Thursday, August 20, 2009

The Gallery as Studio: Drawings on Delirium
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A world-renowned Uruguayan artist, Ricardo Lanzarini comes from Montevideo to Syracuse to recreate the mundane and the extraordinary in his drawings on delirium made to unexpected scales. The exhibition comes to life at The Point of Contact Gallery where the space has turned into an artist's studio. The work of the exhibit is to be produced entirely on site and directly onto the walls of the gallery in the weeks leading up to the opening. Lanzarini will also share this experiment with students from Syracuse University's Fine Arts Department who will join in the creative process.

Lanzarini's work balances extremes of scale, crafting an extensive abstract image from precise, miniscule characters, whose everyday activities serve as a window into a miniature world, frozen in time. These drawings sarcastically explore the two major paradigms in figurative art of the 20th century: Social and Fantastic Realism

The exhibit will last through the summer and then Lanzarini returns to Point of Contact to perform an "erasure" of the work on September 4. The book catalogue documenting the entire project will be presented at the close.

Healing Art Passages: A Journey of Grace -- works of Suzanne Masters
Westcott Community Center

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

There will be an "Artist at Work" event from 5:00-8:00 pm in conjunction with Th3. Suzanne Masters will be offering some simple demonstrations on collage work and realizing your dreams, and you are invited to join in.

Painting and collage provide examples of "working through" from Suzanne's own personal experiences and of how she takes her students through the process of self discovery.

"Through visual art we can consciously process old beliefs and 'stuck' patterns that hold us back. Through this discovery, we can see clearly and decide the paths we choose to take in our lives. As an artist and a teacher, I have learned that when we close our mouths and stop the chatter, and let colors and forms talk, we shift the process to the other side of the brain where it can speak about things we may have covered up long ago. When they come back to us this way, it is with a different sound. The journey through such an emergence is powerful and beautiful!"

Dimensions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Bob Gates: Photography
David Webster: Ceramics
Marna Bell: Photography

Purple Treatment: Ceramic Works by Eunjung Shin
Community Folk Art Center

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

In "Purple Treatment," Eunjung Shin's figurative ceramic sculptures represent stories from the artist's life. Shin has taken personal memories and transformed them into three-dimensional artistic expressions. The highly detailed figures are skillfully rendered and express a range of emotions. Shin describes some of her figures as "clowns" because they hide their true selves, putting on a face to the world in order to please others. Many of the pieces prompt the viewer to look inward to reflect upon their meaning.

Organic Watermarks: Photographs by Gus Bennett, Jr.
Community Folk Art Center

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

In the exhibition "Organic Watermarks," New Orleans photographer Gus Bennett, Jr., displays portraits of New Orleans residents juxtaposed with layers of debris from Hurricane Katrina. Watermarks on concrete and other surfaces, leaves, textures, colors and remnants left behind by Katrina form layers in front of, behind and even merged onto the surface of the skin of the subjects. Together, the subjects and debris become storytellers of New Orleans post-Katrina. Shot entirely in natural light, the overall mood of the pieces is almost of an ethereal quality, with the ghost-like images of debris commingling with the subjects. According to Bennett, as many as 82 layers comprise one individual portrait. The subjects either appear draped in fabric or nude, which the artist explains is a means of eliminating social class or status: "with Katrina, everyone got left behind." With "Organic Watermarks," Bennett creates true works of beauty, proving that even in the aftermath of chaos, hope can still prevail.

Barry Anderson: Intermissions
Light Work Gallery

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

Barry Anderson's videos depict purple skies, abstract worlds filled with bubbles, and colorful fragments of semi-familiar scenes. His work reminds people to stop and enjoy the moment.

Anderson's photographs and videos are featured in an innovative art exhibition, Intermissions, which offers a welcome artistic interruption to daily life in a time of economic uncertainty and other societal stresses. Organized by Light Work, a non-profit, artist-run organization on the Syracuse University campus, the fall exhibition will appear at over a dozen venues both on and off campus.

Anderson's colorful video pieces include abstract patterns, nature scenes, and semi-nostalgic images from decade-old advertising. Each piece creates a good-natured, introspective scene that contrasts the busy settings where the work is shown. Intermissions places video art and photographs at multiple venues across Syracuse, making it accessible to the general community and creating many opportunities for meaningful interaction with the work.

Partners in this unique collaboration include SUArt Galleries, Syracuse Symposium, the Tolley Administration Building, Schine Student Center, Orange TV Network, The Warehouse, Community Folk Art Center, the Everson Museum of Art, the Urban Video Project, the Red House Arts Center, and more. Exhibition sites also include public spaces such as billboards and video projections onto windows on campus and buildings in downtown Syracuse.

Barry Anderson was born in Greenville, TX. He holds an MFA from Indiana University. His work has been shown throughout the country, as well as in Thailand, South America, Cuba, and the UK. He lives in Kansas City. Barry participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

Works of Sue Hershberger Yoder
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Sue Hershberger Yoder's solo exhibition features work which utilizes printmaking to explore the terrain between art and design through patterns inspired by nature. Yoder is influenced by her work in the fashion design industry where she creates print designs for fabric. She also draws upon familiar forms of the natural world, which were a constant backdrop of her Midwestern upbringing. The resulting prints create sensuous environments that envelop the viewer.

Works of Howard Lehning and Thomas Kegler
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Furniture and clocks of Howard Lehning and paintings of Thomas Kegler will be on display.

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

There will be an opening reception from 5:00-7:00 pm in conjunction with this month's Th3 -- the Third Thursday art celebration.

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond focuses on the period in the American artist's life when he spent two summers at Houghton Farm in Mountainville, NY, a rustic summer residence in the Hudson Valley region of New York state owned by his principal patron and friend since childhood, Lawson Valentine.

The show brings together 28 of Homer's watercolors, drawings, wood engravings, oil paintings, and ceramic tiles of the period from galleries, private collections, and museums across the country.

For more information, visit homer.syr.edu.

