Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Windows Project: Elisabeth Meyer: Black Night/White Night
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Window Project features an installation by Elisabeth Meyer consisting of organic forms embroidered onto an organza fabric. The overall patterning evokes an association with ocean waves and a net. The transparent quality of the organza background allows the viewer to see through the piece that is hanging from the ceiling covering the entire window front. The work addresses the issue of displacement through traveling. Meyer, who is based in Ithaca, developed the concept for this exhibition while at a residency in Iceland, traveled to India to oversee the production of the embroidery, and created the work on site in Syracuse.

"Everything is Illustrated III" and "Talking Wallpaper"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Gallery A: Everything is Illustrated III, featuring work by Holly DePue, Beth Mand, and Kristen Tryon
Gallery B: Talking Wallpaper, featuring recent work by Miles George and Aaron Lee

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

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

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

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

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

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

Westcott Community Gallery Group Show
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Works by Mary McConnell, Molly Susman, Steve Susman, and Kristina Starowitz.

CNY Visions
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Unique views of the Central New York area through the lenses of Herm Card, Richard Emory, Larry Hoyt, and Bill Sullivan. Also showcasing the artglass of Phil Austin and jewelry of Esperanza Tielbaard.

Looking & Looking: Photos by Amy Elkins and Jen Davis
Light Work Gallery

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

Jen Davis and Amy Elkins create work that focuses on gaze and identity, with Davis looking at herself and Elkins looking at young male athletes. The images in the exhibition explore the perception of how men and women are supposed to appear in society -- men should be strong and confident, women should be beautiful -- and the crafting of a self-image.

Jen Davis creates self-portraits that deal with issues surrounding beauty, identity, and body image of women, and challenges the perceptions and stereotypes of how women should look in their physical appearances. Amy Elkins depicts the more aggressive, competitive, and violent aspects of male identity in her series Elegant Violence, which captures portraits of young Ivy League rugby athletes moments after their game. Elkins' images explore the balance between athleticism, modes of violence or aggression, and varying degrees of vulnerability within a sport where brutal body contact is fundamental.

Both artists focus on the construction of identity -- the players are astutely aware of how they are presenting themselves while Davis draws attention to her own self-image in a more emotional way. Shown together, the works of Davis and Elkins urge the viewer to consider expectations and perceptions (both societal and individual) of identity.

Landmarks of New York
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Landmarks of New York is a traveling exhibit of 90 stunning black and white photographs of New York City buildings that have been accorded landmark status by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. The exhibit is curated by Dr. Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, New York City's first director of cultural affairs and acclaimed author of the book that serves as the basis for the exhibit, The Landmarks of New York: An Illustrated Record of the City's Historic Building. In conjunction with the show, Dennis Connors, OHA's Curator of History, selected over 20 contemporary and historic photographs to highlight Onondaga County's own architectural inheritance.

Six Sides of Japanese Package Design
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The exhibition focuses on the way the design of the package relates to Japanese culture and consumerism.

Based on a collection of different Japanese products, "Six Sides of Japanese Package Design" is the result of a collaboration between undergraduate communications design students in the class Problem-Solving Strategies, taught by Roderick Martinez, and graduate museum studies students in the class Museum Studies Practicum, taught by Bradley Hudson. Divided into six groups, the students selected themes that each highlight a different dimension of package design in Japan. Each section of the gallery is a realization of the groups' respective themes in the form of a museum exhibition.

The Design Gallery is located on the first floor of The Warehouse. Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door, adjacent to the café on West Fayette Street or the first-floor door on West Washington Street.

Dependent Structures
Szozda Gallery

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

A display of works by painters C. J. Hodge III, Tom Townsley, and Stephen Perrone. In their individual pieces for this show, the term "dependent structures" for Hodge refers to subject matter; for Townsley and Perrone, the term refers more to form and materials.

Emilio Sanchez: No Way Home--Images of the Caribbean and New York City
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"No Way Home" features a selection of 24 paintings, watercolors, drawings and prints drawn from the recently acquired collection of work by Cuban-American artist Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999). Best known for his brightly colored, strongly shadowed images of Caribbean and New York City architecture, this exhibition reveals the artist's ongoing interest in repetitive patterns. The show highlights a recent gift to the University Art Collection from the Emilio Sanchez Foundation of over 250 paintings, drawings and prints.

Engineered Perspectives: Railroad Culture in the Modern World
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Engineered Perspectives: Railroad Culture in the Modern World" examines how depictions of the railroad transformed our perception of the railroad industry. Whether the purpose of an artistic work was to entertain the viewer, to provide cultural commentary, or to call attention to the railroad's impact on the economic climate, each one inevitably had an effect on the way the audience viewed and understood the railroad in modern society.

In partnership with the Syracuse University Art Galleries and the Special Collections Research Center, the students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorship course in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies have worked together to thematically demonstrate visual testimonies to the railroad's reign over the industrialized world.

Sources & Structures: The Art of Robert Stackhouse
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This 25-year retrospective, organized by the SUArt Galleries, surveys the development of Robert Stackhouse as an artist. In addition to investigating the roots of his best-known imagery -- Viking ships, whales, snakes, and wood A-frame constructs -- this exhibition examines how he conceives of these designs through his drawings, watercolors, and prints. "Sources and Structures" considers how Stackhouse has made a personal examination of these natural and man-made forms and developed a body of work that explores affinities between architecture and biological anatomy.

American Art from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Deng Guo Yuan
The Warehouse Gallery

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

This exhibit will highlight ink brush paintings by Tianjin-based Chinese artist Deng Guo Yuan. His work reveals the tradition of Chinese landscape painting and a profound knowledge of modern and international contemporary aesthetics. The film "Deng Guo Yuan" (2010) by French filmmaker Pierre Creton, presented in the Gallery's vault, meticulously documents the creation of one of Deng Guo Yuan's ink paintings in his Tianjin studio. Widely exhibited in China and Europe, this will be the artist's first solo museum exhibition in the United States. The show originated at the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts Museum (Tianjin, China), and then traveled in modified form to the Samek Art Gallery at Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA), to the Provenance Center (New London, CT), and to its last venue, the Warehouse Gallery, for which Deng Guo Yuan will create additional site-specific works.

Stone Canoe Art Exhibit
XL Projects

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

Stone Canoe is a journal of arts and ideas from Upstate New York, published annually in January. This exhibit will feature artists included in the new Issue 6.

Six Make One
Echo

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

Installation by six artists: Brendan Rose, Briana Kohlbrenner, Damian Vallelonga, Jeff Walter, Mark Povinelli and Stasya Erickson. From design to construction in under two weeks. The concept of this installation was influenced by an previous installation called "New Formula."

Daughters of Ixchel: The Photography of Mary Lawyer O'Connor
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Daughters of Ixchel" is a collection of images of Maya women and their hand-woven textiles that brings awareness and understanding of vibrant Maya cultures and the challenges they face. The exhibit will be a look into the lives of women weavers from Guatemala and Southern Mexico. Portrait and documentary photography along with text will tell their stories and will include original textiles. We will highlight fair-trade, worker-owned cooperatives and the political history of Guatemala where, despite persecution and genocide, Maya weavers maintain traditional methods, patterns, colors and styles that flourish and evolve.

Mary Lawyer O'Connor lives in Pompey and is a founder and current head of the Montessori School of Syracuse.

One Family In Gaza
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Palestinians in Gaza are depicted either as violent terrorists or as helpless victims. The Awajah family challenges both portrayals by Jen Marlowe, Documentary filmmaker. Film presentation and discussion sponsored by Working for a Just Peace in Palestine & Israel, a committee of the Syracuse Peace Council.

Mary Molnar, soprano; Ida Trebicka, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Young soprano in all-Strauss lieder recital.

Parking available in the OnCenter Garage: maximum $2.50 with CMM stamped ticket.

Special Event: A Perfect Night, A Perfect Ganesh
Redhouse

Price: $25 regular, $15 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Join us this evening for a special fundraising event at 6:00 pm -- an exotic evening of Indian cuisine, music, and a fabulous silent auction of treasures inspired by India. Enjoy wine, beer, and hors d'oeuvres while browsing the silent auction, finishing the evening with a special performance of Terrence McNally's charming and spiritual play. $50 regular, $40 members, $75 patrons.

