Saturday, October 15, 2011

Windows Project: Oscar Garces: Transcendence
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Cuban-born, and Syracuse-based artist Oscar Garces' site-specific mural in the Window Projects space will offer a local echo to "Colorfornia: New Forms in West Coast Street Art". This is his first solo exhibition. Both exhibitions will be organized in conjunction with the Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations in Syracuse.

Life Blood: Women in Haudenosaunee Art
LeMoyne College

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

In recognition of November as Native American Heritage Month, the Wilson Art Gallery, along with the gender and women's studies program, will sponsor an exhibition of traditional and contemporary works of Haudenosaunee women artists, as well as works that honor women by other Haudenosaunee artists.

According to Tom Huff, curator and artist, "The exhibit features the contemporary mix medium works by local Haudenosaunee women who draw on traditional culture and beliefs. Tradition is the life blood of these contemporary works. These traditions extend from the oral history of the creation story that honors Mother Earth and acknowledges women's relationship with Grandmother Moon and Life Giving Sustenance, the Three Sisters. As a matrilineal society, women are held in high regard for their leadership roles within the community and family. Within the Haudenosaunee Nations, women carry the title of clan mothers who oversee ceremonies, give clan names and maintain the authority for choosing and removing chiefs within the nation’s traditional council government. Within the family, women are the center of support and the lifeline in everyday life and decision making that sustains the strength of the extended family. This exhibit honors and celebrates this continued role of women through artistic expressions, maintaining the life blood of the nations."

For more information, phone 315-445-4153.

Layers
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Lynette Blake: oil paintings on canvas
Carol Ackles: hand built and wheel thrown ceramics
Jan Navales: hand dyed, screen printed, stitched and beaded fabric wall hangings

From Here to There: Alec Soth's America
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, members and children under 5 free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From Here to There: Alec Soth's America" provides a focused look at an extraordinary photographer whose compelling images of the American road and its unexpected turns form powerful narrative vignettes. The exhibition will be the artist's first major survey assembled in the United States, exploring over 15 years of his career, and including an extensive new body of work.

Since his inclusion in the 2004 Whitney and São Paulo biennials, Soth's reputation as one of the most interesting voices in contemporary photography has continued to grow. Though he has followed the itinerant path laid forth by photographers such as Robert Frank, William Eggleston, and Stephen Shore, Soth's is a distinct perspective, one in which the wandering, searching, and the process of telling is as resonant as the record of these remarkable encounters. When considered together, Soth's pictures probe the individualities of people, objects, and places he encounters; offer insight to broader sociologies, and in the process form a collective portrait of an unexpected America.

Featuring approximately 100 photographs made between 1994 and the present, "From Here to There" will include rarely-seen early black-and-white images as well as examples from Soth's best-known series "Sleeping by the Mississippi" and "Niagara." Interspersed throughout the exhibition will be a broad range of portraits made over the past 15 years. The exhibition will also include a new body of work the artist has been developing since 2006, exploring places of escape in America and individuals who seek to flee civilization for a life off the grid. To add insight into Soth's process, the exhibition additionally features a Library space, which includes a reading area for publications, a selection of maquettes for book and 'zine projects, short video works, and ephemera gathered on the road.

Margie Hughto: A Fired Landscape
Everson Museum of Art

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

Internationally renowned ceramic artist Margie Hughto presents her first site-specific museum installation entitled A Fired Landscape, a "clay painting" spanning 50 feet of gallery wall space. Inspired by the artist's spectacular backyard gardens and natural landscape just steps from her studio, The Fired Landscape installation consists of Setting Sun, a brilliantly colored ceramic wall relief displayed continuously on five angled walls. The visitor encounter is reminiscent of what one experiences when surrounded by the natural environment. Overall, Setting Sun is a ceramic abstraction, but Hughto establishes a connection to the landscape that inspired it by adding impressions of natural objects such as native ferns, marine life and fossils, into the wet clay and then coating the surfaces with brilliant color. The rich palette of burnt oranges and fiery reds evoke the sun’s glowing light and radiating warmth. Tiny pieces of glass embedded in the clay prior to firing add sparkle to the glossy green and blue glazes used to suggest the artist's lily pond.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Since 1974, the Cultural Resources Council, in collaboration with the Everson, has presented On My Own Time. A celebration of artwork created by employees of local businesses on their own time, the exhibition is meant to promote creativity and artistic endeavors by those who are not full-time artists.

Works of Elena Peteva and Donalee Peden Wesley
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Elena Peteva's show, "Passages", features drawings and mixed media work that stand as symbolic representations of our individual and societal states. In her intimate drawings, Peteva's figures or objects function as an allegorical vehicle to depict the coexistence of vulnerability and power, uncertainty and conviction, depravity and elevation in the individual or society.

Donalee Peden Wesley's show, "Linearis", explores the scope of human/animal relationship through large scale drawings that reflect the undercurrents of archetypal emotions, internal and external struggles, and their effects on us and the animals that share our environments. Due to the open-ended relationship nature of her imagery, Peden's work invites individual reflection based on the interpretation by each viewer.

Natural Selections: Works by Bob Ripley
Baltimore Woods

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

The exhibit of wildlife paintings in transparent watercolors.

In the Abstract
Szozda Gallery

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

Szozda Gallery ushers in the fall with an engaging show featuring four noted artists who reveal meaning in their abstract works created through different pathways. "In The Abstract" is the kind of exhibition that compels interaction between artist and viewer to look beyond beauty of color and structure for a relationship to one's very existence in the world in which we live. Artists Roscha Folger, Linda Bigness, Lauren Bristol, and Kwangpyo (Steve) Koh offer insights into the realm of abstractionism in their works of mixed media, paintings, fiber art, and hand carved sculptures.

African Diasporan Treasures: 40 Years of Community Folk Art Center
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition will showcase pieces from CFAC's permanent collection. Featuring over 30 works by artists including Joel Gaines, Ellen Oppler, Jack White, Denise Cole and Kamiiron Pritchard, "African Diasporan Treasures" provides a rare opportunity for visitors to experience the rich artistic history of CFAC. In many cases, the pieces have not been displayed for decades. The show will also feature African art that was once part of the Smithsonian Museum's collection.

Illusions of Grandeur: Art Exhibition and Book Release
Echo

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

On display: a collection of Ling Tang's graphite drawings and the debut of Ling's Le Style Moderne book: Illusions of Grandeur.

Photography on the Edge: Between Realism and Abstraction
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The show features photographs by Central New York artists that address the relationship between realistic representation and abstract concepts. Participating artists include Willson Cummer, Bob Gates, Elisabeth Groat, Peter Mahan, Yolanda Tooley, Jeanann Wieners, Diana Whiting, and Jamie Young.

The co-curators, Jen Gandee and Syracuse-area photographer, Bob Gates, in selecting work for this show, were looking for images that are true to the perennial conflict in the history of photography between representational and non-representational images. The same conflicting impulses that have shaped other forms of art--realism, impressionism, expressionism, abstraction, surrealism--have had their adherents among photographers. The works in this exhibit show how some photographers in Central New York respond to or participate in that complex history.

Drawn to Paint: The Art of Jerome Witkin
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Drawn to Paint: The Art of Jerome Witkin" consists of 70 works including drawings, paintings, and sketchbooks. Dividing the show between two venues to allow for broader access, "Drawn to Paint" will be on view at the SUArt Galleries on the Syracuse University main campus and the XL Projects gallery in downtown Syracuse. This exhibition, with Dr. Edward A. Aiken as its curator, is the first time Jerome Witkin has allowed his drawings to be displayed beside their finished works. "Drawn to Paint" will be traveling to other museums around the country during a two-year tour that will conclude at the Palmer Museum of Art in University Park, PA.

"Drawn to Paint" is more than a selection of masterfully painted narratives. Through the juxtaposition of drawings and sketchbooks, the exhibition represents a rare look into the artist's process, from the inception of an idea to the completed artwork. The works of Jerome Witkin carry forward into our era the grand Western European tradition of history painting. His images offer dramatic narratives that reveal themselves over time. Many of his most interesting paintings are large multiple panels, each section presenting a different chapter of an unfolding story. Their scale pushes the viewer back to see the whole composition while his brushwork encourages close examination to better admire the painting's surface.

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

Read a review!

A Magnificent Obsession: Selections from the Hamilton Armstrong Collection of Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For decades, Hamilton Armstrong of Fayetteville, NY has been collecting prints created by some of most important and well-known American and European artists of the last 200 years. While only a fraction of the number of works he collected will be exhibited, this show will demonstrate two areas of great interest to Armstrong.

First is the area of architectural etching that began in 19th century Europe and continued into 20th century American printmaking. Consisting of more than 30 prints by Charles Meryon, John Taylor Arms, Samuel Chamberlain, and others, this part of the exhibition highlights an impressive selection of Meryon's rare etchings.

The second part of the show is a series of wood engravings done by Fritz Eichenberg for a reprint of Emily Bronte's classic novel, Wuthering Heights. These images are rare artist proof prints for the 1943 Random House edition of the novel and have been considered some of best illustrations of the 19th century classic because they capture the drama of author's text without adding superfluous material.

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

Last Transfer: Identity and Liminality
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exploration of identity within a unique part of the Syracuse community is the subject of "Last Transfer: Identity and Liminality," an exhibition by Bob Gates, photographer and professor emeritus of English.

The exhibition is part of the 2011 Syracuse Symposium, presented by the SU Humanities Center for SU's College of Arts and Sciences and for the entire Syracuse community. "Identity" is the theme of this year's symposium.

Gates calls the project "a collaborative urban portrait" of the people who inhabit a unique and vibrant urban space in the heart of Syracuse, which is soon to disappear -- the bus transfer stations at the corner of Fayette and Salina streets. The project began with a simple question of identity -- who are these people?

Gates is a nationally recognized photographer whose work has been featured in dozens of publications, including National Geographic Traveler, Outdoor Photographer and Popular Photography. Since 2006, his photography has been the subject of more than 20 exhibitions throughout the Northeast, garnering him numerous honors and awards, including third place in the nature category of Photo Life magazine’s international competition.

The Machine/La Maquina: The Art of Favianna Rodriguez
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The work of Favianna Rodriguez embodies an art and cultural practice that gives voices to disenfranchised people all over the world, transforming it into a tool for agitation, inspiration, and action. The exhibition, The Machine/La Maquina will feature some of Favianna's newest works. Favianna's composites reflect literal and imaginative migration, global community, and interdependence. Whether her subjects are immigrant youth in the USA, land workers fighting for their survival, or her own abstract self portraits, Rodriguez brings new audiences into the art world by refocusing the cultural lens.

Colorfornia: New Forms in West Coast Street Art: Apex, Chor Boogie, and Jet Martinez
The Warehouse Gallery

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

California-based street artists Apex, Chor Boogie, and Jet Martinez will create new temporary murals inside the Warehouse Gallery. The work is based on improvisation, collaboration, and the notion that how and what they paint is recognizably Californian in its focus on strong colors, patterns, forms, and nature.

Their language consists of colorful abstract forms pertaining to optical illusions and movement, faces, evoking real and imaginary urban settings, and tropical imaginary landscapes. All three of them have significantly contributed to public art in San Francisco, San Diego, and other major cities within (Minneapolis; Washington, DC) and outside of the United States (Beijing, Dubai, Oaxaca, Sydney, Tokyo, Zurich) through their use of spray (Apex, Chor) and traditional paint (Jet Martinez) to achieve elaborate compositions with high attention to detail.

Read a Review!

Drawn to Paint: The Art of Jerome Witkin
XL Projects

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

"Drawn to Paint" consists of 70 works including drawings, paintings and sketchbooks by Jerome Witkin, one of America's leading figurative painters and a longtime professor of painting in VPA's Department of Art.

"Drawn to Paint" marks the first time Witkin has allowed his drawings to be displayed beside their finished works. Curator of the exhibition is Edward A. Aiken, associate professor and program coordinator of VPA's graduate program in museum studies in the Department of Design. "Drawn to Paint" will be traveling to other museums around the country during a two-year tour that will conclude at the Palmer Museum of Art in University Park, PA.

The works of Witkin carry forward into our era the grand Western European tradition of history painting. His images offer dramatic narratives that reveal themselves over time. Many of his most interesting paintings are large multiple panels, each section presenting a different chapter of an unfolding story. Their scale pushes the viewer back to see the whole composition, while his brushwork encourages close examination to better admire the painting's surface.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours or e-mail Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. Complete information and related programming is available at suart.syr.edu or on Facebook.

Nathaniel Sullivan: On the Way to the Theatre, We Egged a Trans-am
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In this 1 minute-23 second video, Sullivan depicts the pressures brought to bear in teenage boys--most of which are pressures to be pleased, injunctions to enjoy. While at first glance this looks like an easy row to hoe, the work makes it clear that in fact there are consequences to taking one's pleasures liberally, without reserve. As Plato said, pleasure deranges as efficiently as pain.

Nathaniel Sullivan is an artist and writer. He received his MFA degree from the Transmedia Department at Syracuse University in Spring 2011. His practice is a balance of artwork, critical writing, and curating. His work has been shown in exhibitions and screenings in Syracuse, New York City, and widely across Canada. In 2006, he was awarded a Special Mention from the prestigious Montreal Film Festival.

Dying Oak, Wild Raspberry Bush: Works by Pae White
Urban Video Project

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

Two videos, Dying Oak/Elephant (3-min loop) and Ballerina (Wild Raspberry Bush)(1-min loop), both 2009, by internationally recognized artist and designer, Pae White.

These two video pieces employ high-tech 3D scanning and motion animation techniques and apply them to objects from the natural world, playfully interrogating the integrity of the human/nature divide. The result is a mesmerizing exploration of natural form in which perspective and scale are in constant flux, the data points coalescing for a moment to create an image that is almost hyper-real in its detail, and in the next dispersing into glowing abstractions that might be galaxies or cities at night.

Spin; Salve
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $7 regular; $5 students/seniors
Grewen Auditorium
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Spin by Max Hattler (Germany, animation, 4 minutes)
When conflict becomes a spectacle, the line between destruction and entertainment becomes obscured.

Salve by Alirerza Davoodnejad (Iran, fiction, 95 minutes)
A crusty grandmother finds herself in the unlikely role of guardian angel to her rebellious granddaughter, who runs away for the love of a drug dealer. Wonderful cinematography lends an almost surreal quality as the two women travel the streets of the Iranian capital.

