Thursday, May 13, 2010

Gallery Exhibition: Architecture and Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Exhibition of student work from the Architecture and Interior Design Department. It is an annual exhibit that showcases some of the best work produced by our students in the preceding academic year.

Under The Surface: Ceramic Stylings of Shawn McGuire and Wes Weiss
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

"Under the Surface" explores the rich surfaces achieved by each ceramic artist using very different techniques. Shawn's work is thrown and altered and then naked Raku fired. Wes's work is hand-built from colored clays and the result is an active, vibrant surface.

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place" and "Experimental Urbanism"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place," in Gallery A, featuring photographs by Jane Winslow and Mindy Ostrow. This exhibition invites the viewer to see the world through the lens of two of the regions most talented photographers.

"Experimental Urbanism," in Gallery B, features work by internationally known installation artist, Richard Metzgar. This particular exhibit showcases a series of prints that challenge the viewer to rethink the ways they document place and experience.

Horizons
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Anna Soltyk: richly textured oil and mixed media paintings
Phil Austin: glass artistry
Wendy Harris: upstate landscape done en plein air in pastel and mixed media

Read a review!

38th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Syracuse Chapter of the Links, Inc. in cooperation with Community Folk Art Center and local school districts join their efforts to provide an ongoing opportunity to recognize teenagers (ages 13-19) of African American, Hispanic American, Native American, and Asian American heritage as well as those from other underrepresented groups who demonstrate talents in the fine arts.

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Works of Bridget Bossart Van Otterloo, Lucie Wellner, and Katherine Houston
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

elegy: society for a dead society
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Drawn from details of the death of a former friend and bandmate of artist Paul Lloyd Sargent, "elegy" is presented through a multimedia installation of mashed-up, remixed, and recontextualized historical ephemera collected from mixtapes, amateur videos, zines, photographs, band fliers, sketchbook pages, song lyrics, and more. A lament for the death of youth despite the overwhelming persistence of youth culture, "elegy: society for a dead society" paints nostalgia and cynicism as two shades within the same dark palette.

Paul Lloyd Sargent splits his time between Brooklyn and Wellesley Island, NY. He was raised in Syracuse and graduated from Nottingham High School in 1989 and Hamilton College in 1993. After stints in Las Vegas, Boston, and Venice Beach, in 2000, he received his MFA in video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

May Garden Party
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Garden-themed pieces in a variety of mediums.

Fiction to Function: Recent Work by Shanna Fliegel
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Shanna Fliegel's ceramic artwork draws upon "the surrealistic nature of dreams and childhood memories" and combines image, color, and sculpted forms to create "vehicles that generate stories for the viewer." Her artistic output includes anthropomorphic figures, wall tablets, and functional vessels and these will be on view.

Read a review!

Works of Gretchen Hamlin and Bob Ripley
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

New works by watercolorist Bob Ripley and glass artist Gretchen Hamlin.

MFA MMX (2010)
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual exhibition of masters of fine arts candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts will include 20 artists displaying a broad range of traditional and contemporary work, including painting, ceramics and sculpture, as well as digital photography, installation, and computer art.

While the artists work independently on their thesis concepts, themes have routinely emerged within the group—crossing the boundaries of media and style. This year's exhibition is no exception; the work exudes a highly developed sense of technique and thought. In MFA MMX, however, the artists engage the viewer, both physically and psychologically, in a way not seen in previous MFA exhibitions. The narrative photography of Jared Landberg, a documentary film by Sonya Pollard, and the video installation of Esther Probst are examples of the thematic way many the artists record their personal history or specific experiences. Another pervading theme in the exhibition is interaction: walking through the unique environments created by painters Gwendolyn Mercado-Reyes and Jessica Sharpe, playing the autobiographical video game created by Ryan Marchand, or taking one of the hundreds of ceramic cups thrown by Shawn O'Connor; the viewer is invited to physically take part in the artistic experience.

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 2010, the Everson Museum of Art introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series as an alternative to the traditional Biennial Exhibition. Fit to be Bound, the second exhibition in a series of four will showcase a broad range of artist books created by artists currently living in New York State—the first survey of its kind at the Everson. The exhibition will be an exploration of the various means by which contemporary artists have expanded the notion of the book form, from the traditional to the sculptural, from paper to mixed-media, small-scale and oversized.

Read a review!

Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
Everson Museum of Art

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

During the height of Maxfield Parrish's popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, he was the most reproduced American artist of his era. Disseminated through magazine covers, book illustrations, calendar pads, advertisements, and color reproductions, Parrish's images occupied a ubiquitous presence in popular visual culture. While recent exhibitions of Parrish have focused mainly on his original oil paintings, Fantasies and Fairy-Tales represents the first comprehensive sampling of Parrish's work in a variety of printed media.

Alphabet in Your Own Backyard
Everson Museum of Art

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

This exhibition highlights selected work from a two-year collaborative community project between Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University Library, and four schools from the Syracuse City School District: Henninger, Nottingham, Corcoran and Fowler. Students photographed "hidden" letters in their neighborhoods and transformed their "found alphabets" into artist books. The project is funded by a Syracuse University Enitiative grant with funds from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

B.F.A. Thesis Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Exhibition of thesis work by B.F.A. students in the School of Art and Design.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

Isaac Bidwell: The Big Three-Oh
Echo

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

A solo exhibition of art work by Isaac Bidwell. For this show, Isaac has arranged a collection of 30 original ink drawings, paintings and digital illustrations. As his first exhibition in Syracuse since 2008, The Big Three-Oh not only displays a body of new and unseen works, but the end of Isaac's twenties.

A Tender Record: Early black and white photographs by Marjory Wilkins
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Curated by Nancy Keefe Rhodes, this is an exhibit of 35 restored and finished prints of the now-extinct 15th Ward and others of historical relevance to both the African American community and the Syracuse community at large. Marjory Wilkins has been an important figure in our community for over six decades, inspiring many through her camera's view of the world. Her work is described by the exhibit curator in this way: "As documentary photographs, they record history, whether recent or remote, that is 'minority' history—that is, history often outside of its own community, either ignored or contested by stereotypes."

Her photography has become an invaluable resource to remember a place now destroyed, and a community with a charm and importance almost unknown to those outside of it.

Dead Pull Hitter
Acme Mystery Company

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

Play ball! Come on out to the ball park, loyal followers. It's media day and your hometown Sympronius Swamp Turtles are getting ready for yet another pathetic season of shabby, losing baseball. Make sure you wear your protective gear this year, sports fans. Jobs are now on the line and the new owner plays rough. Really, really rough.

Fences
Syracuse Stage

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

Because a true classic always speaks to us anew. Pittsburgh, 1957. Troy Maxon, ex-ballplayer, complicated African-American family man and garbage collector, has lived a life of diminished hopes and abandoned dreams. Now Troy's talented son, Cory, has hopes and dreams of his own. Will Troy allow his bitterness about the past to poison his son's promising future? With a view toward a better future, August Wilson's Fences first posed this dramatic and necessary question 25 years ago ... and it hits us as hard today.

