Sunday, March 18, 2012

Personal Images Art Exhibit
Syracuse Stage

Price: Free
Sutton Pavillion, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Personal Images, a collaborative exhibit by six Hispanic international painters, features original pieces by Angela M. Arrey-Wastavino, Juan A. Cruz, Oscar Garces, Marcela Hanford, Abisay Puentes, and Esperanza Tielbaard.

The art show offers the public an inner vision of an eclectic group of visual artists whose life experiences have influenced their creative style. This exhibit runs in conjunction with RED, Tony Award-winner play by John Logan about the abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko.

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Yarn Cupboard's Winter Fiber Arts Market

Price: $ regular, $ students/seniors
Christ the King Retreat House and Conference Center
500 Brookford Rd., Syracuse

The Marketplace, which is open to the public, is taking place in conjunction with a weekend fiber arts retreat.

For more information, phone 315-399-5148 or visit the blog.

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition was curated by English Professor Cassandra Jackson and Gallery Director Sarah Cunningham, both from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The exhibition was on view in the TCNJ Art Gallery in 2011. The central ideas of the exhibit are rooted in Jackson's most recent book, Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body (Routledge, 2010). Her book deals with the ways in which the black male body has been visually exploited, and the ways in which contemporary artists have called into question the paradigmatic construction of the black body in American society. The exhibit displays 31 photographs by 19 contemporary artists of African descent, 17 from the United States, two from Britain. Their work comments on the various representations of black bodies in Western visual culture. These artists confront stereotypes about black male appearance, sexuality, violence, and family, and highlight the ways that visual culture has contributed to the marginalization and exclusion of the black community.

Illusionistic
Szozda Gallery

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

Painter Kyle Mort's realism and painter Robert Glisson's impressionism are both meant to prompt the viewer's stare. Both Mort and Glisson work with beautiful color, achieved differently in their signature techniques. Mort tends toward extreme realism, bordering on trompe l'oeil in which he is capable of creating a spatial illusion. Glisson's impressionistic pieces, like the styles of those artists who inspire him, create an emotional illusion. Mort leans more toward depicting still life. Glisson endeavors to capture landscapes.

Pressing Print: Contemporary Prints and Process from Universal Limited Art Editions
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Pressing Print: Contemporary Prints and Process from Universal Limited Art Editions" chronicles the recent decade of artwork published by one of the most renowned American printmaking workshops. The exhibition of 60 works illustrates the impact that artists like Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Helen Frankenthaler and Kiki Smith have had on contemporary art, evident through the work of artists Jason Middelbrook, Amy Cutler and Jane Hammond. The show also illustrates how emerging artists recently selected to work with ULAE has influenced the current trend, in both process and concept.

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

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.

Academic Art...teachers that do
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Works of Jamessville-Dewitt art teachers Faith Carapella (charcoal, pen and ink, collage) and Steve Pilcher (soda-fired stoneware, both functional and decorative).

From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
Everson Museum of Art

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

"From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland" is the first exhibition to examine the American artist's work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Long celebrated as an iconic American artist due to his important early work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight, Henri's paintings have received less attention on their own. Most projects explored his career as it related to his role as a member of The Eight or in a broadly retrospective manner. Few projects focused on his landscapes, drawings, or foreign portraits.

Henri's Irish portraits constitute his largest focused body of work, and often depict the same sitters year after year. These paintings offer a unique and fascinating window onto the genre about which Henri felt most strongly--portraiture--and also chart his experiments with paint handling and color theories over time. He wrote that the time spent in Ireland was extremely valuable to him (it was the only other place besides New York where he purchased a residence), for only there was he able to focus on his painting without the distractions of life in New York. It is not surprising, then, that the periods Henri spent in Ireland were among his most prolific, and the paintings produced there among his most accomplished. Just before his death, Henri composed a list of his most important paintings; many of the works on this list were his Irish subjects. Forty-one paintings of Irish people and landscapes will be on view in the upcoming exhibition.

Being Impossible: Works by Deborah Zlotsky
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibition of drawings and paintings by Deborah Zlotsky. In this series, the artist manipulates powdered graphite on sheets of mylar, searching for signs of life in the smears and conjuring up blurred boundaries between documenting nature and inventing nature. Zlotsky is represented by Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in New York and presented a solo exhibition in October 2011. She has been the recipient of numerous residencies, including a residency fellowship at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY, this past summer. She earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University and a master's degree in painting and drawing from the University of Connecticut.

For more information, call 315-445-4153.

I Like America and America Likes Me
XL Projects

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

Artwork of international graduate students in SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) will be featured in this exhibition. The graduate students will exhibit work in a variety of media.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Opening The Reflections Series: Works by Nevin Mercede
Redhouse

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

There will be a gallery reception this evening 5:00-8:00 pm.

These digital prints are composed from photographs taken while traveling in Russia. Conversations with artists, politicians and educators encountered there provide the majority of companion texts. Since 1995 Mercede has woven images with texts reflecting on social, political and educational issues or situations.

SUArt KIDS
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Introduce yourself and your family to the process of printmaking with SUArt KIDS, an interactive art gallery experience that includes guided exhibition tours, projects, and art related stories at the Syracuse University Art Galleries. This week's program is designed specifically to engage your family with the exhibition "Pressing Print: Universal Limited Art Editions 2000-2010," including artwork by artists Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Kiki Smith, Jane Hammond and more.

Let us know you're interested! Please RSVP to suart@syr.edu or on Facebook.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

William Wegman: Flo Flow (2011)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The video "Flo Flow" is William Wegman's latest in a long line of human-canid collaborations. It was while he was in Long Beach in the 1970s that Wegman got his dog, Man Ray, with whom he began a fruitful collaboration of many years. Man Ray, known in the art world and beyond for his endearing deadpan presence, became a central figure in Wegman's photographs and videotapes. Ever since, Weimaraner-actors have peopled Wegman's uncanny imaginative universe, a reflection on both the human-ness of "animals" and the strangeness of humans.

William Wegman lives in New York and Maine where he continues to make videos, to take photographs and to make drawings and paintings.

Cinefest 32
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $30/day or $85 for all 4 days
Holiday Inn
Electronics Parkway, Liverpool

9:00 am: Love Thy Neighbor (1940), with Jack Benny, Fred Allen
10:30 am: The Auction (2012), hosted by Leonard Maltin
12 noon: Justin Herman Show IV (1950s Paramount Toppers)
12:35 pm: Without Regret (1936), with Elissa Landi, Paul Cavanaugh
1:55 pm: The Untamed (1920), with Tom Mix, Pauline Starke
2:50 pm: Champagne Waltz (1937), with Gladys Swarthout, Fred Macmurray

Octagon Houses and Self-Culture in 19th-Century America
Preservation Association of Central New York
Featuring Irene Cheng

Mansion on James (Barnes Hiscock Mansion)
930 James St., Syracuse

Nineteenth-century octagon houses dot the landscape of central New York, but few people know about the radical ideology that motivated this short-lived trend of the 1850s-60s. Join us for a delightful talk on Orson Fowler and Octagon Houses and Self-Culture in 19th-Century America. Irene Cheng will explore the ideas of the principal instigator behind these eight-sided houses: Orson Fowler, a Jacksonian-era writer involved in a variety of radical reform movements. Reading Fowler's widely popular 1848 book A Home for All in conjunction with his writings on health, sexuality, and phrenology reveals that he saw the house as a tool for cultivating the bodies of individuals, families, and the nation at large.

Irene Cheng is a Ph.D. candidate in architecture history and theory at Columbia University. Her research focuses on 19th-century American architecture and culture, with an emphasis on utopian movements, the history of science, and radical politics. She holds a Masters in Architecture from Columbia and a B.A. in Social Studies from Harvard University. Irene is also a founding partner of Cheng + Snyder, a multidisciplinary design firm based in New York City and Syracuse.

For more information, contact Jeff Romano, president of PACNY, 315-559-3590.

Annual Folk Music Series: The Youth Movement
Arts Alive in Liverpool
Featuring Andrew & Noah Van Norstrand

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

Composers and perfomers Andrew & Noah Van Norstrand from Fulton play guitar, fiddle, and mandolin.

Joe Carello & John Rohde Saxophone Extraordinaire
Fayetteville Free Library

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

Handguns, with Daybreaker, Give Us Jersey, Maker, The American Scene
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Jimmy Van Heusen Cabaret with Marissa Mulder
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: $30 regular at door, $25 subscribers/donors/advance; $12 with student ID
Sheraton Syracuse University Grand Ballroom
801 University Ave., Syracuse

Emerging New York City star--and Syracuse native--Marissa Mulder is a frequent performer in the Big Apple and has been featured in all-star tributes to Mickey Leonard and Jimmy Van Heusen. Her recent debut at NYC's "Don't Tell Mama" piano bar/cabaret was directed by her mentor (and another another Syracuse native) Karen Oberlin. Syracuse native Jimmy Van Heusen was a master songwriter who won multiple Academy Awards and an Emmy. His most recorded songs include "Ain't That a Kick in the Head," "High Hopes," and "Love and Marriage."

Doors open at 4:00 pm, followed by an instrumental set at 5:00 pm, and Mulder's one-hour show at 6:00 pm.

Those who buy advance $25 admissions will receive a CNY Jazz Club Discount Card good for 10% off food and drink for this cabaret and all remaining events of the CNY Jazz 2011-2012 Season. Sheraton SU will offer a cash bar and menu themed for the occasion at affordable buffet stations. All attendees will receive validated parking in the Sheraton SU garage.

The Moonlight Room
Appleseed Productions
Alan D. Stillman, director

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

In a hospital emergency room, a young man fights for his life after a drug overdose. In the ER waiting room, his friends and their families must come to grips with his plight, while dealing with the stresses of their own, often complicated, lives. The Moonlight Room, by Tristine Skyler, is a thoughtful and poignant exploration of what it means to be a teenager in the modern world.

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Red
Syracuse Stage
Penny Metropulos, director

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

The 2010 Tony Award-winner for Best Play, Red, by John Logan, is an intense and exciting bio-drama of the famed Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko at the time that he was working on a commission for a series of murals for New York's Four Seasons restaurant. On paper, the play has two characters, Rothko and young assistant. On stage, the paintings themselves become characters adding a stunning visual presence and making palpable the intense physical process of the art. As Rothko and his young protégé prepare paint and canvas and assess and reassess each work, they engage in a combative struggle over the methods and purpose of art that is sharp, funny and mentally invigorating.

Read a Review!

Red
Syracuse Stage
Penny Metropulos, director

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

The 2010 Tony Award-winner for Best Play, Red, by John Logan, is an intense and exciting bio-drama of the famed Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko at the time that he was working on a commission for a series of murals for New York's Four Seasons restaurant. On paper, the play has two characters, Rothko and young assistant. On stage, the paintings themselves become characters adding a stunning visual presence and making palpable the intense physical process of the art. As Rothko and his young protégé prepare paint and canvas and assess and reassess each work, they engage in a combative struggle over the methods and purpose of art that is sharp, funny and mentally invigorating.

Read a Review!

