilber, Carol Ginsky, Marion Lapham, Howard McLaughlin, Kathleen O'Brien, Ute Oestreicher, E.A. Pilbeam, Mary Raineri, Pamela Sunshine, Yolanda Tooley, Clara Towell.

The Complete Works of Alexandra Crosby
Westcott Community Center

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

The Curiosity of Change
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Anne Novado-Cappuccilli: Drawings and Paintings
John Lombardi: Works in Stone

37th Annual Teen Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

CFAC is honored to host the longest running collaborative exhibition in the Greater Syracuse area that features the work of under-represented teen artists. Participating students attend Syracuse City High Schools and suburban Onondaga County High Schools. A panel of professional local artists serve as judges for the competition. Prizes are awarded to winners in two-dimensional and three-dimensional categories.

Limbo: Works of Admas Habteslasie
Light Work Gallery

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

"Limbo" depicts a graceful yet unusually honest and insightful snapshot of Eritrea, an East African country suspended in an unsettled state between war and peace.

Eritrea warred with neighboring Ethiopia for 30 years before gaining independence in 1991. Then, in 1998, they entered another war with Ethiopia that lasted two years. Today, the war-torn country is yet again at the brink of war with their neighbor. Years of unrest have left the people of Eritrea waiting for life to improve. According to Habteslasie: "Transitory states become permanent; empty villas, destroyed old buildings and unfinished new buildings dot the landscape, monuments to the suspension of history. The collision between Eritrea's proud historical narrative and the bleak ennui of the present has produced an obsessive focus on the future. Reconstruction and infrastructure development are energetically driven forward whilst the economy remains essentially shut off from the outside world." The images in "Limbo" capture both destruction and construction, both the unhealed wounds of war and a fierce optimism and hope for a brighter future.

Habteslasie was born in Kuwait, and his parents are Eritrean. He received his master's degree from the London College of Communication in photojournalism and documentary photography. His photographic projects look at the ideas of identity, history, and the re-evaluation of our relationship with historical process. His work has been exhibited at venues such as Flowers East and 198 Gallery in London. His work has also been published in Source Magazine.

As It Happens: Artists-in-Residence at Light Work
Light Work Gallery

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

Josh Brilliant curates a selection of images by recent Light Work Artists-in-Residence, including Amy Stein, Kelli Connell, Cristina Fraire, Krista Steinke, and Christine Osinski. Brilliant is currently an MFA candidate in the Museum Studies program at Syracuse University.

Curious Works
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Kyle Mort, paintings
Curtis W. Readel, money prints and collages
Roger Bisbing, small assemblies

(Shade/Light) Red Excursions
Redhouse

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

Patrick Blackburn's newest multimedia installation creates an environment which seduces visitors and subtly asks them to leave their preconception of viewing art aside. Instead, visitors are invited to experience the artwork in the present moment. Blackburn explores the use of familiar media objects as a means of experiencing audio and visual art.

Blackburn is an artist, musician, composer and producer of audio and visual landscapes. He has worked in the design and production of numerous gallery installation and limited editions music albums and sound artworks. In his own artwork, Blackburn uses emergent technologies and behavioral patterns such as music generated by a system that ostensibly has no inputs. Thus his artwork cannot be called a composition in the traditional sense but rather open-end soundscapes, designed to continue indefinitely, without a chance to ever repeat. His work continues to create itself even in the audience's absence.

All Forms: Studio Pottery '09
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Featuring works by 13 artists.

Wild Card Exhibit: Color Etchings from Florence by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna
Delavan Art Gallery

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

Fusion
Delavan Art Gallery

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

John F. Fitzsimmons, paintings
Diana Godfrey, mixed media collage
Pam Steele, metal and glass wall sculptures
Catharine Westlake, acrylics and monotypes

PostSecret
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In November 2004, Frank Warren began a community art project by handing out postcards to strangers and leaving them in public places in his Washington, D.C. neighborhood. Each self-addressed card invited people to anonymously share a secret. Two requirements were: the secret had to be true and it had to be something that had never been told to another person. Today Warren has been mailed more than 100,000 highly personal and artfully decorated postcards illustrating the soulful secrets never voiced. This extraordinary project has become an international phenomenon with thousands of people participating in scheduled PostSecret events throughout the United States, and through the PostSecret website and blog.

This exhibition features 450 postcards bringing together the most powerful, poignant and beautifully intimate secrets Warren has received in the past four years. In many cases, the illustrations on the cards are just as compelling as the accompanying text.

Sitting Still
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"What does the world look like from a non-violent point of view? What would happen if the youth of Syracuse city and Syracuse University joined together to explore this question?" These are the questions that led Anne Beffel, a New York based public artist and Associate Professor of Art at Syracuse University and Pam McLaughlin, Everson Curator of Education and Public Programs to bring the Sitting Still contemplative video project to high school students from the Syracuse City School District. Beffel and McLaughlin worked together for over a year to put video cameras in the hands eight young artists, so that they could stop, look, and listen as scenes unfolded before them ranging from those that inspired awe to those that compelled participation and intervention. Within the context of four workshops at the SU Warehouse e-tags studio, students engaged in making video art from a perfectly still point of view, and then used their artworks as the basis for sharing their diverse visions. The workshops were at the heart of this process of opening up to environments -- both physical and social.

