Friday, February 18, 2011

Robert Gerhardt: "Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma"
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The Psyche and Color: An Italian Point of View

Price: Free
Hospice of Central New York
990 Seventh North St., Liverpool

Maria Rizzo and Maria Grazia Facchinetti from Italy of two different generations and with two points of view, show 14 works each in an explosive combination of light, color and symbolism.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The CNY Scholastic Art Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Ludwig Stein Gallery Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

This exhibit will depict the 14 Stations of the Cross, also called "Via Dolorosa" or "The Way of Sorrows.” These events are the depiction of the final hours of Christ, and they cover the Passion of Jesus from his condemnation to his entombment.

Cortland County Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

Artists include Fred Zimmerman, David Yaman, Kathy Williams, Carl Steckler, Laurie Seamans, Meg Richardson, Lyla Phillips, Allen Phillips, Joan Niswender, Richard Mitchell, Amy Hnatko, Emily Gibbons, Serry Dans, Kathie Beale, and David Beale.

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."

Marcel Breuer and Postwar America
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Drawings from the Marcel Breuer Papers, curated by SU Architecture students, with Barry Bergdoll and Jonathan Massey. The exhibition is the outcome of their work in the extensive Breuer archive at the Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center. It features images of 120 drawings, as well as photographs, documenting thirteen of Breuer’s major postwar buildings and projects. Full-scale reproductions highlight themes that characterized some of Breuer’s lesser-known major work and document his responses to the needs and opportunities of postwar American society.

Breuer (1902-1981) was a leading figure among the second generation of modernist architects whose striking designs for furniture, houses, institutions, and commercial buildings helped to set the shape and style of modernity in Europe and the United States, leading “Time” magazine to characterize him as one of the “form givers of the 20th century.” His works include the UNESCO headquarters in Paris and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Where Eagles Fly: Works by Don Ford
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Don Ward, humorist, storyteller, artist, and poet, will have at least a dozen photos, along with stories and poems, on display. This is the first solo show of the artist, who has had his writings featured in many magazines across the U.S., Portugal, and Cyprus.

Figurative Expressions II
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Amos Kennedy Prints!
Community Folk Art Center

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

There will be a printmaking workshop today 12:00-5:00 pm.

Focusing on issues of race, violence and community, "Amos Kennedy Prints!" features the hand-printed works of Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. and will include prints created at CFAC. By transforming the gallery into an active printmaking workshop, Kennedy will collaborate with students from the Syracuse area and Syracuse University to create images and broadsides that reflect issues of race, gender and politics and illustrate the impact of violence in the city on their lives and community. The public is invited to meet Kennedy and to observe and participate in the printmaking process.

Demetrius Oliver: Penumbra
Light Work Gallery

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

This suite of three video installations, "Mare," "Perigee", and "Penumbra," by Demetrius Oliver reconnects viewers to their place in the universe by playing with earthly and human forms against a backdrop of the cosmos. In "Penumbra," explorations of light and scale, movement and the rhythm of the natural world suggest journeys both physical and metaphysical.

One of the installations will be on view in the Light Work Gallery, one projected onto the Everson Museum, and one installed in the Menschel Photography Gallery in the Schine Student Center.

Transmedia Photography Annual Group Exibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Hudson Past/Perfect: Photos by Marna Bell
Light Work Gallery

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

Marna Bell is the winner of the Light Work/Community Darkrooms Members Juried Exhibition competition. In 2005, after the sudden death of her mother, Bell picked up her camera after a 20-year hiatus from painting and began photographing nature. Her focus in both painting and photography has been on reclaiming visions of the past and her connection to nature.

According to Bell, "Many trips back home to New York City on the train have helped me remember lost pieces of time where life seemed simpler and less veiled. It was a natural progression for me to record the cycle of change in my 'Hudson Past/Perfect' series. By revisiting the same landscapes in different seasons and under different weather conditions, I was able to capture the past before it disappeared. I am drawn to the meditative quality of the Hudson River and the sacred aspects of the natural environment. The series is reminiscent of a more romantic era, when God and nature were viewed as one."

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Focus x Three: Photography and Video
Redhouse

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

Focus x Three, the second in the Emerging Women of CNY series, highlights the work of three photographers: Erin Mulvehill, Gillian Andrew, and Colleen Woolpert. Each has an association and history with Syracuse, as all are graduates of Syracuse University. They have all worked, in some capacity, in the world of professional photography, perfecting their craft, while continuing to pursue the "fine art" side of their vision. Curator of this exhibition, Marianne Smith Dalton, stated: "Each of these women masterfully uses the camera to convey her own unique reflection of 'reality.' These compelling photographs, frozen moments in time, will captivate and hold you transfixed. Come celebrate the work of these three young women and discover a new way to 'see' through the lenses of these talented photographers."

Surface Material
Szozda Gallery

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

Artist Vincent Fitches, well-know locally and globally, shares exhibit space with emerging new artist Emily Elizabeth Jones. Fitches and Jones are both relatively young in age, but of the two, Fitches has enjoyed greater notoriety, having shown his work worldwide. For Jones, "Surface Material" is her first big public exhibit. The gallery's title for the show is indicative of how each artist creates their works.

Creating mostly on panel, Fitches describes his artworks as, "uncanny in their color palate and unstructured composition." He says he focuses on a central object using subjects often in solitary environments, exposing their vulnerabilities in both his landscapes and figurative paintings. "This deconstruction of the naturalness dictated in the art world allows for a new vision of beauty and interpretation," Fitches explains.

In creating her art, Jones says she is motivated by a "fascination with the universe," where she sees the elements in the atmosphere as constantly creating and changing what we perceive. Applying acrylic on canvas, she tries to capture those moments of full spectrum of color rather than shape. "Like the glare of sun and early haziness," she says. Included in this first exhibit of Jones' works are minimal landscapes in a series called, "Horizon Colors."

Embryonic: New Work by Eunjung Shin
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Korean-born Eunjung Shin's figurative ceramic sculpture depicts experiences from the artist's life. Her work in the upcoming show, Embryonic, will include a new series of realistic, infant figures cradled in egg-like structures. These pieces represent Shin's hopeful wishes and new beginnings. The exhibition will also include larger jester figures, which explore the nature of human folly. Many of the works are embellished with beautifully hand-carved arabesques and floral patterns. The artist says that the carving of these ornamentations is much like meditative acts connected to many Asian traditions.

Shin received an MFA in Ceramics from Syracuse University in 2007 and a MFA in Ceramics form Kyunghee University in Yongin, Korea. She currently teaches classes at the Community Folk Art Center’s Creative Arts Academy in Syracuse. Her artwork has been shown in many venues nationally and internationally, including Affinity at the Icheon World Ceramic Center in Icheon, Korea. Shin currently resides in the city of Syracuse.

The Prints of Seong Moy
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

A selection of 30 woodcuts and etchings by the internationally known and collected Chinese American artist and educator. This exhibition is a limited retrospective look at Seong Moy's career as printmaker.

Moy's early works, small but complicated woodcuts on soft luminous papers, were immediately accepted by artists, curators, and the public. A painterly quality, so important to his entire graphic output, is evident in much of this work and is all the more special because it is captured in color wood block prints that require great sophistication and skill from the artist.

As Moy's career continued to develop, his interest in capturing spatial relationships of shapes and forms in his compositions, was heightened by the role color plays in energizing these elements. This trend continued for a number a years and could also be found in his cardboard relief prints.

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity is a rich, reflective exhibition of works by 40 artists representing the vast cultural blend of modern American society.

American artists of African, Arab, European, Asian, Latino, and Native American descent explore their heritage in this vivid and diverse exhibition using a wide variety of media. The artists examine patriotism, communication, struggle for acceptance, being an American in the 21st century, and more. Humor, heartache, anger, apprehension--all emotions are evoked by these works, raising questions about race, class, gender and age. Four main themes run through Infinite Mirror: Self-Selection, Pride, Assimilation, and Protest, providing audiences with the opportunity to re-examine both the story and storytellers of the quintessential "American dream."

The exhibition was curated by Blake Bradford, Curator and Director of Education at the Barnes Foundation; Benito Huerta, Curator and Director of The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington; and Robert Lee, Curator and Executive Director at Asian American Arts Centre in New York.

Paid parking is available for weekday visitors in any SU pay lot. Free parking for weekend and evening visitors is available in the Q4 lot, located on College Place. Patrons should notify the attendant that they are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Evening and weekend parking is on a space-available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome.

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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."

Casey Landerkin: Paintings and Illustrations
Echo

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

There will be an opening reception this evening 7:00-9:00 pm.

Stone Canoe Art Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The fifth edition of Stone Canoe: A Journal of Arts, Literature, and Social Commentary, features the work of more than 100 artists and writers with ties to Upstate New York, ranging from those with international reputations to those who have not previously published or exhibited their work. Lynette Stephenson, a professor at Colgate University, is this issue's visual arts editor and curator of the current exhibition.

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

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

Demitrus Oliver: Mare, 2009
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Mare, 2009, projects a circular image of a wave crashing against an unnamed shore. As the image rotates, the lines of the waves begin to resemble the layered surface of a Jovian planet such as Jupiter. Connecting the sea with heavenly phenomena, the installation recreates the sense of wonderment felt when looking at the night sky and the fundamental human desire to understand one's place in the universe. Mare, which is Latin for "seas", suggests movement and journeys both physical and metaphysical, as well as metaphors of darkness and illumination, looking and discovery.

