Thursday, June 16, 2011

Orange Pulp: The Pulp Magazine & Contemporary Culture
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be pulp magazines, notably titles like Weird Tales and Amazing Stories; the typescript of Isaac Asimov's "Strange Playfellow," which introduced readers to one of science fiction's best known characters, Robbie the Robot; and correspondence with figures like Ray Bradbury.

Named for the cheap and abundant wood pulp that publishers after 1850 began using to print reading materials for a mass audience, pulp magazines sported eye-catching covers and included detective, adventure, western, horror, romance, and science fiction stories. According to co-curator Sean Quimby, director of SCRC, "This was literature tailored to specific tastes, intended to entertain in predictable ways." He notes that "even while the form of the pulp magazine died by 1960, the concept of pulp lives on in glossy photo-dense magazines, paperback novels, comic books, and film." Quimby maintains that pulp magazines, with their intensely involved readership, "helped make possible contemporary interactive media culture."

When West Meets East: Works by Patricia Elliott Seitz
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

The exhibit "When West Meets East" is an impressionistic painting journey. Patricia Seitz will show a series of paintings depicting the beauty and physical differences between California and Upstate NY. Traveling from the coastal areas of California to Upstate New York's dynamic seasons and lush woods, the artist was able to share her memories through a painting journal.

Patricia Elliott Seitz was born in San Diego and spent most of her young adulthood living in Southern California. Patricia enjoys exploring subjects on an intimate level, getting to know her subject, striving to gather as much information as possible prior to beginning a painting. She gravitates to subjects which are in rich color, light is of primary focus, and the subject matter presents a degree of difficulty.

Three Form Expression
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Linda Bigness- Abstract oil paintings from her urbanscape and musical notes series
Tom Huff- Soapstone and alabaster sculpture
Jerome Durr- Freestanding glass sculpture

The Dragonfly Garden
Gallery 54

Price: Free
Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring dragonfly-themed pieces for your garden and beyond by members of Gallery 54.

Georg Schwartz Exhibition
Imagine

Price: Free
Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Paintings by Georg Schwartz, a native of Copenhagen, Denmark now living in Johnson City, will be featured. Schwartz has had one show in New York City and several in the Southern Tier; this is his first in Onondaga County.

Schwartz began sketching for fun in 1971, exhibited in a few shows, and then took a not-so-brief hiatus, returning to painting more than 30 years later. In 2004 he was one of nine artists featured in the "Scandinavian Dreams" exhibit at the Avenue Art Gallery in Endicott -- one of the largest-ever gatherings of Scandinavian artists in the Northeast. It served as the springboard for his career. Schwartz calls his paintings "abstract" and "classic abstract," which he describes as "work with a feel of the 1920s and 1930s." He creates not only his own genre, but also his own mediums and colors.

Jeffrey Henson Scales: That Year of Living
Light Work Gallery

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

That Year of Living features stunning black-and-white photographs by Jeffrey Henson Scales. Diagnosed with cancer in 2008, Scales was forced to, in his words, weigh the possibilities of his own demise, and whether he had achieved what he felt he was put here to do. It was this diagnosis and contemplation, along with the urging of his wife, Meg Henson Scales, which led him to return to making photographs on a daily basis.

The images in That Year of Living were made in the year following his cancer diagnosis and surgery. Scales photographed mainly in and around Times Square, depicting the part of New York City that he visited every day going to and from work at The New York Times. The images capture the certain hardness mixed with joy, sadness, determination and bewilderment that is found in the faces of young and old alike in New York City. Created in the months following his own experience with mortality, the photographs explore the journey of life and death found in the faces on the streets of New York.

Opening and Artist Talk: Happy Accidents: Works by Sonya Parrish and Erin Davies
Redhouse

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

An opening reception will be held this evening 5:00-8:00 pm in conjunction with Th3. At 7:00 pm, Davies and Parrish will give a brief artist talk where they discuss their collaborative process.

Happy Accidents will feature works created with a technique that Parrish calls "Latex Resist." One of the largest pieces in the show will be interactive as guests peel the latex off to reveal the painting during the opening. One piece was created with the help of a local Girl Scout troupe and proceeds from the sale of that piece will go directly to the troupe.

The Gallery is open by appointment. To make an appointment, phone 315-425-0405 or email press@theredhouse.org.

Immersed In Color
Szozda Gallery

Price: Free
Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A series of works primarily influenced by color rather than by subject matter, featuring the color-strong layering works of three women: Lydia Benscher's encaustics, Joyce Day Homan's watercolors and Carmel Nicoletti's kiln-formed glass.

For this month's Th3 citywide art open, the gallery will also include three very talented women who have their studios in Delavan Center: Helen Carter, Secret Lentil clothing; Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Barbara Bags; and Beth Eischen, Lilipad Creations.

In the Garden
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

In the Garden presents an eclectic mix of styles and art media, which all celebrate the joys of the garden. The paintings and photography in the show depict floral motifs and backyard vistas. Ceramic planters and sculptural forms complement and enhance any outdoor space. The jewelry and wearable pieces reflect the colors, patterns, and styles inspired by the gorgeous flowers that make us THINK SPRING!

Participating artists include: Jenny Pope, Lucie Wellner, Nancy Kramer, Rodger DeMuth, Zach Dunn, Melissa Montgomery, Kathy Barry, Jen Gandee. Sarah Panzarella, Lynn Yenkey, Lorna Meaden, Ron DeRutte, Lori Hawk, Amy Francher, and Errol Willett.?

Orange Pulp: Works by Norman Saunders
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

A profile of pulp artist Norman Saunders (1907-1989), including 10 lush and dramatic Saunders paintings from the university collection.

Named for the cheap and abundant wood pulp that publishers after 1850 began using to print reading materials for a mass audience, pulp magazines sported eye-catching covers and included detective, adventure, western, horror, romance, and science fiction stories. According to co-curator Sean Quimby, director of SCRC, "This was literature tailored to specific tastes, intended to entertain in predictable ways." He notes that "even while the form of the pulp magazine died by 1960, the concept of pulp lives on in glossy photo-dense magazines, paperback novels, comic books, and film." Quimby maintains that pulp magazines, with their intensely involved readership, "helped make possible contemporary interactive media culture."

Reynolds Unwrapped: The Cartoon Art of Dan Reynolds
Everson Museum of Art

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

The 2011 exhibition program will continue to highlight the talented artists of New York State through a series of focused exhibitions. The season opens with Reynolds Unwrapped: The Cartoon Art of Dan Reynolds, an exhibition featuring more than 100 original works of art that are seriously hilarious. The small-scale drawings depicting the comedic daily lives of humans and animals alike are all rendered by hand in a variety of media, an approach that is becoming increasing rare in a world of computer-generated images.

Dan Reynolds began drawing cartoons in 1989, when he was 30. As a youth center instructor, Reynolds was surrounded by youthful energy and creative minds. He was an avid follower of popular cartoons of the time, such as Gary Larson's Far Side and Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes. A native of Brewerton, NY, Reynolds was inspired by his Central New York surroundings, a place where snow is abundant and cows can be found just minutes from anywhere. From the beginning, Reynolds has used farm animals as messengers of humor, particularly cows, pigs and chickens, a series that was immediately accepted by Reader's Digest in 1989. A new cartoon has appeared in every issue since then. Reynolds' cartoons have also appeared in thematic Reynolds Unwrapped book compilations featuring everything from sports to holiday special editions. American Greetings and Recycled Greeting Cards also feature Reynolds cartoons on greeting cards for every occasion.

In 2008, Reynolds was diagnosed with testicular cancer and subsequently received months of chemotherapy. While he was in treatment, he began drawing cartoons about cancer and his personal experience which he found was shared by his fellow patients. He shared the cartoons with the staff and patients at the facility and discovered the power of art to bring humor to an otherwise humorless situation.

Read a review!

Now and Then: Open Figure Drawing Group Exhibition 2011
XL Projects

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

New and past works created by artists from Open Figure Drawing, Syracuse's community-based drawing group for people of all abilities, are the subject of this exhibition. The Open Figure Drawing group offers an inexpensive drawing experience to members of the Syracuse community. Participants draw from unclothed models and can attend on a drop-in basis. They become part of a supportive artistic community that networks about exhibitions, workshops, grants and other related events.

For more information, visit www.openfiguredrawing.com or contact XL Projects at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Sarah Averill: North Side Residents
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

More than 70 of Sarah Averill's sepia-toned photographs of North Side residents will be on display.

CNY Pride Families: Works by Ellen Blalock
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibit is a portrait of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) families in Central New York communities. Through it, we seek to challenge and change damaging myths and stereotypes about LGBTQ people and their families. We hope to contribute to the process of dismantling the destructive power of prejudice and intolerance. The photographs display positive images and first person accounts which relay the stories of LGBTQ people and their families here in the Central New York area.

In 2007, Ellen M. Blalock collaborated with Light Work and LGBT Resource Center at Syracuse University on a campus exhibition of CNY Pride Families. Some families only included domestic partners, some included children, ex-partners, grandparents and pets. Some writings were done by children explaining what it is like to have two moms. Some partners included the vows from their union ceremony. The process of making these portraits turned into a celebration of families, to show and share their love, their strength and their togetherness. The ArtRage exhibit includes more families, more diversity, video, and audio.

Read a review!