A Perfect Ganesh, by Terrance McNally, is a seductive comedy about the adventures of Margaret and Katherine, two suburban matrons who travel to India as the Hindu elephant god Ganesha leads them on an intoxicating and revealing pilgrimage. Dealing with issues of acceptance, what it means to be American, and hate crimes, this astonishingly moving play takes preconceptions and turns them on their head as these familiar characters find healing through laughter and friendship.

Once again, Redhouse combines local and out-of-town talent to mount this production. Tim Brown returns to Redhouse after his work on The Wiz! to design set, lights and projections. Lisa Loen, whose stunning work was featured in the Redhouse production of Conference of the Birds, will be designing the costumes. John Czajkowski is the Technical Director and Kyle Kashel is the Sound Designer. Stephen Svoboda is directing the production which features local Equity actors Susannah Berryman and Laura Austin and New York actors J.L. Reed and Adam Perabo who was last seen at Redhouse in Odysseus DOA. Binaifer Dabu joins the cast to provide musical accompaniment.

A Perfect Ganesh was first produced at Manhattan Theatre Club in 1993, directed by John Tillinger and featured Zoe Caldwell and Frances Sternhagan. A Perfect Ganesh was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and is widely considered to be McNally's best work. McNally is an American playwright who has received four Tony Awards, an Emmy, two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, the Lucille Lortel Award, the Hull-Warriner Award, and a citation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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Thursday, January 19, 2012

Windows Project: Elisabeth Meyer: Black Night/White Night
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Window Project features an installation by Elisabeth Meyer consisting of organic forms embroidered onto an organza fabric. The overall patterning evokes an association with ocean waves and a net. The transparent quality of the organza background allows the viewer to see through the piece that is hanging from the ceiling covering the entire window front. The work addresses the issue of displacement through traveling. Meyer, who is based in Ithaca, developed the concept for this exhibition while at a residency in Iceland, traveled to India to oversee the production of the embroidery, and created the work on site in Syracuse.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The 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 originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

"Everything is Illustrated III" and "Talking Wallpaper"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Gallery A: Everything is Illustrated III, featuring work by Holly DePue, Beth Mand, and Kristen Tryon
Gallery B: Talking Wallpaper, featuring recent work by Miles George and Aaron Lee

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

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

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

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

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

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

Westcott Community Gallery Group Show
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Works by Mary McConnell, Molly Susman, Steve Susman, and Kristina Starowitz.

CNY Visions
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Unique views of the Central New York area through the lenses of Herm Card, Richard Emory, Larry Hoyt, and Bill Sullivan. Also showcasing the artglass of Phil Austin and jewelry of Esperanza Tielbaard.

Looking & Looking: Photos by Amy Elkins and Jen Davis
Light Work Gallery

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

Jen Davis and Amy Elkins create work that focuses on gaze and identity, with Davis looking at herself and Elkins looking at young male athletes. The images in the exhibition explore the perception of how men and women are supposed to appear in society -- men should be strong and confident, women should be beautiful -- and the crafting of a self-image.

Jen Davis creates self-portraits that deal with issues surrounding beauty, identity, and body image of women, and challenges the perceptions and stereotypes of how women should look in their physical appearances. Amy Elkins depicts the more aggressive, competitive, and violent aspects of male identity in her series Elegant Violence, which captures portraits of young Ivy League rugby athletes moments after their game. Elkins' images explore the balance between athleticism, modes of violence or aggression, and varying degrees of vulnerability within a sport where brutal body contact is fundamental.

Both artists focus on the construction of identity -- the players are astutely aware of how they are presenting themselves while Davis draws attention to her own self-image in a more emotional way. Shown together, the works of Davis and Elkins urge the viewer to consider expectations and perceptions (both societal and individual) of identity.

Landmarks of New York
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Landmarks of New York is a traveling exhibit of 90 stunning black and white photographs of New York City buildings that have been accorded landmark status by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. The exhibit is curated by Dr. Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, New York City's first director of cultural affairs and acclaimed author of the book that serves as the basis for the exhibit, The Landmarks of New York: An Illustrated Record of the City's Historic Building. In conjunction with the show, Dennis Connors, OHA's Curator of History, selected over 20 contemporary and historic photographs to highlight Onondaga County's own architectural inheritance.

Six Sides of Japanese Package Design
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The exhibition focuses on the way the design of the package relates to Japanese culture and consumerism.

Based on a collection of different Japanese products, "Six Sides of Japanese Package Design" is the result of a collaboration between undergraduate communications design students in the class Problem-Solving Strategies, taught by Roderick Martinez, and graduate museum studies students in the class Museum Studies Practicum, taught by Bradley Hudson. Divided into six groups, the students selected themes that each highlight a different dimension of package design in Japan. Each section of the gallery is a realization of the groups' respective themes in the form of a museum exhibition.

The Design Gallery is located on the first floor of The Warehouse. Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door, adjacent to the café on West Fayette Street or the first-floor door on West Washington Street.

Dependent Structures
Szozda Gallery

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

A display of works by painters C. J. Hodge III, Tom Townsley, and Stephen Perrone. In their individual pieces for this show, the term "dependent structures" for Hodge refers to subject matter; for Townsley and Perrone, the term refers more to form and materials.

Holiday Show 2011
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Show features jewelry, ceramics, photography, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include Dana Stenson (Syracuse), Jen Gandee (Fabius), Jeanann Wieners (Syracuse), Elisabeth Groat (Syracuse), Sarah Saulson (Syracuse), Lucie Wellner (Pompey), and Errol Willett (Fabius).

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body.

Emilio Sanchez: No Way Home--Images of the Caribbean and New York City
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"No Way Home" features a selection of 24 paintings, watercolors, drawings and prints drawn from the recently acquired collection of work by Cuban-American artist Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999). Best known for his brightly colored, strongly shadowed images of Caribbean and New York City architecture, this exhibition reveals the artist's ongoing interest in repetitive patterns. The show highlights a recent gift to the University Art Collection from the Emilio Sanchez Foundation of over 250 paintings, drawings and prints.

Sources & Structures: The Art of Robert Stackhouse
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This 25-year retrospective, organized by the SUArt Galleries, surveys the development of Robert Stackhouse as an artist. In addition to investigating the roots of his best-known imagery -- Viking ships, whales, snakes, and wood A-frame constructs -- this exhibition examines how he conceives of these designs through his drawings, watercolors, and prints. "Sources and Structures" considers how Stackhouse has made a personal examination of these natural and man-made forms and developed a body of work that explores affinities between architecture and biological anatomy.

Engineered Perspectives: Railroad Culture in the Modern World
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Engineered Perspectives: Railroad Culture in the Modern World" examines how depictions of the railroad transformed our perception of the railroad industry. Whether the purpose of an artistic work was to entertain the viewer, to provide cultural commentary, or to call attention to the railroad's impact on the economic climate, each one inevitably had an effect on the way the audience viewed and understood the railroad in modern society.

In partnership with the Syracuse University Art Galleries and the Special Collections Research Center, the students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorship course in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies have worked together to thematically demonstrate visual testimonies to the railroad's reign over the industrialized world.

American Art from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Deng Guo Yuan
The Warehouse Gallery

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

This exhibit will highlight ink brush paintings by Tianjin-based Chinese artist Deng Guo Yuan. His work reveals the tradition of Chinese landscape painting and a profound knowledge of modern and international contemporary aesthetics. The film "Deng Guo Yuan" (2010) by French filmmaker Pierre Creton, presented in the Gallery's vault, meticulously documents the creation of one of Deng Guo Yuan's ink paintings in his Tianjin studio. Widely exhibited in China and Europe, this will be the artist's first solo museum exhibition in the United States. The show originated at the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts Museum (Tianjin, China), and then traveled in modified form to the Samek Art Gallery at Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA), to the Provenance Center (New London, CT), and to its last venue, the Warehouse Gallery, for which Deng Guo Yuan will create additional site-specific works.

Stone Canoe Art Exhibit
XL Projects

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

Stone Canoe is a journal of arts and ideas from Upstate New York, published annually in January. This exhibit will feature artists included in the new Issue 6.

Six Make One
Echo

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

Installation by six artists: Brendan Rose, Briana Kohlbrenner, Damian Vallelonga, Jeff Walter, Mark Povinelli and Stasya Erickson. From design to construction in under two weeks. The concept of this installation was influenced by an previous installation called "New Formula."