36th Annual On My Own Time Exhibit
CNY Arts

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

The Cultural Resources Council in partnership with local businesses presents this exhibit featuring artwork in a variety of mediums by 91 artists from 15 companies in the Central New York area.

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Xiaowen Chen: Spectacle and 100 Last Names
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The two solo exhibitions, Xiaowen Chen: Spectacle and Xiaowen Chen: 100 Last Names, present work from the past nine years by Chinese-born, Ithaca-based artist Chen. Having lived in the United States for the past two decades, Chen has focused his work on the space between East and West. From his many return trips to China, Chen has created digital images and video projections reflecting American and Chinese attitudes toward the 21st-century role of media and technology and identity issues. His work of overlapping the cultures of East and West addresses his search for what he called in 1993 the "manifestation of the universal and the expression of the particular."

Chen places himself in the position of both the American and the Chinese tourist. He has noted that when photographing in China he feels like a foreigner, while in the U.S. he feels like a traveler. His work addresses both China's historical transformation and his personal experience as an émigré.

Like other artists of his generation, Chen grew up under Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution and was exposed to a visual vocabulary that highlighted fragmentation and repetition. As a result, works by Xiaowen Chen evoke cultural clichés and stereotypes.

Film Under the Stars: Journey to the Center of the Earth
Everson Museum of Art

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

Bring your lounge chair and some munchies to our annual Sci-Fi "Film Under the Stars." The accent is on fun and fantasy in this film version of Jules Verne's classic thriller, Journey to the Center of The Earth, the stars James Mason, Pat Boone, and Arlene Dahl. With spectacular visuals as a backdrop, the story centers on an expedition led by Professor Lindenbrook down into the earth's dark, threat-laden core. Along the way lurk dangers such as kidnapping, sabotage by a rival explorer, and attacks by giant prehistoric reptiles. But they also encounter such magnificent wonders as a glistening cavern of quartz crystals, luminescent algae, a forest of giant mushrooms, and the lost city of Atlantis. This sweeping adventure offers enough thrills and entertainment to satisfy every explorer in the family. Free popcorn will be served.

Evening at the Museum
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: $8 members; $10 non-members
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Part of OHA's Ghost Walk series. Come to OHA for an exciting Evening at the Museum to see and hear ghosts from Syracuse's past. The tour is one hour starting every half hour from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Reservations are required. Groups of 15 maximum.

Artist Open: Barry Anderson
Everson Museum of Art

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

Join artist Barry Anderson and Light Work director Hannah Frieser for a lively discussion about Anderson's video installation, Pigeon, on view in the Robineau gallery through August 30. Pigeon transforms an urban nuisance into a poetic protagonist. In the Piazza del Campo in Siena, Italy, the pigeon sits for his close up under an arch of water, occasionally taking a beakful; taunting and entertaining us at the same time. This installation is part of an innovative community-wide art exhibition of Anderson's work organized by Light Work, entitled Intermissions. The project places video art and photographs at multiple venues across Syracuse. For more information about where to see Anderson's work go to www.lightwork.org.

Happy Birthday Felix - Part I
Skaneateles Festival

Price: $23, $19 regular; $20, $16 students/seniors
First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Handel and Mendelssohn songs
Haydn String Quartet No. 1 in G Major, Op. 76
Mendelssohn String Quintet No. 2 in B-flat Major, Op. 87

Performers include Michael Larco, viola; Adam Neiman, piano; Parker Quartet; Robert Swensen, tenor.

The Tempest
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Price: Free
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

The Tempest is one of the last plays The Bard wrote. Combining elements of natural and supernatural powers, comedy and tragedy and romance and fantasy, this show will blow you away in a storm of fun. Bring the whole family!

Vendors will be on site with food and wares. Free parking for all performances. Shuttle bus service available on Saturdays and Sundays. Handicapped accessible.

Read a review!

The Strange Case of Sheik Yerbuti
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $25.95 plus tax and gratuities (includes meal and show)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive comedy-mystery dinner theater.

A peace plan for the tiny camel-trading nation of Yerbuti goes awry when there are rumors of a huge pool of oil under the Sahara sands.

Friday, August 21, 2009

The Gallery as Studio: Drawings on Delirium
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A world-renowned Uruguayan artist, Ricardo Lanzarini comes from Montevideo to Syracuse to recreate the mundane and the extraordinary in his drawings on delirium made to unexpected scales. The exhibition comes to life at The Point of Contact Gallery where the space has turned into an artist's studio. The work of the exhibit is to be produced entirely on site and directly onto the walls of the gallery in the weeks leading up to the opening. Lanzarini will also share this experiment with students from Syracuse University's Fine Arts Department who will join in the creative process.

Lanzarini's work balances extremes of scale, crafting an extensive abstract image from precise, miniscule characters, whose everyday activities serve as a window into a miniature world, frozen in time. These drawings sarcastically explore the two major paradigms in figurative art of the 20th century: Social and Fantastic Realism

The exhibit will last through the summer and then Lanzarini returns to Point of Contact to perform an "erasure" of the work on September 4. The book catalogue documenting the entire project will be presented at the close.

Dimensions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Bob Gates: Photography
David Webster: Ceramics
Marna Bell: Photography

Purple Treatment: Ceramic Works by Eunjung Shin
Community Folk Art Center

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

In "Purple Treatment," Eunjung Shin's figurative ceramic sculptures represent stories from the artist's life. Shin has taken personal memories and transformed them into three-dimensional artistic expressions. The highly detailed figures are skillfully rendered and express a range of emotions. Shin describes some of her figures as "clowns" because they hide their true selves, putting on a face to the world in order to please others. Many of the pieces prompt the viewer to look inward to reflect upon their meaning.