Vicktory Dogs Exhibition
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Pit bulls victimized in the notorious dog-fighting ring of former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick are the subject of the exhibition. "Vicktory Dogs" is the brainchild of Cyrus Mejia, who, along with his wife and a group of animal lovers, founded Best Friends Animal Society, the nation's largest sanctuary for abused and abandoned animals.

The exhibition features giclée prints of 22 dogs rescued by Best Friends after Vick's indictment. By depicting the dogs up close in his painting, Mejia hopes people will confront their own prejudices about pit bulls in general and will think twice about exploiting them or fearing them, or both.

Sound Scores: Paper, Wood, Stone and Glass
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibition of works by Andrew Deutsch and Stephen Vitiello, "Sound Scores: Paper, Wood, Stone and Glass," is an installation composed of audio and video pieces as well as photographs, prints and sculpture. Deutsch and Vitiello are musicians, composers and sound artists who have been collaborating since 1999. For this, their first co-exhibition, the artists provided each other with musical scores for the other to perform. In so doing, they emphasize the visual nature of sound scores, shedding light on this complex, seemingly inaccessible medium called sound art.

In Vitiello's work viewers will see a shift from landscape photographs (7 Studies for Graphic Scores, 2007) to abstract black-and-white prints (Pond Set, 2008) that continue to refer to landscape through black lines that evoke both reeds and musical notes. In the background of his videos, Deutsch includes imagery from the "Notgeld" (emergency money that was put into circulation in Germany during the economic crisis of the 1920s) as a reflection on our difficult economic times. Deutsch also uses these collectibles in the making of his own sound scores; he has created a narrative referring to the films of Fritz Lang, to illustrated children's books, and to early 20th-century European artistic abstraction, where sound and sight blend into a common experience.

Beyond Boundaries Art Exhibit and Silent Auction
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This is the 16th annual Beyond Boundaries Silent Auction. It is held every year as both a fundraiser and as a presentation of a collection of work from a culturally diverse mix of CNY established and emerging artists. It serves to continue an education fund for three communities in Ghana (CENSUDI in Bolgatanga, the Liberian refugee camp in Buduburam and the community library in Wora Wora).

Additional information can be found at www.beyondboundariescny.org, or contact Mardea Warner at 315-479-5757, mardeamardea@yahoo.com.

Tanks & Trees: The War Show
Orange Line Gallery

Price: Free
Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A soldier's intimate look at Iraq. Featuring photographs from Steven Robinson, photos and video from anonymous sources, and video from the Syracuse Peace Council.

Uncorked!
Everson Museum of Art

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

A special social evening. Enjoy a fabulous evening of wine, music and art. The evening will kick off with a wine tasting from a variety of vineyards. Relax and enjoy live music from local performers and explore the museum's current exhibitions, including PostSecret. Uncorked! is a great way to relax, have fun and start the weekend in a beautiful setting. Light refreshments will be served.

Opening: Interdisciplinary
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Dinosaur aesthetics, Onondaga Lake and the creation of energy from body sweat are among the subjects addressed in "Interdisciplinary," an exhibition of projects by Syracuse University faculty who received 200809 grants from the College of Visual and Performing Arts Interdisciplinary Committee.

"Interdisciplinary" features the following projects:
* "Creative Collaborations," readings and songs from the class "Poetry and Music Composition," taught by Gregory Mertl, assistant professor of composition in the School of Music
* "Dinosaurs Had Sharp Teeth!" an interactive display about dinosaur aesthetics by Chris Wildrick, assistant professor of foundation in the School of Art and Design
* "The Lake Project: Social Sculpture and the Urban Landscape," featuring photographs of Onondaga Lake by students of Sarah McCoubrey, associate professor of foundation in the School of Art and Design, and Marion Wilson, VPA director of community initiatives
* "Practicing in Public," featuring a video installation by students of Sam Van Aken, associate professor of sculpture in the School of Art and Design, and Laura Heyman, assistant professor of art photography in the Department of Transmedia
* "Singing for an Inclusive Society," featuring photographs and video from a project led by Miso Suchy, associate professor of film in the Department of Transmedia; Lida Suchy; and the Syracuse Community Choir
* "Waste to Work," an exploration of how body sweat can be harnessed to create energy, led by Olivia Robinson, assistant professor of fiber arts/material studies in the School of Art and Design, and Daniela Kostova

For more information about the exhibition, contact Andrew Havenhand at 315-474-1217 or ahavenhand@yahoo.com.

