Thursday, November 18, 2010

Windows Project: Oil is Why
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Native American Tom Huff will present an installation on Leonard Peltier consisting of a mural and sculptural elements that relate to the main gallery's exhibition about Peltier by Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America. Public programming has been organized in conjunction with the Everson Museum of Art and ArtRage Gallery.

Silk: Photographs by Courtney Rile
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Marcus Acevedo Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist's Statement: The duality of man, the potential to be both divine and carnal beings, has always interested me. There is a struggle with the expectations associated with these opposing forces: the potential for greatness always present on one hand, and weaknesses inescapable on the other. My work exists to inspire the question of what is the nature of heroes, legends and Gods, and how different is that from the nature of man. My work goes beyond self-analysis and introspection. I use myself as the archetype for the experiences that connect us. I want to explore not only the greatness of man, but the weakness as well. My work demonstrates that we are powerful and that there is no contradiction that this great power can manifest itself in a person that is inadequate, fearful and weak. In my work I am actor and director, puppet and puppet master, mortal and God. I am free to explore all of these relationships, to be whomever and what ever I desire.

Recent Work by Michael Flanagan and Tyrone Johnson-Neuland
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

There will be an opening reception this evening 5:00-7:00 pm as part of Th3, the Third Thursday citywide art open house.

The exhibit showcases a series of mixed media works.

The Silent Scream: Conflict in Novels Without Words
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University Library has always had a keen interest in all forms of book illustration, and not surprisingly, novels without words became a significant collecting area. Over time, we have amassed a considerable number of the classic specimens in the genre, and the main practitioners of the art form are well represented within our holdings. We developed this exhibition in keeping with the Syracuse Symposium theme for the coming year, "conflict." The artists upon whom we focused are William Gropper, Laurence Hyde, Frans Masereel, Giacomo Patri, John Vassos, and Lynd Ward.

In addition to conflict, novels without words often portray a quest on the part of the individual. This may assume the form of a journey or a saga about the search for self-fulfillment in artistic or purely personal terms, or the quest may have as its primary objective achieving social justice in a particular context. Because of the historical period in which many of these wordless novels were born, they often depict a struggle between the individual and the industrialized world. Industrialization and, by extension, capitalism, may be seen as forces that are fundamentally antagonistic to the interests of the individual and of society in general. Similarly, the law, the police, and the armed forces may all be viewed as instruments of repression in novels without words.

The creators of novels without words also tend to scrutinize the brutal forms of war and tyranny that are made possible by industrialization. In truth, any injustice may become the subject of such works, and perhaps just the cruel nature of our existential struggle to survive in an inherently hostile environment is all the background that is needed to provide the inspiration for the creation of a novel without words.

Visual Trips, No Passport Required
Westcott Community Art Gallery
The Syracuse Photographers Association

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

Meet the founders of the Syracuse Photographers Association tonight, in conjunction with Th3, the Third Thursday citywide art open house.

"Visual Trips, No Passport Required" is a collection of works by members of The Syracuse Photographers Association, and "Partially Abandoned Factory," a solo show within the show, is by the group's organizer and founding member, Mindy Lee Tarry. Color and creativity abounds and many of the framed ink jet prints are for sale, to help raise money for the WCC.

The "Visual Trips, No Passport Required" collection showcases a rich variety of creative viewpoints ranging from stunning landscape prints to ornate and fascinating interior location shots. Viewing this collection will reinforce the fact that there is no shortage of imagination or scenes which inspire members to create wonderful photographic art. The "Partially Abandoned Factory" series narrows the focus with visually engaging interior and exterior studies of a captivating ramshackle former factory. Six of these images are currently featured in COLOR magazine November issue #10.

Resin*ating Metal: Arlene Abend Retrospective
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

The sculpture of Arlene Abend, representing over 30 years of creating in resin, bronze, and steel

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Invitational with Carl Hoffner
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Dogs in Transition: Pit Bulls and Mill Dogs
Community Folk Art Center

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

Cyrus Mejia's art focuses on activism and reflects the ideals of kindness and compassion while shining a light on "speciesism, ignorance and cruelty." Mejia is also co-founder of Best Friends Animal Society, which operates the nation's largest sanctuary for homeless animals near the town of Kanab, Utah. Best Friends is especially known for rehabilitating 22 of the pit bulls rescued from NFL quarterback Michael Vick.

"Pits and Perception" is the first series on view, which portrays pit bulls in a manner that challenges modern-day perceptions of the breed. With increased attention toward dog fighting in the media, many view the pit bull as a vicious and aggressive dog. Through his paintings, Mejia challenges these beliefs by forcing the observer to take a closer look and question public perception.

The second collection, "Mill Dogs Revenge," features dogs rescued from commercial breeding facilities, colloquially known as "puppy mills." Victims of physical abuse, emotional trauma and neglect, these dogs are often subjected to cruel conditions because of human greed for profit. Mejia hopes to raise awareness of the cruelty of puppy mills through his art.

Art Gone Wild: Prints and Paintings by the Animals of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo
Everson Museum of Art

Rosamond Gifford Zoo
One Conservation Place, Syracuse

Striking and extraordinary works of art created by the creatures of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo illustrate the depth of keeper care and behavioral enrichment vital in maintaining healthy and engaged animals. The Everson will be displaying a selection of these animal created artworks in a satellite exhibition. Art Gone Wild! concludes with an art auction on November 20 at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo. Presented by the Rosamond Gifford Zoo chapter of the American Association of Zoo Keepers (AAZK).

Works of Michael DiGiorgio
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Nationally recognized nature artist Michael DiGiorgio is known for bird paintings that emphasize the character of the bird and its relationship to the environment. DiGiorgio, of Madison, CT, has been painting birds since the age of 5. His paintings and drawings have appeared in a variety of nature books and journals, including "Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil: The Pantanal and Cerrado of Central Brazil," "The Breeding Bird Atlas of Connecticut and of New York," "“Master's Guide to Birding," "Audubon Field Guide to Birds (Eastern and Western Regions)," Audubon Magazine, and Audubon Nature Yearbook.

He also has painted numerous covers for Bird Watcher's Digest and has been featured in Sanctuary magazine, a Massachusetts Audubon publication. Currently, he is illustrating bird plates for "The Birds of South America, Vol. III," with Robert Ridgely and Guy Tudor.

DiGiorgio won the first-ever endowment award from the Academy of Natural Sciences, in 2004, in recognition of his bird illustration work. The award was given in memory of Don Eckelberry, under whom he studied. DiGiorgio, whose style reflects his keen observations in the field, is committed to painting from life. He has traveled extensively to create field sketches of birds, plants and habitat from Central America, the West Indies, Trinidad and the Outer Islands of Britain. In addition, numerous trips to the western United States and national parks have allowed him to record a full range of American birdlife.

Archipelago: Works by Yolanda del Amo
Light Work Gallery

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

Powerful forces deep below the surface of the earth form archipelagos, which are chains or clusters of individual islands. In her series Archipelago, artist Yolanda del Amo depicts the powerful forces between people—their conflicting needs for intimacy and connection, independence and individuality. In Archipelago, these competing needs seem to have reached a peaceful if temporary stasis. These beautiful images show people who, although in the presence of another, appear surrounded on all sides not by water but by silence.

Del Amo leaves the relationships of her subjects to each other deliberately vague, which makes her images all the more universal and compelling. Each photograph represents a fragile time in any relationship when two people—whether they are mother and son, husband and wife, or simply friends—momentarily live alone, together.

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Diane Banks and Adam Francey Recent Works
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Diane Banks' specimen series sculptures and drawings are inspired by the fragileness of nature and the delicate balance between vulnerability and strength. Her sculptures are created through the combination of organic and found plastic materials. Through the use of these materials, Banks reveals her fascination how nature protects itself from physical harm caused by man's intrusion, and the many ways it contorts itself to survive.

Working with related and unrelated imagery, Adam Francey layers and edits his paintings until an abstracted composition emerges. These are not works about a concrete idea; rather they provide an opportunity for unlimited readings, depending on point-of-view or frame of reference. Snippets from overheard conversations are peppered in the compositions. These works alternate between toughness and humor, with vibrant colors that appear at any moment, ready to leap off of the surface.

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Emerging Women of CNY #1
Redhouse

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

Artwork by Taye Wright-hirry, Maria Janina Rizzo, Alexandara Crosby, and Kristie Hayes.

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First Continuing Group Show
Szozda Gallery

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

Among area artists included in this show are Lauren Bristol, Sue Canizares, Vincent Fitches, Phil Parsons and James Skvarch.

A Sense of Place: The Real Central New York Landscape
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"A Sense of Place: The Real Central New York Landscape" is a different kind of landscape exhibition. The show features painting, photography, and mixed-media art by Central New York artists that explores the interaction between the local landscape and human activity.

Exhibiting artists include Steven Barbash, Rayburn Beale, Willson Cummer, Brenda Edwards, Bob Gates, Nancy Kramer, Jared Landberg, Sarah McCoubrey, Diane Menzies, Phil Parsons, and Lucie Wellner.

56nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

The show and sale features paintings, pottery, jewelry, stained glass, and more. It's the perfect place to find special holiday gifts for your friends and family.

From the Studio to the Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In collaboration with The Dahesh Museum of Art and the Syracuse University Art Galleries, students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorship course in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies have worked together to present a drawing exhibition that highlights some of the prominent themes and techniques of 19th-century Academic Art. The exhibition will present over 40 drawings on loan from The Dahesh Museum of Art, as well as selected Academic paintings drawn from the Syracuse University Art Collection.

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.

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York presents, for the first time in Syracuse, recent and new work by 21 young New York City artists. Included in the exhibition's wide array of media are several installation pieces created specifically for the SUArt Galleries. Co-curated by SU alumnus Eric Gleason, Sales Director at Marlborough Chelsea, and David Prince, Associate Director at the SUArt Galleries, the show illustrates conceptual and aesthetic trends in contemporary art.

Synonymous with "spread the word," Run and Tell That! is a phrase attributed to Antoine Dodson of Huntsville, AL, whose flamboyant July 28, 2010 television interview following the attempted sexual assault on his sister, quickly became an internet sensation. The phrase has since been integrated into contemporary vernacular; a phenomenon that could only happen now, in a time when information is digested and distributed constantly via the internet. The artists in Run and Tell That! take advantage of this wide spectrum of media to develop a conceptual focus that characterizes this younger generation.

Painters Kamrooz Aram, Steven Charles, Inka Essenhigh, Aaron Johnson, Liz Markus, Tom Sanford, Ryan Schneider and Aya Uekawa use personal experience, art history, abstraction, and social commentary to keep the medium fresh and relevant. Sculpture becomes a widely encompassing term as pieces by Robert Lazzarini, Diana Al-Hadid, Will Ryman, and Ethan Greenbaum broaden the definition. In the series of 13 prints entitled Ars Magica, William Powhida continues his astute satirization of the art world by likening its practices to sorcery. In her Mother Goddess series, Turkish photographer Pinar Yolacan examines pre-neolithic deity figures that were the archetype of beauty in her geographic region thousands of years ago.

Site-specific installations include a first-time collaboration between Ethan Greenbaum and Adam Krueger; a dynamic wall-length installation in which a tree violently emerges from a Hudson River School painting by Valerie Hegarty; Virginia Overton's minimal trompe l'oeil construction using only an eight-foot 2 x 4 and two sheets of mirrored plexiglas; Vlatka Horvat's repurposed ceiling fan and aluminum ladder; and individual projects by Wade Kavanagh and Stephen B. Nguyen whose monumental collaborative installation White Stag, 2010 is currently on view at Mass MoCA.

Also in the exhibition will be Rashaad Newsome: Video and Performance, 2005-2010, an intimate retrospective of the artist's multi-media work exploring innovative forms of communication and expression in contemporary African American urban culture. This work was recently featured in the 2010 Whitney Biennial and in Greater New York 2010 at the PS1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, NY.

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Bill Viola Video Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson was the first museum to collect video art, beginning in the early 1970s. Bill Viola, now one of the world's leading video artists, studied at Syracuse University and began his career at the Everson. A selection of historic videos by Bill Viola from the Everson's pioneering video collection will be shown in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court in conjunction with the Urban Video Project (UVP), which will also be featuring Viola this fall.

Jules Olitski: An Inside View
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

One of America's pre-eminent painters, Jules Olitski (1922-2007) is celebrated for his large-format, lyrical abstractions that shimmer with color. Less well-known are his smaller, more intimate prints in a variety of media, which both parallel and depart from the abstract imagery of his paintings.

"An Inside View" includes 40 prints in a variety of media—intaglio, silkscreen, lithograph, and monotype—spanning the artist's career of more than five decades.

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Haudenosaunee: Elements
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The act of creating works of art is embedded in the Haudenosaunee way of life and has been for centuries. This exhibition presents works by contemporary Haudenosaunee artists from the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy—Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga and Tuscarora. The artists range from those with well established careers to new and notable talents. Among those exhibiting are Jay Carrier, Harold Farmer, Katsitsionni Fox and Ed Burnam, Ronni-Leigh Goeman, Stonehorse Goeman, Tom Huff, Frank Buffalo Hyde, Ada Jacques, G. Peter Jemison, Peter B. Jones, Linley Logan, Shelley Niro, Aweñheeyoh Powless, Jolene Rickard, Clint Shenandoah, Leah Shenandoah, Natasha Smoke Santiago, Smiley Summers, Tammy Tarbell-Boehing, and Tracy Thomas.

"Haudenosaunee: Elements" does not attempt to provide a survey of contemporary art—the talented artists working in our region are too numerous to be represented in this exhibition—but rather to introduce viewers to the broad range of media and art forms by which contemporary artists continue to create their own individual visual language while never straying far from their cultural heritage.