The Shaun Cassidy Fan Club, with special guests, abcde
Salt City Improv Theater

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

The college team from SUNY Oswego is back for another round of their hilarious short-form improv games (in the style of the hit TV show, Whose Line Is It Anyway.) Opening the show will be their special guests, the F/M High School improv team, abcde (pronounced "ab-suh-dee.") If you caught these two teams last month, you know what an awesome show it was. If you missed it, now's your chance to catch them together again. Two improv teams, for the price of one!

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses or lamenting the struggles of daily living, Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed "Truisms" on one of Times Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her "Survival" series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

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Implements of Mass Construction
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The Erie Canal was built by thousands of untrained men during the 19th century, before the United States had any civil engineering professionals. So how did they construct a canal across the entire state of New York? Come by the Erie Canal Museum and see the tools that made it possible. The 16 items on view were used for construction or industry along the Erie Canal in the 19th century. Visit the Museum's second floor gallery to try to guess what each instrument is. Tools similar to some of the implements on display are still used today, but others will require some guesswork. Come visit today to guess for yourself!

Music by Steven Stucky
Onondaga Community College
Society for New Music

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Pulitzer Prize winning composer Steven Stucky is the guest. You will hear his compositions Partita Pastoral after JSB (2000), Piano Quintet (2010), and Dust Devil (2010).

Winter, I'm Cold, Concert Extravaganza
Redhouse

Price: $12
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Local label Love & Loyalty returns to the Red House. "Winter, I'm Cold" will feature special guest performances from Ms. Diva, V. Team, Tall-Bucks & World Be Free, Javele AKA J-Five, Mobb Unit, and Young Wiz & The Fly Boys Club. Hosted by DJ Big Boy.

Lissa Schneckenburger
Folkus Project

Price: $15
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The traditional music of New England can be as warm and comforting as a winter fire or as potent and exhilarating as a summer thunderstorm. Fiddler and singer Lissa Schneckenburger is a master of both moods, a winsome, sweet-voiced singer who brings new life to old ballads and a skillful, dynamic fiddler who captures the driving rhythm and carefree joy of dance tunes old and new. Her live performances are a rich mix of traditional and original material brought together by energetic, chord-rich fiddling and sweet vocals. Drawing inspiration from the traditional repertoire of the New England folk dance scene, her fiddling is uplifting and lively; her singing, gentle and evocative. For this performance, longtime collaborator Bethany Waickman will accompany her on guitar.

Ill Nino, with Anew Revolution Ekotren, Fashion Bomb, Feeding Affliction, Amelia Is Dead
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Love Letters and Hate Mail
CNY Playhouse

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

Dinner at 6:45 pm, followed by show at 8:00 pm.

Just in time for Valentine's day, NATC presents AR Gurney's Love Letters paired with its modern counterpart You've Got Hate Mail by Billy Van Zandt and Jane Millimore. Love Letters, the classic love tale, directed by Dustin Czarny, centers around the letters written over a span of 50 years. The performance will feature well-known theatrical couples Mark English and Cathy Greer English on Feb. 12 and 18 and Dan Stevens and Nora O'Dea on Feb. 11, 13, and 17.

The second act turns to the modern world in You've Got Hate Mail. The show is intended as a comic answer to Love Letters and revolves around the zaniness a few errant emails can cause to a relationship. This show also stars real-life married couples Navroz and Binaifer Dabu, and Dustin M. Czarny and Heather J. Roach. Pam Hipius rounds out the cast and the play is directed by her husband Greg Hipius.

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Reach
Encore Presentations
M. Marie Beebe, director

Price: $37.25 dinner theater (includes tax and tip); $20 show only
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

This is a world premiere of Reach by Ryan Sprague, starring Ryan Santiago and Danielle Valeriano.

New Orleans 2006, a year after Hurricane Katrina. In this quirky sweet story of hope, we learn what happens after the media has gone. In rationalizing great tragedy, Lindsey and Jordan find themselves stagnant and detached. But through play, compassion, and acceptance they are able to leave their isolation and be in the unknown together.

For tickets, phone 315-469-6969.

Note: Show contains mature language.

Dinner at 7:00 pm; show follows at 8:00 pm.

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Antony and Cleopatra
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Antony and Cleopatra is an epic historical tragedy whose title characters are larger than life and death. The story was made famous in the early '60s by Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and Rex Harrison in the boom and bust movie entitled Cleopatra.

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Is He Dead?
LeMoyne College
Boot & Buskin Theatre Troupe

Price: $12 regular, $10 seniors, $4 students and LeMoyne community
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Mark Twain's fast-paced farce filled with clichés that are laugh-out-loud funny. You'll be tempted to boo the villains and cheer the heroes.

Millet is a brilliant but impoverished French painter with one problem: no one will pay good money for his paintings while he's still alive. When his friends persuade him that the secret to success lies in convincing the world he's dead, Millet hatches a plan which could make him rich, famous, and able to marry the girl of his dreams—if only he didn't have to wear a petticoat to do it!

Reservations suggested. For more information, phone 315-445-4523.

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Lysistrata
Syracuse University Drama Department
Stephen Cross, director

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

Bawdy, provocative and hilarious, Lysistrata has been delighting audiences since Socrates was a baby, give or take a few decades. Aristophanes was the great comic writer of ancient Athens and in this wild play he captures the frustration of women weary of the suffering wrought by the long war waged by their glory-hungry men. The solution? Inflict a frustration of a more intimate sort on the men—deny them sex until they cease fighting. A classic in every sense of the word, Lysistrata proves that long before talk radio, outrage and outrageousness lived side by side.

First performed in Athens in 411 B.C., the play has survived over two centuries due to its comical take on a serious subject. Aristophanes authored approximately 40 plays between 425 and 388 BC, 11 of which survive today.

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Saturday, February 19, 2011

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The CNY Scholastic Art Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Casey Landerkin: Paintings and Illustrations
Echo

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

Surface Material
Szozda Gallery

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

Artist Vincent Fitches, well-know locally and globally, shares exhibit space with emerging new artist Emily Elizabeth Jones. Fitches and Jones are both relatively young in age, but of the two, Fitches has enjoyed greater notoriety, having shown his work worldwide. For Jones, "Surface Material" is her first big public exhibit. The gallery's title for the show is indicative of how each artist creates their works.

Creating mostly on panel, Fitches describes his artworks as, "uncanny in their color palate and unstructured composition." He says he focuses on a central object using subjects often in solitary environments, exposing their vulnerabilities in both his landscapes and figurative paintings. "This deconstruction of the naturalness dictated in the art world allows for a new vision of beauty and interpretation," Fitches explains.

In creating her art, Jones says she is motivated by a "fascination with the universe," where she sees the elements in the atmosphere as constantly creating and changing what we perceive. Applying acrylic on canvas, she tries to capture those moments of full spectrum of color rather than shape. "Like the glare of sun and early haziness," she says. Included in this first exhibit of Jones' works are minimal landscapes in a series called, "Horizon Colors."

Opening Reception: Amos Kennedy Prints!
Community Folk Art Center

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

There will be an opening reception today 12:00-2:00 pm. All prints will be available to purchase for $20 each.

Focusing on issues of race, violence and community, "Amos Kennedy Prints!" features the hand-printed works of Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. and will include prints created at CFAC. By transforming the gallery into an active printmaking workshop, Kennedy will collaborate with students from the Syracuse area and Syracuse University to create images and broadsides that reflect issues of race, gender and politics and illustrate the impact of violence in the city on their lives and community. The public is invited to meet Kennedy and to observe and participate in the printmaking process.

Embryonic: New Work by Eunjung Shin
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Korean-born Eunjung Shin's figurative ceramic sculpture depicts experiences from the artist's life. Her work in the upcoming show, Embryonic, will include a new series of realistic, infant figures cradled in egg-like structures. These pieces represent Shin's hopeful wishes and new beginnings. The exhibition will also include larger jester figures, which explore the nature of human folly. Many of the works are embellished with beautifully hand-carved arabesques and floral patterns. The artist says that the carving of these ornamentations is much like meditative acts connected to many Asian traditions.

Shin received an MFA in Ceramics from Syracuse University in 2007 and a MFA in Ceramics form Kyunghee University in Yongin, Korea. She currently teaches classes at the Community Folk Art Center’s Creative Arts Academy in Syracuse. Her artwork has been shown in many venues nationally and internationally, including Affinity at the Icheon World Ceramic Center in Icheon, Korea. Shin currently resides in the city of Syracuse.

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

The Prints of Seong Moy
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

A selection of 30 woodcuts and etchings by the internationally known and collected Chinese American artist and educator. This exhibition is a limited retrospective look at Seong Moy's career as printmaker.

Moy's early works, small but complicated woodcuts on soft luminous papers, were immediately accepted by artists, curators, and the public. A painterly quality, so important to his entire graphic output, is evident in much of this work and is all the more special because it is captured in color wood block prints that require great sophistication and skill from the artist.

As Moy's career continued to develop, his interest in capturing spatial relationships of shapes and forms in his compositions, was heightened by the role color plays in energizing these elements. This trend continued for a number a years and could also be found in his cardboard relief prints.

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity is a rich, reflective exhibition of works by 40 artists representing the vast cultural blend of modern American society.