Organic Watermarks: Photographs by Gus Bennett, Jr.
Community Folk Art Center

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

In the exhibition "Organic Watermarks," New Orleans photographer Gus Bennett, Jr., displays portraits of New Orleans residents juxtaposed with layers of debris from Hurricane Katrina. Watermarks on concrete and other surfaces, leaves, textures, colors and remnants left behind by Katrina form layers in front of, behind and even merged onto the surface of the skin of the subjects. Together, the subjects and debris become storytellers of New Orleans post-Katrina. Shot entirely in natural light, the overall mood of the pieces is almost of an ethereal quality, with the ghost-like images of debris commingling with the subjects. According to Bennett, as many as 82 layers comprise one individual portrait. The subjects either appear draped in fabric or nude, which the artist explains is a means of eliminating social class or status: "with Katrina, everyone got left behind." With "Organic Watermarks," Bennett creates true works of beauty, proving that even in the aftermath of chaos, hope can still prevail.

Barry Anderson: Intermissions
Light Work Gallery

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

Barry Anderson's videos depict purple skies, abstract worlds filled with bubbles, and colorful fragments of semi-familiar scenes. His work reminds people to stop and enjoy the moment.

Anderson's photographs and videos are featured in an innovative art exhibition, Intermissions, which offers a welcome artistic interruption to daily life in a time of economic uncertainty and other societal stresses. Organized by Light Work, a non-profit, artist-run organization on the Syracuse University campus, the fall exhibition will appear at over a dozen venues both on and off campus.

Anderson's colorful video pieces include abstract patterns, nature scenes, and semi-nostalgic images from decade-old advertising. Each piece creates a good-natured, introspective scene that contrasts the busy settings where the work is shown. Intermissions places video art and photographs at multiple venues across Syracuse, making it accessible to the general community and creating many opportunities for meaningful interaction with the work.

Partners in this unique collaboration include SUArt Galleries, Syracuse Symposium, the Tolley Administration Building, Schine Student Center, Orange TV Network, The Warehouse, Community Folk Art Center, the Everson Museum of Art, the Urban Video Project, the Red House Arts Center, and more. Exhibition sites also include public spaces such as billboards and video projections onto windows on campus and buildings in downtown Syracuse.

Barry Anderson was born in Greenville, TX. He holds an MFA from Indiana University. His work has been shown throughout the country, as well as in Thailand, South America, Cuba, and the UK. He lives in Kansas City. Barry participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

Works of Sue Hershberger Yoder
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Sue Hershberger Yoder's solo exhibition features work which utilizes printmaking to explore the terrain between art and design through patterns inspired by nature. Yoder is influenced by her work in the fashion design industry where she creates print designs for fabric. She also draws upon familiar forms of the natural world, which were a constant backdrop of her Midwestern upbringing. The resulting prints create sensuous environments that envelop the viewer.

Works of Howard Lehning and Thomas Kegler
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Furniture and clocks of Howard Lehning and paintings of Thomas Kegler will be on display.

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond focuses on the period in the American artist's life when he spent two summers at Houghton Farm in Mountainville, NY, a rustic summer residence in the Hudson Valley region of New York state owned by his principal patron and friend since childhood, Lawson Valentine.

The show brings together 28 of Homer's watercolors, drawings, wood engravings, oil paintings, and ceramic tiles of the period from galleries, private collections, and museums across the country.

For more information, visit homer.syr.edu.

36th Annual On My Own Time Exhibit
CNY Arts

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

The Cultural Resources Council in partnership with local businesses presents this exhibit featuring artwork in a variety of mediums by 91 artists from 15 companies in the Central New York area.

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Xiaowen Chen: Spectacle and 100 Last Names
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The two solo exhibitions, Xiaowen Chen: Spectacle and Xiaowen Chen: 100 Last Names, present work from the past nine years by Chinese-born, Ithaca-based artist Chen. Having lived in the United States for the past two decades, Chen has focused his work on the space between East and West. From his many return trips to China, Chen has created digital images and video projections reflecting American and Chinese attitudes toward the 21st-century role of media and technology and identity issues. His work of overlapping the cultures of East and West addresses his search for what he called in 1993 the "manifestation of the universal and the expression of the particular."

Chen places himself in the position of both the American and the Chinese tourist. He has noted that when photographing in China he feels like a foreigner, while in the U.S. he feels like a traveler. His work addresses both China's historical transformation and his personal experience as an émigré.

Like other artists of his generation, Chen grew up under Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution and was exposed to a visual vocabulary that highlighted fragmentation and repetition. As a result, works by Xiaowen Chen evoke cultural clichés and stereotypes.

Anime on the Big Screen: Clamp 20th Anniversary Celebration

Price: $10
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-637-8977.

Skaneateles Community Band

Price: Free
Clift Park
Genesee St., Skaneateles

Bring a blanket or lawn chair. Rain location is Austin Park Pavilion. For more information, phone 315-685-0552.

Happy Birthday Felix - Part II
Skaneateles Festival

Price: $23, $19 regular; $20, $16 students/seniors
First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Bach-Busoni Choral Prelude: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland
Bach Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor, BWV 903
Niels Gade String Quartet in D Major, Op. 63
Mendelssohn Sextet for Piano and Strings in D Major, Op. 110

Performers include Melissa Matson, viola; Adam Neiman, piano; Parker Quartet; James VanDemark, double bass.

The Tempest
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Price: Free
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

The Tempest is one of the last plays The Bard wrote. Combining elements of natural and supernatural powers, comedy and tragedy and romance and fantasy, this show will blow you away in a storm of fun. Bring the whole family!

Vendors will be on site with food and wares. Free parking for all performances. Shuttle bus service available on Saturdays and Sundays. Handicapped accessible.

Read a review!

An Evening of One-Act Plays
Dragon Lady Players

Price: $10
Tara Stage
Shoppingtown Mall, next to Christopher & Banks, Dewitt

The Investigation, by Evan Guilford-Blake.
A man and a woman seek the help of a psychic to find out why a spirit has taken up residence in their house. (11 min.)