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Yui Kugimiya: Live Paintings
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based artist Yui Kugimiya presents "live paintings" for the final installment of the 2010 Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series. Kugimiya creates stop-motion animation using expressionistic paintings and actual objects typically found in the home as shown here in her most recent work, Breakfast. This video animation involves the use of paintings in conjunction with a variety of kitchen utensils and vegetables mixed with sound recorded directly from the live action. The artist states, "The animation parallels the psychological space, reveals the thoughts of making, and unfolds the inspiration of the daily-life-mundane."

The video animations are lighthearted and playful with a hint of dark drama. For each frame, a scene is painted on the canvas with fluid, gestural brush strokes loaded with rich color, captured on video and then the scene disappears before one's eyes as the next phase of the narrative unfolds. The exhibition includes new video work as well as a selection of paintings in the creative process so viewers can experience the richness of Kugimiya's paintings alongside her enlivening video works.

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VPA Faculty Show
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

There will be a gallery reception this evening 6:00-8:00 in conjunction with Th3, the citywide art open.

An exhibition featuring work by faculty in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Rigo 23: Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024
The Warehouse Gallery

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

There will be an opening reception this evening 5:00-8:00 pm in conjunction with Th3, the third Thursday citywide arts open house. Music provided by Robert Benedict, Native American flutist.

San Francisco based artist Rigo 23 is known nationally and internationally for his highly political site-specific work. Intercultural relations and justice issues are often present in his work which includes working with political prisoners, such as Leonard Peltier, who is the subject of this show. The exhibition title refers specifically to Peltier's given name in Lakota (Tate Wikikuwa), to his next hearing in 2024, and to Rigo 23's former project at the De Young Museum in San Francisco (1999). The Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024 will focus on the artwork, life, and status of this Native American whose case has been an international controversy since the 1970s. This exhibition will showcase Peltier through the visual arts (oil paintings) as well as educational components such as talks and a symposium sponsored by the Humanities Center at Syracuse University.

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Tonto Revisited: Native American Stereotypes
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

What do Land 'o Lakes, Argo Cornstarch and Syracuse minor league baseball have in common? Stereotyped images of Native Americans. This exhibit is curated by Tom Huff, a Seneca/Cayuga artist living and working in his sculpture studio on the Onondaga Nation. It exposes the cultural mythology surrounding Native Americans. The images and objects associated with "Indians" are dictated and defined by the dominant non-Indian culture. Many of the resulting representations are culturally and socially incorrect, even racist, with exaggerated misrepresentations of Native Americans.

Huff's collection of portrayals of menacing warriors wielding tomahawks, knives, and bows and arrows found in posters, advertisements, toys, sports logos and more will be on display. He has been collecting "Indian Kitsch" for over 25 years. While many may not think of them individually as destructive, this exhibit helps to illustrate how these pervasive negative preconceptions trivialize the tragedy wrought on indigenous peoples everywhere. We hope to both dispel the myths surrounding Native Americans and to encourage a new understanding of native peoples.

Special Event
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Regional arts and crafts, light refreshments.

Personal Credos to the World: Fall Gallery Opening

Price: Free
Q Center @ AIDS Community Resources
627 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

The Q Center will be showing works created during workshops where students worked with stencil making, splatter painting, and collage to create a message they wanted to send out to the world. The Q Center Theatre Troupe will also be performing a piece that has been developed with students from local high schools' Gay Straight Alliances. Refreshments will be provided. The Q Center's Director, Dr. Elizabethe Payne, will be there to answer any questions and share more about the center.

Please RSVP to Kristin at qcentersyr@live.com or phone 315-701-2431.

Opening: La Colección/The Collection: Exhibit 3
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A special program to commemorate Point of Contact's 35th anniversary and The Point of Contact Gallery's 5th -- a show of the entire permanent collection in five exhibitions starting in September 2010.

Exhibit 3: Works of Marta Chilindrón, Lisa Kalomeris, Sarah Kipp, Panayotis Michael, Liliana Porter, Ana Tiscornia

Cliff Evans: Untitled (Sketch for a monument to J.G. Ballard) #3, 2009
Urban Video Project

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

(1-minute loop) This composite of video footage is the first in a series of three "sketches," from which elements will later be taken to create a much larger virtual monument to the author J.G. Ballard. Within the video, disparate shots of an array of motorway overpasses and exchanges are stitched together in order to create a complex landscape of concrete, smoke, and automobiles. The images hurtle through a dense arterial chaos of constructed time and sibilance, dissolving into a column of smoke and revealing their destination as circular and contained.

Evans is a multimedia artist whose work focuses primarily on political, popular, and internet culture using appropriation and photomontage animation. His multi-channel installations and video objects have been shown internationally, including at the Chelsea Art Museum, Luxe Gallery, and Scope NY in New York City; the Museum of Fine Arts Boston; Scope Miami in Miami; and the Chinese International Gallery Exposition in Beijing, China; among many others. He has also been an artist-in-residence at Boston Symphony Orchestra Tanglewood, Lenox, MA; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA; and Location One International Residency Program, New York, NY.

Eva Davidova: Location One & Two, 2005
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

(Digital animation loop, 2:12 minutes) These very short videos are photography-based animation loops, where movement, time, and spatial relationship are defined by the deliberate distortions in the process of blending a photo sequence. The pixels from one image are smoothly dragged and melted into those of the next one. Buildings and objects acquire impossible organic qualities, and the animations become almost sculptural. The affordances of spaces and structures are only dependent on the emotional state of the subject, and on the inner logic, or absurdity of each piece. Through invented and artificial, yet extremely realistic-looking movements, as well as by changing the perception of time, Davidova searches for hidden patterns and looks into states of mind unconditioned by the "possible".

Davidova's work has been exhibited internationally, including at Magnan Projects Gallery, New York; Instituto Cervantes, Sofia, Bulgaria; Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain; N2 Gallery in Barcelona, Spain; and many others. She received a 2006 BANCAJA International Contest Award for Digital Art, the 2008 M-tel Award for Contemporary Bulgarian Art, and the 2009 Djerassi Honorary Fellowship. In 2009 she participated in the Moscow Biennale and in the Living and Dreaming exhibition at the Bronx Museum, NY.

The Puppy Mill
Community Folk Art Center

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

The documentary discusses the domestication of dogs and how increased demand for specific breeds has led to inhumane treatment. When humans seek the perfect pet, dogs are often the ones to suffer as they are kept in cruel conditions in order to be bred for profit.

The Puppy Mill has been a popular component of animal rights educational programming throughout Australia and the United States. The film is being presented in conjunction with CFAC's current exhibition, "Dogs in Transition: Pit Bulls & Mill Dogs" by Cyrus Mejia. The gallery will be open for public viewing prior to the screening.

Artist Open: Haudenosaunee Elements
Everson Museum of Art

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

Enjoy a talk by two of the artists in the exhibition, Haudenosaunee: Elements. Tammy Tarbell-Boehning and Aweñheeyoh Powless will share their inspirations, process and techniques.

Horn Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Parking is available in the Irving Garage.

An Evening with Medeski, Martin & Wood
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Hijacked Holiday
Acme Mystery Company

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

Millie the copy girl has packed her favorite portfolio of copies and headed for the North Pole with hopes of marrying the big guy. Things go South fast, however, when she finds she's stepped into a crime scene. Someone has stolen all the Christmas toys right before they were to be packed into Santa's sleigh and now everyone is a suspect. It's going to be one heck of a Christmas Eve figuring out who's been naughty or nice.

Evening at the Museum
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: $10 ($8 OHA members). Reservations required.
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In the spirit of Ghost Walk, on the third Thursday of each month, after regular business hours, pay a visit to the Onondaga Historical Association for Evening at the Museum. OHA has collected innumerable stories from Syracuse and Central New York for 150 years. Now you have the opportunity to explore our past in a fun and unique way. Accompany our knowledgeable night watchman to experience our exhibits in a new light and see who comes out of the woodwork to bring Salt City history to life. For reservations, phone 315-428-1864, ext. 370. Groups of 15 maximum.

Legally Blonde
Broadway in Syracuse

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

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Jungalbook
Syracuse University Drama Department
Felix Ivanov, director

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

By Edward Mast, based on The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling

Take an excursion into a playground full of imagination and physical dexterity. Adapted from Rudyard Kipling's books and poems, these intertwined tales of Mowgli, the "mancub," get a contemporary spin as Kipling's great characters spring to life. The familiar story of Mowgli—raised by Akela the wolf, tutored by Baloo the bear, and protected by Bagheera the panther—climaxes in the final showdown with Sherakhan the tiger. Along the way, Mowgli learns the laws of the jungle and the price paid for breaking them. Unlike some popular film versions, this adaptation adheres closely to Kipling's stories and captures the poetic spirit of the original tales.

Mast is a Seattle-based playwright whose adaptations of The Jungle Books and The Hobbit allow contemporary audiences to access dated but important stories. After Jungalbook's New York premiere in August 2006, it has been performed around the U.S. for audiences of all ages. Previously for the department, Ivanov directed Aesop's Fables in the Black Box Theatre. He is a graduate of the prestigious Schukin Theatre School at the Vakhtangov Academy Theatre and the Stasov Musical School (violin) in Moscow, Russia.

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Friday, November 19, 2010

Windows Project: Oil is Why
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Native American Tom Huff will present an installation on Leonard Peltier consisting of a mural and sculptural elements that relate to the main gallery's exhibition about Peltier by Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America. Public programming has been organized in conjunction with the Everson Museum of Art and ArtRage Gallery.

Christopher & Richard Williams: "Art as Catharsis: Watch Out I Need to Purge"
LeMoyne College

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

There will be an opening reception this afternoon 4:00-6:00 pm.

Join us for an exhibition of paintings, drawings, and sketches by brothers Christopher and Richards Williams. The brothers share a conviction that art is a representation of ideas that reflect and comment on our social disorder. Creating images that are disturbing, allegorical, and provocative, the artists challenge the viewer to see the world through their eyes.

Christopher Williams has exhibited his work throughout the U.S. Richard Williams is a professional illustrator and portrait artist. His work is in the private collections of Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Howard Stern.

Silk: Photographs by Courtney Rile
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Marcus Acevedo Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist's Statement: The duality of man, the potential to be both divine and carnal beings, has always interested me. There is a struggle with the expectations associated with these opposing forces: the potential for greatness always present on one hand, and weaknesses inescapable on the other. My work exists to inspire the question of what is the nature of heroes, legends and Gods, and how different is that from the nature of man. My work goes beyond self-analysis and introspection. I use myself as the archetype for the experiences that connect us. I want to explore not only the greatness of man, but the weakness as well. My work demonstrates that we are powerful and that there is no contradiction that this great power can manifest itself in a person that is inadequate, fearful and weak. In my work I am actor and director, puppet and puppet master, mortal and God. I am free to explore all of these relationships, to be whomever and what ever I desire.

La Colección/The Collection: Exhibit 3
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A special program to commemorate Point of Contact's 35th anniversary and The Point of Contact Gallery's 5th -- a show of the entire permanent collection in five exhibitions starting in September 2010.

Exhibit 3: Works of Marta Chilindrón, Lisa Kalomeris, Sarah Kipp, Panayotis Michael, Liliana Porter, Ana Tiscornia

Recent Work by Michael Flanagan and Tyrone Johnson-Neuland
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

The exhibit showcases a series of mixed media works.

The Silent Scream: Conflict in Novels Without Words
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University Library has always had a keen interest in all forms of book illustration, and not surprisingly, novels without words became a significant collecting area. Over time, we have amassed a considerable number of the classic specimens in the genre, and the main practitioners of the art form are well represented within our holdings. We developed this exhibition in keeping with the Syracuse Symposium theme for the coming year, "conflict." The artists upon whom we focused are William Gropper, Laurence Hyde, Frans Masereel, Giacomo Patri, John Vassos, and Lynd Ward.

In addition to conflict, novels without words often portray a quest on the part of the individual. This may assume the form of a journey or a saga about the search for self-fulfillment in artistic or purely personal terms, or the quest may have as its primary objective achieving social justice in a particular context. Because of the historical period in which many of these wordless novels were born, they often depict a struggle between the individual and the industrialized world. Industrialization and, by extension, capitalism, may be seen as forces that are fundamentally antagonistic to the interests of the individual and of society in general. Similarly, the law, the police, and the armed forces may all be viewed as instruments of repression in novels without words.

The creators of novels without words also tend to scrutinize the brutal forms of war and tyranny that are made possible by industrialization. In truth, any injustice may become the subject of such works, and perhaps just the cruel nature of our existential struggle to survive in an inherently hostile environment is all the background that is needed to provide the inspiration for the creation of a novel without words.

Visual Trips, No Passport Required
Westcott Community Art Gallery
The Syracuse Photographers Association

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

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

"Visual Trips, No Passport Required" is a collection of works by members of The Syracuse Photographers Association, and "Partially Abandoned Factory," a solo show within the show, is by the group's organizer and founding member, Mindy Lee Tarry. Color and creativity abounds and many of the framed ink jet prints are for sale, to help raise money for the WCC.

The "Visual Trips, No Passport Required" collection showcases a rich variety of creative viewpoints ranging from stunning landscape prints to ornate and fascinating interior location shots. Viewing this collection will reinforce the fact that there is no shortage of imagination or scenes which inspire members to create wonderful photographic art. The "Partially Abandoned Factory" series narrows the focus with visually engaging interior and exterior studies of a captivating ramshackle former factory. Six of these images are currently featured in COLOR magazine November issue #10.