Read a Review!

Falsettos
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

Falsettos is a story of love in the face of modern conflicts. The story takes place between 1979 and 1981 and follows Marvin, who has left his wife Trina and son Jason for a male lover, Whizzer, but still wants them all to be one big happy family. Life gets more complicated when Trina falls for Marvin's psychiatrist, Mendel, while Jason is about to be Bar Mitzvah-ed and the lesbians next door, Cordelia and Dr. Charlotte, are doing the catering! As if that's not complicated enough, Whizzer and Marvin break up and then are reunited, only to find that Whizzer is dying of some new unexplained disease.

Winner of the 1992 Tony Award for Best Score and Best Book for a Musical, Falsettos is a powerful piece for both its ability to capture an important moment in history and in its depiction of very real and human characters faced with significant adversity. Despite dealing with the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic, Falsettos is primarily about experiencing life and love; a joyous story of the struggle between values, love, and forgiveness. William Finn touches on the joy and happiness of every family by depicting one very different family.

Music direction by Jeff Unaitis. Cast members include Dana Sovocool, Peter Irwin, and Josh Mele.

Read a review!

Driving Miss Daisy
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
Bob Brown, director

Price: $30; $15 students and seniors
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Comedy about an elderly Georgia woman and her chauffeur, starring Shirley Ann Fenner and David Walker.

Read a review!

I Love You Because
Syracuse University Drama Department
Marie Kemp, director

Price: $18 regular, $16 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Ah, New York, city of romance, where relationships end badly, and on the rebound everyone falls for the wrong person. Such is the world of I Love You Because. This infectiously entertaining modern day musical love story is filled with witty and incisive lyrics and a rich and tuneful score. A quirky and slightly nutty take on modern dating. Think Friends with terrific songs and dancing.

Read a Review!

Friday, May 14, 2010

Gallery Exhibition: Architecture and Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Exhibition of student work from the Architecture and Interior Design Department. It is an annual exhibit that showcases some of the best work produced by our students in the preceding academic year.

Under The Surface: Ceramic Stylings of Shawn McGuire and Wes Weiss
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

"Under the Surface" explores the rich surfaces achieved by each ceramic artist using very different techniques. Shawn's work is thrown and altered and then naked Raku fired. Wes's work is hand-built from colored clays and the result is an active, vibrant surface.

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place" and "Experimental Urbanism"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place," in Gallery A, featuring photographs by Jane Winslow and Mindy Ostrow. This exhibition invites the viewer to see the world through the lens of two of the regions most talented photographers.

"Experimental Urbanism," in Gallery B, features work by internationally known installation artist, Richard Metzgar. This particular exhibit showcases a series of prints that challenge the viewer to rethink the ways they document place and experience.

Horizons
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Anna Soltyk: richly textured oil and mixed media paintings
Phil Austin: glass artistry
Wendy Harris: upstate landscape done en plein air in pastel and mixed media

Read a review!

38th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Syracuse Chapter of the Links, Inc. in cooperation with Community Folk Art Center and local school districts join their efforts to provide an ongoing opportunity to recognize teenagers (ages 13-19) of African American, Hispanic American, Native American, and Asian American heritage as well as those from other underrepresented groups who demonstrate talents in the fine arts.

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Works of Bridget Bossart Van Otterloo, Lucie Wellner, and Katherine Houston
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

elegy: society for a dead society
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Drawn from details of the death of a former friend and bandmate of artist Paul Lloyd Sargent, "elegy" is presented through a multimedia installation of mashed-up, remixed, and recontextualized historical ephemera collected from mixtapes, amateur videos, zines, photographs, band fliers, sketchbook pages, song lyrics, and more. A lament for the death of youth despite the overwhelming persistence of youth culture, "elegy: society for a dead society" paints nostalgia and cynicism as two shades within the same dark palette.

Paul Lloyd Sargent splits his time between Brooklyn and Wellesley Island, NY. He was raised in Syracuse and graduated from Nottingham High School in 1989 and Hamilton College in 1993. After stints in Las Vegas, Boston, and Venice Beach, in 2000, he received his MFA in video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

May Garden Party
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Garden-themed pieces in a variety of mediums.

Fiction to Function: Recent Work by Shanna Fliegel
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Shanna Fliegel's ceramic artwork draws upon "the surrealistic nature of dreams and childhood memories" and combines image, color, and sculpted forms to create "vehicles that generate stories for the viewer." Her artistic output includes anthropomorphic figures, wall tablets, and functional vessels and these will be on view.

Read a review!

Works of Gretchen Hamlin and Bob Ripley
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

New works by watercolorist Bob Ripley and glass artist Gretchen Hamlin.

MFA MMX (2010)
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual exhibition of masters of fine arts candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts will include 20 artists displaying a broad range of traditional and contemporary work, including painting, ceramics and sculpture, as well as digital photography, installation, and computer art.

While the artists work independently on their thesis concepts, themes have routinely emerged within the group—crossing the boundaries of media and style. This year's exhibition is no exception; the work exudes a highly developed sense of technique and thought. In MFA MMX, however, the artists engage the viewer, both physically and psychologically, in a way not seen in previous MFA exhibitions. The narrative photography of Jared Landberg, a documentary film by Sonya Pollard, and the video installation of Esther Probst are examples of the thematic way many the artists record their personal history or specific experiences. Another pervading theme in the exhibition is interaction: walking through the unique environments created by painters Gwendolyn Mercado-Reyes and Jessica Sharpe, playing the autobiographical video game created by Ryan Marchand, or taking one of the hundreds of ceramic cups thrown by Shawn O'Connor; the viewer is invited to physically take part in the artistic experience.

Isaac Bidwell: The Big Three-Oh
Echo

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

A solo exhibition of art work by Isaac Bidwell. For this show, Isaac has arranged a collection of 30 original ink drawings, paintings and digital illustrations. As his first exhibition in Syracuse since 2008, The Big Three-Oh not only displays a body of new and unseen works, but the end of Isaac's twenties.

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 2010, the Everson Museum of Art introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series as an alternative to the traditional Biennial Exhibition. Fit to be Bound, the second exhibition in a series of four will showcase a broad range of artist books created by artists currently living in New York State—the first survey of its kind at the Everson. The exhibition will be an exploration of the various means by which contemporary artists have expanded the notion of the book form, from the traditional to the sculptural, from paper to mixed-media, small-scale and oversized.

Read a review!

Alphabet in Your Own Backyard
Everson Museum of Art

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

This exhibition highlights selected work from a two-year collaborative community project between Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University Library, and four schools from the Syracuse City School District: Henninger, Nottingham, Corcoran and Fowler. Students photographed "hidden" letters in their neighborhoods and transformed their "found alphabets" into artist books. The project is funded by a Syracuse University Enitiative grant with funds from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
Everson Museum of Art

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

During the height of Maxfield Parrish's popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, he was the most reproduced American artist of his era. Disseminated through magazine covers, book illustrations, calendar pads, advertisements, and color reproductions, Parrish's images occupied a ubiquitous presence in popular visual culture. While recent exhibitions of Parrish have focused mainly on his original oil paintings, Fantasies and Fairy-Tales represents the first comprehensive sampling of Parrish's work in a variety of printed media.