Daughters of Ixchel: The Photography of Mary Lawyer O'Connor
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Daughters of Ixchel" is a collection of images of Maya women and their hand-woven textiles that brings awareness and understanding of vibrant Maya cultures and the challenges they face. The exhibit will be a look into the lives of women weavers from Guatemala and Southern Mexico. Portrait and documentary photography along with text will tell their stories and will include original textiles. We will highlight fair-trade, worker-owned cooperatives and the political history of Guatemala where, despite persecution and genocide, Maya weavers maintain traditional methods, patterns, colors and styles that flourish and evolve.

Mary Lawyer O'Connor lives in Pompey and is a founder and current head of the Montessori School of Syracuse.

The World Thinks My Name is Sad
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts
PAL Project in collaboration with P.E.A.C.E Inc.

Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

John Knecht: Deluge and Anima
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Deluge (2010) hand-drawn looping animation
Anima (2011) hand-drawn looping animation

Artist Statement:
Things have been falling in my videos for decades. It was at first formal. Falling things filled the frame and made a complicated cinematic space. The things falling -- wishbones, test tubes, martini glasses, plastic strawberries that looked like a human heart, cement blocks and infected molars -- increasingly became an atmosphere, functioning both as a formal device and a metaphorical space.

There is a drawing in the collection of the Queen, hanging in Buckingham Palace, by Leonardo daVinci which depicts a deluge of raining everyday objects: rakes, funnels, lamps and general debris. The title of the drawing is "A Cloudburst of Material Things." It is graphite on paper and credited to daVinci. It is dated 1500. The drawing is torn in half so only a part of the drawing remains. I have struggled to find out more about the piece and there is virtually nothing written about it, but I am haunted by it. "Deluge" is directly informed by the overwhelmed totality of daVinci's image. What was he thinking?

Special Event: Re Visions
Point of Contact Gallery
Featuring Michael Burkard, Tessa Kennedy, and Jay Muhlin

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

Three artistic practices, all in conversation with image and text...collecting, processing, drafting... and when are you done?

Michael Burkard is a New York poet and professor of the MFA Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University. In addition to his poetry books, he has published three books of drawings.

Tessa Kennedy is a graduate student at Syracuse University, MFA 2012. Her work has been exhibited at BAGallery in Brooklyn, NY; Wexler Gallery, Nexus Gallery, and Gallery One in Philadelphia, PA.

Jay Muhlin works in photography with a focus on artist books. He employs a wide range of visual languages addressing the idea of loss, intimacy, comfort, anxiety, and masculinity.

The Jewish Community of Syracuse
Erie Canal Museum
Featuring Barbara Sheklin Davis and Susan B. Rabin

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

A lecture and book signing with Barbara Sheklin Davis and Susan B. Rabin, featuring their new book Jewish Community of Syracuse, the newest addition to Arcadia Publishing's popular "Images of America" series. A brief lecture will begin in the museum's first floor theater at noon to be followed by a book signing. The book will be available for purchase on the day of the event.

Through more than 200 vintage images, Davis and Rabin share the story of the Jewish experience in Syracuse beginning in the early 18th century and continuing today. Because Syracuse was easily reached by the Erie Canal, it became home to many Jewish immigrants. This event is an opportunity to learn of that story, meet the authors, and get your book signed.

Meet the Artist: Mary Lawyer O'Connor
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

We welcome photographer Mary Lawyer O'Connor whose current exhibit brings images and textiles of Guatemalan weavers together in a vibrant and colorful show. The sale of images in the exhibition will benefit Hospitalito Atitlan in Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala and Friendship Bridge, a micro-credit loan non-profit. The silent auction sale of textiles benefits Artrage gallery.

Gospel Open Mic and Performance
Community Folk Art Center

Price: $5 regular, $2 with SU student ID
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A Journey through Music of the African Diaspora series continues with a gospel open mic and performance hosted by Dr. Joan Hillsman of the Joan Hillsman Music Network. This series is co-sponsored by SyracUSE Connective Corridor and is hosted by Syracuse University professor Richard Dubin.

Storytellers
Featuring Mike McKay, Ben Fiore, and Kyle Adem

Price: $8
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Singer-songwriters Ben Fiore, Mike McKay, and Kyle Adem present "Storytellers."

Florence of Moravia
Acme Mystery Company

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

It's 1927 and local radio personality Nevelle Haspin invites you to the broadcast of a gala reception for silent film diva Lorraine Bowes who is making a film portraying notorious WWI spy Florence Goode a.k.a. Hata Mahma. Joining Lorraine will be her leading man, if he's sober, Roland DeHay and Lorraine's agent, Harold "Hawk" Toohey. Arriving without an invitation is nationally syndicated gossip columninst Helena Handbasquet. Be careful. These celebrities autograph with poisoned pens.

A Perfect Ganesh
Redhouse

Price: $25 regular, $15 members, $10 with college ID
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

A Perfect Ganesh, by Terrance McNally, is a seductive comedy about the adventures of Margaret and Katherine, two suburban matrons who travel to India as the Hindu elephant god Ganesha leads them on an intoxicating and revealing pilgrimage. Dealing with issues of acceptance, what it means to be American, and hate crimes, this astonishingly moving play takes preconceptions and turns them on their head as these familiar characters find healing through laughter and friendship.

Once again, Redhouse combines local and out-of-town talent to mount this production. Tim Brown returns to Redhouse after his work on The Wiz! to design set, lights and projections. Lisa Loen, whose stunning work was featured in the Redhouse production of Conference of the Birds, will be designing the costumes. John Czajkowski is the Technical Director and Kyle Kashel is the Sound Designer. Stephen Svoboda is directing the production which features local Equity actors Susannah Berryman and Laura Austin and New York actors J.L. Reed and Adam Perabo who was last seen at Redhouse in Odysseus DOA. Binaifer Dabu joins the cast to provide musical accompaniment.

A Perfect Ganesh was first produced at Manhattan Theatre Club in 1993, directed by John Tillinger and featured Zoe Caldwell and Frances Sternhagan. A Perfect Ganesh was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and is widely considered to be McNally's best work. McNally is an American playwright who has received four Tony Awards, an Emmy, two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, the Lucille Lortel Award, the Hull-Warriner Award, and a citation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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Friday, January 20, 2012

Windows Project: Elisabeth Meyer: Black Night/White Night
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Window Project features an installation by Elisabeth Meyer consisting of organic forms embroidered onto an organza fabric. The overall patterning evokes an association with ocean waves and a net. The transparent quality of the organza background allows the viewer to see through the piece that is hanging from the ceiling covering the entire window front. The work addresses the issue of displacement through traveling. Meyer, who is based in Ithaca, developed the concept for this exhibition while at a residency in Iceland, traveled to India to oversee the production of the embroidery, and created the work on site in Syracuse.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The 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 originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

"Everything is Illustrated III" and "Talking Wallpaper"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Gallery A: Everything is Illustrated III, featuring work by Holly DePue, Beth Mand, and Kristen Tryon
Gallery B: Talking Wallpaper, featuring recent work by Miles George and Aaron Lee

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

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

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

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

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

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

Westcott Community Gallery Group Show
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Works by Mary McConnell, Molly Susman, Steve Susman, and Kristina Starowitz.

CNY Visions
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Unique views of the Central New York area through the lenses of Herm Card, Richard Emory, Larry Hoyt, and Bill Sullivan. Also showcasing the artglass of Phil Austin and jewelry of Esperanza Tielbaard.

Looking & Looking: Photos by Amy Elkins and Jen Davis
Light Work Gallery

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

Jen Davis and Amy Elkins create work that focuses on gaze and identity, with Davis looking at herself and Elkins looking at young male athletes. The images in the exhibition explore the perception of how men and women are supposed to appear in society -- men should be strong and confident, women should be beautiful -- and the crafting of a self-image.

Jen Davis creates self-portraits that deal with issues surrounding beauty, identity, and body image of women, and challenges the perceptions and stereotypes of how women should look in their physical appearances. Amy Elkins depicts the more aggressive, competitive, and violent aspects of male identity in her series Elegant Violence, which captures portraits of young Ivy League rugby athletes moments after their game. Elkins' images explore the balance between athleticism, modes of violence or aggression, and varying degrees of vulnerability within a sport where brutal body contact is fundamental.