American artists of African, Arab, European, Asian, Latino, and Native American descent explore their heritage in this vivid and diverse exhibition using a wide variety of media. The artists examine patriotism, communication, struggle for acceptance, being an American in the 21st century, and more. Humor, heartache, anger, apprehension--all emotions are evoked by these works, raising questions about race, class, gender and age. Four main themes run through Infinite Mirror: Self-Selection, Pride, Assimilation, and Protest, providing audiences with the opportunity to re-examine both the story and storytellers of the quintessential "American dream."

The exhibition was curated by Blake Bradford, Curator and Director of Education at the Barnes Foundation; Benito Huerta, Curator and Director of The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington; and Robert Lee, Curator and Executive Director at Asian American Arts Centre in New York.

Paid parking is available for weekday visitors in any SU pay lot. Free parking for weekend and evening visitors is available in the Q4 lot, located on College Place. Patrons should notify the attendant that they are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Evening and weekend parking is on a space-available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome.

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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."

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

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

Stone Canoe Art Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The fifth edition of Stone Canoe: A Journal of Arts, Literature, and Social Commentary, features the work of more than 100 artists and writers with ties to Upstate New York, ranging from those with international reputations to those who have not previously published or exhibited their work. Lynette Stephenson, a professor at Colgate University, is this issue's visual arts editor and curator of the current exhibition.

Demitrus Oliver: Mare, 2009
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Mare, 2009, projects a circular image of a wave crashing against an unnamed shore. As the image rotates, the lines of the waves begin to resemble the layered surface of a Jovian planet such as Jupiter. Connecting the sea with heavenly phenomena, the installation recreates the sense of wonderment felt when looking at the night sky and the fundamental human desire to understand one's place in the universe. Mare, which is Latin for "seas", suggests movement and journeys both physical and metaphysical, as well as metaphors of darkness and illumination, looking and discovery.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses or lamenting the struggles of daily living, Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed "Truisms" on one of Times Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her "Survival" series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

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The Defiant Ones
ArtRage Gallery

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

Chained to each other, two escaped cons — one black/one white – battle the elements and each other. Daring for its time, made at the height of racial conflict in America. Starring Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis.

Directed by Stanley Kramer, 1958.

Implements of Mass Construction
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The Erie Canal was built by thousands of untrained men during the 19th century, before the United States had any civil engineering professionals. So how did they construct a canal across the entire state of New York? Come by the Erie Canal Museum and see the tools that made it possible. The 16 items on view were used for construction or industry along the Erie Canal in the 19th century. Visit the Museum's second floor gallery to try to guess what each instrument is. Tools similar to some of the implements on display are still used today, but others will require some guesswork. Come visit today to guess for yourself!

Michael Gordon with Mark Doyle
Words and Music Songwriter Showcase

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

The Words and Music Songwriter Showcase, hosted by singer-songwriter, author, and NPR contributor Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers, is a celebration of original music from Central New York and beyond, featuring established and emerging artists of all genres in an up-close-and-personal acoustic setting.

*CANCELLED* Nigel Hall
Redhouse

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

This performance has been cancelled due to weather.

Nigel Hall's appreciation for artists like Herbie Hancock, Donny Hathaway, Roy Ayers and Rick James inspired him to place his hands upon various instruments and play. His keen ear and unstoppable drive have helped him to become a one-man band, appearing on keyboards, bass, drums and even vocals. His skillful sounds have been featured in several venues across the country but are most often showcased in his hometown of Portland, Maine.

Tickets will be available from the SU box office.

Brentano String Quartet
Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music

Price: $20 regular, $15 senior, $10 student, children under 13 free
Lincoln Middle School
1613 James St., Syracuse

The Brentano enjoyed the coveted distinction of inaugurating Lincoln Center's Chamber Music Society Two, they have been quartet-in-residence at London's distinguished Wigmore Hall and since 1999 they have been Princeton's first and only resident string quartet. "Passionate, uninhibited, and spellbinding" raves the London Independent.

Mozart String Quartet No.15 in D minor, K. 421
Berg String Quartet Op.3
Renaissance music short works by Orlando Gibbons and others
Beethoven String Quartet in F Major, Op.135

Sleeping Beauty
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive comedy retelling of the children's classic.

Love Letters and Hate Mail
CNY Playhouse

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

Dinner at 6:45 pm, followed by show at 8:00 pm.

Just in time for Valentine's day, NATC presents AR Gurney's Love Letters paired with its modern counterpart You've Got Hate Mail by Billy Van Zandt and Jane Millimore. Love Letters, the classic love tale, directed by Dustin Czarny, centers around the letters written over a span of 50 years. The performance will feature well-known theatrical couples Mark English and Cathy Greer English on Feb. 12 and 18 and Dan Stevens and Nora O'Dea on Feb. 11, 13, and 17.

The second act turns to the modern world in You've Got Hate Mail. The show is intended as a comic answer to Love Letters and revolves around the zaniness a few errant emails can cause to a relationship. This show also stars real-life married couples Navroz and Binaifer Dabu, and Dustin M. Czarny and Heather J. Roach. Pam Hipius rounds out the cast and the play is directed by her husband Greg Hipius.

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Reach
Encore Presentations
M. Marie Beebe, director

Price: $37.25 dinner theater (includes tax and tip); $20 show only
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

This is a world premiere of Reach by Ryan Sprague, starring Ryan Santiago and Danielle Valeriano.

New Orleans 2006, a year after Hurricane Katrina. In this quirky sweet story of hope, we learn what happens after the media has gone. In rationalizing great tragedy, Lindsey and Jordan find themselves stagnant and detached. But through play, compassion, and acceptance they are able to leave their isolation and be in the unknown together.

For tickets, phone 315-469-6969.

Note: Show contains mature language.

Dinner at 7:00 pm; show follows at 8:00 pm.

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Antony and Cleopatra
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Antony and Cleopatra is an epic historical tragedy whose title characters are larger than life and death. The story was made famous in the early '60s by Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and Rex Harrison in the boom and bust movie entitled Cleopatra.

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Is He Dead?
LeMoyne College
Boot & Buskin Theatre Troupe

Price: $12 regular, $10 seniors, $4 students and LeMoyne community
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Mark Twain's fast-paced farce filled with clichés that are laugh-out-loud funny. You'll be tempted to boo the villains and cheer the heroes.

Millet is a brilliant but impoverished French painter with one problem: no one will pay good money for his paintings while he's still alive. When his friends persuade him that the secret to success lies in convincing the world he's dead, Millet hatches a plan which could make him rich, famous, and able to marry the girl of his dreams—if only he didn't have to wear a petticoat to do it!

Reservations suggested. For more information, phone 315-445-4523.

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Lysistrata
Syracuse University Drama Department
Stephen Cross, director

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

Bawdy, provocative and hilarious, Lysistrata has been delighting audiences since Socrates was a baby, give or take a few decades. Aristophanes was the great comic writer of ancient Athens and in this wild play he captures the frustration of women weary of the suffering wrought by the long war waged by their glory-hungry men. The solution? Inflict a frustration of a more intimate sort on the men—deny them sex until they cease fighting. A classic in every sense of the word, Lysistrata proves that long before talk radio, outrage and outrageousness lived side by side.

First performed in Athens in 411 B.C., the play has survived over two centuries due to its comical take on a serious subject. Aristophanes authored approximately 40 plays between 425 and 388 BC, 11 of which survive today.

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Sunday, February 20, 2011

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The CNY Scholastic Art Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Hudson Past/Perfect: Photos by Marna Bell
Light Work Gallery

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

Marna Bell is the winner of the Light Work/Community Darkrooms Members Juried Exhibition competition. In 2005, after the sudden death of her mother, Bell picked up her camera after a 20-year hiatus from painting and began photographing nature. Her focus in both painting and photography has been on reclaiming visions of the past and her connection to nature.

According to Bell, "Many trips back home to New York City on the train have helped me remember lost pieces of time where life seemed simpler and less veiled. It was a natural progression for me to record the cycle of change in my 'Hudson Past/Perfect' series. By revisiting the same landscapes in different seasons and under different weather conditions, I was able to capture the past before it disappeared. I am drawn to the meditative quality of the Hudson River and the sacred aspects of the natural environment. The series is reminiscent of a more romantic era, when God and nature were viewed as one."

Transmedia Photography Annual Group Exibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Demetrius Oliver: Penumbra
Light Work Gallery

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

This suite of three video installations, "Mare," "Perigee", and "Penumbra," by Demetrius Oliver reconnects viewers to their place in the universe by playing with earthly and human forms against a backdrop of the cosmos. In "Penumbra," explorations of light and scale, movement and the rhythm of the natural world suggest journeys both physical and metaphysical.

One of the installations will be on view in the Light Work Gallery, one projected onto the Everson Museum, and one installed in the Menschel Photography Gallery in the Schine Student Center.

Surface Material
Szozda Gallery

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

Artist Vincent Fitches, well-know locally and globally, shares exhibit space with emerging new artist Emily Elizabeth Jones. Fitches and Jones are both relatively young in age, but of the two, Fitches has enjoyed greater notoriety, having shown his work worldwide. For Jones, "Surface Material" is her first big public exhibit. The gallery's title for the show is indicative of how each artist creates their works.

Creating mostly on panel, Fitches describes his artworks as, "uncanny in their color palate and unstructured composition." He says he focuses on a central object using subjects often in solitary environments, exposing their vulnerabilities in both his landscapes and figurative paintings. "This deconstruction of the naturalness dictated in the art world allows for a new vision of beauty and interpretation," Fitches explains.