Your Words Today /Tus palabras de hoy
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents the first exhibition by El Punto, a new contemporary arts program for young artists, created by Point of Contact and facilitated to local youths in collaboration with the Spanish Action League (La Liga) and La Casita Cultural Center.

Remembrance of a Summer Garden
SparkyTown Restaurant

SparkyTown Restaurant
324 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Sparky Town is pleased to present "Remembrance of a Summer Garden", the fine art photography of Harry R. Freeman-Jones. Come see these large and magnificent sepia and black & white photos.

Jaume Ferrete: four strategies, an idea, a text and two messages
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

UVP Annual Summer Review. In "four strategies, an idea, a text and two messages" (2 min loop), Jaume Ferrete revised an existing "four strategies" text work specifically with UVP and the Syracuse Stage location in mind. While the prior version was written for ink on paper, in this version Ferrete writes for LED panel on architectural facade, investigating the technical and political structures surrounding the UVP platform. The new work continues his use of minimal and open-ended texts that imply a discursive relationship with the audience, yet remain aloof and non-prescriptive.

UVP Annual Summer Review: Althea Thauberger
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Bear, 2007 (7 min loop)
not afraid to die, 2008 (15 min loop)

For the second two weekends of June, Light Work and Urban Video Project will present two works by the artist Althea Thauberger.

"The Bear," set in Thauberger's native British Columbia, is an illustration of the way banality intrudes into our fantasies about nature. We see the knotted roots of a tree in the Canadian Rainforest, and a black bear wandering in and out of the scene. An alert viewer will begin to suspect that something is amiss: see if you can figure out the secret of Thauberger's "The Bear."

"not afraid to die," shot on location in the Northwest Rainforest Diorama of the Royal B.C. Museum in Victoria (a reconstruction of the kind of forest which surrounds the city of Victoria), depicts a Gore-Tex clad girl alternatively waiting and snacking. Like The Bear, "not afraid to die" calls into question our relationship to nature and its inherent pleasures and dangers.

Waiting for Superman
Community Folk Art Center

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

The 2010 documentary Waiting for 'Superman' examines the American public education system, highlighting several students' stories as they seek lottery acceptance into charter schools. From director Davis Guggenheim and producer Lesley Chilcott, the film won Audience Award for best documentary at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and the Best Documentary Feature award at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards.

After the screening, Asomgyee Pamoja, Say Yes to Education site director at Delaware Elementary, will lead a discussion on the key issues and themes of the documentary.

This event is presented as part of Th3, Syracuse's citywide arts open on the third Thursday of every month.

Living Proof
Redhouse

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

"Living Proof" is a new film presented by Fagbug Films and codirected by Erin Davies and Kalima Young. The film is presented as part of the opening reception for the exhibit Happy Accidents: Works by Sonya Parrish and Erin Davies.

Artist Talk: Ellen M. Blalock
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Ellen M. Blalock, photographer, videographer and quilt artist, will give an artist talk exploring her art and motivation. This talk comes just two days before the closing of her current exhibition at ArtRage: CNY Pride Families.

An Evening With Linda Wertheimer
WRVO

Price: $15
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Linda Wertheimer will discuss her decades at National Public Radio and talk about the 40th birthday of All Things Considered, followed by a Q&A session

Seating is first come, first served. Doors will open at 7 pm. Free parking will be available in the Irving Garage.

To order tickets, visit wrvo.fm or call 1-800-341-3690.

The Toasters 30th Anniversary Tour, with 4 Point 0, The Steakouts
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Bloomsday
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Bloomsday, an annual celebration that takes place around the world to commemorate the character Leopold Bloom from James Joyce's novels, will begin at noon with special guests in art, media, academia, music, theater and other related fields reading aloud their favorite Joyce passages.

The Syracuse James Joyce Club will also present scholarships to local high school and college students.

After the awards, club members will read the chapters in Joyce's book Ulysses from beginning to end.

Die Another Death
Acme Mystery Company

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

Agent Double Y of Her Majesty's Secret Service is on another high-stakes mission. A legendary artifact called "The Alchemists' Cauldron" is set to be on display during a ceremony at the Sylvanian Consulate. Rumored to possess a supernatural power, the cauldron is sought by every bad guy around the globe. Who will get to it first? Who will die trying? The European Crime Boss? The Texas-sized American politician? The back-stabbing news reporter? Or will Double Y come to the rescue again, and keep the cauldron from falling into the wrong hands?

Friday, June 17, 2011

Your Words Today /Tus palabras de hoy
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents the first exhibition by El Punto, a new contemporary arts program for young artists, created by Point of Contact and facilitated to local youths in collaboration with the Spanish Action League (La Liga) and La Casita Cultural Center.

Orange Pulp: The Pulp Magazine & Contemporary Culture
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be pulp magazines, notably titles like Weird Tales and Amazing Stories; the typescript of Isaac Asimov's "Strange Playfellow," which introduced readers to one of science fiction's best known characters, Robbie the Robot; and correspondence with figures like Ray Bradbury.

Named for the cheap and abundant wood pulp that publishers after 1850 began using to print reading materials for a mass audience, pulp magazines sported eye-catching covers and included detective, adventure, western, horror, romance, and science fiction stories. According to co-curator Sean Quimby, director of SCRC, "This was literature tailored to specific tastes, intended to entertain in predictable ways." He notes that "even while the form of the pulp magazine died by 1960, the concept of pulp lives on in glossy photo-dense magazines, paperback novels, comic books, and film." Quimby maintains that pulp magazines, with their intensely involved readership, "helped make possible contemporary interactive media culture."

When West Meets East: Works by Patricia Elliott Seitz
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

The exhibit "When West Meets East" is an impressionistic painting journey. Patricia Seitz will show a series of paintings depicting the beauty and physical differences between California and Upstate NY. Traveling from the coastal areas of California to Upstate New York's dynamic seasons and lush woods, the artist was able to share her memories through a painting journal.

Patricia Elliott Seitz was born in San Diego and spent most of her young adulthood living in Southern California. Patricia enjoys exploring subjects on an intimate level, getting to know her subject, striving to gather as much information as possible prior to beginning a painting. She gravitates to subjects which are in rich color, light is of primary focus, and the subject matter presents a degree of difficulty.

Three Form Expression
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Linda Bigness- Abstract oil paintings from her urbanscape and musical notes series
Tom Huff- Soapstone and alabaster sculpture
Jerome Durr- Freestanding glass sculpture

The Dragonfly Garden
Gallery 54

Price: Free
Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring dragonfly-themed pieces for your garden and beyond by members of Gallery 54.

Georg Schwartz Exhibition
Imagine

Price: Free
Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Paintings by Georg Schwartz, a native of Copenhagen, Denmark now living in Johnson City, will be featured. Schwartz has had one show in New York City and several in the Southern Tier; this is his first in Onondaga County.

Schwartz began sketching for fun in 1971, exhibited in a few shows, and then took a not-so-brief hiatus, returning to painting more than 30 years later. In 2004 he was one of nine artists featured in the "Scandinavian Dreams" exhibit at the Avenue Art Gallery in Endicott -- one of the largest-ever gatherings of Scandinavian artists in the Northeast. It served as the springboard for his career. Schwartz calls his paintings "abstract" and "classic abstract," which he describes as "work with a feel of the 1920s and 1930s." He creates not only his own genre, but also his own mediums and colors.

Jeffrey Henson Scales: That Year of Living
Light Work Gallery

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

That Year of Living features stunning black-and-white photographs by Jeffrey Henson Scales. Diagnosed with cancer in 2008, Scales was forced to, in his words, weigh the possibilities of his own demise, and whether he had achieved what he felt he was put here to do. It was this diagnosis and contemplation, along with the urging of his wife, Meg Henson Scales, which led him to return to making photographs on a daily basis.

The images in That Year of Living were made in the year following his cancer diagnosis and surgery. Scales photographed mainly in and around Times Square, depicting the part of New York City that he visited every day going to and from work at The New York Times. The images capture the certain hardness mixed with joy, sadness, determination and bewilderment that is found in the faces of young and old alike in New York City. Created in the months following his own experience with mortality, the photographs explore the journey of life and death found in the faces on the streets of New York.

The Human Condition: Works by Michael Sickler and Sean Turrell
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Michael Sickler's new series of mixed media paintings are his interpretation of Franz Kafka's expressionistic novella, "Metamorphosis". The story, set in Russia, is about a young man who wakes up one morning transformed into a large insect. The story as Sickler has interpreted it deals with the main character's longing for human companionship in spite of his hideous malady. On a larger level, it speaks of how society banishes from sight the afflicted and the unknown, and serves as a metaphor or parable for the Human Condition.

Sean Turrell's wood sculptures have their origins in internal and external influences. Anatomy, emotional energy, gender, sex, and religious idioms form the basis of the work. The works in this show are from Turrell's "The Place Beyond the Pale" series. In leaving behind what may be considered acceptable societal constructs, the sculptures are Turrell's response to leaving his comfort zone. In his artist statement, Turrell describes the motivation in the works as, "Exploring feelings and emotions normally tucked away from the society and even the self." With Turrell's work, the viewer is presented with one artist's journey into the complexities of the Human Condition.

Happy Accidents: Works by Sonya Parrish and Erin Davies
Redhouse

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

Happy Accidents will feature works created with a technique that Parrish calls "Latex Resist." One of the largest pieces in the show will be interactive as guests peel the latex off to reveal the painting during the opening. One piece was created with the help of a local Girl Scout troupe and proceeds from the sale of that piece will go directly to the troupe.

