Wednesday, January 19, 2011

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.

The Art Store Gallery
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Showing of works by Tori Knowlton (senior, Chittenango High School) and Brittany Riehlman (SUNY Cortland).

Information: 315-474-1000.

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

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

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

Figurative Expressions II
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Demetrius Oliver: Penumbra
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Transmedia Photography Annual Group Exibition
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Focus x Three: Photography and Video
Redhouse

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

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

Without Restraint: Works by Phil Parsons and Barbara Conte-Gaugel
Szozda Gallery

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

Barbara Conte-Gaugel has named the collage-assemblage series on display "Remnants," suggesting how the artist's nostalgia for things old, rusty and ordinary combine with her desire to give her pieces "new life, one quite different from the former one, but no less important." This same affinity for things past is prominent in her black and white photographs of lost buildings, crumbling edifices, abandoned structures and old prisons. Conte-Gaugel refers to them as "handmade," taken with a manual Nikon camera and printed on fiber-based paper -- "landscape imagery in which time seems to stand still."

For "Without Restraint," Phil Parsons includes pieces from several different series including "Landscape," and "Black Forest." Parsons began painting landscapes at a time when he viewed rural scenes around him with a different perspective following the death of a family member. "Life is fleeting," he says, "And I needed a record, a reminder for myself and my children." Working in his "Black Forest Series," Parsons draws abstractions and classical imagery, forging both together and seemingly arranged under a gossamer film in the same picture plane.

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.

Read a review!

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.

Read a review!

Snow
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Snow" is an exhibition of traditional representations of snow scenes as well as nontraditional and conceptual interpretations. It is curated by Yvonne Buchanan, assistant professor of illustration in the School of Art and Design's Department of Art. The exhibition's theme was inspired by “Bliz-aard Ball Sale,” a 1983 New York City performance piece by artist David Hammons.

For more information, contact Yvonne Buchanan, yebuchan@syr.edu, or 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.

Read a review!

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

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

A Fire in My Belly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

On December 1, World AIDS day, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. (a Smithsonian institute) removed the video A Fire in My Belly, by David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) from its exhibit entitled "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture," after caving to pressure from the president of the Catholic League, Bill Donohue. Donohue has described the video as anti-Catholic "hate speech" because the four-minute video includes a 15-second image of ants crawling over a crucifix. Incoming Speaker of the House John Boehner has joined with Donohue and has condemned the show as an "outrageous use of taxpayer money."

Hide/Seek is the first major exhibition at the Portrait Gallery to focus on what the museum calls "sexual difference" and A Fire in My Belly, made in 1987, was a response to the AIDS crisis in the U.S. ArtRage has joined with arts organizations all across the U.S. by screening this video, providing space to discuss the art and to discuss the implications of its censoring. We support and defend an artist's right to use their art for social change. Consequently, ArtRage will show the Wojnarowicz video in a constant loop in our gallery until Feb. 13, 2011, the scheduled end date for the Smithsonian exhibition.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

Read a review!

Susan Crocker, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Popular pianist returns with J.S. Bach Toccata in D Major, Chopin Polonaise-Fantaisie, and Rachmaninoff preludes.

Cultural Series: Rhimmon Simchy-Gross, piano
Temple Society of Concord

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

Rhimmon Simchy-Gross is an accomplished local pianist, currently studying music at the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam.

Preview: Rent
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

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

Jonathan Larson's Broadway phenomenon ignites the stage with passion and energy. One year—525,600 minutes—in the lives of seven young friends from Alphabet City brings love, loss, tragedy and triumph in a whirl of non-stop music. Larson built the show on the artists and addicts he knew in his neighborhood as they battled poverty, drugs, AIDS and the looming gentrification of their Vie Bohème. Urban and gritty, this Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical brims with raw emotion and infectious enthusiasm.

Based on Puccini's La Boheme, Rent opened off-Broadway in January 1996 to wide critical acclaim. It quickly moved to its Broadway home, the Nederlander Theatre, where it ran for 12 years, becoming the eighth longest running Broadway musical in history. Rent won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for drama and was nominated for ten Tony Awards, winning four, including Best Musical and Best Original Score.

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Thursday, January 20, 2011

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.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

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

The Art Store Gallery
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Showing of works by Tori Knowlton (senior, Chittenango High School) and Brittany Riehlman (SUNY Cortland).

Information: 315-474-1000.

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

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

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

Figurative Expressions II
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

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

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

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

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

Transmedia Photography Annual Group Exibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Demetrius Oliver: Penumbra
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Focus x Three: Photography and Video
Redhouse

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

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

Without Restraint: Works by Phil Parsons and Barbara Conte-Gaugel
Szozda Gallery

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

Barbara Conte-Gaugel has named the collage-assemblage series on display "Remnants," suggesting how the artist's nostalgia for things old, rusty and ordinary combine with her desire to give her pieces "new life, one quite different from the former one, but no less important." This same affinity for things past is prominent in her black and white photographs of lost buildings, crumbling edifices, abandoned structures and old prisons. Conte-Gaugel refers to them as "handmade," taken with a manual Nikon camera and printed on fiber-based paper -- "landscape imagery in which time seems to stand still."