Both artists focus on the construction of identity -- the players are astutely aware of how they are presenting themselves while Davis draws attention to her own self-image in a more emotional way. Shown together, the works of Davis and Elkins urge the viewer to consider expectations and perceptions (both societal and individual) of identity.

Landmarks of New York
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Landmarks of New York is a traveling exhibit of 90 stunning black and white photographs of New York City buildings that have been accorded landmark status by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. The exhibit is curated by Dr. Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, New York City's first director of cultural affairs and acclaimed author of the book that serves as the basis for the exhibit, The Landmarks of New York: An Illustrated Record of the City's Historic Building. In conjunction with the show, Dennis Connors, OHA's Curator of History, selected over 20 contemporary and historic photographs to highlight Onondaga County's own architectural inheritance.

Dependent Structures
Szozda Gallery

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

A display of works by painters C. J. Hodge III, Tom Townsley, and Stephen Perrone. In their individual pieces for this show, the term "dependent structures" for Hodge refers to subject matter; for Townsley and Perrone, the term refers more to form and materials.

Holiday Show 2011
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Show features jewelry, ceramics, photography, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include Dana Stenson (Syracuse), Jen Gandee (Fabius), Jeanann Wieners (Syracuse), Elisabeth Groat (Syracuse), Sarah Saulson (Syracuse), Lucie Wellner (Pompey), and Errol Willett (Fabius).

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body.

Emilio Sanchez: No Way Home--Images of the Caribbean and New York City
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"No Way Home" features a selection of 24 paintings, watercolors, drawings and prints drawn from the recently acquired collection of work by Cuban-American artist Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999). Best known for his brightly colored, strongly shadowed images of Caribbean and New York City architecture, this exhibition reveals the artist's ongoing interest in repetitive patterns. The show highlights a recent gift to the University Art Collection from the Emilio Sanchez Foundation of over 250 paintings, drawings and prints.

Engineered Perspectives: Railroad Culture in the Modern World
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Engineered Perspectives: Railroad Culture in the Modern World" examines how depictions of the railroad transformed our perception of the railroad industry. Whether the purpose of an artistic work was to entertain the viewer, to provide cultural commentary, or to call attention to the railroad's impact on the economic climate, each one inevitably had an effect on the way the audience viewed and understood the railroad in modern society.

In partnership with the Syracuse University Art Galleries and the Special Collections Research Center, the students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorship course in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies have worked together to thematically demonstrate visual testimonies to the railroad's reign over the industrialized world.

Sources & Structures: The Art of Robert Stackhouse
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This 25-year retrospective, organized by the SUArt Galleries, surveys the development of Robert Stackhouse as an artist. In addition to investigating the roots of his best-known imagery -- Viking ships, whales, snakes, and wood A-frame constructs -- this exhibition examines how he conceives of these designs through his drawings, watercolors, and prints. "Sources and Structures" considers how Stackhouse has made a personal examination of these natural and man-made forms and developed a body of work that explores affinities between architecture and biological anatomy.

American Art from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Deng Guo Yuan
The Warehouse Gallery

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

This exhibit will highlight ink brush paintings by Tianjin-based Chinese artist Deng Guo Yuan. His work reveals the tradition of Chinese landscape painting and a profound knowledge of modern and international contemporary aesthetics. The film "Deng Guo Yuan" (2010) by French filmmaker Pierre Creton, presented in the Gallery's vault, meticulously documents the creation of one of Deng Guo Yuan's ink paintings in his Tianjin studio. Widely exhibited in China and Europe, this will be the artist's first solo museum exhibition in the United States. The show originated at the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts Museum (Tianjin, China), and then traveled in modified form to the Samek Art Gallery at Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA), to the Provenance Center (New London, CT), and to its last venue, the Warehouse Gallery, for which Deng Guo Yuan will create additional site-specific works.

Stone Canoe Art Exhibit
XL Projects

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

Stone Canoe is a journal of arts and ideas from Upstate New York, published annually in January. This exhibit will feature artists included in the new Issue 6.

Six Make One
Echo

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

Installation by six artists: Brendan Rose, Briana Kohlbrenner, Damian Vallelonga, Jeff Walter, Mark Povinelli and Stasya Erickson. From design to construction in under two weeks. The concept of this installation was influenced by an previous installation called "New Formula."

Daughters of Ixchel: The Photography of Mary Lawyer O'Connor
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Daughters of Ixchel" is a collection of images of Maya women and their hand-woven textiles that brings awareness and understanding of vibrant Maya cultures and the challenges they face. The exhibit will be a look into the lives of women weavers from Guatemala and Southern Mexico. Portrait and documentary photography along with text will tell their stories and will include original textiles. We will highlight fair-trade, worker-owned cooperatives and the political history of Guatemala where, despite persecution and genocide, Maya weavers maintain traditional methods, patterns, colors and styles that flourish and evolve.

Mary Lawyer O'Connor lives in Pompey and is a founder and current head of the Montessori School of Syracuse.

John Knecht: Deluge and Anima
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Deluge (2010) hand-drawn looping animation
Anima (2011) hand-drawn looping animation

Artist Statement:
Things have been falling in my videos for decades. It was at first formal. Falling things filled the frame and made a complicated cinematic space. The things falling -- wishbones, test tubes, martini glasses, plastic strawberries that looked like a human heart, cement blocks and infected molars -- increasingly became an atmosphere, functioning both as a formal device and a metaphorical space.

There is a drawing in the collection of the Queen, hanging in Buckingham Palace, by Leonardo daVinci which depicts a deluge of raining everyday objects: rakes, funnels, lamps and general debris. The title of the drawing is "A Cloudburst of Material Things." It is graphite on paper and credited to daVinci. It is dated 1500. The drawing is torn in half so only a part of the drawing remains. I have struggled to find out more about the piece and there is virtually nothing written about it, but I am haunted by it. "Deluge" is directly informed by the overwhelmed totality of daVinci's image. What was he thinking?

Jazz@Sitrus
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Maria DeSantis

Sitrus on the Hill
Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel, Syracuse

Diana Jones
Folkus Project

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

In a style that echoes Appalachia, Diana Jones's distinctive alto voice sings of "the hard times, murderous urges, and chilling loneliness that haunt the old Anglo-Celtic ballads but . . . sets her plain-spoken narratives resolutely in the present" (New York Times). One of the most critically acclaimed singer-songwriters of the neo-trad movement.

Bryan Adams: Bare Bones Tour

Price: $35, $75
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Tickets available at the OnCenter Box Office, 315-435-2121, or through ticketmaster.com.

Senior Trumpet Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Geoffrey Sheldon

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

Sheldon is a senior music education major with performance honors. The repertoire includes the Kennan Sonata, Turrin Miniatures, Animal Ditties, and other classical and contemporary works for trumpet. The recital will also feature narrations by Ross Hecht, and trumpet accompanists.

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

Poets Elinor Cramer and Jessica Cuello
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Elinor Cramer's first book of poems, She Is a Pupa, Soft and White, has just been published by Word Press. She is also is the author of a chapbook, Canal Walls Engineered So Carefully They Still Hold Water (Valley Press, 2010). Her poems have appeared in Stone Canoe, The Comstock Review, English Journal and elsewhere. She lives and practices psychotherapy in Syracuse.

Jessica Cuello's first chapbook, a biographic poem cycle about the scientist Marie Curie, came out in 2011 from Kattywompus Press. Her poems have appeared in Copper Nickel, RHINO, Tampa Review, Clackamas, and other journals. She teaches French in Marcellus.

A Perfect Ganesh
Redhouse

Price: $25 regular, $15 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

A Perfect Ganesh, by Terrance McNally, is a seductive comedy about the adventures of Margaret and Katherine, two suburban matrons who travel to India as the Hindu elephant god Ganesha leads them on an intoxicating and revealing pilgrimage. Dealing with issues of acceptance, what it means to be American, and hate crimes, this astonishingly moving play takes preconceptions and turns them on their head as these familiar characters find healing through laughter and friendship.