The Gallery is open by appointment. To make an appointment, phone 315-425-0405 or email press@theredhouse.org.

Immersed In Color
Szozda Gallery

Price: Free
Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A series of works primarily influenced by color rather than by subject matter, featuring the color-strong layering works of three women: Lydia Benscher's encaustics, Joyce Day Homan's watercolors and Carmel Nicoletti's kiln-formed glass.

In the Garden
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

In the Garden presents an eclectic mix of styles and art media, which all celebrate the joys of the garden. The paintings and photography in the show depict floral motifs and backyard vistas. Ceramic planters and sculptural forms complement and enhance any outdoor space. The jewelry and wearable pieces reflect the colors, patterns, and styles inspired by the gorgeous flowers that make us THINK SPRING!

Participating artists include: Jenny Pope, Lucie Wellner, Nancy Kramer, Rodger DeMuth, Zach Dunn, Melissa Montgomery, Kathy Barry, Jen Gandee. Sarah Panzarella, Lynn Yenkey, Lorna Meaden, Ron DeRutte, Lori Hawk, Amy Francher, and Errol Willett.?

Orange Pulp: Works by Norman Saunders
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

A profile of pulp artist Norman Saunders (1907-1989), including 10 lush and dramatic Saunders paintings from the university collection.

Named for the cheap and abundant wood pulp that publishers after 1850 began using to print reading materials for a mass audience, pulp magazines sported eye-catching covers and included detective, adventure, western, horror, romance, and science fiction stories. According to co-curator Sean Quimby, director of SCRC, "This was literature tailored to specific tastes, intended to entertain in predictable ways." He notes that "even while the form of the pulp magazine died by 1960, the concept of pulp lives on in glossy photo-dense magazines, paperback novels, comic books, and film." Quimby maintains that pulp magazines, with their intensely involved readership, "helped make possible contemporary interactive media culture."

Reynolds Unwrapped: The Cartoon Art of Dan Reynolds
Everson Museum of Art

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

The 2011 exhibition program will continue to highlight the talented artists of New York State through a series of focused exhibitions. The season opens with Reynolds Unwrapped: The Cartoon Art of Dan Reynolds, an exhibition featuring more than 100 original works of art that are seriously hilarious. The small-scale drawings depicting the comedic daily lives of humans and animals alike are all rendered by hand in a variety of media, an approach that is becoming increasing rare in a world of computer-generated images.

Dan Reynolds began drawing cartoons in 1989, when he was 30. As a youth center instructor, Reynolds was surrounded by youthful energy and creative minds. He was an avid follower of popular cartoons of the time, such as Gary Larson's Far Side and Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes. A native of Brewerton, NY, Reynolds was inspired by his Central New York surroundings, a place where snow is abundant and cows can be found just minutes from anywhere. From the beginning, Reynolds has used farm animals as messengers of humor, particularly cows, pigs and chickens, a series that was immediately accepted by Reader's Digest in 1989. A new cartoon has appeared in every issue since then. Reynolds' cartoons have also appeared in thematic Reynolds Unwrapped book compilations featuring everything from sports to holiday special editions. American Greetings and Recycled Greeting Cards also feature Reynolds cartoons on greeting cards for every occasion.

In 2008, Reynolds was diagnosed with testicular cancer and subsequently received months of chemotherapy. While he was in treatment, he began drawing cartoons about cancer and his personal experience which he found was shared by his fellow patients. He shared the cartoons with the staff and patients at the facility and discovered the power of art to bring humor to an otherwise humorless situation.

Read a review!

Now and Then: Open Figure Drawing Group Exhibition 2011
XL Projects

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

New and past works created by artists from Open Figure Drawing, Syracuse's community-based drawing group for people of all abilities, are the subject of this exhibition. The Open Figure Drawing group offers an inexpensive drawing experience to members of the Syracuse community. Participants draw from unclothed models and can attend on a drop-in basis. They become part of a supportive artistic community that networks about exhibitions, workshops, grants and other related events.

For more information, visit www.openfiguredrawing.com or contact XL Projects at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

CNY Pride Families: Works by Ellen Blalock
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibit is a portrait of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) families in Central New York communities. Through it, we seek to challenge and change damaging myths and stereotypes about LGBTQ people and their families. We hope to contribute to the process of dismantling the destructive power of prejudice and intolerance. The photographs display positive images and first person accounts which relay the stories of LGBTQ people and their families here in the Central New York area.

In 2007, Ellen M. Blalock collaborated with Light Work and LGBT Resource Center at Syracuse University on a campus exhibition of CNY Pride Families. Some families only included domestic partners, some included children, ex-partners, grandparents and pets. Some writings were done by children explaining what it is like to have two moms. Some partners included the vows from their union ceremony. The process of making these portraits turned into a celebration of families, to show and share their love, their strength and their togetherness. The ArtRage exhibit includes more families, more diversity, video, and audio.

Read a review!

Sarah Averill: North Side Residents
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

More than 70 of Sarah Averill's sepia-toned photographs of North Side residents will be on display.

60 Artists in 60 Minutes
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $30 regular, $45 patron (advance purchase recommended)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The third annual 60/60, back by popular demand. The event will take place under tents on the Everson Community Plaza surrounding the reflecting pools. Guests will enjoy a summer evening party all about the creation and appreciation of art. They will be invited to mingle and observe as 60 area artists create or finish original works of art in 60 minutes while enjoying delicious appetizers and beverages.

A highlight of the evening will be a raffle to win one of the amazing artworks being created live at the event. The raffle will be drawn at 6:30 p.m., winners must be present to claim their prize to take home with them. The artworks are generously donated by participating artists.

Jaume Ferrete: four strategies, an idea, a text and two messages
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

UVP Annual Summer Review. In "four strategies, an idea, a text and two messages" (2 min loop), Jaume Ferrete revised an existing "four strategies" text work specifically with UVP and the Syracuse Stage location in mind. While the prior version was written for ink on paper, in this version Ferrete writes for LED panel on architectural facade, investigating the technical and political structures surrounding the UVP platform. The new work continues his use of minimal and open-ended texts that imply a discursive relationship with the audience, yet remain aloof and non-prescriptive.

UVP Annual Summer Review: Althea Thauberger
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Bear, 2007 (7 min loop)
not afraid to die, 2008 (15 min loop)

For the second two weekends of June, Light Work and Urban Video Project will present two works by the artist Althea Thauberger.

"The Bear," set in Thauberger's native British Columbia, is an illustration of the way banality intrudes into our fantasies about nature. We see the knotted roots of a tree in the Canadian Rainforest, and a black bear wandering in and out of the scene. An alert viewer will begin to suspect that something is amiss: see if you can figure out the secret of Thauberger's "The Bear."

"not afraid to die," shot on location in the Northwest Rainforest Diorama of the Royal B.C. Museum in Victoria (a reconstruction of the kind of forest which surrounds the city of Victoria), depicts a Gore-Tex clad girl alternatively waiting and snacking. Like The Bear, "not afraid to die" calls into question our relationship to nature and its inherent pleasures and dangers.

Gracious Sakes Alive, with Black Throat Wind, Leylines
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $15 adults, $10 children
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The musical based on the award-winning book by Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin. Tickets may be reserved by calling 315-445-4523.

Read a review!

At First Sight
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Jon J. Barden, director

Price: $15 adults, $12 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Written by Anne Pié.

Arsenic and Old Lace
Appleseed Productions
Daniel Rowlands, director

Price: $18 regular; $15 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Welcome to the Brewster house, an old Victorian in Brooklyn, NY, home to the darling sisters, Abby and Martha -- two lovable and charitable spinsters. But this cheery home hides a dark and terrible secret. Is it their nephew who labors under the delusion that he is Theodore Roosevelt? Is it their other nephew, who bears a horrifying resemblance to Boris Karloff? Or is it the sisters themselves, and the fact that they have 12 "gentlemen" buried in their cellar? One thing is for certain, thrills and laughs a plenty are abundant in this delightful dark comedy. Written by Joseph Kesselring.

Read a review!

Psycho Beach Party
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

Gidget, Frankie, and Annette beach party epics meet Hitchcock's psychological suspense thrillers such as Spellbound and Marnie. Chicklet Forrest, a teenage tomboy, desperately wants to be part of the surf crowd on Malibu Beach in 1962. Her most dangerous alter ego is a sexually voracious vixen named Ann Bowman who has nothing less than world domination on her mind. Written by Charles Busch.

This show is intended for mature audiences only.

Read a review!

Leading Men Don't Dance
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

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

Featuring Bob Brown, Gary Troy, Frank Fiumano, Richard Koons, and Bill Ali.

Tickets available by calling 315-479-7469.

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Three Form Expression
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Linda Bigness- Abstract oil paintings from her urbanscape and musical notes series
Tom Huff- Soapstone and alabaster sculpture
Jerome Durr- Freestanding glass sculpture

Reynolds Unwrapped: The Cartoon Art of Dan Reynolds
Everson Museum of Art

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

The 2011 exhibition program will continue to highlight the talented artists of New York State through a series of focused exhibitions. The season opens with Reynolds Unwrapped: The Cartoon Art of Dan Reynolds, an exhibition featuring more than 100 original works of art that are seriously hilarious. The small-scale drawings depicting the comedic daily lives of humans and animals alike are all rendered by hand in a variety of media, an approach that is becoming increasing rare in a world of computer-generated images.