Monday, March 19, 2012

Personal Images Art Exhibit
Syracuse Stage

Price: Free
Sutton Pavillion, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Personal Images, a collaborative exhibit by six Hispanic international painters, features original pieces by Angela M. Arrey-Wastavino, Juan A. Cruz, Oscar Garces, Marcela Hanford, Abisay Puentes, and Esperanza Tielbaard.

The art show offers the public an inner vision of an eclectic group of visual artists whose life experiences have influenced their creative style. This exhibit runs in conjunction with RED, Tony Award-winner play by John Logan about the abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko.

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Being Impossible: Works by Deborah Zlotsky
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibition of drawings and paintings by Deborah Zlotsky. In this series, the artist manipulates powdered graphite on sheets of mylar, searching for signs of life in the smears and conjuring up blurred boundaries between documenting nature and inventing nature. Zlotsky is represented by Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in New York and presented a solo exhibition in October 2011. She has been the recipient of numerous residencies, including a residency fellowship at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY, this past summer. She earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University and a master's degree in painting and drawing from the University of Connecticut.

For more information, call 315-445-4153.

Interpreting Nature
Baltimore Woods Art Gallery

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

A collection of work by Sharon Bottle Souva, fabric handworks; Wesley Weiss, ceramics; and Jill Newton, watercolors, who work in three distinct media but are united by their shared reference to the natural world.

Gallery Exhibit: The Narrative Tradition in the 21st Century: The Art of Randy Elliott and Richard Williams
Onondaga Community College

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

About Richard Williams:
As a self-taught illustrator I was able to sidestep the many academic pitfalls that plague contemporary artists, such as the belief that drawing skills are not important. My work is steeped in the tradition of craftsmanship and the importance of the narrative. Art in my opinion serves a social function, which can encompass selling a product to the public or making critical commentary on society and culture, and anything in between. To accomplish this, the artist needs to communicate in a simple, clear and powerful way. To do this one needs to have a firm grasp of the basic skills of draftsmanship, color, painting technique and storytelling.

About Randy Elliott:
Randy Elliott began his professional art career in 1988, inking the Dungeons & Dragons, Dragonlance comic book for DC Comics. That job began a career that continues until the present. Over the course of the last twenty-odd years, Randy has inked and/or penciled comic books for DC, Archie, Marvel, Dark Horse, Valiant and a number of smaller publishers. He has also painted images for clients like, Wizards of the Coast, Alderac Entertainment Group, Battlefront Miniatures, Hasbro and others.

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

Academic Art...teachers that do
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Works of Jamessville-Dewitt art teachers Faith Carapella (charcoal, pen and ink, collage) and Steve Pilcher (soda-fired stoneware, both functional and decorative).

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition was curated by English Professor Cassandra Jackson and Gallery Director Sarah Cunningham, both from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The exhibition was on view in the TCNJ Art Gallery in 2011. The central ideas of the exhibit are rooted in Jackson's most recent book, Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body (Routledge, 2010). Her book deals with the ways in which the black male body has been visually exploited, and the ways in which contemporary artists have called into question the paradigmatic construction of the black body in American society. The exhibit displays 31 photographs by 19 contemporary artists of African descent, 17 from the United States, two from Britain. Their work comments on the various representations of black bodies in Western visual culture. These artists confront stereotypes about black male appearance, sexuality, violence, and family, and highlight the ways that visual culture has contributed to the marginalization and exclusion of the black community.

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

Alexander Gronsky is a self-described landscape photographer with an uncanny ability to capture scenes in nature as elegant allegories that include rolling hills, spectacular lighting, and far reaching horizons. His skilled use of perspective and composition, reminiscent of centuries-old traditions in European landscape painting, draw the viewer's eye deep into the landscape and generate a sense of awe for each place. The photographs in this exhibit were taken along the outlying areas of Moscow where the human need to find solace away from the city collides with urban sprawl, and the fragility of nature.

Design and Aging
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Design and Aging," an exhibition of student design projects focused on solutions to problems associated with aging, features work by students in industrial and interaction design, interior design and advertising design in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. It includes a project that explores how effective design could assist the elderly population of Hong Kong, as well as a series of posters that illustrate potential kiosks that could be targeted to mall walkers at Shoppingtown Mall in DeWitt.

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

For more information, contact Bradley Hudson at bjhudson@syr.edu.

Creativity through Exhibition Design II
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Creativity through Exhibition Design II" features computer-aided drawings and 3-dimensional models of the gallery space in the State Tower Building adjacent to Hanover Square. Students gained experience in such areas as color selection, spatial arrangement, lighting techniques, typography and universal design principles to put their individual creativity into an upcoming exhibition they are working on titled "Hidden in Plain Site: Sculpture in Syracuse and the Work of the Public Artist in Residence."

Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on W. Fayette St. or the first-floor door on W. Washington St.

The Photographer as Child: Memories of Guatemala
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Born in Guatemala, award-winning photographer Efren Lopez is a student in the Military Photojournalism Program at Syracuse University. He is also an aerial photographer for the U.S. Air Force and the first reservist to be selected to attend Newhouse's Military Photojournalism Program. He now lives in Arizona.

The exhibit features images Lopez captured on a return trip to Guatemala in 2009. "My life began in a bamboo hut at the side of a road in a tiny town named Petaca, Guatemala, in 1966," Lopez writes. "It's a town so small that it is next to impossible to find on most maps of Guatemala, much less Central America."

Lopez has documented real-world situations and the military around the globe and has captured stunning images in Arizona and Guatemala. His work has been featured in various publications, including the book Arizona 24/7, and has been awarded many distinctions, including first place in the Professional Photography category at the 2008 Arizona State Fair, an honorable mention in the pictorial category in the 2009 Military Photographer of the Year competition, and first place in the 2011 Multimedia Team 19th Annual Department of Defense Worldwide Military Photography Workshop.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Personal Images Art Exhibit
Syracuse Stage

Price: Free
Sutton Pavillion, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Personal Images, a collaborative exhibit by six Hispanic international painters, features original pieces by Angela M. Arrey-Wastavino, Juan A. Cruz, Oscar Garces, Marcela Hanford, Abisay Puentes, and Esperanza Tielbaard.

The art show offers the public an inner vision of an eclectic group of visual artists whose life experiences have influenced their creative style. This exhibit runs in conjunction with RED, Tony Award-winner play by John Logan about the abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko.

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Being Impossible: Works by Deborah Zlotsky
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibition of drawings and paintings by Deborah Zlotsky. In this series, the artist manipulates powdered graphite on sheets of mylar, searching for signs of life in the smears and conjuring up blurred boundaries between documenting nature and inventing nature. Zlotsky is represented by Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in New York and presented a solo exhibition in October 2011. She has been the recipient of numerous residencies, including a residency fellowship at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY, this past summer. She earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University and a master's degree in painting and drawing from the University of Connecticut.

For more information, call 315-445-4153.

Interpreting Nature
Baltimore Woods Art Gallery

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

A collection of work by Sharon Bottle Souva, fabric handworks; Wesley Weiss, ceramics; and Jill Newton, watercolors, who work in three distinct media but are united by their shared reference to the natural world.

Gallery Exhibit: The Narrative Tradition in the 21st Century: The Art of Randy Elliott and Richard Williams
Onondaga Community College

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

About Richard Williams:
As a self-taught illustrator I was able to sidestep the many academic pitfalls that plague contemporary artists, such as the belief that drawing skills are not important. My work is steeped in the tradition of craftsmanship and the importance of the narrative. Art in my opinion serves a social function, which can encompass selling a product to the public or making critical commentary on society and culture, and anything in between. To accomplish this, the artist needs to communicate in a simple, clear and powerful way. To do this one needs to have a firm grasp of the basic skills of draftsmanship, color, painting technique and storytelling.

About Randy Elliott:
Randy Elliott began his professional art career in 1988, inking the Dungeons & Dragons, Dragonlance comic book for DC Comics. That job began a career that continues until the present. Over the course of the last twenty-odd years, Randy has inked and/or penciled comic books for DC, Archie, Marvel, Dark Horse, Valiant and a number of smaller publishers. He has also painted images for clients like, Wizards of the Coast, Alderac Entertainment Group, Battlefront Miniatures, Hasbro and others.

"Images of Upstate New York" and "Juxtaposed Through Wonderland"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

"Images of Upstate New York" features work by Morgan Goodwin and Kate Walseman
"Juxtaposed Through Wonderland" features recent work by KayCie Danniel

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

Creatures Small and Great
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Dana Blythe Stenson (metalsmith jewelry), Candace Rhea (ceramic and mixed media), Alan Hart (acrylic on board), and Diane Menzies (oil paintings) interpret insects and small animals.

Academic Art...teachers that do
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Works of Jamessville-Dewitt art teachers Faith Carapella (charcoal, pen and ink, collage) and Steve Pilcher (soda-fired stoneware, both functional and decorative).

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

Alexander Gronsky is a self-described landscape photographer with an uncanny ability to capture scenes in nature as elegant allegories that include rolling hills, spectacular lighting, and far reaching horizons. His skilled use of perspective and composition, reminiscent of centuries-old traditions in European landscape painting, draw the viewer's eye deep into the landscape and generate a sense of awe for each place. The photographs in this exhibit were taken along the outlying areas of Moscow where the human need to find solace away from the city collides with urban sprawl, and the fragility of nature.

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition was curated by English Professor Cassandra Jackson and Gallery Director Sarah Cunningham, both from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The exhibition was on view in the TCNJ Art Gallery in 2011. The central ideas of the exhibit are rooted in Jackson's most recent book, Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body (Routledge, 2010). Her book deals with the ways in which the black male body has been visually exploited, and the ways in which contemporary artists have called into question the paradigmatic construction of the black body in American society. The exhibit displays 31 photographs by 19 contemporary artists of African descent, 17 from the United States, two from Britain. Their work comments on the various representations of black bodies in Western visual culture. These artists confront stereotypes about black male appearance, sexuality, violence, and family, and highlight the ways that visual culture has contributed to the marginalization and exclusion of the black community.

Creativity through Exhibition Design II
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Creativity through Exhibition Design II" features computer-aided drawings and 3-dimensional models of the gallery space in the State Tower Building adjacent to Hanover Square. Students gained experience in such areas as color selection, spatial arrangement, lighting techniques, typography and universal design principles to put their individual creativity into an upcoming exhibition they are working on titled "Hidden in Plain Site: Sculpture in Syracuse and the Work of the Public Artist in Residence."

Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on W. Fayette St. or the first-floor door on W. Washington St.

From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
Everson Museum of Art

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

"From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland" is the first exhibition to examine the American artist's work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Long celebrated as an iconic American artist due to his important early work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight, Henri's paintings have received less attention on their own. Most projects explored his career as it related to his role as a member of The Eight or in a broadly retrospective manner. Few projects focused on his landscapes, drawings, or foreign portraits.

Henri's Irish portraits constitute his largest focused body of work, and often depict the same sitters year after year. These paintings offer a unique and fascinating window onto the genre about which Henri felt most strongly--portraiture--and also chart his experiments with paint handling and color theories over time. He wrote that the time spent in Ireland was extremely valuable to him (it was the only other place besides New York where he purchased a residence), for only there was he able to focus on his painting without the distractions of life in New York. It is not surprising, then, that the periods Henri spent in Ireland were among his most prolific, and the paintings produced there among his most accomplished. Just before his death, Henri composed a list of his most important paintings; many of the works on this list were his Irish subjects. Forty-one paintings of Irish people and landscapes will be on view in the upcoming exhibition.

