Thursday, March 1, 2012

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

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

There will be an opening reception this evening 5:00-8:00 pm.

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

Price Check
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

A research-based curatorial examination by Roslyn Esperon and Courtney Rile, featuring the art of Michael Barletta, Caol Flaitz, Carla Goldberg, Novado Cappuccilli, Jason Varone, Fred Wellner, Laura Wellner, and Leah Wolff

Being Impossible: Works by Deborah Zlotsky
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibition of drawings and paintings by Deborah Zlotsky. In this series, the artist manipulates powdered graphite on sheets of mylar, searching for signs of life in the smears and conjuring up blurred boundaries between documenting nature and inventing nature. Zlotsky is represented by Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in New York and presented a solo exhibition in October 2011. She has been the recipient of numerous residencies, including a residency fellowship at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY, this past summer. She earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University and a master's degree in painting and drawing from the University of Connecticut.

For more information, call 315-445-4153.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

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

"Images of Upstate New York" and "Juxtaposed Through Wonderland"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

"Images of Upstate New York" features work by Morgan Goodwin and Kate Walseman
"Juxtaposed Through Wonderland" features recent work by KayCie Danniel

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

FOR_PLAY
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Featuring James and Hayes Slade

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

An exhibition of projects by Slade Architecture of New York City designed for or including an element of play.

Creatures Small and Great
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Dana Blythe Stenson (metalsmith jewelry), Candace Rhea (ceramic and mixed media), Alan Hart (acrylic on board), and Diane Menzies (oil paintings) interpret insects and small animals.

Looking & Looking: Photos by Amy Elkins and Jen Davis
Light Work Gallery

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

Jen Davis and Amy Elkins create work that focuses on gaze and identity, with Davis looking at herself and Elkins looking at young male athletes. The images in the exhibition explore the perception of how men and women are supposed to appear in society -- men should be strong and confident, women should be beautiful -- and the crafting of a self-image.

Jen Davis creates self-portraits that deal with issues surrounding beauty, identity, and body image of women, and challenges the perceptions and stereotypes of how women should look in their physical appearances. Amy Elkins depicts the more aggressive, competitive, and violent aspects of male identity in her series Elegant Violence, which captures portraits of young Ivy League rugby athletes moments after their game. Elkins' images explore the balance between athleticism, modes of violence or aggression, and varying degrees of vulnerability within a sport where brutal body contact is fundamental.

Both artists focus on the construction of identity -- the players are astutely aware of how they are presenting themselves while Davis draws attention to her own self-image in a more emotional way. Shown together, the works of Davis and Elkins urge the viewer to consider expectations and perceptions (both societal and individual) of identity.

Design and Aging
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Design and Aging," an exhibition of student design projects focused on solutions to problems associated with aging, features work by students in industrial and interaction design, interior design and advertising design in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. It includes a project that explores how effective design could assist the elderly population of Hong Kong, as well as a series of posters that illustrate potential kiosks that could be targeted to mall walkers at Shoppingtown Mall in DeWitt.

The Design Gallery is located on the first floor of The Warehouse. Patrons should enter via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on W. Fayette St. or the first-floor door on W. Washington St.

For more information, contact Bradley Hudson at bjhudson@syr.edu.

Envisionary
Szozda Gallery

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

Well established artist Phil Parsons and relatively new talent Emily Elizabeth display their painterly visions of atmospheric and landscape horizons surrounding Central New York. "Envisionary," the show's title, was coined perhaps to sharpen the concept of changing environs, elements commonplace every day that some artists foresee in greater depths than what most people perceive. In Elizabeth's case, it's her fascination with the universe that compels her to paint beyond shape and form to focus on color and atmosphere, while Parsons chooses to capture memorable landscapes that he himself alters with color and invented skies, reflecting his own feelings.

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Pressing Print: Contemporary Prints and Process from Universal Limited Art Editions
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Pressing Print: Contemporary Prints and Process from Universal Limited Art Editions" chronicles the recent decade of artwork published by one of the most renowned American printmaking workshops. The exhibition of 60 works illustrates the impact that artists like Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Helen Frankenthaler and Kiki Smith have had on contemporary art, evident through the work of artists Jason Middelbrook, Amy Cutler and Jane Hammond. The show also illustrates how emerging artists recently selected to work with ULAE has influenced the current trend, in both process and concept.

Weekend and evening visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces are not available, the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Emilio Sanchez: No Way Home--Images of the Caribbean and New York City
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"No Way Home" features a selection of 24 paintings, watercolors, drawings and prints drawn from the recently acquired collection of work by Cuban-American artist Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999). Best known for his brightly colored, strongly shadowed images of Caribbean and New York City architecture, this exhibition reveals the artist's ongoing interest in repetitive patterns. The show highlights a recent gift to the University Art Collection from the Emilio Sanchez Foundation of over 250 paintings, drawings and prints.

From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 adults, $8 students/seniors, $30 family pack (2 adults, 4 children))
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland" is the first exhibition to examine the American artist's work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Long celebrated as an iconic American artist due to his important early work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight, Henri's paintings have received less attention on their own. Most projects explored his career as it related to his role as a member of The Eight or in a broadly retrospective manner. Few projects focused on his landscapes, drawings, or foreign portraits.

Henri's Irish portraits constitute his largest focused body of work, and often depict the same sitters year after year. These paintings offer a unique and fascinating window onto the genre about which Henri felt most strongly--portraiture--and also chart his experiments with paint handling and color theories over time. He wrote that the time spent in Ireland was extremely valuable to him (it was the only other place besides New York where he purchased a residence), for only there was he able to focus on his painting without the distractions of life in New York. It is not surprising, then, that the periods Henri spent in Ireland were among his most prolific, and the paintings produced there among his most accomplished. Just before his death, Henri composed a list of his most important paintings; many of the works on this list were his Irish subjects. Forty-one paintings of Irish people and landscapes will be on view in the upcoming exhibition.

John Knecht: Fragments from the Wheels of Ezekiel
Everson Museum of Art

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

John Knecht is the featured artist for the Urban Video Project in January and February. In conjunction with the exhibition of "Deluge and Anima" on the Everson's north façade, a series of Knecht's animations, called "Fragments from the Wheels of Ezekiel," will be on view inside the museum. The Fragments, individual animations displayed on monitors, provide a glimpse into the artist's brilliant imagination, where fantasy collides with vivid colors and quirky sounds.

The Photographer as Child: Memories of Guatemala
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Born in Guatemala, award-winning photographer Efren Lopez is a student in the Military Photojournalism Program at Syracuse University. He is also an aerial photographer for the U.S. Air Force and the first reservist to be selected to attend Newhouse's Military Photojournalism Program. He now lives in Arizona.

The exhibit features images Lopez captured on a return trip to Guatemala in 2009. "My life began in a bamboo hut at the side of a road in a tiny town named Petaca, Guatemala, in 1966," Lopez writes. "It's a town so small that it is next to impossible to find on most maps of Guatemala, much less Central America."

Lopez has documented real-world situations and the military around the globe and has captured stunning images in Arizona and Guatemala. His work has been featured in various publications, including the book Arizona 24/7, and has been awarded many distinctions, including first place in the Professional Photography category at the 2008 Arizona State Fair, an honorable mention in the pictorial category in the 2009 Military Photographer of the Year competition, and first place in the 2011 Multimedia Team 19th Annual Department of Defense Worldwide Military Photography Workshop.

Contain/Constrain: Works by Sam Horowitz
Point of Contact Gallery

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

In today's virtual era, when we can communicate at light speed, inhabit cyber realities, and continually discard the "old" in search for "upgrades", one might expect that technology innovation makes us less burdened, less constrained by time and space. By the same token, so many of us are living rushed unthinking lives, desensitized and isolated from anything real. Are we constrained by our own innovations? We work, live and play inside frames, according to Horowitz, and those frames are mobile or immobile, physical, mental or metaphorical.

In this exhibition, the intrusion of familiar objects with uncharacteristic contents invites the viewer to reconsider the forms, functions and limitations of recognizable, re-purposed relics, and pokes fun at our decreasing flexibility, our increasing demands, and the collective loss of craft, localized-innovation and repair. "The trunks, once utilitarian objects used to carry clothing and other personal items, are now filled for the sake of filling. The cardboard, created initially to contain other entities, functions as contents. Though each framing device no longer holds the contents they were created to contain, they contain nonetheless; it is the humor and irony of this relationship that I strive to illustrate thorough my work."

To create this installation, Horowitz began by collecting trunks, cases and boxes. Though most bore a patina of age, use and neglect, he cleaned, fixed, and saved each piece. Horowitz is able to manipulate cardboard to create the designs and patterns he finds within the lines and corrugation so readily offered. "I have drawn each piece through the gauntlet intentionally, irrationally or purely by necessity," states Horowitz. "Thinking over my work, and planning new directions strays into theory, but in practice, I work, live, and act in this moment."

Opening: Noriko Ambe: Inner Water
The Warehouse Gallery

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

There will be an opening reception this evening 5:00-8:00 pm.

In her first US museum solo show, New York City-based Japanese artist Noriko Ambe will create a new site-specific installation in the main gallery reflecting the tragic 2011 events in Japan through the use of video projections and her signature large-scale paper cutouts that evoke waves.

Nature plays an important role in Ambe's work, and it points to larger issues, such as the natural forces determining our global landscape, and the relationship between nature and humans throughout time. A recipient of prestigious awards such as the AICA Award and Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Ambe's work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Arts and Design and the Japan Society in New York and the Kyoto University of Art and Design in Kyoto, Japan. Her work is also in the collection of the Whitney Museum of Art.

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VPA Faculty Show Part II
XL Projects

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

Part two of an exhibition of work by faculty in S.U.'s College of Visual and Performing Arts.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours or e-mail Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com.

Sick at Home: Works of Tonja Torgerson
Echo

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

Artist Statement: Notions of privacy and disclosure are at the core of my work. My portraits and figures deal with the reality of illness while balancing a thin line between expression and discretion. They explore the internal and external factors that compose one’s identity. While these topics could be divisive, the use of color, humor, and childish aesthetic keeps my work welcoming. Vomit, blood and bile appear alongside pinks, paisley and sweet poses. I am interested in this collision of attraction and disgust, and how it creates a difficult beauty and a pleasant anxiety. My work presents a personal side of an ever-increasingly political issue through a girlish lens of soft aesthetics and sad whimsy.

Tonja is currently pursuing an MFA in printmaking at Syracuse University.

Men Only: Vernacular Photographs of Male Affection
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibit of works from the collection of William Knodel looks at masculinity, gender and sexuality in our society. William Knodel was a college student in the 1970s in New York City when he purchased his first second-hand snapshot, a group of young men in assorted swimming attire whose style dated them back to the turn of the century, posing before a camp tent marked with a sign, "Men Only." Since then, he's collected vernacular images of male affection -- tintypes, daguerreotypes and photos -- during his travels to the West Coast, Canada, and Europe, scouring second-hand shops, old photo sales and used book stores. His collection now runs into the hundreds, dating from the mid-19th century and featuring couples and socializing groups from every race and social class. "Men Only" is a gift that incarnates the "gay spirit" that his good friend Harry Hay warned us must be kept alive and a history too often dismissed.

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William Wegman: Flo Flow (2011)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The video "Flo Flow" is William Wegman's latest in a long line of human-canid collaborations. It was while he was in Long Beach in the 1970s that Wegman got his dog, Man Ray, with whom he began a fruitful collaboration of many years. Man Ray, known in the art world and beyond for his endearing deadpan presence, became a central figure in Wegman's photographs and videotapes. Ever since, Weimaraner-actors have peopled Wegman's uncanny imaginative universe, a reflection on both the human-ness of "animals" and the strangeness of humans.

William Wegman lives in New York and Maine where he continues to make videos, to take photographs and to make drawings and paintings.

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

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

Memory and Commemoration, as Fact or Fiction
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts
Featuring Anna Schuleit

Price: Free
Watson Theater, Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave. (Syracuse University), Syracuse

"Memory and Commemoration, as Fact or Fiction" is a new cross-disciplinary speaker series on art, memory, community and commemoration.

Anna Schuleit, internationally prominent visual artist and a 2006 recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, will present some of her powerful public art installations that deal with memory, community and regeneration.

Parking for the public is available for $4 in Booth Garage.

Disaster, Memory, and Art Making
The Warehouse Gallery

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

A roundtable discussion on Disaster, Memory, and Art Making. Room 003, Warehouse Building.