For "Without Restraint," Phil Parsons includes pieces from several different series including "Landscape," and "Black Forest." Parsons began painting landscapes at a time when he viewed rural scenes around him with a different perspective following the death of a family member. "Life is fleeting," he says, "And I needed a record, a reminder for myself and my children." Working in his "Black Forest Series," Parsons draws abstractions and classical imagery, forging both together and seemingly arranged under a gossamer film in the same picture plane.

Holiday Group Show
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit.

The exhibition will feature jewelry, ceramics, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include David Church (Pompey), Julie Crosby (Trumansburg), Jen Gandee (Fabius), Laurie Gerace (Fabius), Martha Grover (Helena, MT), Forrest Lesch Middelton (Fairfax, CA), David MacDonald (Syracuse), Shawn O'Connor (Gatlinburg, TN), Sarah Saulson (Syracuse), Lucie Wellner (Pompey), and Errol Willett (Fabius).

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.

Read a review!

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.

Read a review!

Snow
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

There will be a reception and artists' talk this evening 6:00-8:00 pm, in conjunction with Th3, the Third Thursday citywide art open.

"Snow" is an exhibition of traditional representations of snow scenes as well as nontraditional and conceptual interpretations. It is curated by Yvonne Buchanan, assistant professor of illustration in the School of Art and Design's Department of Art. The exhibition's theme was inspired by “Bliz-aard Ball Sale,” a 1983 New York City performance piece by artist David Hammons.

For more information, contact Yvonne Buchanan, yebuchan@syr.edu, or 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.

Read a review!

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

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

A Fire in My Belly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

On December 1, World AIDS day, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. (a Smithsonian institute) removed the video A Fire in My Belly, by David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) from its exhibit entitled "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture," after caving to pressure from the president of the Catholic League, Bill Donohue. Donohue has described the video as anti-Catholic "hate speech" because the four-minute video includes a 15-second image of ants crawling over a crucifix. Incoming Speaker of the House John Boehner has joined with Donohue and has condemned the show as an "outrageous use of taxpayer money."

Hide/Seek is the first major exhibition at the Portrait Gallery to focus on what the museum calls "sexual difference" and A Fire in My Belly, made in 1987, was a response to the AIDS crisis in the U.S. ArtRage has joined with arts organizations all across the U.S. by screening this video, providing space to discuss the art and to discuss the implications of its censoring. We support and defend an artist's right to use their art for social change. Consequently, ArtRage will show the Wojnarowicz video in a constant loop in our gallery until Feb. 13, 2011, the scheduled end date for the Smithsonian exhibition.

Special Event
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Regional arts and crafts, light refreshments.

Bill Elkins: Watercolors
SparkyTown Restaurant

SparkyTown Restaurant
324 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Watercolors by local artist Bill Elkins. These delicate and lovely pieces reflect the artist's impressions as he traveled through Europe, from Casa Vlad-Drach to Paris and more.

Jeff Gibson: Asylum and Smoke
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In "Asylum" (06:02 min. loop), Gibson takes a page from each of his two most recent artist's books: Dupe: A Partial Compendium of Everyday Delusions (a dictionary of quasi-clinical, art-world pathologies; sardonic but earnest) and Sarsaparilla to Sorcery (a picture book exploring perceptual ambiguities between allusive abstract photographic images and taxonomic illustrations swiped from old Encyclopedia Britannica). Through a chain of slow, poetic dissolves, the video blends psychologistic text with dreamy, morphic imagery into a weirdly visceral stream of consciousness. Similarly, "Smoke" (02:49 min. loop) combines quack psychological text with abstract photography and pages appropriated from encyclopedia, this time the World Book series. However, whereas "Asylum" is slow and panoramic in range, "Smoke" is faster, shorter, and distinctly gothic in character -- more pointed, and, though humorous, blackly so.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

Read a review!

Civil Rights Films 2: The Promised Land and Ain't Gonna Shuffle No More
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The Promised Land (1967-68)
Martin Luther King stakes out new ground for himself and the rapidly fragmenting civil rights movement. One year before his death, he publicly opposes the war in Vietnam. His Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) embarks on an ambitious Poor People's Campaign. In the midst of political organizing, King detours to support striking sanitation workers in Memphis, where he is assassinated. King's death and the failure of his final campaign mark the end of a major stream of the movement.

Ain't Gonna Shuffle No More (1964-72)
A call to pride and a renewed push for unity galvanize black America. World heavyweight champion Cassius Clay challenges America to accept him as Muhammad Ali, a minister of Islam who refuses to fight in Vietnam. Students at Howard University in Washington, DC, fight to bring the growing black consciousness movement and their African heritage inside the walls of this prominent black institution. Black elected officials and community activists organize the National Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana, in an attempt to create a unified black response to growing repression against the movement.

Harry Crocker and the Saucerer's Stove
Acme Mystery Company

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

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

Preview: Rent
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

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

Jonathan Larson's Broadway phenomenon ignites the stage with passion and energy. One year—525,600 minutes—in the lives of seven young friends from Alphabet City brings love, loss, tragedy and triumph in a whirl of non-stop music. Larson built the show on the artists and addicts he knew in his neighborhood as they battled poverty, drugs, AIDS and the looming gentrification of their Vie Bohème. Urban and gritty, this Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical brims with raw emotion and infectious enthusiasm.

Based on Puccini's La Boheme, Rent opened off-Broadway in January 1996 to wide critical acclaim. It quickly moved to its Broadway home, the Nederlander Theatre, where it ran for 12 years, becoming the eighth longest running Broadway musical in history. Rent won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for drama and was nominated for ten Tony Awards, winning four, including Best Musical and Best Original Score.