The Photographer as Child: Memories of Guatemala
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Born in Guatemala, award-winning photographer Efren Lopez is a student in the Military Photojournalism Program at Syracuse University. He is also an aerial photographer for the U.S. Air Force and the first reservist to be selected to attend Newhouse's Military Photojournalism Program. He now lives in Arizona.

The exhibit features images Lopez captured on a return trip to Guatemala in 2009. "My life began in a bamboo hut at the side of a road in a tiny town named Petaca, Guatemala, in 1966," Lopez writes. "It's a town so small that it is next to impossible to find on most maps of Guatemala, much less Central America."

Lopez has documented real-world situations and the military around the globe and has captured stunning images in Arizona and Guatemala. His work has been featured in various publications, including the book Arizona 24/7, and has been awarded many distinctions, including first place in the Professional Photography category at the 2008 Arizona State Fair, an honorable mention in the pictorial category in the 2009 Military Photographer of the Year competition, and first place in the 2011 Multimedia Team 19th Annual Department of Defense Worldwide Military Photography Workshop.

Noriko Ambe: Inner Water
The Warehouse Gallery

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

In her first US museum solo show, New York City-based Japanese artist Noriko Ambe will create a new site-specific installation in the main gallery reflecting the tragic 2011 events in Japan through the use of video projections and her signature large-scale paper cutouts that evoke waves.

Nature plays an important role in Ambe's work, and it points to larger issues, such as the natural forces determining our global landscape, and the relationship between nature and humans throughout time. A recipient of prestigious awards such as the AICA Award and Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Ambe's work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Arts and Design and the Japan Society in New York and the Kyoto University of Art and Design in Kyoto, Japan. Her work is also in the collection of the Whitney Museum of Art.

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Sick at Home: Works of Tonja Torgerson
Echo

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

Artist Statement: Notions of privacy and disclosure are at the core of my work. My portraits and figures deal with the reality of illness while balancing a thin line between expression and discretion. They explore the internal and external factors that compose one’s identity. While these topics could be divisive, the use of color, humor, and childish aesthetic keeps my work welcoming. Vomit, blood and bile appear alongside pinks, paisley and sweet poses. I am interested in this collision of attraction and disgust, and how it creates a difficult beauty and a pleasant anxiety. My work presents a personal side of an ever-increasingly political issue through a girlish lens of soft aesthetics and sad whimsy.

Tonja is currently pursuing an MFA in printmaking at Syracuse University.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

Serving Conscience
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Featuring Calvin Tsao and Zack McKown

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Auditorium
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Calvin Tsao and Zack McKown, co-partners of New York City's Tsao and McKown Architects and spring 2012 visiting critics, will speak on "Serving Conscience." The firm is known for its eclectic design approach and avid preoccupation with the state of the built environment. In 2009, Tsao and McKown received the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Interior Design.

Tsao has a master's of architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and a bachelor's of architecture from University of California at Berkeley. He has emerged as one of the most original voices in contemporary architecture, drawing from his own experience of diverse cultures and a lively engagement with a variety of art forms. He is president emeritus of the Architectural League of New York. As a fellow of the American Institute of Architects, Tsao has taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the Parsons School of Design and the Cooper Union, and has served as guest critic and design juror at universities and institutes nationwide.

McKown has a master's of architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a bachelor's of general studies from the Honors College at the University of South Carolina. He has been widely recognized for his innovations in the fields of urban design and architecture, interiors, furniture and product design. He serves on the board of directors of the Design Trust for Public Space, a not-for-profit dedicated to improving public space in New York City, and is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects. He helped to found nonprofit desigNYC to help reinvigorate local communities in need.

This semester at Syracuse Architecture, Tsao and McKown are teaching a studio in conjunction with urban and architectural designer John Jhee (also from Tsao and McKown Architects) to explore new models of urban habitation in China through the planning and design of a mixed-use residential development in the city of Dalian. During spring break, students are traveling to China for a site visit.

Sumi Hayashi on Mark Rothko
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Sumi Hayashi, curator of the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art in Chiba, Japan, and an expert on famed Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko, will present a lecture on Rothko. The Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art holds seven paintings from Rothko's "Seagram Murals" series, which was commissioned in the 1950s by New York's Four Seasons restaurant in the Seagram Building. Hayashi's lecture is held in conjunction with Syracuse Stage's current production of Red, the 2010 Tony Award-winning bio-drama of Rothko at the time he was working on the murals.

Hayashi co-organized the 2009 Rothko exhibition at the Tate Modern in London and is currently translating James Breslin's Mark Rothko: A Biography (University of Chicago Press, 1998). In addition, she has organized such exhibitions as "Joseph Cornell X Mutuo Takahashi: Intimate Worlds Enclosed" and "Moholy-Nagy in Motion."

Zadie Smith: Why Write?
University Lectures

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Award-winning novelist Zadie Smith will speak about the point of writing in the 21st century—especially given social media and other influences.

Smith’s first novel, White Teeth (2000), is a vibrant portrait of contemporary multicultural London, told through the story of three ethnically-diverse families. Her tenure as writer in residence at the Institute of Contemporary Arts resulted in the publication of an anthology of erotic stories titled Piece of Flesh (2001). She wrote the introduction for The Burned Children of America (2003), a collection of 18 short stories by a new generation of young American writers.

Her second novel, The Autograph Man (2002), a story of loss, obsession and the nature of celebrity, won the 2003 Jewish Quarterly Literary Prize for Fiction. In 2003, Smith was nominated by Granta magazine as one of 20 "Best of Young British Novelists." Her third novel, On Beauty (2005) won the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction. She has also written Fail Better (2006), a nonfiction book about writing.

Smith is currently a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University. Her most recent book is Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays (2009). She is currently working on a new novel entitled NW.

TAO: The Art of the Drum

Price: $35, $25 (Parking $5)
SRC Arena and Events Center
Onondaga Community College campus, Syracuse

In this new production for North America, athletic bodies and contemporary costumes meet explosive Taiko drumming and innovative choreography in a show that has critics waxing lyrical about TAO's extraordinary precision, energy, and stamina. With hundreds of sold-out shows and more than a million spectators, TAO has proven that modern entertainment based on the traditional art of Japanese drumming, has massive international appeal.

The stars of TAO live and train at a compound in the mountains of Japan, reaching the highest level of virtuosity only after years of intensive study. The performers each bring nontraditional flair to the group by drawing on their diverse backgrounds: one as a hard rock musician, another a gymnast, and yet another as a composer. They offer a young and vibrantly modern take on a traditional art form.

Tickets available online.

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Ricardo Cobo, guitar
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: $20 general admission, $10 students/seniors/GLGS members; free with SU ID
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Recognized as "one of the world's leading virtuosi of the new classic guitar generation," Colombian guitar sensation Ricardo Cobo will make a rare appearance in Syracuse in a program of works for solo guitar presented by the Setnor School of Music and the Great Lakes Guitar Society (GLGS).

A performer of "graceful musicality" and "superhuman technique," Cobo made his debut to American audiences as the first Hispanic ever to win consecutive medals at the Guitar Foundation of America's Solo International Competition. Equally in demand as chamber musician, pedagogue and recording artist, his busy touring schedule has taken him to Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall and the 92nd Street Y in New York City; Ho Ham Hall in Korea; the Ambassador Auditorium in Los Angeles; Madrid's Teatro Real and Zaragoza's Palacio Real in Spain; Teresa Carreño in Venezuela; and his native Colombia's National Library, among hundreds of other venues.

Cobo's versatility can be heard in his award-winning solo recordings of classical and children's music, his orchestral and crossover recordings, and in hundreds of credits for commercial releases worldwide.

Cobo is director of classical guitar studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and is cofounder of the Guitar Series at UNLV, now on its eighth consecutive season. He keeps a loyal studio of students from ages 12-70 who study via the Internet and in hundreds of workshops around the country.

Cobo will also hold a master class on March 20 in the Setnor School of Music from noon-2 p.m. in Room 403 Crouse College.

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage; parking for patrons with disabilities is available in the Q1 lot. Patrons should mention that they are attending the concert.

For tickets and more information about the event, visit www.greatlakesguitarsociety.org.

South Pacific
Broadway in Syracuse

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

The musical is set on a South Pacific island during World War II. The intermingling between soldiers and islanders exposes racism. Based on James Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Tales of the South Pacific," Richard Rodgers composed the music, and Oscar Hammerstein II wrote the lyrics. Familiar songs include "Some Enchanted Evening" and "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair."

Red
Syracuse Stage
Penny Metropulos, director

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

The 2010 Tony Award-winner for Best Play, Red, by John Logan, is an intense and exciting bio-drama of the famed Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko at the time that he was working on a commission for a series of murals for New York's Four Seasons restaurant. On paper, the play has two characters, Rothko and young assistant. On stage, the paintings themselves become characters adding a stunning visual presence and making palpable the intense physical process of the art. As Rothko and his young protégé prepare paint and canvas and assess and reassess each work, they engage in a combative struggle over the methods and purpose of art that is sharp, funny and mentally invigorating.

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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Personal Images Art Exhibit
Syracuse Stage

Price: Free
Sutton Pavillion, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Personal Images, a collaborative exhibit by six Hispanic international painters, features original pieces by Angela M. Arrey-Wastavino, Juan A. Cruz, Oscar Garces, Marcela Hanford, Abisay Puentes, and Esperanza Tielbaard.

The art show offers the public an inner vision of an eclectic group of visual artists whose life experiences have influenced their creative style. This exhibit runs in conjunction with RED, Tony Award-winner play by John Logan about the abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko.

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

The Reflections Series: Works by Nevin Mercede
Redhouse

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

These digital prints are composed from photographs taken while traveling in Russia. Conversations with artists, politicians and educators encountered there provide the majority of companion texts. Since 1995 Mercede has woven images with texts reflecting on social, political and educational issues or situations.

Being Impossible: Works by Deborah Zlotsky
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibition of drawings and paintings by Deborah Zlotsky. In this series, the artist manipulates powdered graphite on sheets of mylar, searching for signs of life in the smears and conjuring up blurred boundaries between documenting nature and inventing nature. Zlotsky is represented by Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in New York and presented a solo exhibition in October 2011. She has been the recipient of numerous residencies, including a residency fellowship at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY, this past summer. She earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University and a master's degree in painting and drawing from the University of Connecticut.

For more information, call 315-445-4153.

Interpreting Nature
Baltimore Woods Art Gallery

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

A collection of work by Sharon Bottle Souva, fabric handworks; Wesley Weiss, ceramics; and Jill Newton, watercolors, who work in three distinct media but are united by their shared reference to the natural world.