Monarda; Gone
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $7 regular; $5 students/seniors
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Monarda by Walter Ungerer (USA, experimental, 10 minutes)
Abstract, beautifully poetic the film explores the everyday of nature by transforming it into images of mystical beauty.

Gone by John and Gretchen Morning (USA, documentary, 85 minutes)
This is a Central New York story about Ithaca resident Kathy Gilleran, a retired policewoman, whose son, a United Nations worker, suddenly disappears in Vienna, Austria, in 2007. Kathy tries in vain to discover the truth about his disappearance. Powerful, suspenseful, and true.

Work-in-Progress Screening: Invitation To Dance
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $7 regular; $5 students/seniors
Watson Theater, Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave. (Syracuse University), Syracuse

Invitation To Dance by Simi Linton & Christian von Tippelskirch (USA/Germany, documentary, 90 minutes)
Simi Linton was injured while hitchhiking. Suddenly a wheelchair-riding young college student, she confronted insidious forms of discrimination she couldn't have imagined before. In time she realized that activism, love, sexuality, and dance could once again be central to her life.

We'll Get Used to It; My Sweet Baby
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $7 regular; $5 students/seniors
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

We'll Get Used to It by Mohsen Ostad Ali Makhmalbaf (Iran, documentary, 52 minutes)
Five girls who have run away from their homes live in a dormitory and attempt to solve their social and personal problems while warding off the impending emotion of loneliness.

My Sweet Baby by Mi-rye Ryu (Korea, documentary, 68 minutes)
This engaging film is about documentary filmmaker Mi-rye Ryu and her struggles to balance her career, her marriage, and the demands of motherhood.

Silhouette; Facing Mirrors
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $7 regular; $5 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Silhouette by Astrid Busch (Germany, experimental, 6 minutes)
An idyllic, quiet village is briefly disturbed by rain in this evocative closely observed poetic film.

Facing Mirrors by Negar Azarbayjani (Iran, fiction, 101 minutes)
In this compelling story, beautifully acted, Rana and Adineh, two women of opposite background and social class are accidentally brought together to share a journey. For Rana, comprehending and accepting what she discovers is nearly impossible to accept.

77 Steps; Da 18; Maids and Bosses
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $7 regular; $5 students/seniors
Grewen Auditorium
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

77 Steps by Ibtisam Ma'arana (Israel, documentary, 56 minutes)
Ibtisam Ma'arana moves to Tel-Aviv and falls in love with Jonathan, a Jewish-Canadian man, but things take a drastic turn when Israel invades Gaza, upon which their relationship begins to create problems within Jonathan's family.

Da 18 by Martin Groezinger (Germany, animation, 4 minutes)
Every day an old man attempts to read his newspaper on the train but is interrupted by a little girl. One day when she doesn't return, it leaves the man wondering what happened to her.

Maids and Bosses by Abner Benaim (Panama, documentary, 58 minutes)
Maids and their employers living under the same roof create complex emotional ties that result from this common Latin American social reality.

Science and Magic in Film: Human Error
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $7 regular; $5 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Human Error by Robert M Young (USA, fiction, 95 minutes)
Starring Tom Bower, Robert Knott and Xander Berkeley in this imaginative, BRAZIL-like surrealist film in which Dobbitt is called away from his loving wife for duty at "the Corporation," a toxic factory that operates around the clock, producing mysterious "units."

A Program of Shorts
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $7 regular; $5 students/seniors
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

A Roman Orgy (1911) by Louis Feuillade (France, fiction, 10 minutes)
Taking place in Rome, 218 AD, Elagabalus enjoys being treated as the master by his faithful servants.

The Quotidian Life by Kim Joon (Korea, animation, 10 minutes)
Two women lost in a city meet, yet don't actually meet one another.

An Apple by Segev Shaw (Israel, fiction, 12 minutes)
A man and a phone store clerk make a romantic connection on his birthday, but the encounter creates waves with the man's current girlfriend.

After Death by Ari Gaitelband (Israel, fiction, 13 minutes)
A grandfather insists on mourning the death of his wife alone, despite the outreach of his daughter.

Track Meet by Eric Laplante (USA, fiction, 16 minutes)
A runner attempts to woo a woman he sees at the track with the perfect pair of shoes.

Graffitiger by Libor Pixa (Czech Republic, animation, 8 minutes)
A graffiti-tiger roams the walls and facades of spray-painted Prague searching for his lost love.

Radiostan by Tomas Sheridan (England, documentary, 10 minutes)
People spanning the 3500 kilometers between Bishkek and Moscow speak about immigration, racism, hopes, dreams, and reminisce about the old days of the USSR.

All Soul's Day by Jan Bohuslav (Czech Republic, animation, 10 minutes)
It's Halloween and all the souls come out to play and cause mischief before returning to their resting places.

The Small Assassin by Chris Charles (USA, fiction, 16minutes)
After giving birth to their first child, a couple suspects their newborn baby is plotting to kill them.

Raising Renee
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $7 regular; $5 students/seniors
Watson Theater, Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave. (Syracuse University), Syracuse

Raising Renee by Jeanne Jordan & Steven Ascher (USA, documentary, 81 minutes)
Painter Beverly McIver attempts to raise Renee, her mentally challenged sister. Events unfold with humor, drama and unexpected twists, like a nonfiction novel that's nearly impossible to put down. The tenacity of family bonds and the transformative power of art are revealed.

Tides To and Fro; Siberia Monamour
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $7 regular; $5 students/seniors
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Tides To And Fro by Ivan Maximov (Russia, animation, 10 minutes)
Magical metamorphosis reveals life on shore and in the sea changing with the ebb and flow of the tides.

Siberia Monamour by Slava Ross (Russia, fiction, 95 minutes)
Fantastic acting and cinematography highlight this compelling story set In a deserted village where an old man and his grandson wait in isolation for the return of the boy's father, while feral dogs and dangerous marauders keep the two trapped in the desolate land of Siberia.

Man Who Knew How to Fly; Defining Beauty: Ms. Wheelchair America
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $7 regular; $5 students/seniors
Grewen Auditorium
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Man Who Knew How to Fly by Robi Michael (USA, fiction, 24 minutes)
Fanciful and inventive Mr. Tomasek has just discovered that he can fly, but begins to fear the repercussions.

Defining Beauty: Ms. Wheelchair America by Alexis Ostrander (USA, documentary, 79 minutes)
This is a wonderfully inspiring film about women with disabilities journey towards the 2010 Ms. Wheelchair America Pageant. The film explores their lives, dreams, and challenges and calls into question the meaning of the word "beauty."

Rip, Drip, Tear; Ocean Heaven
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $7 regular; $5 students/seniors
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Rip, Drip, Tear by Janette Goodey (New Zealand, animation, 4 minutes)
Using paper and ink, the theme of creation is poetically explored through an animated interpretation of Claire Schole's string quartet.

Ocean Heaven by Xiao Lu Xue (China, fiction, 96 minutes)
Famed martial arts star Jet Li plays the lead in this dramatic, heart warming and intimate story about a terminally ill father, Sam, who works as a maintenance man at an Ocean Park style water theme park. Anticipating his death, Sam tries every conceivable avenue to prepare his autistic son to live on his own.

A Matter of Degrees; Silberwald
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $7 regular; $5 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

A Matter of Degrees by Rick Godin (USA, documentary, 24 minutes)
Sigourney Weaver narrates this epic journey through time, following the lives of creatures long since extinct, acts as a testament to just how much climate shapes our lives.

Silberwald by Christine Repond (Switzerland, documentary, 85 minutes)
Haunting, austere, this story is about a group of boys who struggle with their mounting anger by joining a Nazi gang deep in the forest, but soon discover the boundaries where harmless play can turn into murder.

The Interviewer; Odd One Out
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $7 regular; $5 students/seniors
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

The Interviewer by Aki Monster (Japan, fiction, 25 minutes)
Who is the interviewer and who is the interviewee? This short suspense film asks and answers this question.

Odd One Out by Pawel Wendorff (Poland, fiction, 87 minutes)
Strange and fascinating the film is about a sullen delivery man Kuba who witnesses a traffic collision and is taken into custody after he fails to yield his ID, unaware of the part he will come to play.

Irma; No Friend of Mine; Digital Pariah
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $7 regular; $5 students/seniors
Watson Theater, Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave. (Syracuse University), Syracuse

Irma by Charles Fairbanks (USA, documentary, 12 minutes)
Irma Gonzalez is the former world champion of women's professional wrestling living in Mexico City, she experiences instances of humor, deceit, and love.

No Friend of Mine by Sivan Ben Ari (Israel, documentary, 50 minutes)
A childhood friend reconnects with a young painter who has been confined to a wheelchair through a rare disease. Old jealousies are rekindled but overcome.

Digital Pariah by David Politler (USA, documentary, 50 minutes)
A 34-year-old African-American man living with Asperger's syndrome tries to find work in Youngstown, Ohio during an economic recession.

A Film Unfinished
Temple Society of Concord

Price: Free (donations accepted)
Temple Society of Concord
910 Madison St., Syracuse

At the end of WWII, 60 minutes of raw film, having sat undisturbed in an East German archive, was discovered. Shot by the Nazis in Warsaw in May 1942, and labeled simply "Ghetto," this footage quickly became a resource for historians seeking an authentic record of the Warsaw Ghetto. However, the later discovery of a long-missing reel, inclusive of multiple takes and cameraman staging scenes, complicated earlier readings of the footage. This film presents the raw footage in its entirety, carefully noting fictionalized sequences (including a staged dinner party), falsely showing "the good life" enjoyed by Jewish urbanites, and probes deep into the making of a now-infamous Nazi propaganda film. A Film Unfinished is a film of enormous import, documenting some of the worst horrors of our time and exposing the efforts of its perpetrators to propel their agenda and cast it in a favorable light.

Nothing but a Man
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $7 regular; $5 students/seniors
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Nothing but a Man (1964) by Michael Roemer & Robert M. Young (USA, fiction, 95 minutes)
This groundbreaking film stars Abbey Lincoln, Ivan Dixon, and Julius Harris. A black railroad worker falls in love with a black school teacher, who happens to be the town preacher's daughter.

When You Need Them; Sleeping Dogs
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $7 regular; $5 students/seniors
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

When You Need Them by Pablo Cubarle (USA, experimental, 24 minutes)
Lonely computer nerd Marcos seeks companionship by awkwardly navigating his way through the dating website MeetMeImGreat.com.

Sleeping Dogs by Michael O'Connor (Ireland/German, fiction, 85 minutes)
Jim is haunted by visions of his own violent death and is convinced he doesn't have long to live. He sets out on a journey to find his son Tom and reconcile with him but when they finally meet, Tom's first instinct is to reject his father.

Sweet Memories; Shy
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $7 regular; $5 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Sweet Memories (1911) by Thomas H. Ince (USA, fiction, 10 minutes)
An elderly woman looks back on the special times in her life, thinking especially about her now-departed husband and the things they did together.

Shy by Huayu Xu (China, fiction, 93 minutes)
Excellent acting highlights Xu’s wonderful debut feature. Cui Wenhua has just been released from jail. Xu Taozi comes from the countryside and she works as an escort. Very soon they fall in love and become entangled in criminal activity that results in a surprising end.

His Trust; Mothers
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $7 regular; $5 students/seniors
Watson Theater, Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave. (Syracuse University), Syracuse

His Trust (1911) by D.W. Griffith (USA, fiction, 12 minutes)
A Confederate officer is called off to war. He leaves his wife and daughter in the care of George, his faithful Negro servant. After the officer is killed in an exciting battle sequence, George continues in his caring duties, faithful to his trust.

Mothers by Milcho Manchevski (Macedonia, fiction, 90 minutes)
This unique work crosses film genres. Two nine-year-old girls report a flasher to the police. Filmmakers meet the only residents of a deserted village--an elderly brother and sister who have not spoken to each other in 16 years. Retired cleaning women are found raped and strangled in a small town. The fiction slowly turns into a documentary.

Hitch Fest: Strangers on a Train
ArtRage Gallery

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

In tribute to the Master of Suspense, ArtRage is screening Alfred Hitchcock films every Saturday night in October.

Strangers on a Train (1951), starring Robert Walker, Farley Granger, and Ruth Roman
Psychotic socialite confronts a tennis pro with his theory of how perfect strangers can commit perfect murder, then dares to proceed.

Case Sensitive
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $7 regular; $5 students/seniors
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Case Sensitive by Gil Kofman (China, fiction, 90 minutes)
In this "must see" inventive, riveting, beautifully written and acted drama with a touch of dark satire, internet celebrity Xiaoni tries to attract more clicks to her website by forging a live broadcast kidnapping.

The Manicure Lady; Far Away Eyes
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $7 regular; $5 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The Manicure Lady (1911) by Mark Sennett (USA, fiction, 10 minutes)
Mack Sennett plays the Barber in love with the manicure lady.

Far Away Eyes by Stanley Orzel (Hong Kong, fiction, 88 minutes)
Miguel Ferrer stars with Will Yun Lee in an exciting thriller about four assassins who meet in Hong Kong to resolve unfinished business. In a tense and highly claustrophobic setting, accusations fly, lines are drawn and secrets are revealed.

Head, Hand, Heart
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $7 regular; $5 students/seniors
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Head, Hand, Heart by Milan Popelka (Czech Republic, fiction, 110 minutes)
Audacious, funny, but very sophisticatedly made the story is set in Austria-Hungary during WWI, and is about Colonel von Haukwitz who dies under strange circumstances during a séance. When his fiancée discovers that the Colonel's head, hands and heart were removed from his body after his death she sets off to find out what led to the dismemberment.

Carol North Schmuckler New Filmmakers Showcase
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $7 regular; $5 students/seniors
Watson Theater, Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave. (Syracuse University), Syracuse

Wolf At The Door by Jeremy Koenig and Jon Conklin (USA, fiction, 9 minutes)
A psychological thriller of a suicidal man dealing with his inner demons.

Home Planet by David Drori (USA), Documentary, 29 minutes)
This inventive documentary compares a Mars research project to the filmmaker’s family as the mother prepares to deal with a health problem.

Jacqueline And The Spawn by Will Giamas (USA, animation, 6 minutes)
Jacqueline is a rebellious little girl whose Spawn helps reek havoc.

The Jade by Sigiao Ao (USA, fiction, 26 minutes)
A very funny comedy about a newly arrived Chinese student who is “helped” by his Senior is getting settled in his new home.