Barbara and Diane, by Cheryl Ann Costa.
Two women in a strange situation must solve the reason for their predicament. (30 mins)

The Body, by J.C. Svec.
An absurd comedy where six investigators are challenged to uncover what happened to a recently discovered body. (24 mins)

Queen for a Day, by Susan Middaugh.
A young woman has a battle of wits with her new butler. (10 mins)

The DeBriefing, by Cheryl Ann Costa.
It's 1945, a submarine officer and repartriated POW is debriefed about the loss of his ship, his bizarre rescue, and unique strange treatment in a Japanese POW camp.

Improv Comedy Night
Saltine Warrior

Price: $13 regular, $10 students/seniors
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Saltine Warrior is an improv comedy troupe. A Saltine Warrior show is a hilarious blend of short-form games (think the best parts of the hit TV show, "Who's Line Is It, Anyway?"), with the long-form scene styles in the tradition of Second City and Upright Citizen's Brigade.

This is truly interactive, improv comedy at its best! The entire performance is totally unscripted and unrehearsed...with scenes and games based on audience suggestions and participation.

Saturday, August 22, 2009

36th Annual On My Own Time Exhibit
CNY Arts

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

The Cultural Resources Council in partnership with local businesses presents this exhibit featuring artwork in a variety of mediums by 91 artists from 15 companies in the Central New York area.

Dimensions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Bob Gates: Photography
David Webster: Ceramics
Marna Bell: Photography

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Works of Howard Lehning and Thomas Kegler
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Furniture and clocks of Howard Lehning and paintings of Thomas Kegler will be on display.

Purple Treatment: Ceramic Works by Eunjung Shin
Community Folk Art Center

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

In "Purple Treatment," Eunjung Shin's figurative ceramic sculptures represent stories from the artist's life. Shin has taken personal memories and transformed them into three-dimensional artistic expressions. The highly detailed figures are skillfully rendered and express a range of emotions. Shin describes some of her figures as "clowns" because they hide their true selves, putting on a face to the world in order to please others. Many of the pieces prompt the viewer to look inward to reflect upon their meaning.

Organic Watermarks: Photographs by Gus Bennett, Jr.
Community Folk Art Center

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

In the exhibition "Organic Watermarks," New Orleans photographer Gus Bennett, Jr., displays portraits of New Orleans residents juxtaposed with layers of debris from Hurricane Katrina. Watermarks on concrete and other surfaces, leaves, textures, colors and remnants left behind by Katrina form layers in front of, behind and even merged onto the surface of the skin of the subjects. Together, the subjects and debris become storytellers of New Orleans post-Katrina. Shot entirely in natural light, the overall mood of the pieces is almost of an ethereal quality, with the ghost-like images of debris commingling with the subjects. According to Bennett, as many as 82 layers comprise one individual portrait. The subjects either appear draped in fabric or nude, which the artist explains is a means of eliminating social class or status: "with Katrina, everyone got left behind." With "Organic Watermarks," Bennett creates true works of beauty, proving that even in the aftermath of chaos, hope can still prevail.

Works of Sue Hershberger Yoder
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Sue Hershberger Yoder's solo exhibition features work which utilizes printmaking to explore the terrain between art and design through patterns inspired by nature. Yoder is influenced by her work in the fashion design industry where she creates print designs for fabric. She also draws upon familiar forms of the natural world, which were a constant backdrop of her Midwestern upbringing. The resulting prints create sensuous environments that envelop the viewer.

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond focuses on the period in the American artist's life when he spent two summers at Houghton Farm in Mountainville, NY, a rustic summer residence in the Hudson Valley region of New York state owned by his principal patron and friend since childhood, Lawson Valentine.

The show brings together 28 of Homer's watercolors, drawings, wood engravings, oil paintings, and ceramic tiles of the period from galleries, private collections, and museums across the country.

For more information, visit homer.syr.edu.

Happy Birthday Felix - Part III
Skaneateles Festival
Robert Moody, conductor
Featuring Conrad Tao, piano

Price: $26, $20
Brook Farm
2.5 miles south of the village on Route 41A, Skaneateles

Kodaly Summer Evening
Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25
Mozart Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551 "Jupiter"

Outdoor concert -- lawn chairs or blankets are recommended.
Rain location: Skaneateles High School, 49 E. Elizabeth St., Skaneateles

The Tempest
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Price: Free
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

The Tempest is one of the last plays The Bard wrote. Combining elements of natural and supernatural powers, comedy and tragedy and romance and fantasy, this show will blow you away in a storm of fun. Bring the whole family!

Vendors will be on site with food and wares. Free parking for all performances. Shuttle bus service available on Saturdays and Sundays. Handicapped accessible.

Read a review!

The Falsettos Murder
Without A Cue

Price: $39.50 includes dinner, show, tax, and gratuity
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

In this a parody of the HBO mega hit, The Sopranos, Tony and his entourage are in town for—what else?—a waste management convention. When somebody gets whacked it's nothing personal, strictly "business."

For reservations, phone 315-469-6969. For more information, visit www.glenloch.net.

An Evening of One-Act Plays
Dragon Lady Players

Price: $10
Tara Stage
Shoppingtown Mall, next to Christopher & Banks, Dewitt

The Investigation, by Evan Guilford-Blake.
A man and a woman seek the help of a psychic to find out why a spirit has taken up residence in their house. (11 min.)

Barbara and Diane, by Cheryl Ann Costa.
Two women in a strange situation must solve the reason for their predicament. (30 mins)

The Body, by J.C. Svec.
An absurd comedy where six investigators are challenged to uncover what happened to a recently discovered body. (24 mins)

Queen for a Day, by Susan Middaugh.
A young woman has a battle of wits with her new butler. (10 mins)

The DeBriefing, by Cheryl Ann Costa.
It's 1945, a submarine officer and repartriated POW is debriefed about the loss of his ship, his bizarre rescue, and unique strange treatment in a Japanese POW camp.

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Works of Howard Lehning and Thomas Kegler
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Furniture and clocks of Howard Lehning and paintings of Thomas Kegler will be on display.