Gallery Exhibit: The Narrative Tradition in the 21st Century: The Art of Randy Elliott and Richard Williams
Onondaga Community College

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

About Richard Williams:
As a self-taught illustrator I was able to sidestep the many academic pitfalls that plague contemporary artists, such as the belief that drawing skills are not important. My work is steeped in the tradition of craftsmanship and the importance of the narrative. Art in my opinion serves a social function, which can encompass selling a product to the public or making critical commentary on society and culture, and anything in between. To accomplish this, the artist needs to communicate in a simple, clear and powerful way. To do this one needs to have a firm grasp of the basic skills of draftsmanship, color, painting technique and storytelling.

About Randy Elliott:
Randy Elliott began his professional art career in 1988, inking the Dungeons & Dragons, Dragonlance comic book for DC Comics. That job began a career that continues until the present. Over the course of the last twenty-odd years, Randy has inked and/or penciled comic books for DC, Archie, Marvel, Dark Horse, Valiant and a number of smaller publishers. He has also painted images for clients like, Wizards of the Coast, Alderac Entertainment Group, Battlefront Miniatures, Hasbro and others.

"Images of Upstate New York" and "Juxtaposed Through Wonderland"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

"Images of Upstate New York" features work by Morgan Goodwin and Kate Walseman
"Juxtaposed Through Wonderland" features recent work by KayCie Danniel

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

Creatures Small and Great
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Dana Blythe Stenson (metalsmith jewelry), Candace Rhea (ceramic and mixed media), Alan Hart (acrylic on board), and Diane Menzies (oil paintings) interpret insects and small animals.

Academic Art...teachers that do
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Works of Jamessville-Dewitt art teachers Faith Carapella (charcoal, pen and ink, collage) and Steve Pilcher (soda-fired stoneware, both functional and decorative).

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

Alexander Gronsky is a self-described landscape photographer with an uncanny ability to capture scenes in nature as elegant allegories that include rolling hills, spectacular lighting, and far reaching horizons. His skilled use of perspective and composition, reminiscent of centuries-old traditions in European landscape painting, draw the viewer's eye deep into the landscape and generate a sense of awe for each place. The photographs in this exhibit were taken along the outlying areas of Moscow where the human need to find solace away from the city collides with urban sprawl, and the fragility of nature.

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition was curated by English Professor Cassandra Jackson and Gallery Director Sarah Cunningham, both from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The exhibition was on view in the TCNJ Art Gallery in 2011. The central ideas of the exhibit are rooted in Jackson's most recent book, Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body (Routledge, 2010). Her book deals with the ways in which the black male body has been visually exploited, and the ways in which contemporary artists have called into question the paradigmatic construction of the black body in American society. The exhibit displays 31 photographs by 19 contemporary artists of African descent, 17 from the United States, two from Britain. Their work comments on the various representations of black bodies in Western visual culture. These artists confront stereotypes about black male appearance, sexuality, violence, and family, and highlight the ways that visual culture has contributed to the marginalization and exclusion of the black community.

Creativity through Exhibition Design II
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Creativity through Exhibition Design II" features computer-aided drawings and 3-dimensional models of the gallery space in the State Tower Building adjacent to Hanover Square. Students gained experience in such areas as color selection, spatial arrangement, lighting techniques, typography and universal design principles to put their individual creativity into an upcoming exhibition they are working on titled "Hidden in Plain Site: Sculpture in Syracuse and the Work of the Public Artist in Residence."

Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on W. Fayette St. or the first-floor door on W. Washington St.

Illusionistic
Szozda Gallery

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

Painter Kyle Mort's realism and painter Robert Glisson's impressionism are both meant to prompt the viewer's stare. Both Mort and Glisson work with beautiful color, achieved differently in their signature techniques. Mort tends toward extreme realism, bordering on trompe l'oeil in which he is capable of creating a spatial illusion. Glisson's impressionistic pieces, like the styles of those artists who inspire him, create an emotional illusion. Mort leans more toward depicting still life. Glisson endeavors to capture landscapes.

From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
Everson Museum of Art

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

"From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland" is the first exhibition to examine the American artist's work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Long celebrated as an iconic American artist due to his important early work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight, Henri's paintings have received less attention on their own. Most projects explored his career as it related to his role as a member of The Eight or in a broadly retrospective manner. Few projects focused on his landscapes, drawings, or foreign portraits.

Henri's Irish portraits constitute his largest focused body of work, and often depict the same sitters year after year. These paintings offer a unique and fascinating window onto the genre about which Henri felt most strongly--portraiture--and also chart his experiments with paint handling and color theories over time. He wrote that the time spent in Ireland was extremely valuable to him (it was the only other place besides New York where he purchased a residence), for only there was he able to focus on his painting without the distractions of life in New York. It is not surprising, then, that the periods Henri spent in Ireland were among his most prolific, and the paintings produced there among his most accomplished. Just before his death, Henri composed a list of his most important paintings; many of the works on this list were his Irish subjects. Forty-one paintings of Irish people and landscapes will be on view in the upcoming exhibition.

The Photographer as Child: Memories of Guatemala
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Born in Guatemala, award-winning photographer Efren Lopez is a student in the Military Photojournalism Program at Syracuse University. He is also an aerial photographer for the U.S. Air Force and the first reservist to be selected to attend Newhouse's Military Photojournalism Program. He now lives in Arizona.

The exhibit features images Lopez captured on a return trip to Guatemala in 2009. "My life began in a bamboo hut at the side of a road in a tiny town named Petaca, Guatemala, in 1966," Lopez writes. "It's a town so small that it is next to impossible to find on most maps of Guatemala, much less Central America."

Lopez has documented real-world situations and the military around the globe and has captured stunning images in Arizona and Guatemala. His work has been featured in various publications, including the book Arizona 24/7, and has been awarded many distinctions, including first place in the Professional Photography category at the 2008 Arizona State Fair, an honorable mention in the pictorial category in the 2009 Military Photographer of the Year competition, and first place in the 2011 Multimedia Team 19th Annual Department of Defense Worldwide Military Photography Workshop.

Noriko Ambe: Inner Water
The Warehouse Gallery

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

In her first US museum solo show, New York City-based Japanese artist Noriko Ambe will create a new site-specific installation in the main gallery reflecting the tragic 2011 events in Japan through the use of video projections and her signature large-scale paper cutouts that evoke waves.

Nature plays an important role in Ambe's work, and it points to larger issues, such as the natural forces determining our global landscape, and the relationship between nature and humans throughout time. A recipient of prestigious awards such as the AICA Award and Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Ambe's work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Arts and Design and the Japan Society in New York and the Kyoto University of Art and Design in Kyoto, Japan. Her work is also in the collection of the Whitney Museum of Art.

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I Like America and America Likes Me
XL Projects

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

Artwork of international graduate students in SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) will be featured in this exhibition. The graduate students will exhibit work in a variety of media.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Sick at Home: Works of Tonja Torgerson
Echo

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

Artist Statement: Notions of privacy and disclosure are at the core of my work. My portraits and figures deal with the reality of illness while balancing a thin line between expression and discretion. They explore the internal and external factors that compose one’s identity. While these topics could be divisive, the use of color, humor, and childish aesthetic keeps my work welcoming. Vomit, blood and bile appear alongside pinks, paisley and sweet poses. I am interested in this collision of attraction and disgust, and how it creates a difficult beauty and a pleasant anxiety. My work presents a personal side of an ever-increasingly political issue through a girlish lens of soft aesthetics and sad whimsy.

Tonja is currently pursuing an MFA in printmaking at Syracuse University.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

Wednesday Film Series: Blow-Up
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Auditorium
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966, 111 minutes.

The Mythical Flute
Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Martha Grener, flute; Maryna Mazhukhova, piano

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

Mastery and artistry are always in store as this duo explores Jouers de Flute by Roussel, The Sorcerer by Efrain Amaya, and more.

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

Ben Marcus
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

Ben Marcus, author of The Flame Alphabet (Knoph, 2012) and Notable American Women (Vintage, 2002) and associate professor in Columbia University's School of the Arts, is the Creative Writing Program's 2012 Richard Elman Visiting Writer.

The reading will be preceded by a question and answer session from 3:45-4:30 p.m. Parking is available in Syracuse University's paid lots. For more information, phone 315-443-2174.

South Pacific
Broadway in Syracuse

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

The musical is set on a South Pacific island during World War II. The intermingling between soldiers and islanders exposes racism. Based on James Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Tales of the South Pacific," Richard Rodgers composed the music, and Oscar Hammerstein II wrote the lyrics. Familiar songs include "Some Enchanted Evening" and "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair."

Red
Syracuse Stage
Penny Metropulos, director

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

The 2010 Tony Award-winner for Best Play, Red, by John Logan, is an intense and exciting bio-drama of the famed Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko at the time that he was working on a commission for a series of murals for New York's Four Seasons restaurant. On paper, the play has two characters, Rothko and young assistant. On stage, the paintings themselves become characters adding a stunning visual presence and making palpable the intense physical process of the art. As Rothko and his young protégé prepare paint and canvas and assess and reassess each work, they engage in a combative struggle over the methods and purpose of art that is sharp, funny and mentally invigorating.

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Thursday, March 22, 2012

Personal Images Art Exhibit
Syracuse Stage

Price: Free
Sutton Pavillion, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Personal Images, a collaborative exhibit by six Hispanic international painters, features original pieces by Angela M. Arrey-Wastavino, Juan A. Cruz, Oscar Garces, Marcela Hanford, Abisay Puentes, and Esperanza Tielbaard.

The art show offers the public an inner vision of an eclectic group of visual artists whose life experiences have influenced their creative style. This exhibit runs in conjunction with RED, Tony Award-winner play by John Logan about the abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko.

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

The Reflections Series: Works by Nevin Mercede
Redhouse

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

These digital prints are composed from photographs taken while traveling in Russia. Conversations with artists, politicians and educators encountered there provide the majority of companion texts. Since 1995 Mercede has woven images with texts reflecting on social, political and educational issues or situations.

Being Impossible: Works by Deborah Zlotsky
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibition of drawings and paintings by Deborah Zlotsky. In this series, the artist manipulates powdered graphite on sheets of mylar, searching for signs of life in the smears and conjuring up blurred boundaries between documenting nature and inventing nature. Zlotsky is represented by Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in New York and presented a solo exhibition in October 2011. She has been the recipient of numerous residencies, including a residency fellowship at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY, this past summer. She earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University and a master's degree in painting and drawing from the University of Connecticut.

For more information, call 315-445-4153.

Interpreting Nature
Baltimore Woods Art Gallery

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

A collection of work by Sharon Bottle Souva, fabric handworks; Wesley Weiss, ceramics; and Jill Newton, watercolors, who work in three distinct media but are united by their shared reference to the natural world.

Gallery Exhibit: The Narrative Tradition in the 21st Century: The Art of Randy Elliott and Richard Williams
Onondaga Community College

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

About Richard Williams:
As a self-taught illustrator I was able to sidestep the many academic pitfalls that plague contemporary artists, such as the belief that drawing skills are not important. My work is steeped in the tradition of craftsmanship and the importance of the narrative. Art in my opinion serves a social function, which can encompass selling a product to the public or making critical commentary on society and culture, and anything in between. To accomplish this, the artist needs to communicate in a simple, clear and powerful way. To do this one needs to have a firm grasp of the basic skills of draftsmanship, color, painting technique and storytelling.