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Friday, January 21, 2011

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.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

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

The Art Store Gallery
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Showing of works by Tori Knowlton (senior, Chittenango High School) and Brittany Riehlman (SUNY Cortland).

Information: 315-474-1000.

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

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

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

Figurative Expressions II
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Transmedia Photography Annual Group Exibition
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

Demetrius Oliver: Penumbra
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Focus x Three: Photography and Video
Redhouse

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

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

Without Restraint: Works by Phil Parsons and Barbara Conte-Gaugel
Szozda Gallery

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

Barbara Conte-Gaugel has named the collage-assemblage series on display "Remnants," suggesting how the artist's nostalgia for things old, rusty and ordinary combine with her desire to give her pieces "new life, one quite different from the former one, but no less important." This same affinity for things past is prominent in her black and white photographs of lost buildings, crumbling edifices, abandoned structures and old prisons. Conte-Gaugel refers to them as "handmade," taken with a manual Nikon camera and printed on fiber-based paper -- "landscape imagery in which time seems to stand still."

For "Without Restraint," Phil Parsons includes pieces from several different series including "Landscape," and "Black Forest." Parsons began painting landscapes at a time when he viewed rural scenes around him with a different perspective following the death of a family member. "Life is fleeting," he says, "And I needed a record, a reminder for myself and my children." Working in his "Black Forest Series," Parsons draws abstractions and classical imagery, forging both together and seemingly arranged under a gossamer film in the same picture plane.

Holiday Group Show
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit.

The exhibition will feature jewelry, ceramics, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include David Church (Pompey), Julie Crosby (Trumansburg), Jen Gandee (Fabius), Laurie Gerace (Fabius), Martha Grover (Helena, MT), Forrest Lesch Middelton (Fairfax, CA), David MacDonald (Syracuse), Shawn O'Connor (Gatlinburg, TN), Sarah Saulson (Syracuse), Lucie Wellner (Pompey), and Errol Willett (Fabius).

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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Snow
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Snow" is an exhibition of traditional representations of snow scenes as well as nontraditional and conceptual interpretations. It is curated by Yvonne Buchanan, assistant professor of illustration in the School of Art and Design's Department of Art. The exhibition's theme was inspired by “Bliz-aard Ball Sale,” a 1983 New York City performance piece by artist David Hammons.

For more information, contact Yvonne Buchanan, yebuchan@syr.edu, or 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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All Power to the People! Graphics of the Black Panther Party USA
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

A Fire in My Belly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

On December 1, World AIDS day, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. (a Smithsonian institute) removed the video A Fire in My Belly, by David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) from its exhibit entitled "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture," after caving to pressure from the president of the Catholic League, Bill Donohue. Donohue has described the video as anti-Catholic "hate speech" because the four-minute video includes a 15-second image of ants crawling over a crucifix. Incoming Speaker of the House John Boehner has joined with Donohue and has condemned the show as an "outrageous use of taxpayer money."

Hide/Seek is the first major exhibition at the Portrait Gallery to focus on what the museum calls "sexual difference" and A Fire in My Belly, made in 1987, was a response to the AIDS crisis in the U.S. ArtRage has joined with arts organizations all across the U.S. by screening this video, providing space to discuss the art and to discuss the implications of its censoring. We support and defend an artist's right to use their art for social change. Consequently, ArtRage will show the Wojnarowicz video in a constant loop in our gallery until Feb. 13, 2011, the scheduled end date for the Smithsonian exhibition.

Jeff Gibson: Asylum and Smoke
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In "Asylum" (06:02 min. loop), Gibson takes a page from each of his two most recent artist's books: Dupe: A Partial Compendium of Everyday Delusions (a dictionary of quasi-clinical, art-world pathologies; sardonic but earnest) and Sarsaparilla to Sorcery (a picture book exploring perceptual ambiguities between allusive abstract photographic images and taxonomic illustrations swiped from old Encyclopedia Britannica). Through a chain of slow, poetic dissolves, the video blends psychologistic text with dreamy, morphic imagery into a weirdly visceral stream of consciousness. Similarly, "Smoke" (02:49 min. loop) combines quack psychological text with abstract photography and pages appropriated from encyclopedia, this time the World Book series. However, whereas "Asylum" is slow and panoramic in range, "Smoke" is faster, shorter, and distinctly gothic in character -- more pointed, and, though humorous, blackly so.

Satan's Closet Improv Comedy
Salt City Improv Theater

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

Improv comedy show featuring the SCiT house team, Satan's Closet. What wonderful things can be said about these guys that hasn't already been said? No, seriously...we want to know...what else can be said?

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

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*CANCELLED* Coffee Concert: All Mozart
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Janet Brown, soprano

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

Mozart Exsultate, jubilate, K. 165
Mozart Marriage of Figaro Overture
Mozart Symphony No. 41, "Jupiter"

All-Purpose String Band
Kellish Hill Farm

Price: $5
Kellish Hill Farm
3192 Pompey Center Rd., Pompey

Old-time music. For more information, phone 315-682-1578.