Office Ninja by Anthony Manciero (USA, animation, 5 minutes)
Two office workers take on the role of a ninja and his nemesis as the two face off in the most unlikely of places in this imaginative animation.

Melt In The Shade by Kyoungju Kim (USA, experimental, 6 minutes)
Beautifully seen exploration of aloneness in shadows and hints of cultural dislocation.

Family Pride by Seth Coldren (USA, fiction, 22 minutes)
In this laugh-out-loud comedy, what happens when the parents of an about to be engaged son is thought to be gay.

Brew & View 35mm Film and Video Series: The Hills Have Eyes
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $7 regular; $5 students/seniors
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

The Hills Have Eyes (2006) by Alexandre Aja (USA, fiction, 107 minutes)
Produced by Wes Craven this cult classic stars Tom Bower, Kathleen Quinlan, Aaron Stanford, Vinessa Shaw, Dan Byrd, and Emille de Ravin. A suburban American family is being stalked by a group of psychotic people who live in the desert, far away from civilization.

Our Sporting Life: The Heroes, The Highlights, The History
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This local sports history exhibit will highlight a variety of sports equipment, photographs, ephemera, and most importantly, the people involved in making sports history come alive. From baseball, to basketball, to football, hockey, bowling, and more, the exhibit will recount the "thrill of victory and the agony of defeat" for our local sports history makers. Visitors will learn more about Syracuse’s professional basketball team, women athletes, ice boating on Onondaga Lake, past Syracuse hockey teams, as well as African American athletes such as Moses Fleetwood Walker. Guests will also get a chance to see some vintage trophies, uniforms, equipment, and images of our local competitors in action.

Ghostwalk: The Feminine Side of Fayetteville
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: $10 OHA members, $12 non-members
United Church of Fayetteville
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

The ladies have something to say!

The Onondaga Historical Association's fall ghostwalk strolls through the lives of five women who have a connection to the Fayetteville-Manlius area. Whether these women fought for social change, strove for a better life, were pillars of the community or steeped in scandal, each lady has a story to tell.

Included stops in the historic village of Fayetteville are the Matilda Joslyn Gage House and the Beard Morgan Bed and Breakfast. Ghostwalk guided tours will leave from the United Church of Fayetteville every 15 minutes from 6:00-8:00 pm. Parking is available in the municipal lot one block east of the church and on side streets adjacent to Genesee Street. Reservations are strongly advised. To reserve, please call 315-428-1864 x312.

9th Annual Women's Choir Festival
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Nancy Menk, conductor

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

The Syracuse University Women’s Choir, under the direction of Barbara M. Tagg, is holding its ninth annual Women’s Choir Festival concert, featuring performances by the West Genesee High School Women’s Choir under the direction of Marcia DeMartini, and the East Syracuse-Minoa High School Women’s Choir under the direction of Shawn Hebert. The SU Women’s Choir will sing works by Roland de Lassus, Gustav Holst and Kinley Lange. The high school choirs will sing works by Katie Moran Bart, Jim Papoulis and Libby Larsen, as well as "Siyahamba," a Zulu song.

Guest conductor of the festival is Nancy Menk, the Mary Lou and Judd Leighton Chair in Music at Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, where she is professor of music and director of choral activities. She also teaches graduate conducting at the University of Notre Dame; is founder and conductor of the South Bend Chamber Singers, an ensemble of 30 select singers from the Michiana area; and is conductor of the 120-voice Northwest Indiana Symphony Chorus.

Menk’s festival repertoire will include Claude Debussy’s “Nuit d’étoiles” and Elizabeth Alexander’s "If You Can Walk You Can Dance, If You Can Talk You Can Sing" based on a Zimbabwean folk song.

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

The Susquehanna String Band
First Unitarian Universalist Society Music Series

Price: $10 suggested donation
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse
109 Waring Rd. (at the corner of Nottingham Rd.), Dewitt

Traditional music, voice, instrumental and clogging from America and the British Isles, with Rick Bunting playing lap dulcimer, piano, banjo and concertina; John Kirk on fiddle, mandolin and guitar; Dan Duggan playing hammered dulcimer and guitar; and Trish Miller clogging and playing guitar and banjo.

The Chris Robinson Brotherhood
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

The Princess and the Pea
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the children's classic story.

The Turn of the Screw
Syracuse Stage
Michael Barakiva, director

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

A psychological thriller and ghost story, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from the story by Henry James.

Do you believe in ghosts? If you saw a ghost, would you trust your senses or run to the nearest psychiatric-Promptcare? Henry James caused quite a scandal when he published his psychological thriller The Turn of the Screw, a riveting story of a young governess and two small children set on a remote English estate. In this wildly entertaining stage adaptation, two actors bring all of James' eccentric characters and spine-tingling moments to life. What is lurking at the top of the stairs?

Read a Review!

The Romanovs
Covey Theatre Company

Price: $21
BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

New play by Garrett Heater. Steeped in luxury, Emperor Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra have raised their five children to continue the 300 year old lineage of the Russian Romanov dynasty. However, revolution leads to the forced abdication of the monarchy, sending the family, now prisoners, to an outpost in Siberia. Their grisly execution in a basement, gossip surrounding the mystic Rasputin, and the mystery of Grand Duchess Anastasia has come down to us as legend, hinting at the dark intrigue of this tragic noble family.

This world premiere will feature David Witanowski as Tsar Nicholas II, Katharine Gibson as Empress Alexandra, WCNY FM's Bruce Paulsen as Rasputin, and Kate Huddleston, Robert Kovak, Susan Blumer, Kimberly Panek, Amy Ligoci, Maya Dwyer, Liz Russell, Esther Richardson, Christof Deboni, Amy Blumer, Calvin Mele, John Price, and Michael Penny

Please be advised: this play contains adult content not suitable for children.

Read a Review!

Bad Seed
Encore Presentations
William Edward White, director

Price: $37.25 dinner and show, $20 show only
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

A mother discovers that her lovable 8-year-old daughter is a sociopathic killer.

Dinner begins at 6:30 pm; show at 8:00 pm.

Read a Review!

Man of La Mancha
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

Price: $22 regular, $20 students/seniors
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Starring Bob Brown as Don Quixote, Cathleen O'Brien as Aldonza, Bill Ali as Sancho Panza, Richard Koons as The Padre, David Walker as Dr. Carrasco, and Tony Brown as Pedro.

For reservations, phone 315-479-7469.

Read a Review!

The Turn of the Screw
Syracuse Stage
Michael Barakiva, director

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

A psychological thriller and ghost story, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from the story by Henry James.

Do you believe in ghosts? If you saw a ghost, would you trust your senses or run to the nearest psychiatric-Promptcare? Henry James caused quite a scandal when he published his psychological thriller The Turn of the Screw, a riveting story of a young governess and two small children set on a remote English estate. In this wildly entertaining stage adaptation, two actors bring all of James' eccentric characters and spine-tingling moments to life. What is lurking at the top of the stairs?

Read a Review!

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Windows Project: Oscar Garces: Transcendence
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Cuban-born, and Syracuse-based artist Oscar Garces' site-specific mural in the Window Projects space will offer a local echo to "Colorfornia: New Forms in West Coast Street Art". This is his first solo exhibition. Both exhibitions will be organized in conjunction with the Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations in Syracuse.

In the Abstract
Szozda Gallery

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

Szozda Gallery ushers in the fall with an engaging show featuring four noted artists who reveal meaning in their abstract works created through different pathways. "In The Abstract" is the kind of exhibition that compels interaction between artist and viewer to look beyond beauty of color and structure for a relationship to one's very existence in the world in which we live. Artists Roscha Folger, Linda Bigness, Lauren Bristol, and Kwangpyo (Steve) Koh offer insights into the realm of abstractionism in their works of mixed media, paintings, fiber art, and hand carved sculptures.

Photography on the Edge: Between Realism and Abstraction
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The show features photographs by Central New York artists that address the relationship between realistic representation and abstract concepts. Participating artists include Willson Cummer, Bob Gates, Elisabeth Groat, Peter Mahan, Yolanda Tooley, Jeanann Wieners, Diana Whiting, and Jamie Young.

The co-curators, Jen Gandee and Syracuse-area photographer, Bob Gates, in selecting work for this show, were looking for images that are true to the perennial conflict in the history of photography between representational and non-representational images. The same conflicting impulses that have shaped other forms of art--realism, impressionism, expressionism, abstraction, surrealism--have had their adherents among photographers. The works in this exhibit show how some photographers in Central New York respond to or participate in that complex history.

A Magnificent Obsession: Selections from the Hamilton Armstrong Collection of Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For decades, Hamilton Armstrong of Fayetteville, NY has been collecting prints created by some of most important and well-known American and European artists of the last 200 years. While only a fraction of the number of works he collected will be exhibited, this show will demonstrate two areas of great interest to Armstrong.

First is the area of architectural etching that began in 19th century Europe and continued into 20th century American printmaking. Consisting of more than 30 prints by Charles Meryon, John Taylor Arms, Samuel Chamberlain, and others, this part of the exhibition highlights an impressive selection of Meryon's rare etchings.

The second part of the show is a series of wood engravings done by Fritz Eichenberg for a reprint of Emily Bronte's classic novel, Wuthering Heights. These images are rare artist proof prints for the 1943 Random House edition of the novel and have been considered some of best illustrations of the 19th century classic because they capture the drama of author's text without adding superfluous material.

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

Drawn to Paint: The Art of Jerome Witkin
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Drawn to Paint: The Art of Jerome Witkin" consists of 70 works including drawings, paintings, and sketchbooks. Dividing the show between two venues to allow for broader access, "Drawn to Paint" will be on view at the SUArt Galleries on the Syracuse University main campus and the XL Projects gallery in downtown Syracuse. This exhibition, with Dr. Edward A. Aiken as its curator, is the first time Jerome Witkin has allowed his drawings to be displayed beside their finished works. "Drawn to Paint" will be traveling to other museums around the country during a two-year tour that will conclude at the Palmer Museum of Art in University Park, PA.

"Drawn to Paint" is more than a selection of masterfully painted narratives. Through the juxtaposition of drawings and sketchbooks, the exhibition represents a rare look into the artist's process, from the inception of an idea to the completed artwork. The works of Jerome Witkin carry forward into our era the grand Western European tradition of history painting. His images offer dramatic narratives that reveal themselves over time. Many of his most interesting paintings are large multiple panels, each section presenting a different chapter of an unfolding story. Their scale pushes the viewer back to see the whole composition while his brushwork encourages close examination to better admire the painting's surface.

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

Read a review!

Last Transfer: Identity and Liminality
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exploration of identity within a unique part of the Syracuse community is the subject of "Last Transfer: Identity and Liminality," an exhibition by Bob Gates, photographer and professor emeritus of English.

The exhibition is part of the 2011 Syracuse Symposium, presented by the SU Humanities Center for SU's College of Arts and Sciences and for the entire Syracuse community. "Identity" is the theme of this year's symposium.

Gates calls the project "a collaborative urban portrait" of the people who inhabit a unique and vibrant urban space in the heart of Syracuse, which is soon to disappear -- the bus transfer stations at the corner of Fayette and Salina streets. The project began with a simple question of identity -- who are these people?

Gates is a nationally recognized photographer whose work has been featured in dozens of publications, including National Geographic Traveler, Outdoor Photographer and Popular Photography. Since 2006, his photography has been the subject of more than 20 exhibitions throughout the Northeast, garnering him numerous honors and awards, including third place in the nature category of Photo Life magazine’s international competition.

Margie Hughto: A Fired Landscape
Everson Museum of Art

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

Internationally renowned ceramic artist Margie Hughto presents her first site-specific museum installation entitled A Fired Landscape, a "clay painting" spanning 50 feet of gallery wall space. Inspired by the artist's spectacular backyard gardens and natural landscape just steps from her studio, The Fired Landscape installation consists of Setting Sun, a brilliantly colored ceramic wall relief displayed continuously on five angled walls. The visitor encounter is reminiscent of what one experiences when surrounded by the natural environment. Overall, Setting Sun is a ceramic abstraction, but Hughto establishes a connection to the landscape that inspired it by adding impressions of natural objects such as native ferns, marine life and fossils, into the wet clay and then coating the surfaces with brilliant color. The rich palette of burnt oranges and fiery reds evoke the sun’s glowing light and radiating warmth. Tiny pieces of glass embedded in the clay prior to firing add sparkle to the glossy green and blue glazes used to suggest the artist's lily pond.

From Here to There: Alec Soth's America
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, members and children under 5 free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From Here to There: Alec Soth's America" provides a focused look at an extraordinary photographer whose compelling images of the American road and its unexpected turns form powerful narrative vignettes. The exhibition will be the artist's first major survey assembled in the United States, exploring over 15 years of his career, and including an extensive new body of work.

Since his inclusion in the 2004 Whitney and São Paulo biennials, Soth's reputation as one of the most interesting voices in contemporary photography has continued to grow. Though he has followed the itinerant path laid forth by photographers such as Robert Frank, William Eggleston, and Stephen Shore, Soth's is a distinct perspective, one in which the wandering, searching, and the process of telling is as resonant as the record of these remarkable encounters. When considered together, Soth's pictures probe the individualities of people, objects, and places he encounters; offer insight to broader sociologies, and in the process form a collective portrait of an unexpected America.

Featuring approximately 100 photographs made between 1994 and the present, "From Here to There" will include rarely-seen early black-and-white images as well as examples from Soth's best-known series "Sleeping by the Mississippi" and "Niagara." Interspersed throughout the exhibition will be a broad range of portraits made over the past 15 years. The exhibition will also include a new body of work the artist has been developing since 2006, exploring places of escape in America and individuals who seek to flee civilization for a life off the grid. To add insight into Soth's process, the exhibition additionally features a Library space, which includes a reading area for publications, a selection of maquettes for book and 'zine projects, short video works, and ephemera gathered on the road.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Since 1974, the Cultural Resources Council, in collaboration with the Everson, has presented On My Own Time. A celebration of artwork created by employees of local businesses on their own time, the exhibition is meant to promote creativity and artistic endeavors by those who are not full-time artists.

Life Blood: Women in Haudenosaunee Art
LeMoyne College

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

In recognition of November as Native American Heritage Month, the Wilson Art Gallery, along with the gender and women's studies program, will sponsor an exhibition of traditional and contemporary works of Haudenosaunee women artists, as well as works that honor women by other Haudenosaunee artists.