B.F.A. Thesis Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Exhibition of thesis work by B.F.A. students in the School of Art and Design.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

A Tender Record: Early black and white photographs by Marjory Wilkins
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Curated by Nancy Keefe Rhodes, this is an exhibit of 35 restored and finished prints of the now-extinct 15th Ward and others of historical relevance to both the African American community and the Syracuse community at large. Marjory Wilkins has been an important figure in our community for over six decades, inspiring many through her camera's view of the world. Her work is described by the exhibit curator in this way: "As documentary photographs, they record history, whether recent or remote, that is 'minority' history—that is, history often outside of its own community, either ignored or contested by stereotypes."

Her photography has become an invaluable resource to remember a place now destroyed, and a community with a charm and importance almost unknown to those outside of it.

Syracuse Contemporary Dance Company

Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The oldest professional dance troupe in Central New York will feature original works in jazz, contemporary ballet, flamenco, tap and modern dance. Guest artists will be Benny Simon, director of New York City's Take Away Dance troupe, and Anne Harris Wilcox of Rochester's Present Dance Company. SCDC directors are Mary Pat D'Angelo and Patty Brundage.

Al-Nakba
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This not-to-be-missed, 200-minute documentary looks at an Arab perspective on Middle Eastern historical events. The two-part documentary series was produced by Al Jazeera's Arabic Channel. It tells the story of the Palestinian Catastrophe (Al Nakba) starting from the 18th century to today, including the role of the British Mandate and the ethnic cleansing operations climax between 1947-1949, till the on-going Nakba that is taking places now.

Classics Series: The Firebird
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring David LaDoux, cello

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

Copland Appalachian Spring Suite
Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33
Smetana The Bartered Bride: Three Dances
Stravinsky Firebird Suite (1919)

To Kill a Mockingbird
Appleseed Productions
Sharee Lemos, director

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

Scout is about to experience the dramatic events that will affect the rest of her life. She and brother Jem are being raised by their widower father Atticus and by a strong-minded housekeeper Calpurnia. Wide-eyed Scout is fascinated with the sensitively-revealed people of her small town but, from the start, there's a rumble of thunder just under the calm surface. The black people of the community have a special feeling about Scout's father and she doesn't know why. A few of her white friends are inexplicably hostile and Scout doesn't understand this either. Unpleasant things are shouted and the bewildered girl turns to her father. Atticus, a lawyer, explains that he's defending a young Negro wrongfully accused of a grave crime. Scout wants to know why he's doing it. "Because if I didn't," her father replies, "I couldn't hold my head up." He goes on to prepare Scout for the trouble to come. Things do get bitter, to the point where Atticus props himself in a chair against the cell door of the man he's defending and confronts an angry mob. Horrified Scout projects herself into this confrontation and her inconvenient presence helps bring back a little sanity. Atticus fights his legal battle with a result that is part defeat, part triumph. As Atticus comes out of the courthouse, the deeply moved town minister tells Scout, "Stand up. Your father's passing!"

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Cruizin' Thru the 1950s Dance Party

Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Come listen to the swingin' hits of he 1950s! There's plenty of room to cut a rug on the large dance floor.

To reserve tickets, phone 315-422-7011.

Read a Review!

Falsettos
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

Falsettos is a story of love in the face of modern conflicts. The story takes place between 1979 and 1981 and follows Marvin, who has left his wife Trina and son Jason for a male lover, Whizzer, but still wants them all to be one big happy family. Life gets more complicated when Trina falls for Marvin's psychiatrist, Mendel, while Jason is about to be Bar Mitzvah-ed and the lesbians next door, Cordelia and Dr. Charlotte, are doing the catering! As if that's not complicated enough, Whizzer and Marvin break up and then are reunited, only to find that Whizzer is dying of some new unexplained disease.

Winner of the 1992 Tony Award for Best Score and Best Book for a Musical, Falsettos is a powerful piece for both its ability to capture an important moment in history and in its depiction of very real and human characters faced with significant adversity. Despite dealing with the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic, Falsettos is primarily about experiencing life and love; a joyous story of the struggle between values, love, and forgiveness. William Finn touches on the joy and happiness of every family by depicting one very different family.

Music direction by Jeff Unaitis. Cast members include Dana Sovocool, Peter Irwin, and Josh Mele.

Read a review!

Driving Miss Daisy
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
Bob Brown, director

Price: $30; $15 students and seniors
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Comedy about an elderly Georgia woman and her chauffeur, starring Shirley Ann Fenner and David Walker.

Read a review!

Fences
Syracuse Stage

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

Because a true classic always speaks to us anew. Pittsburgh, 1957. Troy Maxon, ex-ballplayer, complicated African-American family man and garbage collector, has lived a life of diminished hopes and abandoned dreams. Now Troy's talented son, Cory, has hopes and dreams of his own. Will Troy allow his bitterness about the past to poison his son's promising future? With a view toward a better future, August Wilson's Fences first posed this dramatic and necessary question 25 years ago ... and it hits us as hard today.

Read a Review!

I Love You Because
Syracuse University Drama Department
Marie Kemp, director

Price: $18 regular, $16 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Ah, New York, city of romance, where relationships end badly, and on the rebound everyone falls for the wrong person. Such is the world of I Love You Because. This infectiously entertaining modern day musical love story is filled with witty and incisive lyrics and a rich and tuneful score. A quirky and slightly nutty take on modern dating. Think Friends with terrific songs and dancing.

Read a Review!

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Under The Surface: Ceramic Stylings of Shawn McGuire and Wes Weiss
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

"Under the Surface" explores the rich surfaces achieved by each ceramic artist using very different techniques. Shawn's work is thrown and altered and then naked Raku fired. Wes's work is hand-built from colored clays and the result is an active, vibrant surface.

Horizons
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Anna Soltyk: richly textured oil and mixed media paintings
Phil Austin: glass artistry
Wendy Harris: upstate landscape done en plein air in pastel and mixed media

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Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 2010, the Everson Museum of Art introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series as an alternative to the traditional Biennial Exhibition. Fit to be Bound, the second exhibition in a series of four will showcase a broad range of artist books created by artists currently living in New York State—the first survey of its kind at the Everson. The exhibition will be an exploration of the various means by which contemporary artists have expanded the notion of the book form, from the traditional to the sculptural, from paper to mixed-media, small-scale and oversized.

Read a review!

Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
Everson Museum of Art

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

During the height of Maxfield Parrish's popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, he was the most reproduced American artist of his era. Disseminated through magazine covers, book illustrations, calendar pads, advertisements, and color reproductions, Parrish's images occupied a ubiquitous presence in popular visual culture. While recent exhibitions of Parrish have focused mainly on his original oil paintings, Fantasies and Fairy-Tales represents the first comprehensive sampling of Parrish's work in a variety of printed media.