Dan Reynolds began drawing cartoons in 1989, when he was 30. As a youth center instructor, Reynolds was surrounded by youthful energy and creative minds. He was an avid follower of popular cartoons of the time, such as Gary Larson's Far Side and Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes. A native of Brewerton, NY, Reynolds was inspired by his Central New York surroundings, a place where snow is abundant and cows can be found just minutes from anywhere. From the beginning, Reynolds has used farm animals as messengers of humor, particularly cows, pigs and chickens, a series that was immediately accepted by Reader's Digest in 1989. A new cartoon has appeared in every issue since then. Reynolds' cartoons have also appeared in thematic Reynolds Unwrapped book compilations featuring everything from sports to holiday special editions. American Greetings and Recycled Greeting Cards also feature Reynolds cartoons on greeting cards for every occasion.

In 2008, Reynolds was diagnosed with testicular cancer and subsequently received months of chemotherapy. While he was in treatment, he began drawing cartoons about cancer and his personal experience which he found was shared by his fellow patients. He shared the cartoons with the staff and patients at the facility and discovered the power of art to bring humor to an otherwise humorless situation.

Read a review!

The Dragonfly Garden
Gallery 54

Price: Free
Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring dragonfly-themed pieces for your garden and beyond by members of Gallery 54.

Georg Schwartz Exhibition
Imagine

Price: Free
Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Paintings by Georg Schwartz, a native of Copenhagen, Denmark now living in Johnson City, will be featured. Schwartz has had one show in New York City and several in the Southern Tier; this is his first in Onondaga County.

Schwartz began sketching for fun in 1971, exhibited in a few shows, and then took a not-so-brief hiatus, returning to painting more than 30 years later. In 2004 he was one of nine artists featured in the "Scandinavian Dreams" exhibit at the Avenue Art Gallery in Endicott -- one of the largest-ever gatherings of Scandinavian artists in the Northeast. It served as the springboard for his career. Schwartz calls his paintings "abstract" and "classic abstract," which he describes as "work with a feel of the 1920s and 1930s." He creates not only his own genre, but also his own mediums and colors.

The Human Condition: Works by Michael Sickler and Sean Turrell
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Michael Sickler's new series of mixed media paintings are his interpretation of Franz Kafka's expressionistic novella, "Metamorphosis". The story, set in Russia, is about a young man who wakes up one morning transformed into a large insect. The story as Sickler has interpreted it deals with the main character's longing for human companionship in spite of his hideous malady. On a larger level, it speaks of how society banishes from sight the afflicted and the unknown, and serves as a metaphor or parable for the Human Condition.

Sean Turrell's wood sculptures have their origins in internal and external influences. Anatomy, emotional energy, gender, sex, and religious idioms form the basis of the work. The works in this show are from Turrell's "The Place Beyond the Pale" series. In leaving behind what may be considered acceptable societal constructs, the sculptures are Turrell's response to leaving his comfort zone. In his artist statement, Turrell describes the motivation in the works as, "Exploring feelings and emotions normally tucked away from the society and even the self." With Turrell's work, the viewer is presented with one artist's journey into the complexities of the Human Condition.

Immersed In Color
Szozda Gallery

Price: Free
Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A series of works primarily influenced by color rather than by subject matter, featuring the color-strong layering works of three women: Lydia Benscher's encaustics, Joyce Day Homan's watercolors and Carmel Nicoletti's kiln-formed glass.

In the Garden
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

In the Garden presents an eclectic mix of styles and art media, which all celebrate the joys of the garden. The paintings and photography in the show depict floral motifs and backyard vistas. Ceramic planters and sculptural forms complement and enhance any outdoor space. The jewelry and wearable pieces reflect the colors, patterns, and styles inspired by the gorgeous flowers that make us THINK SPRING!

Participating artists include: Jenny Pope, Lucie Wellner, Nancy Kramer, Rodger DeMuth, Zach Dunn, Melissa Montgomery, Kathy Barry, Jen Gandee. Sarah Panzarella, Lynn Yenkey, Lorna Meaden, Ron DeRutte, Lori Hawk, Amy Francher, and Errol Willett.?

Art on the Porches
Greater Strathmore Neighborhood Association

Price: Free
Ruskin Avenue
Strathmore neighborhood, Syracuse

Art on the Porches is an art show, sale, and celebration of the historic Strathmore neighborhood featuring local artists who design and create original works of art. Artists will be displaying and selling their work from the spacious porches and lawns of the beautiful homes along Ruskin Avenue.

Sarah Averill: North Side Residents
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

More than 70 of Sarah Averill's sepia-toned photographs of North Side residents will be on display.

CNY Pride Families: Works by Ellen Blalock
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibit is a portrait of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) families in Central New York communities. Through it, we seek to challenge and change damaging myths and stereotypes about LGBTQ people and their families. We hope to contribute to the process of dismantling the destructive power of prejudice and intolerance. The photographs display positive images and first person accounts which relay the stories of LGBTQ people and their families here in the Central New York area.

In 2007, Ellen M. Blalock collaborated with Light Work and LGBT Resource Center at Syracuse University on a campus exhibition of CNY Pride Families. Some families only included domestic partners, some included children, ex-partners, grandparents and pets. Some writings were done by children explaining what it is like to have two moms. Some partners included the vows from their union ceremony. The process of making these portraits turned into a celebration of families, to show and share their love, their strength and their togetherness. The ArtRage exhibit includes more families, more diversity, video, and audio.

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Now and Then: Open Figure Drawing Group Exhibition 2011
XL Projects

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

New and past works created by artists from Open Figure Drawing, Syracuse's community-based drawing group for people of all abilities, are the subject of this exhibition. The Open Figure Drawing group offers an inexpensive drawing experience to members of the Syracuse community. Participants draw from unclothed models and can attend on a drop-in basis. They become part of a supportive artistic community that networks about exhibitions, workshops, grants and other related events.

For more information, visit www.openfiguredrawing.com or contact XL Projects at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Jaume Ferrete: four strategies, an idea, a text and two messages
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

UVP Annual Summer Review. In "four strategies, an idea, a text and two messages" (2 min loop), Jaume Ferrete revised an existing "four strategies" text work specifically with UVP and the Syracuse Stage location in mind. While the prior version was written for ink on paper, in this version Ferrete writes for LED panel on architectural facade, investigating the technical and political structures surrounding the UVP platform. The new work continues his use of minimal and open-ended texts that imply a discursive relationship with the audience, yet remain aloof and non-prescriptive.

UVP Annual Summer Review: Althea Thauberger
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Bear, 2007 (7 min loop)
not afraid to die, 2008 (15 min loop)

For the second two weekends of June, Light Work and Urban Video Project will present two works by the artist Althea Thauberger.

"The Bear," set in Thauberger's native British Columbia, is an illustration of the way banality intrudes into our fantasies about nature. We see the knotted roots of a tree in the Canadian Rainforest, and a black bear wandering in and out of the scene. An alert viewer will begin to suspect that something is amiss: see if you can figure out the secret of Thauberger's "The Bear."

"not afraid to die," shot on location in the Northwest Rainforest Diorama of the Royal B.C. Museum in Victoria (a reconstruction of the kind of forest which surrounds the city of Victoria), depicts a Gore-Tex clad girl alternatively waiting and snacking. Like The Bear, "not afraid to die" calls into question our relationship to nature and its inherent pleasures and dangers.

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

Price: Dinner theater: $20 single; $38 couple. Show only: $10 on day of show if seating available
Fire and Ice Banquet Hall, The Locker Room
528 Hiawatha Blvd., Syracuse

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

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

Read a review!

Digable Planets with Ugo Crew and DJ Afar
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Snow White
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the classic children's story.

Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $15 adults, $10 children
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The musical based on the award-winning book by Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin. Tickets may be reserved by calling 315-445-4523.

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Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $15 adults, $10 children
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The musical based on the award-winning book by Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin. Tickets may be reserved by calling 315-445-4523.

Read a review!

Shakespeare by the Lake: Romeo and Juliet
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: Free
Armory Square Park
400 block of S. Franklin St., Syracuse

Rain location: Redhouse

Shakespeare by the Lake's inaugural season will feature a family-friendly, one-hour version of the Bard's classic Romeo and Juliet. Six professional actors, armed with only their costume rack and a trunk of props, perform all the roles in this most famous play of all time, complete with epic romance, a tragic ending and daring sword fights.

At First Sight
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Jon J. Barden, director

Price: $15 adults, $12 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Written by Anne Pié.

Arsenic and Old Lace
Appleseed Productions
Daniel Rowlands, director

Price: $18 regular; $15 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Welcome to the Brewster house, an old Victorian in Brooklyn, NY, home to the darling sisters, Abby and Martha -- two lovable and charitable spinsters. But this cheery home hides a dark and terrible secret. Is it their nephew who labors under the delusion that he is Theodore Roosevelt? Is it their other nephew, who bears a horrifying resemblance to Boris Karloff? Or is it the sisters themselves, and the fact that they have 12 "gentlemen" buried in their cellar? One thing is for certain, thrills and laughs a plenty are abundant in this delightful dark comedy. Written by Joseph Kesselring.

Read a review!