Resin*ating Metal: Arlene Abend Retrospective
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

The sculpture of Arlene Abend, representing over 30 years of creating in resin, bronze, and steel

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Invitational with Carl Hoffner
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Dogs in Transition: Pit Bulls and Mill Dogs
Community Folk Art Center

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

Cyrus Mejia's art focuses on activism and reflects the ideals of kindness and compassion while shining a light on "speciesism, ignorance and cruelty." Mejia is also co-founder of Best Friends Animal Society, which operates the nation's largest sanctuary for homeless animals near the town of Kanab, Utah. Best Friends is especially known for rehabilitating 22 of the pit bulls rescued from NFL quarterback Michael Vick.

"Pits and Perception" is the first series on view, which portrays pit bulls in a manner that challenges modern-day perceptions of the breed. With increased attention toward dog fighting in the media, many view the pit bull as a vicious and aggressive dog. Through his paintings, Mejia challenges these beliefs by forcing the observer to take a closer look and question public perception.

The second collection, "Mill Dogs Revenge," features dogs rescued from commercial breeding facilities, colloquially known as "puppy mills." Victims of physical abuse, emotional trauma and neglect, these dogs are often subjected to cruel conditions because of human greed for profit. Mejia hopes to raise awareness of the cruelty of puppy mills through his art.

Art Gone Wild: Prints and Paintings by the Animals of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo
Everson Museum of Art

Rosamond Gifford Zoo
One Conservation Place, Syracuse

Striking and extraordinary works of art created by the creatures of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo illustrate the depth of keeper care and behavioral enrichment vital in maintaining healthy and engaged animals. The Everson will be displaying a selection of these animal created artworks in a satellite exhibition. Art Gone Wild! concludes with an art auction on November 20 at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo. Presented by the Rosamond Gifford Zoo chapter of the American Association of Zoo Keepers (AAZK).

Works of Michael DiGiorgio
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Nationally recognized nature artist Michael DiGiorgio is known for bird paintings that emphasize the character of the bird and its relationship to the environment. DiGiorgio, of Madison, CT, has been painting birds since the age of 5. His paintings and drawings have appeared in a variety of nature books and journals, including "Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil: The Pantanal and Cerrado of Central Brazil," "The Breeding Bird Atlas of Connecticut and of New York," "“Master's Guide to Birding," "Audubon Field Guide to Birds (Eastern and Western Regions)," Audubon Magazine, and Audubon Nature Yearbook.

He also has painted numerous covers for Bird Watcher's Digest and has been featured in Sanctuary magazine, a Massachusetts Audubon publication. Currently, he is illustrating bird plates for "The Birds of South America, Vol. III," with Robert Ridgely and Guy Tudor.

DiGiorgio won the first-ever endowment award from the Academy of Natural Sciences, in 2004, in recognition of his bird illustration work. The award was given in memory of Don Eckelberry, under whom he studied. DiGiorgio, whose style reflects his keen observations in the field, is committed to painting from life. He has traveled extensively to create field sketches of birds, plants and habitat from Central America, the West Indies, Trinidad and the Outer Islands of Britain. In addition, numerous trips to the western United States and national parks have allowed him to record a full range of American birdlife.

Archipelago: Works by Yolanda del Amo
Light Work Gallery

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

Powerful forces deep below the surface of the earth form archipelagos, which are chains or clusters of individual islands. In her series Archipelago, artist Yolanda del Amo depicts the powerful forces between people—their conflicting needs for intimacy and connection, independence and individuality. In Archipelago, these competing needs seem to have reached a peaceful if temporary stasis. These beautiful images show people who, although in the presence of another, appear surrounded on all sides not by water but by silence.

Del Amo leaves the relationships of her subjects to each other deliberately vague, which makes her images all the more universal and compelling. Each photograph represents a fragile time in any relationship when two people—whether they are mother and son, husband and wife, or simply friends—momentarily live alone, together.

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Diane Banks and Adam Francey Recent Works
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Diane Banks' specimen series sculptures and drawings are inspired by the fragileness of nature and the delicate balance between vulnerability and strength. Her sculptures are created through the combination of organic and found plastic materials. Through the use of these materials, Banks reveals her fascination how nature protects itself from physical harm caused by man's intrusion, and the many ways it contorts itself to survive.

Working with related and unrelated imagery, Adam Francey layers and edits his paintings until an abstracted composition emerges. These are not works about a concrete idea; rather they provide an opportunity for unlimited readings, depending on point-of-view or frame of reference. Snippets from overheard conversations are peppered in the compositions. These works alternate between toughness and humor, with vibrant colors that appear at any moment, ready to leap off of the surface.

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Emerging Women of CNY #1
Redhouse

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

Artwork by Taye Wright-hirry, Maria Janina Rizzo, Alexandara Crosby, and Kristie Hayes.

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First Continuing Group Show
Szozda Gallery

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

Among area artists included in this show are Lauren Bristol, Sue Canizares, Vincent Fitches, Phil Parsons and James Skvarch.

A Sense of Place: The Real Central New York Landscape
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"A Sense of Place: The Real Central New York Landscape" is a different kind of landscape exhibition. The show features painting, photography, and mixed-media art by Central New York artists that explores the interaction between the local landscape and human activity.

Exhibiting artists include Steven Barbash, Rayburn Beale, Willson Cummer, Brenda Edwards, Bob Gates, Nancy Kramer, Jared Landberg, Sarah McCoubrey, Diane Menzies, Phil Parsons, and Lucie Wellner.

56nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

The show and sale features paintings, pottery, jewelry, stained glass, and more. It's the perfect place to find special holiday gifts for your friends and family.

From the Studio to the Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In collaboration with The Dahesh Museum of Art and the Syracuse University Art Galleries, students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorship course in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies have worked together to present a drawing exhibition that highlights some of the prominent themes and techniques of 19th-century Academic Art. The exhibition will present over 40 drawings on loan from The Dahesh Museum of Art, as well as selected Academic paintings drawn from the Syracuse University Art Collection.

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.

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York presents, for the first time in Syracuse, recent and new work by 21 young New York City artists. Included in the exhibition's wide array of media are several installation pieces created specifically for the SUArt Galleries. Co-curated by SU alumnus Eric Gleason, Sales Director at Marlborough Chelsea, and David Prince, Associate Director at the SUArt Galleries, the show illustrates conceptual and aesthetic trends in contemporary art.

Synonymous with "spread the word," Run and Tell That! is a phrase attributed to Antoine Dodson of Huntsville, AL, whose flamboyant July 28, 2010 television interview following the attempted sexual assault on his sister, quickly became an internet sensation. The phrase has since been integrated into contemporary vernacular; a phenomenon that could only happen now, in a time when information is digested and distributed constantly via the internet. The artists in Run and Tell That! take advantage of this wide spectrum of media to develop a conceptual focus that characterizes this younger generation.

Painters Kamrooz Aram, Steven Charles, Inka Essenhigh, Aaron Johnson, Liz Markus, Tom Sanford, Ryan Schneider and Aya Uekawa use personal experience, art history, abstraction, and social commentary to keep the medium fresh and relevant. Sculpture becomes a widely encompassing term as pieces by Robert Lazzarini, Diana Al-Hadid, Will Ryman, and Ethan Greenbaum broaden the definition. In the series of 13 prints entitled Ars Magica, William Powhida continues his astute satirization of the art world by likening its practices to sorcery. In her Mother Goddess series, Turkish photographer Pinar Yolacan examines pre-neolithic deity figures that were the archetype of beauty in her geographic region thousands of years ago.

Site-specific installations include a first-time collaboration between Ethan Greenbaum and Adam Krueger; a dynamic wall-length installation in which a tree violently emerges from a Hudson River School painting by Valerie Hegarty; Virginia Overton's minimal trompe l'oeil construction using only an eight-foot 2 x 4 and two sheets of mirrored plexiglas; Vlatka Horvat's repurposed ceiling fan and aluminum ladder; and individual projects by Wade Kavanagh and Stephen B. Nguyen whose monumental collaborative installation White Stag, 2010 is currently on view at Mass MoCA.

Also in the exhibition will be Rashaad Newsome: Video and Performance, 2005-2010, an intimate retrospective of the artist's multi-media work exploring innovative forms of communication and expression in contemporary African American urban culture. This work was recently featured in the 2010 Whitney Biennial and in Greater New York 2010 at the PS1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, NY.

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Yui Kugimiya: Live Paintings
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based artist Yui Kugimiya presents "live paintings" for the final installment of the 2010 Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series. Kugimiya creates stop-motion animation using expressionistic paintings and actual objects typically found in the home as shown here in her most recent work, Breakfast. This video animation involves the use of paintings in conjunction with a variety of kitchen utensils and vegetables mixed with sound recorded directly from the live action. The artist states, "The animation parallels the psychological space, reveals the thoughts of making, and unfolds the inspiration of the daily-life-mundane."

The video animations are lighthearted and playful with a hint of dark drama. For each frame, a scene is painted on the canvas with fluid, gestural brush strokes loaded with rich color, captured on video and then the scene disappears before one's eyes as the next phase of the narrative unfolds. The exhibition includes new video work as well as a selection of paintings in the creative process so viewers can experience the richness of Kugimiya's paintings alongside her enlivening video works.

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Haudenosaunee: Elements
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The act of creating works of art is embedded in the Haudenosaunee way of life and has been for centuries. This exhibition presents works by contemporary Haudenosaunee artists from the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy—Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga and Tuscarora. The artists range from those with well established careers to new and notable talents. Among those exhibiting are Jay Carrier, Harold Farmer, Katsitsionni Fox and Ed Burnam, Ronni-Leigh Goeman, Stonehorse Goeman, Tom Huff, Frank Buffalo Hyde, Ada Jacques, G. Peter Jemison, Peter B. Jones, Linley Logan, Shelley Niro, Aweñheeyoh Powless, Jolene Rickard, Clint Shenandoah, Leah Shenandoah, Natasha Smoke Santiago, Smiley Summers, Tammy Tarbell-Boehing, and Tracy Thomas.

"Haudenosaunee: Elements" does not attempt to provide a survey of contemporary art—the talented artists working in our region are too numerous to be represented in this exhibition—but rather to introduce viewers to the broad range of media and art forms by which contemporary artists continue to create their own individual visual language while never straying far from their cultural heritage.

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Jules Olitski: An Inside View
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

One of America's pre-eminent painters, Jules Olitski (1922-2007) is celebrated for his large-format, lyrical abstractions that shimmer with color. Less well-known are his smaller, more intimate prints in a variety of media, which both parallel and depart from the abstract imagery of his paintings.

"An Inside View" includes 40 prints in a variety of media—intaglio, silkscreen, lithograph, and monotype—spanning the artist's career of more than five decades.

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Bill Viola Video Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson was the first museum to collect video art, beginning in the early 1970s. Bill Viola, now one of the world's leading video artists, studied at Syracuse University and began his career at the Everson. A selection of historic videos by Bill Viola from the Everson's pioneering video collection will be shown in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court in conjunction with the Urban Video Project (UVP), which will also be featuring Viola this fall.

Betty Munro Retrospective Exhibition
Stone Quarry Hill Art Park

Price: Free
The Spring: Center for Spiritual & Cultural Unity
200 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

A major retrospective art exhibition featuring the watercolor paintings of local artist Betty Munro, now 91 years old and living in Madison, WI, who became well-known for setting up her easel across the street from the construction site of the Civic Center as it was being built, and documenting in watercolor the construction of the building.

In addition, Munro painted local area landmarks such as Clinton Square, lower Fayetteville, City Hall, area churches, and many other buildings and landscapes that are easily recognizable through her whimsical, semi-expressionistic watercolor paintings. Throughout her life, well into her early 80s, Munro painted tirelessly, offering the Syracuse area a legacy of beauty.

All of her available watercolor paintings -- a total of over 200 paintings, both framed and unframed -- will be on view. All are for sale. The 27 Civic Center paintings will be shown as a unit in The Spring's Conference Room, and will only be sold as a unit. Over 40 framed watercolors of a variety of local scenes will be exhibited in the Gathering Room at The Spring. The remaining art will be displayed in plastic sleeves in racks and may be purchased individually.

The exhibition is made possible through the generosity and collaboration of Munro's former neighbor Joan Gardner, David Rudd of Dalton Antiques, The Spring, and Stone Quarry Hill Art Park. Proceeds of art sales will go to Munro, to The Spring, and to Stone Quarry Hill Art Park. For more information, contact Patsy Scala, Program Director at The Spring, at 315-382-0444, or email her at patsy7154@aol.com.

VPA Faculty Show
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

An exhibition featuring work by faculty in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Rigo 23: Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024
The Warehouse Gallery

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

San Francisco based artist Rigo 23 is known nationally and internationally for his highly political site-specific work. Intercultural relations and justice issues are often present in his work which includes working with political prisoners, such as Leonard Peltier, who is the subject of this show. The exhibition title refers specifically to Peltier's given name in Lakota (Tate Wikikuwa), to his next hearing in 2024, and to Rigo 23's former project at the De Young Museum in San Francisco (1999). The Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024 will focus on the artwork, life, and status of this Native American whose case has been an international controversy since the 1970s. This exhibition will showcase Peltier through the visual arts (oil paintings) as well as educational components such as talks and a symposium sponsored by the Humanities Center at Syracuse University.

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Pop 66: Pop Can Pinhole Photos of Route 66
Echo

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

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

A meditation by Wes Pope 1998-2010.

Using 33 pinhole cameras made out of 66 pop cans, Wes Pope photographed the people and places along Route 66 since 1998. The resulting black and white images look distorted and old -- while portraying a contemporary portrait of life in the American West and Midwest.

The pinhole pop can cameras will also be on display.

Tonto Revisited: Native American Stereotypes
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

What do Land 'o Lakes, Argo Cornstarch and Syracuse minor league baseball have in common? Stereotyped images of Native Americans. This exhibit is curated by Tom Huff, a Seneca/Cayuga artist living and working in his sculpture studio on the Onondaga Nation. It exposes the cultural mythology surrounding Native Americans. The images and objects associated with "Indians" are dictated and defined by the dominant non-Indian culture. Many of the resulting representations are culturally and socially incorrect, even racist, with exaggerated misrepresentations of Native Americans.