Once again, Redhouse combines local and out-of-town talent to mount this production. Tim Brown returns to Redhouse after his work on The Wiz! to design set, lights and projections. Lisa Loen, whose stunning work was featured in the Redhouse production of Conference of the Birds, will be designing the costumes. John Czajkowski is the Technical Director and Kyle Kashel is the Sound Designer. Stephen Svoboda is directing the production which features local Equity actors Susannah Berryman and Laura Austin and New York actors J.L. Reed and Adam Perabo who was last seen at Redhouse in Odysseus DOA. Binaifer Dabu joins the cast to provide musical accompaniment.

A Perfect Ganesh was first produced at Manhattan Theatre Club in 1993, directed by John Tillinger and featured Zoe Caldwell and Frances Sternhagan. A Perfect Ganesh was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and is widely considered to be McNally's best work. McNally is an American playwright who has received four Tony Awards, an Emmy, two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, the Lucille Lortel Award, the Hull-Warriner Award, and a citation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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Saturday, January 21, 2012

Windows Project: Elisabeth Meyer: Black Night/White Night
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Window Project features an installation by Elisabeth Meyer consisting of organic forms embroidered onto an organza fabric. The overall patterning evokes an association with ocean waves and a net. The transparent quality of the organza background allows the viewer to see through the piece that is hanging from the ceiling covering the entire window front. The work addresses the issue of displacement through traveling. Meyer, who is based in Ithaca, developed the concept for this exhibition while at a residency in Iceland, traveled to India to oversee the production of the embroidery, and created the work on site in Syracuse.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The 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 originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

"Everything is Illustrated III" and "Talking Wallpaper"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Gallery A: Everything is Illustrated III, featuring work by Holly DePue, Beth Mand, and Kristen Tryon
Gallery B: Talking Wallpaper, featuring recent work by Miles George and Aaron Lee

CNY Visions
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Unique views of the Central New York area through the lenses of Herm Card, Richard Emory, Larry Hoyt, and Bill Sullivan. Also showcasing the artglass of Phil Austin and jewelry of Esperanza Tielbaard.

American Art from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Dependent Structures
Szozda Gallery

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

A display of works by painters C. J. Hodge III, Tom Townsley, and Stephen Perrone. In their individual pieces for this show, the term "dependent structures" for Hodge refers to subject matter; for Townsley and Perrone, the term refers more to form and materials.

Six Make One
Echo

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

Installation by six artists: Brendan Rose, Briana Kohlbrenner, Damian Vallelonga, Jeff Walter, Mark Povinelli and Stasya Erickson. From design to construction in under two weeks. The concept of this installation was influenced by an previous installation called "New Formula."

Holiday Show 2011
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Show features jewelry, ceramics, photography, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include Dana Stenson (Syracuse), Jen Gandee (Fabius), Jeanann Wieners (Syracuse), Elisabeth Groat (Syracuse), Sarah Saulson (Syracuse), Lucie Wellner (Pompey), and Errol Willett (Fabius).

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body.

Landmarks of New York
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Landmarks of New York is a traveling exhibit of 90 stunning black and white photographs of New York City buildings that have been accorded landmark status by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. The exhibit is curated by Dr. Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, New York City's first director of cultural affairs and acclaimed author of the book that serves as the basis for the exhibit, The Landmarks of New York: An Illustrated Record of the City's Historic Building. In conjunction with the show, Dennis Connors, OHA's Curator of History, selected over 20 contemporary and historic photographs to highlight Onondaga County's own architectural inheritance.

Emilio Sanchez: No Way Home--Images of the Caribbean and New York City
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"No Way Home" features a selection of 24 paintings, watercolors, drawings and prints drawn from the recently acquired collection of work by Cuban-American artist Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999). Best known for his brightly colored, strongly shadowed images of Caribbean and New York City architecture, this exhibition reveals the artist's ongoing interest in repetitive patterns. The show highlights a recent gift to the University Art Collection from the Emilio Sanchez Foundation of over 250 paintings, drawings and prints.

Sources & Structures: The Art of Robert Stackhouse
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This 25-year retrospective, organized by the SUArt Galleries, surveys the development of Robert Stackhouse as an artist. In addition to investigating the roots of his best-known imagery -- Viking ships, whales, snakes, and wood A-frame constructs -- this exhibition examines how he conceives of these designs through his drawings, watercolors, and prints. "Sources and Structures" considers how Stackhouse has made a personal examination of these natural and man-made forms and developed a body of work that explores affinities between architecture and biological anatomy.

Engineered Perspectives: Railroad Culture in the Modern World
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Engineered Perspectives: Railroad Culture in the Modern World" examines how depictions of the railroad transformed our perception of the railroad industry. Whether the purpose of an artistic work was to entertain the viewer, to provide cultural commentary, or to call attention to the railroad's impact on the economic climate, each one inevitably had an effect on the way the audience viewed and understood the railroad in modern society.

In partnership with the Syracuse University Art Galleries and the Special Collections Research Center, the students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorship course in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies have worked together to thematically demonstrate visual testimonies to the railroad's reign over the industrialized world.

Closing: Daughters of Ixchel: The Photography of Mary Lawyer O'Connor
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

There will be a closing reception this afternoon 2:00-4:00 pm. Wine, cheese, and a chance to bid for one of our exhibition textiles. (Cash and check only accepted for bid payment.)

"Daughters of Ixchel" is a collection of images of Maya women and their hand-woven textiles that brings awareness and understanding of vibrant Maya cultures and the challenges they face. The exhibit will be a look into the lives of women weavers from Guatemala and Southern Mexico. Portrait and documentary photography along with text will tell their stories and will include original textiles. We will highlight fair-trade, worker-owned cooperatives and the political history of Guatemala where, despite persecution and genocide, Maya weavers maintain traditional methods, patterns, colors and styles that flourish and evolve.

Mary Lawyer O'Connor lives in Pompey and is a founder and current head of the Montessori School of Syracuse.

Deng Guo Yuan
The Warehouse Gallery

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

This exhibit will highlight ink brush paintings by Tianjin-based Chinese artist Deng Guo Yuan. His work reveals the tradition of Chinese landscape painting and a profound knowledge of modern and international contemporary aesthetics. The film "Deng Guo Yuan" (2010) by French filmmaker Pierre Creton, presented in the Gallery's vault, meticulously documents the creation of one of Deng Guo Yuan's ink paintings in his Tianjin studio. Widely exhibited in China and Europe, this will be the artist's first solo museum exhibition in the United States. The show originated at the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts Museum (Tianjin, China), and then traveled in modified form to the Samek Art Gallery at Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA), to the Provenance Center (New London, CT), and to its last venue, the Warehouse Gallery, for which Deng Guo Yuan will create additional site-specific works.

Stone Canoe Art Exhibit
XL Projects

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

Stone Canoe is a journal of arts and ideas from Upstate New York, published annually in January. This exhibit will feature artists included in the new Issue 6.

John Knecht: Deluge and Anima
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Deluge (2010) hand-drawn looping animation
Anima (2011) hand-drawn looping animation

Artist Statement:
Things have been falling in my videos for decades. It was at first formal. Falling things filled the frame and made a complicated cinematic space. The things falling -- wishbones, test tubes, martini glasses, plastic strawberries that looked like a human heart, cement blocks and infected molars -- increasingly became an atmosphere, functioning both as a formal device and a metaphorical space.

There is a drawing in the collection of the Queen, hanging in Buckingham Palace, by Leonardo daVinci which depicts a deluge of raining everyday objects: rakes, funnels, lamps and general debris. The title of the drawing is "A Cloudburst of Material Things." It is graphite on paper and credited to daVinci. It is dated 1500. The drawing is torn in half so only a part of the drawing remains. I have struggled to find out more about the piece and there is virtually nothing written about it, but I am haunted by it. "Deluge" is directly informed by the overwhelmed totality of daVinci's image. What was he thinking?

Festival Film Series: Siberia Monamour
ArtRage Gallery
Syracuse International Film Festival

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

Siberia Monamour by Slava Ross (Russia, fiction, 95 minutes)
This is a powerful, beautifully shot and acted work about life and death on the fringes of Russian society. In a deserted Siberian village, an old man and his grandson wait for the boy's father, missing for two years, to return. A pack of feral dogs also waits just outside the village, devouring everything alive. One of these dogs is the boy's best friend. The others keep the boy and his grandfather isolated in the wilderness, far from the nearest village. Through this dangerous yet beautiful landscape wander a host of soldiers, marauders, prostitutes and drunks. They are all searching for an escape.

Goldenberg Cultural Series: Recycled Winds
Temple Society of Concord

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

It's for everyone -- adults and children! Five musicians will demonstrate how items in our recycling bins can be turned into musical instruments. Bring the entire family and enjoy this hour-long adventure!

Instrumental Scholastic Jazz Jam
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: $3 students, $6 all others
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Continuing the mission of educating the next generation of CNY jazz musicians and to continue this region's strong jazz tradition, these instrumental jazz jams provide a professional rhythm section drawn from the CNY Jazz Orchestra to accompany students. Students--school age or older, individuals or small combos--come prepared with music from a jazz standard to play with the professionals, who will provide encouragement, coaching, and backing for improvisation. All participants are encouraged to bring family and friends to cheer them on.

The goals of the Scholastic Jazz Jams are to create a welcoming, supportive atmosphere in which students can perform, to encourage regional school jazz programs, and to increase knowledge and understanding of jazz history and skills.

For more information, e-mail info@cnyjazz.org or call 315-479-5299.

Johnston School of Irish Dance Hooley Fundraiser
The Causeway Giants

Price: Adults: $15 in advance, $20 at the door; students $10, free for ages 5 and under
Drumlins Country Club
800 Nottingham Rd., Syracuse

Music, dancing, pizza, cash bar, silent auction. For more information, phone 315-446-4555.

Shakespeare Double-Header
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Price: $20
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream, presented in 55-minute versions to benefit the programs of the Syracuse Shakespeare Festival.

Little Red Riding Hood
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

In this interactive version, the children in the audience are invited to come dressed up as fairytale characters, and become the witnesses, jury, and judge at the wolf's trial (for trying to trick Little Red and her Grandmother).

For reservations, phone 315-449-3823.

A Perfect Ganesh
Redhouse

Price: $25 regular, $15 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

A Perfect Ganesh, by Terrance McNally, is a seductive comedy about the adventures of Margaret and Katherine, two suburban matrons who travel to India as the Hindu elephant god Ganesha leads them on an intoxicating and revealing pilgrimage. Dealing with issues of acceptance, what it means to be American, and hate crimes, this astonishingly moving play takes preconceptions and turns them on their head as these familiar characters find healing through laughter and friendship.

Once again, Redhouse combines local and out-of-town talent to mount this production. Tim Brown returns to Redhouse after his work on The Wiz! to design set, lights and projections. Lisa Loen, whose stunning work was featured in the Redhouse production of Conference of the Birds, will be designing the costumes. John Czajkowski is the Technical Director and Kyle Kashel is the Sound Designer. Stephen Svoboda is directing the production which features local Equity actors Susannah Berryman and Laura Austin and New York actors J.L. Reed and Adam Perabo who was last seen at Redhouse in Odysseus DOA. Binaifer Dabu joins the cast to provide musical accompaniment.

A Perfect Ganesh was first produced at Manhattan Theatre Club in 1993, directed by John Tillinger and featured Zoe Caldwell and Frances Sternhagan. A Perfect Ganesh was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and is widely considered to be McNally's best work. McNally is an American playwright who has received four Tony Awards, an Emmy, two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, the Lucille Lortel Award, the Hull-Warriner Award, and a citation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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Sunday, January 22, 2012

Windows Project: Elisabeth Meyer: Black Night/White Night
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Window Project features an installation by Elisabeth Meyer consisting of organic forms embroidered onto an organza fabric. The overall patterning evokes an association with ocean waves and a net. The transparent quality of the organza background allows the viewer to see through the piece that is hanging from the ceiling covering the entire window front. The work addresses the issue of displacement through traveling. Meyer, who is based in Ithaca, developed the concept for this exhibition while at a residency in Iceland, traveled to India to oversee the production of the embroidery, and created the work on site in Syracuse.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The 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 originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Looking & Looking: Photos by Amy Elkins and Jen Davis
Light Work Gallery

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

Jen Davis and Amy Elkins create work that focuses on gaze and identity, with Davis looking at herself and Elkins looking at young male athletes. The images in the exhibition explore the perception of how men and women are supposed to appear in society -- men should be strong and confident, women should be beautiful -- and the crafting of a self-image.

Jen Davis creates self-portraits that deal with issues surrounding beauty, identity, and body image of women, and challenges the perceptions and stereotypes of how women should look in their physical appearances. Amy Elkins depicts the more aggressive, competitive, and violent aspects of male identity in her series Elegant Violence, which captures portraits of young Ivy League rugby athletes moments after their game. Elkins' images explore the balance between athleticism, modes of violence or aggression, and varying degrees of vulnerability within a sport where brutal body contact is fundamental.

Both artists focus on the construction of identity -- the players are astutely aware of how they are presenting themselves while Davis draws attention to her own self-image in a more emotional way. Shown together, the works of Davis and Elkins urge the viewer to consider expectations and perceptions (both societal and individual) of identity.

Dependent Structures
Szozda Gallery

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

A display of works by painters C. J. Hodge III, Tom Townsley, and Stephen Perrone. In their individual pieces for this show, the term "dependent structures" for Hodge refers to subject matter; for Townsley and Perrone, the term refers more to form and materials.

Holiday Show 2011
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Show features jewelry, ceramics, photography, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include Dana Stenson (Syracuse), Jen Gandee (Fabius), Jeanann Wieners (Syracuse), Elisabeth Groat (Syracuse), Sarah Saulson (Syracuse), Lucie Wellner (Pompey), and Errol Willett (Fabius).

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body.

Landmarks of New York
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Landmarks of New York is a traveling exhibit of 90 stunning black and white photographs of New York City buildings that have been accorded landmark status by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. The exhibit is curated by Dr. Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, New York City's first director of cultural affairs and acclaimed author of the book that serves as the basis for the exhibit, The Landmarks of New York: An Illustrated Record of the City's Historic Building. In conjunction with the show, Dennis Connors, OHA's Curator of History, selected over 20 contemporary and historic photographs to highlight Onondaga County's own architectural inheritance.

Engineered Perspectives: Railroad Culture in the Modern World
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Engineered Perspectives: Railroad Culture in the Modern World" examines how depictions of the railroad transformed our perception of the railroad industry. Whether the purpose of an artistic work was to entertain the viewer, to provide cultural commentary, or to call attention to the railroad's impact on the economic climate, each one inevitably had an effect on the way the audience viewed and understood the railroad in modern society.

In partnership with the Syracuse University Art Galleries and the Special Collections Research Center, the students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorship course in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies have worked together to thematically demonstrate visual testimonies to the railroad's reign over the industrialized world.

Sources & Structures: The Art of Robert Stackhouse
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This 25-year retrospective, organized by the SUArt Galleries, surveys the development of Robert Stackhouse as an artist. In addition to investigating the roots of his best-known imagery -- Viking ships, whales, snakes, and wood A-frame constructs -- this exhibition examines how he conceives of these designs through his drawings, watercolors, and prints. "Sources and Structures" considers how Stackhouse has made a personal examination of these natural and man-made forms and developed a body of work that explores affinities between architecture and biological anatomy.

Emilio Sanchez: No Way Home--Images of the Caribbean and New York City
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"No Way Home" features a selection of 24 paintings, watercolors, drawings and prints drawn from the recently acquired collection of work by Cuban-American artist Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999). Best known for his brightly colored, strongly shadowed images of Caribbean and New York City architecture, this exhibition reveals the artist's ongoing interest in repetitive patterns. The show highlights a recent gift to the University Art Collection from the Emilio Sanchez Foundation of over 250 paintings, drawings and prints.

American Art from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

John Knecht: Deluge and Anima
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Deluge (2010) hand-drawn looping animation
Anima (2011) hand-drawn looping animation

Artist Statement:
Things have been falling in my videos for decades. It was at first formal. Falling things filled the frame and made a complicated cinematic space. The things falling -- wishbones, test tubes, martini glasses, plastic strawberries that looked like a human heart, cement blocks and infected molars -- increasingly became an atmosphere, functioning both as a formal device and a metaphorical space.

There is a drawing in the collection of the Queen, hanging in Buckingham Palace, by Leonardo daVinci which depicts a deluge of raining everyday objects: rakes, funnels, lamps and general debris. The title of the drawing is "A Cloudburst of Material Things." It is graphite on paper and credited to daVinci. It is dated 1500. The drawing is torn in half so only a part of the drawing remains. I have struggled to find out more about the piece and there is virtually nothing written about it, but I am haunted by it. "Deluge" is directly informed by the overwhelmed totality of daVinci's image. What was he thinking?

Live! At The Everson: Grade A All-American Duos
Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Peter Rovit, violin; Wesley Baldwin, cello

Price: $15 adults, students free
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Entertaining, beautiful contemporary duos by Mellits, Scherzinger, Shulman, Augusta Reed Thomas, Bolcom.

Greensky Bluegrass, with The Easy Ramblers
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Monday, January 23, 2012

Windows Project: Elisabeth Meyer: Black Night/White Night
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Window Project features an installation by Elisabeth Meyer consisting of organic forms embroidered onto an organza fabric. The overall patterning evokes an association with ocean waves and a net. The transparent quality of the organza background allows the viewer to see through the piece that is hanging from the ceiling covering the entire window front. The work addresses the issue of displacement through traveling. Meyer, who is based in Ithaca, developed the concept for this exhibition while at a residency in Iceland, traveled to India to oversee the production of the embroidery, and created the work on site in Syracuse.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The 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 originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Gallery Exhibit: Abisay Puentes, Imposibilitatos
Onondaga Community College

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

Artist Statement:

In the imagination of all artists lay all transcendent questions that humankind have formulated in their heart and mind. In my artwork there are only a few questions as the center. Why do humans hurt each other? What is the reason for man's evil? Why do men have bad nature?

The only answer I have found is: Because mankind is "IMPOSIBILITATO" (unable, helpless, without means, impossibility in man).

This is a spiritual and physical stage that makes possible an unhappy humanity. This impossibility became the product of man losing the purpose of existence. With this loss we have found pain, agony and disorientation.

In my paintings I try to capture the diverse stages of impossibility. This is why this series has the same theme, feeling and internal message. Between the expressionism and the neo-romanticism I establish a pictorial-sonorous piece of work with its own time and space, making a greater connection with the viewer.

Westcott Community Gallery Group Show
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Works by Mary McConnell, Molly Susman, Steve Susman, and Kristina Starowitz.

Looking & Looking: Photos by Amy Elkins and Jen Davis
Light Work Gallery

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

Jen Davis and Amy Elkins create work that focuses on gaze and identity, with Davis looking at herself and Elkins looking at young male athletes. The images in the exhibition explore the perception of how men and women are supposed to appear in society -- men should be strong and confident, women should be beautiful -- and the crafting of a self-image.

Jen Davis creates self-portraits that deal with issues surrounding beauty, identity, and body image of women, and challenges the perceptions and stereotypes of how women should look in their physical appearances. Amy Elkins depicts the more aggressive, competitive, and violent aspects of male identity in her series Elegant Violence, which captures portraits of young Ivy League rugby athletes moments after their game. Elkins' images explore the balance between athleticism, modes of violence or aggression, and varying degrees of vulnerability within a sport where brutal body contact is fundamental.

Both artists focus on the construction of identity -- the players are astutely aware of how they are presenting themselves while Davis draws attention to her own self-image in a more emotional way. Shown together, the works of Davis and Elkins urge the viewer to consider expectations and perceptions (both societal and individual) of identity.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Windows Project: Elisabeth Meyer: Black Night/White Night
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Window Project features an installation by Elisabeth Meyer consisting of organic forms embroidered onto an organza fabric. The overall patterning evokes an association with ocean waves and a net. The transparent quality of the organza background allows the viewer to see through the piece that is hanging from the ceiling covering the entire window front. The work addresses the issue of displacement through traveling. Meyer, who is based in Ithaca, developed the concept for this exhibition while at a residency in Iceland, traveled to India to oversee the production of the embroidery, and created the work on site in Syracuse.

Gallery Exhibit: Abisay Puentes, Imposibilitatos
Onondaga Community College

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

Artist Statement:

In the imagination of all artists lay all transcendent questions that humankind have formulated in their heart and mind. In my artwork there are only a few questions as the center. Why do humans hurt each other? What is the reason for man's evil? Why do men have bad nature?

The only answer I have found is: Because mankind is "IMPOSIBILITATO" (unable, helpless, without means, impossibility in man).

This is a spiritual and physical stage that makes possible an unhappy humanity. This impossibility became the product of man losing the purpose of existence. With this loss we have found pain, agony and disorientation.

In my paintings I try to capture the diverse stages of impossibility. This is why this series has the same theme, feeling and internal message. Between the expressionism and the neo-romanticism I establish a pictorial-sonorous piece of work with its own time and space, making a greater connection with the viewer.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The 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 originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

"Everything is Illustrated III" and "Talking Wallpaper"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Gallery A: Everything is Illustrated III, featuring work by Holly DePue, Beth Mand, and Kristen Tryon
Gallery B: Talking Wallpaper, featuring recent work by Miles George and Aaron Lee

Westcott Community Gallery Group Show
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Works by Mary McConnell, Molly Susman, Steve Susman, and Kristina Starowitz.

CNY Visions
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Unique views of the Central New York area through the lenses of Herm Card, Richard Emory, Larry Hoyt, and Bill Sullivan. Also showcasing the artglass of Phil Austin and jewelry of Esperanza Tielbaard.

Looking & Looking: Photos by Amy Elkins and Jen Davis
Light Work Gallery

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

Jen Davis and Amy Elkins create work that focuses on gaze and identity, with Davis looking at herself and Elkins looking at young male athletes. The images in the exhibition explore the perception of how men and women are supposed to appear in society -- men should be strong and confident, women should be beautiful -- and the crafting of a self-image.

Jen Davis creates self-portraits that deal with issues surrounding beauty, identity, and body image of women, and challenges the perceptions and stereotypes of how women should look in their physical appearances. Amy Elkins depicts the more aggressive, competitive, and violent aspects of male identity in her series Elegant Violence, which captures portraits of young Ivy League rugby athletes moments after their game. Elkins' images explore the balance between athleticism, modes of violence or aggression, and varying degrees of vulnerability within a sport where brutal body contact is fundamental.

Both artists focus on the construction of identity -- the players are astutely aware of how they are presenting themselves while Davis draws attention to her own self-image in a more emotional way. Shown together, the works of Davis and Elkins urge the viewer to consider expectations and perceptions (both societal and individual) of identity.

Emilio Sanchez: No Way Home--Images of the Caribbean and New York City
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"No Way Home" features a selection of 24 paintings, watercolors, drawings and prints drawn from the recently acquired collection of work by Cuban-American artist Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999). Best known for his brightly colored, strongly shadowed images of Caribbean and New York City architecture, this exhibition reveals the artist's ongoing interest in repetitive patterns. The show highlights a recent gift to the University Art Collection from the Emilio Sanchez Foundation of over 250 paintings, drawings and prints.

American Art from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Deng Guo Yuan
The Warehouse Gallery

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

This exhibit will highlight ink brush paintings by Tianjin-based Chinese artist Deng Guo Yuan. His work reveals the tradition of Chinese landscape painting and a profound knowledge of modern and international contemporary aesthetics. The film "Deng Guo Yuan" (2010) by French filmmaker Pierre Creton, presented in the Gallery's vault, meticulously documents the creation of one of Deng Guo Yuan's ink paintings in his Tianjin studio. Widely exhibited in China and Europe, this will be the artist's first solo museum exhibition in the United States. The show originated at the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts Museum (Tianjin, China), and then traveled in modified form to the Samek Art Gallery at Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA), to the Provenance Center (New London, CT), and to its last venue, the Warehouse Gallery, for which Deng Guo Yuan will create additional site-specific works.

Six Make One
Echo

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

Installation by six artists: Brendan Rose, Briana Kohlbrenner, Damian Vallelonga, Jeff Walter, Mark Povinelli and Stasya Erickson. From design to construction in under two weeks. The concept of this installation was influenced by an previous installation called "New Formula."

Science and Magic in Film: Forbidden Planet (1956)
Redhouse
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular, $5 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Film and discussion with guest Douglas Quin -- sound designer, naturalist, public radio commentator, and composer.