The SAMMY Awards and Taste of Syracuse

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

Main Stage
12:00-12:45 pm: The Action
1:00-1:45 pm: Cluidan
2:00-2:45 pm: Charley Orlando Band
3:00-3:45 pm: Michael P Ryan Band
4:00-4:45 pm: Gregg Yeti Band
5:00-5:45 pm: Los Blancos
6:00 pm: Sammy Award Show
8:10-8:50 pm: The Reissues
9:00-11:00 pm: Under The Gun

Blue Moon Cafe Stage
12:00-12:45 pm: Candice Jarrett
1:00-1:45 pm: Dusty Pascale and Loren Barrigar
2:00-2:45 pm: Donna Colton
3:00-3:45 pm: Radio Soul
4:00-5:00 pm: Soul Risin'
5:20-6:20 pm: Mike Estep Band
6:50-8:10 pm: Mark Doyle and The Maniacs
8:30-10:00 pm: Dark Hollow

For more information, visit tasteofsyracuse.com.

Karen Savoca and Pete Heitzman
Folkus Project

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

The music of Karen Savoca and Pete Heitzman confounds even the staunchest pigeonholers. It's bravely nontraditional, yet completely accessible. The duo's live performances are uplifting and hypnotic, and they like to put some funk in the folk. From simple ballads built with subtle piano and guitar to complex textures of layered vocals and innovative guitar work, this is contemporary music at its best. It's an elusive mix; melodic, funky and spontaneous. Electrifying and unique, these improvisational performers possess the fearlessness of a high wire act working without a net.

Literary Death Match
Featuring Roy Kesey, Phil LaMarche, Chris Kennedy

Ambrosia
201 Walton St., Syracuse

Hosted by Opium Magazine's founding editor, Todd Zuniga, the event will feature four readers and three judges, including writers Roy Kesey (author of All Over and featured in Best American Short Stories 2007), Dan Roche (Great Expectation: A Father's Diary), and judges Phil LaMarche (author of American Youth), Chris Kennedy (director of Syracuse's MFA program), Elizabeth Koch (former executive editor of Opium and Glimmer Train contest
nalist), and more.

In the past, the event has featured Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket), Tom Perrotta (author of Election and Little Children), Andrew Leland (of The Believer), Andrew Sean Greer (The Story of a Marriage), Moby (the musician) and Ben Greenman (editor at The New Yorker).

Greenman, a 12-time judge, said "The Literary Death Match somehow combines the best things about literature (love of language and craft, respect for both tradition and innovation), mixed with a rare, anarchic energy. It's a captivating blend of Def Poetry Jam, Double Dare and American Idol. Only way more fun."

The Literary Death Match, Opium Magazine's signature reading series, debuted in March 2006 in New York City. The competitive, humor-centric series features four readers, three guest-star judges and a hare-brained
nale to decide the winner. The series, which expanded to San Francisco in 2007, and Beijing, Chicago, and Denver in 2009, has featured 107 readers, 71 judges, and over 3,500 attendees. The homepage, featuring write-ups from past events and videos of the
nale, can be found at www.LiteraryDeathMatch.com.

The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $15 adults; $10 children
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The Big Bad Wolf is put on trial and has a very different account of what happened.

Read a review!

On Golden Pond
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Bryan Allen Jones, director

Price: $15 adults; $12 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the 48th year. He is a retired professor, nearing 80, with heart palpitations and a failing memory—but still as tart-tongued, observant, and eager for life as ever. Ethel, 10 years younger and the perfect foil for Norman, delights in all the small things that have enriched and continue to enrich their long life together. They are visited by their divorced, middle-aged daughter and her dentist finacé, who then goes off to Europe, leaving his teenage son behind for the summer. The boy quickly becomes the "grandchild" the elderly couple have longed for, and as Norman revels in taking his ward fishing and thrusting good books at him, he also learns some lessons about modern teenage awareness-and slang-in return. In the end, as the summer wanes, so does their brief idyll, and in the final, deeply moving moments of the play, Norman and Ethel are brought even closer together by the incidence of a mild heart attack. Time, they know, is now against them, but the years have been good and, perhaps, another summer on Golden Pond still awaits.

The cast includes Tom Minion as Norman Thayer Jr., BJ Newsome as Ethel Thayer, Aileen Kenneson as Chelsea Thayer Wayne, Jay Burris as Bill Ray, Alec Funiciello as Billy Ray, and Lee Lamanche as Charlie Martin.

Bingo: The Musical
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

Bingo is a splashy, zippy, outrageously funny new musical. Come meet Vern, Honey and Patsy -- three pals that have driven through a terrible storm in the name of their weekly obsession. In between the number calling, strange rituals and fierce competitions, love blossoms and long-lost friends unite. Book by Michael Heitzman and Ilene Reid; music and lyrics by Michael Heitzman Ilene Reid and David Holcenberg.

Read a Review!