Huff's collection of portrayals of menacing warriors wielding tomahawks, knives, and bows and arrows found in posters, advertisements, toys, sports logos and more will be on display. He has been collecting "Indian Kitsch" for over 25 years. While many may not think of them individually as destructive, this exhibit helps to illustrate how these pervasive negative preconceptions trivialize the tragedy wrought on indigenous peoples everywhere. We hope to both dispel the myths surrounding Native Americans and to encourage a new understanding of native peoples.

Friday Night Live
Featuring KD the Comic

Price: $15
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-832-2565.

Satan's Lemonade
Salt City Improv Theater

Price: $10 regular, $8 students
Salt City Improv Theatre
Shoppingtown Mall, Sears Wing, Dewitt

The SCiT house team performs their own special brand of long-form improvision, as only they can do it.

Cliff Evans: Untitled (Sketch for a monument to J.G. Ballard) #3, 2009
Urban Video Project

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

(1-minute loop) This composite of video footage is the first in a series of three "sketches," from which elements will later be taken to create a much larger virtual monument to the author J.G. Ballard. Within the video, disparate shots of an array of motorway overpasses and exchanges are stitched together in order to create a complex landscape of concrete, smoke, and automobiles. The images hurtle through a dense arterial chaos of constructed time and sibilance, dissolving into a column of smoke and revealing their destination as circular and contained.

Evans is a multimedia artist whose work focuses primarily on political, popular, and internet culture using appropriation and photomontage animation. His multi-channel installations and video objects have been shown internationally, including at the Chelsea Art Museum, Luxe Gallery, and Scope NY in New York City; the Museum of Fine Arts Boston; Scope Miami in Miami; and the Chinese International Gallery Exposition in Beijing, China; among many others. He has also been an artist-in-residence at Boston Symphony Orchestra Tanglewood, Lenox, MA; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA; and Location One International Residency Program, New York, NY.

Eva Davidova: Location One & Two, 2005
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

(Digital animation loop, 2:12 minutes) These very short videos are photography-based animation loops, where movement, time, and spatial relationship are defined by the deliberate distortions in the process of blending a photo sequence. The pixels from one image are smoothly dragged and melted into those of the next one. Buildings and objects acquire impossible organic qualities, and the animations become almost sculptural. The affordances of spaces and structures are only dependent on the emotional state of the subject, and on the inner logic, or absurdity of each piece. Through invented and artificial, yet extremely realistic-looking movements, as well as by changing the perception of time, Davidova searches for hidden patterns and looks into states of mind unconditioned by the "possible".

Davidova's work has been exhibited internationally, including at Magnan Projects Gallery, New York; Instituto Cervantes, Sofia, Bulgaria; Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain; N2 Gallery in Barcelona, Spain; and many others. She received a 2006 BANCAJA International Contest Award for Digital Art, the 2008 M-tel Award for Contemporary Bulgarian Art, and the 2009 Djerassi Honorary Fellowship. In 2009 she participated in the Moscow Biennale and in the Living and Dreaming exhibition at the Bronx Museum, NY.

OCC Percussion Ensemble
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Music Journeys: Electric Kompany
LeMoyne College

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Founded in 2006 in New York City, Electric Kompany is a rock group dedicated to performing music by modern composers, thus answering the age old question, "If a modern music composer wrote music for a rock band, what would it sound like?" EK will strive to answer this question, performing works by composers Jacob Ter Velduis, Nck Didkovsky, James Johnston, David T. Little, and Syracuse's own Marc Mellits.

In Achord Fall Showcase
Jamesville-Dewitt Music Department

Price: $8 at door, $6 in advance
Jamesville-Dewitt High School
Edinger Drive, Dewitt

Jamesville-Dewitt's show choir.

Bill Staines
Folkus Project

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

One of the most beloved singers on today's folk music scene, Bill Staines makes his Folkus debut. Mixing traditional tunes with his own contemporary folk ballads, he weaves a blend of gentle wit and humor into his performances. Staines' music is a slice of Americana, reflecting his feelings about the prairie people of the Midwest or the adventurers of the Yukon, on-the-road truckers, or the ordinary workers that make up this land. His humorous tales of life on the road and observations of everyday people provide an entertaining blend of story and song.

Diane Schuur
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free (tickets required)
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Grammy-winning vocalist and pianist Diane Schuur is as eclectic as she is brilliant. Born in Tacoma, WA, in December 1953, Schuur was blind from birth. Nicknamed "Deedles" at a young age, Schuur discovered the world of jazz via her father, a piano player, and her mother, who kept a formidable collection of Duke Ellington and Dinah Washington records in the house. A longtime disciple of the incomparable Washington and other legendary jazz singers of the 1940s and 1950s, Schuur has built a stellar career by embracing not only the jazz of her parents' generation but also the pop music of her own youth during the '50s and '60s. In a recoding career that spans nearly three decades, Schuur has become a legend in her own right and an artist whom many consider to be the best in the business.

For ticket information regarding the Legends of Jazz Series, phone 315-498-2787. Tickets are limited and are on a first come first serve basis.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
University Singers, with the ESM High School Choir

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

University Singers, Syracuse University's elite vocal ensemble, performs under the direction of John Warren. The program will include pieces by Mozart, Poulenc, and Hogan. The East Syracuse-Minoa High School Choir, under the direction of Shawn Hebert, will perform as guest choir.

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage.

Hot Day at the Zoo with Jatoba
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Elizabeth Twiddy, poet
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Elizabeth Twiddy's first full-length book of poems is Love-Noise (Standing Stone Books, 2010); she is also author of a chapbook, Zoo Animals in the Rain (Turtle Ink Press, 2009). She has won, among other awards, The Joyce Carol Oates Award for Poetry from Syracuse University. Her poems have appeared in Barrow Street, POOL, the Australian journal Skive, and elsewhere. She teaches poetry here at the YMCA's Downtown Writer's Center, and also serves as an editor for the poetry journal Comstock Review.

The Secret Garden

Price: $10 regular, $5 seniors/children under 12
Fayetteville-Manlius High School
8201 E. Seneca Tpke., Manlius

For more information, phone 315-692-1900.

Noises Off
The Meadowbrook Harlequins
Virginia Fennessy, director

Price: $7 regular, $5 students/seniors
Nottingham High School
3100 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Noises Off, by Michael Frayn, opens with the final dress rehearsal of a British company about to perform a comedy. The actors have a hard time separating their personal lives from their work, and the resulting antics make for a fun-filled play. The second act takes place behind the scenes, one month after the play has opened, and it seems that two of the actors are more intent on their relationship with each other than their jobs. The final scene, two months later, presents an almost unrecognizable version of the original comedy.

Lizzie Borden Took an Axe
Covey Theatre Company

BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

August 4th 1892, Fall River, Massachusetts: The gruesome double axe murder of Andrew and Abby Borden, parents to the refined socialite Lizzie Borden, remains one of America's most interesting unsolved crimes. Put on trial and eventually acquitted, Lizzie never escaped public scrutiny and was condemned by the sensationalist media. Lizzie Borden Took an Axe delves into the exciting testimonies of the people involved, fleshing out the psychological and emotional trauma of the grisly event. Did Lizzie do it? You can judge for yourself in this new play by Garrett Heater.

The Covey Theatre Company is a non-profit corp. created by Susan Blumer, Garrett Heater, and Michael Penny. Lizzie Borden Took an Axe is the company's first production.

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Jungalbook
Syracuse University Drama Department
Felix Ivanov, director

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

By Edward Mast, based on The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling

Take an excursion into a playground full of imagination and physical dexterity. Adapted from Rudyard Kipling's books and poems, these intertwined tales of Mowgli, the "mancub," get a contemporary spin as Kipling's great characters spring to life. The familiar story of Mowgli—raised by Akela the wolf, tutored by Baloo the bear, and protected by Bagheera the panther—climaxes in the final showdown with Sherakhan the tiger. Along the way, Mowgli learns the laws of the jungle and the price paid for breaking them. Unlike some popular film versions, this adaptation adheres closely to Kipling's stories and captures the poetic spirit of the original tales.

Mast is a Seattle-based playwright whose adaptations of The Jungle Books and The Hobbit allow contemporary audiences to access dated but important stories. After Jungalbook's New York premiere in August 2006, it has been performed around the U.S. for audiences of all ages. Previously for the department, Ivanov directed Aesop's Fables in the Black Box Theatre. He is a graduate of the prestigious Schukin Theatre School at the Vakhtangov Academy Theatre and the Stasov Musical School (violin) in Moscow, Russia.

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Saturday, November 20, 2010

Windows Project: Oil is Why
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Native American Tom Huff will present an installation on Leonard Peltier consisting of a mural and sculptural elements that relate to the main gallery's exhibition about Peltier by Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America. Public programming has been organized in conjunction with the Everson Museum of Art and ArtRage Gallery.

Christopher & Richard Williams: "Art as Catharsis: Watch Out I Need to Purge"
LeMoyne College

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

Join us for an exhibition of paintings, drawings, and sketches by brothers Christopher and Richards Williams. The brothers share a conviction that art is a representation of ideas that reflect and comment on our social disorder. Creating images that are disturbing, allegorical, and provocative, the artists challenge the viewer to see the world through their eyes.

Christopher Williams has exhibited his work throughout the U.S. Richard Williams is a professional illustrator and portrait artist. His work is in the private collections of Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Howard Stern.

Resin*ating Metal: Arlene Abend Retrospective
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

The sculpture of Arlene Abend, representing over 30 years of creating in resin, bronze, and steel

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Invitational with Carl Hoffner
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Off the Wall Sale and Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Pop 66: Pop Can Pinhole Photos of Route 66
Echo

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

A meditation by Wes Pope 1998-2010.

Using 33 pinhole cameras made out of 66 pop cans, Wes Pope photographed the people and places along Route 66 since 1998. The resulting black and white images look distorted and old -- while portraying a contemporary portrait of life in the American West and Midwest.

The pinhole pop can cameras will also be on display.

Art Gone Wild: Prints and Paintings by the Animals of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo
Everson Museum of Art

Rosamond Gifford Zoo
One Conservation Place, Syracuse

Striking and extraordinary works of art created by the creatures of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo illustrate the depth of keeper care and behavioral enrichment vital in maintaining healthy and engaged animals. The Everson will be displaying a selection of these animal created artworks in a satellite exhibition. Art Gone Wild! concludes with an art auction on November 20 at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo. Presented by the Rosamond Gifford Zoo chapter of the American Association of Zoo Keepers (AAZK).

Bill Viola Video Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson was the first museum to collect video art, beginning in the early 1970s. Bill Viola, now one of the world's leading video artists, studied at Syracuse University and began his career at the Everson. A selection of historic videos by Bill Viola from the Everson's pioneering video collection will be shown in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court in conjunction with the Urban Video Project (UVP), which will also be featuring Viola this fall.

Jules Olitski: An Inside View
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

One of America's pre-eminent painters, Jules Olitski (1922-2007) is celebrated for his large-format, lyrical abstractions that shimmer with color. Less well-known are his smaller, more intimate prints in a variety of media, which both parallel and depart from the abstract imagery of his paintings.

"An Inside View" includes 40 prints in a variety of media—intaglio, silkscreen, lithograph, and monotype—spanning the artist's career of more than five decades.

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Haudenosaunee: Elements
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The act of creating works of art is embedded in the Haudenosaunee way of life and has been for centuries. This exhibition presents works by contemporary Haudenosaunee artists from the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy—Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga and Tuscarora. The artists range from those with well established careers to new and notable talents. Among those exhibiting are Jay Carrier, Harold Farmer, Katsitsionni Fox and Ed Burnam, Ronni-Leigh Goeman, Stonehorse Goeman, Tom Huff, Frank Buffalo Hyde, Ada Jacques, G. Peter Jemison, Peter B. Jones, Linley Logan, Shelley Niro, Aweñheeyoh Powless, Jolene Rickard, Clint Shenandoah, Leah Shenandoah, Natasha Smoke Santiago, Smiley Summers, Tammy Tarbell-Boehing, and Tracy Thomas.

"Haudenosaunee: Elements" does not attempt to provide a survey of contemporary art—the talented artists working in our region are too numerous to be represented in this exhibition—but rather to introduce viewers to the broad range of media and art forms by which contemporary artists continue to create their own individual visual language while never straying far from their cultural heritage.

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Yui Kugimiya: Live Paintings
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based artist Yui Kugimiya presents "live paintings" for the final installment of the 2010 Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series. Kugimiya creates stop-motion animation using expressionistic paintings and actual objects typically found in the home as shown here in her most recent work, Breakfast. This video animation involves the use of paintings in conjunction with a variety of kitchen utensils and vegetables mixed with sound recorded directly from the live action. The artist states, "The animation parallels the psychological space, reveals the thoughts of making, and unfolds the inspiration of the daily-life-mundane."

The video animations are lighthearted and playful with a hint of dark drama. For each frame, a scene is painted on the canvas with fluid, gestural brush strokes loaded with rich color, captured on video and then the scene disappears before one's eyes as the next phase of the narrative unfolds. The exhibition includes new video work as well as a selection of paintings in the creative process so viewers can experience the richness of Kugimiya's paintings alongside her enlivening video works.