Psycho Beach Party
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

Gidget, Frankie, and Annette beach party epics meet Hitchcock's psychological suspense thrillers such as Spellbound and Marnie. Chicklet Forrest, a teenage tomboy, desperately wants to be part of the surf crowd on Malibu Beach in 1962. Her most dangerous alter ego is a sexually voracious vixen named Ann Bowman who has nothing less than world domination on her mind. Written by Charles Busch.

This show is intended for mature audiences only.

Read a review!

Leading Men Don't Dance
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

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

Featuring Bob Brown, Gary Troy, Frank Fiumano, Richard Koons, and Bill Ali.

Tickets available by calling 315-479-7469.

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Jeffrey Henson Scales: That Year of Living
Light Work Gallery

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

That Year of Living features stunning black-and-white photographs by Jeffrey Henson Scales. Diagnosed with cancer in 2008, Scales was forced to, in his words, weigh the possibilities of his own demise, and whether he had achieved what he felt he was put here to do. It was this diagnosis and contemplation, along with the urging of his wife, Meg Henson Scales, which led him to return to making photographs on a daily basis.

The images in That Year of Living were made in the year following his cancer diagnosis and surgery. Scales photographed mainly in and around Times Square, depicting the part of New York City that he visited every day going to and from work at The New York Times. The images capture the certain hardness mixed with joy, sadness, determination and bewilderment that is found in the faces of young and old alike in New York City. Created in the months following his own experience with mortality, the photographs explore the journey of life and death found in the faces on the streets of New York.

Immersed In Color
Szozda Gallery

Price: Free
Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A series of works primarily influenced by color rather than by subject matter, featuring the color-strong layering works of three women: Lydia Benscher's encaustics, Joyce Day Homan's watercolors and Carmel Nicoletti's kiln-formed glass.

The Dragonfly Garden
Gallery 54

Price: Free
Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring dragonfly-themed pieces for your garden and beyond by members of Gallery 54.

In the Garden
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

In the Garden presents an eclectic mix of styles and art media, which all celebrate the joys of the garden. The paintings and photography in the show depict floral motifs and backyard vistas. Ceramic planters and sculptural forms complement and enhance any outdoor space. The jewelry and wearable pieces reflect the colors, patterns, and styles inspired by the gorgeous flowers that make us THINK SPRING!

Participating artists include: Jenny Pope, Lucie Wellner, Nancy Kramer, Rodger DeMuth, Zach Dunn, Melissa Montgomery, Kathy Barry, Jen Gandee. Sarah Panzarella, Lynn Yenkey, Lorna Meaden, Ron DeRutte, Lori Hawk, Amy Francher, and Errol Willett.?

Georg Schwartz Exhibition
Imagine

Price: Free
Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Paintings by Georg Schwartz, a native of Copenhagen, Denmark now living in Johnson City, will be featured. Schwartz has had one show in New York City and several in the Southern Tier; this is his first in Onondaga County.

Schwartz began sketching for fun in 1971, exhibited in a few shows, and then took a not-so-brief hiatus, returning to painting more than 30 years later. In 2004 he was one of nine artists featured in the "Scandinavian Dreams" exhibit at the Avenue Art Gallery in Endicott -- one of the largest-ever gatherings of Scandinavian artists in the Northeast. It served as the springboard for his career. Schwartz calls his paintings "abstract" and "classic abstract," which he describes as "work with a feel of the 1920s and 1930s." He creates not only his own genre, but also his own mediums and colors.

Reynolds Unwrapped: The Cartoon Art of Dan Reynolds
Everson Museum of Art

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

The 2011 exhibition program will continue to highlight the talented artists of New York State through a series of focused exhibitions. The season opens with Reynolds Unwrapped: The Cartoon Art of Dan Reynolds, an exhibition featuring more than 100 original works of art that are seriously hilarious. The small-scale drawings depicting the comedic daily lives of humans and animals alike are all rendered by hand in a variety of media, an approach that is becoming increasing rare in a world of computer-generated images.

Dan Reynolds began drawing cartoons in 1989, when he was 30. As a youth center instructor, Reynolds was surrounded by youthful energy and creative minds. He was an avid follower of popular cartoons of the time, such as Gary Larson's Far Side and Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes. A native of Brewerton, NY, Reynolds was inspired by his Central New York surroundings, a place where snow is abundant and cows can be found just minutes from anywhere. From the beginning, Reynolds has used farm animals as messengers of humor, particularly cows, pigs and chickens, a series that was immediately accepted by Reader's Digest in 1989. A new cartoon has appeared in every issue since then. Reynolds' cartoons have also appeared in thematic Reynolds Unwrapped book compilations featuring everything from sports to holiday special editions. American Greetings and Recycled Greeting Cards also feature Reynolds cartoons on greeting cards for every occasion.

In 2008, Reynolds was diagnosed with testicular cancer and subsequently received months of chemotherapy. While he was in treatment, he began drawing cartoons about cancer and his personal experience which he found was shared by his fellow patients. He shared the cartoons with the staff and patients at the facility and discovered the power of art to bring humor to an otherwise humorless situation.

Read a review!

Now and Then: Open Figure Drawing Group Exhibition 2011
XL Projects

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

New and past works created by artists from Open Figure Drawing, Syracuse's community-based drawing group for people of all abilities, are the subject of this exhibition. The Open Figure Drawing group offers an inexpensive drawing experience to members of the Syracuse community. Participants draw from unclothed models and can attend on a drop-in basis. They become part of a supportive artistic community that networks about exhibitions, workshops, grants and other related events.

For more information, visit www.openfiguredrawing.com or contact XL Projects at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

UVP Annual Summer Review: Althea Thauberger
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Bear, 2007 (7 min loop)
not afraid to die, 2008 (15 min loop)

For the second two weekends of June, Light Work and Urban Video Project will present two works by the artist Althea Thauberger.

"The Bear," set in Thauberger's native British Columbia, is an illustration of the way banality intrudes into our fantasies about nature. We see the knotted roots of a tree in the Canadian Rainforest, and a black bear wandering in and out of the scene. An alert viewer will begin to suspect that something is amiss: see if you can figure out the secret of Thauberger's "The Bear."

"not afraid to die," shot on location in the Northwest Rainforest Diorama of the Royal B.C. Museum in Victoria (a reconstruction of the kind of forest which surrounds the city of Victoria), depicts a Gore-Tex clad girl alternatively waiting and snacking. Like The Bear, "not afraid to die" calls into question our relationship to nature and its inherent pleasures and dangers.

Jaume Ferrete: four strategies, an idea, a text and two messages
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

UVP Annual Summer Review. In "four strategies, an idea, a text and two messages" (2 min loop), Jaume Ferrete revised an existing "four strategies" text work specifically with UVP and the Syracuse Stage location in mind. While the prior version was written for ink on paper, in this version Ferrete writes for LED panel on architectural facade, investigating the technical and political structures surrounding the UVP platform. The new work continues his use of minimal and open-ended texts that imply a discursive relationship with the audience, yet remain aloof and non-prescriptive.

Arsenic and Old Lace
Appleseed Productions
Daniel Rowlands, director

Price: $18 regular; $15 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Welcome to the Brewster house, an old Victorian in Brooklyn, NY, home to the darling sisters, Abby and Martha -- two lovable and charitable spinsters. But this cheery home hides a dark and terrible secret. Is it their nephew who labors under the delusion that he is Theodore Roosevelt? Is it their other nephew, who bears a horrifying resemblance to Boris Karloff? Or is it the sisters themselves, and the fact that they have 12 "gentlemen" buried in their cellar? One thing is for certain, thrills and laughs a plenty are abundant in this delightful dark comedy. Written by Joseph Kesselring.

Read a review!

Shakespeare by the Lake: Romeo and Juliet
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: Free
Clift Park
Genesee St., Skaneateles

Rain location: Lodge at Welch Allyn

Shakespeare by the Lake's inaugural season will feature a family-friendly, one-hour version of the Bard's classic Romeo and Juliet. Six professional actors, armed with only their costume rack and a trunk of props, perform all the roles in this most famous play of all time, complete with epic romance, a tragic ending and daring sword fights.

Leading Men Don't Dance
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

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

Featuring Bob Brown, Gary Troy, Frank Fiumano, Richard Koons, and Bill Ali.

Tickets available by calling 315-479-7469.

Monday, June 20, 2011

Your Words Today /Tus palabras de hoy
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents the first exhibition by El Punto, a new contemporary arts program for young artists, created by Point of Contact and facilitated to local youths in collaboration with the Spanish Action League (La Liga) and La Casita Cultural Center.

When West Meets East: Works by Patricia Elliott Seitz
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

The exhibit "When West Meets East" is an impressionistic painting journey. Patricia Seitz will show a series of paintings depicting the beauty and physical differences between California and Upstate NY. Traveling from the coastal areas of California to Upstate New York's dynamic seasons and lush woods, the artist was able to share her memories through a painting journal.

Patricia Elliott Seitz was born in San Diego and spent most of her young adulthood living in Southern California. Patricia enjoys exploring subjects on an intimate level, getting to know her subject, striving to gather as much information as possible prior to beginning a painting. She gravitates to subjects which are in rich color, light is of primary focus, and the subject matter presents a degree of difficulty.

The Dragonfly Garden
Gallery 54

Price: Free
Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring dragonfly-themed pieces for your garden and beyond by members of Gallery 54.