Crowns
Syracuse Stage
Patdro Harris, director

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

Get ready for some soul stirring, funny and powerful stories, stories from the church elders, stories with hattitude, enough hattitude to set the choir singing. That's hattitude, as in hat, as in Crown, as in the elegant cranial adornments favored by certain elegant church-going ladies of the South. Sing about it, dance about it, boast about it, even dream about it, a Crown is a joyous expression of culture and tradition, and as we find in this rollicking celebratory play by Regina Taylor, tradition and culture can be just the balm to salve the wounded soul. That's worth singing about whether the style is gospel, freedom song or hip-hop.

Read a Review!

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Window Projects: Museum of the City of Lost and Found
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Museum of the City of Lost and Found, Marion Wilson's latest sculpture project, is a continuation of her public art project launched in conjunction with the 2008 New Orleans Biennial. The exhibition is a combination of hexagram patterns of i-ching (a symbol system used to identify order in random events) collaboratively painted on the wall by the artist, community members, faculty and students at Syracuse University; miniature "igloo" and cast resin objects; and a short video of Wilson's bicycle (mobile museum) performance in New Orleans edited by Jessica Posner. Wilson invites audience participation by filling out Lost and Found Report cards (available throughout the exhibition), her method of collecting stories about viewers' personal losses, chances, findings and discoveries.

Marion Wilson uses igloos as a nomadic structure of native materials to remind us of our basic human need for shelter and protection. In addition, it is a reference to fundamentals of human existence and the Italian Arte Povera artist Mario Merz (1925-2003). In New Orleans, Wilson's sculpture was originally mounted on a constructed bicycle able to roam the city streets within the St. Roch neighborhood and the French Market. In Syracuse, Wilson will exhibit her 'mobile museum' at the Warehouse Gallery, thus, creating a "museum inside a museum." Although the installation in the Window Projects will remain through June 6, its appearance will continuously change through the continual addition of found materials collected by the artist. Wilson will be guided in selecting these additional materials by outside interviews with the general public in the greater Syracuse community.

Wild Card Exhibit: Color Etchings from Florence by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna
Delavan Art Gallery

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

Fusion
Delavan Art Gallery

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

John F. Fitzsimmons, paintings
Diana Godfrey, mixed media collage
Pam Steele, metal and glass wall sculptures
Catharine Westlake, acrylics and monotypes

Artist Diana Godfrey will be in attendance 12:00-3:00.

The Curiosity of Change
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Anne Novado-Cappuccilli: Drawings and Paintings
John Lombardi: Works in Stone

PostSecret
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In November 2004, Frank Warren began a community art project by handing out postcards to strangers and leaving them in public places in his Washington, D.C. neighborhood. Each self-addressed card invited people to anonymously share a secret. Two requirements were: the secret had to be true and it had to be something that had never been told to another person. Today Warren has been mailed more than 100,000 highly personal and artfully decorated postcards illustrating the soulful secrets never voiced. This extraordinary project has become an international phenomenon with thousands of people participating in scheduled PostSecret events throughout the United States, and through the PostSecret website and blog.

This exhibition features 450 postcards bringing together the most powerful, poignant and beautifully intimate secrets Warren has received in the past four years. In many cases, the illustrations on the cards are just as compelling as the accompanying text.

Sitting Still
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"What does the world look like from a non-violent point of view? What would happen if the youth of Syracuse city and Syracuse University joined together to explore this question?" These are the questions that led Anne Beffel, a New York based public artist and Associate Professor of Art at Syracuse University and Pam McLaughlin, Everson Curator of Education and Public Programs to bring the Sitting Still contemplative video project to high school students from the Syracuse City School District. Beffel and McLaughlin worked together for over a year to put video cameras in the hands eight young artists, so that they could stop, look, and listen as scenes unfolded before them ranging from those that inspired awe to those that compelled participation and intervention. Within the context of four workshops at the SU Warehouse e-tags studio, students engaged in making video art from a perfectly still point of view, and then used their artworks as the basis for sharing their diverse visions. The workshops were at the heart of this process of opening up to environments -- both physical and social.

Westcott Art Trail
Westcott Community Center

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

This art fair has grown to one of the finest arts & craft offerings in Syracuse with more than 60 artists of extraordinary quality in 20 locations around the Westcott neighborhood. The locations include artists' homes and studios that stretch from Meadowbrook to Berkley and from Broad to Avondale. Local artists work in a range of mediums, including ceramics, glass, jewelry, fibers, painting, and sculpture. Fourteen artists will be demonstrating their craft in mediums including silk painting, henna, watercolor, ceramic wheel throwing and firing, oil painting, origami, jewelry making techniques. Visitors will even be able to glaze and take home their own ceramic objects, fired in an outdoor Raku kiln.

Art Trail Maps are available at http://www.westcottcc.org/art_trail_09.htm.

37th Annual Teen Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

CFAC is honored to host the longest running collaborative exhibition in the Greater Syracuse area that features the work of under-represented teen artists. Participating students attend Syracuse City High Schools and suburban Onondaga County High Schools. A panel of professional local artists serve as judges for the competition. Prizes are awarded to winners in two-dimensional and three-dimensional categories.

All Forms: Studio Pottery '09
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Featuring works by 13 artists.