In creating her art, Jones says she is motivated by a "fascination with the universe," where she sees the elements in the atmosphere as constantly creating and changing what we perceive. Applying acrylic on canvas, she tries to capture those moments of full spectrum of color rather than shape. "Like the glare of sun and early haziness," she says. Included in this first exhibit of Jones' works are minimal landscapes in a series called, "Horizon Colors."

Embryonic: New Work by Eunjung Shin
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Korean-born Eunjung Shin's figurative ceramic sculpture depicts experiences from the artist's life. Her work in the upcoming show, Embryonic, will include a new series of realistic, infant figures cradled in egg-like structures. These pieces represent Shin's hopeful wishes and new beginnings. The exhibition will also include larger jester figures, which explore the nature of human folly. Many of the works are embellished with beautifully hand-carved arabesques and floral patterns. The artist says that the carving of these ornamentations is much like meditative acts connected to many Asian traditions.

Shin received an MFA in Ceramics from Syracuse University in 2007 and a MFA in Ceramics form Kyunghee University in Yongin, Korea. She currently teaches classes at the Community Folk Art Center’s Creative Arts Academy in Syracuse. Her artwork has been shown in many venues nationally and internationally, including Affinity at the Icheon World Ceramic Center in Icheon, Korea. Shin currently resides in the city of Syracuse.

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

The Prints of Seong Moy
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

A selection of 30 woodcuts and etchings by the internationally known and collected Chinese American artist and educator. This exhibition is a limited retrospective look at Seong Moy's career as printmaker.

Moy's early works, small but complicated woodcuts on soft luminous papers, were immediately accepted by artists, curators, and the public. A painterly quality, so important to his entire graphic output, is evident in much of this work and is all the more special because it is captured in color wood block prints that require great sophistication and skill from the artist.

As Moy's career continued to develop, his interest in capturing spatial relationships of shapes and forms in his compositions, was heightened by the role color plays in energizing these elements. This trend continued for a number a years and could also be found in his cardboard relief prints.

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity is a rich, reflective exhibition of works by 40 artists representing the vast cultural blend of modern American society.

American artists of African, Arab, European, Asian, Latino, and Native American descent explore their heritage in this vivid and diverse exhibition using a wide variety of media. The artists examine patriotism, communication, struggle for acceptance, being an American in the 21st century, and more. Humor, heartache, anger, apprehension--all emotions are evoked by these works, raising questions about race, class, gender and age. Four main themes run through Infinite Mirror: Self-Selection, Pride, Assimilation, and Protest, providing audiences with the opportunity to re-examine both the story and storytellers of the quintessential "American dream."

The exhibition was curated by Blake Bradford, Curator and Director of Education at the Barnes Foundation; Benito Huerta, Curator and Director of The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington; and Robert Lee, Curator and Executive Director at Asian American Arts Centre in New York.

Paid parking is available for weekday visitors in any SU pay lot. Free parking for weekend and evening visitors is available in the Q4 lot, located on College Place. Patrons should notify the attendant that they are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Evening and weekend parking is on a space-available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome.

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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."

Stone Canoe Art Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The fifth edition of Stone Canoe: A Journal of Arts, Literature, and Social Commentary, features the work of more than 100 artists and writers with ties to Upstate New York, ranging from those with international reputations to those who have not previously published or exhibited their work. Lynette Stephenson, a professor at Colgate University, is this issue's visual arts editor and curator of the current exhibition.

New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Demitrus Oliver: Mare, 2009
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Mare, 2009, projects a circular image of a wave crashing against an unnamed shore. As the image rotates, the lines of the waves begin to resemble the layered surface of a Jovian planet such as Jupiter. Connecting the sea with heavenly phenomena, the installation recreates the sense of wonderment felt when looking at the night sky and the fundamental human desire to understand one's place in the universe. Mare, which is Latin for "seas", suggests movement and journeys both physical and metaphysical, as well as metaphors of darkness and illumination, looking and discovery.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses or lamenting the struggles of daily living, Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed "Truisms" on one of Times Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her "Survival" series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

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Implements of Mass Construction
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The Erie Canal was built by thousands of untrained men during the 19th century, before the United States had any civil engineering professionals. So how did they construct a canal across the entire state of New York? Come by the Erie Canal Museum and see the tools that made it possible. The 16 items on view were used for construction or industry along the Erie Canal in the 19th century. Visit the Museum's second floor gallery to try to guess what each instrument is. Tools similar to some of the implements on display are still used today, but others will require some guesswork. Come visit today to guess for yourself!

Rising Star Recital
Malmgren Concert Series
Featuring Chelsea Vaught, organ

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Organist Chelsea Vaught will perform a program including works by Buxtehude, Bach, Brahms and Dupré.

Vaught is pursuing a doctor of musical arts degree in church music with an emphasis on organ at the University of Kansas-Lawrence. She received a bachelor of arts degree in music with emphasis in piano, organ performance and music education from Bethel College, and a master of music degree in church music and carillon performance from the University of Kansas. She is currently the director of music/organist at First Congregational Church in Topeka, KS. She was a quarterfinalist in the 2009-10 National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance (NYACOP); a finalist in the 2010 Fort Wayne National Organ Competition; and won second prize in the 2010 Arthur Poister Organ Competition.

Junior Flute and Saxophone Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Samantha Baldwin and Dayle Magida

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

Samantha Baldwin and Dayle Magida, junior Music Education and Music Industry students, will present a flute and saxophone recital featuring works by Handel, Fauré, Godard, Burton, Ferling, Heiden, Telemann, Hartley and Massenet, accompanied by Juliette Sabbah and Sabine Krantz on piano.

Parking is available in Irving Garage.

For more information,phone 315-443-2191.

Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds with Orgone, Sirsy
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Antony and Cleopatra
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Antony and Cleopatra is an epic historical tragedy whose title characters are larger than life and death. The story was made famous in the early '60s by Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and Rex Harrison in the boom and bust movie entitled Cleopatra.

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Lysistrata
Syracuse University Drama Department
Stephen Cross, director

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

Bawdy, provocative and hilarious, Lysistrata has been delighting audiences since Socrates was a baby, give or take a few decades. Aristophanes was the great comic writer of ancient Athens and in this wild play he captures the frustration of women weary of the suffering wrought by the long war waged by their glory-hungry men. The solution? Inflict a frustration of a more intimate sort on the men—deny them sex until they cease fighting. A classic in every sense of the word, Lysistrata proves that long before talk radio, outrage and outrageousness lived side by side.

First performed in Athens in 411 B.C., the play has survived over two centuries due to its comical take on a serious subject. Aristophanes authored approximately 40 plays between 425 and 388 BC, 11 of which survive today.

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Monday, February 21, 2011

The Psyche and Color: An Italian Point of View

Price: Free
Hospice of Central New York
990 Seventh North St., Liverpool

Maria Rizzo and Maria Grazia Facchinetti from Italy of two different generations and with two points of view, show 14 works each in an explosive combination of light, color and symbolism.

Ludwig Stein Gallery Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

This exhibit will depict the 14 Stations of the Cross, also called "Via Dolorosa" or "The Way of Sorrows.” These events are the depiction of the final hours of Christ, and they cover the Passion of Jesus from his condemnation to his entombment.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The CNY Scholastic Art Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Cortland County Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

Artists include Fred Zimmerman, David Yaman, Kathy Williams, Carl Steckler, Laurie Seamans, Meg Richardson, Lyla Phillips, Allen Phillips, Joan Niswender, Richard Mitchell, Amy Hnatko, Emily Gibbons, Serry Dans, Kathie Beale, and David Beale.

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."

Marcel Breuer and Postwar America
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Drawings from the Marcel Breuer Papers, curated by SU Architecture students, with Barry Bergdoll and Jonathan Massey. The exhibition is the outcome of their work in the extensive Breuer archive at the Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center. It features images of 120 drawings, as well as photographs, documenting thirteen of Breuer’s major postwar buildings and projects. Full-scale reproductions highlight themes that characterized some of Breuer’s lesser-known major work and document his responses to the needs and opportunities of postwar American society.

Breuer (1902-1981) was a leading figure among the second generation of modernist architects whose striking designs for furniture, houses, institutions, and commercial buildings helped to set the shape and style of modernity in Europe and the United States, leading “Time” magazine to characterize him as one of the “form givers of the 20th century.” His works include the UNESCO headquarters in Paris and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Where Eagles Fly: Works by Don Ford
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Don Ward, humorist, storyteller, artist, and poet, will have at least a dozen photos, along with stories and poems, on display. This is the first solo show of the artist, who has had his writings featured in many magazines across the U.S., Portugal, and Cyprus.

New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Demetrius Oliver: Penumbra
Light Work Gallery

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

This suite of three video installations, "Mare," "Perigee", and "Penumbra," by Demetrius Oliver reconnects viewers to their place in the universe by playing with earthly and human forms against a backdrop of the cosmos. In "Penumbra," explorations of light and scale, movement and the rhythm of the natural world suggest journeys both physical and metaphysical.

One of the installations will be on view in the Light Work Gallery, one projected onto the Everson Museum, and one installed in the Menschel Photography Gallery in the Schine Student Center.

Transmedia Photography Annual Group Exibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Hudson Past/Perfect: Photos by Marna Bell
Light Work Gallery

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

Marna Bell is the winner of the Light Work/Community Darkrooms Members Juried Exhibition competition. In 2005, after the sudden death of her mother, Bell picked up her camera after a 20-year hiatus from painting and began photographing nature. Her focus in both painting and photography has been on reclaiming visions of the past and her connection to nature.

According to Bell, "Many trips back home to New York City on the train have helped me remember lost pieces of time where life seemed simpler and less veiled. It was a natural progression for me to record the cycle of change in my 'Hudson Past/Perfect' series. By revisiting the same landscapes in different seasons and under different weather conditions, I was able to capture the past before it disappeared. I am drawn to the meditative quality of the Hudson River and the sacred aspects of the natural environment. The series is reminiscent of a more romantic era, when God and nature were viewed as one."

Focus x Three: Photography and Video
Redhouse

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

Focus x Three, the second in the Emerging Women of CNY series, highlights the work of three photographers: Erin Mulvehill, Gillian Andrew, and Colleen Woolpert. Each has an association and history with Syracuse, as all are graduates of Syracuse University. They have all worked, in some capacity, in the world of professional photography, perfecting their craft, while continuing to pursue the "fine art" side of their vision. Curator of this exhibition, Marianne Smith Dalton, stated: "Each of these women masterfully uses the camera to convey her own unique reflection of 'reality.' These compelling photographs, frozen moments in time, will captivate and hold you transfixed. Come celebrate the work of these three young women and discover a new way to 'see' through the lenses of these talented photographers."

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses or lamenting the struggles of daily living, Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed "Truisms" on one of Times Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her "Survival" series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

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Implements of Mass Construction
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The Erie Canal was built by thousands of untrained men during the 19th century, before the United States had any civil engineering professionals. So how did they construct a canal across the entire state of New York? Come by the Erie Canal Museum and see the tools that made it possible. The 16 items on view were used for construction or industry along the Erie Canal in the 19th century. Visit the Museum's second floor gallery to try to guess what each instrument is. Tools similar to some of the implements on display are still used today, but others will require some guesswork. Come visit today to guess for yourself!

4th Annual Gospel Fest
Onondaga Community College

Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Gwar with Mobile Deathcamp, Mensrea, Ruination
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

The Psyche and Color: An Italian Point of View

Price: Free
Hospice of Central New York
990 Seventh North St., Liverpool

Maria Rizzo and Maria Grazia Facchinetti from Italy of two different generations and with two points of view, show 14 works each in an explosive combination of light, color and symbolism.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The CNY Scholastic Art Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Ludwig Stein Gallery Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

This exhibit will depict the 14 Stations of the Cross, also called "Via Dolorosa" or "The Way of Sorrows.” These events are the depiction of the final hours of Christ, and they cover the Passion of Jesus from his condemnation to his entombment.

Cortland County Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

Artists include Fred Zimmerman, David Yaman, Kathy Williams, Carl Steckler, Laurie Seamans, Meg Richardson, Lyla Phillips, Allen Phillips, Joan Niswender, Richard Mitchell, Amy Hnatko, Emily Gibbons, Serry Dans, Kathie Beale, and David Beale.

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."

Marcel Breuer and Postwar America
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Drawings from the Marcel Breuer Papers, curated by SU Architecture students, with Barry Bergdoll and Jonathan Massey. The exhibition is the outcome of their work in the extensive Breuer archive at the Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center. It features images of 120 drawings, as well as photographs, documenting thirteen of Breuer’s major postwar buildings and projects. Full-scale reproductions highlight themes that characterized some of Breuer’s lesser-known major work and document his responses to the needs and opportunities of postwar American society.

Breuer (1902-1981) was a leading figure among the second generation of modernist architects whose striking designs for furniture, houses, institutions, and commercial buildings helped to set the shape and style of modernity in Europe and the United States, leading “Time” magazine to characterize him as one of the “form givers of the 20th century.” His works include the UNESCO headquarters in Paris and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Where Eagles Fly: Works by Don Ford
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Don Ward, humorist, storyteller, artist, and poet, will have at least a dozen photos, along with stories and poems, on display. This is the first solo show of the artist, who has had his writings featured in many magazines across the U.S., Portugal, and Cyprus.

New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Amos Kennedy Prints!
Community Folk Art Center

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

Focusing on issues of race, violence and community, "Amos Kennedy Prints!" features the hand-printed works of Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. and will include prints created at CFAC. By transforming the gallery into an active printmaking workshop, Kennedy will collaborate with students from the Syracuse area and Syracuse University to create images and broadsides that reflect issues of race, gender and politics and illustrate the impact of violence in the city on their lives and community. The public is invited to meet Kennedy and to observe and participate in the printmaking process.

Transmedia Photography Annual Group Exibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Demetrius Oliver: Penumbra
Light Work Gallery

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

This suite of three video installations, "Mare," "Perigee", and "Penumbra," by Demetrius Oliver reconnects viewers to their place in the universe by playing with earthly and human forms against a backdrop of the cosmos. In "Penumbra," explorations of light and scale, movement and the rhythm of the natural world suggest journeys both physical and metaphysical.

One of the installations will be on view in the Light Work Gallery, one projected onto the Everson Museum, and one installed in the Menschel Photography Gallery in the Schine Student Center.

Hudson Past/Perfect: Photos by Marna Bell
Light Work Gallery

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

Marna Bell is the winner of the Light Work/Community Darkrooms Members Juried Exhibition competition. In 2005, after the sudden death of her mother, Bell picked up her camera after a 20-year hiatus from painting and began photographing nature. Her focus in both painting and photography has been on reclaiming visions of the past and her connection to nature.

According to Bell, "Many trips back home to New York City on the train have helped me remember lost pieces of time where life seemed simpler and less veiled. It was a natural progression for me to record the cycle of change in my 'Hudson Past/Perfect' series. By revisiting the same landscapes in different seasons and under different weather conditions, I was able to capture the past before it disappeared. I am drawn to the meditative quality of the Hudson River and the sacred aspects of the natural environment. The series is reminiscent of a more romantic era, when God and nature were viewed as one."

Focus x Three: Photography and Video
Redhouse

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

Focus x Three, the second in the Emerging Women of CNY series, highlights the work of three photographers: Erin Mulvehill, Gillian Andrew, and Colleen Woolpert. Each has an association and history with Syracuse, as all are graduates of Syracuse University. They have all worked, in some capacity, in the world of professional photography, perfecting their craft, while continuing to pursue the "fine art" side of their vision. Curator of this exhibition, Marianne Smith Dalton, stated: "Each of these women masterfully uses the camera to convey her own unique reflection of 'reality.' These compelling photographs, frozen moments in time, will captivate and hold you transfixed. Come celebrate the work of these three young women and discover a new way to 'see' through the lenses of these talented photographers."

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity is a rich, reflective exhibition of works by 40 artists representing the vast cultural blend of modern American society.

American artists of African, Arab, European, Asian, Latino, and Native American descent explore their heritage in this vivid and diverse exhibition using a wide variety of media. The artists examine patriotism, communication, struggle for acceptance, being an American in the 21st century, and more. Humor, heartache, anger, apprehension--all emotions are evoked by these works, raising questions about race, class, gender and age. Four main themes run through Infinite Mirror: Self-Selection, Pride, Assimilation, and Protest, providing audiences with the opportunity to re-examine both the story and storytellers of the quintessential "American dream."

The exhibition was curated by Blake Bradford, Curator and Director of Education at the Barnes Foundation; Benito Huerta, Curator and Director of The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington; and Robert Lee, Curator and Executive Director at Asian American Arts Centre in New York.

Paid parking is available for weekday visitors in any SU pay lot. Free parking for weekend and evening visitors is available in the Q4 lot, located on College Place. Patrons should notify the attendant that they are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Evening and weekend parking is on a space-available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome.

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The Prints of Seong Moy
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

A selection of 30 woodcuts and etchings by the internationally known and collected Chinese American artist and educator. This exhibition is a limited retrospective look at Seong Moy's career as printmaker.

Moy's early works, small but complicated woodcuts on soft luminous papers, were immediately accepted by artists, curators, and the public. A painterly quality, so important to his entire graphic output, is evident in much of this work and is all the more special because it is captured in color wood block prints that require great sophistication and skill from the artist.

As Moy's career continued to develop, his interest in capturing spatial relationships of shapes and forms in his compositions, was heightened by the role color plays in energizing these elements. This trend continued for a number a years and could also be found in his cardboard relief prints.

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

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."

Casey Landerkin: Paintings and Illustrations
Echo

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

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses or lamenting the struggles of daily living, Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed "Truisms" on one of Times Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her "Survival" series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

Read a review!

Implements of Mass Construction
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The Erie Canal was built by thousands of untrained men during the 19th century, before the United States had any civil engineering professionals. So how did they construct a canal across the entire state of New York? Come by the Erie Canal Museum and see the tools that made it possible. The 16 items on view were used for construction or industry along the Erie Canal in the 19th century. Visit the Museum's second floor gallery to try to guess what each instrument is. Tools similar to some of the implements on display are still used today, but others will require some guesswork. Come visit today to guess for yourself!

Visiting Artist Lecture: The Escape of Art
Syracuse University School of Art and Design
Featuring Graeme Sullivan

Price: Free
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Graeme Sullivan, director of the School of Visual Arts and a professor of art education at The Pennsylvania State University, will present the lecture "The Escape of Art." Sullivan's particular scholarly interest involves exploring the critical-reflexive thinking and forming processes of inquiry used in visual arts so as to enhance the importance of studio-based research in universities and art schools. He described his ideas in his book Art Practice as Research: Inquiry in Visual Arts (Sage, 2005), which underwent a major update and revision in a new edition published in 2010.

Sullivan received the 1990 Manual Barkan Memorial Award from the National Art Education Association for scholarly writing and was the recipient of the 2007 Lowenfeld Award for significant contribution to the field of art education. He is also the author of Seeing Australia: Views of Artists and Artwriters. (Piper Press, 1994).

Sullivan's record of professional service includes editor positions with Studies in Art Education and Australian Art Education, and as editorial board member and consultant to the International Journal of Art & Design Education (UK), International Journal of Education & the Arts and Studies in Material Thinking. He maintains an active art practice, and his Streetworks artwork has been installed in several international cities and sites over the past 15 years.

Parking is available for $4 in Booth Garage. Patrons should mention that they are attending the lecture to receive this rate. For more information, contact James Haywood Rolling Jr. at 315-443-2355 or jrolling@syr.edu.

Galactic,with Cyril Neville, Corey Henry (Rebirth Brass Band), High and Mighty Brass Band
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Rain: A Tribute to The Beatles
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $55, $40, $30
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

From Ed Sullivan to Abbey Road! They look like them and they sound just like them! "The next best thing to seeing The Beatles," raves the Denver Post. In 1964, a group of boys from Liverpool changed the face of rock n roll. Together longer than The Beatles themselves, Rain has mastered every song, gesture and nuance of the legendary group, delivering a totally live, note-for-note performance. From the early hits to later classics that The Beatles never got the chance to play live, this multi-media concert recaptures the era through all phases of The Beatles astounding musical career. Rain covers the Fab Four from their very first Ed Sullivan Show appearance through the Abbey Road album, the psychedelic late 60s and their long-haired hippie, hard-rocking rooftop days. For the longtime band members the music is first and foremost. All the music is performed live, with no pre-recorded tapes or sequences. Sing along with your family and friends to such Beatlemaniac favorites as Let It Be, Hey Jude, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Come Together and Can't Buy Me Love.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

The Psyche and Color: An Italian Point of View

Price: Free
Hospice of Central New York
990 Seventh North St., Liverpool

Maria Rizzo and Maria Grazia Facchinetti from Italy of two different generations and with two points of view, show 14 works each in an explosive combination of light, color and symbolism.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The CNY Scholastic Art Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Cortland County Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

Artists include Fred Zimmerman, David Yaman, Kathy Williams, Carl Steckler, Laurie Seamans, Meg Richardson, Lyla Phillips, Allen Phillips, Joan Niswender, Richard Mitchell, Amy Hnatko, Emily Gibbons, Serry Dans, Kathie Beale, and David Beale.

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."

Marcel Breuer and Postwar America
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Drawings from the Marcel Breuer Papers, curated by SU Architecture students, with Barry Bergdoll and Jonathan Massey. The exhibition is the outcome of their work in the extensive Breuer archive at the Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center. It features images of 120 drawings, as well as photographs, documenting thirteen of Breuer’s major postwar buildings and projects. Full-scale reproductions highlight themes that characterized some of Breuer’s lesser-known major work and document his responses to the needs and opportunities of postwar American society.

Breuer (1902-1981) was a leading figure among the second generation of modernist architects whose striking designs for furniture, houses, institutions, and commercial buildings helped to set the shape and style of modernity in Europe and the United States, leading “Time” magazine to characterize him as one of the “form givers of the 20th century.” His works include the UNESCO headquarters in Paris and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Where Eagles Fly: Works by Don Ford
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Don Ward, humorist, storyteller, artist, and poet, will have at least a dozen photos, along with stories and poems, on display. This is the first solo show of the artist, who has had his writings featured in many magazines across the U.S., Portugal, and Cyprus.

New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Amos Kennedy Prints!
Community Folk Art Center

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

Focusing on issues of race, violence and community, "Amos Kennedy Prints!" features the hand-printed works of Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. and will include prints created at CFAC. By transforming the gallery into an active printmaking workshop, Kennedy will collaborate with students from the Syracuse area and Syracuse University to create images and broadsides that reflect issues of race, gender and politics and illustrate the impact of violence in the city on their lives and community. The public is invited to meet Kennedy and to observe and participate in the printmaking process.

Demetrius Oliver: Penumbra
Light Work Gallery

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

This suite of three video installations, "Mare," "Perigee", and "Penumbra," by Demetrius Oliver reconnects viewers to their place in the universe by playing with earthly and human forms against a backdrop of the cosmos. In "Penumbra," explorations of light and scale, movement and the rhythm of the natural world suggest journeys both physical and metaphysical.

One of the installations will be on view in the Light Work Gallery, one projected onto the Everson Museum, and one installed in the Menschel Photography Gallery in the Schine Student Center.

Transmedia Photography Annual Group Exibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Hudson Past/Perfect: Photos by Marna Bell
Light Work Gallery

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

Marna Bell is the winner of the Light Work/Community Darkrooms Members Juried Exhibition competition. In 2005, after the sudden death of her mother, Bell picked up her camera after a 20-year hiatus from painting and began photographing nature. Her focus in both painting and photography has been on reclaiming visions of the past and her connection to nature.

According to Bell, "Many trips back home to New York City on the train have helped me remember lost pieces of time where life seemed simpler and less veiled. It was a natural progression for me to record the cycle of change in my 'Hudson Past/Perfect' series. By revisiting the same landscapes in different seasons and under different weather conditions, I was able to capture the past before it disappeared. I am drawn to the meditative quality of the Hudson River and the sacred aspects of the natural environment. The series is reminiscent of a more romantic era, when God and nature were viewed as one."

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Focus x Three: Photography and Video
Redhouse

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

Focus x Three, the second in the Emerging Women of CNY series, highlights the work of three photographers: Erin Mulvehill, Gillian Andrew, and Colleen Woolpert. Each has an association and history with Syracuse, as all are graduates of Syracuse University. They have all worked, in some capacity, in the world of professional photography, perfecting their craft, while continuing to pursue the "fine art" side of their vision. Curator of this exhibition, Marianne Smith Dalton, stated: "Each of these women masterfully uses the camera to convey her own unique reflection of 'reality.' These compelling photographs, frozen moments in time, will captivate and hold you transfixed. Come celebrate the work of these three young women and discover a new way to 'see' through the lenses of these talented photographers."

Surface Material
Szozda Gallery

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

Artist Vincent Fitches, well-know locally and globally, shares exhibit space with emerging new artist Emily Elizabeth Jones. Fitches and Jones are both relatively young in age, but of the two, Fitches has enjoyed greater notoriety, having shown his work worldwide. For Jones, "Surface Material" is her first big public exhibit. The gallery's title for the show is indicative of how each artist creates their works.

Creating mostly on panel, Fitches describes his artworks as, "uncanny in their color palate and unstructured composition." He says he focuses on a central object using subjects often in solitary environments, exposing their vulnerabilities in both his landscapes and figurative paintings. "This deconstruction of the naturalness dictated in the art world allows for a new vision of beauty and interpretation," Fitches explains.

In creating her art, Jones says she is motivated by a "fascination with the universe," where she sees the elements in the atmosphere as constantly creating and changing what we perceive. Applying acrylic on canvas, she tries to capture those moments of full spectrum of color rather than shape. "Like the glare of sun and early haziness," she says. Included in this first exhibit of Jones' works are minimal landscapes in a series called, "Horizon Colors."

The Prints of Seong Moy
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

A selection of 30 woodcuts and etchings by the internationally known and collected Chinese American artist and educator. This exhibition is a limited retrospective look at Seong Moy's career as printmaker.

Moy's early works, small but complicated woodcuts on soft luminous papers, were immediately accepted by artists, curators, and the public. A painterly quality, so important to his entire graphic output, is evident in much of this work and is all the more special because it is captured in color wood block prints that require great sophistication and skill from the artist.

As Moy's career continued to develop, his interest in capturing spatial relationships of shapes and forms in his compositions, was heightened by the role color plays in energizing these elements. This trend continued for a number a years and could also be found in his cardboard relief prints.

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity is a rich, reflective exhibition of works by 40 artists representing the vast cultural blend of modern American society.

American artists of African, Arab, European, Asian, Latino, and Native American descent explore their heritage in this vivid and diverse exhibition using a wide variety of media. The artists examine patriotism, communication, struggle for acceptance, being an American in the 21st century, and more. Humor, heartache, anger, apprehension--all emotions are evoked by these works, raising questions about race, class, gender and age. Four main themes run through Infinite Mirror: Self-Selection, Pride, Assimilation, and Protest, providing audiences with the opportunity to re-examine both the story and storytellers of the quintessential "American dream."

The exhibition was curated by Blake Bradford, Curator and Director of Education at the Barnes Foundation; Benito Huerta, Curator and Director of The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington; and Robert Lee, Curator and Executive Director at Asian American Arts Centre in New York.

Paid parking is available for weekday visitors in any SU pay lot. Free parking for weekend and evening visitors is available in the Q4 lot, located on College Place. Patrons should notify the attendant that they are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Evening and weekend parking is on a space-available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome.

Read a review!

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."

Casey Landerkin: Paintings and Illustrations
Echo

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

Journeys
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Journeys" includes the work of approximately 20 international students from various disciplines across the college, including art photography, art video, ceramics, communication and rhetorical studies, fiber arts/material studies, film, museum studies and sculpture.

For more information, contact Stephen Zaima, professor of painting, at 315-443-4613 or szaima@syr.edu. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses or lamenting the struggles of daily living, Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed "Truisms" on one of Times Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her "Survival" series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

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Implements of Mass Construction
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The Erie Canal was built by thousands of untrained men during the 19th century, before the United States had any civil engineering professionals. So how did they construct a canal across the entire state of New York? Come by the Erie Canal Museum and see the tools that made it possible. The 16 items on view were used for construction or industry along the Erie Canal in the 19th century. Visit the Museum's second floor gallery to try to guess what each instrument is. Tools similar to some of the implements on display are still used today, but others will require some guesswork. Come visit today to guess for yourself!

Maryna Mazhukhova, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Electrifying Russian pianist in all-Liszt recital.

Victor LaValle, fiction
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

Reading is preceded by a question and answer session from 3:45-4:30.

Preview: Radio Golf
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

How do we move forward without leaving behind difficult but defining aspects of our past? A powerful and timely drama from the most celebrated American playwright of this generation, Radio Golf tells the story of a man striving to become the first African American mayor of Pittsburgh. He's forced to weigh the importance of family, legacy, heritage, and history against the truth of his political and class ambitions. Moving, funny, lyrical, and rousing, Radio Golf is the inspiring final play of August Wilson's monumental, ten-play 20th-century cycle and career.

Radio Golf received four 2007 Tony nominations, including Best Play, and won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.

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Lysistrata
Syracuse University Drama Department
Stephen Cross, director

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

Bawdy, provocative and hilarious, Lysistrata has been delighting audiences since Socrates was a baby, give or take a few decades. Aristophanes was the great comic writer of ancient Athens and in this wild play he captures the frustration of women weary of the suffering wrought by the long war waged by their glory-hungry men. The solution? Inflict a frustration of a more intimate sort on the men—deny them sex until they cease fighting. A classic in every sense of the word, Lysistrata proves that long before talk radio, outrage and outrageousness lived side by side.

First performed in Athens in 411 B.C., the play has survived over two centuries due to its comical take on a serious subject. Aristophanes authored approximately 40 plays between 425 and 388 BC, 11 of which survive today.

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Thursday, February 24, 2011

The Psyche and Color: An Italian Point of View

Price: Free
Hospice of Central New York
990 Seventh North St., Liverpool

Maria Rizzo and Maria Grazia Facchinetti from Italy of two different generations and with two points of view, show 14 works each in an explosive combination of light, color and symbolism.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The CNY Scholastic Art Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Cortland County Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

Artists include Fred Zimmerman, David Yaman, Kathy Williams, Carl Steckler, Laurie Seamans, Meg Richardson, Lyla Phillips, Allen Phillips, Joan Niswender, Richard Mitchell, Amy Hnatko, Emily Gibbons, Serry Dans, Kathie Beale, and David Beale.

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."

Marcel Breuer and Postwar America
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Drawings from the Marcel Breuer Papers, curated by SU Architecture students, with Barry Bergdoll and Jonathan Massey. The exhibition is the outcome of their work in the extensive Breuer archive at the Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center. It features images of 120 drawings, as well as photographs, documenting thirteen of Breuer’s major postwar buildings and projects. Full-scale reproductions highlight themes that characterized some of Breuer’s lesser-known major work and document his responses to the needs and opportunities of postwar American society.

Breuer (1902-1981) was a leading figure among the second generation of modernist architects whose striking designs for furniture, houses, institutions, and commercial buildings helped to set the shape and style of modernity in Europe and the United States, leading “Time” magazine to characterize him as one of the “form givers of the 20th century.” His works include the UNESCO headquarters in Paris and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Where Eagles Fly: Works by Don Ford
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Don Ward, humorist, storyteller, artist, and poet, will have at least a dozen photos, along with stories and poems, on display. This is the first solo show of the artist, who has had his writings featured in many magazines across the U.S., Portugal, and Cyprus.

New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Amos Kennedy Prints!
Community Folk Art Center

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

Focusing on issues of race, violence and community, "Amos Kennedy Prints!" features the hand-printed works of Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. and will include prints created at CFAC. By transforming the gallery into an active printmaking workshop, Kennedy will collaborate with students from the Syracuse area and Syracuse University to create images and broadsides that reflect issues of race, gender and politics and illustrate the impact of violence in the city on their lives and community. The public is invited to meet Kennedy and to observe and participate in the printmaking process.

Transmedia Photography Annual Group Exibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Demetrius Oliver: Penumbra
Light Work Gallery

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

This suite of three video installations, "Mare," "Perigee", and "Penumbra," by Demetrius Oliver reconnects viewers to their place in the universe by playing with earthly and human forms against a backdrop of the cosmos. In "Penumbra," explorations of light and scale, movement and the rhythm of the natural world suggest journeys both physical and metaphysical.

One of the installations will be on view in the Light Work Gallery, one projected onto the Everson Museum, and one installed in the Menschel Photography Gallery in the Schine Student Center.

Hudson Past/Perfect: Photos by Marna Bell
Light Work Gallery

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

Marna Bell is the winner of the Light Work/Community Darkrooms Members Juried Exhibition competition. In 2005, after the sudden death of her mother, Bell picked up her camera after a 20-year hiatus from painting and began photographing nature. Her focus in both painting and photography has been on reclaiming visions of the past and her connection to nature.

According to Bell, "Many trips back home to New York City on the train have helped me remember lost pieces of time where life seemed simpler and less veiled. It was a natural progression for me to record the cycle of change in my 'Hudson Past/Perfect' series. By revisiting the same landscapes in different seasons and under different weather conditions, I was able to capture the past before it disappeared. I am drawn to the meditative quality of the Hudson River and the sacred aspects of the natural environment. The series is reminiscent of a more romantic era, when God and nature were viewed as one."

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Focus x Three: Photography and Video
Redhouse

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

Focus x Three, the second in the Emerging Women of CNY series, highlights the work of three photographers: Erin Mulvehill, Gillian Andrew, and Colleen Woolpert. Each has an association and history with Syracuse, as all are graduates of Syracuse University. They have all worked, in some capacity, in the world of professional photography, perfecting their craft, while continuing to pursue the "fine art" side of their vision. Curator of this exhibition, Marianne Smith Dalton, stated: "Each of these women masterfully uses the camera to convey her own unique reflection of 'reality.' These compelling photographs, frozen moments in time, will captivate and hold you transfixed. Come celebrate the work of these three young women and discover a new way to 'see' through the lenses of these talented photographers."

Surface Material
Szozda Gallery

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

Artist Vincent Fitches, well-know locally and globally, shares exhibit space with emerging new artist Emily Elizabeth Jones. Fitches and Jones are both relatively young in age, but of the two, Fitches has enjoyed greater notoriety, having shown his work worldwide. For Jones, "Surface Material" is her first big public exhibit. The gallery's title for the show is indicative of how each artist creates their works.

Creating mostly on panel, Fitches describes his artworks as, "uncanny in their color palate and unstructured composition." He says he focuses on a central object using subjects often in solitary environments, exposing their vulnerabilities in both his landscapes and figurative paintings. "This deconstruction of the naturalness dictated in the art world allows for a new vision of beauty and interpretation," Fitches explains.

In creating her art, Jones says she is motivated by a "fascination with the universe," where she sees the elements in the atmosphere as constantly creating and changing what we perceive. Applying acrylic on canvas, she tries to capture those moments of full spectrum of color rather than shape. "Like the glare of sun and early haziness," she says. Included in this first exhibit of Jones' works are minimal landscapes in a series called, "Horizon Colors."

Embryonic: New Work by Eunjung Shin
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Korean-born Eunjung Shin's figurative ceramic sculpture depicts experiences from the artist's life. Her work in the upcoming show, Embryonic, will include a new series of realistic, infant figures cradled in egg-like structures. These pieces represent Shin's hopeful wishes and new beginnings. The exhibition will also include larger jester figures, which explore the nature of human folly. Many of the works are embellished with beautifully hand-carved arabesques and floral patterns. The artist says that the carving of these ornamentations is much like meditative acts connected to many Asian traditions.

Shin received an MFA in Ceramics from Syracuse University in 2007 and a MFA in Ceramics form Kyunghee University in Yongin, Korea. She currently teaches classes at the Community Folk Art Center’s Creative Arts Academy in Syracuse. Her artwork has been shown in many venues nationally and internationally, including Affinity at the Icheon World Ceramic Center in Icheon, Korea. Shin currently resides in the city of Syracuse.

The Prints of Seong Moy
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

A selection of 30 woodcuts and etchings by the internationally known and collected Chinese American artist and educator. This exhibition is a limited retrospective look at Seong Moy's career as printmaker.

Moy's early works, small but complicated woodcuts on soft luminous papers, were immediately accepted by artists, curators, and the public. A painterly quality, so important to his entire graphic output, is evident in much of this work and is all the more special because it is captured in color wood block prints that require great sophistication and skill from the artist.

As Moy's career continued to develop, his interest in capturing spatial relationships of shapes and forms in his compositions, was heightened by the role color plays in energizing these elements. This trend continued for a number a years and could also be found in his cardboard relief prints.

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity is a rich, reflective exhibition of works by 40 artists representing the vast cultural blend of modern American society.

American artists of African, Arab, European, Asian, Latino, and Native American descent explore their heritage in this vivid and diverse exhibition using a wide variety of media. The artists examine patriotism, communication, struggle for acceptance, being an American in the 21st century, and more. Humor, heartache, anger, apprehension--all emotions are evoked by these works, raising questions about race, class, gender and age. Four main themes run through Infinite Mirror: Self-Selection, Pride, Assimilation, and Protest, providing audiences with the opportunity to re-examine both the story and storytellers of the quintessential "American dream."