Garnet Rogers
Folkus Project

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

One of folk music's foremost performers, Garnet Rogers sings with a glorious baritone voice that goes straight to the heart. With his incredible range and thoughtful, dramatic phrasing, he is widely considered by fans and critics alike to be one of the finest singers anywhere. An optimist at heart, Rogers sings extraordinary songs about people and small, everyday victories. As memorable as his songs, his over-the-top humor and lightning-quick wit move his audiences from tears to laughter and back again. His music, like the man himself, is literate, passionate, highly sensitive and deeply purposeful. Leaning toward sharply etched story songs that deal with crucial moments in the lives of ordinary people, it expresses the unspoken language of the heart.

Classics Series: All Mozart
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Janet Brown, soprano

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

Mozart Symphony No. 1
Mozart Exsultate, jubilate, K. 165
Mozart Marriage of Figaro Overture
Mozart Symphony No. 41, "Jupiter"

Music From a Sparkling Planet
Appleseed Productions
William Edward White, director

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

Whatever became of Tamara Tomorrow? In the early '70s, this local television host, in her antennae and space suit, made cheery predictions of how exciting the future was going to be. Her sudden disappearance from the public eye was one of the great mysteries of the Philadelphia area. Three fans of Tamara, all grown up and disenchanted with the "future" as she predicted, decide to go in search of this "Delaware Valley Greta Garbo." What they find along the way teaches them more about themselves than they really thought they could know. Written by Douglas Carter Beane.

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Odysseus DOA
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: $25 regular, $20 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Playwright Stephen Svoboda, Artistic Director of the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts, will direct his original play which he describes as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest meets Angels in America through the mind of Homer. Odysseus DOA is a hilarious and heartfelt drama about the inner workings of a hospital patient who is dying of AIDS. It follows Elliott, who believes he is Odysseus, on a journey where he tries to live a life worth being remembered.

Through a grant from the Allyn Foundation, Red House will offer a limited number of free tickets to area health care workers and HIV/AIDS patients and families. Red House will accept donations on behalf of different medical and HIV/AIDS related organizations in the lobby.

In addition, Red House will donate 25% of the box office from opening night to AIDS Community Resources as well as 20% of tickets for other performances purchased with the code ACR.

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Opening: Rent
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

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

Live in the Sutton Series: Live music following tonight's performance.

Jonathan Larson's Broadway phenomenon ignites the stage with passion and energy. One year—525,600 minutes—in the lives of seven young friends from Alphabet City brings love, loss, tragedy and triumph in a whirl of non-stop music. Larson built the show on the artists and addicts he knew in his neighborhood as they battled poverty, drugs, AIDS and the looming gentrification of their Vie Bohème. Urban and gritty, this Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical brims with raw emotion and infectious enthusiasm.

Based on Puccini's La Boheme, Rent opened off-Broadway in January 1996 to wide critical acclaim. It quickly moved to its Broadway home, the Nederlander Theatre, where it ran for 12 years, becoming the eighth longest running Broadway musical in history. Rent won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for drama and was nominated for ten Tony Awards, winning four, including Best Musical and Best Original Score.

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Saturday, January 22, 2011

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.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

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

New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Figurative Expressions II
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

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.

Read a review!

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.

Read a review!

Without Restraint: Works by Phil Parsons and Barbara Conte-Gaugel
Szozda Gallery

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

Barbara Conte-Gaugel has named the collage-assemblage series on display "Remnants," suggesting how the artist's nostalgia for things old, rusty and ordinary combine with her desire to give her pieces "new life, one quite different from the former one, but no less important." This same affinity for things past is prominent in her black and white photographs of lost buildings, crumbling edifices, abandoned structures and old prisons. Conte-Gaugel refers to them as "handmade," taken with a manual Nikon camera and printed on fiber-based paper -- "landscape imagery in which time seems to stand still."

For "Without Restraint," Phil Parsons includes pieces from several different series including "Landscape," and "Black Forest." Parsons began painting landscapes at a time when he viewed rural scenes around him with a different perspective following the death of a family member. "Life is fleeting," he says, "And I needed a record, a reminder for myself and my children." Working in his "Black Forest Series," Parsons draws abstractions and classical imagery, forging both together and seemingly arranged under a gossamer film in the same picture plane.

The Art Store Gallery
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Showing of works by Tori Knowlton (senior, Chittenango High School) and Brittany Riehlman (SUNY Cortland).

Information: 315-474-1000.

Holiday Group Show
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit.

The exhibition will feature jewelry, ceramics, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include David Church (Pompey), Julie Crosby (Trumansburg), Jen Gandee (Fabius), Laurie Gerace (Fabius), Martha Grover (Helena, MT), Forrest Lesch Middelton (Fairfax, CA), David MacDonald (Syracuse), Shawn O'Connor (Gatlinburg, TN), Sarah Saulson (Syracuse), Lucie Wellner (Pompey), and Errol Willett (Fabius).

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.

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

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

A Fire in My Belly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

On December 1, World AIDS day, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. (a Smithsonian institute) removed the video A Fire in My Belly, by David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) from its exhibit entitled "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture," after caving to pressure from the president of the Catholic League, Bill Donohue. Donohue has described the video as anti-Catholic "hate speech" because the four-minute video includes a 15-second image of ants crawling over a crucifix. Incoming Speaker of the House John Boehner has joined with Donohue and has condemned the show as an "outrageous use of taxpayer money."