Barry Anderson: Intermissions
Light Work Gallery

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

Barry Anderson's videos depict purple skies, abstract worlds filled with bubbles, and colorful fragments of semi-familiar scenes. His work reminds people to stop and enjoy the moment.

Anderson's photographs and videos are featured in an innovative art exhibition, Intermissions, which offers a welcome artistic interruption to daily life in a time of economic uncertainty and other societal stresses. Organized by Light Work, a non-profit, artist-run organization on the Syracuse University campus, the fall exhibition will appear at over a dozen venues both on and off campus.

Anderson's colorful video pieces include abstract patterns, nature scenes, and semi-nostalgic images from decade-old advertising. Each piece creates a good-natured, introspective scene that contrasts the busy settings where the work is shown. Intermissions places video art and photographs at multiple venues across Syracuse, making it accessible to the general community and creating many opportunities for meaningful interaction with the work.

Partners in this unique collaboration include SUArt Galleries, Syracuse Symposium, the Tolley Administration Building, Schine Student Center, Orange TV Network, The Warehouse, Community Folk Art Center, the Everson Museum of Art, the Urban Video Project, the Red House Arts Center, and more. Exhibition sites also include public spaces such as billboards and video projections onto windows on campus and buildings in downtown Syracuse.

Barry Anderson was born in Greenville, TX. He holds an MFA from Indiana University. His work has been shown throughout the country, as well as in Thailand, South America, Cuba, and the UK. He lives in Kansas City. Barry participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

Works of Sue Hershberger Yoder
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Sue Hershberger Yoder's solo exhibition features work which utilizes printmaking to explore the terrain between art and design through patterns inspired by nature. Yoder is influenced by her work in the fashion design industry where she creates print designs for fabric. She also draws upon familiar forms of the natural world, which were a constant backdrop of her Midwestern upbringing. The resulting prints create sensuous environments that envelop the viewer.

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond focuses on the period in the American artist's life when he spent two summers at Houghton Farm in Mountainville, NY, a rustic summer residence in the Hudson Valley region of New York state owned by his principal patron and friend since childhood, Lawson Valentine.

The show brings together 28 of Homer's watercolors, drawings, wood engravings, oil paintings, and ceramic tiles of the period from galleries, private collections, and museums across the country.

For more information, visit homer.syr.edu.

36th Annual On My Own Time Exhibit
CNY Arts

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

The Cultural Resources Council in partnership with local businesses presents this exhibit featuring artwork in a variety of mediums by 91 artists from 15 companies in the Central New York area.

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Soul Stirrers Savior's Sundays
Showcase Sundays
Featuring Charles Cannon and the Bells of Harmony; Eddie Huffman of the Original Soul Stirrers

Price: Free
Spirit of Jubilee Park
161 South Ave., Syracuse

For more information, visit showcasesundays.com.

The Tempest
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Price: Free
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

The Tempest is one of the last plays The Bard wrote. Combining elements of natural and supernatural powers, comedy and tragedy and romance and fantasy, this show will blow you away in a storm of fun. Bring the whole family!

Vendors will be on site with food and wares. Free parking for all performances. Shuttle bus service available on Saturdays and Sundays. Handicapped accessible.

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Monday, August 24, 2009

The Gallery as Studio: Drawings on Delirium
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A world-renowned Uruguayan artist, Ricardo Lanzarini comes from Montevideo to Syracuse to recreate the mundane and the extraordinary in his drawings on delirium made to unexpected scales. The exhibition comes to life at The Point of Contact Gallery where the space has turned into an artist's studio. The work of the exhibit is to be produced entirely on site and directly onto the walls of the gallery in the weeks leading up to the opening. Lanzarini will also share this experiment with students from Syracuse University's Fine Arts Department who will join in the creative process.

Lanzarini's work balances extremes of scale, crafting an extensive abstract image from precise, miniscule characters, whose everyday activities serve as a window into a miniature world, frozen in time. These drawings sarcastically explore the two major paradigms in figurative art of the 20th century: Social and Fantastic Realism

The exhibit will last through the summer and then Lanzarini returns to Point of Contact to perform an "erasure" of the work on September 4. The book catalogue documenting the entire project will be presented at the close.

Barry Anderson: Intermissions
Light Work Gallery

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

Barry Anderson's videos depict purple skies, abstract worlds filled with bubbles, and colorful fragments of semi-familiar scenes. His work reminds people to stop and enjoy the moment.

Anderson's photographs and videos are featured in an innovative art exhibition, Intermissions, which offers a welcome artistic interruption to daily life in a time of economic uncertainty and other societal stresses. Organized by Light Work, a non-profit, artist-run organization on the Syracuse University campus, the fall exhibition will appear at over a dozen venues both on and off campus.

Anderson's colorful video pieces include abstract patterns, nature scenes, and semi-nostalgic images from decade-old advertising. Each piece creates a good-natured, introspective scene that contrasts the busy settings where the work is shown. Intermissions places video art and photographs at multiple venues across Syracuse, making it accessible to the general community and creating many opportunities for meaningful interaction with the work.

Partners in this unique collaboration include SUArt Galleries, Syracuse Symposium, the Tolley Administration Building, Schine Student Center, Orange TV Network, The Warehouse, Community Folk Art Center, the Everson Museum of Art, the Urban Video Project, the Red House Arts Center, and more. Exhibition sites also include public spaces such as billboards and video projections onto windows on campus and buildings in downtown Syracuse.

Barry Anderson was born in Greenville, TX. He holds an MFA from Indiana University. His work has been shown throughout the country, as well as in Thailand, South America, Cuba, and the UK. He lives in Kansas City. Barry participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

Works of Howard Lehning and Thomas Kegler
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Furniture and clocks of Howard Lehning and paintings of Thomas Kegler will be on display.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

The Gallery as Studio: Drawings on Delirium
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A world-renowned Uruguayan artist, Ricardo Lanzarini comes from Montevideo to Syracuse to recreate the mundane and the extraordinary in his drawings on delirium made to unexpected scales. The exhibition comes to life at The Point of Contact Gallery where the space has turned into an artist's studio. The work of the exhibit is to be produced entirely on site and directly onto the walls of the gallery in the weeks leading up to the opening. Lanzarini will also share this experiment with students from Syracuse University's Fine Arts Department who will join in the creative process.