According to Tom Huff, curator and artist, "The exhibit features the contemporary mix medium works by local Haudenosaunee women who draw on traditional culture and beliefs. Tradition is the life blood of these contemporary works. These traditions extend from the oral history of the creation story that honors Mother Earth and acknowledges women's relationship with Grandmother Moon and Life Giving Sustenance, the Three Sisters. As a matrilineal society, women are held in high regard for their leadership roles within the community and family. Within the Haudenosaunee Nations, women carry the title of clan mothers who oversee ceremonies, give clan names and maintain the authority for choosing and removing chiefs within the nation’s traditional council government. Within the family, women are the center of support and the lifeline in everyday life and decision making that sustains the strength of the extended family. This exhibit honors and celebrates this continued role of women through artistic expressions, maintaining the life blood of the nations."

For more information, phone 315-445-4153.

Drawn to Paint: The Art of Jerome Witkin
XL Projects

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

"Drawn to Paint" consists of 70 works including drawings, paintings and sketchbooks by Jerome Witkin, one of America's leading figurative painters and a longtime professor of painting in VPA's Department of Art.

"Drawn to Paint" marks the first time Witkin has allowed his drawings to be displayed beside their finished works. Curator of the exhibition is Edward A. Aiken, associate professor and program coordinator of VPA's graduate program in museum studies in the Department of Design. "Drawn to Paint" will be traveling to other museums around the country during a two-year tour that will conclude at the Palmer Museum of Art in University Park, PA.

The works of Witkin carry forward into our era the grand Western European tradition of history painting. His images offer dramatic narratives that reveal themselves over time. Many of his most interesting paintings are large multiple panels, each section presenting a different chapter of an unfolding story. Their scale pushes the viewer back to see the whole composition, while his brushwork encourages close examination to better admire the painting's surface.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours or e-mail Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. Complete information and related programming is available at suart.syr.edu or on Facebook.

Nathaniel Sullivan: On the Way to the Theatre, We Egged a Trans-am
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In this 1 minute-23 second video, Sullivan depicts the pressures brought to bear in teenage boys--most of which are pressures to be pleased, injunctions to enjoy. While at first glance this looks like an easy row to hoe, the work makes it clear that in fact there are consequences to taking one's pleasures liberally, without reserve. As Plato said, pleasure deranges as efficiently as pain.

Nathaniel Sullivan is an artist and writer. He received his MFA degree from the Transmedia Department at Syracuse University in Spring 2011. His practice is a balance of artwork, critical writing, and curating. His work has been shown in exhibitions and screenings in Syracuse, New York City, and widely across Canada. In 2006, he was awarded a Special Mention from the prestigious Montreal Film Festival.

Dying Oak, Wild Raspberry Bush: Works by Pae White
Urban Video Project

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

Two videos, Dying Oak/Elephant (3-min loop) and Ballerina (Wild Raspberry Bush)(1-min loop), both 2009, by internationally recognized artist and designer, Pae White.

These two video pieces employ high-tech 3D scanning and motion animation techniques and apply them to objects from the natural world, playfully interrogating the integrity of the human/nature divide. The result is a mesmerizing exploration of natural form in which perspective and scale are in constant flux, the data points coalescing for a moment to create an image that is almost hyper-real in its detail, and in the next dispersing into glowing abstractions that might be galaxies or cities at night.

Bassa Marea; The Bench; Sulla Strada Di Casa
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $7 regular; $5 students/seniors
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Bassa Marea by Roberto De Paolis (Italy, fiction, 15 minutes)
A lonely man in a strange town walks to the sea, his journey full of changes of direction, random encounters, and sudden choice.

The Bench by Massimiliano Battistella (Italy, fiction, 4 minutes)
Walking hazardously on the top of a skyscraper, a young man falls in love with a mysterious girl, who is deeply plunged into her reading.

Sulla Strada Di Casa by Emiliano Corapi (Italy, fiction, 82 minutes)
In this neo-film noir thriller, Alberto, a small businessman from Liguria, runs a firm that is in bad shape. To save his company, he becomes a courier for a criminal organization which uses him to deliver illegal goods.

Animations by Pixar Presentation: Female Characters in Pixar Animations
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $7 regular; $5 students/seniors
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Blank Bullet
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $7 regular; $5 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Blank Bullet by Haim Bouzaglo (Israel, fiction, 93 minutes)
In this "on the edge of your seat" thriller, Israeli intelligence agent Amos Snir has 60 hours to prevent the assassination of the Prime Minister, his mission ultimately teaching him the origin of conflict in the Israeli society.

Greenwashers; Some Things Are Worse Then Being Gay; Adirake; The Finnster
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $7 regular; $5 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Greenwashers by Bret Malley (USA, documentary/experimental, 50 minutes)
Two characters called the "Borat's" of the green world blur the line between green and greed, truth and believability, and environmentalism and marketing, illustrating the art of Greenwashing. Syracuse's Destiny USA is featured.

Some Things Are Worse Then Being Gay by Regine Richards (USA, fiction, 7 minutes)
Irreverent and funny, Leah’s mother overreacts when she learns that her daughter's girlfriend isn't Jewish.

Adirake by Audiwh Ha & Tati Barrantes (Thailand, fiction, 7 minutes)
After the tsunami claimed the lives of his parents, Adirake searches for the white elephant his mother spoke of in this coming of age story.

The Finnster by Thomas Korthals Altes (Netherlands, fiction, 47 minutes)
Finn lives the life of an average schoolboy until one day coming home from school, he catches his father Roelof in his mom's dress.

Special Program: The Princess and The Frog
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $7 regular; $5 students/seniors
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

The Princess and The Frog by Ron Clements & John Musker (USA, animation, 97 minutes)
Special guest Rob Edwards was one of the writers nominated for an Academy Award for this fairy tale set in Jazz Age-era New Orleans and centered on a young girl named Tiana and her fateful kiss with a frog prince who desperately wants to be human again.

Raft; Vespa
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $7 regular; $5 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Raft by Miyake Nobuyuki (Japan, fiction, 27 minutes)
In a small fishing town, a quiet man and a boy build a raft to find Gaku, a boy lost at sea. Slowly, the film reveals the secret between the boy and the man.

Vespa by Diana Groo (Hungary, fiction, 85 minutes)
A Romany child wins a Vespa scooter and must travel from his poor town to Budapest to collect his prize and return home. The film is playful in its depiction of the young boy's naïveté, but its power comes from its touching portrayal of the mother-son bond. The story is sleek and joyous.

Lavan; Satellite of Love; Loving Sophia
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $7 regular; $5 students/seniors
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Lavan by Guilhad Emilio Schenker (Israel, fiction, 28 minutes)
Gioza, a "White Torture" prison guard, falls for the prisoner under her supervision, without him knowing she is there. She must choose between her love and her duty.

Satellite of Love by Eliyahu Zigdon (Israel, fiction, 12 minutes)
The life and experiences of the first "IT" girl in Israel are portrayed through interviews and clips of her actual life, highlighting the corruption of gossip.

Loving Sophia by Ohad Itach (Israel, documentary, 71 minutes)
This powerful documentary reads like a fictional drama but it isn't. Its reality is shattering as we see young Moldovian musician Sophia begin to spin out of control after she falls into the dark world of drug addiction and prostitution, much to the horror of her parents.

The Baron; Je T'aime I Love You Terminal
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $7 regular; $5 students/seniors
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

The Baron (1911) by Mark Sennett (USA, fiction, 8 minutes)
One of the early apprentice films by Sennett, which are now fondly remembered but rarely seen.

Je T'aime I Love You Terminal by Dani Menkin (Israel, fiction, 85 minutes)
A very fresh take on the Romantic Comedy genre, this film is sure to delight. Ben is flying to New York to marry his girlfriend, but misses his connecting flight in Prague, but once he meets Emma, the two begin to reconsider their intentions over the next 24 hours.

Our Sporting Life: The Heroes, The Highlights, The History
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This local sports history exhibit will highlight a variety of sports equipment, photographs, ephemera, and most importantly, the people involved in making sports history come alive. From baseball, to basketball, to football, hockey, bowling, and more, the exhibit will recount the "thrill of victory and the agony of defeat" for our local sports history makers. Visitors will learn more about Syracuse’s professional basketball team, women athletes, ice boating on Onondaga Lake, past Syracuse hockey teams, as well as African American athletes such as Moses Fleetwood Walker. Guests will also get a chance to see some vintage trophies, uniforms, equipment, and images of our local competitors in action.

Sunday Musicale: Skip Murphy & Quartet Jazz & Blues
Fayetteville Free Library

Price: Suggested donation $5
Fayetteville Free Library
300 Orchard St., Fayetteville

Gospel Concert
Arts at Assisi
Featuring Bethany Baptist Church Adult Choir and Instrumentalists

Price: Free, donations accepted
Assumption Church
812 N. Salina St., Syracuse

Rachel Laurin, organ
Malmgren Concert Series

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Canadian organist Rachel Laurin has performed recitals across Canada, the United States and in Europe, and has made 11 recordings. In 2000 in Montreal and 2001 in Ottawa, Canada, she played the Six Organ Symphonies by Louis Vierne in three recitals. An award-winning composer of over 60 works, her two most recent compositions are Concerto for Organ, String Orchestra and Timpani and Sonata for Organ and Horn. This concert will feature music of Brahms, Daveluy, several of her own works, and an improvisation on submitted themes.

Sound Tribe Sector 9, with The Great Mundane
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Man of La Mancha
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

Price: $22 regular, $20 students/seniors
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Starring Bob Brown as Don Quixote, Cathleen O'Brien as Aldonza, Bill Ali as Sancho Panza, Richard Koons as The Padre, David Walker as Dr. Carrasco, and Tony Brown as Pedro.

For reservations, phone 315-479-7469.

Read a Review!

The Turn of the Screw
Syracuse Stage
Michael Barakiva, director

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

A psychological thriller and ghost story, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from the story by Henry James.

Do you believe in ghosts? If you saw a ghost, would you trust your senses or run to the nearest psychiatric-Promptcare? Henry James caused quite a scandal when he published his psychological thriller The Turn of the Screw, a riveting story of a young governess and two small children set on a remote English estate. In this wildly entertaining stage adaptation, two actors bring all of James' eccentric characters and spine-tingling moments to life. What is lurking at the top of the stairs?

Read a Review!

Monday, October 17, 2011

Windows Project: Oscar Garces: Transcendence
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Cuban-born, and Syracuse-based artist Oscar Garces' site-specific mural in the Window Projects space will offer a local echo to "Colorfornia: New Forms in West Coast Street Art". This is his first solo exhibition. Both exhibitions will be organized in conjunction with the Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations in Syracuse.

Last Transfer: Identity and Liminality
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exploration of identity within a unique part of the Syracuse community is the subject of "Last Transfer: Identity and Liminality," an exhibition by Bob Gates, photographer and professor emeritus of English.

The exhibition is part of the 2011 Syracuse Symposium, presented by the SU Humanities Center for SU's College of Arts and Sciences and for the entire Syracuse community. "Identity" is the theme of this year's symposium.

Gates calls the project "a collaborative urban portrait" of the people who inhabit a unique and vibrant urban space in the heart of Syracuse, which is soon to disappear -- the bus transfer stations at the corner of Fayette and Salina streets. The project began with a simple question of identity -- who are these people?

Gates is a nationally recognized photographer whose work has been featured in dozens of publications, including National Geographic Traveler, Outdoor Photographer and Popular Photography. Since 2006, his photography has been the subject of more than 20 exhibitions throughout the Northeast, garnering him numerous honors and awards, including third place in the nature category of Photo Life magazine’s international competition.

Life Blood: Women in Haudenosaunee Art
LeMoyne College

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

In recognition of November as Native American Heritage Month, the Wilson Art Gallery, along with the gender and women's studies program, will sponsor an exhibition of traditional and contemporary works of Haudenosaunee women artists, as well as works that honor women by other Haudenosaunee artists.

According to Tom Huff, curator and artist, "The exhibit features the contemporary mix medium works by local Haudenosaunee women who draw on traditional culture and beliefs. Tradition is the life blood of these contemporary works. These traditions extend from the oral history of the creation story that honors Mother Earth and acknowledges women's relationship with Grandmother Moon and Life Giving Sustenance, the Three Sisters. As a matrilineal society, women are held in high regard for their leadership roles within the community and family. Within the Haudenosaunee Nations, women carry the title of clan mothers who oversee ceremonies, give clan names and maintain the authority for choosing and removing chiefs within the nation’s traditional council government. Within the family, women are the center of support and the lifeline in everyday life and decision making that sustains the strength of the extended family. This exhibit honors and celebrates this continued role of women through artistic expressions, maintaining the life blood of the nations."

For more information, phone 315-445-4153.

Natural Selections: Works by Bob Ripley
Baltimore Woods

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

The exhibit of wildlife paintings in transparent watercolors.

Shane LaVancher and Clémentine Allain Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Shane LaVancher and Clementine Allain, respectively from New York and Paris are artists who consistently attempt to stretch the concepts of fashion and its aesthetics. Their images playfully nudge the lines between pop art, contemporary poetic vision, and hard-line fashion. The duo works from their intuition with the fickle fashion industry in mind. The element of presence within their images reflects their attention to contemporary fashion, but also the essence of the age we live in.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium is Lots 2 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Just One Word: Plastics
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

For more than a century, plastics have transformed our lives -- from bathroom to battlefield; from supermarket to spacecraft. Begun as a 19th-century replacement material for billiard balls and piano keys, plastics spurred 20th century developments in industry, transportation, medicine, entertainment, and other aspects of contemporary life. The original objects of "Just One Word: Plastics" represent a material history of the modern world.

This exhibition features a representative sample of the Plastics Collection at the Syracuse University Library and presents an overview of major trends in the development of plastics in everyday life. The exhibit focuses on personal and household objects rather than the use of plastics in industry where they are also widely used. Approximately 250 objects divided into 12 categories will be on view. In addition, a small selection of manuscripts and printed materials will be included.