Hide/Seek is the first major exhibition at the Portrait Gallery to focus on what the museum calls "sexual difference" and A Fire in My Belly, made in 1987, was a response to the AIDS crisis in the U.S. ArtRage has joined with arts organizations all across the U.S. by screening this video, providing space to discuss the art and to discuss the implications of its censoring. We support and defend an artist's right to use their art for social change. Consequently, ArtRage will show the Wojnarowicz video in a constant loop in our gallery until Feb. 13, 2011, the scheduled end date for the Smithsonian exhibition.

Snow
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Snow" is an exhibition of traditional representations of snow scenes as well as nontraditional and conceptual interpretations. It is curated by Yvonne Buchanan, assistant professor of illustration in the School of Art and Design's Department of Art. The exhibition's theme was inspired by “Bliz-aard Ball Sale,” a 1983 New York City performance piece by artist David Hammons.

For more information, contact Yvonne Buchanan, yebuchan@syr.edu, or 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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Jeff Gibson: Asylum and Smoke
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In "Asylum" (06:02 min. loop), Gibson takes a page from each of his two most recent artist's books: Dupe: A Partial Compendium of Everyday Delusions (a dictionary of quasi-clinical, art-world pathologies; sardonic but earnest) and Sarsaparilla to Sorcery (a picture book exploring perceptual ambiguities between allusive abstract photographic images and taxonomic illustrations swiped from old Encyclopedia Britannica). Through a chain of slow, poetic dissolves, the video blends psychologistic text with dreamy, morphic imagery into a weirdly visceral stream of consciousness. Similarly, "Smoke" (02:49 min. loop) combines quack psychological text with abstract photography and pages appropriated from encyclopedia, this time the World Book series. However, whereas "Asylum" is slow and panoramic in range, "Smoke" is faster, shorter, and distinctly gothic in character -- more pointed, and, though humorous, blackly so.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

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Spark Video
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Price: $3
Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

The first Spark Video of spring, but it doesn't feel much like spring, does it? Allow yourself to be rejuvenated by innovative videos from friends and supporters of Art Video.

The Conformist
ArtRage Gallery

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

In 1930s Italy, a weak-willed man becomes a fascist pawn who goes abroad to assassinate his old teacher, now a political rebel; scathing drama of fascism and beauty alike– and profound personal tragedy.

Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970.

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.

Silverwood Clarinet Choir

Price: $5 donation
Christ Episcopal Church
407 E. Seneca St., Manlius

Local musicians perform everything from Mozart to Mancini.

Isreal Hagan
Steeple Coffeehouse

Price: $10 suggested donation
United Church of Fayetteville
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

Sammy Hall of Fame musician Isreal Hagan is an accomplished songwriter and singer, bringing his voice and guitar to give his audience a solo rhythm and blues experience like never before. Among his many accomplishments, Isreal has written, arranged and recorded over 35 original songs. His 25 years as lead singer with Syracuse's premier R'n'B group Stroke comes through in every performance. This four-time Sammy Award-winning vocalist combines the excitement of a live R'n'B show with the intimacy of a coffee house setting, creating a memorable evening.

Classics Series: All Mozart
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Janet Brown, soprano

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

Mozart Symphony No. 1
Mozart Exsultate, jubilate, K. 165
Mozart Marriage of Figaro Overture
Mozart Symphony No. 41, "Jupiter"

Sleeping Beauty
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive comedy retelling of the children's classic.

Rent
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

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

Jonathan Larson's Broadway phenomenon ignites the stage with passion and energy. One year—525,600 minutes—in the lives of seven young friends from Alphabet City brings love, loss, tragedy and triumph in a whirl of non-stop music. Larson built the show on the artists and addicts he knew in his neighborhood as they battled poverty, drugs, AIDS and the looming gentrification of their Vie Bohème. Urban and gritty, this Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical brims with raw emotion and infectious enthusiasm.

Based on Puccini's La Boheme, Rent opened off-Broadway in January 1996 to wide critical acclaim. It quickly moved to its Broadway home, the Nederlander Theatre, where it ran for 12 years, becoming the eighth longest running Broadway musical in history. Rent won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for drama and was nominated for ten Tony Awards, winning four, including Best Musical and Best Original Score.

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Music From a Sparkling Planet
Appleseed Productions
William Edward White, director

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

Whatever became of Tamara Tomorrow? In the early '70s, this local television host, in her antennae and space suit, made cheery predictions of how exciting the future was going to be. Her sudden disappearance from the public eye was one of the great mysteries of the Philadelphia area. Three fans of Tamara, all grown up and disenchanted with the "future" as she predicted, decide to go in search of this "Delaware Valley Greta Garbo." What they find along the way teaches them more about themselves than they really thought they could know. Written by Douglas Carter Beane.

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Odysseus DOA
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: $25 regular, $20 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Playwright Stephen Svoboda, Artistic Director of the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts, will direct his original play which he describes as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest meets Angels in America through the mind of Homer. Odysseus DOA is a hilarious and heartfelt drama about the inner workings of a hospital patient who is dying of AIDS. It follows Elliott, who believes he is Odysseus, on a journey where he tries to live a life worth being remembered.

Through a grant from the Allyn Foundation, Red House will offer a limited number of free tickets to area health care workers and HIV/AIDS patients and families. Red House will accept donations on behalf of different medical and HIV/AIDS related organizations in the lobby.

In addition, Red House will donate 25% of the box office from opening night to AIDS Community Resources as well as 20% of tickets for other performances purchased with the code ACR.

Read a Review!

Rent
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

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

Jonathan Larson's Broadway phenomenon ignites the stage with passion and energy. One year—525,600 minutes—in the lives of seven young friends from Alphabet City brings love, loss, tragedy and triumph in a whirl of non-stop music. Larson built the show on the artists and addicts he knew in his neighborhood as they battled poverty, drugs, AIDS and the looming gentrification of their Vie Bohème. Urban and gritty, this Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical brims with raw emotion and infectious enthusiasm.

Based on Puccini's La Boheme, Rent opened off-Broadway in January 1996 to wide critical acclaim. It quickly moved to its Broadway home, the Nederlander Theatre, where it ran for 12 years, becoming the eighth longest running Broadway musical in history. Rent won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for drama and was nominated for ten Tony Awards, winning four, including Best Musical and Best Original Score.

Read a Review!

Sunday, January 23, 2011

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.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

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

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

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

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

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

Transmedia Photography Annual Group Exibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Demetrius Oliver: Penumbra
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Without Restraint: Works by Phil Parsons and Barbara Conte-Gaugel
Szozda Gallery

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

Barbara Conte-Gaugel has named the collage-assemblage series on display "Remnants," suggesting how the artist's nostalgia for things old, rusty and ordinary combine with her desire to give her pieces "new life, one quite different from the former one, but no less important." This same affinity for things past is prominent in her black and white photographs of lost buildings, crumbling edifices, abandoned structures and old prisons. Conte-Gaugel refers to them as "handmade," taken with a manual Nikon camera and printed on fiber-based paper -- "landscape imagery in which time seems to stand still."

For "Without Restraint," Phil Parsons includes pieces from several different series including "Landscape," and "Black Forest." Parsons began painting landscapes at a time when he viewed rural scenes around him with a different perspective following the death of a family member. "Life is fleeting," he says, "And I needed a record, a reminder for myself and my children." Working in his "Black Forest Series," Parsons draws abstractions and classical imagery, forging both together and seemingly arranged under a gossamer film in the same picture plane.

Holiday Group Show
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit.

The exhibition will feature jewelry, ceramics, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include David Church (Pompey), Julie Crosby (Trumansburg), Jen Gandee (Fabius), Laurie Gerace (Fabius), Martha Grover (Helena, MT), Forrest Lesch Middelton (Fairfax, CA), David MacDonald (Syracuse), Shawn O'Connor (Gatlinburg, TN), Sarah Saulson (Syracuse), Lucie Wellner (Pompey), and Errol Willett (Fabius).

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.

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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Snow
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Snow" is an exhibition of traditional representations of snow scenes as well as nontraditional and conceptual interpretations. It is curated by Yvonne Buchanan, assistant professor of illustration in the School of Art and Design's Department of Art. The exhibition's theme was inspired by “Bliz-aard Ball Sale,” a 1983 New York City performance piece by artist David Hammons.

For more information, contact Yvonne Buchanan, yebuchan@syr.edu, or phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Jeff Gibson: Asylum and Smoke
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In "Asylum" (06:02 min. loop), Gibson takes a page from each of his two most recent artist's books: Dupe: A Partial Compendium of Everyday Delusions (a dictionary of quasi-clinical, art-world pathologies; sardonic but earnest) and Sarsaparilla to Sorcery (a picture book exploring perceptual ambiguities between allusive abstract photographic images and taxonomic illustrations swiped from old Encyclopedia Britannica). Through a chain of slow, poetic dissolves, the video blends psychologistic text with dreamy, morphic imagery into a weirdly visceral stream of consciousness. Similarly, "Smoke" (02:49 min. loop) combines quack psychological text with abstract photography and pages appropriated from encyclopedia, this time the World Book series. However, whereas "Asylum" is slow and panoramic in range, "Smoke" is faster, shorter, and distinctly gothic in character -- more pointed, and, though humorous, blackly so.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

Read a review!

January Jam Fest
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: $15 general, $30 VIP in advance; $20 general, $35 VIP at the door ($30 for students or members of CNY Jazz, JASS, or WAER)
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

The January Jam Fest, a day-long music festival to benefit CNY Jazz Central, will feature the finest in jazz, blues, R'n'B, Zydeco, Americana, acoustic and classic rock music, with a lineup of 10 acts playing a continuous schedule throughout the event. Headlining the event is a dynamic double bill: Professor Louie and the Crowmatix and the Commander Cody Band. Central New York’s finest musical artists plus select musicians from the CNY Jazz Orchestra will be roaming the venue, sitting in with various groups. The festival will feature an upstairs VIP lounge featuring cash menu and bar, all-day access to private balcony seating, and a celebrity jam session until 8:00 pm. A fine art raffle will also be held, including original art by Commander Cody and other pieces by outstanding area visual artists.

Tickets are available by calling 315-435-2121. For other information, phone 315-479-5299.

SCHEDULE:
1:00 pm: Mark Hoffmann (lobby café)
2:00-3:00 pm: The Mojo Band (theater)
3:00-3:30 pm: Isreal Hagan (lobby), Andrew Carroll Jazz Trio (balcony lounge)
3:30-4:30 pm: Los Blancos (theater)
4:30-5:00 pm: Todd Hobin/Doug Moncrief (lobby), Andrew Carroll Jazz Trio (balcony lounge)
5:00-7:00 pm: Prof Louie & The Crowmatix, Commander Cody Band (theater)
7:00-8:00 pm: Jazz Jam Session (balcony lounge)

The Exploding Piano
Society for New Music
Featuring Kathleen Supové, piano

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Music to be performed includes Isabelle Eberhardt Dreams of Pianos by Missy Mazzoli, Revolution by Daniel Becker with text by Martin Luther King, Sutra Sutra by Randall Woolf with text by Valeria Vaskilevski, and Digits by Neil Rolnick with a video by R. Luke DuBois.