Lanzarini's work balances extremes of scale, crafting an extensive abstract image from precise, miniscule characters, whose everyday activities serve as a window into a miniature world, frozen in time. These drawings sarcastically explore the two major paradigms in figurative art of the 20th century: Social and Fantastic Realism

The exhibit will last through the summer and then Lanzarini returns to Point of Contact to perform an "erasure" of the work on September 4. The book catalogue documenting the entire project will be presented at the close.

Dimensions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Bob Gates: Photography
David Webster: Ceramics
Marna Bell: Photography

Barry Anderson: Intermissions
Light Work Gallery

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

Barry Anderson's videos depict purple skies, abstract worlds filled with bubbles, and colorful fragments of semi-familiar scenes. His work reminds people to stop and enjoy the moment.

Anderson's photographs and videos are featured in an innovative art exhibition, Intermissions, which offers a welcome artistic interruption to daily life in a time of economic uncertainty and other societal stresses. Organized by Light Work, a non-profit, artist-run organization on the Syracuse University campus, the fall exhibition will appear at over a dozen venues both on and off campus.

Anderson's colorful video pieces include abstract patterns, nature scenes, and semi-nostalgic images from decade-old advertising. Each piece creates a good-natured, introspective scene that contrasts the busy settings where the work is shown. Intermissions places video art and photographs at multiple venues across Syracuse, making it accessible to the general community and creating many opportunities for meaningful interaction with the work.

Partners in this unique collaboration include SUArt Galleries, Syracuse Symposium, the Tolley Administration Building, Schine Student Center, Orange TV Network, The Warehouse, Community Folk Art Center, the Everson Museum of Art, the Urban Video Project, the Red House Arts Center, and more. Exhibition sites also include public spaces such as billboards and video projections onto windows on campus and buildings in downtown Syracuse.

Barry Anderson was born in Greenville, TX. He holds an MFA from Indiana University. His work has been shown throughout the country, as well as in Thailand, South America, Cuba, and the UK. He lives in Kansas City. Barry participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

Works of Howard Lehning and Thomas Kegler
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Furniture and clocks of Howard Lehning and paintings of Thomas Kegler will be on display.

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond focuses on the period in the American artist's life when he spent two summers at Houghton Farm in Mountainville, NY, a rustic summer residence in the Hudson Valley region of New York state owned by his principal patron and friend since childhood, Lawson Valentine.

The show brings together 28 of Homer's watercolors, drawings, wood engravings, oil paintings, and ceramic tiles of the period from galleries, private collections, and museums across the country.

For more information, visit homer.syr.edu.

36th Annual On My Own Time Exhibit
CNY Arts

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

The Cultural Resources Council in partnership with local businesses presents this exhibit featuring artwork in a variety of mediums by 91 artists from 15 companies in the Central New York area.

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Xiaowen Chen: Spectacle and 100 Last Names
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The two solo exhibitions, Xiaowen Chen: Spectacle and Xiaowen Chen: 100 Last Names, present work from the past nine years by Chinese-born, Ithaca-based artist Chen. Having lived in the United States for the past two decades, Chen has focused his work on the space between East and West. From his many return trips to China, Chen has created digital images and video projections reflecting American and Chinese attitudes toward the 21st-century role of media and technology and identity issues. His work of overlapping the cultures of East and West addresses his search for what he called in 1993 the "manifestation of the universal and the expression of the particular."

Chen places himself in the position of both the American and the Chinese tourist. He has noted that when photographing in China he feels like a foreigner, while in the U.S. he feels like a traveler. His work addresses both China's historical transformation and his personal experience as an émigré.

Like other artists of his generation, Chen grew up under Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution and was exposed to a visual vocabulary that highlighted fragmentation and repetition. As a result, works by Xiaowen Chen evoke cultural clichés and stereotypes.

Kings, Thieves: Video Animation by Barry Anderson
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Point of Contact is proud to be part of this large-scale video exhibition for Kansas City artist Barry Anderson, presented in conjunction with Light Work Gallery. The exhibition, titled Intermissions, features primarily video work and some photography, and takes place in 22 different venues throughout the city of Syracuse and on the Syracuse University campus.

Open Rehearsal: Behind the Scenes with Composer Carter Pann
Skaneateles Festival

Price: Free
First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Come hear Carter Pann's new piece Songs of Summer take shape, as the composer gives input and advice to Festival performers.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

The Gallery as Studio: Drawings on Delirium
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A world-renowned Uruguayan artist, Ricardo Lanzarini comes from Montevideo to Syracuse to recreate the mundane and the extraordinary in his drawings on delirium made to unexpected scales. The exhibition comes to life at The Point of Contact Gallery where the space has turned into an artist's studio. The work of the exhibit is to be produced entirely on site and directly onto the walls of the gallery in the weeks leading up to the opening. Lanzarini will also share this experiment with students from Syracuse University's Fine Arts Department who will join in the creative process.

Lanzarini's work balances extremes of scale, crafting an extensive abstract image from precise, miniscule characters, whose everyday activities serve as a window into a miniature world, frozen in time. These drawings sarcastically explore the two major paradigms in figurative art of the 20th century: Social and Fantastic Realism

The exhibit will last through the summer and then Lanzarini returns to Point of Contact to perform an "erasure" of the work on September 4. The book catalogue documenting the entire project will be presented at the close.

Dimensions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Bob Gates: Photography
David Webster: Ceramics
Marna Bell: Photography

Barry Anderson: Intermissions
Light Work Gallery

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

Barry Anderson's videos depict purple skies, abstract worlds filled with bubbles, and colorful fragments of semi-familiar scenes. His work reminds people to stop and enjoy the moment.