Panel Discussion
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Panel discussion about the exhibit "Men Only--Vernacular Photographs of Male Affection" with collector Willam Knodel, curator Nancy Keefe Rhodes, and writer/art historian/critic David Deitcher.

An Irish Celebration
LeMoyne College
Travis Newton, conductor
Featuring Kitty Hoynes Session Players, LeMoyne Chamber Orchestra

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The concert will feature the Kitty Hoynes Session Players (often heard at their namesake pub in downtown Syracuse) alongside the Le Moyne College Chamber Orchestra. Featuring authentic Irish instruments, including concertina, harp, whistle, bodhrán and uilleann pipes, the concert will also highlight the various instruments of the chamber orchestra. The orchestra will also accompany the session players, performing an original work arranged and orchestrated by music faculty member Edward Ruchalski.

For tickets and further information, please call 315-445-4523.

SU Women's Choir Invitational Concert
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring The Pine Grove Girl Choir

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

The SU Women's Choir, under the direction of Barbara M. Tagg, will host the Pine Grove Girl Choir, directed by Aimee deBergeois.

The Pine Grove Girl Choir will present Viva la Musica by Mark Weston, When I Close My Eyes by Jim Papoulis, Al Shlosha D'Varim by Allan E. Naplan, and Lollipop, the 1950s hit tune by the Chordettes.

The SU Women's Choir's repertoire will include Domine Deus by J. S. Bach, Lux Aeterna (Eternal Light) by Michelle Roueché, This Little Light of Mine arranged by Ysaye Barnwell, and Paul Caldwell and Sean Ivory's Lay Earth's Burden Down.

The two choirs will combine for the concert finale, which includes Lowell Mason's O Music and Amazing Grace, arranged by Francisco Nuñéz.

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage; patrons should mention that they are attending the concert.

All Time Low, with I Call Fives, With The Punches
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Florence of Moravia
Acme Mystery Company

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

It's 1927 and local radio personality Nevelle Haspin invites you to the broadcast of a gala reception for silent film diva Lorraine Bowes who is making a film portraying notorious WWI spy Florence Goode a.k.a. Hata Mahma. Joining Lorraine will be her leading man, if he's sober, Roland DeHay and Lorraine's agent, Harold "Hawk" Toohey. Arriving without an invitation is nationally syndicated gossip columninst Helena Handbasquet. Be careful. These celebrities autograph with poisoned pens.

Durang in Duet
Black Box Players
Katie Lynch, director

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

Durang in Duet is an evening of two short plays, Canker Sores and Other Distractions and For Who the Southern Belle Tolls, written by Christopher Durang. Durang is an American playwright know for works of outrageous and often absurd comedy.

Canker Sores and Other Distractions takes place in a restaurant with an ex-husband and wife meeting for one of the first times after their divorce. A disagreeable waitress causes an obstacle while the two characters develop several afflictions that cause them to remember why they divorced in the first place.

For Who the Southern Belle Tolls is a parody of Tenessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. It takes place on the night that Tom brings home a lady friend for his crippled brother, Lawrence. The play is an absurd and hilarious take on the Wingfield family that Tennesse Williams made famous in The Glass Menagerie.

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Preview: Beautiful Child
Rarely Done Productions
Roy Van Nostrand, director

Price: $10
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

How do we love someone who falls outside our moral code? A couple's marriage is called into question when their son comes home for lunch and asks to stay. The world's no longer safe for their son as his secrets are about to become public. They want to help their son, who was once a beautiful child. They want to love him. But how? They arrive at a decision that's painful and restorative. This show is intended for mature audiences only. By Nicky Silver.

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LaMaMa Series: Poor Baby Bree: I Am Going to Run Away
Redhouse

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

The piece is written and directed by Bree Benton with music by Franklin Bruno. The story is built around Benton's portrayal of Poor Baby Bree, an archetypal waif, who weaves a tragicomic narrative of innocence and loss around seventeen obscure vaudeville and parlor songs dating from the 1890s through the 1930s.

Bree Benton (creator) has been performing as Poor Baby Bree since 2005, after a lifetime of collecting period sheet music and studying vaudeville and its performers. Her first one-woman show as Poor Baby Bree, "Weary River," earned awards from Time Out New York and BackStage. Her following show, "I Am Going to Run Away," was presented at The Club at La MaMa E.T.C. in 2010, and will return in Spring 2012.

Franklin Bruno (pianist/musical director), in addition to his work with Poor Baby Bree, has released over a dozen albums of original songs since the 1990s, as a solo artist and member of Nothing Painted Blue and (currently) The Human Hearts. He is a frequent collaborator with The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle, both as a multi-instrumentalist on the acclaimed albums Tallahassee and The Sunset Tree, and in the collaborative duo The Extra Lens.

The Lower Depths
Syracuse University Drama Department
Gerardine Clark, director

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

A masterpiece of Russian realism, The Lower Depths was Maxim Gorky's first great play and its premiere production in 1902 helped establish the reputation of the famed Moscow Art Theatre and its influential director Constantine Stanislavsky. In the cave-like basement of a run-down boarding house, a disparate group of bosyák (literally, the barefoot) -- outcasts, petty criminals and day laborers -- negotiate days lived between harsh truth and consoling lies. With little hope or light in their lives, Gorky's finely detailed and psychologically rich characters manage to celebrate what Stanislavsky called the play's spiritual essence: "freedom, whatever happens!"

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Friday, March 2, 2012

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

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

Price Check
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

A research-based curatorial examination by Roslyn Esperon and Courtney Rile, featuring the art of Michael Barletta, Caol Flaitz, Carla Goldberg, Novado Cappuccilli, Jason Varone, Fred Wellner, Laura Wellner, and Leah Wolff

Being Impossible: Works by Deborah Zlotsky
LeMoyne College

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

There will be an opening reception this afternoon 4:00-6:00 pm.

An exhibition of drawings and paintings by Deborah Zlotsky. In this series, the artist manipulates powdered graphite on sheets of mylar, searching for signs of life in the smears and conjuring up blurred boundaries between documenting nature and inventing nature. Zlotsky is represented by Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in New York and presented a solo exhibition in October 2011. She has been the recipient of numerous residencies, including a residency fellowship at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY, this past summer. She earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University and a master's degree in painting and drawing from the University of Connecticut.

For more information, call 315-445-4153.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

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

Contain/Constrain: Works by Sam Horowitz
Point of Contact Gallery

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

In today's virtual era, when we can communicate at light speed, inhabit cyber realities, and continually discard the "old" in search for "upgrades", one might expect that technology innovation makes us less burdened, less constrained by time and space. By the same token, so many of us are living rushed unthinking lives, desensitized and isolated from anything real. Are we constrained by our own innovations? We work, live and play inside frames, according to Horowitz, and those frames are mobile or immobile, physical, mental or metaphorical.

In this exhibition, the intrusion of familiar objects with uncharacteristic contents invites the viewer to reconsider the forms, functions and limitations of recognizable, re-purposed relics, and pokes fun at our decreasing flexibility, our increasing demands, and the collective loss of craft, localized-innovation and repair. "The trunks, once utilitarian objects used to carry clothing and other personal items, are now filled for the sake of filling. The cardboard, created initially to contain other entities, functions as contents. Though each framing device no longer holds the contents they were created to contain, they contain nonetheless; it is the humor and irony of this relationship that I strive to illustrate thorough my work."

To create this installation, Horowitz began by collecting trunks, cases and boxes. Though most bore a patina of age, use and neglect, he cleaned, fixed, and saved each piece. Horowitz is able to manipulate cardboard to create the designs and patterns he finds within the lines and corrugation so readily offered. "I have drawn each piece through the gauntlet intentionally, irrationally or purely by necessity," states Horowitz. "Thinking over my work, and planning new directions strays into theory, but in practice, I work, live, and act in this moment."

"Images of Upstate New York" and "Juxtaposed Through Wonderland"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

"Images of Upstate New York" features work by Morgan Goodwin and Kate Walseman
"Juxtaposed Through Wonderland" features recent work by KayCie Danniel

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

FOR_PLAY
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Featuring James and Hayes Slade

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

An exhibition of projects by Slade Architecture of New York City designed for or including an element of play.

Creatures Small and Great
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Dana Blythe Stenson (metalsmith jewelry), Candace Rhea (ceramic and mixed media), Alan Hart (acrylic on board), and Diane Menzies (oil paintings) interpret insects and small animals.

Looking & Looking: Photos by Amy Elkins and Jen Davis
Light Work Gallery

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

Jen Davis and Amy Elkins create work that focuses on gaze and identity, with Davis looking at herself and Elkins looking at young male athletes. The images in the exhibition explore the perception of how men and women are supposed to appear in society -- men should be strong and confident, women should be beautiful -- and the crafting of a self-image.

Jen Davis creates self-portraits that deal with issues surrounding beauty, identity, and body image of women, and challenges the perceptions and stereotypes of how women should look in their physical appearances. Amy Elkins depicts the more aggressive, competitive, and violent aspects of male identity in her series Elegant Violence, which captures portraits of young Ivy League rugby athletes moments after their game. Elkins' images explore the balance between athleticism, modes of violence or aggression, and varying degrees of vulnerability within a sport where brutal body contact is fundamental.

Both artists focus on the construction of identity -- the players are astutely aware of how they are presenting themselves while Davis draws attention to her own self-image in a more emotional way. Shown together, the works of Davis and Elkins urge the viewer to consider expectations and perceptions (both societal and individual) of identity.

Design and Aging
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Design and Aging," an exhibition of student design projects focused on solutions to problems associated with aging, features work by students in industrial and interaction design, interior design and advertising design in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. It includes a project that explores how effective design could assist the elderly population of Hong Kong, as well as a series of posters that illustrate potential kiosks that could be targeted to mall walkers at Shoppingtown Mall in DeWitt.

The Design Gallery is located on the first floor of The Warehouse. Patrons should enter via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on W. Fayette St. or the first-floor door on W. Washington St.

For more information, contact Bradley Hudson at bjhudson@syr.edu.

Envisionary
Szozda Gallery

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

Well established artist Phil Parsons and relatively new talent Emily Elizabeth display their painterly visions of atmospheric and landscape horizons surrounding Central New York. "Envisionary," the show's title, was coined perhaps to sharpen the concept of changing environs, elements commonplace every day that some artists foresee in greater depths than what most people perceive. In Elizabeth's case, it's her fascination with the universe that compels her to paint beyond shape and form to focus on color and atmosphere, while Parsons chooses to capture memorable landscapes that he himself alters with color and invented skies, reflecting his own feelings.

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Emilio Sanchez: No Way Home--Images of the Caribbean and New York City
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"No Way Home" features a selection of 24 paintings, watercolors, drawings and prints drawn from the recently acquired collection of work by Cuban-American artist Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999). Best known for his brightly colored, strongly shadowed images of Caribbean and New York City architecture, this exhibition reveals the artist's ongoing interest in repetitive patterns. The show highlights a recent gift to the University Art Collection from the Emilio Sanchez Foundation of over 250 paintings, drawings and prints.

Pressing Print: Contemporary Prints and Process from Universal Limited Art Editions
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Pressing Print: Contemporary Prints and Process from Universal Limited Art Editions" chronicles the recent decade of artwork published by one of the most renowned American printmaking workshops. The exhibition of 60 works illustrates the impact that artists like Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Helen Frankenthaler and Kiki Smith have had on contemporary art, evident through the work of artists Jason Middelbrook, Amy Cutler and Jane Hammond. The show also illustrates how emerging artists recently selected to work with ULAE has influenced the current trend, in both process and concept.

Weekend and evening visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces are not available, the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 adults, $8 students/seniors, $30 family pack (2 adults, 4 children))
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland" is the first exhibition to examine the American artist's work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Long celebrated as an iconic American artist due to his important early work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight, Henri's paintings have received less attention on their own. Most projects explored his career as it related to his role as a member of The Eight or in a broadly retrospective manner. Few projects focused on his landscapes, drawings, or foreign portraits.

Henri's Irish portraits constitute his largest focused body of work, and often depict the same sitters year after year. These paintings offer a unique and fascinating window onto the genre about which Henri felt most strongly--portraiture--and also chart his experiments with paint handling and color theories over time. He wrote that the time spent in Ireland was extremely valuable to him (it was the only other place besides New York where he purchased a residence), for only there was he able to focus on his painting without the distractions of life in New York. It is not surprising, then, that the periods Henri spent in Ireland were among his most prolific, and the paintings produced there among his most accomplished. Just before his death, Henri composed a list of his most important paintings; many of the works on this list were his Irish subjects. Forty-one paintings of Irish people and landscapes will be on view in the upcoming exhibition.

John Knecht: Fragments from the Wheels of Ezekiel
Everson Museum of Art

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

John Knecht is the featured artist for the Urban Video Project in January and February. In conjunction with the exhibition of "Deluge and Anima" on the Everson's north façade, a series of Knecht's animations, called "Fragments from the Wheels of Ezekiel," will be on view inside the museum. The Fragments, individual animations displayed on monitors, provide a glimpse into the artist's brilliant imagination, where fantasy collides with vivid colors and quirky sounds.

The Photographer as Child: Memories of Guatemala
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Born in Guatemala, award-winning photographer Efren Lopez is a student in the Military Photojournalism Program at Syracuse University. He is also an aerial photographer for the U.S. Air Force and the first reservist to be selected to attend Newhouse's Military Photojournalism Program. He now lives in Arizona.

The exhibit features images Lopez captured on a return trip to Guatemala in 2009. "My life began in a bamboo hut at the side of a road in a tiny town named Petaca, Guatemala, in 1966," Lopez writes. "It's a town so small that it is next to impossible to find on most maps of Guatemala, much less Central America."

Lopez has documented real-world situations and the military around the globe and has captured stunning images in Arizona and Guatemala. His work has been featured in various publications, including the book Arizona 24/7, and has been awarded many distinctions, including first place in the Professional Photography category at the 2008 Arizona State Fair, an honorable mention in the pictorial category in the 2009 Military Photographer of the Year competition, and first place in the 2011 Multimedia Team 19th Annual Department of Defense Worldwide Military Photography Workshop.

Noriko Ambe: Inner Water
The Warehouse Gallery

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

In her first US museum solo show, New York City-based Japanese artist Noriko Ambe will create a new site-specific installation in the main gallery reflecting the tragic 2011 events in Japan through the use of video projections and her signature large-scale paper cutouts that evoke waves.

Nature plays an important role in Ambe's work, and it points to larger issues, such as the natural forces determining our global landscape, and the relationship between nature and humans throughout time. A recipient of prestigious awards such as the AICA Award and Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Ambe's work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Arts and Design and the Japan Society in New York and the Kyoto University of Art and Design in Kyoto, Japan. Her work is also in the collection of the Whitney Museum of Art.

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VPA Faculty Show Part II
XL Projects

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

Part two of an exhibition of work by faculty in S.U.'s College of Visual and Performing Arts.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours or e-mail Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com.

Sick at Home: Works of Tonja Torgerson
Echo

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

Artist Statement: Notions of privacy and disclosure are at the core of my work. My portraits and figures deal with the reality of illness while balancing a thin line between expression and discretion. They explore the internal and external factors that compose one’s identity. While these topics could be divisive, the use of color, humor, and childish aesthetic keeps my work welcoming. Vomit, blood and bile appear alongside pinks, paisley and sweet poses. I am interested in this collision of attraction and disgust, and how it creates a difficult beauty and a pleasant anxiety. My work presents a personal side of an ever-increasingly political issue through a girlish lens of soft aesthetics and sad whimsy.

Tonja is currently pursuing an MFA in printmaking at Syracuse University.

Men Only: Vernacular Photographs of Male Affection
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibit of works from the collection of William Knodel looks at masculinity, gender and sexuality in our society. William Knodel was a college student in the 1970s in New York City when he purchased his first second-hand snapshot, a group of young men in assorted swimming attire whose style dated them back to the turn of the century, posing before a camp tent marked with a sign, "Men Only." Since then, he's collected vernacular images of male affection -- tintypes, daguerreotypes and photos -- during his travels to the West Coast, Canada, and Europe, scouring second-hand shops, old photo sales and used book stores. His collection now runs into the hundreds, dating from the mid-19th century and featuring couples and socializing groups from every race and social class. "Men Only" is a gift that incarnates the "gay spirit" that his good friend Harry Hay warned us must be kept alive and a history too often dismissed.

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William Wegman: Flo Flow (2011)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The video "Flo Flow" is William Wegman's latest in a long line of human-canid collaborations. It was while he was in Long Beach in the 1970s that Wegman got his dog, Man Ray, with whom he began a fruitful collaboration of many years. Man Ray, known in the art world and beyond for his endearing deadpan presence, became a central figure in Wegman's photographs and videotapes. Ever since, Weimaraner-actors have peopled Wegman's uncanny imaginative universe, a reflection on both the human-ness of "animals" and the strangeness of humans.

William Wegman lives in New York and Maine where he continues to make videos, to take photographs and to make drawings and paintings.

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

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

Paul Taylor Dance Company
Arts Engage

Price: Free, but RSVP recommended
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Syracuse University's ArtsEngage will welcome the Paul Taylor Dance Company for an evening of modern dance. The evening's performance will include choreography set to the music of the Andrews Sisters, the St. Louis Melody Museum collection of band machines and House of Joy and Bach's Brandenburg Concertos.

The Paul Taylor Dance Company, now in its 55th year, is highly respected around the world. Taylor's love for music began at Syracuse University in the late 1940s, when he discovered dance in books at the school library. A short while later, he transferred to the Juilliard School. By 1954, he had assembled a small company of dancers before joining the Martha Graham Dance Company in 1955 as soloist for seven seasons while also choreographing his own small troupe. In 1959, he was invited by Balanchine to be a guest artist with New York City Ballet. In 1993, Taylor created the Paul Taylor Dance Company and Taylor 2, which have traveled the globe. The company has performed in more than 500 cities in 62 countries and in theaters and venues of every size and description in cultural capitals, college campuses and rural communities.

Attendees should RSVP to SUartspresenter@syr.edu or call 315-443-0296 with party size and name.

Dana & Susan Robinson
Folkus Project

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

Dana and Susan Robinson make music that is the sound and feel of bedrock America--a perfect blend of old and new, bringing a traditional feel to their contemporary songwriting. They are consummate multi-instrumentalists (guitar, banjo, fiddle, and mandolin), integrating musical styles from the Appalachian, Celtic, and African traditions to create a unique, fresh sound. They bring a joyful energy to their performances, along with an acute understanding of America's musical heritage and its significance to our culture today.

Buckwheat Zydeco, with Professor Louie and the Cromatix

Price: $25
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

"Buckwheat leads one of the best party bands in America; he can pump out Zydeco two-beats or shift into 12-bar blues, steaming all the way!" --New York Times

A portion of the proceeds will benefit P.E.A.C.E. Inc.

Tickets available at Sound Garden in Armory Square, online at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/225904, or by phone at 800-838-3006.

Legends of Jazz Series: Randy Brecker Quintet
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free, but tickets required
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Free tickets available at Sound Garden in Armory Square beginning Sat., 2/18 at 10:00am, while they last, limit two per customer.

Randal "Randy" Brecker is one of the most most sought-after trumpeters in the history of jazz, rock, and R&B, and soul, and an astonishing musician, composer, arranger, leader and sideman. He has performed, toured, and recorded with an astonishing list of superstars, including Dire Straits, Frank Zappa and Todd Rundgren. Most recently, he appeared at Syracuse Jazz Fest with longtime collaborator and saxophonist Bill Evans and their SoulBop Band, which featured the late Hiram Bullock on guitar and Weather Report's Vistor Bailey on Bass.

Brecker played on the first breakthrough Blood Sweat & Tears album, Child Is Father to the Man, but left the band when founder Al Kooper left. He is the older brother of the late jazz saxophonist Michael Brecker (1949–2007). Together they led Dreams and the Brecker Brothers, a popular funk and fusion band which recorded several albums from the 1970s through the 1990s. After the Brecker Brothers disbanded in 1982, Randy recorded and toured as a member of legendary bassist Jaco Pastorius' Word of Mouth big band. It was soon thereafter that he met Brazilian jazz pianist Eliane Elias. Eliane and Randy formed their own band, touring the world several times and recording one album together, Amanda on Passport Records.

Joining Randy for this concert will be the Italian tenor saxophonist Ada Rovatti, Soulbop keyboardist Dave Kikoski, Santana drummer and jazz legend Rodney Homes, and the great Dean Johnson on bass.

Black Box Cabaret: Simply Sondheim
Black Box Players

Price: Free
Dolce Vita
907 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The Drunkard
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Jon J Barden, director

Price: $20 adults; $17 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

A 19th century melodrama musical comedy...with music by Barry Manilow?!

The Drunkard is based on "the world-famous melodrama by W.H.S. Smith." Bro Herrod and the king of 1970s pop take us back to a simpler time in this deliciously coy and exaggerated play about the good, the bad, and the besotted. When Sweet Mary Wilson weds the virtuous Edward, the villainous lawyer Cribbs, determined to foreclose on the quaint little cottage Mary shares with her poor widowed mother, sees to it that the devil's beverage—alcohol—is served. Alas and alack! Edward is lured to the city and ensnared in a web of sin and drunkenness! Can Mary and her innocent young child save her inebriated husband from the evils of the bottle? And what of the diabolical Cribbs? Come join us for a fun hilarious evening. Complimentary desserts and hot beverages are served at intermission.

Jon Barden, director; Deborah Taylor, associate director; Steve Borek, producer; Dan Williams, music director (assisted by Michael Stapleton & Phill Sterling)

Durang in Duet
Black Box Players
Katie Lynch, director

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

Durang in Duet is an evening of two short plays, Canker Sores and Other Distractions and For Who the Southern Belle Tolls, written by Christopher Durang. Durang is an American playwright know for works of outrageous and often absurd comedy.

Canker Sores and Other Distractions takes place in a restaurant with an ex-husband and wife meeting for one of the first times after their divorce. A disagreeable waitress causes an obstacle while the two characters develop several afflictions that cause them to remember why they divorced in the first place.

For Who the Southern Belle Tolls is a parody of Tenessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. It takes place on the night that Tom brings home a lady friend for his crippled brother, Lawrence. The play is an absurd and hilarious take on the Wingfield family that Tennesse Williams made famous in The Glass Menagerie.

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Reaching for Marsby
Len Fonte, director

Price: $22 regular, $20 students/seniors
BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Reaching for Marsby, the second staged comedy by former Post-Standard humor columnist Jeff Kramer, follows brash, bumbling American actor Gary Blenkinsopp, who travels to England in an attempt to save his career. Mayhem ensues in his theater world.

The cast features Mark Eischen, Moe Harrington, Kris Rusho, Michael O'Neill, Karis Wiggins, Brendon Cole and Peter Moller.

Tickets, with processing fees added, also be purchased by calling the box office at 315-435-2121 or by going to ticketmaster.com.

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Beautiful Child
Rarely Done Productions
Roy Van Nostrand, director

Price: $25
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

How do we love someone who falls outside our moral code? A couple's marriage is called into question when their son comes home for lunch and asks to stay. The world's no longer safe for their son as his secrets are about to become public. They want to help their son, who was once a beautiful child. They want to love him. But how? They arrive at a decision that's painful and restorative. This show is intended for mature audiences only. By Nicky Silver.

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LaMaMa Series: Poor Baby Bree: I Am Going to Run Away
Redhouse

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

The piece is written and directed by Bree Benton with music by Franklin Bruno. The story is built around Benton's portrayal of Poor Baby Bree, an archetypal waif, who weaves a tragicomic narrative of innocence and loss around seventeen obscure vaudeville and parlor songs dating from the 1890s through the 1930s.

Bree Benton (creator) has been performing as Poor Baby Bree since 2005, after a lifetime of collecting period sheet music and studying vaudeville and its performers. Her first one-woman show as Poor Baby Bree, "Weary River," earned awards from Time Out New York and BackStage. Her following show, "I Am Going to Run Away," was presented at The Club at La MaMa E.T.C. in 2010, and will return in Spring 2012.

Franklin Bruno (pianist/musical director), in addition to his work with Poor Baby Bree, has released over a dozen albums of original songs since the 1990s, as a solo artist and member of Nothing Painted Blue and (currently) The Human Hearts. He is a frequent collaborator with The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle, both as a multi-instrumentalist on the acclaimed albums Tallahassee and The Sunset Tree, and in the collaborative duo The Extra Lens.

The Lower Depths
Syracuse University Drama Department
Gerardine Clark, director

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

A masterpiece of Russian realism, The Lower Depths was Maxim Gorky's first great play and its premiere production in 1902 helped establish the reputation of the famed Moscow Art Theatre and its influential director Constantine Stanislavsky. In the cave-like basement of a run-down boarding house, a disparate group of bosyák (literally, the barefoot) -- outcasts, petty criminals and day laborers -- negotiate days lived between harsh truth and consoling lies. With little hope or light in their lives, Gorky's finely detailed and psychologically rich characters manage to celebrate what Stanislavsky called the play's spiritual essence: "freedom, whatever happens!"

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Saturday, March 3, 2012

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

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

Price Check
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

A research-based curatorial examination by Roslyn Esperon and Courtney Rile, featuring the art of Michael Barletta, Caol Flaitz, Carla Goldberg, Novado Cappuccilli, Jason Varone, Fred Wellner, Laura Wellner, and Leah Wolff

Being Impossible: Works by Deborah Zlotsky
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibition of drawings and paintings by Deborah Zlotsky. In this series, the artist manipulates powdered graphite on sheets of mylar, searching for signs of life in the smears and conjuring up blurred boundaries between documenting nature and inventing nature. Zlotsky is represented by Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in New York and presented a solo exhibition in October 2011. She has been the recipient of numerous residencies, including a residency fellowship at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY, this past summer. She earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University and a master's degree in painting and drawing from the University of Connecticut.

For more information, call 315-445-4153.

Creatures Small and Great
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Dana Blythe Stenson (metalsmith jewelry), Candace Rhea (ceramic and mixed media), Alan Hart (acrylic on board), and Diane Menzies (oil paintings) interpret insects and small animals.

John Knecht: Fragments from the Wheels of Ezekiel
Everson Museum of Art

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

John Knecht is the featured artist for the Urban Video Project in January and February. In conjunction with the exhibition of "Deluge and Anima" on the Everson's north façade, a series of Knecht's animations, called "Fragments from the Wheels of Ezekiel," will be on view inside the museum. The Fragments, individual animations displayed on monitors, provide a glimpse into the artist's brilliant imagination, where fantasy collides with vivid colors and quirky sounds.

From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 adults, $8 students/seniors, $30 family pack (2 adults, 4 children))
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland" is the first exhibition to examine the American artist's work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Long celebrated as an iconic American artist due to his important early work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight, Henri's paintings have received less attention on their own. Most projects explored his career as it related to his role as a member of The Eight or in a broadly retrospective manner. Few projects focused on his landscapes, drawings, or foreign portraits.

Henri's Irish portraits constitute his largest focused body of work, and often depict the same sitters year after year. These paintings offer a unique and fascinating window onto the genre about which Henri felt most strongly--portraiture--and also chart his experiments with paint handling and color theories over time. He wrote that the time spent in Ireland was extremely valuable to him (it was the only other place besides New York where he purchased a residence), for only there was he able to focus on his painting without the distractions of life in New York. It is not surprising, then, that the periods Henri spent in Ireland were among his most prolific, and the paintings produced there among his most accomplished. Just before his death, Henri composed a list of his most important paintings; many of the works on this list were his Irish subjects. Forty-one paintings of Irish people and landscapes will be on view in the upcoming exhibition.

Envisionary
Szozda Gallery

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

Well established artist Phil Parsons and relatively new talent Emily Elizabeth display their painterly visions of atmospheric and landscape horizons surrounding Central New York. "Envisionary," the show's title, was coined perhaps to sharpen the concept of changing environs, elements commonplace every day that some artists foresee in greater depths than what most people perceive. In Elizabeth's case, it's her fascination with the universe that compels her to paint beyond shape and form to focus on color and atmosphere, while Parsons chooses to capture memorable landscapes that he himself alters with color and invented skies, reflecting his own feelings.

Read a review!

Sick at Home: Works of Tonja Torgerson
Echo

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

Artist Statement: Notions of privacy and disclosure are at the core of my work. My portraits and figures deal with the reality of illness while balancing a thin line between expression and discretion. They explore the internal and external factors that compose one’s identity. While these topics could be divisive, the use of color, humor, and childish aesthetic keeps my work welcoming. Vomit, blood and bile appear alongside pinks, paisley and sweet poses. I am interested in this collision of attraction and disgust, and how it creates a difficult beauty and a pleasant anxiety. My work presents a personal side of an ever-increasingly political issue through a girlish lens of soft aesthetics and sad whimsy.

Tonja is currently pursuing an MFA in printmaking at Syracuse University.

Pressing Print: Contemporary Prints and Process from Universal Limited Art Editions
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Pressing Print: Contemporary Prints and Process from Universal Limited Art Editions" chronicles the recent decade of artwork published by one of the most renowned American printmaking workshops. The exhibition of 60 works illustrates the impact that artists like Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Helen Frankenthaler and Kiki Smith have had on contemporary art, evident through the work of artists Jason Middelbrook, Amy Cutler and Jane Hammond. The show also illustrates how emerging artists recently selected to work with ULAE has influenced the current trend, in both process and concept.

Weekend and evening visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces are not available, the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Emilio Sanchez: No Way Home--Images of the Caribbean and New York City
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"No Way Home" features a selection of 24 paintings, watercolors, drawings and prints drawn from the recently acquired collection of work by Cuban-American artist Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999). Best known for his brightly colored, strongly shadowed images of Caribbean and New York City architecture, this exhibition reveals the artist's ongoing interest in repetitive patterns. The show highlights a recent gift to the University Art Collection from the Emilio Sanchez Foundation of over 250 paintings, drawings and prints.

Men Only: Vernacular Photographs of Male Affection
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibit of works from the collection of William Knodel looks at masculinity, gender and sexuality in our society. William Knodel was a college student in the 1970s in New York City when he purchased his first second-hand snapshot, a group of young men in assorted swimming attire whose style dated them back to the turn of the century, posing before a camp tent marked with a sign, "Men Only." Since then, he's collected vernacular images of male affection -- tintypes, daguerreotypes and photos -- during his travels to the West Coast, Canada, and Europe, scouring second-hand shops, old photo sales and used book stores. His collection now runs into the hundreds, dating from the mid-19th century and featuring couples and socializing groups from every race and social class. "Men Only" is a gift that incarnates the "gay spirit" that his good friend Harry Hay warned us must be kept alive and a history too often dismissed.

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Noriko Ambe: Inner Water
The Warehouse Gallery

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

In her first US museum solo show, New York City-based Japanese artist Noriko Ambe will create a new site-specific installation in the main gallery reflecting the tragic 2011 events in Japan through the use of video projections and her signature large-scale paper cutouts that evoke waves.

Nature plays an important role in Ambe's work, and it points to larger issues, such as the natural forces determining our global landscape, and the relationship between nature and humans throughout time. A recipient of prestigious awards such as the AICA Award and Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Ambe's work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Arts and Design and the Japan Society in New York and the Kyoto University of Art and Design in Kyoto, Japan. Her work is also in the collection of the Whitney Museum of Art.

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VPA Faculty Show Part II
XL Projects

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

Part two of an exhibition of work by faculty in S.U.'s College of Visual and Performing Arts.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours or e-mail Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com.

William Wegman: Flo Flow (2011)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The video "Flo Flow" is William Wegman's latest in a long line of human-canid collaborations. It was while he was in Long Beach in the 1970s that Wegman got his dog, Man Ray, with whom he began a fruitful collaboration of many years. Man Ray, known in the art world and beyond for his endearing deadpan presence, became a central figure in Wegman's photographs and videotapes. Ever since, Weimaraner-actors have peopled Wegman's uncanny imaginative universe, a reflection on both the human-ness of "animals" and the strangeness of humans.

William Wegman lives in New York and Maine where he continues to make videos, to take photographs and to make drawings and paintings.

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

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

Brew and View Series: Back to the Future and The 'Burbs
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

7:00 pm: Back to the Future
9:00 pm: The 'Burbs

Senior Piano and Voice Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Fiona Andrews

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

Fiona Andrews will be singing works by Mozart, Barber, Rorem and Menotti and will be playing works by Debussy and Chopin.

Parking is available in the Waverly, Harrison, or Lehman lots.

Play the Tuneful Oboe: Works for Chorus and Oboe
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble
Robert Cowles, conductor

St. Charles Borromeo Church
417 S. Orchard Rd., Syracuse

Cantata S 22 by J.S. Bach with chamber orchestra; the premier of Michael Dellaira's Nobody, a choral/oboe work using four interwoven texts by Emily Dickinson, featuring Anna Petersen Stearns, oboe; and other works.

Conspirator, with Eliot Lipp, Jeff Bujak
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

World Tales
Open Hand Theater
Hobey Ford's Golden Rod Puppets

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

"World Tales" takes the audience on a thrilling expedition that explores the beauty and movement of whales, dolphins, birds, butterflies, wolves and a menagerie of other animals. Hobey Ford has created a puppetry ballet of incredibly realistic animal puppets and wonderfully animated creatures.

Two-time winner of puppetry's highest honor, the UNIMA Citation of Excellence, and recipient of three Jim Henson Foundation grants, Hobey Ford is known for excellence in puppetry performance and craft.

The Little Mermaid
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive adaptation of the children's classic.

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The Lower Depths
Syracuse University Drama Department
Gerardine Clark, director

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

A masterpiece of Russian realism, The Lower Depths was Maxim Gorky's first great play and its premiere production in 1902 helped establish the reputation of the famed Moscow Art Theatre and its influential director Constantine Stanislavsky. In the cave-like basement of a run-down boarding house, a disparate group of bosyák (literally, the barefoot) -- outcasts, petty criminals and day laborers -- negotiate days lived between harsh truth and consoling lies. With little hope or light in their lives, Gorky's finely detailed and psychologically rich characters manage to celebrate what Stanislavsky called the play's spiritual essence: "freedom, whatever happens!"

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The Drunkard
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Jon J Barden, director

Price: $20 adults; $17 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

A 19th century melodrama musical comedy...with music by Barry Manilow?!

The Drunkard is based on "the world-famous melodrama by W.H.S. Smith." Bro Herrod and the king of 1970s pop take us back to a simpler time in this deliciously coy and exaggerated play about the good, the bad, and the besotted. When Sweet Mary Wilson weds the virtuous Edward, the villainous lawyer Cribbs, determined to foreclose on the quaint little cottage Mary shares with her poor widowed mother, sees to it that the devil's beverage—alcohol—is served. Alas and alack! Edward is lured to the city and ensnared in a web of sin and drunkenness! Can Mary and her innocent young child save her inebriated husband from the evils of the bottle? And what of the diabolical Cribbs? Come join us for a fun hilarious evening. Complimentary desserts and hot beverages are served at intermission.

Jon Barden, director; Deborah Taylor, associate director; Steve Borek, producer; Dan Williams, music director (assisted by Michael Stapleton & Phill Sterling)

Durang in Duet
Black Box Players
Katie Lynch, director

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

Durang in Duet is an evening of two short plays, Canker Sores and Other Distractions and For Who the Southern Belle Tolls, written by Christopher Durang. Durang is an American playwright know for works of outrageous and often absurd comedy.

Canker Sores and Other Distractions takes place in a restaurant with an ex-husband and wife meeting for one of the first times after their divorce. A disagreeable waitress causes an obstacle while the two characters develop several afflictions that cause them to remember why they divorced in the first place.

For Who the Southern Belle Tolls is a parody of Tenessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. It takes place on the night that Tom brings home a lady friend for his crippled brother, Lawrence. The play is an absurd and hilarious take on the Wingfield family that Tennesse Williams made famous in The Glass Menagerie.

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Reaching for Marsby
Len Fonte, director

Price: $22 regular, $20 students/seniors
BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Reaching for Marsby, the second staged comedy by former Post-Standard humor columnist Jeff Kramer, follows brash, bumbling American actor Gary Blenkinsopp, who travels to England in an attempt to save his career. Mayhem ensues in his theater world.

The cast features Mark Eischen, Moe Harrington, Kris Rusho, Michael O'Neill, Karis Wiggins, Brendon Cole and Peter Moller.

Tickets, with processing fees added, also be purchased by calling the box office at 315-435-2121 or by going to ticketmaster.com.

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Beautiful Child
Rarely Done Productions
Roy Van Nostrand, director

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

How do we love someone who falls outside our moral code? A couple's marriage is called into question when their son comes home for lunch and asks to stay. The world's no longer safe for their son as his secrets are about to become public. They want to help their son, who was once a beautiful child. They want to love him. But how? They arrive at a decision that's painful and restorative. This show is intended for mature audiences only. By Nicky Silver.

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LaMaMa Series: Poor Baby Bree: I Am Going to Run Away
Redhouse

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

The piece is written and directed by Bree Benton with music by Franklin Bruno. The story is built around Benton's portrayal of Poor Baby Bree, an archetypal waif, who weaves a tragicomic narrative of innocence and loss around seventeen obscure vaudeville and parlor songs dating from the 1890s through the 1930s.

Bree Benton (creator) has been performing as Poor Baby Bree since 2005, after a lifetime of collecting period sheet music and studying vaudeville and its performers. Her first one-woman show as Poor Baby Bree, "Weary River," earned awards from Time Out New York and BackStage. Her following show, "I Am Going to Run Away," was presented at The Club at La MaMa E.T.C. in 2010, and will return in Spring 2012.

Franklin Bruno (pianist/musical director), in addition to his work with Poor Baby Bree, has released over a dozen albums of original songs since the 1990s, as a solo artist and member of Nothing Painted Blue and (currently) The Human Hearts. He is a frequent collaborator with The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle, both as a multi-instrumentalist on the acclaimed albums Tallahassee and The Sunset Tree, and in the collaborative duo The Extra Lens.

The Lower Depths
Syracuse University Drama Department
Gerardine Clark, director

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

A masterpiece of Russian realism, The Lower Depths was Maxim Gorky's first great play and its premiere production in 1902 helped establish the reputation of the famed Moscow Art Theatre and its influential director Constantine Stanislavsky. In the cave-like basement of a run-down boarding house, a disparate group of bosyák (literally, the barefoot) -- outcasts, petty criminals and day laborers -- negotiate days lived between harsh truth and consoling lies. With little hope or light in their lives, Gorky's finely detailed and psychologically rich characters manage to celebrate what Stanislavsky called the play's spiritual essence: "freedom, whatever happens!"

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Sunday, March 4, 2012

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

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

Looking & Looking: Photos by Amy Elkins and Jen Davis
Light Work Gallery

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

Jen Davis and Amy Elkins create work that focuses on gaze and identity, with Davis looking at herself and Elkins looking at young male athletes. The images in the exhibition explore the perception of how men and women are supposed to appear in society -- men should be strong and confident, women should be beautiful -- and the crafting of a self-image.

Jen Davis creates self-portraits that deal with issues surrounding beauty, identity, and body image of women, and challenges the perceptions and stereotypes of how women should look in their physical appearances. Amy Elkins depicts the more aggressive, competitive, and violent aspects of male identity in her series Elegant Violence, which captures portraits of young Ivy League rugby athletes moments after their game. Elkins' images explore the balance between athleticism, modes of violence or aggression, and varying degrees of vulnerability within a sport where brutal body contact is fundamental.

Both artists focus on the construction of identity -- the players are astutely aware of how they are presenting themselves while Davis draws attention to her own self-image in a more emotional way. Shown together, the works of Davis and Elkins urge the viewer to consider expectations and perceptions (both societal and individual) of identity.

Envisionary
Szozda Gallery

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

Well established artist Phil Parsons and relatively new talent Emily Elizabeth display their painterly visions of atmospheric and landscape horizons surrounding Central New York. "Envisionary," the show's title, was coined perhaps to sharpen the concept of changing environs, elements commonplace every day that some artists foresee in greater depths than what most people perceive. In Elizabeth's case, it's her fascination with the universe that compels her to paint beyond shape and form to focus on color and atmosphere, while Parsons chooses to capture memorable landscapes that he himself alters with color and invented skies, reflecting his own feelings.

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Emilio Sanchez: No Way Home--Images of the Caribbean and New York City
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"No Way Home" features a selection of 24 paintings, watercolors, drawings and prints drawn from the recently acquired collection of work by Cuban-American artist Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999). Best known for his brightly colored, strongly shadowed images of Caribbean and New York City architecture, this exhibition reveals the artist's ongoing interest in repetitive patterns. The show highlights a recent gift to the University Art Collection from the Emilio Sanchez Foundation of over 250 paintings, drawings and prints.

Pressing Print: Contemporary Prints and Process from Universal Limited Art Editions
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Pressing Print: Contemporary Prints and Process from Universal Limited Art Editions" chronicles the recent decade of artwork published by one of the most renowned American printmaking workshops. The exhibition of 60 works illustrates the impact that artists like Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Helen Frankenthaler and Kiki Smith have had on contemporary art, evident through the work of artists Jason Middelbrook, Amy Cutler and Jane Hammond. The show also illustrates how emerging artists recently selected to work with ULAE has influenced the current trend, in both process and concept.

Weekend and evening visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces are not available, the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

John Knecht: Fragments from the Wheels of Ezekiel
Everson Museum of Art

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

John Knecht is the featured artist for the Urban Video Project in January and February. In conjunction with the exhibition of "Deluge and Anima" on the Everson's north façade, a series of Knecht's animations, called "Fragments from the Wheels of Ezekiel," will be on view inside the museum. The Fragments, individual animations displayed on monitors, provide a glimpse into the artist's brilliant imagination, where fantasy collides with vivid colors and quirky sounds.

From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 adults, $8 students/seniors, $30 family pack (2 adults, 4 children))
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland" is the first exhibition to examine the American artist's work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Long celebrated as an iconic American artist due to his important early work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight, Henri's paintings have received less attention on their own. Most projects explored his career as it related to his role as a member of The Eight or in a broadly retrospective manner. Few projects focused on his landscapes, drawings, or foreign portraits.

Henri's Irish portraits constitute his largest focused body of work, and often depict the same sitters year after year. These paintings offer a unique and fascinating window onto the genre about which Henri felt most strongly--portraiture--and also chart his experiments with paint handling and color theories over time. He wrote that the time spent in Ireland was extremely valuable to him (it was the only other place besides New York where he purchased a residence), for only there was he able to focus on his painting without the distractions of life in New York. It is not surprising, then, that the periods Henri spent in Ireland were among his most prolific, and the paintings produced there among his most accomplished. Just before his death, Henri composed a list of his most important paintings; many of the works on this list were his Irish subjects. Forty-one paintings of Irish people and landscapes will be on view in the upcoming exhibition.

VPA Faculty Show Part II
XL Projects

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

Part two of an exhibition of work by faculty in S.U.'s College of Visual and Performing Arts.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours or e-mail Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com.

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Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

A research-based curatorial examination by Roslyn Esperon and Courtney Rile, featuring the art of Michael Barletta, Caol Flaitz, Carla Goldberg, Novado Cappuccilli, Jason Varone, Fred Wellner, Laura Wellner, and Leah Wolff

Being Impossible: Works by Deborah Zlotsky
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibition of drawings and paintings by Deborah Zlotsky. In this series, the artist manipulates powdered graphite on sheets of mylar, searching for signs of life in the smears and conjuring up blurred boundaries between documenting nature and inventing nature. Zlotsky is represented by Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in New York and presented a solo exhibition in October 2011. She has been the recipient of numerous residencies, including a residency fellowship at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY, this past summer. She earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University and a master's degree in painting and drawing from the University of Connecticut.

For more information, call 315-445-4153.

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

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

William Wegman: Flo Flow (2011)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The video "Flo Flow" is William Wegman's latest in a long line of human-canid collaborations. It was while he was in Long Beach in the 1970s that Wegman got his dog, Man Ray, with whom he began a fruitful collaboration of many years. Man Ray, known in the art world and beyond for his endearing deadpan presence, became a central figure in Wegman's photographs and videotapes. Ever since, Weimaraner-actors have peopled Wegman's uncanny imaginative universe, a reflection on both the human-ness of "animals" and the strangeness of humans.

William Wegman lives in New York and Maine where he continues to make videos, to take photographs and to make drawings and paintings.

Moyuba Jazz
Arts Alive in Liverpool

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

Live! At The Everson: A Wrinkle in Time With Rothko
Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Lauren Dunseath, cello; Marc Giosi, piano

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

Beethoven Cello Sonata, op. 69, plus works by De Falla, Aleksandra Vrebalov, and a world premiere by Syracusan David Byrne.

Play the Tuneful Oboe: Works for Chorus and Oboe
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble
Robert Cowles, conductor

Holy Cross Church
4112 E. Genesee St., Dewitt

Cantata S 22 by J.S. Bach with chamber orchestra; the premier of Michael Dellaira's Nobody, a choral/oboe work using four interwoven texts by Emily Dickinson, featuring Anna Petersen Stearns, oboe; and other works.

Junior Saxophone Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring David Carpenter

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

The program includes a varied selection of pieces including works by Von Koch, Desenclos, and more.

The concert will also feature Sabine Krantz accompanying on piano.

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage, with parking for disabled patrons available in the Q1 lot; patrons should mention that they are attending the recital.

The Lower Depths
Syracuse University Drama Department
Gerardine Clark, director

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

A masterpiece of Russian realism, The Lower Depths was Maxim Gorky's first great play and its premiere production in 1902 helped establish the reputation of the famed Moscow Art Theatre and its influential director Constantine Stanislavsky. In the cave-like basement of a run-down boarding house, a disparate group of bosyák (literally, the barefoot) -- outcasts, petty criminals and day laborers -- negotiate days lived between harsh truth and consoling lies. With little hope or light in their lives, Gorky's finely detailed and psychologically rich characters manage to celebrate what Stanislavsky called the play's spiritual essence: "freedom, whatever happens!"

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Reaching for Marsby
Len Fonte, director

Price: $22 regular, $20 students/seniors
BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Reaching for Marsby, the second staged comedy by former Post-Standard humor columnist Jeff Kramer, follows brash, bumbling American actor Gary Blenkinsopp, who travels to England in an attempt to save his career. Mayhem ensues in his theater world.

The cast features Mark Eischen, Moe Harrington, Kris Rusho, Michael O'Neill, Karis Wiggins, Brendon Cole and Peter Moller.

Tickets, with processing fees added, also be purchased by calling the box office at 315-435-2121 or by going to ticketmaster.com.

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Monday, March 5, 2012

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

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

Being Impossible: Works by Deborah Zlotsky
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibition of drawings and paintings by Deborah Zlotsky. In this series, the artist manipulates powdered graphite on sheets of mylar, searching for signs of life in the smears and conjuring up blurred boundaries between documenting nature and inventing nature. Zlotsky is represented by Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in New York and presented a solo exhibition in October 2011. She has been the recipient of numerous residencies, including a residency fellowship at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY, this past summer. She earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University and a master's degree in painting and drawing from the University of Connecticut.

For more information, call 315-445-4153.

Interpreting Nature
Baltimore Woods Art Gallery

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

A collection of work by Sharon Bottle Souva, fabric handworks; Wesley Weiss, ceramics; and Jill Newton, watercolors, who work in three distinct media but are united by their shared reference to the natural world.

Gallery Exhibit: The Narrative Tradition in the 21st Century: The Art of Randy Elliott and Richard Williams
Onondaga Community College

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

About Richard Williams:
As a self-taught illustrator I was able to sidestep the many academic pitfalls that plague contemporary artists, such as the belief that drawing skills are not important. My work is steeped in the tradition of craftsmanship and the importance of the narrative. Art in my opinion serves a social function, which can encompass selling a product to the public or making critical commentary on society and culture, and anything in between. To accomplish this, the artist needs to communicate in a simple, clear and powerful way. To do this one needs to have a firm grasp of the basic skills of draftsmanship, color, painting technique and storytelling.

About Randy Elliott:
Randy Elliott began his professional art career in 1988, inking the Dungeons & Dragons, Dragonlance comic book for DC Comics. That job began a career that continues until the present. Over the course of the last twenty-odd years, Randy has inked and/or penciled comic books for DC, Archie, Marvel, Dark Horse, Valiant and a number of smaller publishers. He has also painted images for clients like, Wizards of the Coast, Alderac Entertainment Group, Battlefront Miniatures, Hasbro and others.

Contain/Constrain: Works by Sam Horowitz
Point of Contact Gallery

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

In today's virtual era, when we can communicate at light speed, inhabit cyber realities, and continually discard the "old" in search for "upgrades", one might expect that technology innovation makes us less burdened, less constrained by time and space. By the same token, so many of us are living rushed unthinking lives, desensitized and isolated from anything real. Are we constrained by our own innovations? We work, live and play inside frames, according to Horowitz, and those frames are mobile or immobile, physical, mental or metaphorical.

In this exhibition, the intrusion of familiar objects with uncharacteristic contents invites the viewer to reconsider the forms, functions and limitations of recognizable, re-purposed relics, and pokes fun at our decreasing flexibility, our increasing demands, and the collective loss of craft, localized-innovation and repair. "The trunks, once utilitarian objects used to carry clothing and other personal items, are now filled for the sake of filling. The cardboard, created initially to contain other entities, functions as contents. Though each framing device no longer holds the contents they were created to contain, they contain nonetheless; it is the humor and irony of this relationship that I strive to illustrate thorough my work."

To create this installation, Horowitz began by collecting trunks, cases and boxes. Though most bore a patina of age, use and neglect, he cleaned, fixed, and saved each piece. Horowitz is able to manipulate cardboard to create the designs and patterns he finds within the lines and corrugation so readily offered. "I have drawn each piece through the gauntlet intentionally, irrationally or purely by necessity," states Horowitz. "Thinking over my work, and planning new directions strays into theory, but in practice, I work, live, and act in this moment."

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

FOR_PLAY
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Featuring James and Hayes Slade

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

An exhibition of projects by Slade Architecture of New York City designed for or including an element of play.

Looking & Looking: Photos by Amy Elkins and Jen Davis
Light Work Gallery

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

Jen Davis and Amy Elkins create work that focuses on gaze and identity, with Davis looking at herself and Elkins looking at young male athletes. The images in the exhibition explore the perception of how men and women are supposed to appear in society -- men should be strong and confident, women should be beautiful -- and the crafting of a self-image.

Jen Davis creates self-portraits that deal with issues surrounding beauty, identity, and body image of women, and challenges the perceptions and stereotypes of how women should look in their physical appearances. Amy Elkins depicts the more aggressive, competitive, and violent aspects of male identity in her series Elegant Violence, which captures portraits of young Ivy League rugby athletes moments after their game. Elkins' images explore the balance between athleticism, modes of violence or aggression, and varying degrees of vulnerability within a sport where brutal body contact is fundamental.

Both artists focus on the construction of identity -- the players are astutely aware of how they are presenting themselves while Davis draws attention to her own self-image in a more emotional way. Shown together, the works of Davis and Elkins urge the viewer to consider expectations and perceptions (both societal and individual) of identity.

Design and Aging
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Design and Aging," an exhibition of student design projects focused on solutions to problems associated with aging, features work by students in industrial and interaction design, interior design and advertising design in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. It includes a project that explores how effective design could assist the elderly population of Hong Kong, as well as a series of posters that illustrate potential kiosks that could be targeted to mall walkers at Shoppingtown Mall in DeWitt.

The Design Gallery is located on the first floor of The Warehouse. Patrons should enter via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on W. Fayette St. or the first-floor door on W. Washington St.

For more information, contact Bradley Hudson at bjhudson@syr.edu.

The Photographer as Child: Memories of Guatemala
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Born in Guatemala, award-winning photographer Efren Lopez is a student in the Military Photojournalism Program at Syracuse University. He is also an aerial photographer for the U.S. Air Force and the first reservist to be selected to attend Newhouse's Military Photojournalism Program. He now lives in Arizona.

The exhibit features images Lopez captured on a return trip to Guatemala in 2009. "My life began in a bamboo hut at the side of a road in a tiny town named Petaca, Guatemala, in 1966," Lopez writes. "It's a town so small that it is next to impossible to find on most maps of Guatemala, much less Central America."

Lopez has documented real-world situations and the military around the globe and has captured stunning images in Arizona and Guatemala. His work has been featured in various publications, including the book Arizona 24/7, and has been awarded many distinctions, including first place in the Professional Photography category at the 2008 Arizona State Fair, an honorable mention in the pictorial category in the 2009 Military Photographer of the Year competition, and first place in the 2011 Multimedia Team 19th Annual Department of Defense Worldwide Military Photography Workshop.

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

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

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

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

Being Impossible: Works by Deborah Zlotsky
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibition of drawings and paintings by Deborah Zlotsky. In this series, the artist manipulates powdered graphite on sheets of mylar, searching for signs of life in the smears and conjuring up blurred boundaries between documenting nature and inventing nature. Zlotsky is represented by Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in New York and presented a solo exhibition in October 2011. She has been the recipient of numerous residencies, including a residency fellowship at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY, this past summer. She earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University and a master's degree in painting and drawing from the University of Connecticut.

For more information, call 315-445-4153.

Interpreting Nature
Baltimore Woods Art Gallery

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

A collection of work by Sharon Bottle Souva, fabric handworks; Wesley Weiss, ceramics; and Jill Newton, watercolors, who work in three distinct media but are united by their shared reference to the natural world.

Gallery Exhibit: The Narrative Tradition in the 21st Century: The Art of Randy Elliott and Richard Williams
Onondaga Community College

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

About Richard Williams:
As a self-taught illustrator I was able to sidestep the many academic pitfalls that plague contemporary artists, such as the belief that drawing skills are not important. My work is steeped in the tradition of craftsmanship and the importance of the narrative. Art in my opinion serves a social function, which can encompass selling a product to the public or making critical commentary on society and culture, and anything in between. To accomplish this, the artist needs to communicate in a simple, clear and powerful way. To do this one needs to have a firm grasp of the basic skills of draftsmanship, color, painting technique and storytelling.

About Randy Elliott:
Randy Elliott began his professional art career in 1988, inking the Dungeons & Dragons, Dragonlance comic book for DC Comics. That job began a career that continues until the present. Over the course of the last twenty-odd years, Randy has inked and/or penciled comic books for DC, Archie, Marvel, Dark Horse, Valiant and a number of smaller publishers. He has also painted images for clients like, Wizards of the Coast, Alderac Entertainment Group, Battlefront Miniatures, Hasbro and others.

"Images of Upstate New York" and "Juxtaposed Through Wonderland"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

"Images of Upstate New York" features work by Morgan Goodwin and Kate Walseman
"Juxtaposed Through Wonderland" features recent work by KayCie Danniel

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

FOR_PLAY
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Featuring James and Hayes Slade

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

An exhibition of projects by Slade Architecture of New York City designed for or including an element of play.

Creatures Small and Great
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Dana Blythe Stenson (metalsmith jewelry), Candace Rhea (ceramic and mixed media), Alan Hart (acrylic on board), and Diane Menzies (oil paintings) interpret insects and small animals.

Looking & Looking: Photos by Amy Elkins and Jen Davis
Light Work Gallery

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

Jen Davis and Amy Elkins create work that focuses on gaze and identity, with Davis looking at herself and Elkins looking at young male athletes. The images in the exhibition explore the perception of how men and women are supposed to appear in society -- men should be strong and confident, women should be beautiful -- and the crafting of a self-image.

Jen Davis creates self-portraits that deal with issues surrounding beauty, identity, and body image of women, and challenges the perceptions and stereotypes of how women should look in their physical appearances. Amy Elkins depicts the more aggressive, competitive, and violent aspects of male identity in her series Elegant Violence, which captures portraits of young Ivy League rugby athletes moments after their game. Elkins' images explore the balance between athleticism, modes of violence or aggression, and varying degrees of vulnerability within a sport where brutal body contact is fundamental.

Both artists focus on the construction of identity -- the players are astutely aware of how they are presenting themselves while Davis draws attention to her own self-image in a more emotional way. Shown together, the works of Davis and Elkins urge the viewer to consider expectations and perceptions (both societal and individual) of identity.

Design and Aging
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Design and Aging," an exhibition of student design projects focused on solutions to problems associated with aging, features work by students in industrial and interaction design, interior design and advertising design in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. It includes a project that explores how effective design could assist the elderly population of Hong Kong, as well as a series of posters that illustrate potential kiosks that could be targeted to mall walkers at Shoppingtown Mall in DeWitt.

The Design Gallery is located on the first floor of The Warehouse. Patrons should enter via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on W. Fayette St. or the first-floor door on W. Washington St.

For more information, contact Bradley Hudson at bjhudson@syr.edu.

Pressing Print: Contemporary Prints and Process from Universal Limited Art Editions
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Pressing Print: Contemporary Prints and Process from Universal Limited Art Editions" chronicles the recent decade of artwork published by one of the most renowned American printmaking workshops. The exhibition of 60 works illustrates the impact that artists like Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Helen Frankenthaler and Kiki Smith have had on contemporary art, evident through the work of artists Jason Middelbrook, Amy Cutler and Jane Hammond. The show also illustrates how emerging artists recently selected to work with ULAE has influenced the current trend, in both process and concept.

Weekend and evening visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces are not available, the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Emilio Sanchez: No Way Home--Images of the Caribbean and New York City
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"No Way Home" features a selection of 24 paintings, watercolors, drawings and prints drawn from the recently acquired collection of work by Cuban-American artist Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999). Best known for his brightly colored, strongly shadowed images of Caribbean and New York City architecture, this exhibition reveals the artist's ongoing interest in repetitive patterns. The show highlights a recent gift to the University Art Collection from the Emilio Sanchez Foundation of over 250 paintings, drawings and prints.

From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 adults, $8 students/seniors, $30 family pack (2 adults, 4 children))
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland" is the first exhibition to examine the American artist's work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Long celebrated as an iconic American artist due to his important early work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight, Henri's paintings have received less attention on their own. Most projects explored his career as it related to his role as a member of The Eight or in a broadly retrospective manner. Few projects focused on his landscapes, drawings, or foreign portraits.

Henri's Irish portraits constitute his largest focused body of work, and often depict the same sitters year after year. These paintings offer a unique and fascinating window onto the genre about which Henri felt most strongly--portraiture--and also chart his experiments with paint handling and color theories over time. He wrote that the time spent in Ireland was extremely valuable to him (it was the only other place besides New York where he purchased a residence), for only there was he able to focus on his painting without the distractions of life in New York. It is not surprising, then, that the periods Henri spent in Ireland were among his most prolific, and the paintings produced there among his most accomplished. Just before his death, Henri composed a list of his most important paintings; many of the works on this list were his Irish subjects. Forty-one paintings of Irish people and landscapes will be on view in the upcoming exhibition.

The Photographer as Child: Memories of Guatemala
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Born in Guatemala, award-winning photographer Efren Lopez is a student in the Military Photojournalism Program at Syracuse University. He is also an aerial photographer for the U.S. Air Force and the first reservist to be selected to attend Newhouse's Military Photojournalism Program. He now lives in Arizona.

The exhibit features images Lopez captured on a return trip to Guatemala in 2009. "My life began in a bamboo hut at the side of a road in a tiny town named Petaca, Guatemala, in 1966," Lopez writes. "It's a town so small that it is next to impossible to find on most maps of Guatemala, much less Central America."

Lopez has documented real-world situations and the military around the globe and has captured stunning images in Arizona and Guatemala. His work has been featured in various publications, including the book Arizona 24/7, and has been awarded many distinctions, including first place in the Professional Photography category at the 2008 Arizona State Fair, an honorable mention in the pictorial category in the 2009 Military Photographer of the Year competition, and first place in the 2011 Multimedia Team 19th Annual Department of Defense Worldwide Military Photography Workshop.

Contain/Constrain: Works by Sam Horowitz
Point of Contact Gallery

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

In today's virtual era, when we can communicate at light speed, inhabit cyber realities, and continually discard the "old" in search for "upgrades", one might expect that technology innovation makes us less burdened, less constrained by time and space. By the same token, so many of us are living rushed unthinking lives, desensitized and isolated from anything real. Are we constrained by our own innovations? We work, live and play inside frames, according to Horowitz, and those frames are mobile or immobile, physical, mental or metaphorical.

In this exhibition, the intrusion of familiar objects with uncharacteristic contents invites the viewer to reconsider the forms, functions and limitations of recognizable, re-purposed relics, and pokes fun at our decreasing flexibility, our increasing demands, and the collective loss of craft, localized-innovation and repair. "The trunks, once utilitarian objects used to carry clothing and other personal items, are now filled for the sake of filling. The cardboard, created initially to contain other entities, functions as contents. Though each framing device no longer holds the contents they were created to contain, they contain nonetheless; it is the humor and irony of this relationship that I strive to illustrate thorough my work."

To create this installation, Horowitz began by collecting trunks, cases and boxes. Though most bore a patina of age, use and neglect, he cleaned, fixed, and saved each piece. Horowitz is able to manipulate cardboard to create the designs and patterns he finds within the lines and corrugation so readily offered. "I have drawn each piece through the gauntlet intentionally, irrationally or purely by necessity," states Horowitz. "Thinking over my work, and planning new directions strays into theory, but in practice, I work, live, and act in this moment."

Noriko Ambe: Inner Water
The Warehouse Gallery

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

In her first US museum solo show, New York City-based Japanese artist Noriko Ambe will create a new site-specific installation in the main gallery reflecting the tragic 2011 events in Japan through the use of video projections and her signature large-scale paper cutouts that evoke waves.

Nature plays an important role in Ambe's work, and it points to larger issues, such as the natural forces determining our global landscape, and the relationship between nature and humans throughout time. A recipient of prestigious awards such as the AICA Award and Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Ambe's work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Arts and Design and the Japan Society in New York and the Kyoto University of Art and Design in Kyoto, Japan. Her work is also in the collection of the Whitney Museum of Art.

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Sick at Home: Works of Tonja Torgerson
Echo

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

Artist Statement: Notions of privacy and disclosure are at the core of my work. My portraits and figures deal with the reality of illness while balancing a thin line between expression and discretion. They explore the internal and external factors that compose one’s identity. While these topics could be divisive, the use of color, humor, and childish aesthetic keeps my work welcoming. Vomit, blood and bile appear alongside pinks, paisley and sweet poses. I am interested in this collision of attraction and disgust, and how it creates a difficult beauty and a pleasant anxiety. My work presents a personal side of an ever-increasingly political issue through a girlish lens of soft aesthetics and sad whimsy.

Tonja is currently pursuing an MFA in printmaking at Syracuse University.

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

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

"What If...?" Film Series: Carved from the Heart
Gifford Foundation

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

By Ellen Frankenstein and Louise Brady.

One man loses his son to a cocaine overdose. Grieving, Stan Marsden, a Tsimpsean wood carver decides to create a totem pole in his son's memory and invites the town of Craig, Alaska to help. Before he is done, the pole becomes a communal project, bringing people of diverse backgrounds and ages together. Carved from the Heart intertwines the process of carving and erecting the Healing Heart totem pole with the participants' stories of personal loss, grief, substance abuse, suicide and violence. This powerful film explores questions of death and dying, family relationships and parenting, domestic violence, and the impact of the war in Vietnam on veterans and their families. It also acknowledges the intergenerational grief growing out of the rapid changes in lifestyle, and the interruptions to the passing on of tradition and knowledge within Alaska Native and American Indian communities like Craig. But, most importantly, Carved from the Heart demonstrates the enormous power of mutual support, culture, art, and ceremony in enabling a community to face tragedy, provide support to its members, and find a path to healing.

Unsung Heroes Film Series: Man on Wire
Redhouse

Price: $8 regular, $5 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

On August 7th, 1974 a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out onto a wire illegally rigged between New York's twin towers. After nearly an hour dancing on the wire, he was arrested, taken for psychological evaluation, and brought to jail before he was finally released.

Cornel West
Student African American Society

Price: Free
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The world-renowned lecturer, author, theologist and civil rights activist, Cornel West has proven to be a consistently noteworthy figure because of his interesting views and outspoken insights in regard to race, class and gender relations in America, as well as abroad. During his lecture on campus, he will aim to answer the question, "What is the new youth movement?"

West graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in three years and obtained a master's degree and Ph.D. in philosophy at Princeton University. He has taught at Union Theological Seminary, Yale, Harvard, and the University of Paris.

An esteemed author, West has written 19 books. He is best known for his classic Race Matters (Beacon Press, 2001), Democracy Matters (Penguin, 2005) and his new memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud (Smiley Books, 2010). West is a frequent guest commentator on "Real Time with Bill Maher," "The Colbert Report," CNN and C-SPAN, among other radio and television programs. He has a passion to communicate to a vast variety of publics in order to keep alive the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.--a legacy of telling the truth and bearing witness to love and justice.

On Autobiography and Fiction Writing
University Lectures
Featuring Jonathan Franzen

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

When The Corrections was published in the fall of 2001, Jonathan Franzen was probably better known for his nonfiction than for the two novels he had already published. In an essay he wrote for Harper's in 1996, Franzen lamented the declining cultural authority of the American novel and described his personal search for reasons to persist as a fiction writer. Five years later, The Corrections became an international bestseller and won Franzen the National Book Award. Franzen's most recent novel, Freedom, was published in 2010.

Pay-What-You-Can Dress Rehearsal: Red
Syracuse Stage
Penny Metropulos, director

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

The 2010 Tony Award-winner for Best Play, Red, by John Logan, is an intense and exciting bio-drama of the famed Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko at the time that he was working on a commission for a series of murals for New York's Four Seasons restaurant. On paper, the play has two characters, Rothko and young assistant. On stage, the paintings themselves become characters adding a stunning visual presence and making palpable the intense physical process of the art. As Rothko and his young protégé prepare paint and canvas and assess and reassess each work, they engage in a combative struggle over the methods and purpose of art that is sharp, funny and mentally invigorating.

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Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Personal Images Art Exhibit
Syracuse Stage

Price: Free
Sutton Pavillion, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Personal Images, a collaborative exhibit by six Hispanic international painters, features original pieces by Angela M. Arrey-Wastavino, Juan A. Cruz, Oscar Garces, Marcela Hanford, Abisay Puentes, and Esperanza Tielbaard.

The art show offers the public an inner vision of an eclectic group of visual artists whose life experiences have influenced their creative style. This exhibit runs in conjunction with RED, Tony Award-winner play by John Logan about the abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko.

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

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

Price Check
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

A research-based curatorial examination by Roslyn Esperon and Courtney Rile, featuring the art of Michael Barletta, Caol Flaitz, Carla Goldberg, Novado Cappuccilli, Jason Varone, Fred Wellner, Laura Wellner, and Leah Wolff

Being Impossible: Works by Deborah Zlotsky
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibition of drawings and paintings by Deborah Zlotsky. In this series, the artist manipulates powdered graphite on sheets of mylar, searching for signs of life in the smears and conjuring up blurred boundaries between documenting nature and inventing nature. Zlotsky is represented by Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in New York and presented a solo exhibition in October 2011. She has been the recipient of numerous residencies, including a residency fellowship at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY, this past summer. She earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University and a master's degree in painting and drawing from the University of Connecticut.

For more information, call 315-445-4153.

Interpreting Nature
Baltimore Woods Art Gallery

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

A collection of work by Sharon Bottle Souva, fabric handworks; Wesley Weiss, ceramics; and Jill Newton, watercolors, who work in three distinct media but are united by their shared reference to the natural world.

Gallery Exhibit: The Narrative Tradition in the 21st Century: The Art of Randy Elliott and Richard Williams
Onondaga Community College

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

There will be an artist reception and talk this morning 11:00 am-12:00 pm.

About Richard Williams:
As a self-taught illustrator I was able to sidestep the many academic pitfalls that plague contemporary artists, such as the belief that drawing skills are not important. My work is steeped in the tradition of craftsmanship and the importance of the narrative. Art in my opinion serves a social function, which can encompass selling a product to the public or making critical commentary on society and culture, and anything in between. To accomplish this, the artist needs to communicate in a simple, clear and powerful way. To do this one needs to have a firm grasp of the basic skills of draftsmanship, color, painting technique and storytelling.

About Randy Elliott:
Randy Elliott began his professional art career in 1988, inking the Dungeons & Dragons, Dragonlance comic book for DC Comics. That job began a career that continues until the present. Over the course of the last twenty-odd years, Randy has inked and/or penciled comic books for DC, Archie, Marvel, Dark Horse, Valiant and a number of smaller publishers. He has also painted images for clients like, Wizards of the Coast, Alderac Entertainment Group, Battlefront Miniatures, Hasbro and others.

Contain/Constrain: Works by Sam Horowitz
Point of Contact Gallery

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

In today's virtual era, when we can communicate at light speed, inhabit cyber realities, and continually discard the "old" in search for "upgrades", one might expect that technology innovation makes us less burdened, less constrained by time and space. By the same token, so many of us are living rushed unthinking lives, desensitized and isolated from anything real. Are we constrained by our own innovations? We work, live and play inside frames, according to Horowitz, and those frames are mobile or immobile, physical, mental or metaphorical.

In this exhibition, the intrusion of familiar objects with uncharacteristic contents invites the viewer to reconsider the forms, functions and limitations of recognizable, re-purposed relics, and pokes fun at our decreasing flexibility, our increasing demands, and the collective loss of craft, localized-innovation and repair. "The trunks, once utilitarian objects used to carry clothing and other personal items, are now filled for the sake of filling. The cardboard, created initially to contain other entities, functions as contents. Though each framing device no longer holds the contents they were created to contain, they contain nonetheless; it is the humor and irony of this relationship that I strive to illustrate thorough my work."

To create this installation, Horowitz began by collecting trunks, cases and boxes. Though most bore a patina of age, use and neglect, he cleaned, fixed, and saved each piece. Horowitz is able to manipulate cardboard to create the designs and patterns he finds within the lines and corrugation so readily offered. "I have drawn each piece through the gauntlet intentionally, irrationally or purely by necessity," states Horowitz. "Thinking over my work, and planning new directions strays into theory, but in practice, I work, live, and act in this moment."

"Images of Upstate New York" and "Juxtaposed Through Wonderland"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

"Images of Upstate New York" features work by Morgan Goodwin and Kate Walseman
"Juxtaposed Through Wonderland" features recent work by KayCie Danniel

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

FOR_PLAY
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Featuring James and Hayes Slade

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

An exhibition of projects by Slade Architecture of New York City designed for or including an element of play.

Creatures Small and Great
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Dana Blythe Stenson (metalsmith jewelry), Candace Rhea (ceramic and mixed media), Alan Hart (acrylic on board), and Diane Menzies (oil paintings) interpret insects and small animals.

Looking & Looking: Photos by Amy Elkins and Jen Davis
Light Work Gallery

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

Jen Davis and Amy Elkins create work that focuses on gaze and identity, with Davis looking at herself and Elkins looking at young male athletes. The images in the exhibition explore the perception of how men and women are supposed to appear in society -- men should be strong and confident, women should be beautiful -- and the crafting of a self-image.

Jen Davis creates self-portraits that deal with issues surrounding beauty, identity, and body image of women, and challenges the perceptions and stereotypes of how women should look in their physical appearances. Amy Elkins depicts the more aggressive, competitive, and violent aspects of male identity in her series Elegant Violence, which captures portraits of young Ivy League rugby athletes moments after their game. Elkins' images explore the balance between athleticism, modes of violence or aggression, and varying degrees of vulnerability within a sport where brutal body contact is fundamental.

Both artists focus on the construction of identity -- the players are astutely aware of how they are presenting themselves while Davis draws attention to her own self-image in a more emotional way. Shown together, the works of Davis and Elkins urge the viewer to consider expectations and perceptions (both societal and individual) of identity.

Design and Aging
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Design and Aging," an exhibition of student design projects focused on solutions to problems associated with aging, features work by students in industrial and interaction design, interior design and advertising design in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. It includes a project that explores how effective design could assist the elderly population of Hong Kong, as well as a series of posters that illustrate potential kiosks that could be targeted to mall walkers at Shoppingtown Mall in DeWitt.

The Design Gallery is located on the first floor of The Warehouse. Patrons should enter via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on W. Fayette St. or the first-floor door on W. Washington St.

For more information, contact Bradley Hudson at bjhudson@syr.edu.

Illusionistic
Szozda Gallery

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

Painter Kyle Mort's realism and painter Robert Glisson's impressionism are both meant to prompt the viewer's stare. Both Mort and Glisson work with beautiful color, achieved differently in their signature techniques. Mort tends toward extreme realism, bordering on trompe l'oeil in which he is capable of creating a spatial illusion. Glisson's impressionistic pieces, like the styles of those artists who inspire him, create an emotional illusion. Mort leans more toward depicting still life. Glisson endeavors to capture landscapes.

Emilio Sanchez: No Way Home--Images of the Caribbean and New York City
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"No Way Home" features a selection of 24 paintings, watercolors, drawings and prints drawn from the recently acquired collection of work by Cuban-American artist Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999). Best known for his brightly colored, strongly shadowed images of Caribbean and New York City architecture, this exhibition reveals the artist's ongoing interest in repetitive patterns. The show highlights a recent gift to the University Art Collection from the Emilio Sanchez Foundation of over 250 paintings, drawings and prints.