Through her series, The Exploding Piano, Kathleen Supové has premiered and performed pieces by countless contemporary composers—ones who blend classical virtuosity with the modern world of sound and image. Lately, she's been working with interactive electronics and video, and commissioning pieces for Yamaha Disklavier—a very high-tech version of a player piano.

The Hang, with Ru Ha
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

The Ladder and Sitting Quietly Doing Nothing Spring Comes and the Grass Grows
Armory Square Playwrights

Price: $7 regular, $5 students/seniors
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

?The Ladder? by Amy Doherty
How many senior citizens does it take to change a light bulb? What discoveries are made between dear friends in the middle of the most mundane but essential tasks?

Sitting Quietly Doing Nothing Spring Comes and the Grass Grows by David Feldman
Can love be found in the yuppie bars and restaurants of a CNY city in the 1990s? Is spaghetti and meatballs better than tofu-filled ravioli? Is Elvis working in the cafeteria of a local hospital?

There will be a talkback session with the playwritght after each play.

Music From a Sparkling Planet
Appleseed Productions
William Edward White, director

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

Whatever became of Tamara Tomorrow? In the early '70s, this local television host, in her antennae and space suit, made cheery predictions of how exciting the future was going to be. Her sudden disappearance from the public eye was one of the great mysteries of the Philadelphia area. Three fans of Tamara, all grown up and disenchanted with the "future" as she predicted, decide to go in search of this "Delaware Valley Greta Garbo." What they find along the way teaches them more about themselves than they really thought they could know. Written by Douglas Carter Beane.

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Odysseus DOA
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: $25 regular, $20 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Playwright Stephen Svoboda, Artistic Director of the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts, will direct his original play which he describes as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest meets Angels in America through the mind of Homer. Odysseus DOA is a hilarious and heartfelt drama about the inner workings of a hospital patient who is dying of AIDS. It follows Elliott, who believes he is Odysseus, on a journey where he tries to live a life worth being remembered.

Through a grant from the Allyn Foundation, Red House will offer a limited number of free tickets to area health care workers and HIV/AIDS patients and families. Red House will accept donations on behalf of different medical and HIV/AIDS related organizations in the lobby.

In addition, Red House will donate 25% of the box office from opening night to AIDS Community Resources as well as 20% of tickets for other performances purchased with the code ACR.

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Rent
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

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

Jonathan Larson's Broadway phenomenon ignites the stage with passion and energy. One year—525,600 minutes—in the lives of seven young friends from Alphabet City brings love, loss, tragedy and triumph in a whirl of non-stop music. Larson built the show on the artists and addicts he knew in his neighborhood as they battled poverty, drugs, AIDS and the looming gentrification of their Vie Bohème. Urban and gritty, this Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical brims with raw emotion and infectious enthusiasm.

Based on Puccini's La Boheme, Rent opened off-Broadway in January 1996 to wide critical acclaim. It quickly moved to its Broadway home, the Nederlander Theatre, where it ran for 12 years, becoming the eighth longest running Broadway musical in history. Rent won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for drama and was nominated for ten Tony Awards, winning four, including Best Musical and Best Original Score.

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Monday, January 24, 2011

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.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

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

Ludwig Stein Gallery Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

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

The Art Store Gallery
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Showing of works by Tori Knowlton (senior, Chittenango High School) and Brittany Riehlman (SUNY Cortland).

Information: 315-474-1000.

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

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

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

New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Transmedia Photography Annual Group Exibition
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

Demetrius Oliver: Penumbra
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Focus x Three: Photography and Video
Redhouse

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

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

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

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Lecture Series: 100 Years of Jewish Writing in America
Temple Society of Concord
Featuring Harvey Teres, Ph.D

Temple Society of Concord
910 Madison St., Syracuse

Professor Harvey Teres, Ph.D, Associate Professor of English and Director of Judaic Studies at Syracuse University, is the author of Renewing The Left: Politics, Imagination, and the New York Intellectuals (Oxford University Press; 1996). His fields of expertise include 20th-century American literature and culture, and Jewish American literature. His current teaching and scholarly priorities involve bridging the gap between the academic humanities and surrounding communities, and building the Judaic Studies Program into a world-class center of Jewish research and teaching.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

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.

Ludwig Stein Gallery Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

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

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

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

The Art Store Gallery
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Showing of works by Tori Knowlton (senior, Chittenango High School) and Brittany Riehlman (SUNY Cortland).

Information: 315-474-1000.

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

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

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

Figurative Expressions II
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

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

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

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

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

Transmedia Photography Annual Group Exibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Demetrius Oliver: Penumbra
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Focus x Three: Photography and Video
Redhouse

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

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

The Prints of Seong Moy
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

Read a review!

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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Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

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Quintessential Quintets
Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music

Price: $10 regular, $5 student, $20 family
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

"Quintessence: the most perfect embodiment of something." Hear stars of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra in music for brass quintet, wind quintet, and string quintet exploring the "concentrated essence" of each family of instruments. We always schedule this special concert on a Tuesday evening so that musicians from the SSO can take part. *Please note the earlier time and different location.