Georg Schwartz Exhibition
Imagine

Price: Free
Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Paintings by Georg Schwartz, a native of Copenhagen, Denmark now living in Johnson City, will be featured. Schwartz has had one show in New York City and several in the Southern Tier; this is his first in Onondaga County.

Schwartz began sketching for fun in 1971, exhibited in a few shows, and then took a not-so-brief hiatus, returning to painting more than 30 years later. In 2004 he was one of nine artists featured in the "Scandinavian Dreams" exhibit at the Avenue Art Gallery in Endicott -- one of the largest-ever gatherings of Scandinavian artists in the Northeast. It served as the springboard for his career. Schwartz calls his paintings "abstract" and "classic abstract," which he describes as "work with a feel of the 1920s and 1930s." He creates not only his own genre, but also his own mediums and colors.

Jeffrey Henson Scales: That Year of Living
Light Work Gallery

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

That Year of Living features stunning black-and-white photographs by Jeffrey Henson Scales. Diagnosed with cancer in 2008, Scales was forced to, in his words, weigh the possibilities of his own demise, and whether he had achieved what he felt he was put here to do. It was this diagnosis and contemplation, along with the urging of his wife, Meg Henson Scales, which led him to return to making photographs on a daily basis.

The images in That Year of Living were made in the year following his cancer diagnosis and surgery. Scales photographed mainly in and around Times Square, depicting the part of New York City that he visited every day going to and from work at The New York Times. The images capture the certain hardness mixed with joy, sadness, determination and bewilderment that is found in the faces of young and old alike in New York City. Created in the months following his own experience with mortality, the photographs explore the journey of life and death found in the faces on the streets of New York.

Happy Accidents: Works by Sonya Parrish and Erin Davies
Redhouse

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

Happy Accidents will feature works created with a technique that Parrish calls "Latex Resist." One of the largest pieces in the show will be interactive as guests peel the latex off to reveal the painting during the opening. One piece was created with the help of a local Girl Scout troupe and proceeds from the sale of that piece will go directly to the troupe.

The Gallery is open by appointment. To make an appointment, phone 315-425-0405 or email press@theredhouse.org.

UVP Annual Summer Review: Althea Thauberger
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Bear, 2007 (7 min loop)
not afraid to die, 2008 (15 min loop)

For the second two weekends of June, Light Work and Urban Video Project will present two works by the artist Althea Thauberger.

"The Bear," set in Thauberger's native British Columbia, is an illustration of the way banality intrudes into our fantasies about nature. We see the knotted roots of a tree in the Canadian Rainforest, and a black bear wandering in and out of the scene. An alert viewer will begin to suspect that something is amiss: see if you can figure out the secret of Thauberger's "The Bear."

"not afraid to die," shot on location in the Northwest Rainforest Diorama of the Royal B.C. Museum in Victoria (a reconstruction of the kind of forest which surrounds the city of Victoria), depicts a Gore-Tex clad girl alternatively waiting and snacking. Like The Bear, "not afraid to die" calls into question our relationship to nature and its inherent pleasures and dangers.

Jaume Ferrete: four strategies, an idea, a text and two messages
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

UVP Annual Summer Review. In "four strategies, an idea, a text and two messages" (2 min loop), Jaume Ferrete revised an existing "four strategies" text work specifically with UVP and the Syracuse Stage location in mind. While the prior version was written for ink on paper, in this version Ferrete writes for LED panel on architectural facade, investigating the technical and political structures surrounding the UVP platform. The new work continues his use of minimal and open-ended texts that imply a discursive relationship with the audience, yet remain aloof and non-prescriptive.

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

When West Meets East: Works by Patricia Elliott Seitz
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

The exhibit "When West Meets East" is an impressionistic painting journey. Patricia Seitz will show a series of paintings depicting the beauty and physical differences between California and Upstate NY. Traveling from the coastal areas of California to Upstate New York's dynamic seasons and lush woods, the artist was able to share her memories through a painting journal.

Patricia Elliott Seitz was born in San Diego and spent most of her young adulthood living in Southern California. Patricia enjoys exploring subjects on an intimate level, getting to know her subject, striving to gather as much information as possible prior to beginning a painting. She gravitates to subjects which are in rich color, light is of primary focus, and the subject matter presents a degree of difficulty.

Three Form Expression
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Linda Bigness- Abstract oil paintings from her urbanscape and musical notes series
Tom Huff- Soapstone and alabaster sculpture
Jerome Durr- Freestanding glass sculpture

The Dragonfly Garden
Gallery 54

Price: Free
Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring dragonfly-themed pieces for your garden and beyond by members of Gallery 54.

Georg Schwartz Exhibition
Imagine

Price: Free
Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Paintings by Georg Schwartz, a native of Copenhagen, Denmark now living in Johnson City, will be featured. Schwartz has had one show in New York City and several in the Southern Tier; this is his first in Onondaga County.

Schwartz began sketching for fun in 1971, exhibited in a few shows, and then took a not-so-brief hiatus, returning to painting more than 30 years later. In 2004 he was one of nine artists featured in the "Scandinavian Dreams" exhibit at the Avenue Art Gallery in Endicott -- one of the largest-ever gatherings of Scandinavian artists in the Northeast. It served as the springboard for his career. Schwartz calls his paintings "abstract" and "classic abstract," which he describes as "work with a feel of the 1920s and 1930s." He creates not only his own genre, but also his own mediums and colors.

Jeffrey Henson Scales: That Year of Living
Light Work Gallery

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

That Year of Living features stunning black-and-white photographs by Jeffrey Henson Scales. Diagnosed with cancer in 2008, Scales was forced to, in his words, weigh the possibilities of his own demise, and whether he had achieved what he felt he was put here to do. It was this diagnosis and contemplation, along with the urging of his wife, Meg Henson Scales, which led him to return to making photographs on a daily basis.

The images in That Year of Living were made in the year following his cancer diagnosis and surgery. Scales photographed mainly in and around Times Square, depicting the part of New York City that he visited every day going to and from work at The New York Times. The images capture the certain hardness mixed with joy, sadness, determination and bewilderment that is found in the faces of young and old alike in New York City. Created in the months following his own experience with mortality, the photographs explore the journey of life and death found in the faces on the streets of New York.

The Human Condition: Works by Michael Sickler and Sean Turrell
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Michael Sickler's new series of mixed media paintings are his interpretation of Franz Kafka's expressionistic novella, "Metamorphosis". The story, set in Russia, is about a young man who wakes up one morning transformed into a large insect. The story as Sickler has interpreted it deals with the main character's longing for human companionship in spite of his hideous malady. On a larger level, it speaks of how society banishes from sight the afflicted and the unknown, and serves as a metaphor or parable for the Human Condition.

Sean Turrell's wood sculptures have their origins in internal and external influences. Anatomy, emotional energy, gender, sex, and religious idioms form the basis of the work. The works in this show are from Turrell's "The Place Beyond the Pale" series. In leaving behind what may be considered acceptable societal constructs, the sculptures are Turrell's response to leaving his comfort zone. In his artist statement, Turrell describes the motivation in the works as, "Exploring feelings and emotions normally tucked away from the society and even the self." With Turrell's work, the viewer is presented with one artist's journey into the complexities of the Human Condition.

Happy Accidents: Works by Sonya Parrish and Erin Davies
Redhouse

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

Happy Accidents will feature works created with a technique that Parrish calls "Latex Resist." One of the largest pieces in the show will be interactive as guests peel the latex off to reveal the painting during the opening. One piece was created with the help of a local Girl Scout troupe and proceeds from the sale of that piece will go directly to the troupe.

The Gallery is open by appointment. To make an appointment, phone 315-425-0405 or email press@theredhouse.org.

Reynolds Unwrapped: The Cartoon Art of Dan Reynolds
Everson Museum of Art

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

The 2011 exhibition program will continue to highlight the talented artists of New York State through a series of focused exhibitions. The season opens with Reynolds Unwrapped: The Cartoon Art of Dan Reynolds, an exhibition featuring more than 100 original works of art that are seriously hilarious. The small-scale drawings depicting the comedic daily lives of humans and animals alike are all rendered by hand in a variety of media, an approach that is becoming increasing rare in a world of computer-generated images.

Dan Reynolds began drawing cartoons in 1989, when he was 30. As a youth center instructor, Reynolds was surrounded by youthful energy and creative minds. He was an avid follower of popular cartoons of the time, such as Gary Larson's Far Side and Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes. A native of Brewerton, NY, Reynolds was inspired by his Central New York surroundings, a place where snow is abundant and cows can be found just minutes from anywhere. From the beginning, Reynolds has used farm animals as messengers of humor, particularly cows, pigs and chickens, a series that was immediately accepted by Reader's Digest in 1989. A new cartoon has appeared in every issue since then. Reynolds' cartoons have also appeared in thematic Reynolds Unwrapped book compilations featuring everything from sports to holiday special editions. American Greetings and Recycled Greeting Cards also feature Reynolds cartoons on greeting cards for every occasion.

In 2008, Reynolds was diagnosed with testicular cancer and subsequently received months of chemotherapy. While he was in treatment, he began drawing cartoons about cancer and his personal experience which he found was shared by his fellow patients. He shared the cartoons with the staff and patients at the facility and discovered the power of art to bring humor to an otherwise humorless situation.

Read a review!

Jaume Ferrete: four strategies, an idea, a text and two messages
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

UVP Annual Summer Review. In "four strategies, an idea, a text and two messages" (2 min loop), Jaume Ferrete revised an existing "four strategies" text work specifically with UVP and the Syracuse Stage location in mind. While the prior version was written for ink on paper, in this version Ferrete writes for LED panel on architectural facade, investigating the technical and political structures surrounding the UVP platform. The new work continues his use of minimal and open-ended texts that imply a discursive relationship with the audience, yet remain aloof and non-prescriptive.

UVP Annual Summer Review: Althea Thauberger
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Bear, 2007 (7 min loop)
not afraid to die, 2008 (15 min loop)

For the second two weekends of June, Light Work and Urban Video Project will present two works by the artist Althea Thauberger.

"The Bear," set in Thauberger's native British Columbia, is an illustration of the way banality intrudes into our fantasies about nature. We see the knotted roots of a tree in the Canadian Rainforest, and a black bear wandering in and out of the scene. An alert viewer will begin to suspect that something is amiss: see if you can figure out the secret of Thauberger's "The Bear."

"not afraid to die," shot on location in the Northwest Rainforest Diorama of the Royal B.C. Museum in Victoria (a reconstruction of the kind of forest which surrounds the city of Victoria), depicts a Gore-Tex clad girl alternatively waiting and snacking. Like The Bear, "not afraid to die" calls into question our relationship to nature and its inherent pleasures and dangers.

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Your Words Today /Tus palabras de hoy
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents the first exhibition by El Punto, a new contemporary arts program for young artists, created by Point of Contact and facilitated to local youths in collaboration with the Spanish Action League (La Liga) and La Casita Cultural Center.

When West Meets East: Works by Patricia Elliott Seitz
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

The exhibit "When West Meets East" is an impressionistic painting journey. Patricia Seitz will show a series of paintings depicting the beauty and physical differences between California and Upstate NY. Traveling from the coastal areas of California to Upstate New York's dynamic seasons and lush woods, the artist was able to share her memories through a painting journal.

Patricia Elliott Seitz was born in San Diego and spent most of her young adulthood living in Southern California. Patricia enjoys exploring subjects on an intimate level, getting to know her subject, striving to gather as much information as possible prior to beginning a painting. She gravitates to subjects which are in rich color, light is of primary focus, and the subject matter presents a degree of difficulty.

Three Form Expression
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Linda Bigness- Abstract oil paintings from her urbanscape and musical notes series
Tom Huff- Soapstone and alabaster sculpture
Jerome Durr- Freestanding glass sculpture

The Dragonfly Garden
Gallery 54

Price: Free
Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring dragonfly-themed pieces for your garden and beyond by members of Gallery 54.

Georg Schwartz Exhibition
Imagine

Price: Free
Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Paintings by Georg Schwartz, a native of Copenhagen, Denmark now living in Johnson City, will be featured. Schwartz has had one show in New York City and several in the Southern Tier; this is his first in Onondaga County.

Schwartz began sketching for fun in 1971, exhibited in a few shows, and then took a not-so-brief hiatus, returning to painting more than 30 years later. In 2004 he was one of nine artists featured in the "Scandinavian Dreams" exhibit at the Avenue Art Gallery in Endicott -- one of the largest-ever gatherings of Scandinavian artists in the Northeast. It served as the springboard for his career. Schwartz calls his paintings "abstract" and "classic abstract," which he describes as "work with a feel of the 1920s and 1930s." He creates not only his own genre, but also his own mediums and colors.

Jeffrey Henson Scales: That Year of Living
Light Work Gallery

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

That Year of Living features stunning black-and-white photographs by Jeffrey Henson Scales. Diagnosed with cancer in 2008, Scales was forced to, in his words, weigh the possibilities of his own demise, and whether he had achieved what he felt he was put here to do. It was this diagnosis and contemplation, along with the urging of his wife, Meg Henson Scales, which led him to return to making photographs on a daily basis.

The images in That Year of Living were made in the year following his cancer diagnosis and surgery. Scales photographed mainly in and around Times Square, depicting the part of New York City that he visited every day going to and from work at The New York Times. The images capture the certain hardness mixed with joy, sadness, determination and bewilderment that is found in the faces of young and old alike in New York City. Created in the months following his own experience with mortality, the photographs explore the journey of life and death found in the faces on the streets of New York.

The Human Condition: Works by Michael Sickler and Sean Turrell
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Michael Sickler's new series of mixed media paintings are his interpretation of Franz Kafka's expressionistic novella, "Metamorphosis". The story, set in Russia, is about a young man who wakes up one morning transformed into a large insect. The story as Sickler has interpreted it deals with the main character's longing for human companionship in spite of his hideous malady. On a larger level, it speaks of how society banishes from sight the afflicted and the unknown, and serves as a metaphor or parable for the Human Condition.

Sean Turrell's wood sculptures have their origins in internal and external influences. Anatomy, emotional energy, gender, sex, and religious idioms form the basis of the work. The works in this show are from Turrell's "The Place Beyond the Pale" series. In leaving behind what may be considered acceptable societal constructs, the sculptures are Turrell's response to leaving his comfort zone. In his artist statement, Turrell describes the motivation in the works as, "Exploring feelings and emotions normally tucked away from the society and even the self." With Turrell's work, the viewer is presented with one artist's journey into the complexities of the Human Condition.

Happy Accidents: Works by Sonya Parrish and Erin Davies
Redhouse

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

Happy Accidents will feature works created with a technique that Parrish calls "Latex Resist." One of the largest pieces in the show will be interactive as guests peel the latex off to reveal the painting during the opening. One piece was created with the help of a local Girl Scout troupe and proceeds from the sale of that piece will go directly to the troupe.

The Gallery is open by appointment. To make an appointment, phone 315-425-0405 or email press@theredhouse.org.

Immersed In Color
Szozda Gallery

Price: Free
Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A series of works primarily influenced by color rather than by subject matter, featuring the color-strong layering works of three women: Lydia Benscher's encaustics, Joyce Day Homan's watercolors and Carmel Nicoletti's kiln-formed glass.

Reynolds Unwrapped: The Cartoon Art of Dan Reynolds
Everson Museum of Art

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

The 2011 exhibition program will continue to highlight the talented artists of New York State through a series of focused exhibitions. The season opens with Reynolds Unwrapped: The Cartoon Art of Dan Reynolds, an exhibition featuring more than 100 original works of art that are seriously hilarious. The small-scale drawings depicting the comedic daily lives of humans and animals alike are all rendered by hand in a variety of media, an approach that is becoming increasing rare in a world of computer-generated images.

Dan Reynolds began drawing cartoons in 1989, when he was 30. As a youth center instructor, Reynolds was surrounded by youthful energy and creative minds. He was an avid follower of popular cartoons of the time, such as Gary Larson's Far Side and Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes. A native of Brewerton, NY, Reynolds was inspired by his Central New York surroundings, a place where snow is abundant and cows can be found just minutes from anywhere. From the beginning, Reynolds has used farm animals as messengers of humor, particularly cows, pigs and chickens, a series that was immediately accepted by Reader's Digest in 1989. A new cartoon has appeared in every issue since then. Reynolds' cartoons have also appeared in thematic Reynolds Unwrapped book compilations featuring everything from sports to holiday special editions. American Greetings and Recycled Greeting Cards also feature Reynolds cartoons on greeting cards for every occasion.

In 2008, Reynolds was diagnosed with testicular cancer and subsequently received months of chemotherapy. While he was in treatment, he began drawing cartoons about cancer and his personal experience which he found was shared by his fellow patients. He shared the cartoons with the staff and patients at the facility and discovered the power of art to bring humor to an otherwise humorless situation.

Read a review!

Sarah Averill: North Side Residents
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

More than 70 of Sarah Averill's sepia-toned photographs of North Side residents will be on display.

Jaume Ferrete: four strategies, an idea, a text and two messages
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

UVP Annual Summer Review. In "four strategies, an idea, a text and two messages" (2 min loop), Jaume Ferrete revised an existing "four strategies" text work specifically with UVP and the Syracuse Stage location in mind. While the prior version was written for ink on paper, in this version Ferrete writes for LED panel on architectural facade, investigating the technical and political structures surrounding the UVP platform. The new work continues his use of minimal and open-ended texts that imply a discursive relationship with the audience, yet remain aloof and non-prescriptive.

UVP Annual Summer Review: Althea Thauberger
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Bear, 2007 (7 min loop)
not afraid to die, 2008 (15 min loop)

For the second two weekends of June, Light Work and Urban Video Project will present two works by the artist Althea Thauberger.

"The Bear," set in Thauberger's native British Columbia, is an illustration of the way banality intrudes into our fantasies about nature. We see the knotted roots of a tree in the Canadian Rainforest, and a black bear wandering in and out of the scene. An alert viewer will begin to suspect that something is amiss: see if you can figure out the secret of Thauberger's "The Bear."

"not afraid to die," shot on location in the Northwest Rainforest Diorama of the Royal B.C. Museum in Victoria (a reconstruction of the kind of forest which surrounds the city of Victoria), depicts a Gore-Tex clad girl alternatively waiting and snacking. Like The Bear, "not afraid to die" calls into question our relationship to nature and its inherent pleasures and dangers.