About Randy Elliott:
Randy Elliott began his professional art career in 1988, inking the Dungeons & Dragons, Dragonlance comic book for DC Comics. That job began a career that continues until the present. Over the course of the last twenty-odd years, Randy has inked and/or penciled comic books for DC, Archie, Marvel, Dark Horse, Valiant and a number of smaller publishers. He has also painted images for clients like, Wizards of the Coast, Alderac Entertainment Group, Battlefront Miniatures, Hasbro and others.

"Images of Upstate New York" and "Juxtaposed Through Wonderland"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

"Images of Upstate New York" features work by Morgan Goodwin and Kate Walseman
"Juxtaposed Through Wonderland" features recent work by KayCie Danniel

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

Teddy Cruz/The Architect's Work 9
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Creatures Small and Great
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Dana Blythe Stenson (metalsmith jewelry), Candace Rhea (ceramic and mixed media), Alan Hart (acrylic on board), and Diane Menzies (oil paintings) interpret insects and small animals.

Academic Art...teachers that do
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Works of Jamessville-Dewitt art teachers Faith Carapella (charcoal, pen and ink, collage) and Steve Pilcher (soda-fired stoneware, both functional and decorative).

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition was curated by English Professor Cassandra Jackson and Gallery Director Sarah Cunningham, both from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The exhibition was on view in the TCNJ Art Gallery in 2011. The central ideas of the exhibit are rooted in Jackson's most recent book, Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body (Routledge, 2010). Her book deals with the ways in which the black male body has been visually exploited, and the ways in which contemporary artists have called into question the paradigmatic construction of the black body in American society. The exhibit displays 31 photographs by 19 contemporary artists of African descent, 17 from the United States, two from Britain. Their work comments on the various representations of black bodies in Western visual culture. These artists confront stereotypes about black male appearance, sexuality, violence, and family, and highlight the ways that visual culture has contributed to the marginalization and exclusion of the black community.

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

Alexander Gronsky is a self-described landscape photographer with an uncanny ability to capture scenes in nature as elegant allegories that include rolling hills, spectacular lighting, and far reaching horizons. His skilled use of perspective and composition, reminiscent of centuries-old traditions in European landscape painting, draw the viewer's eye deep into the landscape and generate a sense of awe for each place. The photographs in this exhibit were taken along the outlying areas of Moscow where the human need to find solace away from the city collides with urban sprawl, and the fragility of nature.

Creativity through Exhibition Design II
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Creativity through Exhibition Design II" features computer-aided drawings and 3-dimensional models of the gallery space in the State Tower Building adjacent to Hanover Square. Students gained experience in such areas as color selection, spatial arrangement, lighting techniques, typography and universal design principles to put their individual creativity into an upcoming exhibition they are working on titled "Hidden in Plain Site: Sculpture in Syracuse and the Work of the Public Artist in Residence."

Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on W. Fayette St. or the first-floor door on W. Washington St.

Illusionistic
Szozda Gallery

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

Painter Kyle Mort's realism and painter Robert Glisson's impressionism are both meant to prompt the viewer's stare. Both Mort and Glisson work with beautiful color, achieved differently in their signature techniques. Mort tends toward extreme realism, bordering on trompe l'oeil in which he is capable of creating a spatial illusion. Glisson's impressionistic pieces, like the styles of those artists who inspire him, create an emotional illusion. Mort leans more toward depicting still life. Glisson endeavors to capture landscapes.

From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
Everson Museum of Art

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

"From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland" is the first exhibition to examine the American artist's work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Long celebrated as an iconic American artist due to his important early work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight, Henri's paintings have received less attention on their own. Most projects explored his career as it related to his role as a member of The Eight or in a broadly retrospective manner. Few projects focused on his landscapes, drawings, or foreign portraits.

Henri's Irish portraits constitute his largest focused body of work, and often depict the same sitters year after year. These paintings offer a unique and fascinating window onto the genre about which Henri felt most strongly--portraiture--and also chart his experiments with paint handling and color theories over time. He wrote that the time spent in Ireland was extremely valuable to him (it was the only other place besides New York where he purchased a residence), for only there was he able to focus on his painting without the distractions of life in New York. It is not surprising, then, that the periods Henri spent in Ireland were among his most prolific, and the paintings produced there among his most accomplished. Just before his death, Henri composed a list of his most important paintings; many of the works on this list were his Irish subjects. Forty-one paintings of Irish people and landscapes will be on view in the upcoming exhibition.

The Photographer as Child: Memories of Guatemala
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Born in Guatemala, award-winning photographer Efren Lopez is a student in the Military Photojournalism Program at Syracuse University. He is also an aerial photographer for the U.S. Air Force and the first reservist to be selected to attend Newhouse's Military Photojournalism Program. He now lives in Arizona.

The exhibit features images Lopez captured on a return trip to Guatemala in 2009. "My life began in a bamboo hut at the side of a road in a tiny town named Petaca, Guatemala, in 1966," Lopez writes. "It's a town so small that it is next to impossible to find on most maps of Guatemala, much less Central America."

Lopez has documented real-world situations and the military around the globe and has captured stunning images in Arizona and Guatemala. His work has been featured in various publications, including the book Arizona 24/7, and has been awarded many distinctions, including first place in the Professional Photography category at the 2008 Arizona State Fair, an honorable mention in the pictorial category in the 2009 Military Photographer of the Year competition, and first place in the 2011 Multimedia Team 19th Annual Department of Defense Worldwide Military Photography Workshop.

Noriko Ambe: Inner Water
The Warehouse Gallery

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

In her first US museum solo show, New York City-based Japanese artist Noriko Ambe will create a new site-specific installation in the main gallery reflecting the tragic 2011 events in Japan through the use of video projections and her signature large-scale paper cutouts that evoke waves.

Nature plays an important role in Ambe's work, and it points to larger issues, such as the natural forces determining our global landscape, and the relationship between nature and humans throughout time. A recipient of prestigious awards such as the AICA Award and Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Ambe's work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Arts and Design and the Japan Society in New York and the Kyoto University of Art and Design in Kyoto, Japan. Her work is also in the collection of the Whitney Museum of Art.

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I Like America and America Likes Me
XL Projects

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

Artwork of international graduate students in SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) will be featured in this exhibition. The graduate students will exhibit work in a variety of media.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Sick at Home: Works of Tonja Torgerson
Echo

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

Artist Statement: Notions of privacy and disclosure are at the core of my work. My portraits and figures deal with the reality of illness while balancing a thin line between expression and discretion. They explore the internal and external factors that compose one’s identity. While these topics could be divisive, the use of color, humor, and childish aesthetic keeps my work welcoming. Vomit, blood and bile appear alongside pinks, paisley and sweet poses. I am interested in this collision of attraction and disgust, and how it creates a difficult beauty and a pleasant anxiety. My work presents a personal side of an ever-increasingly political issue through a girlish lens of soft aesthetics and sad whimsy.

Tonja is currently pursuing an MFA in printmaking at Syracuse University.

Opening: Patently Syracuse
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

There will be an opening reception this evening 5:00-7:00 pm.

A visual exploration of inventions, designs and innovations created in Central New York.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

William Wegman: Flo Flow (2011)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The video "Flo Flow" is William Wegman's latest in a long line of human-canid collaborations. It was while he was in Long Beach in the 1970s that Wegman got his dog, Man Ray, with whom he began a fruitful collaboration of many years. Man Ray, known in the art world and beyond for his endearing deadpan presence, became a central figure in Wegman's photographs and videotapes. Ever since, Weimaraner-actors have peopled Wegman's uncanny imaginative universe, a reflection on both the human-ness of "animals" and the strangeness of humans.

William Wegman lives in New York and Maine where he continues to make videos, to take photographs and to make drawings and paintings.

Club Bellydance

Price: $20 in advance, $25 at the door
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

World-famous bellydance superstars hit our stage for one night only. National superstars include Lauren, Sabah, Moria, Sabrina, and Stefanya. Don't miss this great night of Club Bellydance.

Tickets available online.

Memory and Commemoration, as Fact or Fiction
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts
Featuring Amy Waldman

Price: Free
Watson Theater, Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave. (Syracuse University), Syracuse

"Memory and Commemoration, as Fact or Fiction" is a new cross-disciplinary speaker series on art, memory, community and commemoration.

Amy Waldman, former New York Times reporter, will discuss her acclaimed novel The Submission (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011), which tells the story of an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and of the American Muslim who wins it.

Waldman was a reporter for the New York Times for eight years, including three as co-chief of the New Delhi bureau. She was also a national correspondent for the Atlantic. The Submission is her first novel. It was named a New York Times Notable Book for 2011; one of National Public Radio's Ten Best Novels; Esquire's Book of the Year; Entertainment Weekly's No. 1 Novel for the Year; a Washington Post Notable Fiction Book; and one of Amazon's Top 100 Books and top 10 debut fiction. It was a finalist for the Guardian (UK) First Book Award.

Waldman's fiction also has appeared in the Atlantic, the Boston Review and the Financial Times and was anthologized in "The Best American Non-Required Reading 2010" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). She graduated from Yale University and has been a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and at the American Academy in Berlin.

Parking for the public is available for $4 in Booth Garage.

Bill Horrace Trio with jazz vocalists

Price: No cover charge
Sutton Pavillion, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Students from Syracuse University's Department of Drama join the Bill Horrace Trio (Bill Horrace, bass; Dave Solazzo, piano; Tom Bronzetti, guitar) in jazz standards

Bill Horrace Trio with jazz vocalists

Price: No cover charge
Phoebe's Garden Cafe
900 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Students from Syracuse University's Department of Drama join the Bill Horrace Trio (Bill Horrace, bass; Dave Solazzo, piano; Tom Bronzetti, guitar) in jazz standards

Brit Floyd

Price: $39.50, $29.50
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Tickets can be purchased through the Landmark box office Monday-Friday 10:00 am-5:00 pm or through Ticketmaster.com. Phone 315-475-7980 for more information.

Gwar, with Municipal Waste, Ghoul, Legacy of Disorder
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Death Takes a Bow
Acme Mystery Company

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

All the world's a stage, but some stages are worth more than others. Welcome to the historic White Tulip, the seediest theater in London yet one which everyone seems to want. Tonight, a tycoon temptress and her tawdry toady take on a territorial thespian and his trollop of a treasurer in a tussle for title to this theatrical tenement. What valuable secrets lie behind the scenes and how far will someone go to unearth them? Let the buyer beware: at this showplace, greed steals every scene and dying on stage could be more than a figure of speech.

South Pacific
Broadway in Syracuse

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

The musical is set on a South Pacific island during World War II. The intermingling between soldiers and islanders exposes racism. Based on James Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Tales of the South Pacific," Richard Rodgers composed the music, and Oscar Hammerstein II wrote the lyrics. Familiar songs include "Some Enchanted Evening" and "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair."

Anything Goes
Liverpool High School

Price: $9
Liverpool High School Auditorium
4338 Wetzel Rd., Liverpool

Celebrities, high society and goons create an amusing romance that is set on an England-bound ship as this boy-meets-girl story unfolds. Sprinkle terrific Cole Porter tunes and energetic dance numbers within the dialog and it's a musical that is sure to delight its audience. Music and lyrics by Cole Porter, original book by Guy Bolton, P.G. Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. New book by Timothy Crouse and John Weidman.