Works for brass quintet by J.S. Bach, Giovanni Gabrieli, and Samuel Scheidt, performed by John Raschella and Ryan Barwise, trumpets; Paul Brown, horn; John Sipher, trombone; and Jeffrey Gray, bass trombone.

Mozart String Quintet No. 4 in g minor, K. 516, performed by violinists Jeremy and Sara Mastrangelo, violists Wendy Richman and Jonathan Fleischman, and cellist David LeDoux.

Ibert Three Brief Pieces and Nielsen Wind Quintet, performed by Deborah Coble, flute; Anna Petersen Stearns, oboe; Allan Kolsky, clarinet; Gregory Quick, bassoon; and Jon Garland, horn.

Cats
Broadway in Syracuse

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

Rent
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

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

Jonathan Larson's Broadway phenomenon ignites the stage with passion and energy. One year—525,600 minutes—in the lives of seven young friends from Alphabet City brings love, loss, tragedy and triumph in a whirl of non-stop music. Larson built the show on the artists and addicts he knew in his neighborhood as they battled poverty, drugs, AIDS and the looming gentrification of their Vie Bohème. Urban and gritty, this Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical brims with raw emotion and infectious enthusiasm.

Based on Puccini's La Boheme, Rent opened off-Broadway in January 1996 to wide critical acclaim. It quickly moved to its Broadway home, the Nederlander Theatre, where it ran for 12 years, becoming the eighth longest running Broadway musical in history. Rent won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for drama and was nominated for ten Tony Awards, winning four, including Best Musical and Best Original Score.

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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

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.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

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

Ludwig Stein Gallery Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

There will be an artist reception today 11:00 am-12:00 noon and 5:00-7:30 pm.

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

The Art Store Gallery
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Showing of works by Tori Knowlton (senior, Chittenango High School) and Brittany Riehlman (SUNY Cortland).

Information: 315-474-1000.

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

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

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

Figurative Expressions II
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Transmedia Photography Annual Group Exibition
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

Demetrius Oliver: Penumbra
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Focus x Three: Photography and Video
Redhouse

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

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

Without Restraint: Works by Phil Parsons and Barbara Conte-Gaugel
Szozda Gallery

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

Barbara Conte-Gaugel has named the collage-assemblage series on display "Remnants," suggesting how the artist's nostalgia for things old, rusty and ordinary combine with her desire to give her pieces "new life, one quite different from the former one, but no less important." This same affinity for things past is prominent in her black and white photographs of lost buildings, crumbling edifices, abandoned structures and old prisons. Conte-Gaugel refers to them as "handmade," taken with a manual Nikon camera and printed on fiber-based paper -- "landscape imagery in which time seems to stand still."

For "Without Restraint," Phil Parsons includes pieces from several different series including "Landscape," and "Black Forest." Parsons began painting landscapes at a time when he viewed rural scenes around him with a different perspective following the death of a family member. "Life is fleeting," he says, "And I needed a record, a reminder for myself and my children." Working in his "Black Forest Series," Parsons draws abstractions and classical imagery, forging both together and seemingly arranged under a gossamer film in the same picture plane.

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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The Prints of Seong Moy
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Read a review!

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.

Read a review!

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.

Read a review!

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

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

A Fire in My Belly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

On December 1, World AIDS day, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. (a Smithsonian institute) removed the video A Fire in My Belly, by David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) from its exhibit entitled "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture," after caving to pressure from the president of the Catholic League, Bill Donohue. Donohue has described the video as anti-Catholic "hate speech" because the four-minute video includes a 15-second image of ants crawling over a crucifix. Incoming Speaker of the House John Boehner has joined with Donohue and has condemned the show as an "outrageous use of taxpayer money."

Hide/Seek is the first major exhibition at the Portrait Gallery to focus on what the museum calls "sexual difference" and A Fire in My Belly, made in 1987, was a response to the AIDS crisis in the U.S. ArtRage has joined with arts organizations all across the U.S. by screening this video, providing space to discuss the art and to discuss the implications of its censoring. We support and defend an artist's right to use their art for social change. Consequently, ArtRage will show the Wojnarowicz video in a constant loop in our gallery until Feb. 13, 2011, the scheduled end date for the Smithsonian exhibition.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

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Mozart Birthday Celebration
Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring The FAB Trio

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

The FAB Trio with Fiona Peters, piano; Allyson Sklar, viola/violin; and Robert Peters, clarinet, perform works by Mozart.

Cats
Broadway in Syracuse

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

Rent
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

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

Jonathan Larson's Broadway phenomenon ignites the stage with passion and energy. One year—525,600 minutes—in the lives of seven young friends from Alphabet City brings love, loss, tragedy and triumph in a whirl of non-stop music. Larson built the show on the artists and addicts he knew in his neighborhood as they battled poverty, drugs, AIDS and the looming gentrification of their Vie Bohème. Urban and gritty, this Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical brims with raw emotion and infectious enthusiasm.

Based on Puccini's La Boheme, Rent opened off-Broadway in January 1996 to wide critical acclaim. It quickly moved to its Broadway home, the Nederlander Theatre, where it ran for 12 years, becoming the eighth longest running Broadway musical in history. Rent won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for drama and was nominated for ten Tony Awards, winning four, including Best Musical and Best Original Score.

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