Interdisciplinary
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Dinosaur aesthetics, Onondaga Lake and the creation of energy from body sweat are among the subjects addressed in "Interdisciplinary," an exhibition of projects by Syracuse University faculty who received 200809 grants from the College of Visual and Performing Arts Interdisciplinary Committee.

"Interdisciplinary" features the following projects:
* "Creative Collaborations," readings and songs from the class "Poetry and Music Composition," taught by Gregory Mertl, assistant professor of composition in the School of Music
* "Dinosaurs Had Sharp Teeth!" an interactive display about dinosaur aesthetics by Chris Wildrick, assistant professor of foundation in the School of Art and Design
* "The Lake Project: Social Sculpture and the Urban Landscape," featuring photographs of Onondaga Lake by students of Sarah McCoubrey, associate professor of foundation in the School of Art and Design, and Marion Wilson, VPA director of community initiatives
* "Practicing in Public," featuring a video installation by students of Sam Van Aken, associate professor of sculpture in the School of Art and Design, and Laura Heyman, assistant professor of art photography in the Department of Transmedia
* "Singing for an Inclusive Society," featuring photographs and video from a project led by Miso Suchy, associate professor of film in the Department of Transmedia; Lida Suchy; and the Syracuse Community Choir
* "Waste to Work," an exploration of how body sweat can be harnessed to create energy, led by Olivia Robinson, assistant professor of fiber arts/material studies in the School of Art and Design, and Daniela Kostova

For more information about the exhibition, contact Andrew Havenhand at 315-474-1217 or ahavenhand@yahoo.com.

Tanks & Trees: The War Show
Orange Line Gallery

Price: Free
Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A soldier's intimate look at Iraq. Featuring photographs from Steven Robinson, photos and video from anonymous sources, and video from the Syracuse Peace Council.

Sound Scores: Paper, Wood, Stone and Glass
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibition of works by Andrew Deutsch and Stephen Vitiello, "Sound Scores: Paper, Wood, Stone and Glass," is an installation composed of audio and video pieces as well as photographs, prints and sculpture. Deutsch and Vitiello are musicians, composers and sound artists who have been collaborating since 1999. For this, their first co-exhibition, the artists provided each other with musical scores for the other to perform. In so doing, they emphasize the visual nature of sound scores, shedding light on this complex, seemingly inaccessible medium called sound art.

In Vitiello's work viewers will see a shift from landscape photographs (7 Studies for Graphic Scores, 2007) to abstract black-and-white prints (Pond Set, 2008) that continue to refer to landscape through black lines that evoke both reeds and musical notes. In the background of his videos, Deutsch includes imagery from the "Notgeld" (emergency money that was put into circulation in Germany during the economic crisis of the 1920s) as a reflection on our difficult economic times. Deutsch also uses these collectibles in the making of his own sound scores; he has created a narrative referring to the films of Fritz Lang, to illustrated children's books, and to early 20th-century European artistic abstraction, where sound and sight blend into a common experience.

Beyond Boundaries Art Exhibit and Silent Auction
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This is the 16th annual Beyond Boundaries Silent Auction. It is held every year as both a fundraiser and as a presentation of a collection of work from a culturally diverse mix of CNY established and emerging artists. It serves to continue an education fund for three communities in Ghana (CENSUDI in Bolgatanga, the Liberian refugee camp in Buduburam and the community library in Wora Wora).

Additional information can be found at www.beyondboundariescny.org, or contact Mardea Warner at 315-479-5757, mardeamardea@yahoo.com.

Taste of Syracuse

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

Main Stage
1:00-2:00 pm: Soft Spoken
2:20-3:20 pm: AfterFX
3:40-4:40 pm: Square Pegs
5:00-6:00 pm: 3 Inch Fury
6:20-7:20 pm: Gridley Paige
7:40-8:40 pm: Whiskey Mae
9:00 pm: Kevin Costner and Modern West

Party Barge Stage
2:00-2:50 pm: Media Mayhem
3:00-4:00 pm: CX Tec Dinosaurs
4:10-5:10 pm: The Delinquents
5:20-6:20 pm: Simplelife
6:35-7:35 pm: - Kane
8:00-10:00 pm: Changes in Latitude - A Jimmy Buffet Tribute Band

The Clinton Square Stage
Saturday Acappella Festival:
3:00 pm: Five-Life
3:45 pm: no Xcuse
4:30 pm: Closer Still
5:15 pm: no Xcuse

For more information, visit tasteofsyracuse.com.

The World Provider
Redhouse

Price: $12
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The World Provider mixes next-level performance art with old-school Broadway/Vegas showmanship, fine-tuning the irresistible combination of catchy tunes, cheap-keyboard sonics, and over-the-top theatrical performance.

The superheroic alter ego of mild-mannered writer/filmmaker Malcolm Fraser, the WP got started in Toronto in 1999, coming up alongside some friends you might have heard of—Peaches, Feist, Gonzales, Mocky, Taylor Savvy. Eventually they all moved on to Europe and varying degrees of fame. The WP, in a misguided display of non-conformity, stayed on these shores, relocating to Montreal.