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Works of Michael DiGiorgio
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Nationally recognized nature artist Michael DiGiorgio is known for bird paintings that emphasize the character of the bird and its relationship to the environment. DiGiorgio, of Madison, CT, has been painting birds since the age of 5. His paintings and drawings have appeared in a variety of nature books and journals, including "Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil: The Pantanal and Cerrado of Central Brazil," "The Breeding Bird Atlas of Connecticut and of New York," "“Master's Guide to Birding," "Audubon Field Guide to Birds (Eastern and Western Regions)," Audubon Magazine, and Audubon Nature Yearbook.

He also has painted numerous covers for Bird Watcher's Digest and has been featured in Sanctuary magazine, a Massachusetts Audubon publication. Currently, he is illustrating bird plates for "The Birds of South America, Vol. III," with Robert Ridgely and Guy Tudor.

DiGiorgio won the first-ever endowment award from the Academy of Natural Sciences, in 2004, in recognition of his bird illustration work. The award was given in memory of Don Eckelberry, under whom he studied. DiGiorgio, whose style reflects his keen observations in the field, is committed to painting from life. He has traveled extensively to create field sketches of birds, plants and habitat from Central America, the West Indies, Trinidad and the Outer Islands of Britain. In addition, numerous trips to the western United States and national parks have allowed him to record a full range of American birdlife.

First Continuing Group Show
Szozda Gallery

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

Among area artists included in this show are Lauren Bristol, Sue Canizares, Vincent Fitches, Phil Parsons and James Skvarch.

Dogs in Transition: Pit Bulls and Mill Dogs
Community Folk Art Center

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

Cyrus Mejia's art focuses on activism and reflects the ideals of kindness and compassion while shining a light on "speciesism, ignorance and cruelty." Mejia is also co-founder of Best Friends Animal Society, which operates the nation's largest sanctuary for homeless animals near the town of Kanab, Utah. Best Friends is especially known for rehabilitating 22 of the pit bulls rescued from NFL quarterback Michael Vick.

"Pits and Perception" is the first series on view, which portrays pit bulls in a manner that challenges modern-day perceptions of the breed. With increased attention toward dog fighting in the media, many view the pit bull as a vicious and aggressive dog. Through his paintings, Mejia challenges these beliefs by forcing the observer to take a closer look and question public perception.

The second collection, "Mill Dogs Revenge," features dogs rescued from commercial breeding facilities, colloquially known as "puppy mills." Victims of physical abuse, emotional trauma and neglect, these dogs are often subjected to cruel conditions because of human greed for profit. Mejia hopes to raise awareness of the cruelty of puppy mills through his art.

A Sense of Place: The Real Central New York Landscape
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"A Sense of Place: The Real Central New York Landscape" is a different kind of landscape exhibition. The show features painting, photography, and mixed-media art by Central New York artists that explores the interaction between the local landscape and human activity.

Exhibiting artists include Steven Barbash, Rayburn Beale, Willson Cummer, Brenda Edwards, Bob Gates, Nancy Kramer, Jared Landberg, Sarah McCoubrey, Diane Menzies, Phil Parsons, and Lucie Wellner.

56nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

The show and sale features paintings, pottery, jewelry, stained glass, and more. It's the perfect place to find special holiday gifts for your friends and family.

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

From the Studio to the Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In collaboration with The Dahesh Museum of Art and the Syracuse University Art Galleries, students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorship course in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies have worked together to present a drawing exhibition that highlights some of the prominent themes and techniques of 19th-century Academic Art. The exhibition will present over 40 drawings on loan from The Dahesh Museum of Art, as well as selected Academic paintings drawn from the Syracuse University Art Collection.

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.

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York presents, for the first time in Syracuse, recent and new work by 21 young New York City artists. Included in the exhibition's wide array of media are several installation pieces created specifically for the SUArt Galleries. Co-curated by SU alumnus Eric Gleason, Sales Director at Marlborough Chelsea, and David Prince, Associate Director at the SUArt Galleries, the show illustrates conceptual and aesthetic trends in contemporary art.

Synonymous with "spread the word," Run and Tell That! is a phrase attributed to Antoine Dodson of Huntsville, AL, whose flamboyant July 28, 2010 television interview following the attempted sexual assault on his sister, quickly became an internet sensation. The phrase has since been integrated into contemporary vernacular; a phenomenon that could only happen now, in a time when information is digested and distributed constantly via the internet. The artists in Run and Tell That! take advantage of this wide spectrum of media to develop a conceptual focus that characterizes this younger generation.

Painters Kamrooz Aram, Steven Charles, Inka Essenhigh, Aaron Johnson, Liz Markus, Tom Sanford, Ryan Schneider and Aya Uekawa use personal experience, art history, abstraction, and social commentary to keep the medium fresh and relevant. Sculpture becomes a widely encompassing term as pieces by Robert Lazzarini, Diana Al-Hadid, Will Ryman, and Ethan Greenbaum broaden the definition. In the series of 13 prints entitled Ars Magica, William Powhida continues his astute satirization of the art world by likening its practices to sorcery. In her Mother Goddess series, Turkish photographer Pinar Yolacan examines pre-neolithic deity figures that were the archetype of beauty in her geographic region thousands of years ago.

Site-specific installations include a first-time collaboration between Ethan Greenbaum and Adam Krueger; a dynamic wall-length installation in which a tree violently emerges from a Hudson River School painting by Valerie Hegarty; Virginia Overton's minimal trompe l'oeil construction using only an eight-foot 2 x 4 and two sheets of mirrored plexiglas; Vlatka Horvat's repurposed ceiling fan and aluminum ladder; and individual projects by Wade Kavanagh and Stephen B. Nguyen whose monumental collaborative installation White Stag, 2010 is currently on view at Mass MoCA.

Also in the exhibition will be Rashaad Newsome: Video and Performance, 2005-2010, an intimate retrospective of the artist's multi-media work exploring innovative forms of communication and expression in contemporary African American urban culture. This work was recently featured in the 2010 Whitney Biennial and in Greater New York 2010 at the PS1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, NY.

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Tonto Revisited: Native American Stereotypes
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

What do Land 'o Lakes, Argo Cornstarch and Syracuse minor league baseball have in common? Stereotyped images of Native Americans. This exhibit is curated by Tom Huff, a Seneca/Cayuga artist living and working in his sculpture studio on the Onondaga Nation. It exposes the cultural mythology surrounding Native Americans. The images and objects associated with "Indians" are dictated and defined by the dominant non-Indian culture. Many of the resulting representations are culturally and socially incorrect, even racist, with exaggerated misrepresentations of Native Americans.

Huff's collection of portrayals of menacing warriors wielding tomahawks, knives, and bows and arrows found in posters, advertisements, toys, sports logos and more will be on display. He has been collecting "Indian Kitsch" for over 25 years. While many may not think of them individually as destructive, this exhibit helps to illustrate how these pervasive negative preconceptions trivialize the tragedy wrought on indigenous peoples everywhere. We hope to both dispel the myths surrounding Native Americans and to encourage a new understanding of native peoples.

Diane Banks and Adam Francey Recent Works
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Diane Banks' specimen series sculptures and drawings are inspired by the fragileness of nature and the delicate balance between vulnerability and strength. Her sculptures are created through the combination of organic and found plastic materials. Through the use of these materials, Banks reveals her fascination how nature protects itself from physical harm caused by man's intrusion, and the many ways it contorts itself to survive.

Working with related and unrelated imagery, Adam Francey layers and edits his paintings until an abstracted composition emerges. These are not works about a concrete idea; rather they provide an opportunity for unlimited readings, depending on point-of-view or frame of reference. Snippets from overheard conversations are peppered in the compositions. These works alternate between toughness and humor, with vibrant colors that appear at any moment, ready to leap off of the surface.

Betty Munro Retrospective Exhibition
Stone Quarry Hill Art Park

Price: Free
The Spring: Center for Spiritual & Cultural Unity
200 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

A major retrospective art exhibition featuring the watercolor paintings of local artist Betty Munro, now 91 years old and living in Madison, WI, who became well-known for setting up her easel across the street from the construction site of the Civic Center as it was being built, and documenting in watercolor the construction of the building.

In addition, Munro painted local area landmarks such as Clinton Square, lower Fayetteville, City Hall, area churches, and many other buildings and landscapes that are easily recognizable through her whimsical, semi-expressionistic watercolor paintings. Throughout her life, well into her early 80s, Munro painted tirelessly, offering the Syracuse area a legacy of beauty.

All of her available watercolor paintings -- a total of over 200 paintings, both framed and unframed -- will be on view. All are for sale. The 27 Civic Center paintings will be shown as a unit in The Spring's Conference Room, and will only be sold as a unit. Over 40 framed watercolors of a variety of local scenes will be exhibited in the Gathering Room at The Spring. The remaining art will be displayed in plastic sleeves in racks and may be purchased individually.

The exhibition is made possible through the generosity and collaboration of Munro's former neighbor Joan Gardner, David Rudd of Dalton Antiques, The Spring, and Stone Quarry Hill Art Park. Proceeds of art sales will go to Munro, to The Spring, and to Stone Quarry Hill Art Park. For more information, contact Patsy Scala, Program Director at The Spring, at 315-382-0444, or email her at patsy7154@aol.com.

VPA Faculty Show
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

An exhibition featuring work by faculty in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Rigo 23: Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024
The Warehouse Gallery

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

San Francisco based artist Rigo 23 is known nationally and internationally for his highly political site-specific work. Intercultural relations and justice issues are often present in his work which includes working with political prisoners, such as Leonard Peltier, who is the subject of this show. The exhibition title refers specifically to Peltier's given name in Lakota (Tate Wikikuwa), to his next hearing in 2024, and to Rigo 23's former project at the De Young Museum in San Francisco (1999). The Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024 will focus on the artwork, life, and status of this Native American whose case has been an international controversy since the 1970s. This exhibition will showcase Peltier through the visual arts (oil paintings) as well as educational components such as talks and a symposium sponsored by the Humanities Center at Syracuse University.

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Syracuse Horror, Science-Fiction and Fantasy Film Festival (formerly B-Movie Festival)
Alternative Movies and Events

Price: $2 per showing
Doubletree Hotel
6301 State Route 298 (Carrier Parkway), East Syracuse

12:00-1:30 pm: El Monstro del Mar and Q&A
1:30-3:30 pm: Satan Hates You and Q&A
3:30-5:30 pm: Room 36 and Q&A
5:30-7:30 pm: Colin and Q&A
7:30-9:00 pm: Ms Cannibal Holocaust and Q&A
9:00-10:30 pm: The Taint and Q&A

Incident at Oglala film and discussion
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Documentary about the case of Leonard Peltier. Directed by Michael Apted, narrated and produced by Robert Redford. (1992, 90 minutes) Introduction by Scott Lyons, associate professor, Native American Studies Program, Syracuse University.

The film will be followed by a round table discussion on Leonard Peltier and the Civil Rights Movement, moderated by Gregg Lambert.

Eva Davidova: Location One & Two, 2005
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

(Digital animation loop, 2:12 minutes) These very short videos are photography-based animation loops, where movement, time, and spatial relationship are defined by the deliberate distortions in the process of blending a photo sequence. The pixels from one image are smoothly dragged and melted into those of the next one. Buildings and objects acquire impossible organic qualities, and the animations become almost sculptural. The affordances of spaces and structures are only dependent on the emotional state of the subject, and on the inner logic, or absurdity of each piece. Through invented and artificial, yet extremely realistic-looking movements, as well as by changing the perception of time, Davidova searches for hidden patterns and looks into states of mind unconditioned by the "possible".

Davidova's work has been exhibited internationally, including at Magnan Projects Gallery, New York; Instituto Cervantes, Sofia, Bulgaria; Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain; N2 Gallery in Barcelona, Spain; and many others. She received a 2006 BANCAJA International Contest Award for Digital Art, the 2008 M-tel Award for Contemporary Bulgarian Art, and the 2009 Djerassi Honorary Fellowship. In 2009 she participated in the Moscow Biennale and in the Living and Dreaming exhibition at the Bronx Museum, NY.

Cliff Evans: Untitled (Sketch for a monument to J.G. Ballard) #3, 2009
Urban Video Project

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

(1-minute loop) This composite of video footage is the first in a series of three "sketches," from which elements will later be taken to create a much larger virtual monument to the author J.G. Ballard. Within the video, disparate shots of an array of motorway overpasses and exchanges are stitched together in order to create a complex landscape of concrete, smoke, and automobiles. The images hurtle through a dense arterial chaos of constructed time and sibilance, dissolving into a column of smoke and revealing their destination as circular and contained.

Evans is a multimedia artist whose work focuses primarily on political, popular, and internet culture using appropriation and photomontage animation. His multi-channel installations and video objects have been shown internationally, including at the Chelsea Art Museum, Luxe Gallery, and Scope NY in New York City; the Museum of Fine Arts Boston; Scope Miami in Miami; and the Chinese International Gallery Exposition in Beijing, China; among many others. He has also been an artist-in-residence at Boston Symphony Orchestra Tanglewood, Lenox, MA; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA; and Location One International Residency Program, New York, NY.

Gallery Walk with Tom Huff
Everson Museum of Art

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

Artist Tom Huff will walk visitors through the current exhibition "Haudenosaunne: Elements."

34th Annual Vocal Competition
Civic Morning Musicals

Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Scholastic Jazz Jam
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

In Scholastic Jazz Jam events, local high school and college students are invited to perform in a supportive environment backed by area professionals. Aspiring jazz instrumentalists "learn the ropes" of public performance, backed by the area's finest jazz professionals. Play tunes of your choice in a supportive atmosphere. All experience levels welcome.

Saxophone Ensemble / Clarinet Choir
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Parking is available in the Irving Garage.

5th Annual Patricia DeAngelis Piano Festival
LeMoyne College
Featuring Steven Rosenfeld, Rhimmon Simchy-Gross, and festival winners

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

Join tomorrow's best young pianists for a day-long celebration of Frederic Chopin and Robert Schumann! The general public is invited to share in the day, beginning with preliminary rounds at 1:30 p.m. The festival will culminate in a 7:30 p.m. concert featuring this year's festival winners, 2008 first prize winner Rhimmon Simchy-Gross, and guest pianist Steven Rosenfeld.