Anderson's photographs and videos are featured in an innovative art exhibition, Intermissions, which offers a welcome artistic interruption to daily life in a time of economic uncertainty and other societal stresses. Organized by Light Work, a non-profit, artist-run organization on the Syracuse University campus, the fall exhibition will appear at over a dozen venues both on and off campus.

Anderson's colorful video pieces include abstract patterns, nature scenes, and semi-nostalgic images from decade-old advertising. Each piece creates a good-natured, introspective scene that contrasts the busy settings where the work is shown. Intermissions places video art and photographs at multiple venues across Syracuse, making it accessible to the general community and creating many opportunities for meaningful interaction with the work.

Partners in this unique collaboration include SUArt Galleries, Syracuse Symposium, the Tolley Administration Building, Schine Student Center, Orange TV Network, The Warehouse, Community Folk Art Center, the Everson Museum of Art, the Urban Video Project, the Red House Arts Center, and more. Exhibition sites also include public spaces such as billboards and video projections onto windows on campus and buildings in downtown Syracuse.

Barry Anderson was born in Greenville, TX. He holds an MFA from Indiana University. His work has been shown throughout the country, as well as in Thailand, South America, Cuba, and the UK. He lives in Kansas City. Barry participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

Works of Howard Lehning and Thomas Kegler
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Furniture and clocks of Howard Lehning and paintings of Thomas Kegler will be on display.

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond focuses on the period in the American artist's life when he spent two summers at Houghton Farm in Mountainville, NY, a rustic summer residence in the Hudson Valley region of New York state owned by his principal patron and friend since childhood, Lawson Valentine.

The show brings together 28 of Homer's watercolors, drawings, wood engravings, oil paintings, and ceramic tiles of the period from galleries, private collections, and museums across the country.

For more information, visit homer.syr.edu.

36th Annual On My Own Time Exhibit
CNY Arts

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

The Cultural Resources Council in partnership with local businesses presents this exhibit featuring artwork in a variety of mediums by 91 artists from 15 companies in the Central New York area.

2009 Music and Art Over Syracuse
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Delavan Art Gallery is pleased to participate in the 2009 Music and Art Over Syracuse festival, which showcases hundreds of local artists. In addition to Continuing Works by previous artists, the gallery will feature an exhibit of work by our recent interns. Stop by to see photography and drawing by Ryan Petrus, digital illustration by Katie Calak, stone lithography by Leta Gray, photography by Kari O'Mara, and mixed media painting by Lacey McKinney.

The Music and Art Over Syracuse festival will include music performances by over 100 musicians at The Westcott Theater, Half Penny Pub, and TREXX Nightclub; as well as art exhibitions at Spark Art Gallery and Delavan Art Gallery.

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Xiaowen Chen: Spectacle and 100 Last Names
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The two solo exhibitions, Xiaowen Chen: Spectacle and Xiaowen Chen: 100 Last Names, present work from the past nine years by Chinese-born, Ithaca-based artist Chen. Having lived in the United States for the past two decades, Chen has focused his work on the space between East and West. From his many return trips to China, Chen has created digital images and video projections reflecting American and Chinese attitudes toward the 21st-century role of media and technology and identity issues. His work of overlapping the cultures of East and West addresses his search for what he called in 1993 the "manifestation of the universal and the expression of the particular."

Chen places himself in the position of both the American and the Chinese tourist. He has noted that when photographing in China he feels like a foreigner, while in the U.S. he feels like a traveler. His work addresses both China's historical transformation and his personal experience as an émigré.

Like other artists of his generation, Chen grew up under Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution and was exposed to a visual vocabulary that highlighted fragmentation and repetition. As a result, works by Xiaowen Chen evoke cultural clichés and stereotypes.

Kings, Thieves: Video Animation by Barry Anderson
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Point of Contact is proud to be part of this large-scale video exhibition for Kansas City artist Barry Anderson, presented in conjunction with Light Work Gallery. The exhibition, titled Intermissions, features primarily video work and some photography, and takes place in 22 different venues throughout the city of Syracuse and on the Syracuse University campus.

Family Fest Concert
Skaneateles Festival

Price: Free
First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Root for the home team! Join festival musicians for a rollicking FamilyFest concert featuring music by and about New Yorkers. You'll be the first to hear composer Carter Pann's Songs of Summer, a piece he wrote especially for us about life in Central New York. Don't miss it!

Special Event: Casual Concert
Skaneateles Festival
Featuring Thom Filicia, narrator; Derrick Smith, baritone

Price: $10
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Festival takes a road trip to Syracuse! Join us for a casual concert celebrating New York's musical heritage and featuring a wide variety of styles by some of New York's finest composers including Leonard Bernstein, Nathaniel Dett, and Michael Torke. You'll also hear an American masterpiece by Dvorak and get a sneak peek at our commissioned piece by Carter Pann, which celebrates life in Central New York. We'll also step inside the music with commentary from the performers including the Jupiter Quartet, clarinetist Jose Franch-Ballester, baritone Derrick Smith, and pianist/composer John Novacek.

Thursday, August 27, 2009

The Gallery as Studio: Drawings on Delirium
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A world-renowned Uruguayan artist, Ricardo Lanzarini comes from Montevideo to Syracuse to recreate the mundane and the extraordinary in his drawings on delirium made to unexpected scales. The exhibition comes to life at The Point of Contact Gallery where the space has turned into an artist's studio. The work of the exhibit is to be produced entirely on site and directly onto the walls of the gallery in the weeks leading up to the opening. Lanzarini will also share this experiment with students from Syracuse University's Fine Arts Department who will join in the creative process.

Lanzarini's work balances extremes of scale, crafting an extensive abstract image from precise, miniscule characters, whose everyday activities serve as a window into a miniature world, frozen in time. These drawings sarcastically explore the two major paradigms in figurative art of the 20th century: Social and Fantastic Realism

The exhibit will last through the summer and then Lanzarini returns to Point of Contact to perform an "erasure" of the work on September 4. The book catalogue documenting the entire project will be presented at the close.