Originally a one-man band, the WP has in recent years expanded to various lineups, appearing either as a duo with wife/collaborator Stacey DeWolfe or with a full band featuring Stacey, Montreal indie-film queen Kara Blake on keys and Besnard Lakes rock goddess Olga Goreas on drums.

The Emperor's New Clothes
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the classic story.

The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $15 adults; $10 children
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The Big Bad Wolf is put on trial and has a very different account of what happened.

Read a review!

Crowns
Syracuse Stage
Patdro Harris, director

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

Get ready for some soul stirring, funny and powerful stories, stories from the church elders, stories with hattitude, enough hattitude to set the choir singing. That's hattitude, as in hat, as in Crown, as in the elegant cranial adornments favored by certain elegant church-going ladies of the South. Sing about it, dance about it, boast about it, even dream about it, a Crown is a joyous expression of culture and tradition, and as we find in this rollicking celebratory play by Regina Taylor, tradition and culture can be just the balm to salve the wounded soul. That's worth singing about whether the style is gospel, freedom song or hip-hop.

Read a Review!

The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $15 adults; $10 children
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The Big Bad Wolf is put on trial and has a very different account of what happened.

Read a review!

The Falsettos Murder
Without A Cue

Price: $39.50 includes dinner, show, tax, and gratuity
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

In this a parody of the HBO mega hit, The Sopranos, Tony and his entourage are in town for—what else?—a waste management convention. When somebody gets whacked it's nothing personal, strictly "business."

For reservations, phone 315-469-6969. For more information, visit www.glenloch.net.

On Golden Pond
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Bryan Allen Jones, director

Price: $15 adults; $12 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the 48th year. He is a retired professor, nearing 80, with heart palpitations and a failing memory—but still as tart-tongued, observant, and eager for life as ever. Ethel, 10 years younger and the perfect foil for Norman, delights in all the small things that have enriched and continue to enrich their long life together. They are visited by their divorced, middle-aged daughter and her dentist finacé, who then goes off to Europe, leaving his teenage son behind for the summer. The boy quickly becomes the "grandchild" the elderly couple have longed for, and as Norman revels in taking his ward fishing and thrusting good books at him, he also learns some lessons about modern teenage awareness-and slang-in return. In the end, as the summer wanes, so does their brief idyll, and in the final, deeply moving moments of the play, Norman and Ethel are brought even closer together by the incidence of a mild heart attack. Time, they know, is now against them, but the years have been good and, perhaps, another summer on Golden Pond still awaits.

The cast includes Tom Minion as Norman Thayer Jr., BJ Newsome as Ethel Thayer, Aileen Kenneson as Chelsea Thayer Wayne, Jay Burris as Bill Ray, Alec Funiciello as Billy Ray, and Lee Lamanche as Charlie Martin.

Bingo: The Musical
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

Bingo is a splashy, zippy, outrageously funny new musical. Come meet Vern, Honey and Patsy -- three pals that have driven through a terrible storm in the name of their weekly obsession. In between the number calling, strange rituals and fierce competitions, love blossoms and long-lost friends unite. Book by Michael Heitzman and Ilene Reid; music and lyrics by Michael Heitzman Ilene Reid and David Holcenberg.

Read a Review!

Crowns
Syracuse Stage
Patdro Harris, director

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

Get ready for some soul stirring, funny and powerful stories, stories from the church elders, stories with hattitude, enough hattitude to set the choir singing. That's hattitude, as in hat, as in Crown, as in the elegant cranial adornments favored by certain elegant church-going ladies of the South. Sing about it, dance about it, boast about it, even dream about it, a Crown is a joyous expression of culture and tradition, and as we find in this rollicking celebratory play by Regina Taylor, tradition and culture can be just the balm to salve the wounded soul. That's worth singing about whether the style is gospel, freedom song or hip-hop.

Read a Review!

Sunday, June 7, 2009

As It Happens: Artists-in-Residence at Light Work
Light Work Gallery

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

Josh Brilliant curates a selection of images by recent Light Work Artists-in-Residence, including Amy Stein, Kelli Connell, Cristina Fraire, Krista Steinke, and Christine Osinski. Brilliant is currently an MFA candidate in the Museum Studies program at Syracuse University.

Limbo: Works of Admas Habteslasie
Light Work Gallery

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

"Limbo" depicts a graceful yet unusually honest and insightful snapshot of Eritrea, an East African country suspended in an unsettled state between war and peace.

Eritrea warred with neighboring Ethiopia for 30 years before gaining independence in 1991. Then, in 1998, they entered another war with Ethiopia that lasted two years. Today, the war-torn country is yet again at the brink of war with their neighbor. Years of unrest have left the people of Eritrea waiting for life to improve. According to Habteslasie: "Transitory states become permanent; empty villas, destroyed old buildings and unfinished new buildings dot the landscape, monuments to the suspension of history. The collision between Eritrea's proud historical narrative and the bleak ennui of the present has produced an obsessive focus on the future. Reconstruction and infrastructure development are energetically driven forward whilst the economy remains essentially shut off from the outside world." The images in "Limbo" capture both destruction and construction, both the unhealed wounds of war and a fierce optimism and hope for a brighter future.

Habteslasie was born in Kuwait, and his parents are Eritrean. He received his master's degree from the London College of Communication in photojournalism and documentary photography. His photographic projects look at the ideas of identity, history, and the re-evaluation of our relationship with historical process. His work has been exhibited at venues such as Flowers East and 198 Gallery in London. His work has also been published in Source Magazine.

All Forms: Studio Pottery '09
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Featuring works by 13 artists.

Interdisciplinary
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Dinosaur aesthetics, Onondaga Lake and the creation of energy from body sweat are among the subjects addressed in "Interdisciplinary," an exhibition of projects by Syracuse University faculty who received 200809 grants from the College of Visual and Performing Arts Interdisciplinary Committee.

"Interdisciplinary" features the following projects:
* "Creative Collaborations," readings and songs from the class "Poetry and Music Composition," taught by Gregory Mertl, assistant professor of composition in the School of Music
* "Dinosaurs Had Sharp Teeth!" an interactive display about dinosaur aesthetics by Chris Wildrick, assistant professor of foundation in the School of Art and Design
* "The Lake Project: Social Sculpture and the Urban Landscape," featuring photographs of Onondaga Lake by students of Sarah McCoubrey, associate professor of foundation in the School of Art and Design, and Marion Wilson, VPA director of community initiatives
* "Practicing in Public," featuring a video installation by students of Sam Van Aken, associate professor of sculpture in the School of Art and Design, and Laura Heyman, assistant professor of art photography in the Department of Transmedia
* "Singing for an Inclusive Society," featuring photographs and video from a project led by Miso Suchy, associate professor of film in the Department of Transmedia; Lida Suchy; and the Syracuse Community Choir
* "Waste to Work," an exploration of how body sweat can be harnessed to create energy, led by Olivia Robinson, assistant professor of fiber arts/material studies in the School of Art and Design, and Daniela Kostova

For more information about the exhibition, contact Andrew Havenhand at 315-474-1217 or ahavenhand@yahoo.com.

Sitting Still
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"What does the world look like from a non-violent point of view? What would happen if the youth of Syracuse city and Syracuse University joined together to explore this question?" These are the questions that led Anne Beffel, a New York based public artist and Associate Professor of Art at Syracuse University and Pam McLaughlin, Everson Curator of Education and Public Programs to bring the Sitting Still contemplative video project to high school students from the Syracuse City School District. Beffel and McLaughlin worked together for over a year to put video cameras in the hands eight young artists, so that they could stop, look, and listen as scenes unfolded before them ranging from those that inspired awe to those that compelled participation and intervention. Within the context of four workshops at the SU Warehouse e-tags studio, students engaged in making video art from a perfectly still point of view, and then used their artworks as the basis for sharing their diverse visions. The workshops were at the heart of this process of opening up to environments -- both physical and social.

PostSecret
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In November 2004, Frank Warren began a community art project by handing out postcards to strangers and leaving them in public places in his Washington, D.C. neighborhood. Each self-addressed card invited people to anonymously share a secret. Two requirements were: the secret had to be true and it had to be something that had never been told to another person. Today Warren has been mailed more than 100,000 highly personal and artfully decorated postcards illustrating the soulful secrets never voiced. This extraordinary project has become an international phenomenon with thousands of people participating in scheduled PostSecret events throughout the United States, and through the PostSecret website and blog.

This exhibition features 450 postcards bringing together the most powerful, poignant and beautifully intimate secrets Warren has received in the past four years. In many cases, the illustrations on the cards are just as compelling as the accompanying text.

Westcott Art Trail
Westcott Community Center

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

This art fair has grown to one of the finest arts & craft offerings in Syracuse with more than 60 artists of extraordinary quality in 20 locations around the Westcott neighborhood. The locations include artists' homes and studios that stretch from Meadowbrook to Berkley and from Broad to Avondale. Local artists work in a range of mediums, including ceramics, glass, jewelry, fibers, painting, and sculpture. Fourteen artists will be demonstrating their craft in mediums including silk painting, henna, watercolor, ceramic wheel throwing and firing, oil painting, origami, jewelry making techniques. Visitors will even be able to glaze and take home their own ceramic objects, fired in an outdoor Raku kiln.

Art Trail Maps are available at http://www.westcottcc.org/art_trail_09.htm.