Specific objects to be featured in the exhibition are:
* ornate celluloid combs and a wide variety of plastic toiletries
* phenolic (Bakelite) objects from the 1920s and 30s including jewelry, radios, and other appliances and games
* musical instruments
* post-war toys, dishes, and household items
* original patent books of John Wesley Hyatt, inventor of Celluloid
* product catalogues from the 1930s and 1950s for popular items such as DuPont French Ivory dresser sets, Boltaware molded "stoneware" dishes, and Tupperware, and
* the Pleur-evac, a revolutionary plastic medical device for draining fluid and maintaining pressure in the lungs that helped save the life of President Ronald Reagan.

The Plastics Collection was begun in 2007 as a joint project of the Syracuse University Library and the Plastics History & Artifacts Committee of the Plastics Pioneers Association. The Collection expanded dramatically when the National Plastics Center and Museum in Leominster, MA, closed and transferred its artifacts, books, and manuscripts to Syracuse University's care in 2008.

Aphotic Ardor: Works by Kristie Hayes-Beaulieu
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

An exhibit of variety. Diversity. Progression. Connections. Past and present. Growth. Reclusion. Pain and suffering, as well as extreme bliss. Also view a sneak preview in one of our gallery rooms of Kristie's X-ray-inspired work that will be on display at the SUNY Health Science Center in December.

Whereas I Took the Butterfly: Works by Deloss McGraw
YMCA Arts Branch GallerY

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit of literary "poster paintings" features Deloss McGraw's reflections/interpretations of such writers as Dickinson, Hemingway, Snodgrass and others, often using photographs of the authors, book covers, or other borrowed images.

Invitational with Photographer Tim Etter
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Edifice
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Mexican-born, New York City-based artists Gabriela Alva C. and Natalia Porter present their collaborative project, Edifice. Curated by Pedro Cuperman, the show features Alva and Porter in response to the work of Boston artist Andrew Witkin's writings.

Having partnered in previous projects as curator/artist and as co-curators, Porter and Alva now team up as artists for the first time. For this exhibit, they employ a series of texts and diagrams by Boston-based Andrew Witkin to serve as a bridge, from written word to spatial arrangement, and from artist to writer to curator, warping the term collaboration to be more and more dynamic. Witkin's writings, which can be read as lists, are accumulations of thoughts that suggest a sense of order, but still remain abstract. They are organized in an undefined way and yet are quite concrete. They repeat, are rhythmic and include a sense of time and space. Both Porter and Alva respond to the juxtaposition of order and abstraction, as well as to the visual composition of Witkin's publications. Working collectively and individually, these artists push the means, methods and roles of an exhibition and its participants, seeking and constantly finding new points of contact.

Self Expressed: Works of Mary Fragapane
Redhouse

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

Fragapane is best known for her enigmatic female figures that seek to capture the intangibles of joy, passion, and the beauty of the human spirit. Working in an expressive style on un-gessoed canvas, she uses a layering process incorporating acrylic paints, chalk and oil pastels, pencil, and water.

Fragapane has exhibited extensively in Manhattan and throughout New York, Cleveland, California and internationally on the Island of Curacao. In addition to her solo shows, she has been commissioned for numerous Public Art projects.

The American Look: Fashion and Furnishings of the Arts and Crafts Era
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

A new exhibition unites original Arts and Crafts Movement furnishings, with an emphasis on those designed by Gustav Stickley, with clothing worn by American women during 1909-1913 -- a rarely seen combination.

Exhibition curator Jeffrey Mayer, an associate professor and program coordinator of fashion design in VPA's Department of Design, selected the garments in "The American Look" from the fashion design program's Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, which he also curates. The furniture, consisting of original pieces produced between 1906-1911, is on loan from David Rudd and Debbie Goldwein of Dalton's American Decorative Arts in Syracuse. Many of the pieces on view are unparalleled examples of the work of Gustav Stickley, none of which have been previously exhibited to the public.

For more information, contact Mayer or Lauren Tagliaferro, registrar of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, at 315-443-4644.

Last Transfer: The Soul of Syracuse
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Screening projected onto outside of Everson Museum facing the plaza.

Dodsworth (1936)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $3.50 non-members, $3 members
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Director: William Wyler.
Cast: Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas, Mary Astor, David Niven, Maria Ouspenskaya, Spring Byington.
Classic drama of a middle-aged American auto tycoon (Huston, recreating his Broadway role) who retires and travels to Europe with his wife (Chatterton). While there, they discover differing sets of values and trouble ensues. An impressively mature and superbly acted adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' novel.

Freeing Speech: An Evening with Author, Activist and Librarian Amy Sonnie
ArtRage Gallery

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

Author and 'Banned Librarian' Amy Sonnie will host an evening of discussion on intellectual freedom, cultural work, and social change. From her first published poems in the SCW calendar to her censored LGBTQ anthology and her most recent book on white working-class radicals in the 1960s-70s, Amy will discuss the role of storytelling in social movements, and the power of creative action when the censors comes calling.

This event will benefit the Syracuse Cultural Workers.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Windows Project: Oscar Garces: Transcendence
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Cuban-born, and Syracuse-based artist Oscar Garces' site-specific mural in the Window Projects space will offer a local echo to "Colorfornia: New Forms in West Coast Street Art". This is his first solo exhibition. Both exhibitions will be organized in conjunction with the Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations in Syracuse.

Last Transfer: Identity and Liminality
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exploration of identity within a unique part of the Syracuse community is the subject of "Last Transfer: Identity and Liminality," an exhibition by Bob Gates, photographer and professor emeritus of English.

The exhibition is part of the 2011 Syracuse Symposium, presented by the SU Humanities Center for SU's College of Arts and Sciences and for the entire Syracuse community. "Identity" is the theme of this year's symposium.

Gates calls the project "a collaborative urban portrait" of the people who inhabit a unique and vibrant urban space in the heart of Syracuse, which is soon to disappear -- the bus transfer stations at the corner of Fayette and Salina streets. The project began with a simple question of identity -- who are these people?

Gates is a nationally recognized photographer whose work has been featured in dozens of publications, including National Geographic Traveler, Outdoor Photographer and Popular Photography. Since 2006, his photography has been the subject of more than 20 exhibitions throughout the Northeast, garnering him numerous honors and awards, including third place in the nature category of Photo Life magazine’s international competition.

Life Blood: Women in Haudenosaunee Art
LeMoyne College

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

In recognition of November as Native American Heritage Month, the Wilson Art Gallery, along with the gender and women's studies program, will sponsor an exhibition of traditional and contemporary works of Haudenosaunee women artists, as well as works that honor women by other Haudenosaunee artists.

According to Tom Huff, curator and artist, "The exhibit features the contemporary mix medium works by local Haudenosaunee women who draw on traditional culture and beliefs. Tradition is the life blood of these contemporary works. These traditions extend from the oral history of the creation story that honors Mother Earth and acknowledges women's relationship with Grandmother Moon and Life Giving Sustenance, the Three Sisters. As a matrilineal society, women are held in high regard for their leadership roles within the community and family. Within the Haudenosaunee Nations, women carry the title of clan mothers who oversee ceremonies, give clan names and maintain the authority for choosing and removing chiefs within the nation’s traditional council government. Within the family, women are the center of support and the lifeline in everyday life and decision making that sustains the strength of the extended family. This exhibit honors and celebrates this continued role of women through artistic expressions, maintaining the life blood of the nations."

For more information, phone 315-445-4153.

Natural Selections: Works by Bob Ripley
Baltimore Woods

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

The exhibit of wildlife paintings in transparent watercolors.

Shane LaVancher and Clémentine Allain Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Shane LaVancher and Clementine Allain, respectively from New York and Paris are artists who consistently attempt to stretch the concepts of fashion and its aesthetics. Their images playfully nudge the lines between pop art, contemporary poetic vision, and hard-line fashion. The duo works from their intuition with the fickle fashion industry in mind. The element of presence within their images reflects their attention to contemporary fashion, but also the essence of the age we live in.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium is Lots 2 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Just One Word: Plastics
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

For more than a century, plastics have transformed our lives -- from bathroom to battlefield; from supermarket to spacecraft. Begun as a 19th-century replacement material for billiard balls and piano keys, plastics spurred 20th century developments in industry, transportation, medicine, entertainment, and other aspects of contemporary life. The original objects of "Just One Word: Plastics" represent a material history of the modern world.

This exhibition features a representative sample of the Plastics Collection at the Syracuse University Library and presents an overview of major trends in the development of plastics in everyday life. The exhibit focuses on personal and household objects rather than the use of plastics in industry where they are also widely used. Approximately 250 objects divided into 12 categories will be on view. In addition, a small selection of manuscripts and printed materials will be included.

Specific objects to be featured in the exhibition are:
* ornate celluloid combs and a wide variety of plastic toiletries
* phenolic (Bakelite) objects from the 1920s and 30s including jewelry, radios, and other appliances and games
* musical instruments
* post-war toys, dishes, and household items
* original patent books of John Wesley Hyatt, inventor of Celluloid
* product catalogues from the 1930s and 1950s for popular items such as DuPont French Ivory dresser sets, Boltaware molded "stoneware" dishes, and Tupperware, and
* the Pleur-evac, a revolutionary plastic medical device for draining fluid and maintaining pressure in the lungs that helped save the life of President Ronald Reagan.

The Plastics Collection was begun in 2007 as a joint project of the Syracuse University Library and the Plastics History & Artifacts Committee of the Plastics Pioneers Association. The Collection expanded dramatically when the National Plastics Center and Museum in Leominster, MA, closed and transferred its artifacts, books, and manuscripts to Syracuse University's care in 2008.

Aphotic Ardor: Works by Kristie Hayes-Beaulieu
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

An exhibit of variety. Diversity. Progression. Connections. Past and present. Growth. Reclusion. Pain and suffering, as well as extreme bliss. Also view a sneak preview in one of our gallery rooms of Kristie's X-ray-inspired work that will be on display at the SUNY Health Science Center in December.

Whereas I Took the Butterfly: Works by Deloss McGraw
YMCA Arts Branch GallerY

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit of literary "poster paintings" features Deloss McGraw's reflections/interpretations of such writers as Dickinson, Hemingway, Snodgrass and others, often using photographs of the authors, book covers, or other borrowed images.

Layers
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Lynette Blake: oil paintings on canvas
Carol Ackles: hand built and wheel thrown ceramics
Jan Navales: hand dyed, screen printed, stitched and beaded fabric wall hangings

Invitational with Photographer Tim Etter
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

African Diasporan Treasures: 40 Years of Community Folk Art Center
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition will showcase pieces from CFAC's permanent collection. Featuring over 30 works by artists including Joel Gaines, Ellen Oppler, Jack White, Denise Cole and Kamiiron Pritchard, "African Diasporan Treasures" provides a rare opportunity for visitors to experience the rich artistic history of CFAC. In many cases, the pieces have not been displayed for decades. The show will also feature African art that was once part of the Smithsonian Museum's collection.

Edifice
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Mexican-born, New York City-based artists Gabriela Alva C. and Natalia Porter present their collaborative project, Edifice. Curated by Pedro Cuperman, the show features Alva and Porter in response to the work of Boston artist Andrew Witkin's writings.

Having partnered in previous projects as curator/artist and as co-curators, Porter and Alva now team up as artists for the first time. For this exhibit, they employ a series of texts and diagrams by Boston-based Andrew Witkin to serve as a bridge, from written word to spatial arrangement, and from artist to writer to curator, warping the term collaboration to be more and more dynamic. Witkin's writings, which can be read as lists, are accumulations of thoughts that suggest a sense of order, but still remain abstract. They are organized in an undefined way and yet are quite concrete. They repeat, are rhythmic and include a sense of time and space. Both Porter and Alva respond to the juxtaposition of order and abstraction, as well as to the visual composition of Witkin's publications. Working collectively and individually, these artists push the means, methods and roles of an exhibition and its participants, seeking and constantly finding new points of contact.

Self Expressed: Works of Mary Fragapane
Redhouse

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

Fragapane is best known for her enigmatic female figures that seek to capture the intangibles of joy, passion, and the beauty of the human spirit. Working in an expressive style on un-gessoed canvas, she uses a layering process incorporating acrylic paints, chalk and oil pastels, pencil, and water.

Fragapane has exhibited extensively in Manhattan and throughout New York, Cleveland, California and internationally on the Island of Curacao. In addition to her solo shows, she has been commissioned for numerous Public Art projects.

The American Look: Fashion and Furnishings of the Arts and Crafts Era
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

A new exhibition unites original Arts and Crafts Movement furnishings, with an emphasis on those designed by Gustav Stickley, with clothing worn by American women during 1909-1913 -- a rarely seen combination.

Exhibition curator Jeffrey Mayer, an associate professor and program coordinator of fashion design in VPA's Department of Design, selected the garments in "The American Look" from the fashion design program's Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, which he also curates. The furniture, consisting of original pieces produced between 1906-1911, is on loan from David Rudd and Debbie Goldwein of Dalton's American Decorative Arts in Syracuse. Many of the pieces on view are unparalleled examples of the work of Gustav Stickley, none of which have been previously exhibited to the public.

For more information, contact Mayer or Lauren Tagliaferro, registrar of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, at 315-443-4644.

Drawn to Paint: The Art of Jerome Witkin
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Drawn to Paint: The Art of Jerome Witkin" consists of 70 works including drawings, paintings, and sketchbooks. Dividing the show between two venues to allow for broader access, "Drawn to Paint" will be on view at the SUArt Galleries on the Syracuse University main campus and the XL Projects gallery in downtown Syracuse. This exhibition, with Dr. Edward A. Aiken as its curator, is the first time Jerome Witkin has allowed his drawings to be displayed beside their finished works. "Drawn to Paint" will be traveling to other museums around the country during a two-year tour that will conclude at the Palmer Museum of Art in University Park, PA.

"Drawn to Paint" is more than a selection of masterfully painted narratives. Through the juxtaposition of drawings and sketchbooks, the exhibition represents a rare look into the artist's process, from the inception of an idea to the completed artwork. The works of Jerome Witkin carry forward into our era the grand Western European tradition of history painting. His images offer dramatic narratives that reveal themselves over time. Many of his most interesting paintings are large multiple panels, each section presenting a different chapter of an unfolding story. Their scale pushes the viewer back to see the whole composition while his brushwork encourages close examination to better admire the painting's surface.

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

Read a review!

A Magnificent Obsession: Selections from the Hamilton Armstrong Collection of Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For decades, Hamilton Armstrong of Fayetteville, NY has been collecting prints created by some of most important and well-known American and European artists of the last 200 years. While only a fraction of the number of works he collected will be exhibited, this show will demonstrate two areas of great interest to Armstrong.

