Monday, November 20, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase #57
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Visual Arts Showcase #57 features 19 local visual artists presenting work in varied media.
Featured Artists: Joan Applebaum, Dan Bacich, Marna Bell, Michael Berman, Judith Brown-Roenbeck, Robert Carroll, Joe Cerio, Anne Childress, Mary Lou Colgin, Shelly Coryell, Ben Donzella, Joy Englehart, Kathy Gibbons, Richard Karuzas, Steve Koh, Allen Kosoff, Joe LeFevre, Yolanda Tooley, Noelle Uebele

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

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

The Syracuse Technology Garden is pleased to present the first all digital art showcase in the Syracuse area. As part of a larger exhibition that includes painting and photography, nine digital artists have come together to show what this unique art form can offer.

For more information please call Lynn Hughes or Katie Rapp at 315-474-0910, x7902.

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC's extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922*) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Gallery Exhibit: OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Gordon Exhibit: Floating World
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Gordon Student Center Great Room
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exploring the vanished architecture and lifestyles of the Thousand Islands through the photography of Ian Coristine.

Green Towers
The Warehouse Gallery

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

An exhibit exploring the "green" design of the Bank of America tower, currently under construction at 1 Bryant Park in Manhatten.

Virgil Dombroski: Photographs
Westcott Community Center

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

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

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

Unlike most gallery shows, this sale allows buyers to purchase fine artwork that can be taken home immediately, and so it's "Off The Wall." A portion of each sales commission helps to support the Manlius Library general fund and the remainder subsidizes the various community activities and educational programs of Associated Artists. Enjoy the artwork of the many talented and well-known members of this group. This is a wonderful opportunity to find one-of-a-kind gifts, so bring your family and friends! Purchases can be made at the main desk.

Heart Gallery Exhibit
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition is a collaboration between the Professional Photographers' Society of Central New York and the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Syracuse Regional Office. This is the second Heart Gallery exhibition in Central New York since 2004. Forty photographers donated their time and talents to create unique portraits of 53 children in foster care that are in need of a family. The Heart Gallery exhibition hopes to find adoptive families for the children participating, as well as to raise awareness around the need for foster and adoptive families here in Central New York and across the state.

2006 Light Work Grants
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition "2006 Light Work Grants" features the work of three Central New York photographers -- Laura Heyman, Thilde Jensen, and Rishi Singhal -- who were awarded grants through the 2006 Light Work Grant program. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. The grants also aim to foster an understanding and appreciation for photographic arts in Central New York.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

Rik Pinkcombe: Perception and Deception
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The images in the exhibition, taken mostly in the Syracuse area, are digitally distorted and manipulated to represent the way that people's vision can become altered by outside pressures and influences such as consumerism, religion, government, education, and sports. One of the main themes behind Pinkcombe's work is identity -- he is particularly interested in how outside influences affect who people are. In some photographs he looks at racial identity through images of borders, bridges, and traffic stops, which link communities and also symbolize immigration and emigration. He also creates what he calls "theater images," where the photographs are manipulated and stripped of so much information that they begin to look like film sets or models.

Pinkcombe currently lives in London, England. He attended school at Blackpool College of Lancaster University. Recent exhibition venues include the Stephen Lawrence Gallery in Greenwich and the 921 Gallery in Hackney, Great Britain. Originally trained as a commercial photographer, Pinkcombe shifted to art photography after a prolonged battle with leukemia made him reevaluate his life. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in March 2005. Pinkcombe's residency was sponsored by Autograph: The Association of Black Photographers located in London.

52nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

Price: Free
401 S. Salina St.
(formerly Dey Brothers Department Store building), Syracuse

Artists participating include members of the Camillus Art Association, Marcellus-Skaneateles Art Guild, North Syracuse Art Guild, Onondaga Art Guild, and Syracuse Ceramic Guild, as well as those participating independently, from the Central New York area.

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

ART MART is sponsored by Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc., and is a unique sale of original crafts and fine arts by artists and craftspeople from Central New York. Art Mart is supported, in part, by grants from Senator John A. DeFrancisco and Onondaga County, administered by the Cultural Resources Council of Syracuse and Onondaga County.