Styles in Music: Concert with Commentary
Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Steven Rosenfeld, piano

Price: $15
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Beethoven Sonata in F Major, Op. 10, No. 2
Scarlatti Two Sonatas
Rameau Gavotte Variations
Bartok Improvisations, Op. 20
Schumann Fantasy Pieces, Op. 12 and Toccata, Op. 7

Togethe We Can Move Mountains
Syracuse Community Choir
Karen Mihalyi, conductor
Featuring Marcia Hagen

Price: $10-$20 sliding scale
Erwin First United Methodist Church
920 Euclid Ave., Syracuse

Crowns
Syracuse Stage
Patdro Harris, director

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

Get ready for some soul stirring, funny and powerful stories, stories from the church elders, stories with hattitude, enough hattitude to set the choir singing. That's hattitude, as in hat, as in Crown, as in the elegant cranial adornments favored by certain elegant church-going ladies of the South. Sing about it, dance about it, boast about it, even dream about it, a Crown is a joyous expression of culture and tradition, and as we find in this rollicking celebratory play by Regina Taylor, tradition and culture can be just the balm to salve the wounded soul. That's worth singing about whether the style is gospel, freedom song or hip-hop.

Read a Review!

Monday, June 8, 2009

Postcards to (and from!) the Past
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit is a collaboration between the Arts Branch of the YMCA's after school arts program at Salem Hyde Elementary School, the Onondaga Historical Association, and Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. On display at the YMCA will be replications of over 100 century-old postcards mailed back and forth between students in the YMCA's program (asking questions of various historical figures from the Syracuse area), and staff members of the OHA (who responded to the students' questions in character). Sometimes poignant, sometimes funny, the kids' questions show an active engagement with their own history—and the postcards themselves are a delight to anyone interested in the area's past. The exhibit is continued across the street at the OHA, and guests are invited and encouraged to visit both galleries to see the complete show.

The Gallery as Studio: Drawings on Delirium
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A world-renowned Uruguayan artist, Ricardo Lanzarini comes from Montevideo to Syracuse to recreate the mundane and the extraordinary in his drawings on delirium made to unexpected scales. The exhibition comes to life at The Point of Contact Gallery where the space has turned into an artist's studio. The work of the exhibit is to be produced entirely on site and directly onto the walls of the gallery in the weeks leading up to the opening. Lanzarini will also share this experiment with students from Syracuse University's Fine Arts Department who will join in the creative process.

Lanzarini's work balances extremes of scale, crafting an extensive abstract image from precise, miniscule characters, whose everyday activities serve as a window into a miniature world, frozen in time. These drawings sarcastically explore the two major paradigms in figurative art of the 20th century: Social and Fantastic Realism

The exhibit will last through the summer and then Lanzarini returns to Point of Contact to perform an "erasure" of the work on September 4. The book catalogue documenting the entire project will be presented at the close.

Spring Loaded
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery
Associated Artists of Syracuse

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

Featuring works by Joan Applebaum, Lesley Brooks, A. Brooks Decker, Lorraine Doyle, Joy Englehart, Marcia Ferber, Roscha Folger, Patricia Gancarz, Mimi George, Helga Gilber, Carol Ginsky, Marion Lapham, Howard McLaughlin, Kathleen O'Brien, Ute Oestreicher, E.A. Pilbeam, Mary Raineri, Pamela Sunshine, Yolanda Tooley, Clara Towell.

The Complete Works of Alexandra Crosby
Westcott Community Center

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

Limbo: Works of Admas Habteslasie
Light Work Gallery

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

"Limbo" depicts a graceful yet unusually honest and insightful snapshot of Eritrea, an East African country suspended in an unsettled state between war and peace.

Eritrea warred with neighboring Ethiopia for 30 years before gaining independence in 1991. Then, in 1998, they entered another war with Ethiopia that lasted two years. Today, the war-torn country is yet again at the brink of war with their neighbor. Years of unrest have left the people of Eritrea waiting for life to improve. According to Habteslasie: "Transitory states become permanent; empty villas, destroyed old buildings and unfinished new buildings dot the landscape, monuments to the suspension of history. The collision between Eritrea's proud historical narrative and the bleak ennui of the present has produced an obsessive focus on the future. Reconstruction and infrastructure development are energetically driven forward whilst the economy remains essentially shut off from the outside world." The images in "Limbo" capture both destruction and construction, both the unhealed wounds of war and a fierce optimism and hope for a brighter future.

Habteslasie was born in Kuwait, and his parents are Eritrean. He received his master's degree from the London College of Communication in photojournalism and documentary photography. His photographic projects look at the ideas of identity, history, and the re-evaluation of our relationship with historical process. His work has been exhibited at venues such as Flowers East and 198 Gallery in London. His work has also been published in Source Magazine.

As It Happens: Artists-in-Residence at Light Work
Light Work Gallery

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

Josh Brilliant curates a selection of images by recent Light Work Artists-in-Residence, including Amy Stein, Kelli Connell, Cristina Fraire, Krista Steinke, and Christine Osinski. Brilliant is currently an MFA candidate in the Museum Studies program at Syracuse University.

Captains Courageous
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

1937 film based on the Rudyard Kipling book, starring Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore, Mickey Rooney, Melvyn Douglas, and John Carradine.