FluXus in German: Works by Robert Burkhart
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

FluXus in German: Fluxus is defined as the wry, post-Dada art movement that flourished in New York and Germany in the 1950s and 60s, and influences many contemporary artists. This is an event and an activity to take part in, a showing of Fluxus with the possibility to learn a different language (yet to be proven).

Rob Burkhart worked in industrial arts through high school and continued to obtain a degree in Construction Technology. He was employed in the areas of carpentry, masonry, painting, flooring, and maintenance, and currently works at Syracuse University. With his hands in the materials, he found a love of painting and became a self-taught artist who has freedom to explore. His style may be committed to nonrealistic modes of art, but it still can hop across a stream of perception. Music is a large factor in the creation of his projects. It sets the cool to guide him or the heat to drip his self-expression through a visual vocabulary. Like many artists, he wants his paintings to speak. So if possible, sip, eavesdrop, saturate, and consider.

Dimensions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Bob Gates: Photography
David Webster: Ceramics
Marna Bell: Photography

Barry Anderson: Intermissions
Light Work Gallery

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

Barry Anderson's videos depict purple skies, abstract worlds filled with bubbles, and colorful fragments of semi-familiar scenes. His work reminds people to stop and enjoy the moment.

Anderson's photographs and videos are featured in an innovative art exhibition, Intermissions, which offers a welcome artistic interruption to daily life in a time of economic uncertainty and other societal stresses. Organized by Light Work, a non-profit, artist-run organization on the Syracuse University campus, the fall exhibition will appear at over a dozen venues both on and off campus.

Anderson's colorful video pieces include abstract patterns, nature scenes, and semi-nostalgic images from decade-old advertising. Each piece creates a good-natured, introspective scene that contrasts the busy settings where the work is shown. Intermissions places video art and photographs at multiple venues across Syracuse, making it accessible to the general community and creating many opportunities for meaningful interaction with the work.

Partners in this unique collaboration include SUArt Galleries, Syracuse Symposium, the Tolley Administration Building, Schine Student Center, Orange TV Network, The Warehouse, Community Folk Art Center, the Everson Museum of Art, the Urban Video Project, the Red House Arts Center, and more. Exhibition sites also include public spaces such as billboards and video projections onto windows on campus and buildings in downtown Syracuse.

Barry Anderson was born in Greenville, TX. He holds an MFA from Indiana University. His work has been shown throughout the country, as well as in Thailand, South America, Cuba, and the UK. He lives in Kansas City. Barry participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

Works of Howard Lehning and Thomas Kegler
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Furniture and clocks of Howard Lehning and paintings of Thomas Kegler will be on display.

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond focuses on the period in the American artist's life when he spent two summers at Houghton Farm in Mountainville, NY, a rustic summer residence in the Hudson Valley region of New York state owned by his principal patron and friend since childhood, Lawson Valentine.

The show brings together 28 of Homer's watercolors, drawings, wood engravings, oil paintings, and ceramic tiles of the period from galleries, private collections, and museums across the country.

For more information, visit homer.syr.edu.

36th Annual On My Own Time Exhibit
CNY Arts

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

The Cultural Resources Council in partnership with local businesses presents this exhibit featuring artwork in a variety of mediums by 91 artists from 15 companies in the Central New York area.

2009 Music and Art Over Syracuse
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Delavan Art Gallery is pleased to participate in the 2009 Music and Art Over Syracuse festival, which showcases hundreds of local artists. In addition to Continuing Works by previous artists, the gallery will feature an exhibit of work by our recent interns. Stop by to see photography and drawing by Ryan Petrus, digital illustration by Katie Calak, stone lithography by Leta Gray, photography by Kari O'Mara, and mixed media painting by Lacey McKinney.

The Music and Art Over Syracuse festival will include music performances by over 100 musicians at The Westcott Theater, Half Penny Pub, and TREXX Nightclub; as well as art exhibitions at Spark Art Gallery and Delavan Art Gallery.

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Xiaowen Chen: Spectacle and 100 Last Names
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The two solo exhibitions, Xiaowen Chen: Spectacle and Xiaowen Chen: 100 Last Names, present work from the past nine years by Chinese-born, Ithaca-based artist Chen. Having lived in the United States for the past two decades, Chen has focused his work on the space between East and West. From his many return trips to China, Chen has created digital images and video projections reflecting American and Chinese attitudes toward the 21st-century role of media and technology and identity issues. His work of overlapping the cultures of East and West addresses his search for what he called in 1993 the "manifestation of the universal and the expression of the particular."

Chen places himself in the position of both the American and the Chinese tourist. He has noted that when photographing in China he feels like a foreigner, while in the U.S. he feels like a traveler. His work addresses both China's historical transformation and his personal experience as an émigré.

Like other artists of his generation, Chen grew up under Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution and was exposed to a visual vocabulary that highlighted fragmentation and repetition. As a result, works by Xiaowen Chen evoke cultural clichés and stereotypes.

Kings, Thieves: Video Animation by Barry Anderson
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Point of Contact is proud to be part of this large-scale video exhibition for Kansas City artist Barry Anderson, presented in conjunction with Light Work Gallery. The exhibition, titled Intermissions, features primarily video work and some photography, and takes place in 22 different venues throughout the city of Syracuse and on the Syracuse University campus.

I Love New York - Part I
Skaneateles Festival

Price: $23, $19 regular; $20, $16 students/seniors
First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

R. Nathaniel Dett Follow Me, Somebody's Knockin' at My Door, Zion Hallelujah, Hymn to Parnassus, God Understands
Leonard Bernstein Suite from West Side Story for clarinet and piano
Michael Torke Corner in Manhattan
Dvorák String Quartet in F Major, Op. 96, "American"

Performers include Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet; Elinor Freer, piano; Jupiter String Quartet; John Novacek, piano; Derrick Smith, baritone.