First is the area of architectural etching that began in 19th century Europe and continued into 20th century American printmaking. Consisting of more than 30 prints by Charles Meryon, John Taylor Arms, Samuel Chamberlain, and others, this part of the exhibition highlights an impressive selection of Meryon's rare etchings.

The second part of the show is a series of wood engravings done by Fritz Eichenberg for a reprint of Emily Bronte's classic novel, Wuthering Heights. These images are rare artist proof prints for the 1943 Random House edition of the novel and have been considered some of best illustrations of the 19th century classic because they capture the drama of author's text without adding superfluous material.

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

From Here to There: Alec Soth's America
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, members and children under 5 free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From Here to There: Alec Soth's America" provides a focused look at an extraordinary photographer whose compelling images of the American road and its unexpected turns form powerful narrative vignettes. The exhibition will be the artist's first major survey assembled in the United States, exploring over 15 years of his career, and including an extensive new body of work.

Since his inclusion in the 2004 Whitney and São Paulo biennials, Soth's reputation as one of the most interesting voices in contemporary photography has continued to grow. Though he has followed the itinerant path laid forth by photographers such as Robert Frank, William Eggleston, and Stephen Shore, Soth's is a distinct perspective, one in which the wandering, searching, and the process of telling is as resonant as the record of these remarkable encounters. When considered together, Soth's pictures probe the individualities of people, objects, and places he encounters; offer insight to broader sociologies, and in the process form a collective portrait of an unexpected America.

Featuring approximately 100 photographs made between 1994 and the present, "From Here to There" will include rarely-seen early black-and-white images as well as examples from Soth's best-known series "Sleeping by the Mississippi" and "Niagara." Interspersed throughout the exhibition will be a broad range of portraits made over the past 15 years. The exhibition will also include a new body of work the artist has been developing since 2006, exploring places of escape in America and individuals who seek to flee civilization for a life off the grid. To add insight into Soth's process, the exhibition additionally features a Library space, which includes a reading area for publications, a selection of maquettes for book and 'zine projects, short video works, and ephemera gathered on the road.

Margie Hughto: A Fired Landscape
Everson Museum of Art

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

Internationally renowned ceramic artist Margie Hughto presents her first site-specific museum installation entitled A Fired Landscape, a "clay painting" spanning 50 feet of gallery wall space. Inspired by the artist's spectacular backyard gardens and natural landscape just steps from her studio, The Fired Landscape installation consists of Setting Sun, a brilliantly colored ceramic wall relief displayed continuously on five angled walls. The visitor encounter is reminiscent of what one experiences when surrounded by the natural environment. Overall, Setting Sun is a ceramic abstraction, but Hughto establishes a connection to the landscape that inspired it by adding impressions of natural objects such as native ferns, marine life and fossils, into the wet clay and then coating the surfaces with brilliant color. The rich palette of burnt oranges and fiery reds evoke the sun’s glowing light and radiating warmth. Tiny pieces of glass embedded in the clay prior to firing add sparkle to the glossy green and blue glazes used to suggest the artist's lily pond.

Colorfornia: New Forms in West Coast Street Art: Apex, Chor Boogie, and Jet Martinez
The Warehouse Gallery

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

California-based street artists Apex, Chor Boogie, and Jet Martinez will create new temporary murals inside the Warehouse Gallery. The work is based on improvisation, collaboration, and the notion that how and what they paint is recognizably Californian in its focus on strong colors, patterns, forms, and nature.

Their language consists of colorful abstract forms pertaining to optical illusions and movement, faces, evoking real and imaginary urban settings, and tropical imaginary landscapes. All three of them have significantly contributed to public art in San Francisco, San Diego, and other major cities within (Minneapolis; Washington, DC) and outside of the United States (Beijing, Dubai, Oaxaca, Sydney, Tokyo, Zurich) through their use of spray (Apex, Chor) and traditional paint (Jet Martinez) to achieve elaborate compositions with high attention to detail.

Read a Review!

Illusions of Grandeur: Art Exhibition and Book Release
Echo

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

On display: a collection of Ling Tang's graphite drawings and the debut of Ling's Le Style Moderne book: Illusions of Grandeur.

Last Transfer: The Soul of Syracuse
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Screening projected onto outside of Everson Museum facing the plaza.

Independent Radio & Organizing in Central America
ArtRage Gallery
Featuring Chris Thomas

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Chris Thomas is a Syracuse native based in Chiapas, Mexico, working with a small grassroots media collective Popular Communicators for Autonomy (COMPPA). The collective works in southern Mexico and Central America accompanying campesino and indigenous organizations fighting to defend their land, territory and culture against threats from transnational corporations and their allies in the national governments. We will show two short films focusing on Honduras ("The Joy that Defied the Sultan" and "Faluma Resists") highlighting the struggles of campesino and garifuna organizations promoting community radio projects in their communities to strengthen their struggles against the country's oligarchy and transnational corporations in their attempts to displace these communities from their land. Before and after the films we will talk briefly about the situation in Honduras, and in general in Mesoamerica, focusing on the formation of the Mesoamerican Community Radio Network -- an alliance of indigenous, garifuna and campesino organizations whose radios are at the forefront of these struggles.

Artist Lecture and Reception: Bob Gates
Urban Video Project

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

Bob Gates' latest photography is featured in the exhibition Last Transfer: Identity & Liminality, which will be on view in the Schine Student Center Gallery and sponsored by the SU Humanities Center for the 2011 Symposium Symposium: Identity. As Gates comments: "In the age of Facebook, we have become familiar with the fluidity of identity. Peter Steiner's famous cartoon in which one dog says to another, 'On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog,' is often taken to represent a new truth but really represents an old truth: identities are always constructed, fluid, changeable, and difficult to read. This truth became very real to me when I undertook my current project, to create a collaborative urban portrait of the people who inhabit a unique and vibrant urban space in the heart of Syracuse which is soon to disappear -- the bus transfer stations at the corner of Fayette and Salina Street. The project began with a simple question of identity: who are these people?"

Bob Gates, photographer and SU English Department professor emeritus, studied photography at the University of Iowa School of Art and the Santa Fe Photography Workshops. His photographs have been exhibited widely, and have won numerous awards in regional and national competitions. His work has been published in PhotoLife, The Photo Review, Photographic, f-stop, File, Popular Photography, The Best of Photography Annual, National Geographic Traveler, Shutterbug, Stone Canoe, Dossier Journal, Apogee, and Pixels to Print.

Poetry Reading by Elizabeth Twiddy and Tara Taylor
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Reilly Room, Reilly Hall
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Elizabeth Twiddy's first full-length collection of poems is "Love-Noise" (Standing Stone Books, 2010), the electronic version of which won the Gold Medal in Poetry from the eLit Book Awards. She won The Joyce Carol Oates Award for Poetry from Syracuse University, and four of her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Two of her poems have been featured on Garrison Keillor's NPR program, "The Writer's Almanac" and she is currently featured in an interview on "The Writer's Almanac Bookshelf." She has a chapbook, "Zoo Animals in the Rain" (Turtle Ink Press, 2009). Most recently, her poems have appeared in Barrow Street, POOL, The Alembic, H_NGM_N, the Australian journal Skive, and elsewhere.

Tara Taylor's poetry has appeared in Poet Lore, Nimrod, The Spoon River Poetry Review, The Grove Review, Inkwell Journal, and elsewhere. Taylor was a finalist in the 2010 River Styx International Poetry Contest and the 14th Annual Inkwell Poetry Contest. She was also a semi-finalist in the 2011 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. She received an MFA in poetry from North Carolina State University where she was awarded Honorable Mention for the 2011 Academy of American Poets Prize and in 2010 was awarded the Brenda Smart Poetry Prize. She is a recipient of the John LaHey Award in Writing as well as a Newhouse Writing Award from Le Moyne College. She was born in Syracuse, New York, and currently resides in Portland, Oregon.

A reception and book-signing will follow the reading.

For more information, contact Dr. David Lloyd, Creative Writing Program Director, 315-445-4261, lloyd@lemoyne.edu.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Windows Project: Oscar Garces: Transcendence
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Cuban-born, and Syracuse-based artist Oscar Garces' site-specific mural in the Window Projects space will offer a local echo to "Colorfornia: New Forms in West Coast Street Art". This is his first solo exhibition. Both exhibitions will be organized in conjunction with the Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations in Syracuse.

Last Transfer: Identity and Liminality
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exploration of identity within a unique part of the Syracuse community is the subject of "Last Transfer: Identity and Liminality," an exhibition by Bob Gates, photographer and professor emeritus of English.

The exhibition is part of the 2011 Syracuse Symposium, presented by the SU Humanities Center for SU's College of Arts and Sciences and for the entire Syracuse community. "Identity" is the theme of this year's symposium.

Gates calls the project "a collaborative urban portrait" of the people who inhabit a unique and vibrant urban space in the heart of Syracuse, which is soon to disappear -- the bus transfer stations at the corner of Fayette and Salina streets. The project began with a simple question of identity -- who are these people?

Gates is a nationally recognized photographer whose work has been featured in dozens of publications, including National Geographic Traveler, Outdoor Photographer and Popular Photography. Since 2006, his photography has been the subject of more than 20 exhibitions throughout the Northeast, garnering him numerous honors and awards, including third place in the nature category of Photo Life magazine’s international competition.

Life Blood: Women in Haudenosaunee Art
LeMoyne College

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

In recognition of November as Native American Heritage Month, the Wilson Art Gallery, along with the gender and women's studies program, will sponsor an exhibition of traditional and contemporary works of Haudenosaunee women artists, as well as works that honor women by other Haudenosaunee artists.

According to Tom Huff, curator and artist, "The exhibit features the contemporary mix medium works by local Haudenosaunee women who draw on traditional culture and beliefs. Tradition is the life blood of these contemporary works. These traditions extend from the oral history of the creation story that honors Mother Earth and acknowledges women's relationship with Grandmother Moon and Life Giving Sustenance, the Three Sisters. As a matrilineal society, women are held in high regard for their leadership roles within the community and family. Within the Haudenosaunee Nations, women carry the title of clan mothers who oversee ceremonies, give clan names and maintain the authority for choosing and removing chiefs within the nation’s traditional council government. Within the family, women are the center of support and the lifeline in everyday life and decision making that sustains the strength of the extended family. This exhibit honors and celebrates this continued role of women through artistic expressions, maintaining the life blood of the nations."

For more information, phone 315-445-4153.

Natural Selections: Works by Bob Ripley
Baltimore Woods

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

The exhibit of wildlife paintings in transparent watercolors.

Shane LaVancher and Clémentine Allain Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Shane LaVancher and Clementine Allain, respectively from New York and Paris are artists who consistently attempt to stretch the concepts of fashion and its aesthetics. Their images playfully nudge the lines between pop art, contemporary poetic vision, and hard-line fashion. The duo works from their intuition with the fickle fashion industry in mind. The element of presence within their images reflects their attention to contemporary fashion, but also the essence of the age we live in.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium is Lots 2 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Just One Word: Plastics
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

For more than a century, plastics have transformed our lives -- from bathroom to battlefield; from supermarket to spacecraft. Begun as a 19th-century replacement material for billiard balls and piano keys, plastics spurred 20th century developments in industry, transportation, medicine, entertainment, and other aspects of contemporary life. The original objects of "Just One Word: Plastics" represent a material history of the modern world.

This exhibition features a representative sample of the Plastics Collection at the Syracuse University Library and presents an overview of major trends in the development of plastics in everyday life. The exhibit focuses on personal and household objects rather than the use of plastics in industry where they are also widely used. Approximately 250 objects divided into 12 categories will be on view. In addition, a small selection of manuscripts and printed materials will be included.

Specific objects to be featured in the exhibition are:
* ornate celluloid combs and a wide variety of plastic toiletries
* phenolic (Bakelite) objects from the 1920s and 30s including jewelry, radios, and other appliances and games
* musical instruments
* post-war toys, dishes, and household items
* original patent books of John Wesley Hyatt, inventor of Celluloid
* product catalogues from the 1930s and 1950s for popular items such as DuPont French Ivory dresser sets, Boltaware molded "stoneware" dishes, and Tupperware, and
* the Pleur-evac, a revolutionary plastic medical device for draining fluid and maintaining pressure in the lungs that helped save the life of President Ronald Reagan.

The Plastics Collection was begun in 2007 as a joint project of the Syracuse University Library and the Plastics History & Artifacts Committee of the Plastics Pioneers Association. The Collection expanded dramatically when the National Plastics Center and Museum in Leominster, MA, closed and transferred its artifacts, books, and manuscripts to Syracuse University's care in 2008.

Aphotic Ardor: Works by Kristie Hayes-Beaulieu
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

An exhibit of variety. Diversity. Progression. Connections. Past and present. Growth. Reclusion. Pain and suffering, as well as extreme bliss. Also view a sneak preview in one of our gallery rooms of Kristie's X-ray-inspired work that will be on display at the SUNY Health Science Center in December.

Whereas I Took the Butterfly: Works by Deloss McGraw
YMCA Arts Branch GallerY

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit of literary "poster paintings" features Deloss McGraw's reflections/interpretations of such writers as Dickinson, Hemingway, Snodgrass and others, often using photographs of the authors, book covers, or other borrowed images.

Layers
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Lynette Blake: oil paintings on canvas
Carol Ackles: hand built and wheel thrown ceramics
Jan Navales: hand dyed, screen printed, stitched and beaded fabric wall hangings

Invitational with Photographer Tim Etter
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

African Diasporan Treasures: 40 Years of Community Folk Art Center
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition will showcase pieces from CFAC's permanent collection. Featuring over 30 works by artists including Joel Gaines, Ellen Oppler, Jack White, Denise Cole and Kamiiron Pritchard, "African Diasporan Treasures" provides a rare opportunity for visitors to experience the rich artistic history of CFAC. In many cases, the pieces have not been displayed for decades. The show will also feature African art that was once part of the Smithsonian Museum's collection.

Art Gone Wild! Prints and Paintings by Animals of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo

Price: Free for members or with zoo admission
Rosamond Gifford Zoo
One Conservation Place, Syracuse

Striking and extraordinary works of art created by the animals living at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo illustrate the depth of keeper care and behavioral enrichment vital in maintaining healthy and engaged animals. The exhibition includes several pieces produced by trunks, paws, feet, hooves, scales, skin and, of course, brushes.

