Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Windows Project: Oil is Why
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Native American Tom Huff will present an installation on Leonard Peltier consisting of a mural and sculptural elements that relate to the main gallery's exhibition about Peltier by Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America. Public programming has been organized in conjunction with the Everson Museum of Art and ArtRage Gallery.

Recent Work by Michael Flanagan and Tyrone Johnson-Neuland
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

The exhibit showcases a series of mixed media works.

Visual Trips, No Passport Required
Westcott Community Art Gallery
The Syracuse Photographers Association

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

"Visual Trips, No Passport Required" is a collection of works by members of The Syracuse Photographers Association, and "Partially Abandoned Factory," a solo show within the show, is by the group's organizer and founding member, Mindy Lee Tarry. Color and creativity abounds and many of the framed ink jet prints are for sale, to help raise money for the WCC.

The "Visual Trips, No Passport Required" collection showcases a rich variety of creative viewpoints ranging from stunning landscape prints to ornate and fascinating interior location shots. Viewing this collection will reinforce the fact that there is no shortage of imagination or scenes which inspire members to create wonderful photographic art. The "Partially Abandoned Factory" series narrows the focus with visually engaging interior and exterior studies of a captivating ramshackle former factory. Six of these images are currently featured in COLOR magazine November issue #10.

Off the Wall Sale and Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Darryl Furtkamp: Measure for Measure and Jim Ridlon: Intimate Reflections
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Darryl Furtkamp is a mixed media artist working in the post-modern tradition. His assemblages and paintings and works on paper incorporate painting, drawing, collage and mixed media arranged in hand-crafted frames or appropriated found objects in an altarpiece-like format. Images and material are layered and subtly glazed to disguise some areas while illuminating others.

Jim Ridlon's new assemblages are comprised of multiples that have been woven into single themes. The result is the individual assemblages act like chapters in a book, with each work making a statement that adds to a broader context. In his artist statement, Ridlon explains, "My intent has been to create short puzzling narratives and assemble them into discontinuous aesthetic theater."

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York presents, for the first time in Syracuse, recent and new work by 21 young New York City artists. Included in the exhibition's wide array of media are several installation pieces created specifically for the SUArt Galleries. Co-curated by SU alumnus Eric Gleason, Sales Director at Marlborough Chelsea, and David Prince, Associate Director at the SUArt Galleries, the show illustrates conceptual and aesthetic trends in contemporary art.

Synonymous with "spread the word," Run and Tell That! is a phrase attributed to Antoine Dodson of Huntsville, AL, whose flamboyant July 28, 2010 television interview following the attempted sexual assault on his sister, quickly became an internet sensation. The phrase has since been integrated into contemporary vernacular; a phenomenon that could only happen now, in a time when information is digested and distributed constantly via the internet. The artists in Run and Tell That! take advantage of this wide spectrum of media to develop a conceptual focus that characterizes this younger generation.

Painters Kamrooz Aram, Steven Charles, Inka Essenhigh, Aaron Johnson, Liz Markus, Tom Sanford, Ryan Schneider and Aya Uekawa use personal experience, art history, abstraction, and social commentary to keep the medium fresh and relevant. Sculpture becomes a widely encompassing term as pieces by Robert Lazzarini, Diana Al-Hadid, Will Ryman, and Ethan Greenbaum broaden the definition. In the series of 13 prints entitled Ars Magica, William Powhida continues his astute satirization of the art world by likening its practices to sorcery. In her Mother Goddess series, Turkish photographer Pinar Yolacan examines pre-neolithic deity figures that were the archetype of beauty in her geographic region thousands of years ago.

Site-specific installations include a first-time collaboration between Ethan Greenbaum and Adam Krueger; a dynamic wall-length installation in which a tree violently emerges from a Hudson River School painting by Valerie Hegarty; Virginia Overton's minimal trompe l'oeil construction using only an eight-foot 2 x 4 and two sheets of mirrored plexiglas; Vlatka Horvat's repurposed ceiling fan and aluminum ladder; and individual projects by Wade Kavanagh and Stephen B. Nguyen whose monumental collaborative installation White Stag, 2010 is currently on view at Mass MoCA.

Also in the exhibition will be Rashaad Newsome: Video and Performance, 2005-2010, an intimate retrospective of the artist's multi-media work exploring innovative forms of communication and expression in contemporary African American urban culture. This work was recently featured in the 2010 Whitney Biennial and in Greater New York 2010 at the PS1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, NY.

Read a review!

From the Studio to the Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In collaboration with The Dahesh Museum of Art and the Syracuse University Art Galleries, students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorship course in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies have worked together to present a drawing exhibition that highlights some of the prominent themes and techniques of 19th-century Academic Art. The exhibition will present over 40 drawings on loan from The Dahesh Museum of Art, as well as selected Academic paintings drawn from the Syracuse University Art Collection.

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.

Haudenosaunee: Elements
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The act of creating works of art is embedded in the Haudenosaunee way of life and has been for centuries. This exhibition presents works by contemporary Haudenosaunee artists from the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy—Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga and Tuscarora. The artists range from those with well established careers to new and notable talents. Among those exhibiting are Jay Carrier, Harold Farmer, Katsitsionni Fox and Ed Burnam, Ronni-Leigh Goeman, Stonehorse Goeman, Tom Huff, Frank Buffalo Hyde, Ada Jacques, G. Peter Jemison, Peter B. Jones, Linley Logan, Shelley Niro, Aweñheeyoh Powless, Jolene Rickard, Clint Shenandoah, Leah Shenandoah, Natasha Smoke Santiago, Smiley Summers, Tammy Tarbell-Boehing, and Tracy Thomas.

"Haudenosaunee: Elements" does not attempt to provide a survey of contemporary art—the talented artists working in our region are too numerous to be represented in this exhibition—but rather to introduce viewers to the broad range of media and art forms by which contemporary artists continue to create their own individual visual language while never straying far from their cultural heritage.

Read a review!

Yui Kugimiya: Live Paintings
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based artist Yui Kugimiya presents "live paintings" for the final installment of the 2010 Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series. Kugimiya creates stop-motion animation using expressionistic paintings and actual objects typically found in the home as shown here in her most recent work, Breakfast. This video animation involves the use of paintings in conjunction with a variety of kitchen utensils and vegetables mixed with sound recorded directly from the live action. The artist states, "The animation parallels the psychological space, reveals the thoughts of making, and unfolds the inspiration of the daily-life-mundane."

The video animations are lighthearted and playful with a hint of dark drama. For each frame, a scene is painted on the canvas with fluid, gestural brush strokes loaded with rich color, captured on video and then the scene disappears before one's eyes as the next phase of the narrative unfolds. The exhibition includes new video work as well as a selection of paintings in the creative process so viewers can experience the richness of Kugimiya's paintings alongside her enlivening video works.

Read a review!

Bill Viola Video Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson was the first museum to collect video art, beginning in the early 1970s. Bill Viola, now one of the world's leading video artists, studied at Syracuse University and began his career at the Everson. A selection of historic videos by Bill Viola from the Everson's pioneering video collection will be shown in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court in conjunction with the Urban Video Project (UVP), which will also be featuring Viola this fall.

Jules Olitski: An Inside View
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

One of America's pre-eminent painters, Jules Olitski (1922-2007) is celebrated for his large-format, lyrical abstractions that shimmer with color. Less well-known are his smaller, more intimate prints in a variety of media, which both parallel and depart from the abstract imagery of his paintings.

"An Inside View" includes 40 prints in a variety of media—intaglio, silkscreen, lithograph, and monotype—spanning the artist's career of more than five decades.

Read a review!

Rigo 23: Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024
The Warehouse Gallery

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

San Francisco based artist Rigo 23 is known nationally and internationally for his highly political site-specific work. Intercultural relations and justice issues are often present in his work which includes working with political prisoners, such as Leonard Peltier, who is the subject of this show. The exhibition title refers specifically to Peltier's given name in Lakota (Tate Wikikuwa), to his next hearing in 2024, and to Rigo 23's former project at the De Young Museum in San Francisco (1999). The Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024 will focus on the artwork, life, and status of this Native American whose case has been an international controversy since the 1970s. This exhibition will showcase Peltier through the visual arts (oil paintings) as well as educational components such as talks and a symposium sponsored by the Humanities Center at Syracuse University.

Read a review!

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' 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 Times 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.

Read a review!

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Windows Project: Oil is Why
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Native American Tom Huff will present an installation on Leonard Peltier consisting of a mural and sculptural elements that relate to the main gallery's exhibition about Peltier by Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America. Public programming has been organized in conjunction with the Everson Museum of Art and ArtRage Gallery.

La Colección/The Collection: Exhibit 4
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A special program to commemorate Point of Contact's 35th anniversary and The Point of Contact Gallery's 5th -- a show of the entire permanent collection in five exhibitions starting in September 2010.

Exhibit 4: Works of Jane Hammond, Hung Liu, Luis Felipe Noe, Izhar Patkin, and Ursula Von Rydingsvard.

Recent Work by Michael Flanagan and Tyrone Johnson-Neuland
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

The exhibit showcases a series of mixed media works.

Visual Trips, No Passport Required
Westcott Community Art Gallery
The Syracuse Photographers Association

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

"Visual Trips, No Passport Required" is a collection of works by members of The Syracuse Photographers Association, and "Partially Abandoned Factory," a solo show within the show, is by the group's organizer and founding member, Mindy Lee Tarry. Color and creativity abounds and many of the framed ink jet prints are for sale, to help raise money for the WCC.

The "Visual Trips, No Passport Required" collection showcases a rich variety of creative viewpoints ranging from stunning landscape prints to ornate and fascinating interior location shots. Viewing this collection will reinforce the fact that there is no shortage of imagination or scenes which inspire members to create wonderful photographic art. The "Partially Abandoned Factory" series narrows the focus with visually engaging interior and exterior studies of a captivating ramshackle former factory. Six of these images are currently featured in COLOR magazine November issue #10.