Pressing Print: Contemporary Prints and Process from Universal Limited Art Editions
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Pressing Print: Contemporary Prints and Process from Universal Limited Art Editions" chronicles the recent decade of artwork published by one of the most renowned American printmaking workshops. The exhibition of 60 works illustrates the impact that artists like Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Helen Frankenthaler and Kiki Smith have had on contemporary art, evident through the work of artists Jason Middelbrook, Amy Cutler and Jane Hammond. The show also illustrates how emerging artists recently selected to work with ULAE has influenced the current trend, in both process and concept.

Weekend and evening visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces are not available, the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 adults, $8 students/seniors, $30 family pack (2 adults, 4 children))
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland" is the first exhibition to examine the American artist's work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Long celebrated as an iconic American artist due to his important early work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight, Henri's paintings have received less attention on their own. Most projects explored his career as it related to his role as a member of The Eight or in a broadly retrospective manner. Few projects focused on his landscapes, drawings, or foreign portraits.

Henri's Irish portraits constitute his largest focused body of work, and often depict the same sitters year after year. These paintings offer a unique and fascinating window onto the genre about which Henri felt most strongly--portraiture--and also chart his experiments with paint handling and color theories over time. He wrote that the time spent in Ireland was extremely valuable to him (it was the only other place besides New York where he purchased a residence), for only there was he able to focus on his painting without the distractions of life in New York. It is not surprising, then, that the periods Henri spent in Ireland were among his most prolific, and the paintings produced there among his most accomplished. Just before his death, Henri composed a list of his most important paintings; many of the works on this list were his Irish subjects. Forty-one paintings of Irish people and landscapes will be on view in the upcoming exhibition.

The Photographer as Child: Memories of Guatemala
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Born in Guatemala, award-winning photographer Efren Lopez is a student in the Military Photojournalism Program at Syracuse University. He is also an aerial photographer for the U.S. Air Force and the first reservist to be selected to attend Newhouse's Military Photojournalism Program. He now lives in Arizona.

The exhibit features images Lopez captured on a return trip to Guatemala in 2009. "My life began in a bamboo hut at the side of a road in a tiny town named Petaca, Guatemala, in 1966," Lopez writes. "It's a town so small that it is next to impossible to find on most maps of Guatemala, much less Central America."

Lopez has documented real-world situations and the military around the globe and has captured stunning images in Arizona and Guatemala. His work has been featured in various publications, including the book Arizona 24/7, and has been awarded many distinctions, including first place in the Professional Photography category at the 2008 Arizona State Fair, an honorable mention in the pictorial category in the 2009 Military Photographer of the Year competition, and first place in the 2011 Multimedia Team 19th Annual Department of Defense Worldwide Military Photography Workshop.

Noriko Ambe: Inner Water
The Warehouse Gallery

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

In her first US museum solo show, New York City-based Japanese artist Noriko Ambe will create a new site-specific installation in the main gallery reflecting the tragic 2011 events in Japan through the use of video projections and her signature large-scale paper cutouts that evoke waves.

Nature plays an important role in Ambe's work, and it points to larger issues, such as the natural forces determining our global landscape, and the relationship between nature and humans throughout time. A recipient of prestigious awards such as the AICA Award and Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Ambe's work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Arts and Design and the Japan Society in New York and the Kyoto University of Art and Design in Kyoto, Japan. Her work is also in the collection of the Whitney Museum of Art.

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I Like America and America Likes Me
XL Projects

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

Artwork of international graduate students in SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) will be featured in this exhibition. The graduate students will exhibit work in a variety of media.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Sick at Home: Works of Tonja Torgerson
Echo

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

Artist Statement: Notions of privacy and disclosure are at the core of my work. My portraits and figures deal with the reality of illness while balancing a thin line between expression and discretion. They explore the internal and external factors that compose one’s identity. While these topics could be divisive, the use of color, humor, and childish aesthetic keeps my work welcoming. Vomit, blood and bile appear alongside pinks, paisley and sweet poses. I am interested in this collision of attraction and disgust, and how it creates a difficult beauty and a pleasant anxiety. My work presents a personal side of an ever-increasingly political issue through a girlish lens of soft aesthetics and sad whimsy.

Tonja is currently pursuing an MFA in printmaking at Syracuse University.

Men Only: Vernacular Photographs of Male Affection
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibit of works from the collection of William Knodel looks at masculinity, gender and sexuality in our society. William Knodel was a college student in the 1970s in New York City when he purchased his first second-hand snapshot, a group of young men in assorted swimming attire whose style dated them back to the turn of the century, posing before a camp tent marked with a sign, "Men Only." Since then, he's collected vernacular images of male affection -- tintypes, daguerreotypes and photos -- during his travels to the West Coast, Canada, and Europe, scouring second-hand shops, old photo sales and used book stores. His collection now runs into the hundreds, dating from the mid-19th century and featuring couples and socializing groups from every race and social class. "Men Only" is a gift that incarnates the "gay spirit" that his good friend Harry Hay warned us must be kept alive and a history too often dismissed.

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

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

Wednesday Film Series: Sunshine
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Auditorium
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Danny Boyle, 2007, 107 minutes.

Timothy Schmidt, guitar; Selma Moore, flute
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Perennial favorites perform Robert Beaser Mountain Songs and more.

Parking available in the OnCenter Garage: maximum $2.50 with CMM stamped ticket.

New Riders of the Purple Sage, with Waydown Wailers
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

The California E.A.R. Unit
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

The California E.A.R. Unit is a chamber ensemble dedicated to the creation, performance and promotion of the music of our time. The E.A.R. Unit will perform new material, with electronic percussion, video, violin and piano. The ensemble is comprised of performers and composers who began with the goal of developing the first true repertory ensemble for new music in Los Angeles. Core players are Eric Clark on violin, Vicki Ray on piano and Amy Knoles on percussion.

In its 28-year history, the E.A.R. Unit has presented concerts of electro-acoustic and live interactive computer music, music theater, dance and local and world premieres of more than 500 chamber works. The ensemble has earned critical acclaim, garnering awards for its contributions to the field of contemporary American music, including L.A. Weekly's Best Classical Ensemble in 1999 and 2003 and the prestigious Letter of Distinction from the American Music Center in 1999.

The E.A.R. Unit has performed in many main venues, including the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. The ensemble has toured throughout the world and was featured in documentaries for the BBC and Japanese television, American and National Public Radio, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., Danish National Radio and WGBH's "Art of the States." It has recorded for the Nonesuch, New Albion, New World, Tzadik, O.O. Discs, Bridge, Crystal and Cambria labels.

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

Christopher Boucher
Raymond Carver Reading Series

Price: Free
Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Syracuse University alumnus Christopher Boucher will read from his novel How to Keep your Volkswagen Alive.

The reading will be preceded by a question and answer session from 3:45-4:30 p.m. Parking is available in Syracuse University's paid lots. For more information, phone 315-443-2174.

Preview: Red
Syracuse Stage
Penny Metropulos, director

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

The 2010 Tony Award-winner for Best Play, Red, by John Logan, is an intense and exciting bio-drama of the famed Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko at the time that he was working on a commission for a series of murals for New York's Four Seasons restaurant. On paper, the play has two characters, Rothko and young assistant. On stage, the paintings themselves become characters adding a stunning visual presence and making palpable the intense physical process of the art. As Rothko and his young protégé prepare paint and canvas and assess and reassess each work, they engage in a combative struggle over the methods and purpose of art that is sharp, funny and mentally invigorating.

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Thursday, March 8, 2012

Personal Images Art Exhibit
Syracuse Stage

Price: Free
Sutton Pavillion, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Personal Images, a collaborative exhibit by six Hispanic international painters, features original pieces by Angela M. Arrey-Wastavino, Juan A. Cruz, Oscar Garces, Marcela Hanford, Abisay Puentes, and Esperanza Tielbaard.

The art show offers the public an inner vision of an eclectic group of visual artists whose life experiences have influenced their creative style. This exhibit runs in conjunction with RED, Tony Award-winner play by John Logan about the abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko.

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

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

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Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

A research-based curatorial examination by Roslyn Esperon and Courtney Rile, featuring the art of Michael Barletta, Caol Flaitz, Carla Goldberg, Novado Cappuccilli, Jason Varone, Fred Wellner, Laura Wellner, and Leah Wolff

Being Impossible: Works by Deborah Zlotsky
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibition of drawings and paintings by Deborah Zlotsky. In this series, the artist manipulates powdered graphite on sheets of mylar, searching for signs of life in the smears and conjuring up blurred boundaries between documenting nature and inventing nature. Zlotsky is represented by Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in New York and presented a solo exhibition in October 2011. She has been the recipient of numerous residencies, including a residency fellowship at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY, this past summer. She earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University and a master's degree in painting and drawing from the University of Connecticut.

For more information, call 315-445-4153.

Interpreting Nature
Baltimore Woods Art Gallery

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

A collection of work by Sharon Bottle Souva, fabric handworks; Wesley Weiss, ceramics; and Jill Newton, watercolors, who work in three distinct media but are united by their shared reference to the natural world.

Gallery Exhibit: The Narrative Tradition in the 21st Century: The Art of Randy Elliott and Richard Williams
Onondaga Community College

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

About Richard Williams:
As a self-taught illustrator I was able to sidestep the many academic pitfalls that plague contemporary artists, such as the belief that drawing skills are not important. My work is steeped in the tradition of craftsmanship and the importance of the narrative. Art in my opinion serves a social function, which can encompass selling a product to the public or making critical commentary on society and culture, and anything in between. To accomplish this, the artist needs to communicate in a simple, clear and powerful way. To do this one needs to have a firm grasp of the basic skills of draftsmanship, color, painting technique and storytelling.

About Randy Elliott:
Randy Elliott began his professional art career in 1988, inking the Dungeons & Dragons, Dragonlance comic book for DC Comics. That job began a career that continues until the present. Over the course of the last twenty-odd years, Randy has inked and/or penciled comic books for DC, Archie, Marvel, Dark Horse, Valiant and a number of smaller publishers. He has also painted images for clients like, Wizards of the Coast, Alderac Entertainment Group, Battlefront Miniatures, Hasbro and others.

"Images of Upstate New York" and "Juxtaposed Through Wonderland"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

"Images of Upstate New York" features work by Morgan Goodwin and Kate Walseman
"Juxtaposed Through Wonderland" features recent work by KayCie Danniel

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

FOR_PLAY
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Featuring James and Hayes Slade

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

An exhibition of projects by Slade Architecture of New York City designed for or including an element of play.

Creatures Small and Great
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Dana Blythe Stenson (metalsmith jewelry), Candace Rhea (ceramic and mixed media), Alan Hart (acrylic on board), and Diane Menzies (oil paintings) interpret insects and small animals.

Looking & Looking: Photos by Amy Elkins and Jen Davis
Light Work Gallery

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

Jen Davis and Amy Elkins create work that focuses on gaze and identity, with Davis looking at herself and Elkins looking at young male athletes. The images in the exhibition explore the perception of how men and women are supposed to appear in society -- men should be strong and confident, women should be beautiful -- and the crafting of a self-image.

Jen Davis creates self-portraits that deal with issues surrounding beauty, identity, and body image of women, and challenges the perceptions and stereotypes of how women should look in their physical appearances. Amy Elkins depicts the more aggressive, competitive, and violent aspects of male identity in her series Elegant Violence, which captures portraits of young Ivy League rugby athletes moments after their game. Elkins' images explore the balance between athleticism, modes of violence or aggression, and varying degrees of vulnerability within a sport where brutal body contact is fundamental.

Both artists focus on the construction of identity -- the players are astutely aware of how they are presenting themselves while Davis draws attention to her own self-image in a more emotional way. Shown together, the works of Davis and Elkins urge the viewer to consider expectations and perceptions (both societal and individual) of identity.

Design and Aging
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Design and Aging," an exhibition of student design projects focused on solutions to problems associated with aging, features work by students in industrial and interaction design, interior design and advertising design in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. It includes a project that explores how effective design could assist the elderly population of Hong Kong, as well as a series of posters that illustrate potential kiosks that could be targeted to mall walkers at Shoppingtown Mall in DeWitt.

The Design Gallery is located on the first floor of The Warehouse. Patrons should enter via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on W. Fayette St. or the first-floor door on W. Washington St.

For more information, contact Bradley Hudson at bjhudson@syr.edu.