Simchy-Gross is currently a student of Paul Wyse at SUNY-Potsdam, having graduated from Fayetteville-Manlius High School in 2009. Steven Rosenfeld, currently a member of the faculty of Colgate University, has performed with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and has recorded 12 albums with the Renegade Classics label.

For more information, phone 315-445-4523.

Steve Kaufman
Central New York Blue Grass Association

Marcellus Methodist Church
1 Slocome Ave., Marcellus

Blue grass favorites, The Atkinson Family, will lead off this exciting concert. Steve Kaufman is expected to join in with them, and follow with his wonderful flatpicking style. Kaufman will also host mandolin and guitar workshops on Nov. 18-20. Visit cnyba.com for details and workshop registration.

Foundation
Redhouse

Price: $15 regular, $12 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Foundation's gospel flair appeals to the mind, heart and soul of people of all ages. The quartet was founded by Syracuse native Calvin B. Carter in 2005 and released its first CD titled "Never Alone" in 2009.

Foundation, an urban male quartet, has performed with gospel greats The Mighty Clouds of Joy and The Gospel Four, and has been seen throughout Central New York, Rochester, Elmira, Binghamton, and Virginia. The group has also been featured at the Syracuse Juneteenth Celebration, and the New York State Fair. All members currently reside in the Syracuse area. The youngest member, Chandler Carter, is a third grader at Roberts Elementary School in Syracuse.

The Radiators Farewell Tour, with Lee Terrace
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Larry Hoyt with Jeff and Judy Stanton and Dan Goodhue
Words and Music Songwriter Showcase

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

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

Alice in Wonderland
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive comedic retelling of the classic tale.

Jungalbook
Syracuse University Drama Department
Felix Ivanov, director

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

By Edward Mast, based on The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling

Take an excursion into a playground full of imagination and physical dexterity. Adapted from Rudyard Kipling's books and poems, these intertwined tales of Mowgli, the "mancub," get a contemporary spin as Kipling's great characters spring to life. The familiar story of Mowgli—raised by Akela the wolf, tutored by Baloo the bear, and protected by Bagheera the panther—climaxes in the final showdown with Sherakhan the tiger. Along the way, Mowgli learns the laws of the jungle and the price paid for breaking them. Unlike some popular film versions, this adaptation adheres closely to Kipling's stories and captures the poetic spirit of the original tales.

Mast is a Seattle-based playwright whose adaptations of The Jungle Books and The Hobbit allow contemporary audiences to access dated but important stories. After Jungalbook's New York premiere in August 2006, it has been performed around the U.S. for audiences of all ages. Previously for the department, Ivanov directed Aesop's Fables in the Black Box Theatre. He is a graduate of the prestigious Schukin Theatre School at the Vakhtangov Academy Theatre and the Stasov Musical School (violin) in Moscow, Russia.

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Noises Off
The Meadowbrook Harlequins
Virginia Fennessy, director

Price: $7 regular, $5 students/seniors
Nottingham High School
3100 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Noises Off, by Michael Frayn, opens with the final dress rehearsal of a British company about to perform a comedy. The actors have a hard time separating their personal lives from their work, and the resulting antics make for a fun-filled play. The second act takes place behind the scenes, one month after the play has opened, and it seems that two of the actors are more intent on their relationship with each other than their jobs. The final scene, two months later, presents an almost unrecognizable version of the original comedy.

Lizzie Borden Took an Axe
Covey Theatre Company

BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

August 4th 1892, Fall River, Massachusetts: The gruesome double axe murder of Andrew and Abby Borden, parents to the refined socialite Lizzie Borden, remains one of America's most interesting unsolved crimes. Put on trial and eventually acquitted, Lizzie never escaped public scrutiny and was condemned by the sensationalist media. Lizzie Borden Took an Axe delves into the exciting testimonies of the people involved, fleshing out the psychological and emotional trauma of the grisly event. Did Lizzie do it? You can judge for yourself in this new play by Garrett Heater.

The Covey Theatre Company is a non-profit corp. created by Susan Blumer, Garrett Heater, and Michael Penny. Lizzie Borden Took an Axe is the company's first production.

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Jungalbook
Syracuse University Drama Department
Felix Ivanov, director

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

By Edward Mast, based on The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling

Take an excursion into a playground full of imagination and physical dexterity. Adapted from Rudyard Kipling's books and poems, these intertwined tales of Mowgli, the "mancub," get a contemporary spin as Kipling's great characters spring to life. The familiar story of Mowgli—raised by Akela the wolf, tutored by Baloo the bear, and protected by Bagheera the panther—climaxes in the final showdown with Sherakhan the tiger. Along the way, Mowgli learns the laws of the jungle and the price paid for breaking them. Unlike some popular film versions, this adaptation adheres closely to Kipling's stories and captures the poetic spirit of the original tales.

Mast is a Seattle-based playwright whose adaptations of The Jungle Books and The Hobbit allow contemporary audiences to access dated but important stories. After Jungalbook's New York premiere in August 2006, it has been performed around the U.S. for audiences of all ages. Previously for the department, Ivanov directed Aesop's Fables in the Black Box Theatre. He is a graduate of the prestigious Schukin Theatre School at the Vakhtangov Academy Theatre and the Stasov Musical School (violin) in Moscow, Russia.

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Sunday, November 21, 2010

Windows Project: Oil is Why
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Native American Tom Huff will present an installation on Leonard Peltier consisting of a mural and sculptural elements that relate to the main gallery's exhibition about Peltier by Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America. Public programming has been organized in conjunction with the Everson Museum of Art and ArtRage Gallery.

Archipelago: Works by Yolanda del Amo
Light Work Gallery

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

Powerful forces deep below the surface of the earth form archipelagos, which are chains or clusters of individual islands. In her series Archipelago, artist Yolanda del Amo depicts the powerful forces between people—their conflicting needs for intimacy and connection, independence and individuality. In Archipelago, these competing needs seem to have reached a peaceful if temporary stasis. These beautiful images show people who, although in the presence of another, appear surrounded on all sides not by water but by silence.

Del Amo leaves the relationships of her subjects to each other deliberately vague, which makes her images all the more universal and compelling. Each photograph represents a fragile time in any relationship when two people—whether they are mother and son, husband and wife, or simply friends—momentarily live alone, together.

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First Continuing Group Show
Szozda Gallery

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

Among area artists included in this show are Lauren Bristol, Sue Canizares, Vincent Fitches, Phil Parsons and James Skvarch.

A Sense of Place: The Real Central New York Landscape
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"A Sense of Place: The Real Central New York Landscape" is a different kind of landscape exhibition. The show features painting, photography, and mixed-media art by Central New York artists that explores the interaction between the local landscape and human activity.

Exhibiting artists include Steven Barbash, Rayburn Beale, Willson Cummer, Brenda Edwards, Bob Gates, Nancy Kramer, Jared Landberg, Sarah McCoubrey, Diane Menzies, Phil Parsons, and Lucie Wellner.

Works of Michael DiGiorgio
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Nationally recognized nature artist Michael DiGiorgio is known for bird paintings that emphasize the character of the bird and its relationship to the environment. DiGiorgio, of Madison, CT, has been painting birds since the age of 5. His paintings and drawings have appeared in a variety of nature books and journals, including "Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil: The Pantanal and Cerrado of Central Brazil," "The Breeding Bird Atlas of Connecticut and of New York," "“Master's Guide to Birding," "Audubon Field Guide to Birds (Eastern and Western Regions)," Audubon Magazine, and Audubon Nature Yearbook.

He also has painted numerous covers for Bird Watcher's Digest and has been featured in Sanctuary magazine, a Massachusetts Audubon publication. Currently, he is illustrating bird plates for "The Birds of South America, Vol. III," with Robert Ridgely and Guy Tudor.

DiGiorgio won the first-ever endowment award from the Academy of Natural Sciences, in 2004, in recognition of his bird illustration work. The award was given in memory of Don Eckelberry, under whom he studied. DiGiorgio, whose style reflects his keen observations in the field, is committed to painting from life. He has traveled extensively to create field sketches of birds, plants and habitat from Central America, the West Indies, Trinidad and the Outer Islands of Britain. In addition, numerous trips to the western United States and national parks have allowed him to record a full range of American birdlife.

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York presents, for the first time in Syracuse, recent and new work by 21 young New York City artists. Included in the exhibition's wide array of media are several installation pieces created specifically for the SUArt Galleries. Co-curated by SU alumnus Eric Gleason, Sales Director at Marlborough Chelsea, and David Prince, Associate Director at the SUArt Galleries, the show illustrates conceptual and aesthetic trends in contemporary art.

Synonymous with "spread the word," Run and Tell That! is a phrase attributed to Antoine Dodson of Huntsville, AL, whose flamboyant July 28, 2010 television interview following the attempted sexual assault on his sister, quickly became an internet sensation. The phrase has since been integrated into contemporary vernacular; a phenomenon that could only happen now, in a time when information is digested and distributed constantly via the internet. The artists in Run and Tell That! take advantage of this wide spectrum of media to develop a conceptual focus that characterizes this younger generation.

Painters Kamrooz Aram, Steven Charles, Inka Essenhigh, Aaron Johnson, Liz Markus, Tom Sanford, Ryan Schneider and Aya Uekawa use personal experience, art history, abstraction, and social commentary to keep the medium fresh and relevant. Sculpture becomes a widely encompassing term as pieces by Robert Lazzarini, Diana Al-Hadid, Will Ryman, and Ethan Greenbaum broaden the definition. In the series of 13 prints entitled Ars Magica, William Powhida continues his astute satirization of the art world by likening its practices to sorcery. In her Mother Goddess series, Turkish photographer Pinar Yolacan examines pre-neolithic deity figures that were the archetype of beauty in her geographic region thousands of years ago.

Site-specific installations include a first-time collaboration between Ethan Greenbaum and Adam Krueger; a dynamic wall-length installation in which a tree violently emerges from a Hudson River School painting by Valerie Hegarty; Virginia Overton's minimal trompe l'oeil construction using only an eight-foot 2 x 4 and two sheets of mirrored plexiglas; Vlatka Horvat's repurposed ceiling fan and aluminum ladder; and individual projects by Wade Kavanagh and Stephen B. Nguyen whose monumental collaborative installation White Stag, 2010 is currently on view at Mass MoCA.

Also in the exhibition will be Rashaad Newsome: Video and Performance, 2005-2010, an intimate retrospective of the artist's multi-media work exploring innovative forms of communication and expression in contemporary African American urban culture. This work was recently featured in the 2010 Whitney Biennial and in Greater New York 2010 at the PS1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, NY.

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From the Studio to the Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In collaboration with The Dahesh Museum of Art and the Syracuse University Art Galleries, students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorship course in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies have worked together to present a drawing exhibition that highlights some of the prominent themes and techniques of 19th-century Academic Art. The exhibition will present over 40 drawings on loan from The Dahesh Museum of Art, as well as selected Academic paintings drawn from the Syracuse University Art Collection.

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.

Yui Kugimiya: Live Paintings
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based artist Yui Kugimiya presents "live paintings" for the final installment of the 2010 Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series. Kugimiya creates stop-motion animation using expressionistic paintings and actual objects typically found in the home as shown here in her most recent work, Breakfast. This video animation involves the use of paintings in conjunction with a variety of kitchen utensils and vegetables mixed with sound recorded directly from the live action. The artist states, "The animation parallels the psychological space, reveals the thoughts of making, and unfolds the inspiration of the daily-life-mundane."

The video animations are lighthearted and playful with a hint of dark drama. For each frame, a scene is painted on the canvas with fluid, gestural brush strokes loaded with rich color, captured on video and then the scene disappears before one's eyes as the next phase of the narrative unfolds. The exhibition includes new video work as well as a selection of paintings in the creative process so viewers can experience the richness of Kugimiya's paintings alongside her enlivening video works.

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Haudenosaunee: Elements
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The act of creating works of art is embedded in the Haudenosaunee way of life and has been for centuries. This exhibition presents works by contemporary Haudenosaunee artists from the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy—Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga and Tuscarora. The artists range from those with well established careers to new and notable talents. Among those exhibiting are Jay Carrier, Harold Farmer, Katsitsionni Fox and Ed Burnam, Ronni-Leigh Goeman, Stonehorse Goeman, Tom Huff, Frank Buffalo Hyde, Ada Jacques, G. Peter Jemison, Peter B. Jones, Linley Logan, Shelley Niro, Aweñheeyoh Powless, Jolene Rickard, Clint Shenandoah, Leah Shenandoah, Natasha Smoke Santiago, Smiley Summers, Tammy Tarbell-Boehing, and Tracy Thomas.

"Haudenosaunee: Elements" does not attempt to provide a survey of contemporary art—the talented artists working in our region are too numerous to be represented in this exhibition—but rather to introduce viewers to the broad range of media and art forms by which contemporary artists continue to create their own individual visual language while never straying far from their cultural heritage.

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Jules Olitski: An Inside View
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

One of America's pre-eminent painters, Jules Olitski (1922-2007) is celebrated for his large-format, lyrical abstractions that shimmer with color. Less well-known are his smaller, more intimate prints in a variety of media, which both parallel and depart from the abstract imagery of his paintings.

"An Inside View" includes 40 prints in a variety of media—intaglio, silkscreen, lithograph, and monotype—spanning the artist's career of more than five decades.