Catherine Osinski, director; Stephanie Suarez, vocal director; James Dumas, pit orchestra director; Martin Bullis, technical director; Thomas Catera, lighting director; Betsy McGee, choreographer; Carolyn Gordon, costumer; Maria Knapp, producer

Purchase tickets at the door or by calling 315-453-1500.

Red
Syracuse Stage
Penny Metropulos, director

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

The 2010 Tony Award-winner for Best Play, Red, by John Logan, is an intense and exciting bio-drama of the famed Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko at the time that he was working on a commission for a series of murals for New York's Four Seasons restaurant. On paper, the play has two characters, Rothko and young assistant. On stage, the paintings themselves become characters adding a stunning visual presence and making palpable the intense physical process of the art. As Rothko and his young protégé prepare paint and canvas and assess and reassess each work, they engage in a combative struggle over the methods and purpose of art that is sharp, funny and mentally invigorating.

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Friday, March 23, 2012

Personal Images Art Exhibit
Syracuse Stage

Price: Free
Sutton Pavillion, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Personal Images, a collaborative exhibit by six Hispanic international painters, features original pieces by Angela M. Arrey-Wastavino, Juan A. Cruz, Oscar Garces, Marcela Hanford, Abisay Puentes, and Esperanza Tielbaard.

The art show offers the public an inner vision of an eclectic group of visual artists whose life experiences have influenced their creative style. This exhibit runs in conjunction with RED, Tony Award-winner play by John Logan about the abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko.

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

The Reflections Series: Works by Nevin Mercede
Redhouse

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

These digital prints are composed from photographs taken while traveling in Russia. Conversations with artists, politicians and educators encountered there provide the majority of companion texts. Since 1995 Mercede has woven images with texts reflecting on social, political and educational issues or situations.

Being Impossible: Works by Deborah Zlotsky
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibition of drawings and paintings by Deborah Zlotsky. In this series, the artist manipulates powdered graphite on sheets of mylar, searching for signs of life in the smears and conjuring up blurred boundaries between documenting nature and inventing nature. Zlotsky is represented by Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in New York and presented a solo exhibition in October 2011. She has been the recipient of numerous residencies, including a residency fellowship at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY, this past summer. She earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University and a master's degree in painting and drawing from the University of Connecticut.

For more information, call 315-445-4153.

Interpreting Nature
Baltimore Woods Art Gallery

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

A collection of work by Sharon Bottle Souva, fabric handworks; Wesley Weiss, ceramics; and Jill Newton, watercolors, who work in three distinct media but are united by their shared reference to the natural world.

Gallery Exhibit: The Narrative Tradition in the 21st Century: The Art of Randy Elliott and Richard Williams
Onondaga Community College

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

About Richard Williams:
As a self-taught illustrator I was able to sidestep the many academic pitfalls that plague contemporary artists, such as the belief that drawing skills are not important. My work is steeped in the tradition of craftsmanship and the importance of the narrative. Art in my opinion serves a social function, which can encompass selling a product to the public or making critical commentary on society and culture, and anything in between. To accomplish this, the artist needs to communicate in a simple, clear and powerful way. To do this one needs to have a firm grasp of the basic skills of draftsmanship, color, painting technique and storytelling.

About Randy Elliott:
Randy Elliott began his professional art career in 1988, inking the Dungeons & Dragons, Dragonlance comic book for DC Comics. That job began a career that continues until the present. Over the course of the last twenty-odd years, Randy has inked and/or penciled comic books for DC, Archie, Marvel, Dark Horse, Valiant and a number of smaller publishers. He has also painted images for clients like, Wizards of the Coast, Alderac Entertainment Group, Battlefront Miniatures, Hasbro and others.

"Images of Upstate New York" and "Juxtaposed Through Wonderland"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

"Images of Upstate New York" features work by Morgan Goodwin and Kate Walseman
"Juxtaposed Through Wonderland" features recent work by KayCie Danniel

Patently Syracuse
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

A visual exploration of inventions, designs and innovations created in Central New York.

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

Teddy Cruz/The Architect's Work 9
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Creatures Small and Great
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Dana Blythe Stenson (metalsmith jewelry), Candace Rhea (ceramic and mixed media), Alan Hart (acrylic on board), and Diane Menzies (oil paintings) interpret insects and small animals.

Time, Again Time: Works by Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

There will be an opening reception with the artist this evening at 6:00 pm.

In "Time, again time," the artist reflects on ordered fragments of a disordered world. An activist and renowned Latin American artist, Ana Tiscornia brings a mixed-media installation that curator Pedro Cuperman describes as "the outcome of a tale, where we have a fragmented world, where the pieces are somehow geometrically organic, logical... a kind of architecture of catastrophe. It is about the artist's obsession with organizing her world after having lived through the tragedies of military dictatorships in her home land, and the present catastrophes, wars that we endure in our own time. Ana's work demands from the viewer a sort of reconstruction, reintegration of the work, and our world.

Academic Art...teachers that do
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Works of Jamessville-Dewitt art teachers Faith Carapella (charcoal, pen and ink, collage) and Steve Pilcher (soda-fired stoneware, both functional and decorative).

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

Alexander Gronsky is a self-described landscape photographer with an uncanny ability to capture scenes in nature as elegant allegories that include rolling hills, spectacular lighting, and far reaching horizons. His skilled use of perspective and composition, reminiscent of centuries-old traditions in European landscape painting, draw the viewer's eye deep into the landscape and generate a sense of awe for each place. The photographs in this exhibit were taken along the outlying areas of Moscow where the human need to find solace away from the city collides with urban sprawl, and the fragility of nature.

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition was curated by English Professor Cassandra Jackson and Gallery Director Sarah Cunningham, both from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The exhibition was on view in the TCNJ Art Gallery in 2011. The central ideas of the exhibit are rooted in Jackson's most recent book, Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body (Routledge, 2010). Her book deals with the ways in which the black male body has been visually exploited, and the ways in which contemporary artists have called into question the paradigmatic construction of the black body in American society. The exhibit displays 31 photographs by 19 contemporary artists of African descent, 17 from the United States, two from Britain. Their work comments on the various representations of black bodies in Western visual culture. These artists confront stereotypes about black male appearance, sexuality, violence, and family, and highlight the ways that visual culture has contributed to the marginalization and exclusion of the black community.

Educational Toys by Roy Wilson
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Designer Roy Wilson, a 1970 alumnus of Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, will exhibit his award-winning educational toy designs. The exhibit features Wilson's work from the Learning Curve Toy Co., including the 1992 Thomas Wooden Railway project and the 1994 Lamaze Infant Development System, which he researched, designed, engineered and manufactured. The exhibition will also include his most recent invention in toys, TRAK2BRIK Adapters. Introduced in February at the American International Toy Fair, TRAK2BRIK is a system of adapters that links wooden railway track to pegged construction bricks and has dozens of slide-on toy accessories.

Wilson's career evolved from an early fascination with mechanical, scientific and electrical products. While at SU studying industrial design, he wrote his graduating thesis on preschool educational developmental toys. He started his own design business, Creative International, in 1967 and decided to remain independent and/or work on long-term contracts. To date, he has won 47 national and international awards for design excellence.

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. For more information, contact Bradley Hudson at bjhudson@syr.edu.

Creativity through Exhibition Design II
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Creativity through Exhibition Design II" features computer-aided drawings and 3-dimensional models of the gallery space in the State Tower Building adjacent to Hanover Square. Students gained experience in such areas as color selection, spatial arrangement, lighting techniques, typography and universal design principles to put their individual creativity into an upcoming exhibition they are working on titled "Hidden in Plain Site: Sculpture in Syracuse and the Work of the Public Artist in Residence."

Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on W. Fayette St. or the first-floor door on W. Washington St.

Illusionistic
Szozda Gallery

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

Painter Kyle Mort's realism and painter Robert Glisson's impressionism are both meant to prompt the viewer's stare. Both Mort and Glisson work with beautiful color, achieved differently in their signature techniques. Mort tends toward extreme realism, bordering on trompe l'oeil in which he is capable of creating a spatial illusion. Glisson's impressionistic pieces, like the styles of those artists who inspire him, create an emotional illusion. Mort leans more toward depicting still life. Glisson endeavors to capture landscapes.

Kala Stein: Form & Plenty
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Kala Stein's exhibition Form and Plenty showcases her innovative ceramics based on archetypal utilitarian forms, like vases, bottles, and cups. By manipulating clay primarily though the slip casting of molds, she creates sculptural silhouettes, which merge multiple forms and planes into a single vessel. Stein says of her work, "Filtering the forms through abstraction, simplification and a limited color palette allows me to make compositional arrangements that depart from the symbol of the object itself."

Stein received her Master of Fine Arts at New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University where she currently is a visiting instructor. She shows her work nationally and maintains her home and studio in Canadice, NY.

From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
Everson Museum of Art

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

"From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland" is the first exhibition to examine the American artist's work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Long celebrated as an iconic American artist due to his important early work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight, Henri's paintings have received less attention on their own. Most projects explored his career as it related to his role as a member of The Eight or in a broadly retrospective manner. Few projects focused on his landscapes, drawings, or foreign portraits.

Henri's Irish portraits constitute his largest focused body of work, and often depict the same sitters year after year. These paintings offer a unique and fascinating window onto the genre about which Henri felt most strongly--portraiture--and also chart his experiments with paint handling and color theories over time. He wrote that the time spent in Ireland was extremely valuable to him (it was the only other place besides New York where he purchased a residence), for only there was he able to focus on his painting without the distractions of life in New York. It is not surprising, then, that the periods Henri spent in Ireland were among his most prolific, and the paintings produced there among his most accomplished. Just before his death, Henri composed a list of his most important paintings; many of the works on this list were his Irish subjects. Forty-one paintings of Irish people and landscapes will be on view in the upcoming exhibition.

The Photographer as Child: Memories of Guatemala
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Born in Guatemala, award-winning photographer Efren Lopez is a student in the Military Photojournalism Program at Syracuse University. He is also an aerial photographer for the U.S. Air Force and the first reservist to be selected to attend Newhouse's Military Photojournalism Program. He now lives in Arizona.

The exhibit features images Lopez captured on a return trip to Guatemala in 2009. "My life began in a bamboo hut at the side of a road in a tiny town named Petaca, Guatemala, in 1966," Lopez writes. "It's a town so small that it is next to impossible to find on most maps of Guatemala, much less Central America."

Lopez has documented real-world situations and the military around the globe and has captured stunning images in Arizona and Guatemala. His work has been featured in various publications, including the book Arizona 24/7, and has been awarded many distinctions, including first place in the Professional Photography category at the 2008 Arizona State Fair, an honorable mention in the pictorial category in the 2009 Military Photographer of the Year competition, and first place in the 2011 Multimedia Team 19th Annual Department of Defense Worldwide Military Photography Workshop.