Edifice
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Mexican-born, New York City-based artists Gabriela Alva C. and Natalia Porter present their collaborative project, Edifice. Curated by Pedro Cuperman, the show features Alva and Porter in response to the work of Boston artist Andrew Witkin's writings.

Having partnered in previous projects as curator/artist and as co-curators, Porter and Alva now team up as artists for the first time. For this exhibit, they employ a series of texts and diagrams by Boston-based Andrew Witkin to serve as a bridge, from written word to spatial arrangement, and from artist to writer to curator, warping the term collaboration to be more and more dynamic. Witkin's writings, which can be read as lists, are accumulations of thoughts that suggest a sense of order, but still remain abstract. They are organized in an undefined way and yet are quite concrete. They repeat, are rhythmic and include a sense of time and space. Both Porter and Alva respond to the juxtaposition of order and abstraction, as well as to the visual composition of Witkin's publications. Working collectively and individually, these artists push the means, methods and roles of an exhibition and its participants, seeking and constantly finding new points of contact.

Self Expressed: Works of Mary Fragapane
Redhouse

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

Fragapane is best known for her enigmatic female figures that seek to capture the intangibles of joy, passion, and the beauty of the human spirit. Working in an expressive style on un-gessoed canvas, she uses a layering process incorporating acrylic paints, chalk and oil pastels, pencil, and water.

Fragapane has exhibited extensively in Manhattan and throughout New York, Cleveland, California and internationally on the Island of Curacao. In addition to her solo shows, she has been commissioned for numerous Public Art projects.

The American Look: Fashion and Furnishings of the Arts and Crafts Era
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

A new exhibition unites original Arts and Crafts Movement furnishings, with an emphasis on those designed by Gustav Stickley, with clothing worn by American women during 1909-1913 -- a rarely seen combination.

Exhibition curator Jeffrey Mayer, an associate professor and program coordinator of fashion design in VPA's Department of Design, selected the garments in "The American Look" from the fashion design program's Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, which he also curates. The furniture, consisting of original pieces produced between 1906-1911, is on loan from David Rudd and Debbie Goldwein of Dalton's American Decorative Arts in Syracuse. Many of the pieces on view are unparalleled examples of the work of Gustav Stickley, none of which have been previously exhibited to the public.

For more information, contact Mayer or Lauren Tagliaferro, registrar of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, at 315-443-4644.

In the Abstract
Szozda Gallery

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

Szozda Gallery ushers in the fall with an engaging show featuring four noted artists who reveal meaning in their abstract works created through different pathways. "In The Abstract" is the kind of exhibition that compels interaction between artist and viewer to look beyond beauty of color and structure for a relationship to one's very existence in the world in which we live. Artists Roscha Folger, Linda Bigness, Lauren Bristol, and Kwangpyo (Steve) Koh offer insights into the realm of abstractionism in their works of mixed media, paintings, fiber art, and hand carved sculptures.

A Magnificent Obsession: Selections from the Hamilton Armstrong Collection of Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For decades, Hamilton Armstrong of Fayetteville, NY has been collecting prints created by some of most important and well-known American and European artists of the last 200 years. While only a fraction of the number of works he collected will be exhibited, this show will demonstrate two areas of great interest to Armstrong.

First is the area of architectural etching that began in 19th century Europe and continued into 20th century American printmaking. Consisting of more than 30 prints by Charles Meryon, John Taylor Arms, Samuel Chamberlain, and others, this part of the exhibition highlights an impressive selection of Meryon's rare etchings.

The second part of the show is a series of wood engravings done by Fritz Eichenberg for a reprint of Emily Bronte's classic novel, Wuthering Heights. These images are rare artist proof prints for the 1943 Random House edition of the novel and have been considered some of best illustrations of the 19th century classic because they capture the drama of author's text without adding superfluous material.

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

Drawn to Paint: The Art of Jerome Witkin
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Drawn to Paint: The Art of Jerome Witkin" consists of 70 works including drawings, paintings, and sketchbooks. Dividing the show between two venues to allow for broader access, "Drawn to Paint" will be on view at the SUArt Galleries on the Syracuse University main campus and the XL Projects gallery in downtown Syracuse. This exhibition, with Dr. Edward A. Aiken as its curator, is the first time Jerome Witkin has allowed his drawings to be displayed beside their finished works. "Drawn to Paint" will be traveling to other museums around the country during a two-year tour that will conclude at the Palmer Museum of Art in University Park, PA.

"Drawn to Paint" is more than a selection of masterfully painted narratives. Through the juxtaposition of drawings and sketchbooks, the exhibition represents a rare look into the artist's process, from the inception of an idea to the completed artwork. The works of Jerome Witkin carry forward into our era the grand Western European tradition of history painting. His images offer dramatic narratives that reveal themselves over time. Many of his most interesting paintings are large multiple panels, each section presenting a different chapter of an unfolding story. Their scale pushes the viewer back to see the whole composition while his brushwork encourages close examination to better admire the painting's surface.

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

Read a review!

Margie Hughto: A Fired Landscape
Everson Museum of Art

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

Internationally renowned ceramic artist Margie Hughto presents her first site-specific museum installation entitled A Fired Landscape, a "clay painting" spanning 50 feet of gallery wall space. Inspired by the artist's spectacular backyard gardens and natural landscape just steps from her studio, The Fired Landscape installation consists of Setting Sun, a brilliantly colored ceramic wall relief displayed continuously on five angled walls. The visitor encounter is reminiscent of what one experiences when surrounded by the natural environment. Overall, Setting Sun is a ceramic abstraction, but Hughto establishes a connection to the landscape that inspired it by adding impressions of natural objects such as native ferns, marine life and fossils, into the wet clay and then coating the surfaces with brilliant color. The rich palette of burnt oranges and fiery reds evoke the sun’s glowing light and radiating warmth. Tiny pieces of glass embedded in the clay prior to firing add sparkle to the glossy green and blue glazes used to suggest the artist's lily pond.

From Here to There: Alec Soth's America
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, members and children under 5 free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From Here to There: Alec Soth's America" provides a focused look at an extraordinary photographer whose compelling images of the American road and its unexpected turns form powerful narrative vignettes. The exhibition will be the artist's first major survey assembled in the United States, exploring over 15 years of his career, and including an extensive new body of work.

Since his inclusion in the 2004 Whitney and São Paulo biennials, Soth's reputation as one of the most interesting voices in contemporary photography has continued to grow. Though he has followed the itinerant path laid forth by photographers such as Robert Frank, William Eggleston, and Stephen Shore, Soth's is a distinct perspective, one in which the wandering, searching, and the process of telling is as resonant as the record of these remarkable encounters. When considered together, Soth's pictures probe the individualities of people, objects, and places he encounters; offer insight to broader sociologies, and in the process form a collective portrait of an unexpected America.

Featuring approximately 100 photographs made between 1994 and the present, "From Here to There" will include rarely-seen early black-and-white images as well as examples from Soth's best-known series "Sleeping by the Mississippi" and "Niagara." Interspersed throughout the exhibition will be a broad range of portraits made over the past 15 years. The exhibition will also include a new body of work the artist has been developing since 2006, exploring places of escape in America and individuals who seek to flee civilization for a life off the grid. To add insight into Soth's process, the exhibition additionally features a Library space, which includes a reading area for publications, a selection of maquettes for book and 'zine projects, short video works, and ephemera gathered on the road.

Colorfornia: New Forms in West Coast Street Art: Apex, Chor Boogie, and Jet Martinez
The Warehouse Gallery

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

California-based street artists Apex, Chor Boogie, and Jet Martinez will create new temporary murals inside the Warehouse Gallery. The work is based on improvisation, collaboration, and the notion that how and what they paint is recognizably Californian in its focus on strong colors, patterns, forms, and nature.

Their language consists of colorful abstract forms pertaining to optical illusions and movement, faces, evoking real and imaginary urban settings, and tropical imaginary landscapes. All three of them have significantly contributed to public art in San Francisco, San Diego, and other major cities within (Minneapolis; Washington, DC) and outside of the United States (Beijing, Dubai, Oaxaca, Sydney, Tokyo, Zurich) through their use of spray (Apex, Chor) and traditional paint (Jet Martinez) to achieve elaborate compositions with high attention to detail.

Read a Review!

SU @ CU; CU @ SU
XL Projects

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

Art students from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) and Colgate University will be showcasing the high standards and diversity of their work at galleries on each other's campuses.

Colgate art students will exhibit their work 10/19-11/6.
VPA student work will be shown 11/9-11/27.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com or visit vpa.syr.edu/xl-projects.

Illusions of Grandeur: Art Exhibition and Book Release
Echo

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

On display: a collection of Ling Tang's graphite drawings and the debut of Ling's Le Style Moderne book: Illusions of Grandeur.

The Machine/La Maquina: The Art of Favianna Rodriguez
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The work of Favianna Rodriguez embodies an art and cultural practice that gives voices to disenfranchised people all over the world, transforming it into a tool for agitation, inspiration, and action. The exhibition, The Machine/La Maquina will feature some of Favianna's newest works. Favianna's composites reflect literal and imaginative migration, global community, and interdependence. Whether her subjects are immigrant youth in the USA, land workers fighting for their survival, or her own abstract self portraits, Rodriguez brings new audiences into the art world by refocusing the cultural lens.

Last Transfer: The Soul of Syracuse
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Screening projected onto outside of Everson Museum facing the plaza.

"What If...?" Film Series: Brooklyn Matters
Gifford Foundation

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Brooklyn Matters addresses the issue of who makes decisions when urban neighborhoods are on the brink of change. Brooklyn Matters is a riveting look at how big real estate, politics, community voices, and the desperate need for jobs and housing clash in one of the largest development proposals in the history of New York City. The film poses vital, timely questions that are relevant to cities across the country, including Syracuse. Brooklyn Matters brings a depth of expert commentary to the debate and introduces many important community voices that have struggled to be heard on this project. This film's exploration of the risks that come with a concentration of power is important for anyone concerned with who has a voice and who has a vote in shaping the future of our cities. Brooklyn Matters has been called "a must see for all who care about the future of their neighborhoods and the role that public policy and process plays in determining that future." (Marilyn Gelber, Former Commissioner, New York City Department of Environmental Protection.)

Our Sporting Life: The Heroes, The Highlights, The History
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This local sports history exhibit will highlight a variety of sports equipment, photographs, ephemera, and most importantly, the people involved in making sports history come alive. From baseball, to basketball, to football, hockey, bowling, and more, the exhibit will recount the "thrill of victory and the agony of defeat" for our local sports history makers. Visitors will learn more about Syracuse’s professional basketball team, women athletes, ice boating on Onondaga Lake, past Syracuse hockey teams, as well as African American athletes such as Moses Fleetwood Walker. Guests will also get a chance to see some vintage trophies, uniforms, equipment, and images of our local competitors in action.

To the Distant Beloved
Civic Morning Musicals
Brian Lustig, tenor; Laura Stoltzfus, piano

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

Music of Tosti, Beethoven, Vaughan Williams, Duparc, Strauss, and Rachmaninov.

Iain Pollock, poetry
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

The reading will be preceded by a question and answer session from 3:45-4:30. The public is welcome.

Preview: The Boys Next Door
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

Comedy and compassion in a group home for the developmentally disabled, by Tom Griffin.

Meet Arnold Wiggins. He's basically a nervous person. He lives with Lucien P. Smith who likes to read very big books, and Norman who works in the doughnut shop, and Barry who imagines he is a golf pro (lessons $1.13 per hour). In addition to an apartment, these guys share a caseworker names Jack who, despite his genuine concern for his clients, is on the verge of of a total burn-out. The Boys Next Door is a gentle comedy from the late 80s set in a group home for the developmentally disabled. As playwright Griffin reveals the daily struggles of his characters to make sense of their world and their places in it, he reminds us to consider how much we take for granted every day. Timothy Bond is very funny and very touching.

Read a Review!

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Windows Project: Oscar Garces: Transcendence
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Cuban-born, and Syracuse-based artist Oscar Garces' site-specific mural in the Window Projects space will offer a local echo to "Colorfornia: New Forms in West Coast Street Art". This is his first solo exhibition. Both exhibitions will be organized in conjunction with the Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations in Syracuse.

Last Transfer: Identity and Liminality
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exploration of identity within a unique part of the Syracuse community is the subject of "Last Transfer: Identity and Liminality," an exhibition by Bob Gates, photographer and professor emeritus of English.

The exhibition is part of the 2011 Syracuse Symposium, presented by the SU Humanities Center for SU's College of Arts and Sciences and for the entire Syracuse community. "Identity" is the theme of this year's symposium.

Gates calls the project "a collaborative urban portrait" of the people who inhabit a unique and vibrant urban space in the heart of Syracuse, which is soon to disappear -- the bus transfer stations at the corner of Fayette and Salina streets. The project began with a simple question of identity -- who are these people?

Gates is a nationally recognized photographer whose work has been featured in dozens of publications, including National Geographic Traveler, Outdoor Photographer and Popular Photography. Since 2006, his photography has been the subject of more than 20 exhibitions throughout the Northeast, garnering him numerous honors and awards, including third place in the nature category of Photo Life magazine’s international competition.

Life Blood: Women in Haudenosaunee Art
LeMoyne College

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

In recognition of November as Native American Heritage Month, the Wilson Art Gallery, along with the gender and women's studies program, will sponsor an exhibition of traditional and contemporary works of Haudenosaunee women artists, as well as works that honor women by other Haudenosaunee artists.

According to Tom Huff, curator and artist, "The exhibit features the contemporary mix medium works by local Haudenosaunee women who draw on traditional culture and beliefs. Tradition is the life blood of these contemporary works. These traditions extend from the oral history of the creation story that honors Mother Earth and acknowledges women's relationship with Grandmother Moon and Life Giving Sustenance, the Three Sisters. As a matrilineal society, women are held in high regard for their leadership roles within the community and family. Within the Haudenosaunee Nations, women carry the title of clan mothers who oversee ceremonies, give clan names and maintain the authority for choosing and removing chiefs within the nation’s traditional council government. Within the family, women are the center of support and the lifeline in everyday life and decision making that sustains the strength of the extended family. This exhibit honors and celebrates this continued role of women through artistic expressions, maintaining the life blood of the nations."

For more information, phone 315-445-4153.

Natural Selections: Works by Bob Ripley
Baltimore Woods

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

The exhibit of wildlife paintings in transparent watercolors.