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Bill Viola Video Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson was the first museum to collect video art, beginning in the early 1970s. Bill Viola, now one of the world's leading video artists, studied at Syracuse University and began his career at the Everson. A selection of historic videos by Bill Viola from the Everson's pioneering video collection will be shown in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court in conjunction with the Urban Video Project (UVP), which will also be featuring Viola this fall.

Christopher & Richard Williams: "Art as Catharsis: Watch Out I Need to Purge"
LeMoyne College

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

Join us for an exhibition of paintings, drawings, and sketches by brothers Christopher and Richards Williams. The brothers share a conviction that art is a representation of ideas that reflect and comment on our social disorder. Creating images that are disturbing, allegorical, and provocative, the artists challenge the viewer to see the world through their eyes.

Christopher Williams has exhibited his work throughout the U.S. Richard Williams is a professional illustrator and portrait artist. His work is in the private collections of Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Howard Stern.

VPA Faculty Show
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

An exhibition featuring work by faculty in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Off the Wall Sale and Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Syracuse Horror, Science-Fiction and Fantasy Film Festival (formerly B-Movie Festival)
Alternative Movies and Events

Price: $2 per showing
Doubletree Hotel
6301 State Route 298 (Carrier Parkway), East Syracuse

12:00-1:30 pm: Best Shorts Block (including Parking Space, The Duty of Living, Frank Dancoolo: Paranormal Drug Dealer, Super Science, The Kirkie)
1:30-2:45 pm: Bikini Bloodbath Christmas
2:45-3:50 pm: My Mouth Lies Screaming
3:50-5:00 pm: Ms Cannibal Holocaust and Q&A
5:00 pm: Awards Ceremony

Round Up
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Torry Mendoza's Round Up presents a series of a half dozen or so short video works of less than 10 minutes each, in which he confronts, analyzes and excoriates the "The Hollywood Indian," and the feelings and attitudes that have seeped into the mainstream collective consciousness as a result. In Kemosabe Version 1.0 he remixes conversational snippets between the Lone Ranger and Tonto (from the television series), against a driving techno beat background. He scrutinizes the duo's relationship by remixing a conversation between the two, revealing a master and servant disposition similar to the disparate relationships assumed by the nation-state with Native nations.

Cliff Evans: Untitled (Sketch for a monument to J.G. Ballard) #3, 2009
Urban Video Project

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

(1-minute loop) This composite of video footage is the first in a series of three "sketches," from which elements will later be taken to create a much larger virtual monument to the author J.G. Ballard. Within the video, disparate shots of an array of motorway overpasses and exchanges are stitched together in order to create a complex landscape of concrete, smoke, and automobiles. The images hurtle through a dense arterial chaos of constructed time and sibilance, dissolving into a column of smoke and revealing their destination as circular and contained.

Evans is a multimedia artist whose work focuses primarily on political, popular, and internet culture using appropriation and photomontage animation. His multi-channel installations and video objects have been shown internationally, including at the Chelsea Art Museum, Luxe Gallery, and Scope NY in New York City; the Museum of Fine Arts Boston; Scope Miami in Miami; and the Chinese International Gallery Exposition in Beijing, China; among many others. He has also been an artist-in-residence at Boston Symphony Orchestra Tanglewood, Lenox, MA; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA; and Location One International Residency Program, New York, NY.

Eva Davidova: Location One & Two, 2005
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

(Digital animation loop, 2:12 minutes) These very short videos are photography-based animation loops, where movement, time, and spatial relationship are defined by the deliberate distortions in the process of blending a photo sequence. The pixels from one image are smoothly dragged and melted into those of the next one. Buildings and objects acquire impossible organic qualities, and the animations become almost sculptural. The affordances of spaces and structures are only dependent on the emotional state of the subject, and on the inner logic, or absurdity of each piece. Through invented and artificial, yet extremely realistic-looking movements, as well as by changing the perception of time, Davidova searches for hidden patterns and looks into states of mind unconditioned by the "possible".

Davidova's work has been exhibited internationally, including at Magnan Projects Gallery, New York; Instituto Cervantes, Sofia, Bulgaria; Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain; N2 Gallery in Barcelona, Spain; and many others. She received a 2006 BANCAJA International Contest Award for Digital Art, the 2008 M-tel Award for Contemporary Bulgarian Art, and the 2009 Djerassi Honorary Fellowship. In 2009 she participated in the Moscow Biennale and in the Living and Dreaming exhibition at the Bronx Museum, NY.

Gallery Walk with Yui Kugimiya
Everson Museum of Art

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

Artist Yui Kugimiya will walk visitors through her solo exhibition, "Live Paintings."

Live! at the Everson: Dolce Flutes
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Telemann to contemporary, classical to classic, joyful to soulful, featuring the world premiere of Grace by Tim Sutton.

Winter Concert I
Onondaga Community College
Jazz Ensemble, OCC Singers, Latin Ensemble

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

In Achord Fall Showcase
Jamesville-Dewitt Music Department

Price: $8 at door, $6 in advance
Jamesville-Dewitt High School
Edinger Drive, Dewitt

Jamesville-Dewitt's show choir.

Jazz Vespers
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Ronnie Leigh

Price: Free (donations encouraged)
United Church of Christ in Bayberry
215 Blackberry Rd., Liverpool

As part of its year-long 50th anniversary celebration, the United Church of Christ in Bayberry will hold a jazz concert and vespers service. The event will feature internationally acclaimed jazz vocalist Ronnie Leigh, who will be backed by music director Barry Blumenthal leading a quartet drawn from the ranks of the CNY Jazz Orchestra.

The concert theme is "Grace and Gratitude." Musical selections will range from jazz standards to inspirational favorites to hymns, all arranged in the jazz style. They will be interspersed with inspirational and meditative readings by the Rev. Mark Lawson, pastor of the church.

The combo will perform jazz standards played and sung with Leigh. Additionally, well-known hymns will be re-arranged in jazz, rock or Latin styles and the entire congregation is invited to sing along.

For more information, phone 315-479-5299.

Organ Anniversary Concert
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
SU Symphony Orchestra
James Tapia, conductor
Featuring Kola Owolabi, organ

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

The SU Symphony Orchestra will perform under the direction of James Tapia. The program will include Copland's Symphony for Organ and Orchestra, featuring Kola Owolabi, University organist and Setnor School faculty member, performing on the Holtkamp organ in honor of its 60th anniversary. The concert will also include Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, "Eroica".

Setnor Auditorium's organ was rebuilt by Walter Holtkamp in 1950 and dedicated on Nov. 13 of that year by Arthur Poister, then-professor of organ. The organ consists of 3,823 pipes, some of which are from the original organ built by Frank Roosevelt in 1889 and rebuilt by the Estey Organ Company in 1924. The organ's visual design and musical effectiveness have drawn visitors from all over the world. It was awarded a Certificate of Historic Merit by the Organ Historical Society (OHS) in 1989. It is the youngest organ to receive an OHS citation.

Parking is available in the Irving Garage.

Organ Anniversary Concert
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Will Headlee, organ

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

Will Headlee, SU professor emeritus of organ, will perform a recital of pieces he particularly connects to the Holtkamp organ in honor of its 60th anniversary. These include works by Lübeck, Bach, Franck, Bingham, and Messiaen.

Setnor Auditorium's organ was rebuilt by Walter Holtkamp in 1950 and dedicated on Nov. 13 of that year by Arthur Poister, then-professor of organ. The organ consists of 3,823 pipes, some of which are from the original organ built by Frank Roosevelt in 1889 and rebuilt by the Estey Organ Company in 1924. The organ's visual design and musical effectiveness have drawn visitors from all over the world. It was awarded a Certificate of Historic Merit by the Organ Historical Society (OHS) in 1989. It is the youngest organ to receive an OHS citation.

Parking is available in the Irving Garage.

Jungalbook
Syracuse University Drama Department
Felix Ivanov, director

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

By Edward Mast, based on The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling

Take an excursion into a playground full of imagination and physical dexterity. Adapted from Rudyard Kipling's books and poems, these intertwined tales of Mowgli, the "mancub," get a contemporary spin as Kipling's great characters spring to life. The familiar story of Mowgli—raised by Akela the wolf, tutored by Baloo the bear, and protected by Bagheera the panther—climaxes in the final showdown with Sherakhan the tiger. Along the way, Mowgli learns the laws of the jungle and the price paid for breaking them. Unlike some popular film versions, this adaptation adheres closely to Kipling's stories and captures the poetic spirit of the original tales.

Mast is a Seattle-based playwright whose adaptations of The Jungle Books and The Hobbit allow contemporary audiences to access dated but important stories. After Jungalbook's New York premiere in August 2006, it has been performed around the U.S. for audiences of all ages. Previously for the department, Ivanov directed Aesop's Fables in the Black Box Theatre. He is a graduate of the prestigious Schukin Theatre School at the Vakhtangov Academy Theatre and the Stasov Musical School (violin) in Moscow, Russia.

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Noises Off
The Meadowbrook Harlequins
Virginia Fennessy, director

Price: $7 regular, $5 students/seniors
Nottingham High School
3100 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Noises Off, by Michael Frayn, opens with the final dress rehearsal of a British company about to perform a comedy. The actors have a hard time separating their personal lives from their work, and the resulting antics make for a fun-filled play. The second act takes place behind the scenes, one month after the play has opened, and it seems that two of the actors are more intent on their relationship with each other than their jobs. The final scene, two months later, presents an almost unrecognizable version of the original comedy.

Monday, November 22, 2010

Windows Project: Oil is Why
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Native American Tom Huff will present an installation on Leonard Peltier consisting of a mural and sculptural elements that relate to the main gallery's exhibition about Peltier by Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America. Public programming has been organized in conjunction with the Everson Museum of Art and ArtRage Gallery.

Christopher & Richard Williams: "Art as Catharsis: Watch Out I Need to Purge"
LeMoyne College

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

Join us for an exhibition of paintings, drawings, and sketches by brothers Christopher and Richards Williams. The brothers share a conviction that art is a representation of ideas that reflect and comment on our social disorder. Creating images that are disturbing, allegorical, and provocative, the artists challenge the viewer to see the world through their eyes.

Christopher Williams has exhibited his work throughout the U.S. Richard Williams is a professional illustrator and portrait artist. His work is in the private collections of Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Howard Stern.

Silk: Photographs by Courtney Rile
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Marcus Acevedo Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist's Statement: The duality of man, the potential to be both divine and carnal beings, has always interested me. There is a struggle with the expectations associated with these opposing forces: the potential for greatness always present on one hand, and weaknesses inescapable on the other. My work exists to inspire the question of what is the nature of heroes, legends and Gods, and how different is that from the nature of man. My work goes beyond self-analysis and introspection. I use myself as the archetype for the experiences that connect us. I want to explore not only the greatness of man, but the weakness as well. My work demonstrates that we are powerful and that there is no contradiction that this great power can manifest itself in a person that is inadequate, fearful and weak. In my work I am actor and director, puppet and puppet master, mortal and God. I am free to explore all of these relationships, to be whomever and what ever I desire.

La Colección/The Collection: Exhibit 3
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A special program to commemorate Point of Contact's 35th anniversary and The Point of Contact Gallery's 5th -- a show of the entire permanent collection in five exhibitions starting in September 2010.

Exhibit 3: Works of Marta Chilindrón, Lisa Kalomeris, Sarah Kipp, Panayotis Michael, Liliana Porter, Ana Tiscornia

The Silent Scream: Conflict in Novels Without Words
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University Library has always had a keen interest in all forms of book illustration, and not surprisingly, novels without words became a significant collecting area. Over time, we have amassed a considerable number of the classic specimens in the genre, and the main practitioners of the art form are well represented within our holdings. We developed this exhibition in keeping with the Syracuse Symposium theme for the coming year, "conflict." The artists upon whom we focused are William Gropper, Laurence Hyde, Frans Masereel, Giacomo Patri, John Vassos, and Lynd Ward.

In addition to conflict, novels without words often portray a quest on the part of the individual. This may assume the form of a journey or a saga about the search for self-fulfillment in artistic or purely personal terms, or the quest may have as its primary objective achieving social justice in a particular context. Because of the historical period in which many of these wordless novels were born, they often depict a struggle between the individual and the industrialized world. Industrialization and, by extension, capitalism, may be seen as forces that are fundamentally antagonistic to the interests of the individual and of society in general. Similarly, the law, the police, and the armed forces may all be viewed as instruments of repression in novels without words.

The creators of novels without words also tend to scrutinize the brutal forms of war and tyranny that are made possible by industrialization. In truth, any injustice may become the subject of such works, and perhaps just the cruel nature of our existential struggle to survive in an inherently hostile environment is all the background that is needed to provide the inspiration for the creation of a novel without words.

Visual Trips, No Passport Required
Westcott Community Art Gallery
The Syracuse Photographers Association

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

"Visual Trips, No Passport Required" is a collection of works by members of The Syracuse Photographers Association, and "Partially Abandoned Factory," a solo show within the show, is by the group's organizer and founding member, Mindy Lee Tarry. Color and creativity abounds and many of the framed ink jet prints are for sale, to help raise money for the WCC.

The "Visual Trips, No Passport Required" collection showcases a rich variety of creative viewpoints ranging from stunning landscape prints to ornate and fascinating interior location shots. Viewing this collection will reinforce the fact that there is no shortage of imagination or scenes which inspire members to create wonderful photographic art. The "Partially Abandoned Factory" series narrows the focus with visually engaging interior and exterior studies of a captivating ramshackle former factory. Six of these images are currently featured in COLOR magazine November issue #10.

Off the Wall Sale and Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Works of Michael DiGiorgio
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Nationally recognized nature artist Michael DiGiorgio is known for bird paintings that emphasize the character of the bird and its relationship to the environment. DiGiorgio, of Madison, CT, has been painting birds since the age of 5. His paintings and drawings have appeared in a variety of nature books and journals, including "Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil: The Pantanal and Cerrado of Central Brazil," "The Breeding Bird Atlas of Connecticut and of New York," "“Master's Guide to Birding," "Audubon Field Guide to Birds (Eastern and Western Regions)," Audubon Magazine, and Audubon Nature Yearbook.