Noriko Ambe: Inner Water
The Warehouse Gallery

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

In her first US museum solo show, New York City-based Japanese artist Noriko Ambe will create a new site-specific installation in the main gallery reflecting the tragic 2011 events in Japan through the use of video projections and her signature large-scale paper cutouts that evoke waves.

Nature plays an important role in Ambe's work, and it points to larger issues, such as the natural forces determining our global landscape, and the relationship between nature and humans throughout time. A recipient of prestigious awards such as the AICA Award and Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Ambe's work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Arts and Design and the Japan Society in New York and the Kyoto University of Art and Design in Kyoto, Japan. Her work is also in the collection of the Whitney Museum of Art.

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I Like America and America Likes Me
XL Projects

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

Artwork of international graduate students in SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) will be featured in this exhibition. The graduate students will exhibit work in a variety of media.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Sick at Home: Works of Tonja Torgerson
Echo

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

Artist Statement: Notions of privacy and disclosure are at the core of my work. My portraits and figures deal with the reality of illness while balancing a thin line between expression and discretion. They explore the internal and external factors that compose one’s identity. While these topics could be divisive, the use of color, humor, and childish aesthetic keeps my work welcoming. Vomit, blood and bile appear alongside pinks, paisley and sweet poses. I am interested in this collision of attraction and disgust, and how it creates a difficult beauty and a pleasant anxiety. My work presents a personal side of an ever-increasingly political issue through a girlish lens of soft aesthetics and sad whimsy.

Tonja is currently pursuing an MFA in printmaking at Syracuse University.

William Wegman: Flo Flow (2011)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The video "Flo Flow" is William Wegman's latest in a long line of human-canid collaborations. It was while he was in Long Beach in the 1970s that Wegman got his dog, Man Ray, with whom he began a fruitful collaboration of many years. Man Ray, known in the art world and beyond for his endearing deadpan presence, became a central figure in Wegman's photographs and videotapes. Ever since, Weimaraner-actors have peopled Wegman's uncanny imaginative universe, a reflection on both the human-ness of "animals" and the strangeness of humans.

William Wegman lives in New York and Maine where he continues to make videos, to take photographs and to make drawings and paintings.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

Black Womyn: Conversations with Lesbians of African Descent
Community Folk Art Center

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

In this documentary, filmmaker Tiona McClodden traveled around the United States and Jamaica interviewing Black lesbians about their coming-out stories, views on religion and politics, thoughts on marriage, and their identities (butch, femme, stud) within the Black lesbian community. There will be a talkback immediately following the film.

E.S.P. with special guest Angelo Candela

Wise Guys Comedy Club
201 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Jazz quartet. For more information, phone 315-477-9898.

Jazz@Sitrus
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Swing This! with Mark Hoffmann

Sitrus on the Hill
Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel, Syracuse

Bill Horrace Band
Redhouse

Price: purchase of $5 cafe coupon
Redhouse Cafe
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The Bill Horrace Band blends jazz standards and contemporary tunes into a style that is dynamic and modern. The band features Dave Solazzo, a 2011 Syracuse Area Music Award (SAMMY) nominee and Tom Bronzetti, a 2011 SAMMY winner. Bill Horrace is a student of Steve LaSpina and a 25-year veteran of the Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Tucson jazz scenes. He is a professor at Syracuse University and prominent supporter of and organizer within the Central New York jazz and arts communities.

Let There Be Light!
Syracuse Chorale
Warren Ottey, conductor

Price: $15 regular, $12 students/seniors/advance sales, $8 children
St. Joseph's Church of Camillus
5600 W. Genesee St., Camillus

Morten Lauridsen Lux Aeterna, Gilbert M. Martin Let There Be Light, and works by Samuel Barber, Alexander Gretchaninoff, Randall Thompson, John Rutter, Felix Mendelssohn, Willy Richter, Keith Hampton, Andre Thomas, and others.

Brothers Past, with Roots Collider, Lucid
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Poet Philip Memmer
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Philip Memmer is the author of four books of poems, most recently The Storehouses of the Snow: Psalms, Parables and Dreams (Lost Horse Press, 2012). His previous collections include Lucifer: A Hagiography, winner of the 2008 Idaho Prize for Poetry from Lost Horse Press; Threat of Pleasure (Word Press, 2008), winner of the 2008 Adirondack Literary Award for Poetry; and Sweetheart, Baby, Darling (Word Press, 2004). His poems have appeared in such journals as Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Poetry London and Southern Poetry Review, and in several anthologies. He is the founding director of the DWC, and associate editor for Tiger Bark Press.

Legally Blonde
Fayetteville-Manlius High School Musical Theater

Price: $10
Fayetteville-Manlius High School
8201 E. Seneca Tpke., Manlius

Sorority star Elle Woods doesn't take "no" for an answer. So when her boyfriend dumps her for someone "serious," Elle puts down the credit card, hits the books, and sets out to go where no Delta Nu has gone before -- Harvard Law. Along the way, Elle proves that being true to yourself never goes out of style.

Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Cicero-North Syracuse High School
Holly Wilson, director

Price: $12 reserved seats; $10 adult; $8 student/seniors
Cicero-North Syracuse High School
6002 State Route 31, Cicero

Based on Disney's movie, "Beauty and the Beast," this show incorporates music from the movie, with additional songs written for the Broadway musical. This classic tale of love is a coming-of-age story, as Belle learns to see the Beast for who he truly is and the Beast discovers what it means to love someone other than himself. Music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, book by Linda Woolverton. Holly Wilson, director; Caryn Patterson, musical director; Lisa Stuart, choreographer.

To reserve tickets, email cpatters@nscsd.org.

Anything Goes
Liverpool High School

Price: $9
Liverpool High School Auditorium
4338 Wetzel Rd., Liverpool

Celebrities, high society and goons create an amusing romance that is set on an England-bound ship as this boy-meets-girl story unfolds. Sprinkle terrific Cole Porter tunes and energetic dance numbers within the dialog and it's a musical that is sure to delight its audience. Music and lyrics by Cole Porter, original book by Guy Bolton, P.G. Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. New book by Timothy Crouse and John Weidman.

Catherine Osinski, director; Stephanie Suarez, vocal director; James Dumas, pit orchestra director; Martin Bullis, technical director; Thomas Catera, lighting director; Betsy McGee, choreographer; Carolyn Gordon, costumer; Maria Knapp, producer

Purchase tickets at the door or by calling 315-453-1500.

The Moonlight Room
Appleseed Productions
Alan D. Stillman, director

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

In a hospital emergency room, a young man fights for his life after a drug overdose. In the ER waiting room, his friends and their families must come to grips with his plight, while dealing with the stresses of their own, often complicated, lives. The Moonlight Room, by Tristine Skyler, is a thoughtful and poignant exploration of what it means to be a teenager in the modern world.

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Red
Syracuse Stage
Penny Metropulos, director

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

The 2010 Tony Award-winner for Best Play, Red, by John Logan, is an intense and exciting bio-drama of the famed Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko at the time that he was working on a commission for a series of murals for New York's Four Seasons restaurant. On paper, the play has two characters, Rothko and young assistant. On stage, the paintings themselves become characters adding a stunning visual presence and making palpable the intense physical process of the art. As Rothko and his young protégé prepare paint and canvas and assess and reassess each work, they engage in a combative struggle over the methods and purpose of art that is sharp, funny and mentally invigorating.

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Saturday, March 24, 2012

Personal Images Art Exhibit
Syracuse Stage

Price: Free
Sutton Pavillion, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Personal Images, a collaborative exhibit by six Hispanic international painters, features original pieces by Angela M. Arrey-Wastavino, Juan A. Cruz, Oscar Garces, Marcela Hanford, Abisay Puentes, and Esperanza Tielbaard.

The art show offers the public an inner vision of an eclectic group of visual artists whose life experiences have influenced their creative style. This exhibit runs in conjunction with RED, Tony Award-winner play by John Logan about the abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko.

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

The Reflections Series: Works by Nevin Mercede
Redhouse

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

These digital prints are composed from photographs taken while traveling in Russia. Conversations with artists, politicians and educators encountered there provide the majority of companion texts. Since 1995 Mercede has woven images with texts reflecting on social, political and educational issues or situations.

Being Impossible: Works by Deborah Zlotsky
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibition of drawings and paintings by Deborah Zlotsky. In this series, the artist manipulates powdered graphite on sheets of mylar, searching for signs of life in the smears and conjuring up blurred boundaries between documenting nature and inventing nature. Zlotsky is represented by Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in New York and presented a solo exhibition in October 2011. She has been the recipient of numerous residencies, including a residency fellowship at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY, this past summer. She earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University and a master's degree in painting and drawing from the University of Connecticut.

For more information, call 315-445-4153.

Creatures Small and Great
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Dana Blythe Stenson (metalsmith jewelry), Candace Rhea (ceramic and mixed media), Alan Hart (acrylic on board), and Diane Menzies (oil paintings) interpret insects and small animals.

Academic Art...teachers that do
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Works of Jamessville-Dewitt art teachers Faith Carapella (charcoal, pen and ink, collage) and Steve Pilcher (soda-fired stoneware, both functional and decorative).

From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
Everson Museum of Art

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

"From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland" is the first exhibition to examine the American artist's work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Long celebrated as an iconic American artist due to his important early work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight, Henri's paintings have received less attention on their own. Most projects explored his career as it related to his role as a member of The Eight or in a broadly retrospective manner. Few projects focused on his landscapes, drawings, or foreign portraits.

Henri's Irish portraits constitute his largest focused body of work, and often depict the same sitters year after year. These paintings offer a unique and fascinating window onto the genre about which Henri felt most strongly--portraiture--and also chart his experiments with paint handling and color theories over time. He wrote that the time spent in Ireland was extremely valuable to him (it was the only other place besides New York where he purchased a residence), for only there was he able to focus on his painting without the distractions of life in New York. It is not surprising, then, that the periods Henri spent in Ireland were among his most prolific, and the paintings produced there among his most accomplished. Just before his death, Henri composed a list of his most important paintings; many of the works on this list were his Irish subjects. Forty-one paintings of Irish people and landscapes will be on view in the upcoming exhibition.

Reliquaries: New Work by Drew Goerlitz
Everson Museum of Art

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

Well-known for his graceful yet imposing steel sculpture, Drew Goerlitz, Associate Professor of Sculpture at the State University of New York Plattsburg, presents a new body of work at the Everson Museum of Art. Reliquaries continues the reoccurring theme of containment, concealment and privacy best described by Goerlitz himself: "My interpretation of reliquary is not to hold a sacred object or relic, but to engage the viewer with the form and tension of the unknown interior. The adornment of these objects relates to architectural details and the idea of facade. Facade is what we are presented with upon first appearance, whether speaking of people or architecture, and it isn't until we look inside that we discover the true structure."

CNY Art Showcase: Juried Preview of Live Auction
Everson Museum of Art

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

CNY Arts Showcase: Juried Preview of the Live Auction, presented in conjunction with the Eastwood Rotary Club, highlights the great and diverse artistic talents within our community. The exhibition at the Everson will precede the Eastwood Rotary Club's Annual CNY Art Showcase Live Auction on April 20.