Shane LaVancher and Clémentine Allain Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Shane LaVancher and Clementine Allain, respectively from New York and Paris are artists who consistently attempt to stretch the concepts of fashion and its aesthetics. Their images playfully nudge the lines between pop art, contemporary poetic vision, and hard-line fashion. The duo works from their intuition with the fickle fashion industry in mind. The element of presence within their images reflects their attention to contemporary fashion, but also the essence of the age we live in.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium is Lots 2 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

My Mother Is ...
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Recent work by Amy Bartell and Cynthia Clabough, with special guest KayCie Simmons. Also featuring works in collaboration with Emma Bourque, Nate Bourque, Maddie Carlone, Alyssa Lunka, Aaron Roe and Sara Roe. The exhibition explores our relationship to our mothers.

Just One Word: Plastics
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

For more than a century, plastics have transformed our lives -- from bathroom to battlefield; from supermarket to spacecraft. Begun as a 19th-century replacement material for billiard balls and piano keys, plastics spurred 20th century developments in industry, transportation, medicine, entertainment, and other aspects of contemporary life. The original objects of "Just One Word: Plastics" represent a material history of the modern world.

This exhibition features a representative sample of the Plastics Collection at the Syracuse University Library and presents an overview of major trends in the development of plastics in everyday life. The exhibit focuses on personal and household objects rather than the use of plastics in industry where they are also widely used. Approximately 250 objects divided into 12 categories will be on view. In addition, a small selection of manuscripts and printed materials will be included.

Specific objects to be featured in the exhibition are:
* ornate celluloid combs and a wide variety of plastic toiletries
* phenolic (Bakelite) objects from the 1920s and 30s including jewelry, radios, and other appliances and games
* musical instruments
* post-war toys, dishes, and household items
* original patent books of John Wesley Hyatt, inventor of Celluloid
* product catalogues from the 1930s and 1950s for popular items such as DuPont French Ivory dresser sets, Boltaware molded "stoneware" dishes, and Tupperware, and
* the Pleur-evac, a revolutionary plastic medical device for draining fluid and maintaining pressure in the lungs that helped save the life of President Ronald Reagan.

The Plastics Collection was begun in 2007 as a joint project of the Syracuse University Library and the Plastics History & Artifacts Committee of the Plastics Pioneers Association. The Collection expanded dramatically when the National Plastics Center and Museum in Leominster, MA, closed and transferred its artifacts, books, and manuscripts to Syracuse University's care in 2008.

Aphotic Ardor: Works by Kristie Hayes-Beaulieu
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

There will be an artist talk this evening at 6:00 pm, in conjunction with Th3, the third Thursday citywide art open.

An exhibit of variety. Diversity. Progression. Connections. Past and present. Growth. Reclusion. Pain and suffering, as well as extreme bliss. Also view a sneak preview in one of our gallery rooms of Kristie's X-ray-inspired work that will be on display at the SUNY Health Science Center in December.

Whereas I Took the Butterfly: Works by Deloss McGraw
YMCA Arts Branch GallerY

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit of literary "poster paintings" features Deloss McGraw's reflections/interpretations of such writers as Dickinson, Hemingway, Snodgrass and others, often using photographs of the authors, book covers, or other borrowed images.

Layers
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Lynette Blake: oil paintings on canvas
Carol Ackles: hand built and wheel thrown ceramics
Jan Navales: hand dyed, screen printed, stitched and beaded fabric wall hangings

Invitational with Photographer Tim Etter
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

African Diasporan Treasures: 40 Years of Community Folk Art Center
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition will showcase pieces from CFAC's permanent collection. Featuring over 30 works by artists including Joel Gaines, Ellen Oppler, Jack White, Denise Cole and Kamiiron Pritchard, "African Diasporan Treasures" provides a rare opportunity for visitors to experience the rich artistic history of CFAC. In many cases, the pieces have not been displayed for decades. The show will also feature African art that was once part of the Smithsonian Museum's collection.

Art Gone Wild! Prints and Paintings by Animals of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo

Price: Free for members or with zoo admission
Rosamond Gifford Zoo
One Conservation Place, Syracuse

Striking and extraordinary works of art created by the animals living at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo illustrate the depth of keeper care and behavioral enrichment vital in maintaining healthy and engaged animals. The exhibition includes several pieces produced by trunks, paws, feet, hooves, scales, skin and, of course, brushes.

James Dwyer: Remembering the Man and His Art

Price: Free
Art Shops at Delavan Center
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A celebratory exhibit mounted in honor of Syracuse University Professor Emeritus James Dwyer and his lifetime contributions to art and education. "Remembering the Man and His Art" is being produced by four of Dwyer's friends and colleagues: Michael Sickler, SU Professor Emeritus in painting and drawing; Nicholas Todisco, art teacher at Onondaga Community College; Bill Delavan, owner of the Delavan Center; and Caroline Szozda-McGowan, owner of Szozda Gallery.

Edifice
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Mexican-born, New York City-based artists Gabriela Alva C. and Natalia Porter present their collaborative project, Edifice. Curated by Pedro Cuperman, the show features Alva and Porter in response to the work of Boston artist Andrew Witkin's writings.

Having partnered in previous projects as curator/artist and as co-curators, Porter and Alva now team up as artists for the first time. For this exhibit, they employ a series of texts and diagrams by Boston-based Andrew Witkin to serve as a bridge, from written word to spatial arrangement, and from artist to writer to curator, warping the term collaboration to be more and more dynamic. Witkin's writings, which can be read as lists, are accumulations of thoughts that suggest a sense of order, but still remain abstract. They are organized in an undefined way and yet are quite concrete. They repeat, are rhythmic and include a sense of time and space. Both Porter and Alva respond to the juxtaposition of order and abstraction, as well as to the visual composition of Witkin's publications. Working collectively and individually, these artists push the means, methods and roles of an exhibition and its participants, seeking and constantly finding new points of contact.

Self Expressed: Works of Mary Fragapane
Redhouse

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

Fragapane is best known for her enigmatic female figures that seek to capture the intangibles of joy, passion, and the beauty of the human spirit. Working in an expressive style on un-gessoed canvas, she uses a layering process incorporating acrylic paints, chalk and oil pastels, pencil, and water.

Fragapane has exhibited extensively in Manhattan and throughout New York, Cleveland, California and internationally on the Island of Curacao. In addition to her solo shows, she has been commissioned for numerous Public Art projects.

The American Look: Fashion and Furnishings of the Arts and Crafts Era
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

A new exhibition unites original Arts and Crafts Movement furnishings, with an emphasis on those designed by Gustav Stickley, with clothing worn by American women during 1909-1913 -- a rarely seen combination.

Exhibition curator Jeffrey Mayer, an associate professor and program coordinator of fashion design in VPA's Department of Design, selected the garments in "The American Look" from the fashion design program's Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, which he also curates. The furniture, consisting of original pieces produced between 1906-1911, is on loan from David Rudd and Debbie Goldwein of Dalton's American Decorative Arts in Syracuse. Many of the pieces on view are unparalleled examples of the work of Gustav Stickley, none of which have been previously exhibited to the public.

For more information, contact Mayer or Lauren Tagliaferro, registrar of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, at 315-443-4644.

In the Abstract
Szozda Gallery

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

Szozda Gallery ushers in the fall with an engaging show featuring four noted artists who reveal meaning in their abstract works created through different pathways. "In The Abstract" is the kind of exhibition that compels interaction between artist and viewer to look beyond beauty of color and structure for a relationship to one's very existence in the world in which we live. Artists Roscha Folger, Linda Bigness, Lauren Bristol, and Kwangpyo (Steve) Koh offer insights into the realm of abstractionism in their works of mixed media, paintings, fiber art, and hand carved sculptures.

Photography on the Edge: Between Realism and Abstraction
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The show features photographs by Central New York artists that address the relationship between realistic representation and abstract concepts. Participating artists include Willson Cummer, Bob Gates, Elisabeth Groat, Peter Mahan, Yolanda Tooley, Jeanann Wieners, Diana Whiting, and Jamie Young.

The co-curators, Jen Gandee and Syracuse-area photographer, Bob Gates, in selecting work for this show, were looking for images that are true to the perennial conflict in the history of photography between representational and non-representational images. The same conflicting impulses that have shaped other forms of art--realism, impressionism, expressionism, abstraction, surrealism--have had their adherents among photographers. The works in this exhibit show how some photographers in Central New York respond to or participate in that complex history.

Drawn to Paint: The Art of Jerome Witkin
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Drawn to Paint: The Art of Jerome Witkin" consists of 70 works including drawings, paintings, and sketchbooks. Dividing the show between two venues to allow for broader access, "Drawn to Paint" will be on view at the SUArt Galleries on the Syracuse University main campus and the XL Projects gallery in downtown Syracuse. This exhibition, with Dr. Edward A. Aiken as its curator, is the first time Jerome Witkin has allowed his drawings to be displayed beside their finished works. "Drawn to Paint" will be traveling to other museums around the country during a two-year tour that will conclude at the Palmer Museum of Art in University Park, PA.

"Drawn to Paint" is more than a selection of masterfully painted narratives. Through the juxtaposition of drawings and sketchbooks, the exhibition represents a rare look into the artist's process, from the inception of an idea to the completed artwork. The works of Jerome Witkin carry forward into our era the grand Western European tradition of history painting. His images offer dramatic narratives that reveal themselves over time. Many of his most interesting paintings are large multiple panels, each section presenting a different chapter of an unfolding story. Their scale pushes the viewer back to see the whole composition while his brushwork encourages close examination to better admire the painting's surface.

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

Read a review!

A Magnificent Obsession: Selections from the Hamilton Armstrong Collection of Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For decades, Hamilton Armstrong of Fayetteville, NY has been collecting prints created by some of most important and well-known American and European artists of the last 200 years. While only a fraction of the number of works he collected will be exhibited, this show will demonstrate two areas of great interest to Armstrong.

First is the area of architectural etching that began in 19th century Europe and continued into 20th century American printmaking. Consisting of more than 30 prints by Charles Meryon, John Taylor Arms, Samuel Chamberlain, and others, this part of the exhibition highlights an impressive selection of Meryon's rare etchings.

The second part of the show is a series of wood engravings done by Fritz Eichenberg for a reprint of Emily Bronte's classic novel, Wuthering Heights. These images are rare artist proof prints for the 1943 Random House edition of the novel and have been considered some of best illustrations of the 19th century classic because they capture the drama of author's text without adding superfluous material.

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

From Here to There: Alec Soth's America
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, members and children under 5 free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From Here to There: Alec Soth's America" provides a focused look at an extraordinary photographer whose compelling images of the American road and its unexpected turns form powerful narrative vignettes. The exhibition will be the artist's first major survey assembled in the United States, exploring over 15 years of his career, and including an extensive new body of work.

Since his inclusion in the 2004 Whitney and São Paulo biennials, Soth's reputation as one of the most interesting voices in contemporary photography has continued to grow. Though he has followed the itinerant path laid forth by photographers such as Robert Frank, William Eggleston, and Stephen Shore, Soth's is a distinct perspective, one in which the wandering, searching, and the process of telling is as resonant as the record of these remarkable encounters. When considered together, Soth's pictures probe the individualities of people, objects, and places he encounters; offer insight to broader sociologies, and in the process form a collective portrait of an unexpected America.

Featuring approximately 100 photographs made between 1994 and the present, "From Here to There" will include rarely-seen early black-and-white images as well as examples from Soth's best-known series "Sleeping by the Mississippi" and "Niagara." Interspersed throughout the exhibition will be a broad range of portraits made over the past 15 years. The exhibition will also include a new body of work the artist has been developing since 2006, exploring places of escape in America and individuals who seek to flee civilization for a life off the grid. To add insight into Soth's process, the exhibition additionally features a Library space, which includes a reading area for publications, a selection of maquettes for book and 'zine projects, short video works, and ephemera gathered on the road.

Margie Hughto: A Fired Landscape
Everson Museum of Art

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

Internationally renowned ceramic artist Margie Hughto presents her first site-specific museum installation entitled A Fired Landscape, a "clay painting" spanning 50 feet of gallery wall space. Inspired by the artist's spectacular backyard gardens and natural landscape just steps from her studio, The Fired Landscape installation consists of Setting Sun, a brilliantly colored ceramic wall relief displayed continuously on five angled walls. The visitor encounter is reminiscent of what one experiences when surrounded by the natural environment. Overall, Setting Sun is a ceramic abstraction, but Hughto establishes a connection to the landscape that inspired it by adding impressions of natural objects such as native ferns, marine life and fossils, into the wet clay and then coating the surfaces with brilliant color. The rich palette of burnt oranges and fiery reds evoke the sun’s glowing light and radiating warmth. Tiny pieces of glass embedded in the clay prior to firing add sparkle to the glossy green and blue glazes used to suggest the artist's lily pond.

Colorfornia: New Forms in West Coast Street Art: Apex, Chor Boogie, and Jet Martinez
The Warehouse Gallery

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

California-based street artists Apex, Chor Boogie, and Jet Martinez will create new temporary murals inside the Warehouse Gallery. The work is based on improvisation, collaboration, and the notion that how and what they paint is recognizably Californian in its focus on strong colors, patterns, forms, and nature.

Their language consists of colorful abstract forms pertaining to optical illusions and movement, faces, evoking real and imaginary urban settings, and tropical imaginary landscapes. All three of them have significantly contributed to public art in San Francisco, San Diego, and other major cities within (Minneapolis; Washington, DC) and outside of the United States (Beijing, Dubai, Oaxaca, Sydney, Tokyo, Zurich) through their use of spray (Apex, Chor) and traditional paint (Jet Martinez) to achieve elaborate compositions with high attention to detail.

Read a Review!

SU @ CU; CU @ SU
XL Projects

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

There will be a panel discussion and reception this evening from 6:00-8:00 pm in conjunction with the Third Thursday (Th3), Syracuse's city-wide art open.

Art students from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) and Colgate University will be showcasing the high standards and diversity of their work at galleries on each other's campuses.

Colgate art students will exhibit their work 10/19-11/6.
VPA student work will be shown 11/9-11/27.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com or visit vpa.syr.edu/xl-projects.

Illusions of Grandeur: Art Exhibition and Book Release
Echo

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

On display: a collection of Ling Tang's graphite drawings and the debut of Ling's Le Style Moderne book: Illusions of Grandeur.