Alphabet in Your Own Backyard
Everson Museum of Art

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

This exhibition highlights selected work from a two-year collaborative community project between Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University Library, and four schools from the Syracuse City School District: Henninger, Nottingham, Corcoran and Fowler. Students photographed "hidden" letters in their neighborhoods and transformed their "found alphabets" into artist books. The project is funded by a Syracuse University Enitiative grant with funds from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

May Garden Party
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Garden-themed pieces in a variety of mediums.

38th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Syracuse Chapter of the Links, Inc. in cooperation with Community Folk Art Center and local school districts join their efforts to provide an ongoing opportunity to recognize teenagers (ages 13-19) of African American, Hispanic American, Native American, and Asian American heritage as well as those from other underrepresented groups who demonstrate talents in the fine arts.

Fiction to Function: Recent Work by Shanna Fliegel
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Shanna Fliegel's ceramic artwork draws upon "the surrealistic nature of dreams and childhood memories" and combines image, color, and sculpted forms to create "vehicles that generate stories for the viewer." Her artistic output includes anthropomorphic figures, wall tablets, and functional vessels and these will be on view.

Read a review!

Works of Gretchen Hamlin and Bob Ripley
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

New works by watercolorist Bob Ripley and glass artist Gretchen Hamlin.

MFA MMX (2010)
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual exhibition of masters of fine arts candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts will include 20 artists displaying a broad range of traditional and contemporary work, including painting, ceramics and sculpture, as well as digital photography, installation, and computer art.

While the artists work independently on their thesis concepts, themes have routinely emerged within the group—crossing the boundaries of media and style. This year's exhibition is no exception; the work exudes a highly developed sense of technique and thought. In MFA MMX, however, the artists engage the viewer, both physically and psychologically, in a way not seen in previous MFA exhibitions. The narrative photography of Jared Landberg, a documentary film by Sonya Pollard, and the video installation of Esther Probst are examples of the thematic way many the artists record their personal history or specific experiences. Another pervading theme in the exhibition is interaction: walking through the unique environments created by painters Gwendolyn Mercado-Reyes and Jessica Sharpe, playing the autobiographical video game created by Ryan Marchand, or taking one of the hundreds of ceramic cups thrown by Shawn O'Connor; the viewer is invited to physically take part in the artistic experience.

A Tender Record: Early black and white photographs by Marjory Wilkins
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Curated by Nancy Keefe Rhodes, this is an exhibit of 35 restored and finished prints of the now-extinct 15th Ward and others of historical relevance to both the African American community and the Syracuse community at large. Marjory Wilkins has been an important figure in our community for over six decades, inspiring many through her camera's view of the world. Her work is described by the exhibit curator in this way: "As documentary photographs, they record history, whether recent or remote, that is 'minority' history—that is, history often outside of its own community, either ignored or contested by stereotypes."

Her photography has become an invaluable resource to remember a place now destroyed, and a community with a charm and importance almost unknown to those outside of it.

Isaac Bidwell: The Big Three-Oh
Echo

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

A solo exhibition of art work by Isaac Bidwell. For this show, Isaac has arranged a collection of 30 original ink drawings, paintings and digital illustrations. As his first exhibition in Syracuse since 2008, The Big Three-Oh not only displays a body of new and unseen works, but the end of Isaac's twenties.

Works of Bridget Bossart Van Otterloo, Lucie Wellner, and Katherine Houston
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Gallery Exhibition: Architecture and Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Exhibition of student work from the Architecture and Interior Design Department. It is an annual exhibit that showcases some of the best work produced by our students in the preceding academic year.

B.F.A. Thesis Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Exhibition of thesis work by B.F.A. students in the School of Art and Design.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

Don't Feed the Actors Dinner Theater
Don't Feed the Actors

Price: Dinner theater: $27.50 single; $47.50 couple. Show only: $15 on day of show if seating available
Pucello's Restaurant
1 Village Blvd., Baldwinsville

Audience-interactive improv comedy with some of Syracuse's finest comedic actors.

Dinner 6:45 pm, show begins at 8:00 pm.

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Syracuse Contemporary Dance Company

Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The oldest professional dance troupe in Central New York will feature original works in jazz, contemporary ballet, flamenco, tap and modern dance. Guest artists will be Benny Simon, director of New York City's Take Away Dance troupe, and Anne Harris Wilcox of Rochester's Present Dance Company. SCDC directors are Mary Pat D'Angelo and Patty Brundage.

Contemporary Film Series: Madness in America
Everson Museum of Art

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

Join guest filmmaker Zee Zarbock for a "work in progress" screening of her documentary film Madness in America, which explores the mad state of mental health in America. Through this project The Unfolding Story Pictures team is on a journey to bring issues surrounding mental illness into our daily conversations through education and destigmatization. The community is invited to view a 30+ minute segment of the movie, still a work in progress, as a means to spark a spirited discussion on this important issue.

SaturdaySCREENINGS: Rivers and Tides (2001)
ArtRage Gallery

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

Follow renowned sculptor Andy Goldsworthy as he creates work of art from elements of nature, and discovers the energy and fragility of the natural world. San Francisco Film Festival: Best Documentary. Directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer.

Scholastic Vocal Jazz Jam
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: $3 students; $6 adults
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

In Scholastic Jazz Jam events, local High School and College students are invited to perform in a supportive environment backed by area professionals. Aspiring jazz instrumentalists "learn the ropes" of public performance, backed by the area's finest jazz professionals. Sing tunes of your choice in a supportive atmosphere. All experience levels welcome.

Hootenanny in the Hills

Price: $15; 16 and younger free with purchase of adult admission
Kellish Hill Farm
3192 Pompey Center Rd., Pompey

All-day live music provided by Atlantic Flyway, Boots 'n Shorts, Charley Orlando, Colleen Kattau, The Rusty Doves, and the Salt City Ramblers. For more information, phone 315-682-1578.

Classics Series: The Firebird
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring David LaDoux, cello

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

Copland Appalachian Spring Suite
Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33
Smetana The Bartered Bride: Three Dances
Stravinsky Firebird Suite (1919)

Aladdin
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the classic tale.

Idol Assassination
Without a Cue Productions
Sara Caliva, director

Price: $37.25 includes dinner and show
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

It's the final night of Big American Star, and America is going to get a chance to vote for its next...big American star. The contestants are at each other's throats, dangerously close to ripping out one another's vocal chords, while the judges and host stir up drama to boost sagging ratings. By the time the contestants are ready to sing, the atmosphere has turned murderous, and the contestants may "knock 'em dead" in more ways than one.

The show is an interactive murder mystery that involves the members of the audience.