Off the Wall Sale and Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Darryl Furtkamp: Measure for Measure and Jim Ridlon: Intimate Reflections
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Darryl Furtkamp is a mixed media artist working in the post-modern tradition. His assemblages and paintings and works on paper incorporate painting, drawing, collage and mixed media arranged in hand-crafted frames or appropriated found objects in an altarpiece-like format. Images and material are layered and subtly glazed to disguise some areas while illuminating others.

Jim Ridlon's new assemblages are comprised of multiples that have been woven into single themes. The result is the individual assemblages act like chapters in a book, with each work making a statement that adds to a broader context. In his artist statement, Ridlon explains, "My intent has been to create short puzzling narratives and assemble them into discontinuous aesthetic theater."

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This year's version will feature toys from the 1970s. Do you remember playing Pong on Atari, getting your first Luke Skywalker figure, or just wishing to have your own Malibu Barbie? Then you won't want to miss this journey into the decade of Charlie's Angels, Richard Nixon and a gallon of gasoline at fifty cents.

From the Studio to the Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In collaboration with The Dahesh Museum of Art and the Syracuse University Art Galleries, students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorship course in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies have worked together to present a drawing exhibition that highlights some of the prominent themes and techniques of 19th-century Academic Art. The exhibition will present over 40 drawings on loan from The Dahesh Museum of Art, as well as selected Academic paintings drawn from the Syracuse University Art Collection.

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.

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York presents, for the first time in Syracuse, recent and new work by 21 young New York City artists. Included in the exhibition's wide array of media are several installation pieces created specifically for the SUArt Galleries. Co-curated by SU alumnus Eric Gleason, Sales Director at Marlborough Chelsea, and David Prince, Associate Director at the SUArt Galleries, the show illustrates conceptual and aesthetic trends in contemporary art.

Synonymous with "spread the word," Run and Tell That! is a phrase attributed to Antoine Dodson of Huntsville, AL, whose flamboyant July 28, 2010 television interview following the attempted sexual assault on his sister, quickly became an internet sensation. The phrase has since been integrated into contemporary vernacular; a phenomenon that could only happen now, in a time when information is digested and distributed constantly via the internet. The artists in Run and Tell That! take advantage of this wide spectrum of media to develop a conceptual focus that characterizes this younger generation.

Painters Kamrooz Aram, Steven Charles, Inka Essenhigh, Aaron Johnson, Liz Markus, Tom Sanford, Ryan Schneider and Aya Uekawa use personal experience, art history, abstraction, and social commentary to keep the medium fresh and relevant. Sculpture becomes a widely encompassing term as pieces by Robert Lazzarini, Diana Al-Hadid, Will Ryman, and Ethan Greenbaum broaden the definition. In the series of 13 prints entitled Ars Magica, William Powhida continues his astute satirization of the art world by likening its practices to sorcery. In her Mother Goddess series, Turkish photographer Pinar Yolacan examines pre-neolithic deity figures that were the archetype of beauty in her geographic region thousands of years ago.

Site-specific installations include a first-time collaboration between Ethan Greenbaum and Adam Krueger; a dynamic wall-length installation in which a tree violently emerges from a Hudson River School painting by Valerie Hegarty; Virginia Overton's minimal trompe l'oeil construction using only an eight-foot 2 x 4 and two sheets of mirrored plexiglas; Vlatka Horvat's repurposed ceiling fan and aluminum ladder; and individual projects by Wade Kavanagh and Stephen B. Nguyen whose monumental collaborative installation White Stag, 2010 is currently on view at Mass MoCA.

Also in the exhibition will be Rashaad Newsome: Video and Performance, 2005-2010, an intimate retrospective of the artist's multi-media work exploring innovative forms of communication and expression in contemporary African American urban culture. This work was recently featured in the 2010 Whitney Biennial and in Greater New York 2010 at the PS1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, NY.

Read a review!

Yui Kugimiya: Live Paintings
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based artist Yui Kugimiya presents "live paintings" for the final installment of the 2010 Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series. Kugimiya creates stop-motion animation using expressionistic paintings and actual objects typically found in the home as shown here in her most recent work, Breakfast. This video animation involves the use of paintings in conjunction with a variety of kitchen utensils and vegetables mixed with sound recorded directly from the live action. The artist states, "The animation parallels the psychological space, reveals the thoughts of making, and unfolds the inspiration of the daily-life-mundane."

The video animations are lighthearted and playful with a hint of dark drama. For each frame, a scene is painted on the canvas with fluid, gestural brush strokes loaded with rich color, captured on video and then the scene disappears before one's eyes as the next phase of the narrative unfolds. The exhibition includes new video work as well as a selection of paintings in the creative process so viewers can experience the richness of Kugimiya's paintings alongside her enlivening video works.

Read a review!

Haudenosaunee: Elements
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The act of creating works of art is embedded in the Haudenosaunee way of life and has been for centuries. This exhibition presents works by contemporary Haudenosaunee artists from the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy—Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga and Tuscarora. The artists range from those with well established careers to new and notable talents. Among those exhibiting are Jay Carrier, Harold Farmer, Katsitsionni Fox and Ed Burnam, Ronni-Leigh Goeman, Stonehorse Goeman, Tom Huff, Frank Buffalo Hyde, Ada Jacques, G. Peter Jemison, Peter B. Jones, Linley Logan, Shelley Niro, Aweñheeyoh Powless, Jolene Rickard, Clint Shenandoah, Leah Shenandoah, Natasha Smoke Santiago, Smiley Summers, Tammy Tarbell-Boehing, and Tracy Thomas.

"Haudenosaunee: Elements" does not attempt to provide a survey of contemporary art—the talented artists working in our region are too numerous to be represented in this exhibition—but rather to introduce viewers to the broad range of media and art forms by which contemporary artists continue to create their own individual visual language while never straying far from their cultural heritage.

Read a review!

Jules Olitski: An Inside View
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

One of America's pre-eminent painters, Jules Olitski (1922-2007) is celebrated for his large-format, lyrical abstractions that shimmer with color. Less well-known are his smaller, more intimate prints in a variety of media, which both parallel and depart from the abstract imagery of his paintings.

"An Inside View" includes 40 prints in a variety of media—intaglio, silkscreen, lithograph, and monotype—spanning the artist's career of more than five decades.

Read a review!

Bill Viola Video Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson was the first museum to collect video art, beginning in the early 1970s. Bill Viola, now one of the world's leading video artists, studied at Syracuse University and began his career at the Everson. A selection of historic videos by Bill Viola from the Everson's pioneering video collection will be shown in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court in conjunction with the Urban Video Project (UVP), which will also be featuring Viola this fall.

Snow
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Snow" is an exhibition of traditional representations of snow scenes as well as nontraditional and conceptual interpretations. It is curated by Yvonne Buchanan, assistant professor of illustration in the School of Art and Design's Department of Art. The exhibition's theme was inspired by “Bliz-aard Ball Sale,” a 1983 New York City performance piece by artist David Hammons.

For more information, contact Yvonne Buchanan, yebuchan@syr.edu, or phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Rigo 23: Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024
The Warehouse Gallery

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

San Francisco based artist Rigo 23 is known nationally and internationally for his highly political site-specific work. Intercultural relations and justice issues are often present in his work which includes working with political prisoners, such as Leonard Peltier, who is the subject of this show. The exhibition title refers specifically to Peltier's given name in Lakota (Tate Wikikuwa), to his next hearing in 2024, and to Rigo 23's former project at the De Young Museum in San Francisco (1999). The Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024 will focus on the artwork, life, and status of this Native American whose case has been an international controversy since the 1970s. This exhibition will showcase Peltier through the visual arts (oil paintings) as well as educational components such as talks and a symposium sponsored by the Humanities Center at Syracuse University.

Read a review!

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' 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 Times 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.

Read a review!

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Windows Project: Oil is Why
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Native American Tom Huff will present an installation on Leonard Peltier consisting of a mural and sculptural elements that relate to the main gallery's exhibition about Peltier by Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America. Public programming has been organized in conjunction with the Everson Museum of Art and ArtRage Gallery.

Recent Work by Michael Flanagan and Tyrone Johnson-Neuland
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

The exhibit showcases a series of mixed media works.

Opening The Art Store Gallery
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Opening reception, 7:00–8:00 PM.

Showing of works by Tori Knowlton (senior, Chittenango High School) and Brittany Riehlman (SUNY Cortland).

Information: 315-474-1000.

Visual Trips, No Passport Required
Westcott Community Art Gallery
The Syracuse Photographers Association

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

"Visual Trips, No Passport Required" is a collection of works by members of The Syracuse Photographers Association, and "Partially Abandoned Factory," a solo show within the show, is by the group's organizer and founding member, Mindy Lee Tarry. Color and creativity abounds and many of the framed ink jet prints are for sale, to help raise money for the WCC.

The "Visual Trips, No Passport Required" collection showcases a rich variety of creative viewpoints ranging from stunning landscape prints to ornate and fascinating interior location shots. Viewing this collection will reinforce the fact that there is no shortage of imagination or scenes which inspire members to create wonderful photographic art. The "Partially Abandoned Factory" series narrows the focus with visually engaging interior and exterior studies of a captivating ramshackle former factory. Six of these images are currently featured in COLOR magazine November issue #10.

Off the Wall Sale and Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Darryl Furtkamp: Measure for Measure and Jim Ridlon: Intimate Reflections
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Darryl Furtkamp is a mixed media artist working in the post-modern tradition. His assemblages and paintings and works on paper incorporate painting, drawing, collage and mixed media arranged in hand-crafted frames or appropriated found objects in an altarpiece-like format. Images and material are layered and subtly glazed to disguise some areas while illuminating others.

Jim Ridlon's new assemblages are comprised of multiples that have been woven into single themes. The result is the individual assemblages act like chapters in a book, with each work making a statement that adds to a broader context. In his artist statement, Ridlon explains, "My intent has been to create short puzzling narratives and assemble them into discontinuous aesthetic theater."

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This year's version will feature toys from the 1970s. Do you remember playing Pong on Atari, getting your first Luke Skywalker figure, or just wishing to have your own Malibu Barbie? Then you won't want to miss this journey into the decade of Charlie's Angels, Richard Nixon and a gallon of gasoline at fifty cents.

Holiday Group Show
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit.

The exhibition will feature jewelry, ceramics, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include David Church (Pompey), Julie Crosby (Trumansburg), Jen Gandee (Fabius), Laurie Gerace (Fabius), Martha Grover (Helena, MT), Forrest Lesch Middelton (Fairfax, CA), David MacDonald (Syracuse), Shawn O'Connor (Gatlinburg, TN), Sarah Saulson (Syracuse), Lucie Wellner (Pompey), and Errol Willett (Fabius).

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York presents, for the first time in Syracuse, recent and new work by 21 young New York City artists. Included in the exhibition's wide array of media are several installation pieces created specifically for the SUArt Galleries. Co-curated by SU alumnus Eric Gleason, Sales Director at Marlborough Chelsea, and David Prince, Associate Director at the SUArt Galleries, the show illustrates conceptual and aesthetic trends in contemporary art.

Synonymous with "spread the word," Run and Tell That! is a phrase attributed to Antoine Dodson of Huntsville, AL, whose flamboyant July 28, 2010 television interview following the attempted sexual assault on his sister, quickly became an internet sensation. The phrase has since been integrated into contemporary vernacular; a phenomenon that could only happen now, in a time when information is digested and distributed constantly via the internet. The artists in Run and Tell That! take advantage of this wide spectrum of media to develop a conceptual focus that characterizes this younger generation.

Painters Kamrooz Aram, Steven Charles, Inka Essenhigh, Aaron Johnson, Liz Markus, Tom Sanford, Ryan Schneider and Aya Uekawa use personal experience, art history, abstraction, and social commentary to keep the medium fresh and relevant. Sculpture becomes a widely encompassing term as pieces by Robert Lazzarini, Diana Al-Hadid, Will Ryman, and Ethan Greenbaum broaden the definition. In the series of 13 prints entitled Ars Magica, William Powhida continues his astute satirization of the art world by likening its practices to sorcery. In her Mother Goddess series, Turkish photographer Pinar Yolacan examines pre-neolithic deity figures that were the archetype of beauty in her geographic region thousands of years ago.

Site-specific installations include a first-time collaboration between Ethan Greenbaum and Adam Krueger; a dynamic wall-length installation in which a tree violently emerges from a Hudson River School painting by Valerie Hegarty; Virginia Overton's minimal trompe l'oeil construction using only an eight-foot 2 x 4 and two sheets of mirrored plexiglas; Vlatka Horvat's repurposed ceiling fan and aluminum ladder; and individual projects by Wade Kavanagh and Stephen B. Nguyen whose monumental collaborative installation White Stag, 2010 is currently on view at Mass MoCA.

Also in the exhibition will be Rashaad Newsome: Video and Performance, 2005-2010, an intimate retrospective of the artist's multi-media work exploring innovative forms of communication and expression in contemporary African American urban culture. This work was recently featured in the 2010 Whitney Biennial and in Greater New York 2010 at the PS1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, NY.

Read a review!

From the Studio to the Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In collaboration with The Dahesh Museum of Art and the Syracuse University Art Galleries, students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorship course in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies have worked together to present a drawing exhibition that highlights some of the prominent themes and techniques of 19th-century Academic Art. The exhibition will present over 40 drawings on loan from The Dahesh Museum of Art, as well as selected Academic paintings drawn from the Syracuse University Art Collection.

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.

Haudenosaunee: Elements
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The act of creating works of art is embedded in the Haudenosaunee way of life and has been for centuries. This exhibition presents works by contemporary Haudenosaunee artists from the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy—Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga and Tuscarora. The artists range from those with well established careers to new and notable talents. Among those exhibiting are Jay Carrier, Harold Farmer, Katsitsionni Fox and Ed Burnam, Ronni-Leigh Goeman, Stonehorse Goeman, Tom Huff, Frank Buffalo Hyde, Ada Jacques, G. Peter Jemison, Peter B. Jones, Linley Logan, Shelley Niro, Aweñheeyoh Powless, Jolene Rickard, Clint Shenandoah, Leah Shenandoah, Natasha Smoke Santiago, Smiley Summers, Tammy Tarbell-Boehing, and Tracy Thomas.

"Haudenosaunee: Elements" does not attempt to provide a survey of contemporary art—the talented artists working in our region are too numerous to be represented in this exhibition—but rather to introduce viewers to the broad range of media and art forms by which contemporary artists continue to create their own individual visual language while never straying far from their cultural heritage.

Read a review!

Yui Kugimiya: Live Paintings
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based artist Yui Kugimiya presents "live paintings" for the final installment of the 2010 Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series. Kugimiya creates stop-motion animation using expressionistic paintings and actual objects typically found in the home as shown here in her most recent work, Breakfast. This video animation involves the use of paintings in conjunction with a variety of kitchen utensils and vegetables mixed with sound recorded directly from the live action. The artist states, "The animation parallels the psychological space, reveals the thoughts of making, and unfolds the inspiration of the daily-life-mundane."

The video animations are lighthearted and playful with a hint of dark drama. For each frame, a scene is painted on the canvas with fluid, gestural brush strokes loaded with rich color, captured on video and then the scene disappears before one's eyes as the next phase of the narrative unfolds. The exhibition includes new video work as well as a selection of paintings in the creative process so viewers can experience the richness of Kugimiya's paintings alongside her enlivening video works.

Read a review!

Bill Viola Video Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson was the first museum to collect video art, beginning in the early 1970s. Bill Viola, now one of the world's leading video artists, studied at Syracuse University and began his career at the Everson. A selection of historic videos by Bill Viola from the Everson's pioneering video collection will be shown in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court in conjunction with the Urban Video Project (UVP), which will also be featuring Viola this fall.

Jules Olitski: An Inside View
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

One of America's pre-eminent painters, Jules Olitski (1922-2007) is celebrated for his large-format, lyrical abstractions that shimmer with color. Less well-known are his smaller, more intimate prints in a variety of media, which both parallel and depart from the abstract imagery of his paintings.

"An Inside View" includes 40 prints in a variety of media—intaglio, silkscreen, lithograph, and monotype—spanning the artist's career of more than five decades.

Read a review!

Snow
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Snow" is an exhibition of traditional representations of snow scenes as well as nontraditional and conceptual interpretations. It is curated by Yvonne Buchanan, assistant professor of illustration in the School of Art and Design's Department of Art. The exhibition's theme was inspired by “Bliz-aard Ball Sale,” a 1983 New York City performance piece by artist David Hammons.

For more information, contact Yvonne Buchanan, yebuchan@syr.edu, or phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Rigo 23: Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024
The Warehouse Gallery

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

San Francisco based artist Rigo 23 is known nationally and internationally for his highly political site-specific work. Intercultural relations and justice issues are often present in his work which includes working with political prisoners, such as Leonard Peltier, who is the subject of this show. The exhibition title refers specifically to Peltier's given name in Lakota (Tate Wikikuwa), to his next hearing in 2024, and to Rigo 23's former project at the De Young Museum in San Francisco (1999). The Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024 will focus on the artwork, life, and status of this Native American whose case has been an international controversy since the 1970s. This exhibition will showcase Peltier through the visual arts (oil paintings) as well as educational components such as talks and a symposium sponsored by the Humanities Center at Syracuse University.

Read a review!

Jeff Gibson: Asylum and Smoke
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In "Asylum" (06:02 min. loop), Gibson takes a page from each of his two most recent artist's books: Dupe: A Partial Compendium of Everyday Delusions (a dictionary of quasi-clinical, art-world pathologies; sardonic but earnest) and Sarsaparilla to Sorcery (a picture book exploring perceptual ambiguities between allusive abstract photographic images and taxonomic illustrations swiped from old Encyclopedia Britannica). Through a chain of slow, poetic dissolves, the video blends psychologistic text with dreamy, morphic imagery into a weirdly visceral stream of consciousness. Similarly, "Smoke" (02:49 min. loop) combines quack psychological text with abstract photography and pages appropriated from encyclopedia, this time the World Book series. However, whereas "Asylum" is slow and panoramic in range, "Smoke" is faster, shorter, and distinctly gothic in character -- more pointed, and, though humorous, blackly so.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' 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 Times 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.

Read a review!

Hijacked Holiday
Acme Mystery Company

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

Millie the copy girl has packed her favorite portfolio of copies and headed for the North Pole with hopes of marrying the big guy. Things go South fast, however, when she finds she's stepped into a crime scene. Someone has stolen all the Christmas toys right before they were to be packed into Santa's sleigh and now everyone is a suspect. It's going to be one heck of a Christmas Eve figuring out who's been naughty or nice.

13
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $22 adults, $18 students ($20/$15 if purchased before Dec. 15)
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, book by Dan Elish and Robert Horn. Syracuse premiere of the only all-teenage cast ever to hit Broadway! 13 is a new musical about the labels that last a lifetime. When his parents get divorced and he's forced to move from New York to a small town in Indiana, Evan Goldman just wants to make friends and survive the school year. Easier said than done. The star quarterback is threatening to ruin his life and his only friend, Patrice, won't talk to him. An opportunist sees a chance for blackmail and someone else is spreading the nastiest rumors. With an unforgettable rock score from Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown, 13 is a hilarious, high-energy musical for all ages about discovering that cool is where you find it, and sometimes where you least expect it.

Friday, January 7, 2011

Windows Project: Oil is Why
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Native American Tom Huff will present an installation on Leonard Peltier consisting of a mural and sculptural elements that relate to the main gallery's exhibition about Peltier by Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America. Public programming has been organized in conjunction with the Everson Museum of Art and ArtRage Gallery.

La Colección/The Collection: Exhibit 4
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A special program to commemorate Point of Contact's 35th anniversary and The Point of Contact Gallery's 5th -- a show of the entire permanent collection in five exhibitions starting in September 2010.

Exhibit 4: Works of Jane Hammond, Hung Liu, Luis Felipe Noe, Izhar Patkin, and Ursula Von Rydingsvard.

Recent Work by Michael Flanagan and Tyrone Johnson-Neuland
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

The exhibit showcases a series of mixed media works.

The Art Store Gallery
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Showing of works by Tori Knowlton (senior, Chittenango High School) and Brittany Riehlman (SUNY Cortland).

Information: 315-474-1000.

Visual Trips, No Passport Required
Westcott Community Art Gallery
The Syracuse Photographers Association

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

"Visual Trips, No Passport Required" is a collection of works by members of The Syracuse Photographers Association, and "Partially Abandoned Factory," a solo show within the show, is by the group's organizer and founding member, Mindy Lee Tarry. Color and creativity abounds and many of the framed ink jet prints are for sale, to help raise money for the WCC.

The "Visual Trips, No Passport Required" collection showcases a rich variety of creative viewpoints ranging from stunning landscape prints to ornate and fascinating interior location shots. Viewing this collection will reinforce the fact that there is no shortage of imagination or scenes which inspire members to create wonderful photographic art. The "Partially Abandoned Factory" series narrows the focus with visually engaging interior and exterior studies of a captivating ramshackle former factory. Six of these images are currently featured in COLOR magazine November issue #10.

Opening: Figurative Expressions II
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Five artists who approach the figure in creative and unique ways
Scott Estelle: bronze sculpture
John Fitzsimmons: oil painting
Vincent Fitches: oil painting
Stephen Ryan: watercolor painting
Gail Hoffman: bronze and aluminum sculpture

Off the Wall Sale and Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Darryl Furtkamp: Measure for Measure and Jim Ridlon: Intimate Reflections
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Darryl Furtkamp is a mixed media artist working in the post-modern tradition. His assemblages and paintings and works on paper incorporate painting, drawing, collage and mixed media arranged in hand-crafted frames or appropriated found objects in an altarpiece-like format. Images and material are layered and subtly glazed to disguise some areas while illuminating others.

Jim Ridlon's new assemblages are comprised of multiples that have been woven into single themes. The result is the individual assemblages act like chapters in a book, with each work making a statement that adds to a broader context. In his artist statement, Ridlon explains, "My intent has been to create short puzzling narratives and assemble them into discontinuous aesthetic theater."

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This year's version will feature toys from the 1970s. Do you remember playing Pong on Atari, getting your first Luke Skywalker figure, or just wishing to have your own Malibu Barbie? Then you won't want to miss this journey into the decade of Charlie's Angels, Richard Nixon and a gallon of gasoline at fifty cents.

Holiday Group Show
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit.

The exhibition will feature jewelry, ceramics, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include David Church (Pompey), Julie Crosby (Trumansburg), Jen Gandee (Fabius), Laurie Gerace (Fabius), Martha Grover (Helena, MT), Forrest Lesch Middelton (Fairfax, CA), David MacDonald (Syracuse), Shawn O'Connor (Gatlinburg, TN), Sarah Saulson (Syracuse), Lucie Wellner (Pompey), and Errol Willett (Fabius).

From the Studio to the Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In collaboration with The Dahesh Museum of Art and the Syracuse University Art Galleries, students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorship course in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies have worked together to present a drawing exhibition that highlights some of the prominent themes and techniques of 19th-century Academic Art. The exhibition will present over 40 drawings on loan from The Dahesh Museum of Art, as well as selected Academic paintings drawn from the Syracuse University Art Collection.

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.

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York presents, for the first time in Syracuse, recent and new work by 21 young New York City artists. Included in the exhibition's wide array of media are several installation pieces created specifically for the SUArt Galleries. Co-curated by SU alumnus Eric Gleason, Sales Director at Marlborough Chelsea, and David Prince, Associate Director at the SUArt Galleries, the show illustrates conceptual and aesthetic trends in contemporary art.

Synonymous with "spread the word," Run and Tell That! is a phrase attributed to Antoine Dodson of Huntsville, AL, whose flamboyant July 28, 2010 television interview following the attempted sexual assault on his sister, quickly became an internet sensation. The phrase has since been integrated into contemporary vernacular; a phenomenon that could only happen now, in a time when information is digested and distributed constantly via the internet. The artists in Run and Tell That! take advantage of this wide spectrum of media to develop a conceptual focus that characterizes this younger generation.

Painters Kamrooz Aram, Steven Charles, Inka Essenhigh, Aaron Johnson, Liz Markus, Tom Sanford, Ryan Schneider and Aya Uekawa use personal experience, art history, abstraction, and social commentary to keep the medium fresh and relevant. Sculpture becomes a widely encompassing term as pieces by Robert Lazzarini, Diana Al-Hadid, Will Ryman, and Ethan Greenbaum broaden the definition. In the series of 13 prints entitled Ars Magica, William Powhida continues his astute satirization of the art world by likening its practices to sorcery. In her Mother Goddess series, Turkish photographer Pinar Yolacan examines pre-neolithic deity figures that were the archetype of beauty in her geographic region thousands of years ago.

Site-specific installations include a first-time collaboration between Ethan Greenbaum and Adam Krueger; a dynamic wall-length installation in which a tree violently emerges from a Hudson River School painting by Valerie Hegarty; Virginia Overton's minimal trompe l'oeil construction using only an eight-foot 2 x 4 and two sheets of mirrored plexiglas; Vlatka Horvat's repurposed ceiling fan and aluminum ladder; and individual projects by Wade Kavanagh and Stephen B. Nguyen whose monumental collaborative installation White Stag, 2010 is currently on view at Mass MoCA.

Also in the exhibition will be Rashaad Newsome: Video and Performance, 2005-2010, an intimate retrospective of the artist's multi-media work exploring innovative forms of communication and expression in contemporary African American urban culture. This work was recently featured in the 2010 Whitney Biennial and in Greater New York 2010 at the PS1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, NY.

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Yui Kugimiya: Live Paintings
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based artist Yui Kugimiya presents "live paintings" for the final installment of the 2010 Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series. Kugimiya creates stop-motion animation using expressionistic paintings and actual objects typically found in the home as shown here in her most recent work, Breakfast. This video animation involves the use of paintings in conjunction with a variety of kitchen utensils and vegetables mixed with sound recorded directly from the live action. The artist states, "The animation parallels the psychological space, reveals the thoughts of making, and unfolds the inspiration of the daily-life-mundane."

The video animations are lighthearted and playful with a hint of dark drama. For each frame, a scene is painted on the canvas with fluid, gestural brush strokes loaded with rich color, captured on video and then the scene disappears before one's eyes as the next phase of the narrative unfolds. The exhibition includes new video work as well as a selection of paintings in the creative process so viewers can experience the richness of Kugimiya's paintings alongside her enlivening video works.

Read a review!

Haudenosaunee: Elements
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The act of creating works of art is embedded in the Haudenosaunee way of life and has been for centuries. This exhibition presents works by contemporary Haudenosaunee artists from the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy—Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga and Tuscarora. The artists range from those with well established careers to new and notable talents. Among those exhibiting are Jay Carrier, Harold Farmer, Katsitsionni Fox and Ed Burnam, Ronni-Leigh Goeman, Stonehorse Goeman, Tom Huff, Frank Buffalo Hyde, Ada Jacques, G. Peter Jemison, Peter B. Jones, Linley Logan, Shelley Niro, Aweñheeyoh Powless, Jolene Rickard, Clint Shenandoah, Leah Shenandoah, Natasha Smoke Santiago, Smiley Summers, Tammy Tarbell-Boehing, and Tracy Thomas.

"Haudenosaunee: Elements" does not attempt to provide a survey of contemporary art—the talented artists working in our region are too numerous to be represented in this exhibition—but rather to introduce viewers to the broad range of media and art forms by which contemporary artists continue to create their own individual visual language while never straying far from their cultural heritage.

Read a review!

Jules Olitski: An Inside View
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

One of America's pre-eminent painters, Jules Olitski (1922-2007) is celebrated for his large-format, lyrical abstractions that shimmer with color. Less well-known are his smaller, more intimate prints in a variety of media, which both parallel and depart from the abstract imagery of his paintings.

"An Inside View" includes 40 prints in a variety of media—intaglio, silkscreen, lithograph, and monotype—spanning the artist's career of more than five decades.

Read a review!

Bill Viola Video Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson was the first museum to collect video art, beginning in the early 1970s. Bill Viola, now one of the world's leading video artists, studied at Syracuse University and began his career at the Everson. A selection of historic videos by Bill Viola from the Everson's pioneering video collection will be shown in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court in conjunction with the Urban Video Project (UVP), which will also be featuring Viola this fall.

Snow
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Snow" is an exhibition of traditional representations of snow scenes as well as nontraditional and conceptual interpretations. It is curated by Yvonne Buchanan, assistant professor of illustration in the School of Art and Design's Department of Art. The exhibition's theme was inspired by “Bliz-aard Ball Sale,” a 1983 New York City performance piece by artist David Hammons.

For more information, contact Yvonne Buchanan, yebuchan@syr.edu, or phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Rigo 23: Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024
The Warehouse Gallery

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

San Francisco based artist Rigo 23 is known nationally and internationally for his highly political site-specific work. Intercultural relations and justice issues are often present in his work which includes working with political prisoners, such as Leonard Peltier, who is the subject of this show. The exhibition title refers specifically to Peltier's given name in Lakota (Tate Wikikuwa), to his next hearing in 2024, and to Rigo 23's former project at the De Young Museum in San Francisco (1999). The Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024 will focus on the artwork, life, and status of this Native American whose case has been an international controversy since the 1970s. This exhibition will showcase Peltier through the visual arts (oil paintings) as well as educational components such as talks and a symposium sponsored by the Humanities Center at Syracuse University.

Read a review!

Jeff Gibson: Asylum and Smoke
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In "Asylum" (06:02 min. loop), Gibson takes a page from each of his two most recent artist's books: Dupe: A Partial Compendium of Everyday Delusions (a dictionary of quasi-clinical, art-world pathologies; sardonic but earnest) and Sarsaparilla to Sorcery (a picture book exploring perceptual ambiguities between allusive abstract photographic images and taxonomic illustrations swiped from old Encyclopedia Britannica). Through a chain of slow, poetic dissolves, the video blends psychologistic text with dreamy, morphic imagery into a weirdly visceral stream of consciousness. Similarly, "Smoke" (02:49 min. loop) combines quack psychological text with abstract photography and pages appropriated from encyclopedia, this time the World Book series. However, whereas "Asylum" is slow and panoramic in range, "Smoke" is faster, shorter, and distinctly gothic in character -- more pointed, and, though humorous, blackly so.

Red House Live Comedy Improv
Redhouse

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

Red House Arts Center invites you to laugh with us, or at us -- preferably with us -- as our very own improvisational comedy troupe returns. No two shows are the same; each feature different scenes and characters fueled by audience suggestions and response.

The cast this season includes Tim Mahar, Laura Austin, Stephen Peters and Rachelle Clavin, with musical director Emmett Van Slyke, and hosted by Glenn "Gomez" Adams of TK99's "Gomez & Dave Morning Show."

Red House Live was created by Tim Mahar and Laura Austin, who have both trained and performed with Second City, the home of "the world's greatest comedy theatre." You may also recognize Mahar from his performances with "Off the Cuff" in Syracuse and New York, or from his own show "Live Radio". Austin has been seen working in television, film and theatre throughout the U.S. and abroad.

Satan's Closet; with special guests, Dinosaur Society
Salt City Improv Theater

Price: $8 adults, $6 students
Salt City Improv Theatre
Shoppingtown Mall, Sears Wing, Dewitt

This is our first show of 2011, and we're kicking things off with two teams for the price of one! Satan's Closet will mix it up with Dinosaur Society for some hilarious improv mayhem. Plus, we're having our first ever "Pro/Am Improv Jam" where audience members can join cast members onstage and actually try their hand at improv. Biggest news of all: we've lowered our ticket prices!

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' 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 Times 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.

Read a review!

*CANCELLED* Coffee Concert: Schumann, Beethoven, and Strauss
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Julie Albers, cello

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

Johann Strauss, Jr. Die Fledermaus Overture
Schumann Cello Concerto in A minor
Beethoven Leonore Overture No. 3

The Parkington Sisters
Folkus Project

Price: $15 regular, $10 for MMUUS members
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Unconventional, passionate, charismatic, and talented, the astonishing Parkington Sisters are making waves all over the folk and acoustic music community. They have a sound all their own, embodied by vibrant string arrangements combined with tight, interwoven five-part vocal harmonies and gorgeous, blending voices. They have been acclaimed as a best "Under the Radar" group by American Songwriter magazine. Their ambitious music is an eclectic blend of acoustic, alternative, ethnic, classic, and contemporary folk inspired by Stravinsky, Joni Mitchell, the Pixies, Radiohead and Motown. Infused with a rhythmic pulse and a clear classical music connection, its moving melodies that take flight and settle in the soul. Gregarious and enthusiastic performers, the sisters create an aural experience that is both magnetic in its delivery and genuine in its emotional impact.

Classics Series: Schumann, Beethoven, and Strauss
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Julie Albers, cello

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

Johann Strauss, Jr. Die Fledermaus Overture
Schumann Cello Concerto in A minor, op. 129
Beethoven Leonore Overture No. 3, op. 72b
Strauss Der Rosenkavalier Suite, op. 59

Unnecessary Farce
CNY Playhouse
Meagan Pearson, director

Price: Dinner theater: $29 single; $55 couple. Show only: $20 (limited availability)
Fire and Ice Banquet Hall, The Locker Room
528 Hiawatha Blvd., Syracuse

Dinner at 6:45 pm; show at 8:00 pm.

Two Cops. Three Crooks. Eight Doors. Go.

In a cheap motel room, an embezzling mayor is supposed to meet with his female accountant, while in the room next-door, two undercover cops wait to catch the meeting on videotape. But there's some confusion as to who's in which room, who's being videotaped, who's taken the money, who's hired a hit
man, and why the accountant keeps taking off her clothes. A comedy by Paul Slade Smith.

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13
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $22 adults, $18 students ($20/$15 if purchased before Dec. 15)
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, book by Dan Elish and Robert Horn. Syracuse premiere of the only all-teenage cast ever to hit Broadway! 13 is a new musical about the labels that last a lifetime. When his parents get divorced and he's forced to move from New York to a small town in Indiana, Evan Goldman just wants to make friends and survive the school year. Easier said than done. The star quarterback is threatening to ruin his life and his only friend, Patrice, won't talk to him. An opportunist sees a chance for blackmail and someone else is spreading the nastiest rumors. With an unforgettable rock score from Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown, 13 is a hilarious, high-energy musical for all ages about discovering that cool is where you find it, and sometimes where you least expect it.

Danny and the Deep Blue Sea
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Price: $20
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

John Patrick Shanley's two-character drama of emotional combat in a dumpy bar. Adults only.

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Windows Project: Oil is Why
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Native American Tom Huff will present an installation on Leonard Peltier consisting of a mural and sculptural elements that relate to the main gallery's exhibition about Peltier by Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America. Public programming has been organized in conjunction with the Everson Museum of Art and ArtRage Gallery.

Off the Wall Sale and Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Figurative Expressions II
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Five artists who approach the figure in creative and unique ways
Scott Estelle: bronze sculpture
John Fitzsimmons: oil painting
Vincent Fitches: oil painting
Stephen Ryan: watercolor painting
Gail Hoffman: bronze and aluminum sculpture

Haudenosaunee: Elements
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The act of creating works of art is embedded in the Haudenosaunee way of life and has been for centuries. This exhibition presents works by contemporary Haudenosaunee artists from the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy—Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga and Tuscarora. The artists range from those with well established careers to new and notable talents. Among those exhibiting are Jay Carrier, Harold Farmer, Katsitsionni Fox and Ed Burnam, Ronni-Leigh Goeman, Stonehorse Goeman, Tom Huff, Frank Buffalo Hyde, Ada Jacques, G. Peter Jemison, Peter B. Jones, Linley Logan, Shelley Niro, Aweñheeyoh Powless, Jolene Rickard, Clint Shenandoah, Leah Shenandoah, Natasha Smoke Santiago, Smiley Summers, Tammy Tarbell-Boehing, and Tracy Thomas.

"Haudenosaunee: Elements" does not attempt to provide a survey of contemporary art—the talented artists working in our region are too numerous to be represented in this exhibition—but rather to introduce viewers to the broad range of media and art forms by which contemporary artists continue to create their own individual visual language while never straying far from their cultural heritage.

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Yui Kugimiya: Live Paintings
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based artist Yui Kugimiya presents "live paintings" for the final installment of the 2010 Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series. Kugimiya creates stop-motion animation using expressionistic paintings and actual objects typically found in the home as shown here in her most recent work, Breakfast. This video animation involves the use of paintings in conjunction with a variety of kitchen utensils and vegetables mixed with sound recorded directly from the live action. The artist states, "The animation parallels the psychological space, reveals the thoughts of making, and unfolds the inspiration of the daily-life-mundane."

The video animations are lighthearted and playful with a hint of dark drama. For each frame, a scene is painted on the canvas with fluid, gestural brush strokes loaded with rich color, captured on video and then the scene disappears before one's eyes as the next phase of the narrative unfolds. The exhibition includes new video work as well as a selection of paintings in the creative process so viewers can experience the richness of Kugimiya's paintings alongside her enlivening video works.

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Bill Viola Video Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson was the first museum to collect video art, beginning in the early 1970s. Bill Viola, now one of the world's leading video artists, studied at Syracuse University and began his career at the Everson. A selection of historic videos by Bill Viola from the Everson's pioneering video collection will be shown in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court in conjunction with the Urban Video Project (UVP), which will also be featuring Viola this fall.

Jules Olitski: An Inside View
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

One of America's pre-eminent painters, Jules Olitski (1922-2007) is celebrated for his large-format, lyrical abstractions that shimmer with color. Less well-known are his smaller, more intimate prints in a variety of media, which both parallel and depart from the abstract imagery of his paintings.

"An Inside View" includes 40 prints in a variety of media—intaglio, silkscreen, lithograph, and monotype—spanning the artist's career of more than five decades.

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The Art Store Gallery
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Showing of works by Tori Knowlton (senior, Chittenango High School) and Brittany Riehlman (SUNY Cortland).

Information: 315-474-1000.

Holiday Group Show
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit.

The exhibition will feature jewelry, ceramics, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include David Church (Pompey), Julie Crosby (Trumansburg), Jen Gandee (Fabius), Laurie Gerace (Fabius), Martha Grover (Helena, MT), Forrest Lesch Middelton (Fairfax, CA), David MacDonald (Syracuse), Shawn O'Connor (Gatlinburg, TN), Sarah Saulson (Syracuse), Lucie Wellner (Pompey), and Errol Willett (Fabius).

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This year's version will feature toys from the 1970s. Do you remember playing Pong on Atari, getting your first Luke Skywalker figure, or just wishing to have your own Malibu Barbie? Then you won't want to miss this journey into the decade of Charlie's Angels, Richard Nixon and a gallon of gasoline at fifty cents.

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York presents, for the first time in Syracuse, recent and new work by 21 young New York City artists. Included in the exhibition's wide array of media are several installation pieces created specifically for the SUArt Galleries. Co-curated by SU alumnus Eric Gleason, Sales Director at Marlborough Chelsea, and David Prince, Associate Director at the SUArt Galleries, the show illustrates conceptual and aesthetic trends in contemporary art.

Synonymous with "spread the word," Run and Tell That! is a phrase attributed to Antoine Dodson of Huntsville, AL, whose flamboyant July 28, 2010 television interview following the attempted sexual assault on his sister, quickly became an internet sensation. The phrase has since been integrated into contemporary vernacular; a phenomenon that could only happen now, in a time when information is digested and distributed constantly via the internet. The artists in Run and Tell That! take advantage of this wide spectrum of media to develop a conceptual focus that characterizes this younger generation.

Painters Kamrooz Aram, Steven Charles, Inka Essenhigh, Aaron Johnson, Liz Markus, Tom Sanford, Ryan Schneider and Aya Uekawa use personal experience, art history, abstraction, and social commentary to keep the medium fresh and relevant. Sculpture becomes a widely encompassing term as pieces by Robert Lazzarini, Diana Al-Hadid, Will Ryman, and Ethan Greenbaum broaden the definition. In the series of 13 prints entitled Ars Magica, William Powhida continues his astute satirization of the art world by likening its practices to sorcery. In her Mother Goddess series, Turkish photographer Pinar Yolacan examines pre-neolithic deity figures that were the archetype of beauty in her geographic region thousands of years ago.

Site-specific installations include a first-time collaboration between Ethan Greenbaum and Adam Krueger; a dynamic wall-length installation in which a tree violently emerges from a Hudson River School painting by Valerie Hegarty; Virginia Overton's minimal trompe l'oeil construction using only an eight-foot 2 x 4 and two sheets of mirrored plexiglas; Vlatka Horvat's repurposed ceiling fan and aluminum ladder; and individual projects by Wade Kavanagh and Stephen B. Nguyen whose monumental collaborative installation White Stag, 2010 is currently on view at Mass MoCA.

Also in the exhibition will be Rashaad Newsome: Video and Performance, 2005-2010, an intimate retrospective of the artist's multi-media work exploring innovative forms of communication and expression in contemporary African American urban culture. This work was recently featured in the 2010 Whitney Biennial and in Greater New York 2010 at the PS1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, NY.

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From the Studio to the Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In collaboration with The Dahesh Museum of Art and the Syracuse University Art Galleries, students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorship course in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies have worked together to present a drawing exhibition that highlights some of the prominent themes and techniques of 19th-century Academic Art. The exhibition will present over 40 drawings on loan from The Dahesh Museum of Art, as well as selected Academic paintings drawn from the Syracuse University Art Collection.

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.

Darryl Furtkamp: Measure for Measure and Jim Ridlon: Intimate Reflections
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Darryl Furtkamp is a mixed media artist working in the post-modern tradition. His assemblages and paintings and works on paper incorporate painting, drawing, collage and mixed media arranged in hand-crafted frames or appropriated found objects in an altarpiece-like format. Images and material are layered and subtly glazed to disguise some areas while illuminating others.

Jim Ridlon's new assemblages are comprised of multiples that have been woven into single themes. The result is the individual assemblages act like chapters in a book, with each work making a statement that adds to a broader context. In his artist statement, Ridlon explains, "My intent has been to create short puzzling narratives and assemble them into discontinuous aesthetic theater."

Snow
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Snow" is an exhibition of traditional representations of snow scenes as well as nontraditional and conceptual interpretations. It is curated by Yvonne Buchanan, assistant professor of illustration in the School of Art and Design's Department of Art. The exhibition's theme was inspired by “Bliz-aard Ball Sale,” a 1983 New York City performance piece by artist David Hammons.

For more information, contact Yvonne Buchanan, yebuchan@syr.edu, or phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Rigo 23: Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024
The Warehouse Gallery

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

San Francisco based artist Rigo 23 is known nationally and internationally for his highly political site-specific work. Intercultural relations and justice issues are often present in his work which includes working with political prisoners, such as Leonard Peltier, who is the subject of this show. The exhibition title refers specifically to Peltier's given name in Lakota (Tate Wikikuwa), to his next hearing in 2024, and to Rigo 23's former project at the De Young Museum in San Francisco (1999). The Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024 will focus on the artwork, life, and status of this Native American whose case has been an international controversy since the 1970s. This exhibition will showcase Peltier through the visual arts (oil paintings) as well as educational components such as talks and a symposium sponsored by the Humanities Center at Syracuse University.

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Opening Reception: Human Nature Art Show: Works by Maria Janina Rizzo

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

This is the first solo show of Maria Janina Rizzo, who recently was featured at the Emerging Women Artists of CNY show at the Red House Gallery in Syracuse. Human Nature is a series of 12 paintings that depict the human psyche.

Rizzo is an Italian-born artist, who lived near Milan, Italy until 2007. She was mentored by the eclectic painter Roberto Giussani.

Jeff Gibson: Asylum and Smoke
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In "Asylum" (06:02 min. loop), Gibson takes a page from each of his two most recent artist's books: Dupe: A Partial Compendium of Everyday Delusions (a dictionary of quasi-clinical, art-world pathologies; sardonic but earnest) and Sarsaparilla to Sorcery (a picture book exploring perceptual ambiguities between allusive abstract photographic images and taxonomic illustrations swiped from old Encyclopedia Britannica). Through a chain of slow, poetic dissolves, the video blends psychologistic text with dreamy, morphic imagery into a weirdly visceral stream of consciousness. Similarly, "Smoke" (02:49 min. loop) combines quack psychological text with abstract photography and pages appropriated from encyclopedia, this time the World Book series. However, whereas "Asylum" is slow and panoramic in range, "Smoke" is faster, shorter, and distinctly gothic in character -- more pointed, and, though humorous, blackly so.

Opening Reception: All Power to the People! Graphics of the Black Panther Party USA
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

From the collection of the Center for the Study of Politcal Graphics, the largest repository of political posters in the USA, All Power to the People! features Black Panther Party posters and newspaper graphics produced in the 1960s and 1970s. The exhibition highlights the artistry of Emory Douglas, and documents the Panthers' involvement with a broad array of causes, including opposition to the Vietnam War and solidarity with the United Farm Workers movement. With documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, All Power to the People! also illustrates efforts of the United States government to destroy the Panthers as part of wide-spread efforts to stifle oppositional political movements. The social programs of the Panthers and the powerful images of armed party members had a strong impact on the public consciousness of the time, and their efforts to combat the oppression of racism and poverty still resonate today.

Dinner with the Rejects!
Last Comic Standing Rejects Tour

Price: $40
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

Join comics from last season's NBC-TV show, Last Comic Standing.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' 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 Times 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.

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Syracuse Symphony String Quartet
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra

Price: Free
Petit Branch Library
105 Victoria Pl., Syracuse

The quartet will introduce the instruments of the orchestra's string section.

information: 315-435-3636.

38th Anniversary Bluegrass Ramble Radio Barndance
Featuring Rebecca Colleen & The Chore Lads, Larry Hoyt & Good Acoustics, Lost Time

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Central New York's first and now only all-bluegrass and oldtime acoustic country music radio show observes its 38th birthday with a recreation of an oldtime radio barndance complete with a studio audience and three Central NY bluegrass bands participating.

The Ramble anniversary will be recorded at WCNY-FM for broadcast on Sun. July 23.

Bill Knowlton is a member of the SAMMY's Hall Of Fame and named a Broadcaster of the Year by IBMA, the International Bluergrass Music Association.

For more information, phone 315-457-6100.

Holiday Party with vocalist Johny Carlo, jazz guitarist Marcus Curry, pianist Bob Price

Price: $10 suggested donation
United Church of Fayetteville
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

Information: 315-637-3186.

Subcat Series: Brownskin
Redhouse

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

Don't miss this Syracuse-based R&B band. Inspired by The Roots and Mint Condition, this group is sure to please.

Classics Series: Schumann, Beethoven, and Strauss
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Julie Albers, cello

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

Johann Strauss, Jr. Die Fledermaus Overture
Schumann Cello Concerto in A minor, op. 129
Beethoven Leonore Overture No. 3, op. 72b
Strauss Der Rosenkavalier Suite, op. 59

Loren Barrigar
Westcott Community Center

Price: $15 regular, $12 for members of WCC
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

One could almost say that Loren Barrigar was born with a guitar in his hands. At just four years old he stunned his parents by picking up his father's guitar and announcing he wanted to play "In the Mood" with his dad. They humored him until Loren explained that his dad could take either the rhythm part or the lead, whichever he preferred. Guitar lessons were quickly arranged and two short years later Loren played the Chet Atkins hit, "Yakety Axe" in front of thousands of country fans at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, the youngest guitarist to appear on that famous stage. During his childhood in Nashville, Loren studied with Jimmy Atkins (Chat's brother), a long-time member of the Les Paul Trio. A touring career followed, with Loren, his brother, and his father playing clubs and showrooms from Nashville to Las Vegas, and traveling with George Morgan and other established country stars.

January Jam
Westcott Theater
Featuring House on a Spring, Master Thieves, Lee Terrace, Phantom Chemistry, etc.

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Sleeping Beauty
Open Hand Theater
Tanglewood Marionettes

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

A painted story book opens to reveal each scene, with beautifully hand-crafted marionettes brought to life by award winning master puppeteers Anne Ware and Peter Schaefer. The story begins in King Felix’s great hall with the celebration of Princess Aurora’s birth. Upon the arrival of the wicked witch the famous spell is cast. Tanglewood Marionettes' presentation of this best-loved classic tale appeals to children of all ages.

Unnecessary Farce
CNY Playhouse
Meagan Pearson, director

Price: Dinner theater: $29 single; $55 couple. Show only: $20 (limited availability)
Fire and Ice Banquet Hall, The Locker Room
528 Hiawatha Blvd., Syracuse

Dinner at 6:45 pm; show at 8:00 pm.

Two Cops. Three Crooks. Eight Doors. Go.

In a cheap motel room, an embezzling mayor is supposed to meet with his female accountant, while in the room next-door, two undercover cops wait to catch the meeting on videotape. But there's some confusion as to who's in which room, who's being videotaped, who's taken the money, who's hired a hit
man, and why the accountant keeps taking off her clothes. A comedy by Paul Slade Smith.

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13
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $22 adults, $18 students ($20/$15 if purchased before Dec. 15)
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, book by Dan Elish and Robert Horn. Syracuse premiere of the only all-teenage cast ever to hit Broadway! 13 is a new musical about the labels that last a lifetime. When his parents get divorced and he's forced to move from New York to a small town in Indiana, Evan Goldman just wants to make friends and survive the school year. Easier said than done. The star quarterback is threatening to ruin his life and his only friend, Patrice, won't talk to him. An opportunist sees a chance for blackmail and someone else is spreading the nastiest rumors. With an unforgettable rock score from Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown, 13 is a hilarious, high-energy musical for all ages about discovering that cool is where you find it, and sometimes where you least expect it.

Danny and the Deep Blue Sea
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Price: $20
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

John Patrick Shanley's two-character drama of emotional combat in a dumpy bar. Adults only.

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Windows Project: Oil is Why
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Native American Tom Huff will present an installation on Leonard Peltier consisting of a mural and sculptural elements that relate to the main gallery's exhibition about Peltier by Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America. Public programming has been organized in conjunction with the Everson Museum of Art and ArtRage Gallery.

Holiday Group Show
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit.

The exhibition will feature jewelry, ceramics, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include David Church (Pompey), Julie Crosby (Trumansburg), Jen Gandee (Fabius), Laurie Gerace (Fabius), Martha Grover (Helena, MT), Forrest Lesch Middelton (Fairfax, CA), David MacDonald (Syracuse), Shawn O'Connor (Gatlinburg, TN), Sarah Saulson (Syracuse), Lucie Wellner (Pompey), and Errol Willett (Fabius).

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This year's version will feature toys from the 1970s. Do you remember playing Pong on Atari, getting your first Luke Skywalker figure, or just wishing to have your own Malibu Barbie? Then you won't want to miss this journey into the decade of Charlie's Angels, Richard Nixon and a gallon of gasoline at fifty cents.

From the Studio to the Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In collaboration with The Dahesh Museum of Art and the Syracuse University Art Galleries, students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorship course in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies have worked together to present a drawing exhibition that highlights some of the prominent themes and techniques of 19th-century Academic Art. The exhibition will present over 40 drawings on loan from The Dahesh Museum of Art, as well as selected Academic paintings drawn from the Syracuse University Art Collection.

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.

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York presents, for the first time in Syracuse, recent and new work by 21 young New York City artists. Included in the exhibition's wide array of media are several installation pieces created specifically for the SUArt Galleries. Co-curated by SU alumnus Eric Gleason, Sales Director at Marlborough Chelsea, and David Prince, Associate Director at the SUArt Galleries, the show illustrates conceptual and aesthetic trends in contemporary art.

Synonymous with "spread the word," Run and Tell That! is a phrase attributed to Antoine Dodson of Huntsville, AL, whose flamboyant July 28, 2010 television interview following the attempted sexual assault on his sister, quickly became an internet sensation. The phrase has since been integrated into contemporary vernacular; a phenomenon that could only happen now, in a time when information is digested and distributed constantly via the internet. The artists in Run and Tell That! take advantage of this wide spectrum of media to develop a conceptual focus that characterizes this younger generation.

Painters Kamrooz Aram, Steven Charles, Inka Essenhigh, Aaron Johnson, Liz Markus, Tom Sanford, Ryan Schneider and Aya Uekawa use personal experience, art history, abstraction, and social commentary to keep the medium fresh and relevant. Sculpture becomes a widely encompassing term as pieces by Robert Lazzarini, Diana Al-Hadid, Will Ryman, and Ethan Greenbaum broaden the definition. In the series of 13 prints entitled Ars Magica, William Powhida continues his astute satirization of the art world by likening its practices to sorcery. In her Mother Goddess series, Turkish photographer Pinar Yolacan examines pre-neolithic deity figures that were the archetype of beauty in her geographic region thousands of years ago.

Site-specific installations include a first-time collaboration between Ethan Greenbaum and Adam Krueger; a dynamic wall-length installation in which a tree violently emerges from a Hudson River School painting by Valerie Hegarty; Virginia Overton's minimal trompe l'oeil construction using only an eight-foot 2 x 4 and two sheets of mirrored plexiglas; Vlatka Horvat's repurposed ceiling fan and aluminum ladder; and individual projects by Wade Kavanagh and Stephen B. Nguyen whose monumental collaborative installation White Stag, 2010 is currently on view at Mass MoCA.

Also in the exhibition will be Rashaad Newsome: Video and Performance, 2005-2010, an intimate retrospective of the artist's multi-media work exploring innovative forms of communication and expression in contemporary African American urban culture. This work was recently featured in the 2010 Whitney Biennial and in Greater New York 2010 at the PS1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, NY.

Read a review!

Yui Kugimiya: Live Paintings
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based artist Yui Kugimiya presents "live paintings" for the final installment of the 2010 Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series. Kugimiya creates stop-motion animation using expressionistic paintings and actual objects typically found in the home as shown here in her most recent work, Breakfast. This video animation involves the use of paintings in conjunction with a variety of kitchen utensils and vegetables mixed with sound recorded directly from the live action. The artist states, "The animation parallels the psychological space, reveals the thoughts of making, and unfolds the inspiration of the daily-life-mundane."

The video animations are lighthearted and playful with a hint of dark drama. For each frame, a scene is painted on the canvas with fluid, gestural brush strokes loaded with rich color, captured on video and then the scene disappears before one's eyes as the next phase of the narrative unfolds. The exhibition includes new video work as well as a selection of paintings in the creative process so viewers can experience the richness of Kugimiya's paintings alongside her enlivening video works.

Read a review!

Haudenosaunee: Elements
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The act of creating works of art is embedded in the Haudenosaunee way of life and has been for centuries. This exhibition presents works by contemporary Haudenosaunee artists from the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy—Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga and Tuscarora. The artists range from those with well established careers to new and notable talents. Among those exhibiting are Jay Carrier, Harold Farmer, Katsitsionni Fox and Ed Burnam, Ronni-Leigh Goeman, Stonehorse Goeman, Tom Huff, Frank Buffalo Hyde, Ada Jacques, G. Peter Jemison, Peter B. Jones, Linley Logan, Shelley Niro, Aweñheeyoh Powless, Jolene Rickard, Clint Shenandoah, Leah Shenandoah, Natasha Smoke Santiago, Smiley Summers, Tammy Tarbell-Boehing, and Tracy Thomas.

"Haudenosaunee: Elements" does not attempt to provide a survey of contemporary art—the talented artists working in our region are too numerous to be represented in this exhibition—but rather to introduce viewers to the broad range of media and art forms by which contemporary artists continue to create their own individual visual language while never straying far from their cultural heritage.

Read a review!

Jules Olitski: An Inside View
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

One of America's pre-eminent painters, Jules Olitski (1922-2007) is celebrated for his large-format, lyrical abstractions that shimmer with color. Less well-known are his smaller, more intimate prints in a variety of media, which both parallel and depart from the abstract imagery of his paintings.

"An Inside View" includes 40 prints in a variety of media—intaglio, silkscreen, lithograph, and monotype—spanning the artist's career of more than five decades.

Read a review!

Bill Viola Video Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson was the first museum to collect video art, beginning in the early 1970s. Bill Viola, now one of the world's leading video artists, studied at Syracuse University and began his career at the Everson. A selection of historic videos by Bill Viola from the Everson's pioneering video collection will be shown in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court in conjunction with the Urban Video Project (UVP), which will also be featuring Viola this fall.

Snow
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Snow" is an exhibition of traditional representations of snow scenes as well as nontraditional and conceptual interpretations. It is curated by Yvonne Buchanan, assistant professor of illustration in the School of Art and Design's Department of Art. The exhibition's theme was inspired by “Bliz-aard Ball Sale,” a 1983 New York City performance piece by artist David Hammons.

For more information, contact Yvonne Buchanan, yebuchan@syr.edu, or phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Jeff Gibson: Asylum and Smoke
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In "Asylum" (06:02 min. loop), Gibson takes a page from each of his two most recent artist's books: Dupe: A Partial Compendium of Everyday Delusions (a dictionary of quasi-clinical, art-world pathologies; sardonic but earnest) and Sarsaparilla to Sorcery (a picture book exploring perceptual ambiguities between allusive abstract photographic images and taxonomic illustrations swiped from old Encyclopedia Britannica). Through a chain of slow, poetic dissolves, the video blends psychologistic text with dreamy, morphic imagery into a weirdly visceral stream of consciousness. Similarly, "Smoke" (02:49 min. loop) combines quack psychological text with abstract photography and pages appropriated from encyclopedia, this time the World Book series. However, whereas "Asylum" is slow and panoramic in range, "Smoke" is faster, shorter, and distinctly gothic in character -- more pointed, and, though humorous, blackly so.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' 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 Times 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.