The exhibition was curated by Blake Bradford, Curator and Director of Education at the Barnes Foundation; Benito Huerta, Curator and Director of The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington; and Robert Lee, Curator and Executive Director at Asian American Arts Centre in New York.

Paid parking is available for weekday visitors in any SU pay lot. Free parking for weekend and evening visitors is available in the Q4 lot, located on College Place. Patrons should notify the attendant that they are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Evening and weekend parking is on a space-available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome.

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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."

Casey Landerkin: Paintings and Illustrations
Echo

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

Journeys
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Journeys" includes the work of approximately 20 international students from various disciplines across the college, including art photography, art video, ceramics, communication and rhetorical studies, fiber arts/material studies, film, museum studies and sculpture.

For more information, contact Stephen Zaima, professor of painting, at 315-443-4613 or szaima@syr.edu. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Demitrus Oliver: Mare, 2009
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Mare, 2009, projects a circular image of a wave crashing against an unnamed shore. As the image rotates, the lines of the waves begin to resemble the layered surface of a Jovian planet such as Jupiter. Connecting the sea with heavenly phenomena, the installation recreates the sense of wonderment felt when looking at the night sky and the fundamental human desire to understand one's place in the universe. Mare, which is Latin for "seas", suggests movement and journeys both physical and metaphysical, as well as metaphors of darkness and illumination, looking and discovery.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses or lamenting the struggles of daily living, Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed "Truisms" on one of Times Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her "Survival" series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

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Implements of Mass Construction
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The Erie Canal was built by thousands of untrained men during the 19th century, before the United States had any civil engineering professionals. So how did they construct a canal across the entire state of New York? Come by the Erie Canal Museum and see the tools that made it possible. The 16 items on view were used for construction or industry along the Erie Canal in the 19th century. Visit the Museum's second floor gallery to try to guess what each instrument is. Tools similar to some of the implements on display are still used today, but others will require some guesswork. Come visit today to guess for yourself!

Morton B. Schiff Jazz Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Two Fresh with Mux Mool, Body Language, Phantom Chemistry
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Harry Crocker and the Saucerer's Stove
Acme Mystery Company

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

Something's cooking at Frogtort's School for Culinary Wizardry and it smells like trouble. Harry Crocker returns after 25 years to save his alma mater but not everyone's happy to see him, to say the least. Professor Fumblepork is sending out an owl to all wizards (including you). Join Professors McMonalogue and Crepe, even Harry's old friend Herhiane, as they try to pay off centuries of back taxes and avoid a hostile takeover by the Ministry of Magic.

Preview: Radio Golf
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

How do we move forward without leaving behind difficult but defining aspects of our past? A powerful and timely drama from the most celebrated American playwright of this generation, Radio Golf tells the story of a man striving to become the first African American mayor of Pittsburgh. He's forced to weigh the importance of family, legacy, heritage, and history against the truth of his political and class ambitions. Moving, funny, lyrical, and rousing, Radio Golf is the inspiring final play of August Wilson's monumental, ten-play 20th-century cycle and career.

Radio Golf received four 2007 Tony nominations, including Best Play, and won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.

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Is He Dead?
LeMoyne College
Boot & Buskin Theatre Troupe

Price: $12 regular, $10 seniors, $4 students and LeMoyne community
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Mark Twain's fast-paced farce filled with clichés that are laugh-out-loud funny. You'll be tempted to boo the villains and cheer the heroes.

Millet is a brilliant but impoverished French painter with one problem: no one will pay good money for his paintings while he's still alive. When his friends persuade him that the secret to success lies in convincing the world he's dead, Millet hatches a plan which could make him rich, famous, and able to marry the girl of his dreams—if only he didn't have to wear a petticoat to do it!

Reservations suggested. For more information, phone 315-445-4523.

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Lysistrata
Syracuse University Drama Department
Stephen Cross, director

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

Bawdy, provocative and hilarious, Lysistrata has been delighting audiences since Socrates was a baby, give or take a few decades. Aristophanes was the great comic writer of ancient Athens and in this wild play he captures the frustration of women weary of the suffering wrought by the long war waged by their glory-hungry men. The solution? Inflict a frustration of a more intimate sort on the men—deny them sex until they cease fighting. A classic in every sense of the word, Lysistrata proves that long before talk radio, outrage and outrageousness lived side by side.

First performed in Athens in 411 B.C., the play has survived over two centuries due to its comical take on a serious subject. Aristophanes authored approximately 40 plays between 425 and 388 BC, 11 of which survive today.

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Friday, February 25, 2011

Ingrid Ludt: "Forest becomes Ocean"
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The Psyche and Color: An Italian Point of View

Price: Free
Hospice of Central New York
990 Seventh North St., Liverpool

Maria Rizzo and Maria Grazia Facchinetti from Italy of two different generations and with two points of view, show 14 works each in an explosive combination of light, color and symbolism.

Winter Art Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

There will be an opening reception this evening 5:30-8:00 pm.

Come in from the cold and enjoy the warmth of friends and the glow of ceramic art made in The Studio at Clayscapes Pottery. Featuring ceramic artwork by Millie St. John, Tim See, Don Seymour, Shawn McGuire, Wes Weiss, and Sarah VanDerVoort as well as many others.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The CNY Scholastic Art Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Cortland County Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

Artists include Fred Zimmerman, David Yaman, Kathy Williams, Carl Steckler, Laurie Seamans, Meg Richardson, Lyla Phillips, Allen Phillips, Joan Niswender, Richard Mitchell, Amy Hnatko, Emily Gibbons, Serry Dans, Kathie Beale, and David Beale.

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."

Marcel Breuer and Postwar America
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Drawings from the Marcel Breuer Papers, curated by SU Architecture students, with Barry Bergdoll and Jonathan Massey. The exhibition is the outcome of their work in the extensive Breuer archive at the Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center. It features images of 120 drawings, as well as photographs, documenting thirteen of Breuer’s major postwar buildings and projects. Full-scale reproductions highlight themes that characterized some of Breuer’s lesser-known major work and document his responses to the needs and opportunities of postwar American society.

Breuer (1902-1981) was a leading figure among the second generation of modernist architects whose striking designs for furniture, houses, institutions, and commercial buildings helped to set the shape and style of modernity in Europe and the United States, leading “Time” magazine to characterize him as one of the “form givers of the 20th century.” His works include the UNESCO headquarters in Paris and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Where Eagles Fly: Works by Don Ford
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Don Ward, humorist, storyteller, artist, and poet, will have at least a dozen photos, along with stories and poems, on display. This is the first solo show of the artist, who has had his writings featured in many magazines across the U.S., Portugal, and Cyprus.

Opening: Tonal Gestures
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Diana Godfrey: mixed media pastels and acrylic paintings
Carmel Nicoletti: bronze reliefs and glass works

New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

*CLOSING EARLY* Amos Kennedy Prints!
Community Folk Art Center

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

CFAC closed early today due to the weather.

Focusing on issues of race, violence and community, "Amos Kennedy Prints!" features the hand-printed works of Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. and will include prints created at CFAC. By transforming the gallery into an active printmaking workshop, Kennedy will collaborate with students from the Syracuse area and Syracuse University to create images and broadsides that reflect issues of race, gender and politics and illustrate the impact of violence in the city on their lives and community. The public is invited to meet Kennedy and to observe and participate in the printmaking process.

Demetrius Oliver: Penumbra
Light Work Gallery

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

This suite of three video installations, "Mare," "Perigee", and "Penumbra," by Demetrius Oliver reconnects viewers to their place in the universe by playing with earthly and human forms against a backdrop of the cosmos. In "Penumbra," explorations of light and scale, movement and the rhythm of the natural world suggest journeys both physical and metaphysical.

One of the installations will be on view in the Light Work Gallery, one projected onto the Everson Museum, and one installed in the Menschel Photography Gallery in the Schine Student Center.

Transmedia Photography Annual Group Exibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Hudson Past/Perfect: Photos by Marna Bell
Light Work Gallery

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

Marna Bell is the winner of the Light Work/Community Darkrooms Members Juried Exhibition competition. In 2005, after the sudden death of her mother, Bell picked up her camera after a 20-year hiatus from painting and began photographing nature. Her focus in both painting and photography has been on reclaiming visions of the past and her connection to nature.

According to Bell, "Many trips back home to New York City on the train have helped me remember lost pieces of time where life seemed simpler and less veiled. It was a natural progression for me to record the cycle of change in my 'Hudson Past/Perfect' series. By revisiting the same landscapes in different seasons and under different weather conditions, I was able to capture the past before it disappeared. I am drawn to the meditative quality of the Hudson River and the sacred aspects of the natural environment. The series is reminiscent of a more romantic era, when God and nature were viewed as one."

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Focus x Three: Photography and Video
Redhouse

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

Focus x Three, the second in the Emerging Women of CNY series, highlights the work of three photographers: Erin Mulvehill, Gillian Andrew, and Colleen Woolpert. Each has an association and history with Syracuse, as all are graduates of Syracuse University. They have all worked, in some capacity, in the world of professional photography, perfecting their craft, while continuing to pursue the "fine art" side of their vision. Curator of this exhibition, Marianne Smith Dalton, stated: "Each of these women masterfully uses the camera to convey her own unique reflection of 'reality.' These compelling photographs, frozen moments in time, will captivate and hold you transfixed. Come celebrate the work of these three young women and discover a new way to 'see' through the lenses of these talented photographers."