Interpreting Nature
Baltimore Woods Art Gallery

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

A collection of work by Sharon Bottle Souva, fabric handworks; Wesley Weiss, ceramics; and Jill Newton, watercolors, who work in three distinct media but are united by their shared reference to the natural world.

Illusionistic
Szozda Gallery

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

Painter Kyle Mort's realism and painter Robert Glisson's impressionism are both meant to prompt the viewer's stare. Both Mort and Glisson work with beautiful color, achieved differently in their signature techniques. Mort tends toward extreme realism, bordering on trompe l'oeil in which he is capable of creating a spatial illusion. Glisson's impressionistic pieces, like the styles of those artists who inspire him, create an emotional illusion. Mort leans more toward depicting still life. Glisson endeavors to capture landscapes.

Opening: Reflection and Identity: Works by W. Michelle Harris and Michael Roman
Community Folk Art Center

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

There will be an opening reception today 11:00 am-4:00 pm.

The exhibition features recent work by Rochester Institute of Technology associate professor and artist W. Michelle Harris and Atlanta-based artist and Syracuse University alum Michael Roman. These two young artists embrace questions of gender, identity, and societal expectations.

While the materials used by each artist sit at the opposite ends of the technological spectrum, both individuals seek to examine topics of an interrelated and highly personal nature.

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Sick at Home: Works of Tonja Torgerson
Echo

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

Artist Statement: Notions of privacy and disclosure are at the core of my work. My portraits and figures deal with the reality of illness while balancing a thin line between expression and discretion. They explore the internal and external factors that compose one’s identity. While these topics could be divisive, the use of color, humor, and childish aesthetic keeps my work welcoming. Vomit, blood and bile appear alongside pinks, paisley and sweet poses. I am interested in this collision of attraction and disgust, and how it creates a difficult beauty and a pleasant anxiety. My work presents a personal side of an ever-increasingly political issue through a girlish lens of soft aesthetics and sad whimsy.

Tonja is currently pursuing an MFA in printmaking at Syracuse University.

Kala Stein: Form & Plenty
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

Kala Stein's exhibition Form and Plenty showcases her innovative ceramics based on archetypal utilitarian forms, like vases, bottles, and cups. By manipulating clay primarily though the slip casting of molds, she creates sculptural silhouettes, which merge multiple forms and planes into a single vessel. Stein says of her work, "Filtering the forms through abstraction, simplification and a limited color palette allows me to make compositional arrangements that depart from the symbol of the object itself."

Stein received her Master of Fine Arts at New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University where she currently is a visiting instructor. She shows her work nationally and maintains her home and studio in Canadice, NY.

Noriko Ambe: Inner Water
The Warehouse Gallery

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

In her first US museum solo show, New York City-based Japanese artist Noriko Ambe will create a new site-specific installation in the main gallery reflecting the tragic 2011 events in Japan through the use of video projections and her signature large-scale paper cutouts that evoke waves.

Nature plays an important role in Ambe's work, and it points to larger issues, such as the natural forces determining our global landscape, and the relationship between nature and humans throughout time. A recipient of prestigious awards such as the AICA Award and Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Ambe's work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Arts and Design and the Japan Society in New York and the Kyoto University of Art and Design in Kyoto, Japan. Her work is also in the collection of the Whitney Museum of Art.

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I Like America and America Likes Me
XL Projects

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

Artwork of international graduate students in SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) will be featured in this exhibition. The graduate students will exhibit work in a variety of media.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

William Wegman: Flo Flow (2011)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The video "Flo Flow" is William Wegman's latest in a long line of human-canid collaborations. It was while he was in Long Beach in the 1970s that Wegman got his dog, Man Ray, with whom he began a fruitful collaboration of many years. Man Ray, known in the art world and beyond for his endearing deadpan presence, became a central figure in Wegman's photographs and videotapes. Ever since, Weimaraner-actors have peopled Wegman's uncanny imaginative universe, a reflection on both the human-ness of "animals" and the strangeness of humans.

William Wegman lives in New York and Maine where he continues to make videos, to take photographs and to make drawings and paintings.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

Third Trimester Show
Salt City Improv Theater

Price: $5
Salt City Improv Theatre
Shoppingtown Mall, Sears Wing, Dewitt

They say good things come in threes. "Third time's a charm." In comedy, there's the Golden Rule of Three. And, our theatre is in its third year of business (thank you very kindly). So, we dedicate this show to that magical third thing of three ... in honor of one of our cast members, who is in the third trimester of pregnancy.

We can only imagine that as the time of the Blessed Event draws nearer, the days of the third trimester are spent dreaming of the moment when their little nugget of love arrives ... and of the thought, "Get this $#%*@%& thing out of me!"

Offering up their own labor of love will be Salt City Improv's house team, Pork Pie Hat (short-form improv comedy in the style of the hit TV show, Whose Line Is It, Anyway?)

Vaudeville and Dinner Show
Syracuse Community Choir

Price: $15-$40 dinner and show; $8-$15 show and dessert only
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

PErformers include The D.R.E.A.(M.)3 Freedom Revival, The Hens and Chicks Ukelele Society, Dance Theater of Syracuse, Mardea and the Cluck-Cluck Gals, Colleen Kattau, Jo Anne Bakeman, Mark Hoffman,
SU School of Drama, and more, with emcees Paco Valle and Forrest Antrum

5:00 pm: appetizers and live jazz
6:00 pm: dinner
7:00 pm: show and dessert

Seating is limited. Reservations strongly encouraged. Contact Stephanie at 315-430-0372 or mscross1234@gmail.com.

Lodge Concert
Kellish Hill Farm
Larry Hoyt, with special guests

Price: Suggested donation: $5 or more
Kellish Hill Farm
3192 Pompey Center Rd., Pompey

6:00 pm: Acoustic jam
8:00 pm: Concert
(Music preceded by potluck dinner at 5:00.)

Paul Fey
Steeple Coffeehouse

Price: $10 includes dessert and beverage
United Church of Fayetteville
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

Borealis Wind Quintet and Pianist Leon Bates
Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music

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

The Borealis is praised by the Washington Post for its "sensitive collaborations that have a sophisticated and cosmopolitan air." They have appeared coast-to-coast in notable concert venues, and their CD "A la Carte" was a 2006 Grammy nominee. Their innovative programming includes works for piano and winds -- for SFCM they are performing with pianist Leon Bates, who has appeared to great acclaim worldwide, and whom the LA Times refers to as "fiercely talented and powerful."

Onslow Wind Quintet in F Major, Op. 81
Schubert Two Impromptus, Op. 90, Nos. 2 and 4, for solo piano
Blumer Sextet, Theme and Variations, Op. 45
Thuille Sextet for Piano and Winds, Op. 6

Senior Voice Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Sarah Detweiler

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

Sarah Detweiler, a senior music industry major, will perform works by Bach, Brahms, Massenet, Gounod, Sandoval, and Rorem. Guest artists will include Alexa Johnson, violin; Matt Scinto, viola; Rachel Boucher, soprano; Natalie Kimball, bassoon; Sarah Perry, bassoon; Shelby Bird, bassoon; Meredith Rice, bassoon; and Kleber Sousa, piano.

The Boat Drunks (Jimmy Buffet Tribute)
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

The Little Mermaid
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive adaptation of the children's classic.

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Red
Syracuse Stage
Penny Metropulos, director

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

The 2010 Tony Award-winner for Best Play, Red, by John Logan, is an intense and exciting bio-drama of the famed Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko at the time that he was working on a commission for a series of murals for New York's Four Seasons restaurant. On paper, the play has two characters, Rothko and young assistant. On stage, the paintings themselves become characters adding a stunning visual presence and making palpable the intense physical process of the art. As Rothko and his young protégé prepare paint and canvas and assess and reassess each work, they engage in a combative struggle over the methods and purpose of art that is sharp, funny and mentally invigorating.

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Legally Blonde
Fayetteville-Manlius High School Musical Theater

Price: $10
Fayetteville-Manlius High School
8201 E. Seneca Tpke., Manlius

Sorority star Elle Woods doesn't take "no" for an answer. So when her boyfriend dumps her for someone "serious," Elle puts down the credit card, hits the books, and sets out to go where no Delta Nu has gone before -- Harvard Law. Along the way, Elle proves that being true to yourself never goes out of style.

Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Cicero-North Syracuse High School
Holly Wilson, director

Price: $12 reserved seats; $10 adult; $8 student/seniors
Cicero-North Syracuse High School
6002 State Route 31, Cicero

Based on Disney's movie, "Beauty and the Beast," this show incorporates music from the movie, with additional songs written for the Broadway musical. This classic tale of love is a coming-of-age story, as Belle learns to see the Beast for who he truly is and the Beast discovers what it means to love someone other than himself. Music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, book by Linda Woolverton. Holly Wilson, director; Caryn Patterson, musical director; Lisa Stuart, choreographer.

To reserve tickets, email cpatters@nscsd.org.

Anything Goes
Liverpool High School

Price: $9
Liverpool High School Auditorium
4338 Wetzel Rd., Liverpool

Celebrities, high society and goons create an amusing romance that is set on an England-bound ship as this boy-meets-girl story unfolds. Sprinkle terrific Cole Porter tunes and energetic dance numbers within the dialog and it's a musical that is sure to delight its audience. Music and lyrics by Cole Porter, original book by Guy Bolton, P.G. Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. New book by Timothy Crouse and John Weidman.

Catherine Osinski, director; Stephanie Suarez, vocal director; James Dumas, pit orchestra director; Martin Bullis, technical director; Thomas Catera, lighting director; Betsy McGee, choreographer; Carolyn Gordon, costumer; Maria Knapp, producer

Purchase tickets at the door or by calling 315-453-1500.

The Moonlight Room
Appleseed Productions
Alan D. Stillman, director

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

In a hospital emergency room, a young man fights for his life after a drug overdose. In the ER waiting room, his friends and their families must come to grips with his plight, while dealing with the stresses of their own, often complicated, lives. The Moonlight Room, by Tristine Skyler, is a thoughtful and poignant exploration of what it means to be a teenager in the modern world.

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Red
Syracuse Stage
Penny Metropulos, director

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

The 2010 Tony Award-winner for Best Play, Red, by John Logan, is an intense and exciting bio-drama of the famed Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko at the time that he was working on a commission for a series of murals for New York's Four Seasons restaurant. On paper, the play has two characters, Rothko and young assistant. On stage, the paintings themselves become characters adding a stunning visual presence and making palpable the intense physical process of the art. As Rothko and his young protégé prepare paint and canvas and assess and reassess each work, they engage in a combative struggle over the methods and purpose of art that is sharp, funny and mentally invigorating.

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Sunday, March 25, 2012

Personal Images Art Exhibit
Syracuse Stage

Price: Free
Sutton Pavillion, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Personal Images, a collaborative exhibit by six Hispanic international painters, features original pieces by Angela M. Arrey-Wastavino, Juan A. Cruz, Oscar Garces, Marcela Hanford, Abisay Puentes, and Esperanza Tielbaard.

The art show offers the public an inner vision of an eclectic group of visual artists whose life experiences have influenced their creative style. This exhibit runs in conjunction with RED, Tony Award-winner play by John Logan about the abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko.