Friday, September 4, 2009

FluXus in German: Works by Robert Burkhart
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

FluXus in German: Fluxus is defined as the wry, post-Dada art movement that flourished in New York and Germany in the 1950s and 60s, and influences many contemporary artists. This is an event and an activity to take part in, a showing of Fluxus with the possibility to learn a different language (yet to be proven).

Rob Burkhart worked in industrial arts through high school and continued to obtain a degree in Construction Technology. He was employed in the areas of carpentry, masonry, painting, flooring, and maintenance, and currently works at Syracuse University. With his hands in the materials, he found a love of painting and became a self-taught artist who has freedom to explore. His style may be committed to nonrealistic modes of art, but it still can hop across a stream of perception. Music is a large factor in the creation of his projects. It sets the cool to guide him or the heat to drip his self-expression through a visual vocabulary. Like many artists, he wants his paintings to speak. So if possible, sip, eavesdrop, saturate, and consider.

Dimensions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Bob Gates: Photography
David Webster: Ceramics
Marna Bell: Photography

Barry Anderson: Intermissions
Light Work Gallery

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

Barry Anderson's videos depict purple skies, abstract worlds filled with bubbles, and colorful fragments of semi-familiar scenes. His work reminds people to stop and enjoy the moment.

Anderson's photographs and videos are featured in an innovative art exhibition, Intermissions, which offers a welcome artistic interruption to daily life in a time of economic uncertainty and other societal stresses. Organized by Light Work, a non-profit, artist-run organization on the Syracuse University campus, the fall exhibition will appear at over a dozen venues both on and off campus.

Anderson's colorful video pieces include abstract patterns, nature scenes, and semi-nostalgic images from decade-old advertising. Each piece creates a good-natured, introspective scene that contrasts the busy settings where the work is shown. Intermissions places video art and photographs at multiple venues across Syracuse, making it accessible to the general community and creating many opportunities for meaningful interaction with the work.

Partners in this unique collaboration include SUArt Galleries, Syracuse Symposium, the Tolley Administration Building, Schine Student Center, Orange TV Network, The Warehouse, Community Folk Art Center, the Everson Museum of Art, the Urban Video Project, the Red House Arts Center, and more. Exhibition sites also include public spaces such as billboards and video projections onto windows on campus and buildings in downtown Syracuse.

Barry Anderson was born in Greenville, TX. He holds an MFA from Indiana University. His work has been shown throughout the country, as well as in Thailand, South America, Cuba, and the UK. He lives in Kansas City. Barry participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

The Salted Lip: A Tall Drink of Something Cool
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Ed Feldman's finely crafted pots celebrate the ceremony of drinking and eating with friends, and are infused with a spirit of generosity and indulgence. His pots are completely functional. They add elegance and personality to any dinner table or decor. Each piece is unique due to the introduction of sodium bicarbonate into the atmosphere of the kiln during firing, resulting in luscious and colorful surfaces.

A native Central New Yorker, Ed Feldman started his ceramics studies at SUNY Cortland. Later, he worked as a studio assistant to his professor, John Jessiman. Feldman has exhibited nationally in many shows including History in the Making in Rochester and the prestigious Strictly Functional, in Lancaster, PA. He recently received a MFA in Ceramics at Syracuse University and moved to Cortland to set up his own pottery studio.

Follow the Golden Mean: Works of Susan Hadzor and Robert vonHunke
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

First Friday opening reception 6:00-9:00 pm.

Skaneateles Artisans is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibit featuring stained glass art by Susan Hadzor and oil painting and photography by Robert vonHunke.

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond focuses on the period in the American artist's life when he spent two summers at Houghton Farm in Mountainville, NY, a rustic summer residence in the Hudson Valley region of New York state owned by his principal patron and friend since childhood, Lawson Valentine.

The show brings together 28 of Homer's watercolors, drawings, wood engravings, oil paintings, and ceramic tiles of the period from galleries, private collections, and museums across the country.

For more information, visit homer.syr.edu.

Graduate Painting
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The exhibition will feature large paintings and installations by first-year graduate students Rachel Van Pelt, Jave Yoshimoto, and Annie Ryerson; second-year graduate students Joey Reyes, Daina Mattis, Alex Schmitz, and Mike Berlant; and third-year graduate students Jessica Sharpe, Gwendolyn Reyes, and Jon Lee.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand, the college's program exhibitions coordinator, at 315-474-1217 or adhavenh@syr.edu.

36th Annual On My Own Time Exhibit
CNY Arts

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

The Cultural Resources Council in partnership with local businesses presents this exhibit featuring artwork in a variety of mediums by 91 artists from 15 companies in the Central New York area.

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Xiaowen Chen: Spectacle and 100 Last Names
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The two solo exhibitions, Xiaowen Chen: Spectacle and Xiaowen Chen: 100 Last Names, present work from the past nine years by Chinese-born, Ithaca-based artist Chen. Having lived in the United States for the past two decades, Chen has focused his work on the space between East and West. From his many return trips to China, Chen has created digital images and video projections reflecting American and Chinese attitudes toward the 21st-century role of media and technology and identity issues. His work of overlapping the cultures of East and West addresses his search for what he called in 1993 the "manifestation of the universal and the expression of the particular."

Chen places himself in the position of both the American and the Chinese tourist. He has noted that when photographing in China he feels like a foreigner, while in the U.S. he feels like a traveler. His work addresses both China's historical transformation and his personal experience as an émigré.

Like other artists of his generation, Chen grew up under Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution and was exposed to a visual vocabulary that highlighted fragmentation and repetition. As a result, works by Xiaowen Chen evoke cultural clichés and stereotypes.

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

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

There will be a closing reception at 6:00 pm. From the city of Montevideo, Ricardo Lanzarini wil return to Syracuse for a final performance and presentation of the book catalog documenting his much-celebrated installation "Drawings on Delirium."

The Undoing performance includes student performers from the SU Drama Department and local Hispanic theater group, La Joven Guardia del Teatro Latino.

"It's not just about erasing... It's about drawing with white, but above all, it's a reflection about the essence of drawing and its magical character."
--Ricardo Lanzarini

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

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

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

Kings, Thieves: Video Animation by Barry Anderson
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Point of Contact is proud to be part of this large-scale video exhibition for Kansas City artist Barry Anderson, presented in conjunction with Light Work Gallery. The exhibition, titled Intermissions, features primarily video work and some photography, and takes place in 22 different venues throughout the city of Syracuse and on the Syracuse University campus.

Viva Latina - Part II
Skaneateles Festival

Price: $23, $19 regular; $20, $16 students/seniors
First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Paganini Quartet No. 15 in A minor for violin, viola, cello, and guitar
Ginastera Impresiones de la Puna for flute and string quartet
Javier Alvarez Metro Chabacano for string quartet
Lalo Trio for violin, cello, and piano in A minor

Performers include Mauricio Aguiar, violin; Andres Cardenes, violin; Linda Chesis, flute; Eliot Fisk, guitar; Barry Snyder, piano; Michi Wiancko, violin; David Ying, cello; Phillip Ying, viola; Keiko Ying, cello.

Brand New Sin
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Brand New Sin is a Hard Rock/Southern Rock band from Syracuse. Brand New Sin released one self-titled album with the label Now or Never before signing with Century Media. They toured to support their first Century Media release, Recipe For Disaster with Black Label Society. In 2006, the band released their third studio album titled Tequila. Brand New Sin has been recording and touring the USA and UK since 2002 along side many big national bands such as Motorhead, Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society, Corrosion Of Conformity, Saliva, Breaking Benjamin, Soil, Type O Negative, Clutch, Mushroomhead, The Cult and more. They have opened for Godsmack, Dope, Chris Cornell, The Deftones, Drowning Pool, Audiovent, Dillinger Escape Plan, and countless others.

Saturday, September 5, 2009

36th Annual On My Own Time Exhibit
CNY Arts

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

The Cultural Resources Council in partnership with local businesses presents this exhibit featuring artwork in a variety of mediums by 91 artists from 15 companies in the Central New York area.

Dimensions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Bob Gates: Photography
David Webster: Ceramics
Marna Bell: Photography

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Follow the Golden Mean: Works of Susan Hadzor and Robert vonHunke
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Skaneateles Artisans is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibit featuring stained glass art by Susan Hadzor and oil painting and photography by Robert vonHunke.

The Salted Lip: A Tall Drink of Something Cool
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Ed Feldman's finely crafted pots celebrate the ceremony of drinking and eating with friends, and are infused with a spirit of generosity and indulgence. His pots are completely functional. They add elegance and personality to any dinner table or decor. Each piece is unique due to the introduction of sodium bicarbonate into the atmosphere of the kiln during firing, resulting in luscious and colorful surfaces.

A native Central New Yorker, Ed Feldman started his ceramics studies at SUNY Cortland. Later, he worked as a studio assistant to his professor, John Jessiman. Feldman has exhibited nationally in many shows including History in the Making in Rochester and the prestigious Strictly Functional, in Lancaster, PA. He recently received a MFA in Ceramics at Syracuse University and moved to Cortland to set up his own pottery studio.

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond focuses on the period in the American artist's life when he spent two summers at Houghton Farm in Mountainville, NY, a rustic summer residence in the Hudson Valley region of New York state owned by his principal patron and friend since childhood, Lawson Valentine.

The show brings together 28 of Homer's watercolors, drawings, wood engravings, oil paintings, and ceramic tiles of the period from galleries, private collections, and museums across the country.

For more information, visit homer.syr.edu.

Graduate Painting
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The exhibition will feature large paintings and installations by first-year graduate students Rachel Van Pelt, Jave Yoshimoto, and Annie Ryerson; second-year graduate students Joey Reyes, Daina Mattis, Alex Schmitz, and Mike Berlant; and third-year graduate students Jessica Sharpe, Gwendolyn Reyes, and Jon Lee.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand, the college's program exhibitions coordinator, at 315-474-1217 or adhavenh@syr.edu.

Xiaowen Chen: Spectacle and 100 Last Names
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The two solo exhibitions, Xiaowen Chen: Spectacle and Xiaowen Chen: 100 Last Names, present work from the past nine years by Chinese-born, Ithaca-based artist Chen. Having lived in the United States for the past two decades, Chen has focused his work on the space between East and West. From his many return trips to China, Chen has created digital images and video projections reflecting American and Chinese attitudes toward the 21st-century role of media and technology and identity issues. His work of overlapping the cultures of East and West addresses his search for what he called in 1993 the "manifestation of the universal and the expression of the particular."

Chen places himself in the position of both the American and the Chinese tourist. He has noted that when photographing in China he feels like a foreigner, while in the U.S. he feels like a traveler. His work addresses both China's historical transformation and his personal experience as an émigré.

Like other artists of his generation, Chen grew up under Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution and was exposed to a visual vocabulary that highlighted fragmentation and repetition. As a result, works by Xiaowen Chen evoke cultural clichés and stereotypes.

Festival Grand Finale
Skaneateles Festival
Tito Muñoz, conductor
Featuring Eliot Fisk, guitar; Andres Cardenes, violin

Price: $30, $24
Brook Farm
2.5 miles south of the village on Route 41A, Skaneateles

Mozart Serenade No. 13 in G Major, K. 525, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Rodrigo Fantasia Para un Gentilhombre (Fantasia for a Gentleman)
Piazzolla Cuatro estaciones portenas (Four Seasons in Buenos Aires)

Outdoor concert -- lawn chairs or blankets are recommended.
Rain location: Skaneateles High School, 49 E. Elizabeth St., Skaneateles

My Name is Rachel Corrie
Simply New Theatre

Price: $20
BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

On March 16, 2003, Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American, was crushed to death by an Israeli Army bulldozer in Gaza as she was trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home. My Name Is Rachel Corrie is a one-woman play composed from Rachel's own journals, letters and emails—creating a portrait of a messy, articulate, Salvador Dali-loving chain-smoker (with a passion for the music of Pat Benatar), who left her home and school in Olympia, WA, to work as an activist in the heart of Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In the three sold-out London runs since its Royal Court premiere, the piece has been surrounded by both controversy and impassioned proponents, and has raised an unprecedented call to support political work and the difficult discourse it creates.

Featuring Jillian Dailey and Chad Healy, with special musical guest artist Dylan Montrond, and a set by Navroz Dabut.

Read a review!

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Barry Anderson: Intermissions
Light Work Gallery

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

Barry Anderson's videos depict purple skies, abstract worlds filled with bubbles, and colorful fragments of semi-familiar scenes. His work reminds people to stop and enjoy the moment.

Anderson's photographs and videos are featured in an innovative art exhibition, Intermissions, which offers a welcome artistic interruption to daily life in a time of economic uncertainty and other societal stresses. Organized by Light Work, a non-profit, artist-run organization on the Syracuse University campus, the fall exhibition will appear at over a dozen venues both on and off campus.