He also has painted numerous covers for Bird Watcher's Digest and has been featured in Sanctuary magazine, a Massachusetts Audubon publication. Currently, he is illustrating bird plates for "The Birds of South America, Vol. III," with Robert Ridgely and Guy Tudor.

DiGiorgio won the first-ever endowment award from the Academy of Natural Sciences, in 2004, in recognition of his bird illustration work. The award was given in memory of Don Eckelberry, under whom he studied. DiGiorgio, whose style reflects his keen observations in the field, is committed to painting from life. He has traveled extensively to create field sketches of birds, plants and habitat from Central America, the West Indies, Trinidad and the Outer Islands of Britain. In addition, numerous trips to the western United States and national parks have allowed him to record a full range of American birdlife.

Archipelago: Works by Yolanda del Amo
Light Work Gallery

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

Powerful forces deep below the surface of the earth form archipelagos, which are chains or clusters of individual islands. In her series Archipelago, artist Yolanda del Amo depicts the powerful forces between people—their conflicting needs for intimacy and connection, independence and individuality. In Archipelago, these competing needs seem to have reached a peaceful if temporary stasis. These beautiful images show people who, although in the presence of another, appear surrounded on all sides not by water but by silence.

Del Amo leaves the relationships of her subjects to each other deliberately vague, which makes her images all the more universal and compelling. Each photograph represents a fragile time in any relationship when two people—whether they are mother and son, husband and wife, or simply friends—momentarily live alone, together.

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Diane Banks and Adam Francey Recent Works
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Diane Banks' specimen series sculptures and drawings are inspired by the fragileness of nature and the delicate balance between vulnerability and strength. Her sculptures are created through the combination of organic and found plastic materials. Through the use of these materials, Banks reveals her fascination how nature protects itself from physical harm caused by man's intrusion, and the many ways it contorts itself to survive.

Working with related and unrelated imagery, Adam Francey layers and edits his paintings until an abstracted composition emerges. These are not works about a concrete idea; rather they provide an opportunity for unlimited readings, depending on point-of-view or frame of reference. Snippets from overheard conversations are peppered in the compositions. These works alternate between toughness and humor, with vibrant colors that appear at any moment, ready to leap off of the surface.

Emerging Women of CNY #1
Redhouse

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

Artwork by Taye Wright-hirry, Maria Janina Rizzo, Alexandara Crosby, and Kristie Hayes.

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56nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

The show and sale features paintings, pottery, jewelry, stained glass, and more. It's the perfect place to find special holiday gifts for your friends and family.

The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $3 regular, $2.50 members
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

We proudly present Lon Chaney's most famous portrayal of Erik, the Phantom, in this, its 85th anniversary year. Remade several times, and also the subject of a Broadway and London musical, yet Chaney's performance has never been equalled. The print contains a superb score by organist Gaylord Perry. Directed by Rupert Julian. Cast includes Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, and Arthur Edmund Carewe.

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Windows Project: Oil is Why
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Native American Tom Huff will present an installation on Leonard Peltier consisting of a mural and sculptural elements that relate to the main gallery's exhibition about Peltier by Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America. Public programming has been organized in conjunction with the Everson Museum of Art and ArtRage Gallery.

Christopher & Richard Williams: "Art as Catharsis: Watch Out I Need to Purge"
LeMoyne College

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

Join us for an exhibition of paintings, drawings, and sketches by brothers Christopher and Richards Williams. The brothers share a conviction that art is a representation of ideas that reflect and comment on our social disorder. Creating images that are disturbing, allegorical, and provocative, the artists challenge the viewer to see the world through their eyes.

Christopher Williams has exhibited his work throughout the U.S. Richard Williams is a professional illustrator and portrait artist. His work is in the private collections of Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Howard Stern.

Silk: Photographs by Courtney Rile
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Marcus Acevedo Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist's Statement: The duality of man, the potential to be both divine and carnal beings, has always interested me. There is a struggle with the expectations associated with these opposing forces: the potential for greatness always present on one hand, and weaknesses inescapable on the other. My work exists to inspire the question of what is the nature of heroes, legends and Gods, and how different is that from the nature of man. My work goes beyond self-analysis and introspection. I use myself as the archetype for the experiences that connect us. I want to explore not only the greatness of man, but the weakness as well. My work demonstrates that we are powerful and that there is no contradiction that this great power can manifest itself in a person that is inadequate, fearful and weak. In my work I am actor and director, puppet and puppet master, mortal and God. I am free to explore all of these relationships, to be whomever and what ever I desire.

Recent Work by Michael Flanagan and Tyrone Johnson-Neuland
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

The exhibit showcases a series of mixed media works.

The Silent Scream: Conflict in Novels Without Words
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University Library has always had a keen interest in all forms of book illustration, and not surprisingly, novels without words became a significant collecting area. Over time, we have amassed a considerable number of the classic specimens in the genre, and the main practitioners of the art form are well represented within our holdings. We developed this exhibition in keeping with the Syracuse Symposium theme for the coming year, "conflict." The artists upon whom we focused are William Gropper, Laurence Hyde, Frans Masereel, Giacomo Patri, John Vassos, and Lynd Ward.

In addition to conflict, novels without words often portray a quest on the part of the individual. This may assume the form of a journey or a saga about the search for self-fulfillment in artistic or purely personal terms, or the quest may have as its primary objective achieving social justice in a particular context. Because of the historical period in which many of these wordless novels were born, they often depict a struggle between the individual and the industrialized world. Industrialization and, by extension, capitalism, may be seen as forces that are fundamentally antagonistic to the interests of the individual and of society in general. Similarly, the law, the police, and the armed forces may all be viewed as instruments of repression in novels without words.

The creators of novels without words also tend to scrutinize the brutal forms of war and tyranny that are made possible by industrialization. In truth, any injustice may become the subject of such works, and perhaps just the cruel nature of our existential struggle to survive in an inherently hostile environment is all the background that is needed to provide the inspiration for the creation of a novel without words.

Visual Trips, No Passport Required
Westcott Community Art Gallery
The Syracuse Photographers Association

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

"Visual Trips, No Passport Required" is a collection of works by members of The Syracuse Photographers Association, and "Partially Abandoned Factory," a solo show within the show, is by the group's organizer and founding member, Mindy Lee Tarry. Color and creativity abounds and many of the framed ink jet prints are for sale, to help raise money for the WCC.

The "Visual Trips, No Passport Required" collection showcases a rich variety of creative viewpoints ranging from stunning landscape prints to ornate and fascinating interior location shots. Viewing this collection will reinforce the fact that there is no shortage of imagination or scenes which inspire members to create wonderful photographic art. The "Partially Abandoned Factory" series narrows the focus with visually engaging interior and exterior studies of a captivating ramshackle former factory. Six of these images are currently featured in COLOR magazine November issue #10.

Resin*ating Metal: Arlene Abend Retrospective
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

The sculpture of Arlene Abend, representing over 30 years of creating in resin, bronze, and steel

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Off the Wall Sale and Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Works of Michael DiGiorgio
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Nationally recognized nature artist Michael DiGiorgio is known for bird paintings that emphasize the character of the bird and its relationship to the environment. DiGiorgio, of Madison, CT, has been painting birds since the age of 5. His paintings and drawings have appeared in a variety of nature books and journals, including "Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil: The Pantanal and Cerrado of Central Brazil," "The Breeding Bird Atlas of Connecticut and of New York," "“Master's Guide to Birding," "Audubon Field Guide to Birds (Eastern and Western Regions)," Audubon Magazine, and Audubon Nature Yearbook.

He also has painted numerous covers for Bird Watcher's Digest and has been featured in Sanctuary magazine, a Massachusetts Audubon publication. Currently, he is illustrating bird plates for "The Birds of South America, Vol. III," with Robert Ridgely and Guy Tudor.

DiGiorgio won the first-ever endowment award from the Academy of Natural Sciences, in 2004, in recognition of his bird illustration work. The award was given in memory of Don Eckelberry, under whom he studied. DiGiorgio, whose style reflects his keen observations in the field, is committed to painting from life. He has traveled extensively to create field sketches of birds, plants and habitat from Central America, the West Indies, Trinidad and the Outer Islands of Britain. In addition, numerous trips to the western United States and national parks have allowed him to record a full range of American birdlife.

Archipelago: Works by Yolanda del Amo
Light Work Gallery

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

Powerful forces deep below the surface of the earth form archipelagos, which are chains or clusters of individual islands. In her series Archipelago, artist Yolanda del Amo depicts the powerful forces between people—their conflicting needs for intimacy and connection, independence and individuality. In Archipelago, these competing needs seem to have reached a peaceful if temporary stasis. These beautiful images show people who, although in the presence of another, appear surrounded on all sides not by water but by silence.

Del Amo leaves the relationships of her subjects to each other deliberately vague, which makes her images all the more universal and compelling. Each photograph represents a fragile time in any relationship when two people—whether they are mother and son, husband and wife, or simply friends—momentarily live alone, together.

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Diane Banks and Adam Francey Recent Works
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Diane Banks' specimen series sculptures and drawings are inspired by the fragileness of nature and the delicate balance between vulnerability and strength. Her sculptures are created through the combination of organic and found plastic materials. Through the use of these materials, Banks reveals her fascination how nature protects itself from physical harm caused by man's intrusion, and the many ways it contorts itself to survive.

Working with related and unrelated imagery, Adam Francey layers and edits his paintings until an abstracted composition emerges. These are not works about a concrete idea; rather they provide an opportunity for unlimited readings, depending on point-of-view or frame of reference. Snippets from overheard conversations are peppered in the compositions. These works alternate between toughness and humor, with vibrant colors that appear at any moment, ready to leap off of the surface.

Emerging Women of CNY #1
Redhouse

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

Artwork by Taye Wright-hirry, Maria Janina Rizzo, Alexandara Crosby, and Kristie Hayes.

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56nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

The show and sale features paintings, pottery, jewelry, stained glass, and more. It's the perfect place to find special holiday gifts for your friends and family.

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York presents, for the first time in Syracuse, recent and new work by 21 young New York City artists. Included in the exhibition's wide array of media are several installation pieces created specifically for the SUArt Galleries. Co-curated by SU alumnus Eric Gleason, Sales Director at Marlborough Chelsea, and David Prince, Associate Director at the SUArt Galleries, the show illustrates conceptual and aesthetic trends in contemporary art.

Synonymous with "spread the word," Run and Tell That! is a phrase attributed to Antoine Dodson of Huntsville, AL, whose flamboyant July 28, 2010 television interview following the attempted sexual assault on his sister, quickly became an internet sensation. The phrase has since been integrated into contemporary vernacular; a phenomenon that could only happen now, in a time when information is digested and distributed constantly via the internet. The artists in Run and Tell That! take advantage of this wide spectrum of media to develop a conceptual focus that characterizes this younger generation.

Painters Kamrooz Aram, Steven Charles, Inka Essenhigh, Aaron Johnson, Liz Markus, Tom Sanford, Ryan Schneider and Aya Uekawa use personal experience, art history, abstraction, and social commentary to keep the medium fresh and relevant. Sculpture becomes a widely encompassing term as pieces by Robert Lazzarini, Diana Al-Hadid, Will Ryman, and Ethan Greenbaum broaden the definition. In the series of 13 prints entitled Ars Magica, William Powhida continues his astute satirization of the art world by likening its practices to sorcery. In her Mother Goddess series, Turkish photographer Pinar Yolacan examines pre-neolithic deity figures that were the archetype of beauty in her geographic region thousands of years ago.

Site-specific installations include a first-time collaboration between Ethan Greenbaum and Adam Krueger; a dynamic wall-length installation in which a tree violently emerges from a Hudson River School painting by Valerie Hegarty; Virginia Overton's minimal trompe l'oeil construction using only an eight-foot 2 x 4 and two sheets of mirrored plexiglas; Vlatka Horvat's repurposed ceiling fan and aluminum ladder; and individual projects by Wade Kavanagh and Stephen B. Nguyen whose monumental collaborative installation White Stag, 2010 is currently on view at Mass MoCA.

Also in the exhibition will be Rashaad Newsome: Video and Performance, 2005-2010, an intimate retrospective of the artist's multi-media work exploring innovative forms of communication and expression in contemporary African American urban culture. This work was recently featured in the 2010 Whitney Biennial and in Greater New York 2010 at the PS1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, NY.

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From the Studio to the Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In collaboration with The Dahesh Museum of Art and the Syracuse University Art Galleries, students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorship course in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies have worked together to present a drawing exhibition that highlights some of the prominent themes and techniques of 19th-century Academic Art. The exhibition will present over 40 drawings on loan from The Dahesh Museum of Art, as well as selected Academic paintings drawn from the Syracuse University Art Collection.

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.

Bill Viola Video Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson was the first museum to collect video art, beginning in the early 1970s. Bill Viola, now one of the world's leading video artists, studied at Syracuse University and began his career at the Everson. A selection of historic videos by Bill Viola from the Everson's pioneering video collection will be shown in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court in conjunction with the Urban Video Project (UVP), which will also be featuring Viola this fall.

Jules Olitski: An Inside View
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

One of America's pre-eminent painters, Jules Olitski (1922-2007) is celebrated for his large-format, lyrical abstractions that shimmer with color. Less well-known are his smaller, more intimate prints in a variety of media, which both parallel and depart from the abstract imagery of his paintings.

"An Inside View" includes 40 prints in a variety of media—intaglio, silkscreen, lithograph, and monotype—spanning the artist's career of more than five decades.

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