To Kill a Mockingbird
Appleseed Productions
Sharee Lemos, director

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

Scout is about to experience the dramatic events that will affect the rest of her life. She and brother Jem are being raised by their widower father Atticus and by a strong-minded housekeeper Calpurnia. Wide-eyed Scout is fascinated with the sensitively-revealed people of her small town but, from the start, there's a rumble of thunder just under the calm surface. The black people of the community have a special feeling about Scout's father and she doesn't know why. A few of her white friends are inexplicably hostile and Scout doesn't understand this either. Unpleasant things are shouted and the bewildered girl turns to her father. Atticus, a lawyer, explains that he's defending a young Negro wrongfully accused of a grave crime. Scout wants to know why he's doing it. "Because if I didn't," her father replies, "I couldn't hold my head up." He goes on to prepare Scout for the trouble to come. Things do get bitter, to the point where Atticus props himself in a chair against the cell door of the man he's defending and confronts an angry mob. Horrified Scout projects herself into this confrontation and her inconvenient presence helps bring back a little sanity. Atticus fights his legal battle with a result that is part defeat, part triumph. As Atticus comes out of the courthouse, the deeply moved town minister tells Scout, "Stand up. Your father's passing!"

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Cruizin' Thru the 1950s Dance Party

Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Come listen to the swingin' hits of he 1950s! There's plenty of room to cut a rug on the large dance floor.

To reserve tickets, phone 315-422-7011.

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Falsettos
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

Falsettos is a story of love in the face of modern conflicts. The story takes place between 1979 and 1981 and follows Marvin, who has left his wife Trina and son Jason for a male lover, Whizzer, but still wants them all to be one big happy family. Life gets more complicated when Trina falls for Marvin's psychiatrist, Mendel, while Jason is about to be Bar Mitzvah-ed and the lesbians next door, Cordelia and Dr. Charlotte, are doing the catering! As if that's not complicated enough, Whizzer and Marvin break up and then are reunited, only to find that Whizzer is dying of some new unexplained disease.

Winner of the 1992 Tony Award for Best Score and Best Book for a Musical, Falsettos is a powerful piece for both its ability to capture an important moment in history and in its depiction of very real and human characters faced with significant adversity. Despite dealing with the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic, Falsettos is primarily about experiencing life and love; a joyous story of the struggle between values, love, and forgiveness. William Finn touches on the joy and happiness of every family by depicting one very different family.

Music direction by Jeff Unaitis. Cast members include Dana Sovocool, Peter Irwin, and Josh Mele.

Read a review!

Driving Miss Daisy
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
Bob Brown, director

Price: $30; $15 students and seniors
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Comedy about an elderly Georgia woman and her chauffeur, starring Shirley Ann Fenner and David Walker.

Read a review!

Fences
Syracuse Stage

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

Because a true classic always speaks to us anew. Pittsburgh, 1957. Troy Maxon, ex-ballplayer, complicated African-American family man and garbage collector, has lived a life of diminished hopes and abandoned dreams. Now Troy's talented son, Cory, has hopes and dreams of his own. Will Troy allow his bitterness about the past to poison his son's promising future? With a view toward a better future, August Wilson's Fences first posed this dramatic and necessary question 25 years ago ... and it hits us as hard today.

Read a Review!

I Love You Because
Syracuse University Drama Department
Marie Kemp, director

Price: $18 regular, $16 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Ah, New York, city of romance, where relationships end badly, and on the rebound everyone falls for the wrong person. Such is the world of I Love You Because. This infectiously entertaining modern day musical love story is filled with witty and incisive lyrics and a rich and tuneful score. A quirky and slightly nutty take on modern dating. Think Friends with terrific songs and dancing.

Read a Review!

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Fiction to Function: Recent Work by Shanna Fliegel
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Shanna Fliegel's ceramic artwork draws upon "the surrealistic nature of dreams and childhood memories" and combines image, color, and sculpted forms to create "vehicles that generate stories for the viewer." Her artistic output includes anthropomorphic figures, wall tablets, and functional vessels and these will be on view.

Read a review!

Works of Gretchen Hamlin and Bob Ripley
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

New works by watercolorist Bob Ripley and glass artist Gretchen Hamlin.

MFA MMX (2010)
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual exhibition of masters of fine arts candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts will include 20 artists displaying a broad range of traditional and contemporary work, including painting, ceramics and sculpture, as well as digital photography, installation, and computer art.

While the artists work independently on their thesis concepts, themes have routinely emerged within the group—crossing the boundaries of media and style. This year's exhibition is no exception; the work exudes a highly developed sense of technique and thought. In MFA MMX, however, the artists engage the viewer, both physically and psychologically, in a way not seen in previous MFA exhibitions. The narrative photography of Jared Landberg, a documentary film by Sonya Pollard, and the video installation of Esther Probst are examples of the thematic way many the artists record their personal history or specific experiences. Another pervading theme in the exhibition is interaction: walking through the unique environments created by painters Gwendolyn Mercado-Reyes and Jessica Sharpe, playing the autobiographical video game created by Ryan Marchand, or taking one of the hundreds of ceramic cups thrown by Shawn O'Connor; the viewer is invited to physically take part in the artistic experience.

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 2010, the Everson Museum of Art introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series as an alternative to the traditional Biennial Exhibition. Fit to be Bound, the second exhibition in a series of four will showcase a broad range of artist books created by artists currently living in New York State—the first survey of its kind at the Everson. The exhibition will be an exploration of the various means by which contemporary artists have expanded the notion of the book form, from the traditional to the sculptural, from paper to mixed-media, small-scale and oversized.

Read a review!

Alphabet in Your Own Backyard
Everson Museum of Art

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

This exhibition highlights selected work from a two-year collaborative community project between Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University Library, and four schools from the Syracuse City School District: Henninger, Nottingham, Corcoran and Fowler. Students photographed "hidden" letters in their neighborhoods and transformed their "found alphabets" into artist books. The project is funded by a Syracuse University Enitiative grant with funds from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
Everson Museum of Art

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

During the height of Maxfield Parrish's popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, he was the most reproduced American artist of his era. Disseminated through magazine covers, book illustrations, calendar pads, advertisements, and color reproductions, Parrish's images occupied a ubiquitous presence in popular visual culture. While recent exhibitions of Parrish have focused mainly on his original oil paintings, Fantasies and Fairy-Tales represents the first comprehensive sampling of Parrish's work in a variety of printed media.

May Garden Party
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Garden-themed pieces in a variety of mediums.

B.F.A. Thesis Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Exhibition of thesis work by B.F.A. students in the School of Art and Design.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

CD Release Party
Featuring Jonathan Dinkin and Klezmercuse

Price: Free
Temple Society of Concord
910 Madison St., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-475-9952.

Syracuse Women in Music

Upstairs at the Dino
246 W. Willow St., Syracuse

Several local female bands, including Mojo, Bella, About Time, Kat Tale, and Letizia and the Z Band, perform to benefit Vera House. For more information, phone 315-476-4937.

Eleanor Roosevelt, a chamber opera
Arts Alive in Liverpool
Society for New Music

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

Scenes from Eleanor Roosevelt, a chamber opera by Persis Parshall Vehar, based on a play and historical novel by former Cazenovia writer Rhoda Lerman with librettist Gabrielle Vehar.

Performing will be Bridget Moriarty (Eleanor Roosevelt), Jonathan Howell (Major Duckworth), Phil Eisenman (Teddy Roosevelt), with Persis Parshall Vehar, composer/pianist.

7th Annual Manlius Pebble Hill Jazz Fest

Price: $25 adults, $15 students
Manlius Pebble Hill School
5300 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

Andrew Carroll on keyboard and Greg Evans on drums will be joined by 15 members of the Young Lions of Central New York, an all-star collection of jazz students from area schools, directed by Joe Colombo.

Stars of Tomorrow Cabaret
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: $10 adults, $5 students
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Cruizin' Thru the 1950s Dance Party

Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Come listen to the swingin' hits of he 1950s! There's plenty of room to cut a rug on the large dance floor.

To reserve tickets, phone 315-422-7011.

Read a Review!

Falsettos
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

Falsettos is a story of love in the face of modern conflicts. The story takes place between 1979 and 1981 and follows Marvin, who has left his wife Trina and son Jason for a male lover, Whizzer, but still wants them all to be one big happy family. Life gets more complicated when Trina falls for Marvin's psychiatrist, Mendel, while Jason is about to be Bar Mitzvah-ed and the lesbians next door, Cordelia and Dr. Charlotte, are doing the catering! As if that's not complicated enough, Whizzer and Marvin break up and then are reunited, only to find that Whizzer is dying of some new unexplained disease.

Winner of the 1992 Tony Award for Best Score and Best Book for a Musical, Falsettos is a powerful piece for both its ability to capture an important moment in history and in its depiction of very real and human characters faced with significant adversity. Despite dealing with the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic, Falsettos is primarily about experiencing life and love; a joyous story of the struggle between values, love, and forgiveness. William Finn touches on the joy and happiness of every family by depicting one very different family.

Music direction by Jeff Unaitis. Cast members include Dana Sovocool, Peter Irwin, and Josh Mele.

Read a review!

Driving Miss Daisy
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
Bob Brown, director

Price: $30; $15 students and seniors
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Comedy about an elderly Georgia woman and her chauffeur, starring Shirley Ann Fenner and David Walker.

Read a review!

Fences
Syracuse Stage

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

Because a true classic always speaks to us anew. Pittsburgh, 1957. Troy Maxon, ex-ballplayer, complicated African-American family man and garbage collector, has lived a life of diminished hopes and abandoned dreams. Now Troy's talented son, Cory, has hopes and dreams of his own. Will Troy allow his bitterness about the past to poison his son's promising future? With a view toward a better future, August Wilson's Fences first posed this dramatic and necessary question 25 years ago ... and it hits us as hard today.

Read a Review!

Fences
Syracuse Stage

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

Because a true classic always speaks to us anew. Pittsburgh, 1957. Troy Maxon, ex-ballplayer, complicated African-American family man and garbage collector, has lived a life of diminished hopes and abandoned dreams. Now Troy's talented son, Cory, has hopes and dreams of his own. Will Troy allow his bitterness about the past to poison his son's promising future? With a view toward a better future, August Wilson's Fences first posed this dramatic and necessary question 25 years ago ... and it hits us as hard today.

Read a Review!

Monday, May 17, 2010

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Works of Bridget Bossart Van Otterloo, Lucie Wellner, and Katherine Houston
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

elegy: society for a dead society
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Drawn from details of the death of a former friend and bandmate of artist Paul Lloyd Sargent, "elegy" is presented through a multimedia installation of mashed-up, remixed, and recontextualized historical ephemera collected from mixtapes, amateur videos, zines, photographs, band fliers, sketchbook pages, song lyrics, and more. A lament for the death of youth despite the overwhelming persistence of youth culture, "elegy: society for a dead society" paints nostalgia and cynicism as two shades within the same dark palette.

Paul Lloyd Sargent splits his time between Brooklyn and Wellesley Island, NY. He was raised in Syracuse and graduated from Nottingham High School in 1989 and Hamilton College in 1993. After stints in Las Vegas, Boston, and Venice Beach, in 2000, he received his MFA in video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

May Garden Party
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Garden-themed pieces in a variety of mediums.

Works of Gretchen Hamlin and Bob Ripley
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

New works by watercolorist Bob Ripley and glass artist Gretchen Hamlin.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Under The Surface: Ceramic Stylings of Shawn McGuire and Wes Weiss
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

"Under the Surface" explores the rich surfaces achieved by each ceramic artist using very different techniques. Shawn's work is thrown and altered and then naked Raku fired. Wes's work is hand-built from colored clays and the result is an active, vibrant surface.

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place" and "Experimental Urbanism"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place," in Gallery A, featuring photographs by Jane Winslow and Mindy Ostrow. This exhibition invites the viewer to see the world through the lens of two of the regions most talented photographers.

"Experimental Urbanism," in Gallery B, features work by internationally known installation artist, Richard Metzgar. This particular exhibit showcases a series of prints that challenge the viewer to rethink the ways they document place and experience.

Horizons
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Anna Soltyk: richly textured oil and mixed media paintings
Phil Austin: glass artistry
Wendy Harris: upstate landscape done en plein air in pastel and mixed media

Read a review!

38th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Syracuse Chapter of the Links, Inc. in cooperation with Community Folk Art Center and local school districts join their efforts to provide an ongoing opportunity to recognize teenagers (ages 13-19) of African American, Hispanic American, Native American, and Asian American heritage as well as those from other underrepresented groups who demonstrate talents in the fine arts.

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Works of Bridget Bossart Van Otterloo, Lucie Wellner, and Katherine Houston
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

elegy: society for a dead society
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Drawn from details of the death of a former friend and bandmate of artist Paul Lloyd Sargent, "elegy" is presented through a multimedia installation of mashed-up, remixed, and recontextualized historical ephemera collected from mixtapes, amateur videos, zines, photographs, band fliers, sketchbook pages, song lyrics, and more. A lament for the death of youth despite the overwhelming persistence of youth culture, "elegy: society for a dead society" paints nostalgia and cynicism as two shades within the same dark palette.

Paul Lloyd Sargent splits his time between Brooklyn and Wellesley Island, NY. He was raised in Syracuse and graduated from Nottingham High School in 1989 and Hamilton College in 1993. After stints in Las Vegas, Boston, and Venice Beach, in 2000, he received his MFA in video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

May Garden Party
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Garden-themed pieces in a variety of mediums.

Works of Gretchen Hamlin and Bob Ripley
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

New works by watercolorist Bob Ripley and glass artist Gretchen Hamlin.

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 2010, the Everson Museum of Art introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series as an alternative to the traditional Biennial Exhibition. Fit to be Bound, the second exhibition in a series of four will showcase a broad range of artist books created by artists currently living in New York State—the first survey of its kind at the Everson. The exhibition will be an exploration of the various means by which contemporary artists have expanded the notion of the book form, from the traditional to the sculptural, from paper to mixed-media, small-scale and oversized.

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Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
Everson Museum of Art

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

During the height of Maxfield Parrish's popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, he was the most reproduced American artist of his era. Disseminated through magazine covers, book illustrations, calendar pads, advertisements, and color reproductions, Parrish's images occupied a ubiquitous presence in popular visual culture. While recent exhibitions of Parrish have focused mainly on his original oil paintings, Fantasies and Fairy-Tales represents the first comprehensive sampling of Parrish's work in a variety of printed media.

Alphabet in Your Own Backyard
Everson Museum of Art

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

This exhibition highlights selected work from a two-year collaborative community project between Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University Library, and four schools from the Syracuse City School District: Henninger, Nottingham, Corcoran and Fowler. Students photographed "hidden" letters in their neighborhoods and transformed their "found alphabets" into artist books. The project is funded by a Syracuse University Enitiative grant with funds from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

Jeffrey Toobin
Friends of the Central Library Author Series

Price: $25
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Jeffrey Toobin received his Bachelor's degree from Harvard College and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Law School. After completing law school he worked as an Associate Counsel in the office of Independent Counsel, Lawrence E. Walsh. He became an Assistant United States Attorney in Brooklyn, NY and took up his post as a writer for The New Yorker in 1994. After a six-year tenure at ABC News he joined CNN as a legal analyst for the CNN News Group where he now serves as a high-profile senior analyst. He is an expert on politics, media and the law. He is the author of Too Close for Comfort, A Vast Conspiracy, and The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Under The Surface: Ceramic Stylings of Shawn McGuire and Wes Weiss
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

"Under the Surface" explores the rich surfaces achieved by each ceramic artist using very different techniques. Shawn's work is thrown and altered and then naked Raku fired. Wes's work is hand-built from colored clays and the result is an active, vibrant surface.

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place" and "Experimental Urbanism"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place," in Gallery A, featuring photographs by Jane Winslow and Mindy Ostrow. This exhibition invites the viewer to see the world through the lens of two of the regions most talented photographers.

"Experimental Urbanism," in Gallery B, features work by internationally known installation artist, Richard Metzgar. This particular exhibit showcases a series of prints that challenge the viewer to rethink the ways they document place and experience.

Horizons
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Anna Soltyk: richly textured oil and mixed media paintings
Phil Austin: glass artistry
Wendy Harris: upstate landscape done en plein air in pastel and mixed media

Read a review!

38th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Syracuse Chapter of the Links, Inc. in cooperation with Community Folk Art Center and local school districts join their efforts to provide an ongoing opportunity to recognize teenagers (ages 13-19) of African American, Hispanic American, Native American, and Asian American heritage as well as those from other underrepresented groups who demonstrate talents in the fine arts.

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Works of Bridget Bossart Van Otterloo, Lucie Wellner, and Katherine Houston
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

elegy: society for a dead society
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Drawn from details of the death of a former friend and bandmate of artist Paul Lloyd Sargent, "elegy" is presented through a multimedia installation of mashed-up, remixed, and recontextualized historical ephemera collected from mixtapes, amateur videos, zines, photographs, band fliers, sketchbook pages, song lyrics, and more. A lament for the death of youth despite the overwhelming persistence of youth culture, "elegy: society for a dead society" paints nostalgia and cynicism as two shades within the same dark palette.

Paul Lloyd Sargent splits his time between Brooklyn and Wellesley Island, NY. He was raised in Syracuse and graduated from Nottingham High School in 1989 and Hamilton College in 1993. After stints in Las Vegas, Boston, and Venice Beach, in 2000, he received his MFA in video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

May Garden Party
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Garden-themed pieces in a variety of mediums.

Works of Gretchen Hamlin and Bob Ripley
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

New works by watercolorist Bob Ripley and glass artist Gretchen Hamlin.

Alphabet in Your Own Backyard
Everson Museum of Art

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

This exhibition highlights selected work from a two-year collaborative community project between Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University Library, and four schools from the Syracuse City School District: Henninger, Nottingham, Corcoran and Fowler. Students photographed "hidden" letters in their neighborhoods and transformed their "found alphabets" into artist books. The project is funded by a Syracuse University Enitiative grant with funds from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
Everson Museum of Art

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

During the height of Maxfield Parrish's popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, he was the most reproduced American artist of his era. Disseminated through magazine covers, book illustrations, calendar pads, advertisements, and color reproductions, Parrish's images occupied a ubiquitous presence in popular visual culture. While recent exhibitions of Parrish have focused mainly on his original oil paintings, Fantasies and Fairy-Tales represents the first comprehensive sampling of Parrish's work in a variety of printed media.

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 2010, the Everson Museum of Art introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series as an alternative to the traditional Biennial Exhibition. Fit to be Bound, the second exhibition in a series of four will showcase a broad range of artist books created by artists currently living in New York State—the first survey of its kind at the Everson. The exhibition will be an exploration of the various means by which contemporary artists have expanded the notion of the book form, from the traditional to the sculptural, from paper to mixed-media, small-scale and oversized.

Read a review!

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

A Tender Record: Early black and white photographs by Marjory Wilkins
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Curated by Nancy Keefe Rhodes, this is an exhibit of 35 restored and finished prints of the now-extinct 15th Ward and others of historical relevance to both the African American community and the Syracuse community at large. Marjory Wilkins has been an important figure in our community for over six decades, inspiring many through her camera's view of the world. Her work is described by the exhibit curator in this way: "As documentary photographs, they record history, whether recent or remote, that is 'minority' history—that is, history often outside of its own community, either ignored or contested by stereotypes."

Her photography has become an invaluable resource to remember a place now destroyed, and a community with a charm and importance almost unknown to those outside of it.

Storytelling and the Spectres of Liberty
Community Folk Art Center

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

CFAC will be leading an opening evening at the Open City workshop centered around storytelling, education, and access. The perfect starter to the evening would be a historical story that connects us to the Loguen family and that time period, creating a frame for our discussion about Syracuse today. Please join CFAC for this arts discussion.

Contrasts: Beethoven - Debussy
Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Joyce Ucci, piano

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

"Les Adieux" Sonata, and selected Debussy Preludes.

Fences
Syracuse Stage

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

Because a true classic always speaks to us anew. Pittsburgh, 1957. Troy Maxon, ex-ballplayer, complicated African-American family man and garbage collector, has lived a life of diminished hopes and abandoned dreams. Now Troy's talented son, Cory, has hopes and dreams of his own. Will Troy allow his bitterness about the past to poison his son's promising future? With a view toward a better future, August Wilson's Fences first posed this dramatic and necessary question 25 years ago ... and it hits us as hard today.

Read a Review!

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Under The Surface: Ceramic Stylings of Shawn McGuire and Wes Weiss
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

"Under the Surface" explores the rich surfaces achieved by each ceramic artist using very different techniques. Shawn's work is thrown and altered and then naked Raku fired. Wes's work is hand-built from colored clays and the result is an active, vibrant surface.

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place" and "Experimental Urbanism"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place," in Gallery A, featuring photographs by Jane Winslow and Mindy Ostrow. This exhibition invites the viewer to see the world through the lens of two of the regions most talented photographers.

"Experimental Urbanism," in Gallery B, features work by internationally known installation artist, Richard Metzgar. This particular exhibit showcases a series of prints that challenge the viewer to rethink the ways they document place and experience.

The Portrait Show: Open Figure Drawing, Inc.
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

With the 2010 Portrait Show, Open Figure Drawing Inc. continues their tradition of celebrating the collective work from the group with a non-juried exhibit made up of the artists who participate in the Wednesday night drawing sessions. The group is open and self instructional, with a variety of different styles to take in!

Whether your interest lies in finding interesting artwork to purchase, or maybe just thinking about taking up your own drawing, there is something for everyone here! Come and be entertained and empowered to make your own work!

An incorporated not-for-profit art organization run by a board of directors and volunteers, OFD has existed since 1989 as "One of Syracuse's most economical drawing experiences!"

Horizons
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Anna Soltyk: richly textured oil and mixed media paintings
Phil Austin: glass artistry
Wendy Harris: upstate landscape done en plein air in pastel and mixed media

Read a review!

38th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Syracuse Chapter of the Links, Inc. in cooperation with Community Folk Art Center and local school districts join their efforts to provide an ongoing opportunity to recognize teenagers (ages 13-19) of African American, Hispanic American, Native American, and Asian American heritage as well as those from other underrepresented groups who demonstrate talents in the fine arts.

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Works of Bridget Bossart Van Otterloo, Lucie Wellner, and Katherine Houston
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

elegy: society for a dead society
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Drawn from details of the death of a former friend and bandmate of artist Paul Lloyd Sargent, "elegy" is presented through a multimedia installation of mashed-up, remixed, and recontextualized historical ephemera collected from mixtapes, amateur videos, zines, photographs, band fliers, sketchbook pages, song lyrics, and more. A lament for the death of youth despite the overwhelming persistence of youth culture, "elegy: society for a dead society" paints nostalgia and cynicism as two shades within the same dark palette.

Paul Lloyd Sargent splits his time between Brooklyn and Wellesley Island, NY. He was raised in Syracuse and graduated from Nottingham High School in 1989 and Hamilton College in 1993. After stints in Las Vegas, Boston, and Venice Beach, in 2000, he received his MFA in video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

May Garden Party
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Garden-themed pieces in a variety of mediums.

Fiction to Function: Recent Work by Shanna Fliegel
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Shanna Fliegel's ceramic artwork draws upon "the surrealistic nature of dreams and childhood memories" and combines image, color, and sculpted forms to create "vehicles that generate stories for the viewer." Her artistic output includes anthropomorphic figures, wall tablets, and functional vessels and these will be on view.

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Works of Gretchen Hamlin and Bob Ripley
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

New works by watercolorist Bob Ripley and glass artist Gretchen Hamlin.

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 2010, the Everson Museum of Art introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series as an alternative to the traditional Biennial Exhibition. Fit to be Bound, the second exhibition in a series of four will showcase a broad range of artist books created by artists currently living in New York State—the first survey of its kind at the Everson. The exhibition will be an exploration of the various means by which contemporary artists have expanded the notion of the book form, from the traditional to the sculptural, from paper to mixed-media, small-scale and oversized.

Read a review!

Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
Everson Museum of Art

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

During the height of Maxfield Parrish's popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, he was the most reproduced American artist of his era. Disseminated through magazine covers, book illustrations, calendar pads, advertisements, and color reproductions, Parrish's images occupied a ubiquitous presence in popular visual culture. While recent exhibitions of Parrish have focused mainly on his original oil paintings, Fantasies and Fairy-Tales represents the first comprehensive sampling of Parrish's work in a variety of printed media.

Alphabet in Your Own Backyard
Everson Museum of Art

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

This exhibition highlights selected work from a two-year collaborative community project between Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University Library, and four schools from the Syracuse City School District: Henninger, Nottingham, Corcoran and Fowler. Students photographed "hidden" letters in their neighborhoods and transformed their "found alphabets" into artist books. The project is funded by a Syracuse University Enitiative grant with funds from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

A Tender Record: Early black and white photographs by Marjory Wilkins
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Curated by Nancy Keefe Rhodes, this is an exhibit of 35 restored and finished prints of the now-extinct 15th Ward and others of historical relevance to both the African American community and the Syracuse community at large. Marjory Wilkins has been an important figure in our community for over six decades, inspiring many through her camera's view of the world. Her work is described by the exhibit curator in this way: "As documentary photographs, they record history, whether recent or remote, that is 'minority' history—that is, history often outside of its own community, either ignored or contested by stereotypes."

Her photography has become an invaluable resource to remember a place now destroyed, and a community with a charm and importance almost unknown to those outside of it.

Meet the Artist Night with metalsmith David E. Church
Eureka Crafts

Price: Free
Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Artist Open: Fit to Be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

In conjunction with The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series, the Everson presents a talk by three of the artists in the exhibition "Fit to Be Bound." Kelly Roe of Baldwinsville, Wendy Cross of Syracuse, and Dennis Yuen of Woodside will discuss the construction, materials and concepts behind their very unique artists' books.

Gallery Talk: Photo Restoration, History and Art
ArtRage Gallery
Featuring Nancy Keefe Rhodes

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Nancy Keefe Rhodes is the curator of "A Tender Record," the current ArtRage exhibit of restored photographs by Marjory Wilkins. She will discuss this exhibit and the issue of photo restoration in general. Nancy has written a book on the Wilkins' photographic project, due to be published in 2010.

In her words, "This project has challenged assumptions about both the beauty of vernacular photography and its practitioners' aesthetic accomplishment — above and beyond its historical importance in specific communities. It also suggests that the ways in which 'old pictures' have often been treated may sometimes diminish our capacity to fully appreciate them as photographs."

Dead Pull Hitter
Acme Mystery Company

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

Play ball! Come on out to the ball park, loyal followers. It's media day and your hometown Sympronius Swamp Turtles are getting ready for yet another pathetic season of shabby, losing baseball. Make sure you wear your protective gear this year, sports fans. Jobs are now on the line and the new owner plays rough. Really, really rough.

Fences
Syracuse Stage

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

Because a true classic always speaks to us anew. Pittsburgh, 1957. Troy Maxon, ex-ballplayer, complicated African-American family man and garbage collector, has lived a life of diminished hopes and abandoned dreams. Now Troy's talented son, Cory, has hopes and dreams of his own. Will Troy allow his bitterness about the past to poison his son's promising future? With a view toward a better future, August Wilson's Fences first posed this dramatic and necessary question 25 years ago ... and it hits us as hard today.

Read a Review!

Driving Miss Daisy
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
Bob Brown, director

Price: $30; $15 students and seniors
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Comedy about an elderly Georgia woman and her chauffeur, starring Shirley Ann Fenner and David Walker.

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