The Trews, with Autumn Fire, Tommy Connors, Dirty Frank
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Thursday, June 23, 2011

When West Meets East: Works by Patricia Elliott Seitz
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

The exhibit "When West Meets East" is an impressionistic painting journey. Patricia Seitz will show a series of paintings depicting the beauty and physical differences between California and Upstate NY. Traveling from the coastal areas of California to Upstate New York's dynamic seasons and lush woods, the artist was able to share her memories through a painting journal.

Patricia Elliott Seitz was born in San Diego and spent most of her young adulthood living in Southern California. Patricia enjoys exploring subjects on an intimate level, getting to know her subject, striving to gather as much information as possible prior to beginning a painting. She gravitates to subjects which are in rich color, light is of primary focus, and the subject matter presents a degree of difficulty.

Three Form Expression
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Linda Bigness- Abstract oil paintings from her urbanscape and musical notes series
Tom Huff- Soapstone and alabaster sculpture
Jerome Durr- Freestanding glass sculpture

The Dragonfly Garden
Gallery 54

Price: Free
Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring dragonfly-themed pieces for your garden and beyond by members of Gallery 54.

Georg Schwartz Exhibition
Imagine

Price: Free
Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Paintings by Georg Schwartz, a native of Copenhagen, Denmark now living in Johnson City, will be featured. Schwartz has had one show in New York City and several in the Southern Tier; this is his first in Onondaga County.

Schwartz began sketching for fun in 1971, exhibited in a few shows, and then took a not-so-brief hiatus, returning to painting more than 30 years later. In 2004 he was one of nine artists featured in the "Scandinavian Dreams" exhibit at the Avenue Art Gallery in Endicott -- one of the largest-ever gatherings of Scandinavian artists in the Northeast. It served as the springboard for his career. Schwartz calls his paintings "abstract" and "classic abstract," which he describes as "work with a feel of the 1920s and 1930s." He creates not only his own genre, but also his own mediums and colors.

Jeffrey Henson Scales: That Year of Living
Light Work Gallery

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

That Year of Living features stunning black-and-white photographs by Jeffrey Henson Scales. Diagnosed with cancer in 2008, Scales was forced to, in his words, weigh the possibilities of his own demise, and whether he had achieved what he felt he was put here to do. It was this diagnosis and contemplation, along with the urging of his wife, Meg Henson Scales, which led him to return to making photographs on a daily basis.

The images in That Year of Living were made in the year following his cancer diagnosis and surgery. Scales photographed mainly in and around Times Square, depicting the part of New York City that he visited every day going to and from work at The New York Times. The images capture the certain hardness mixed with joy, sadness, determination and bewilderment that is found in the faces of young and old alike in New York City. Created in the months following his own experience with mortality, the photographs explore the journey of life and death found in the faces on the streets of New York.

The Human Condition: Works by Michael Sickler and Sean Turrell
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

There will be an artist reception this evening 6:00-8:00 pm.

Michael Sickler's new series of mixed media paintings are his interpretation of Franz Kafka's expressionistic novella, "Metamorphosis". The story, set in Russia, is about a young man who wakes up one morning transformed into a large insect. The story as Sickler has interpreted it deals with the main character's longing for human companionship in spite of his hideous malady. On a larger level, it speaks of how society banishes from sight the afflicted and the unknown, and serves as a metaphor or parable for the Human Condition.

Sean Turrell's wood sculptures have their origins in internal and external influences. Anatomy, emotional energy, gender, sex, and religious idioms form the basis of the work. The works in this show are from Turrell's "The Place Beyond the Pale" series. In leaving behind what may be considered acceptable societal constructs, the sculptures are Turrell's response to leaving his comfort zone. In his artist statement, Turrell describes the motivation in the works as, "Exploring feelings and emotions normally tucked away from the society and even the self." With Turrell's work, the viewer is presented with one artist's journey into the complexities of the Human Condition.

Happy Accidents: Works by Sonya Parrish and Erin Davies
Redhouse

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

Happy Accidents will feature works created with a technique that Parrish calls "Latex Resist." One of the largest pieces in the show will be interactive as guests peel the latex off to reveal the painting during the opening. One piece was created with the help of a local Girl Scout troupe and proceeds from the sale of that piece will go directly to the troupe.

The Gallery is open by appointment. To make an appointment, phone 315-425-0405 or email press@theredhouse.org.

Immersed In Color
Szozda Gallery

Price: Free
Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A series of works primarily influenced by color rather than by subject matter, featuring the color-strong layering works of three women: Lydia Benscher's encaustics, Joyce Day Homan's watercolors and Carmel Nicoletti's kiln-formed glass.

Reynolds Unwrapped: The Cartoon Art of Dan Reynolds
Everson Museum of Art

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

The 2011 exhibition program will continue to highlight the talented artists of New York State through a series of focused exhibitions. The season opens with Reynolds Unwrapped: The Cartoon Art of Dan Reynolds, an exhibition featuring more than 100 original works of art that are seriously hilarious. The small-scale drawings depicting the comedic daily lives of humans and animals alike are all rendered by hand in a variety of media, an approach that is becoming increasing rare in a world of computer-generated images.

Dan Reynolds began drawing cartoons in 1989, when he was 30. As a youth center instructor, Reynolds was surrounded by youthful energy and creative minds. He was an avid follower of popular cartoons of the time, such as Gary Larson's Far Side and Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes. A native of Brewerton, NY, Reynolds was inspired by his Central New York surroundings, a place where snow is abundant and cows can be found just minutes from anywhere. From the beginning, Reynolds has used farm animals as messengers of humor, particularly cows, pigs and chickens, a series that was immediately accepted by Reader's Digest in 1989. A new cartoon has appeared in every issue since then. Reynolds' cartoons have also appeared in thematic Reynolds Unwrapped book compilations featuring everything from sports to holiday special editions. American Greetings and Recycled Greeting Cards also feature Reynolds cartoons on greeting cards for every occasion.

In 2008, Reynolds was diagnosed with testicular cancer and subsequently received months of chemotherapy. While he was in treatment, he began drawing cartoons about cancer and his personal experience which he found was shared by his fellow patients. He shared the cartoons with the staff and patients at the facility and discovered the power of art to bring humor to an otherwise humorless situation.

Read a review!

Now and Then: Open Figure Drawing Group Exhibition 2011
XL Projects

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

New and past works created by artists from Open Figure Drawing, Syracuse's community-based drawing group for people of all abilities, are the subject of this exhibition. The Open Figure Drawing group offers an inexpensive drawing experience to members of the Syracuse community. Participants draw from unclothed models and can attend on a drop-in basis. They become part of a supportive artistic community that networks about exhibitions, workshops, grants and other related events.

For more information, visit www.openfiguredrawing.com or contact XL Projects at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Sarah Averill: North Side Residents
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

More than 70 of Sarah Averill's sepia-toned photographs of North Side residents will be on display.

Jaume Ferrete: four strategies, an idea, a text and two messages
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

UVP Annual Summer Review. In "four strategies, an idea, a text and two messages" (2 min loop), Jaume Ferrete revised an existing "four strategies" text work specifically with UVP and the Syracuse Stage location in mind. While the prior version was written for ink on paper, in this version Ferrete writes for LED panel on architectural facade, investigating the technical and political structures surrounding the UVP platform. The new work continues his use of minimal and open-ended texts that imply a discursive relationship with the audience, yet remain aloof and non-prescriptive.

UVP Annual Summer Review: Althea Thauberger
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Bear, 2007 (7 min loop)
not afraid to die, 2008 (15 min loop)

For the second two weekends of June, Light Work and Urban Video Project will present two works by the artist Althea Thauberger.

"The Bear," set in Thauberger's native British Columbia, is an illustration of the way banality intrudes into our fantasies about nature. We see the knotted roots of a tree in the Canadian Rainforest, and a black bear wandering in and out of the scene. An alert viewer will begin to suspect that something is amiss: see if you can figure out the secret of Thauberger's "The Bear."

"not afraid to die," shot on location in the Northwest Rainforest Diorama of the Royal B.C. Museum in Victoria (a reconstruction of the kind of forest which surrounds the city of Victoria), depicts a Gore-Tex clad girl alternatively waiting and snacking. Like The Bear, "not afraid to die" calls into question our relationship to nature and its inherent pleasures and dangers.

Die Another Death
Acme Mystery Company

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

Agent Double Y of Her Majesty's Secret Service is on another high-stakes mission. A legendary artifact called "The Alchemists' Cauldron" is set to be on display during a ceremony at the Sylvanian Consulate. Rumored to possess a supernatural power, the cauldron is sought by every bad guy around the globe. Who will get to it first? Who will die trying? The European Crime Boss? The Texas-sized American politician? The back-stabbing news reporter? Or will Double Y come to the rescue again, and keep the cauldron from falling into the wrong hands?

Conference of the Birds
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: $10
St. Lucy's
432 Gifford St., Syracuse

Legendary stage director Peter Brook's provoking and exciting work, comes to life. A nation of birds is in crisis and, urged on by one of their flock, the Hoopee, they chart a path to find their king. Above all, the Hoopee is trying to help them conquer their fear of life as the stage becomes an astonishing aviary. Through masks, dance, and song this beautiful adaptation of the 12th-century poem comes to life in a magical evening of theatre.

In an inspiring act of innovation, Brook first toured Conference of the Birds throughout rural Africa before presenting two extremely successful productions to western audiences, one in New York City at La MaMa, E.T.C. and one in Paris. This production features a cast of seven professional actors as well as an all-star design team.