Read a review!

Dolce Flutes Flute Quartet
Arts Alive in Liverpool

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

Music by Mozart, more.
Information: 315-457-0310.

Syracuse Symphony String Quartet
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra

Fayetteville Free Library
300 Orchard St., Fayetteville

Information: 315-637-6374.

Winter Concert
Andrew and Noah VanNorstrand

Price: $10
Robinson Memorial Church
126 Terry Rd. (corner of Granger), Syracuse

Andrew and Noah VanNorstrand have been bringing acoustic music to concert halls, festival stages and dance floors across North America for several years. Both boys are accomplished singers, songwriters and multi-instrumentalists; focusing on twin fiddles, acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin and banjo. Their original music is a finely crafted blend of old-time Country and Bluegrass, Celtic and Contra, Swing and Jazz, alternative folk rock and various world music influences with equal emphasis on both daring improvisation and intricate arrangements. Andrew and Noah have toured extensively, occasionally performing with Jay Ungar and Molly Mason. They performed live on Garrison Keillor's nationally-syndicated program, A Prairie Home Companion.

Rock 4 Wishes
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Unnecessary Farce
CNY Playhouse
Meagan Pearson, director

Price: Dinner theater: $29 single; $55 couple. Show only: $20 (limited availability)
Fire and Ice Banquet Hall, The Locker Room
528 Hiawatha Blvd., Syracuse

Brunch 12:45 pm, followed by show at 2:00 pm.

Two Cops. Three Crooks. Eight Doors. Go.

In a cheap motel room, an embezzling mayor is supposed to meet with his female accountant, while in the room next-door, two undercover cops wait to catch the meeting on videotape. But there's some confusion as to who's in which room, who's being videotaped, who's taken the money, who's hired a hit
man, and why the accountant keeps taking off her clothes. A comedy by Paul Slade Smith.

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13
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $22 adults, $18 students ($20/$15 if purchased before Dec. 15)
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, book by Dan Elish and Robert Horn. Syracuse premiere of the only all-teenage cast ever to hit Broadway! 13 is a new musical about the labels that last a lifetime. When his parents get divorced and he's forced to move from New York to a small town in Indiana, Evan Goldman just wants to make friends and survive the school year. Easier said than done. The star quarterback is threatening to ruin his life and his only friend, Patrice, won't talk to him. An opportunist sees a chance for blackmail and someone else is spreading the nastiest rumors. With an unforgettable rock score from Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown, 13 is a hilarious, high-energy musical for all ages about discovering that cool is where you find it, and sometimes where you least expect it.

Monday, January 10, 2011

Windows Project: Oil is Why
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Native American Tom Huff will present an installation on Leonard Peltier consisting of a mural and sculptural elements that relate to the main gallery's exhibition about Peltier by Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America. Public programming has been organized in conjunction with the Everson Museum of Art and ArtRage Gallery.

La Colección/The Collection: Exhibit 4
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A special program to commemorate Point of Contact's 35th anniversary and The Point of Contact Gallery's 5th -- a show of the entire permanent collection in five exhibitions starting in September 2010.

Exhibit 4: Works of Jane Hammond, Hung Liu, Luis Felipe Noe, Izhar Patkin, and Ursula Von Rydingsvard.

The Art Store Gallery
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Showing of works by Tori Knowlton (senior, Chittenango High School) and Brittany Riehlman (SUNY Cortland).

Information: 315-474-1000.

New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Darryl Furtkamp: Measure for Measure and Jim Ridlon: Intimate Reflections
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Darryl Furtkamp is a mixed media artist working in the post-modern tradition. His assemblages and paintings and works on paper incorporate painting, drawing, collage and mixed media arranged in hand-crafted frames or appropriated found objects in an altarpiece-like format. Images and material are layered and subtly glazed to disguise some areas while illuminating others.

Jim Ridlon's new assemblages are comprised of multiples that have been woven into single themes. The result is the individual assemblages act like chapters in a book, with each work making a statement that adds to a broader context. In his artist statement, Ridlon explains, "My intent has been to create short puzzling narratives and assemble them into discontinuous aesthetic theater."

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' 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 Times 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.

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Film Series: The Summer of Aviya
Temple Society of Concord

Temple Society of Concord
910 Madison St., Syracuse

The story of one summer in the life a girl at the start of Israel's history as a country. This girl is 10-year-old Aviya, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor and former partisan -- a women on the edge of sanity. As her mother's situation worsens, Aviya continues to dream of her father, whom she's never seen. Her mother is institutionalized and Aviya is left alone -- a girl who had to grow up all at once, in one summer.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Windows Project: Oil is Why
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Native American Tom Huff will present an installation on Leonard Peltier consisting of a mural and sculptural elements that relate to the main gallery's exhibition about Peltier by Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America. Public programming has been organized in conjunction with the Everson Museum of Art and ArtRage Gallery.

Recent Work by Michael Flanagan and Tyrone Johnson-Neuland
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

The exhibit showcases a series of mixed media works.

The Art Store Gallery
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Showing of works by Tori Knowlton (senior, Chittenango High School) and Brittany Riehlman (SUNY Cortland).

Information: 315-474-1000.

Figurative Expressions II
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Five artists who approach the figure in creative and unique ways
Scott Estelle: bronze sculpture
John Fitzsimmons: oil painting
Vincent Fitches: oil painting
Stephen Ryan: watercolor painting
Gail Hoffman: bronze and aluminum sculpture

New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Darryl Furtkamp: Measure for Measure and Jim Ridlon: Intimate Reflections
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Darryl Furtkamp is a mixed media artist working in the post-modern tradition. His assemblages and paintings and works on paper incorporate painting, drawing, collage and mixed media arranged in hand-crafted frames or appropriated found objects in an altarpiece-like format. Images and material are layered and subtly glazed to disguise some areas while illuminating others.

Jim Ridlon's new assemblages are comprised of multiples that have been woven into single themes. The result is the individual assemblages act like chapters in a book, with each work making a statement that adds to a broader context. In his artist statement, Ridlon explains, "My intent has been to create short puzzling narratives and assemble them into discontinuous aesthetic theater."

Bill Viola Video Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson was the first museum to collect video art, beginning in the early 1970s. Bill Viola, now one of the world's leading video artists, studied at Syracuse University and began his career at the Everson. A selection of historic videos by Bill Viola from the Everson's pioneering video collection will be shown in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court in conjunction with the Urban Video Project (UVP), which will also be featuring Viola this fall.

Jules Olitski: An Inside View
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

One of America's pre-eminent painters, Jules Olitski (1922-2007) is celebrated for his large-format, lyrical abstractions that shimmer with color. Less well-known are his smaller, more intimate prints in a variety of media, which both parallel and depart from the abstract imagery of his paintings.

"An Inside View" includes 40 prints in a variety of media—intaglio, silkscreen, lithograph, and monotype—spanning the artist's career of more than five decades.

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Haudenosaunee: Elements
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The act of creating works of art is embedded in the Haudenosaunee way of life and has been for centuries. This exhibition presents works by contemporary Haudenosaunee artists from the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy—Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga and Tuscarora. The artists range from those with well established careers to new and notable talents. Among those exhibiting are Jay Carrier, Harold Farmer, Katsitsionni Fox and Ed Burnam, Ronni-Leigh Goeman, Stonehorse Goeman, Tom Huff, Frank Buffalo Hyde, Ada Jacques, G. Peter Jemison, Peter B. Jones, Linley Logan, Shelley Niro, Aweñheeyoh Powless, Jolene Rickard, Clint Shenandoah, Leah Shenandoah, Natasha Smoke Santiago, Smiley Summers, Tammy Tarbell-Boehing, and Tracy Thomas.

"Haudenosaunee: Elements" does not attempt to provide a survey of contemporary art—the talented artists working in our region are too numerous to be represented in this exhibition—but rather to introduce viewers to the broad range of media and art forms by which contemporary artists continue to create their own individual visual language while never straying far from their cultural heritage.

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Yui Kugimiya: Live Paintings
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based artist Yui Kugimiya presents "live paintings" for the final installment of the 2010 Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series. Kugimiya creates stop-motion animation using expressionistic paintings and actual objects typically found in the home as shown here in her most recent work, Breakfast. This video animation involves the use of paintings in conjunction with a variety of kitchen utensils and vegetables mixed with sound recorded directly from the live action. The artist states, "The animation parallels the psychological space, reveals the thoughts of making, and unfolds the inspiration of the daily-life-mundane."

The video animations are lighthearted and playful with a hint of dark drama. For each frame, a scene is painted on the canvas with fluid, gestural brush strokes loaded with rich color, captured on video and then the scene disappears before one's eyes as the next phase of the narrative unfolds. The exhibition includes new video work as well as a selection of paintings in the creative process so viewers can experience the richness of Kugimiya's paintings alongside her enlivening video works.

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Rigo 23: Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024
The Warehouse Gallery

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

San Francisco based artist Rigo 23 is known nationally and internationally for his highly political site-specific work. Intercultural relations and justice issues are often present in his work which includes working with political prisoners, such as Leonard Peltier, who is the subject of this show. The exhibition title refers specifically to Peltier's given name in Lakota (Tate Wikikuwa), to his next hearing in 2024, and to Rigo 23's former project at the De Young Museum in San Francisco (1999). The Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024 will focus on the artwork, life, and status of this Native American whose case has been an international controversy since the 1970s. This exhibition will showcase Peltier through the visual arts (oil paintings) as well as educational components such as talks and a symposium sponsored by the Humanities Center at Syracuse University.

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Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' 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 Times 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.

Read a review!