Anderson's colorful video pieces include abstract patterns, nature scenes, and semi-nostalgic images from decade-old advertising. Each piece creates a good-natured, introspective scene that contrasts the busy settings where the work is shown. Intermissions places video art and photographs at multiple venues across Syracuse, making it accessible to the general community and creating many opportunities for meaningful interaction with the work.

Partners in this unique collaboration include SUArt Galleries, Syracuse Symposium, the Tolley Administration Building, Schine Student Center, Orange TV Network, The Warehouse, Community Folk Art Center, the Everson Museum of Art, the Urban Video Project, the Red House Arts Center, and more. Exhibition sites also include public spaces such as billboards and video projections onto windows on campus and buildings in downtown Syracuse.

Barry Anderson was born in Greenville, TX. He holds an MFA from Indiana University. His work has been shown throughout the country, as well as in Thailand, South America, Cuba, and the UK. He lives in Kansas City. Barry participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

The Salted Lip: A Tall Drink of Something Cool
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Ed Feldman's finely crafted pots celebrate the ceremony of drinking and eating with friends, and are infused with a spirit of generosity and indulgence. His pots are completely functional. They add elegance and personality to any dinner table or decor. Each piece is unique due to the introduction of sodium bicarbonate into the atmosphere of the kiln during firing, resulting in luscious and colorful surfaces.

A native Central New Yorker, Ed Feldman started his ceramics studies at SUNY Cortland. Later, he worked as a studio assistant to his professor, John Jessiman. Feldman has exhibited nationally in many shows including History in the Making in Rochester and the prestigious Strictly Functional, in Lancaster, PA. He recently received a MFA in Ceramics at Syracuse University and moved to Cortland to set up his own pottery studio.

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond focuses on the period in the American artist's life when he spent two summers at Houghton Farm in Mountainville, NY, a rustic summer residence in the Hudson Valley region of New York state owned by his principal patron and friend since childhood, Lawson Valentine.

The show brings together 28 of Homer's watercolors, drawings, wood engravings, oil paintings, and ceramic tiles of the period from galleries, private collections, and museums across the country.

For more information, visit homer.syr.edu.

Graduate Painting
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The exhibition will feature large paintings and installations by first-year graduate students Rachel Van Pelt, Jave Yoshimoto, and Annie Ryerson; second-year graduate students Joey Reyes, Daina Mattis, Alex Schmitz, and Mike Berlant; and third-year graduate students Jessica Sharpe, Gwendolyn Reyes, and Jon Lee.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand, the college's program exhibitions coordinator, at 315-474-1217 or adhavenh@syr.edu.

36th Annual On My Own Time Exhibit
CNY Arts

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

The Cultural Resources Council in partnership with local businesses presents this exhibit featuring artwork in a variety of mediums by 91 artists from 15 companies in the Central New York area.

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Follow the Golden Mean: Works of Susan Hadzor and Robert vonHunke
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Skaneateles Artisans is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibit featuring stained glass art by Susan Hadzor and oil painting and photography by Robert vonHunke.

Monday, September 7, 2009

FluXus in German: Works by Robert Burkhart
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

FluXus in German: Fluxus is defined as the wry, post-Dada art movement that flourished in New York and Germany in the 1950s and 60s, and influences many contemporary artists. This is an event and an activity to take part in, a showing of Fluxus with the possibility to learn a different language (yet to be proven).

Rob Burkhart worked in industrial arts through high school and continued to obtain a degree in Construction Technology. He was employed in the areas of carpentry, masonry, painting, flooring, and maintenance, and currently works at Syracuse University. With his hands in the materials, he found a love of painting and became a self-taught artist who has freedom to explore. His style may be committed to nonrealistic modes of art, but it still can hop across a stream of perception. Music is a large factor in the creation of his projects. It sets the cool to guide him or the heat to drip his self-expression through a visual vocabulary. Like many artists, he wants his paintings to speak. So if possible, sip, eavesdrop, saturate, and consider.

Barry Anderson: Intermissions
Light Work Gallery

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

Barry Anderson's videos depict purple skies, abstract worlds filled with bubbles, and colorful fragments of semi-familiar scenes. His work reminds people to stop and enjoy the moment.

Anderson's photographs and videos are featured in an innovative art exhibition, Intermissions, which offers a welcome artistic interruption to daily life in a time of economic uncertainty and other societal stresses. Organized by Light Work, a non-profit, artist-run organization on the Syracuse University campus, the fall exhibition will appear at over a dozen venues both on and off campus.

Anderson's colorful video pieces include abstract patterns, nature scenes, and semi-nostalgic images from decade-old advertising. Each piece creates a good-natured, introspective scene that contrasts the busy settings where the work is shown. Intermissions places video art and photographs at multiple venues across Syracuse, making it accessible to the general community and creating many opportunities for meaningful interaction with the work.

Partners in this unique collaboration include SUArt Galleries, Syracuse Symposium, the Tolley Administration Building, Schine Student Center, Orange TV Network, The Warehouse, Community Folk Art Center, the Everson Museum of Art, the Urban Video Project, the Red House Arts Center, and more. Exhibition sites also include public spaces such as billboards and video projections onto windows on campus and buildings in downtown Syracuse.

Barry Anderson was born in Greenville, TX. He holds an MFA from Indiana University. His work has been shown throughout the country, as well as in Thailand, South America, Cuba, and the UK. He lives in Kansas City. Barry participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

Follow the Golden Mean: Works of Susan Hadzor and Robert vonHunke
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Skaneateles Artisans is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibit featuring stained glass art by Susan Hadzor and oil painting and photography by Robert vonHunke.

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Gallery Exhibition: Gary Trento
Onondaga Community College

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

Gary Trento's entire adult life as a practicing painter has been spent believing in the persuasive power of painting; more specifically, in how representational painting can transform the activity of direct observation of the live model in real time and space into meaningful, pictorial structure. His observation of the live model, like Vermeer, Chardin, Ingre, Degas is not about a desire to possess, rather a desire to contemplate and evaluate the nature of appearance. He wants to experience observation, to bring it close, to examine, interpret, to look 'for', not 'at'. Observation is discriminatory, hence the basis for self-knowledge.

Howard Bond Retrospective
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Twenty-two pieces of Bond's work was donated to the SU's Bird Library by alumnus Carl Armani. The exhibition, which includes these works, is a retrospective of 30 years of Bond's creative work highlighting the photographer's mastery of abstraction, proximity, pattern, texture, and landscape.

Presented in conjunction with the 2009 Syracuse Symposium, "Light".

FluXus in German: Works by Robert Burkhart
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

FluXus in German: Fluxus is defined as the wry, post-Dada art movement that flourished in New York and Germany in the 1950s and 60s, and influences many contemporary artists. This is an event and an activity to take part in, a showing of Fluxus with the possibility to learn a different language (yet to be proven).

Rob Burkhart worked in industrial arts through high school and continued to obtain a degree in Construction Technology. He was employed in the areas of carpentry, masonry, painting, flooring, and maintenance, and currently works at Syracuse University. With his hands in the materials, he found a love of painting and became a self-taught artist who has freedom to explore. His style may be committed to nonrealistic modes of art, but it still can hop across a stream of perception. Music is a large factor in the creation of his projects. It sets the cool to guide him or the heat to drip his self-expression through a visual vocabulary. Like many artists, he wants his paintings to speak. So if possible, sip, eavesdrop, saturate, and consider.

Dimensions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Bob Gates: Photography
David Webster: Ceramics
Marna Bell: Photography

Barry Anderson: Intermissions
Light Work Gallery

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

Barry Anderson's videos depict purple skies, abstract worlds filled with bubbles, and colorful fragments of semi-familiar scenes. His work reminds people to stop and enjoy the moment.

Anderson's photographs and videos are featured in an innovative art exhibition, Intermissions, which offers a welcome artistic interruption to daily life in a time of economic uncertainty and other societal stresses. Organized by Light Work, a non-profit, artist-run organization on the Syracuse University campus, the fall exhibition will appear at over a dozen venues both on and off campus.

Anderson's colorful video pieces include abstract patterns, nature scenes, and semi-nostalgic images from decade-old advertising. Each piece creates a good-natured, introspective scene that contrasts the busy settings where the work is shown. Intermissions places video art and photographs at multiple venues across Syracuse, making it accessible to the general community and creating many opportunities for meaningful interaction with the work.

Partners in this unique collaboration include SUArt Galleries, Syracuse Symposium, the Tolley Administration Building, Schine Student Center, Orange TV Network, The Warehouse, Community Folk Art Center, the Everson Museum of Art, the Urban Video Project, the Red House Arts Center, and more. Exhibition sites also include public spaces such as billboards and video projections onto windows on campus and buildings in downtown Syracuse.

Barry Anderson was born in Greenville, TX. He holds an MFA from Indiana University. His work has been shown throughout the country, as well as in Thailand, South America, Cuba, and the UK. He lives in Kansas City. Barry participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

Follow the Golden Mean: Works of Susan Hadzor and Robert vonHunke
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Skaneateles Artisans is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibit featuring stained glass art by Susan Hadzor and oil painting and photography by Robert vonHunke.

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond focuses on the period in the American artist's life when he spent two summers at Houghton Farm in Mountainville, NY, a rustic summer residence in the Hudson Valley region of New York state owned by his principal patron and friend since childhood, Lawson Valentine.

The show brings together 28 of Homer's watercolors, drawings, wood engravings, oil paintings, and ceramic tiles of the period from galleries, private collections, and museums across the country.

For more information, visit homer.syr.edu.

36th Annual On My Own Time Exhibit
CNY Arts

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

The Cultural Resources Council in partnership with local businesses presents this exhibit featuring artwork in a variety of mediums by 91 artists from 15 companies in the Central New York area.

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Kings, Thieves: Video Animation by Barry Anderson
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Point of Contact is proud to be part of this large-scale video exhibition for Kansas City artist Barry Anderson, presented in conjunction with Light Work Gallery. The exhibition, titled Intermissions, features primarily video work and some photography, and takes place in 22 different venues throughout the city of Syracuse and on the Syracuse University campus.

Organ Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring University Organist Kola Owolabi

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

Owolabi will perform on Setnor Auditorium's historic 1950 Holtkamp organ. The program will include works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Ludwig Krebs, Maurice Duruflé, Rachel Laurin, and William Bolcom. The concert will also feature senior Jordan Dusek on oboe and a student vocal ensemble.

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage. For more information, phone 315-443-5043.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Gallery Exhibition: Gary Trento
Onondaga Community College

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

Gary Trento's entire adult life as a practicing painter has been spent believing in the persuasive power of painting; more specifically, in how representational painting can transform the activity of direct observation of the live model in real time and space into meaningful, pictorial structure. His observation of the live model, like Vermeer, Chardin, Ingre, Degas is not about a desire to possess, rather a desire to contemplate and evaluate the nature of appearance. He wants to experience observation, to bring it close, to examine, interpret, to look 'for', not 'at'. Observation is discriminatory, hence the basis for self-knowledge.

Howard Bond Retrospective
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Twenty-two pieces of Bond's work was donated to the SU's Bird Library by alumnus Carl Armani. The exhibition, which includes these works, is a retrospective of 30 years of Bond's creative work highlighting the photographer's mastery of abstraction, proximity, pattern, texture, and landscape.

Presented in conjunction with the 2009 Syracuse Symposium, "Light".

FluXus in German: Works by Robert Burkhart
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

FluXus in German: Fluxus is defined as the wry, post-Dada art movement that flourished in New York and Germany in the 1950s and 60s, and influences many contemporary artists. This is an event and an activity to take part in, a showing of Fluxus with the possibility to learn a different language (yet to be proven).

Rob Burkhart worked in industrial arts through high school and continued to obtain a degree in Construction Technology. He was employed in the areas of carpentry, masonry, painting, flooring, and maintenance, and currently works at Syracuse University. With his hands in the materials, he found a love of painting and became a self-taught artist who has freedom to explore. His style may be committed to nonrealistic modes of art, but it still can hop across a stream of perception. Music is a large factor in the creation of his projects. It sets the cool to guide him or the heat to drip his self-expression through a visual vocabulary. Like many artists, he wants his paintings to speak. So if possible, sip, eavesdrop, saturate, and consider.

Dimensions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Bob Gates: Photography
David Webster: Ceramics
Marna Bell: Photography

Barry Anderson: Intermissions
Light Work Gallery

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

Barry Anderson's videos depict purple skies, abstract worlds filled with bubbles, and colorful fragments of semi-familiar scenes. His work reminds people to stop and enjoy the moment.

Anderson's photographs and videos are featured in an innovative art exhibition, Intermissions, which offers a welcome artistic interruption to daily life in a time of economic uncertainty and other societal stresses. Organized by Light Work, a non-profit, artist-run organization on the Syracuse University campus, the fall exhibition will appear at over a dozen venues both on and off campus.

Anderson's colorful video pieces include abstract patterns, nature scenes, and semi-nostalgic images from decade-old advertising. Each piece creates a good-natured, introspective scene that contrasts the busy settings where the work is shown. Intermissions places video art and photographs at multiple venues across Syracuse, making it accessible to the general community and creating many opportunities for meaningful interaction with the work.

Partners in this unique collaboration include SUArt Galleries, Syracuse Symposium, the Tolley Administration Building, Schine Student Center, Orange TV Network, The Warehouse, Community Folk Art Center, the Everson Museum of Art, the Urban Video Project, the Red House Arts Center, and more. Exhibition sites also include public spaces such as billboards and video projections onto windows on campus and buildings in downtown Syracuse.

Barry Anderson was born in Greenville, TX. He holds an MFA from Indiana University. His work has been shown throughout the country, as well as in Thailand, South America, Cuba, and the UK. He lives in Kansas City. Barry participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

Follow the Golden Mean: Works of Susan Hadzor and Robert vonHunke
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Skaneateles Artisans is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibit featuring stained glass art by Susan Hadzor and oil painting and photography by Robert vonHunke.

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond focuses on the period in the American artist's life when he spent two summers at Houghton Farm in Mountainville, NY, a rustic summer residence in the Hudson Valley region of New York state owned by his principal patron and friend since childhood, Lawson Valentine.

The show brings together 28 of Homer's watercolors, drawings, wood engravings, oil paintings, and ceramic tiles of the period from galleries, private collections, and museums across the country.

For more information, visit homer.syr.edu.

Graduate Painting
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The exhibition will feature large paintings and installations by first-year graduate students Rachel Van Pelt, Jave Yoshimoto, and Annie Ryerson; second-year graduate students Joey Reyes, Daina Mattis, Alex Schmitz, and Mike Berlant; and third-year graduate students Jessica Sharpe, Gwendolyn Reyes, and Jon Lee.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand, the college's program exhibitions coordinator, at 315-474-1217 or adhavenh@syr.edu.

36th Annual On My Own Time Exhibit
CNY Arts

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

The Cultural Resources Council in partnership with local businesses presents this exhibit featuring artwork in a variety of mediums by 91 artists from 15 companies in the Central New York area.

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Kings, Thieves: Video Animation by Barry Anderson
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Point of Contact is proud to be part of this large-scale video exhibition for Kansas City artist Barry Anderson, presented in conjunction with Light Work Gallery. The exhibition, titled Intermissions, features primarily video work and some photography, and takes place in 22 different venues throughout the city of Syracuse and on the Syracuse University campus.

The New Deal
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

The New Deal is a pioneer of the "livetronica" sound and a mainstay in both the Electronic and Jamband scenes for close to eight years. At the vanguard of a new progressive style, the New Deal has become a live touring phenomenon. They have appeared at Bonnaroo, Langerado, Jazz Fest New Orleans, the Coachella Festival, Street Scene in San Diego, Berkfest, Gathering of the Vibes, Camp Bisco, and the Detroit Electronic Music Festival to name just a few. They have headlined over 400 shows in the past 4 years. The New Deal inspires audiences of all kinds, from packed dance clubs across North America, to spellbound receptions during opening tours with Herbie Hancock and Page McConnell from Phish.

Cirque du Soleil: Alegría

Price: $40-$95 regular, $25 students/seniors
War Memorial at Oncenter
800 S. State St., Syracuse

Alegría is a mood, a state of mind. The themes of the show, whose name means "jubilation" in Spanish, are many. Power and the handing down of power over time, the evolution from ancient monarchies to modern democracies, old age, youth—it is against this backdrop that the characters of Alegría play out their lives. Kings' fools, minstrels, beggars, old aristocrats and children make up its universe, along with the clowns, who alone are able to resist the passing of time and the social transformations that accompany it.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Gallery Exhibition: Gary Trento
Onondaga Community College

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

Gary Trento's entire adult life as a practicing painter has been spent believing in the persuasive power of painting; more specifically, in how representational painting can transform the activity of direct observation of the live model in real time and space into meaningful, pictorial structure. His observation of the live model, like Vermeer, Chardin, Ingre, Degas is not about a desire to possess, rather a desire to contemplate and evaluate the nature of appearance. He wants to experience observation, to bring it close, to examine, interpret, to look 'for', not 'at'. Observation is discriminatory, hence the basis for self-knowledge.

Howard Bond Retrospective
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Twenty-two pieces of Bond's work was donated to the SU's Bird Library by alumnus Carl Armani. The exhibition, which includes these works, is a retrospective of 30 years of Bond's creative work highlighting the photographer's mastery of abstraction, proximity, pattern, texture, and landscape.

Presented in conjunction with the 2009 Syracuse Symposium, "Light".

FluXus in German: Works by Robert Burkhart
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

FluXus in German: Fluxus is defined as the wry, post-Dada art movement that flourished in New York and Germany in the 1950s and 60s, and influences many contemporary artists. This is an event and an activity to take part in, a showing of Fluxus with the possibility to learn a different language (yet to be proven).

Rob Burkhart worked in industrial arts through high school and continued to obtain a degree in Construction Technology. He was employed in the areas of carpentry, masonry, painting, flooring, and maintenance, and currently works at Syracuse University. With his hands in the materials, he found a love of painting and became a self-taught artist who has freedom to explore. His style may be committed to nonrealistic modes of art, but it still can hop across a stream of perception. Music is a large factor in the creation of his projects. It sets the cool to guide him or the heat to drip his self-expression through a visual vocabulary. Like many artists, he wants his paintings to speak. So if possible, sip, eavesdrop, saturate, and consider.

Dimensions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Bob Gates: Photography
David Webster: Ceramics
Marna Bell: Photography

Barry Anderson: Intermissions
Light Work Gallery

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

Barry Anderson's videos depict purple skies, abstract worlds filled with bubbles, and colorful fragments of semi-familiar scenes. His work reminds people to stop and enjoy the moment.

Anderson's photographs and videos are featured in an innovative art exhibition, Intermissions, which offers a welcome artistic interruption to daily life in a time of economic uncertainty and other societal stresses. Organized by Light Work, a non-profit, artist-run organization on the Syracuse University campus, the fall exhibition will appear at over a dozen venues both on and off campus.

Anderson's colorful video pieces include abstract patterns, nature scenes, and semi-nostalgic images from decade-old advertising. Each piece creates a good-natured, introspective scene that contrasts the busy settings where the work is shown. Intermissions places video art and photographs at multiple venues across Syracuse, making it accessible to the general community and creating many opportunities for meaningful interaction with the work.

Partners in this unique collaboration include SUArt Galleries, Syracuse Symposium, the Tolley Administration Building, Schine Student Center, Orange TV Network, The Warehouse, Community Folk Art Center, the Everson Museum of Art, the Urban Video Project, the Red House Arts Center, and more. Exhibition sites also include public spaces such as billboards and video projections onto windows on campus and buildings in downtown Syracuse.

Barry Anderson was born in Greenville, TX. He holds an MFA from Indiana University. His work has been shown throughout the country, as well as in Thailand, South America, Cuba, and the UK. He lives in Kansas City. Barry participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

The Salted Lip: A Tall Drink of Something Cool
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Ed Feldman's finely crafted pots celebrate the ceremony of drinking and eating with friends, and are infused with a spirit of generosity and indulgence. His pots are completely functional. They add elegance and personality to any dinner table or decor. Each piece is unique due to the introduction of sodium bicarbonate into the atmosphere of the kiln during firing, resulting in luscious and colorful surfaces.

A native Central New Yorker, Ed Feldman started his ceramics studies at SUNY Cortland. Later, he worked as a studio assistant to his professor, John Jessiman. Feldman has exhibited nationally in many shows including History in the Making in Rochester and the prestigious Strictly Functional, in Lancaster, PA. He recently received a MFA in Ceramics at Syracuse University and moved to Cortland to set up his own pottery studio.

Follow the Golden Mean: Works of Susan Hadzor and Robert vonHunke
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Skaneateles Artisans is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibit featuring stained glass art by Susan Hadzor and oil painting and photography by Robert vonHunke.

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond focuses on the period in the American artist's life when he spent two summers at Houghton Farm in Mountainville, NY, a rustic summer residence in the Hudson Valley region of New York state owned by his principal patron and friend since childhood, Lawson Valentine.

The show brings together 28 of Homer's watercolors, drawings, wood engravings, oil paintings, and ceramic tiles of the period from galleries, private collections, and museums across the country.

For more information, visit homer.syr.edu.

Graduate Painting
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The exhibition will feature large paintings and installations by first-year graduate students Rachel Van Pelt, Jave Yoshimoto, and Annie Ryerson; second-year graduate students Joey Reyes, Daina Mattis, Alex Schmitz, and Mike Berlant; and third-year graduate students Jessica Sharpe, Gwendolyn Reyes, and Jon Lee.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand, the college's program exhibitions coordinator, at 315-474-1217 or adhavenh@syr.edu.

36th Annual On My Own Time Exhibit
CNY Arts

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

The Cultural Resources Council in partnership with local businesses presents this exhibit featuring artwork in a variety of mediums by 91 artists from 15 companies in the Central New York area.

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Opening: Visions
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Paintings by Phil Parsons, photography by Bill Storm, and ink drawings by Barbara Stout.

Opening: Wild Card Exhibition: Encaustics by Tanya Kirouac
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Kings, Thieves: Video Animation by Barry Anderson
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Point of Contact is proud to be part of this large-scale video exhibition for Kansas City artist Barry Anderson, presented in conjunction with Light Work Gallery. The exhibition, titled Intermissions, features primarily video work and some photography, and takes place in 22 different venues throughout the city of Syracuse and on the Syracuse University campus.

Behind Forgotten Eyes
Syracuse Symposium

Price: Free
Life Sciences Complex Auditorium
Syracuse University, Syracuse

There are heartbreaking moments in history that the world prefers to forget. Whilst Korea groaned under the harsh colonial rule of Imperial Japan, the Japanese Imperial Army coerced, tricked, and forced more than 200,000 Korean women into a brutal and systematic form of sexual slavery. This unconventional and shocking film examines the enduring legacy of this horrifying chapter in East Asian history through interviews with Korean victims, Japanese soldiers, academics, and social activists. (Directed by Anthony Gilmore, 76 min, USA/South Korea/Japan, 2007)

Screening will be followed by a discussion with co-director Ryan Seal.

This film is part of "Illuminating Oppression: The 7th Annual Human Rights Film Festival", and presented in conjunction with the 2009 Syracuse Symposium, "Light".

Photography as Art: Trends Since 1839
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center
Featuring Howard Bond

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

Howard Bond is a renowned photographer and protege of Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, and Brett Weston.

Presented in conjunction with the 2009 Syracuse Symposium, "Light".

Cirque du Soleil: Alegría

Price: $40-$95 regular, $25 students/seniors
War Memorial at Oncenter
800 S. State St., Syracuse

Alegría is a mood, a state of mind. The themes of the show, whose name means "jubilation" in Spanish, are many. Power and the handing down of power over time, the evolution from ancient monarchies to modern democracies, old age, youth—it is against this backdrop that the characters of Alegría play out their lives. Kings' fools, minstrels, beggars, old aristocrats and children make up its universe, along with the clowns, who alone are able to resist the passing of time and the social transformations that accompany it.

Preview: Mid-Life! The Crisis Musical
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

This wacky musical about reading glasses, mammograms, weekend warriors, proctology exams—all lampooned a la Saturday Night Live. If you bought some gingko biloba—but can't remember where you put it—then you're ready for MID-LIFE!

Book, music, and lyrics by Bob Walton and Jim Walton; Musical Director Michael Copps. Cast includes Jimmy Curtin, Shawn Forster, Peter Irwin, Tina Lee, Aubry Ludington Panek, and Suzanne Tiffault.

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Friday, September 11, 2009

Gallery Exhibition: Gary Trento
Onondaga Community College

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

Gary Trento's entire adult life as a practicing painter has been spent believing in the persuasive power of painting; more specifically, in how representational painting can transform the activity of direct observation of the live model in real time and space into meaningful, pictorial structure. His observation of the live model, like Vermeer, Chardin, Ingre, Degas is not about a desire to possess, rather a desire to contemplate and evaluate the nature of appearance. He wants to experience observation, to bring it close, to examine, interpret, to look 'for', not 'at'. Observation is discriminatory, hence the basis for self-knowledge.

Howard Bond Retrospective
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Twenty-two pieces of Bond's work was donated to the SU's Bird Library by alumnus Carl Armani. The exhibition, which includes these works, is a retrospective of 30 years of Bond's creative work highlighting the photographer's mastery of abstraction, proximity, pattern, texture, and landscape.

Presented in conjunction with the 2009 Syracuse Symposium, "Light".

FluXus in German: Works by Robert Burkhart
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

FluXus in German: Fluxus is defined as the wry, post-Dada art movement that flourished in New York and Germany in the 1950s and 60s, and influences many contemporary artists. This is an event and an activity to take part in, a showing of Fluxus with the possibility to learn a different language (yet to be proven).

Rob Burkhart worked in industrial arts through high school and continued to obtain a degree in Construction Technology. He was employed in the areas of carpentry, masonry, painting, flooring, and maintenance, and currently works at Syracuse University. With his hands in the materials, he found a love of painting and became a self-taught artist who has freedom to explore. His style may be committed to nonrealistic modes of art, but it still can hop across a stream of perception. Music is a large factor in the creation of his projects. It sets the cool to guide him or the heat to drip his self-expression through a visual vocabulary. Like many artists, he wants his paintings to speak. So if possible, sip, eavesdrop, saturate, and consider.

Dimensions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Bob Gates: Photography
David Webster: Ceramics
Marna Bell: Photography

Barry Anderson: Intermissions
Light Work Gallery

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

Barry Anderson's videos depict purple skies, abstract worlds filled with bubbles, and colorful fragments of semi-familiar scenes. His work reminds people to stop and enjoy the moment.

Anderson's photographs and videos are featured in an innovative art exhibition, Intermissions, which offers a welcome artistic interruption to daily life in a time of economic uncertainty and other societal stresses. Organized by Light Work, a non-profit, artist-run organization on the Syracuse University campus, the fall exhibition will appear at over a dozen venues both on and off campus.

Anderson's colorful video pieces include abstract patterns, nature scenes, and semi-nostalgic images from decade-old advertising. Each piece creates a good-natured, introspective scene that contrasts the busy settings where the work is shown. Intermissions places video art and photographs at multiple venues across Syracuse, making it accessible to the general community and creating many opportunities for meaningful interaction with the work.

Partners in this unique collaboration include SUArt Galleries, Syracuse Symposium, the Tolley Administration Building, Schine Student Center, Orange TV Network, The Warehouse, Community Folk Art Center, the Everson Museum of Art, the Urban Video Project, the Red House Arts Center, and more. Exhibition sites also include public spaces such as billboards and video projections onto windows on campus and buildings in downtown Syracuse.

Barry Anderson was born in Greenville, TX. He holds an MFA from Indiana University. His work has been shown throughout the country, as well as in Thailand, South America, Cuba, and the UK. He lives in Kansas City. Barry participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

The Salted Lip: A Tall Drink of Something Cool
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Ed Feldman's finely crafted pots celebrate the ceremony of drinking and eating with friends, and are infused with a spirit of generosity and indulgence. His pots are completely functional. They add elegance and personality to any dinner table or decor. Each piece is unique due to the introduction of sodium bicarbonate into the atmosphere of the kiln during firing, resulting in luscious and colorful surfaces.

A native Central New Yorker, Ed Feldman started his ceramics studies at SUNY Cortland. Later, he worked as a studio assistant to his professor, John Jessiman. Feldman has exhibited nationally in many shows including History in the Making in Rochester and the prestigious Strictly Functional, in Lancaster, PA. He recently received a MFA in Ceramics at Syracuse University and moved to Cortland to set up his own pottery studio.

Follow the Golden Mean: Works of Susan Hadzor and Robert vonHunke
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Skaneateles Artisans is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibit featuring stained glass art by Susan Hadzor and oil painting and photography by Robert vonHunke.

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond focuses on the period in the American artist's life when he spent two summers at Houghton Farm in Mountainville, NY, a rustic summer residence in the Hudson Valley region of New York state owned by his principal patron and friend since childhood, Lawson Valentine.

The show brings together 28 of Homer's watercolors, drawings, wood engravings, oil paintings, and ceramic tiles of the period from galleries, private collections, and museums across the country.

For more information, visit homer.syr.edu.

36th Annual On My Own Time Exhibit
CNY Arts

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

The Cultural Resources Council in partnership with local businesses presents this exhibit featuring artwork in a variety of mediums by 91 artists from 15 companies in the Central New York area.

Visions
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Paintings by Phil Parsons, photography by Bill Storm, and ink drawings by Barbara Stout.

Wild Card Exhibition: Encaustics by Tanya Kirouac
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Graduate Painting
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The exhibition will feature large paintings and installations by first-year graduate students Rachel Van Pelt, Jave Yoshimoto, and Annie Ryerson; second-year graduate students Joey Reyes, Daina Mattis, Alex Schmitz, and Mike Berlant; and third-year graduate students Jessica Sharpe, Gwendolyn Reyes, and Jon Lee.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand, the college's program exhibitions coordinator, at 315-474-1217 or adhavenh@syr.edu.

Irish Festival

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

5:00: The Flyin Column
5:00: Merry Mischief
5:45: Butler-Sheehan School of Dance
6:00: The Common Taters (Dan Cleveland)
6:15: Drumcliffe School of Dance
6:30: Seamus Kennedy
6:45: Ashford School of Dance
7:00: Creevey
7:45: USMC Color Guard
7:45: 9/11 Remembrance
7:45: Blessing by Bishop Cunningham
7:45: Drumcliffe School of Dance
8:00: The Kreellers
8:00: Quigsy and the Bird
9:00: Cassidy McCale
9:15: Ashford School of Dance
9:30: Gaelic Storm

Information: 315-473-4330 or http://syracuseirishfestival.com

Kings, Thieves: Video Animation by Barry Anderson
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Point of Contact is proud to be part of this large-scale video exhibition for Kansas City artist Barry Anderson, presented in conjunction with Light Work Gallery. The exhibition, titled Intermissions, features primarily video work and some photography, and takes place in 22 different venues throughout the city of Syracuse and on the Syracuse University campus.

Still Human Still Here and Pray The Devil Back To Hell
Syracuse Symposium

Price: Free
Life Sciences Complex Auditorium
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Still Human Still Here: Destitution of the Refused Asylum Seekers>

Still Human Still Here depicts the predicament of refused UK asylum seekers who are denied support or the right to work, even if they are evidently unable to return to their country. Many are living in abject poverty, relying on others to survive, going hungry, and sleeping in the streets. The "Still Human Still Here" campaign calls on the UK government to end destitution as a policy tool against refused asylum-seekers. (Directed by Marc Hoeferlin and Barney Broomfield, 12 min, UK, 2007)

Pray The Devil Back To Hell

This is the extraordinary story of a small band of Liberian womenboth Christian and Muslimwho came together in the midst of a bloody civil war, took on violent warlords and the corrupt Charles Taylor regime, and won a long-awaited peace in 2003 for their shattered country. The women's historic, yet unsung achievement to bring lasting peace to their country is captured through contemporary interviews, archival images, and scenes of present-day Liberia. (Directed by Gini Reticker, 72 min, USA, 2007)

These films are part of "Illuminating Oppression: The 7th Annual Human Rights Film Festival", and presented in conjunction with the 2009 Syracuse Symposium, "Light".

Remembering the Heros

Price: Free; donations accepted for the Twin Towers Orphan Fund
Andrews Memorial United Methodist Church
106 Church St., North Syracuse

A concert performed in memory of those whose lives were lost during the tragic events of September 11, 2001.

Performers include pianists Cindy Josbena, Nancy Pease, Jerry Exline, and Maryna Mazhukhova; oboist Carol Fox; flautist Martha Grener; soprano Luba Lesser; cellist Christine Prevost; violist Mike Montaro; and violinists Jennifer Montaro and John Harnois.

The program will include music by Beethoven, Bozza, Brahms, Corelli, Josbena, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Schubert, Scott, plus The Ludlows (from Twilights of the Mist), Gabriel's Oboe (from The Mission), You Raise Me Up, Somewhere Out There, Ashokan Farewell, and Lord of the Dance.

For more information, phone 315-458-0890.

Mellits Consort
Redhouse

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

Red House Arts Center kicks off the 2009-10 season with the Mellits Consort, performing original music by acclaimed composer Marc Mellits. Combining "elements of modern minimalist technique, classical training and a love of modern rock" (ASCAP), Mellits Consort provides an exciting introduction to the inaugural Red House Alternatives music series.

Marc Mellits studied composition at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, Yale School of Music, Cornell University and Tanglewood. He is currently regarded as one of the leading American composers of his generation. Mellits' work has been commissioned and performed by groups worldwide, including the Kronos Quartet, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Bang On A Can All-Stars, Andrew Russo and Real Quiet, Canadian Brass, New Music Detroit, Fiarì Ensemble (Italy), the Society for New Music, and the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. He is currently an instructor in music theory and music history at Le Moyne College.

Mellits Consort has toured the world performing their unique blend of electro-acoustic classical music, most recently at the Musique en Roue Libre festival in Arras, France where they performed music from their 2006 release Paranoid Cheese. Mellits Consort consists of Cristina Buciu (violin), Kevin Gallagher (electric guitar), Marc Mellits (synthesizer), Elizabeth Simkin (cello), and Danny Tunick (marimba).

Mellits Consort will perform all original music by Marc Mellits, including the premiere of a new piece.

Frida, An Opera in Two Acts
Society for New Music

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

Music by Robert Xavier Rodriguez; libretto by Hilary Blecher and Migdalia Cruz

Performers include:
Frida: Gina Manziello; Diego: Jonathan Michie; Woman I: Laura Enslin; Woman II: Bridget Moriarty; Man I: Jonathan Howell; Man II: David Neal; chorus: Nora Fleming, Lillian Choi, Christopher Jackson, and Michael Chellis; Calaveras: Sangeetha Ekambaram, Robert Cowles, and Emily Gibson

Ann McIntyre, violin; Jon Mosbo, viola; David Le Doux, cello; Edward Castilano, double bass; Sam Emanuel, piano; Ronald L. Caravan, clarinet/sax; John Raschella, trumpet; Jeff Gray, bass trombone; Rob Bridge, percussion; Ken Meyer, guitar

Musical preparation: James Welsch and Neva Pilgrim; stage director: Eric Johnson; lighting/projections: Barry Steele; murals: Juan Cruz and apprentices; choreography: Danita Emma

Presented in collaboration with the Spanish Action League of Onondaga County.

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Cirque du Soleil: Alegría

Price: $40-$95 regular, $25 students/seniors
War Memorial at Oncenter
800 S. State St., Syracuse

Alegría is a mood, a state of mind. The themes of the show, whose name means "jubilation" in Spanish, are many. Power and the handing down of power over time, the evolution from ancient monarchies to modern democracies, old age, youth—it is against this backdrop that the characters of Alegría play out their lives. Kings' fools, minstrels, beggars, old aristocrats and children make up its universe, along with the clowns, who alone are able to resist the passing of time and the social transformations that accompany it.

Cirque du Soleil: Alegría

Price: $40-$95 regular, $25 students/seniors
War Memorial at Oncenter
800 S. State St., Syracuse

Alegría is a mood, a state of mind. The themes of the show, whose name means "jubilation" in Spanish, are many. Power and the handing down of power over time, the evolution from ancient monarchies to modern democracies, old age, youth—it is against this backdrop that the characters of Alegría play out their lives. Kings' fools, minstrels, beggars, old aristocrats and children make up its universe, along with the clowns, who alone are able to resist the passing of time and the social transformations that accompany it.

Lend Me a Tenor
Appleseed Productions
Dan Stevens, director

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

This night is the biggest in the history of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company; world famous tenor Tito Morelli is to perform Otello at the gala season opener. The General Manager hopes this will put Cleveland on the operatic map. Morelli is late; when he finally sweeps in it is too late to rehearse with the company. Through a hilarious series of mishaps, Il Stupendo is given a double dose of tranquilizers which mix with the booze he has consumed and he passes out. His pulse is so low that Saunders and his assistant Max believe he is dead. What to do? Max is an aspiring singer and Saunders persuades him to get into Morelli's Otello costume and try to fool the audience into thinking he's Il Stupendo. Max succeeds admirably, but Morelli comes to and gets into his other costume. Now two Otellos are running around in costume and two women are running around in lingerie, each thinking she is with Il Stupendo!

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Mid-Life! The Crisis Musical
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

This wacky musical about reading glasses, mammograms, weekend warriors, proctology exams—all lampooned a la Saturday Night Live. If you bought some gingko biloba—but can't remember where you put it—then you're ready for MID-LIFE!

Book, music, and lyrics by Bob Walton and Jim Walton; Musical Director Michael Copps. Cast includes Jimmy Curtin, Shawn Forster, Peter Irwin, Tina Lee, Aubry Ludington Panek, and Suzanne Tiffault.

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