Forbidden Planet was the first science fiction film that was set entirely in deep space, away from the planet Earth. It is considered one of the great science fiction films of the 1950s, a precursor of what was to come for the science fiction film genre in the decades that followed. Forbidden Planet features the groundbreaking use of an all-electronic musical score. It also featured "Robby the Robot", one of the first film robots that was more than just a mechanical "tin can" on legs; Robby displays a distinct personality and is a complete supporting character in the film.
Directed by Fred M. Wilcox, with a screenplay by Cyril Hume. Starring Leslie Nielsen, Walter Pidgeon, and Anne Francis.

Pierrot Lunaire
Arts Engage
eighth blackbird

Price: $15 regular, $10 students/seniors, free with SU ID (with reserved ticket)
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This new production continues eighth blackbird's commitment to performances that blur the boundaries between music and theater. Directed by renowned New York choreographer Mark DeChiazza, it features soprano Lucy Shelton, dancer Elyssa Dole, and eighth blackbird percussionist Matthew Duvall in the title role. The musicians of eighth blackbird perform the challenging work from memory so the players can take important roles in the drama.

To reserve or purchase tickets, call 315-443-0296 or email SUArtsPresenter@syr.edu.

Vive la France
Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music

Price: $10 adult, $5 student
Dewitt Community Church
3600 Erie Blvd. East, Dewitt

Louis-Gabriel Guillemain Conversation Galante et Amusante for flute, violin, cello and piano, Op. 12, no. 1
Cesar Franck Sonata in A major for violin and piano
Maurice Ravel String Quartet in F Major
Francis Poulenc Sextet for Piano and Winds

The musicians include Jeremy and Sara Mastrangelo, violins; Arvilla Rovit, viola; David LeDoux, cello; Sar-Shalom Strong, piano; Deborah Coble, flute; Anna Petersen Stearns, oboe; Allan Kolsky, clarinet; Gregory Quick, bassoon; and Julie Bridge, French horn.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Windows Project: Elisabeth Meyer: Black Night/White Night
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Window Project features an installation by Elisabeth Meyer consisting of organic forms embroidered onto an organza fabric. The overall patterning evokes an association with ocean waves and a net. The transparent quality of the organza background allows the viewer to see through the piece that is hanging from the ceiling covering the entire window front. The work addresses the issue of displacement through traveling. Meyer, who is based in Ithaca, developed the concept for this exhibition while at a residency in Iceland, traveled to India to oversee the production of the embroidery, and created the work on site in Syracuse.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The 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 originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Gallery Exhibit: Abisay Puentes, Imposibilitatos
Onondaga Community College

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

There will be an artist talk today 11:00-11:30 am, followed by a reception 11:30 am-12:30 pm.

Artist Statement:

In the imagination of all artists lay all transcendent questions that humankind have formulated in their heart and mind. In my artwork there are only a few questions as the center. Why do humans hurt each other? What is the reason for man's evil? Why do men have bad nature?

The only answer I have found is: Because mankind is "IMPOSIBILITATO" (unable, helpless, without means, impossibility in man).

This is a spiritual and physical stage that makes possible an unhappy humanity. This impossibility became the product of man losing the purpose of existence. With this loss we have found pain, agony and disorientation.

In my paintings I try to capture the diverse stages of impossibility. This is why this series has the same theme, feeling and internal message. Between the expressionism and the neo-romanticism I establish a pictorial-sonorous piece of work with its own time and space, making a greater connection with the viewer.

"Everything is Illustrated III" and "Talking Wallpaper"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Gallery A: Everything is Illustrated III, featuring work by Holly DePue, Beth Mand, and Kristen Tryon
Gallery B: Talking Wallpaper, featuring recent work by Miles George and Aaron Lee

Westcott Community Gallery Group Show
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Works by Mary McConnell, Molly Susman, Steve Susman, and Kristina Starowitz.

CNY Visions
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Unique views of the Central New York area through the lenses of Herm Card, Richard Emory, Larry Hoyt, and Bill Sullivan. Also showcasing the artglass of Phil Austin and jewelry of Esperanza Tielbaard.

Looking & Looking: Photos by Amy Elkins and Jen Davis
Light Work Gallery

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

Jen Davis and Amy Elkins create work that focuses on gaze and identity, with Davis looking at herself and Elkins looking at young male athletes. The images in the exhibition explore the perception of how men and women are supposed to appear in society -- men should be strong and confident, women should be beautiful -- and the crafting of a self-image.

Jen Davis creates self-portraits that deal with issues surrounding beauty, identity, and body image of women, and challenges the perceptions and stereotypes of how women should look in their physical appearances. Amy Elkins depicts the more aggressive, competitive, and violent aspects of male identity in her series Elegant Violence, which captures portraits of young Ivy League rugby athletes moments after their game. Elkins' images explore the balance between athleticism, modes of violence or aggression, and varying degrees of vulnerability within a sport where brutal body contact is fundamental.

Both artists focus on the construction of identity -- the players are astutely aware of how they are presenting themselves while Davis draws attention to her own self-image in a more emotional way. Shown together, the works of Davis and Elkins urge the viewer to consider expectations and perceptions (both societal and individual) of identity.

Landmarks of New York
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Landmarks of New York is a traveling exhibit of 90 stunning black and white photographs of New York City buildings that have been accorded landmark status by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. The exhibit is curated by Dr. Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, New York City's first director of cultural affairs and acclaimed author of the book that serves as the basis for the exhibit, The Landmarks of New York: An Illustrated Record of the City's Historic Building. In conjunction with the show, Dennis Connors, OHA's Curator of History, selected over 20 contemporary and historic photographs to highlight Onondaga County's own architectural inheritance.

Dependent Structures
Szozda Gallery

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

A display of works by painters C. J. Hodge III, Tom Townsley, and Stephen Perrone. In their individual pieces for this show, the term "dependent structures" for Hodge refers to subject matter; for Townsley and Perrone, the term refers more to form and materials.

Emilio Sanchez: No Way Home--Images of the Caribbean and New York City
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"No Way Home" features a selection of 24 paintings, watercolors, drawings and prints drawn from the recently acquired collection of work by Cuban-American artist Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999). Best known for his brightly colored, strongly shadowed images of Caribbean and New York City architecture, this exhibition reveals the artist's ongoing interest in repetitive patterns. The show highlights a recent gift to the University Art Collection from the Emilio Sanchez Foundation of over 250 paintings, drawings and prints.

American Art from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Deng Guo Yuan
The Warehouse Gallery

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

This exhibit will highlight ink brush paintings by Tianjin-based Chinese artist Deng Guo Yuan. His work reveals the tradition of Chinese landscape painting and a profound knowledge of modern and international contemporary aesthetics. The film "Deng Guo Yuan" (2010) by French filmmaker Pierre Creton, presented in the Gallery's vault, meticulously documents the creation of one of Deng Guo Yuan's ink paintings in his Tianjin studio. Widely exhibited in China and Europe, this will be the artist's first solo museum exhibition in the United States. The show originated at the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts Museum (Tianjin, China), and then traveled in modified form to the Samek Art Gallery at Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA), to the Provenance Center (New London, CT), and to its last venue, the Warehouse Gallery, for which Deng Guo Yuan will create additional site-specific works.

Stone Canoe Art Exhibit
XL Projects

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

Stone Canoe is a journal of arts and ideas from Upstate New York, published annually in January. This exhibit will feature artists included in the new Issue 6.

Six Make One
Echo

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

Installation by six artists: Brendan Rose, Briana Kohlbrenner, Damian Vallelonga, Jeff Walter, Mark Povinelli and Stasya Erickson. From design to construction in under two weeks. The concept of this installation was influenced by an previous installation called "New Formula."

No One Ever Went Hungry: Cajun Food Traditions Then & Now
Slow Food CNY and Small Potatoes

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

Film with speaker Heather Hawkins.

Landmarks of New York Lecture Series
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Contemporary issues in American architecture will be the topic this lunchtime lecture by Ashley McGraw Associates. Ashley McGraw is an educational design firm with outstanding examples of architecture at Syracuse University, LeMoyne College, SUNY Cortland and ESF, as well as local public school districts.

Bring a bag lunch or order a specially-priced lunch from Parisa Restaurant (next door to OHA) at 315-565-5118. For more information, phone OHA at 315-428-1864, ext. 312.

Gretchen Hull, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Brilliant young pianist returns in first of two recitals this season. Bartok Sonata, Beethoven Les Adieux, Chopin B minor Scherzo.

Parking available in the OnCenter Garage: maximum $2.50 with CMM stamped ticket.