For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Dialogues and Solos: Contemporary Photography, Collage and Installation by Liliana Porter and Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Since Liliana Porter last presented her prints and paintings at Syracuse University (Crossing Boundaries, 1990), this world-renowned Argentinean artist has continued to explore and grow into new dimensions in photography and installation art. Her figurines and toys, her characters, are social, down to earth human creations, made in society's image and likeness.

Born in Uruguay, Ana Tiscornia was a witness-participant of Latin America's recent painful history. Her world is made out of digitalized photography intermingled with maps, fragmented objects, rolled pieces of paper, leftovers -- what we recall are broken sequences, broken at some critical point in our imagery, in our memory.

About the nature of this exhibit, the artists comment: "In order to say where our work intercepts, first we should establish that both artworks are different. While one is more philosophical, related to recurrent questions (Liliana), the other is more political and relates to current events (Ana). While one is dramatic, the other confronts human tragedy with humor. We do not pretend to erase that diversity but to use it as material for the new constructions. What we want is for the fusion of both languages to give birth to a narrative that could be for all intents and purposes fictional and mysterious, where the visual ambiguity opens new ways of interpretation and uncovers unexpected conflicts."

Syracuse Set List: Gospel
Redhouse

Price: $10
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Charles Cannon and The Bells of Harmony are celebrating 40 years of singing gospel music with a very special performance at the Redhouse. The show is a part of the Syracuse Set List monthly songwriting series and is going to be recorded. The group's brand new live CD will also be available.

The Bells of Harmony have shared the stage with at sold-out shows with three-time Grammy winners The Mighty Clouds of Joy and with Grammy winner Shirley Ceasar. The group has also been recognized locally with a SAMMY Award, CNY Urban Music Award and various civic awards including the National Council of Negro Women Community Service award.

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase #57
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Visual Arts Showcase #57 features 19 local visual artists presenting work in varied media.
Featured Artists: Joan Applebaum, Dan Bacich, Marna Bell, Michael Berman, Judith Brown-Roenbeck, Robert Carroll, Joe Cerio, Anne Childress, Mary Lou Colgin, Shelly Coryell, Ben Donzella, Joy Englehart, Kathy Gibbons, Richard Karuzas, Steve Koh, Allen Kosoff, Joe LeFevre, Yolanda Tooley, Noelle Uebele

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC's extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922*) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

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

The Syracuse Technology Garden is pleased to present the first all digital art showcase in the Syracuse area. As part of a larger exhibition that includes painting and photography, nine digital artists have come together to show what this unique art form can offer.

For more information please call Lynn Hughes or Katie Rapp at 315-474-0910, x7902.

Gordon Exhibit: Floating World
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Gordon Student Center Great Room
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exploring the vanished architecture and lifestyles of the Thousand Islands through the photography of Ian Coristine.

Gallery Exhibit: OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Green Towers
The Warehouse Gallery

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

An exhibit exploring the "green" design of the Bank of America tower, currently under construction at 1 Bryant Park in Manhatten.

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

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

Unlike most gallery shows, this sale allows buyers to purchase fine artwork that can be taken home immediately, and so it's "Off The Wall." A portion of each sales commission helps to support the Manlius Library general fund and the remainder subsidizes the various community activities and educational programs of Associated Artists. Enjoy the artwork of the many talented and well-known members of this group. This is a wonderful opportunity to find one-of-a-kind gifts, so bring your family and friends! Purchases can be made at the main desk.

Heart Gallery Exhibit
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition is a collaboration between the Professional Photographers' Society of Central New York and the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Syracuse Regional Office. This is the second Heart Gallery exhibition in Central New York since 2004. Forty photographers donated their time and talents to create unique portraits of 53 children in foster care that are in need of a family. The Heart Gallery exhibition hopes to find adoptive families for the children participating, as well as to raise awareness around the need for foster and adoptive families here in Central New York and across the state.

African-American Constructs: Designs by Scott Ruff
Community Folk Art Center

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

Ruff is a professor of architecture at Syracuse University. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture from Cornell University. He is the recipient of an Alpha Chi Ro Medal for leadership and service. Prior to joining the SU faculty, Ruff taught at Hampton University, the University at Buffalo and Cornell University. Ruff previously worked with the architectural firm of Foit-Albert and Associates.

Ruff formed Ruff Works Studio in 2003. Ruff Works specializes in research and design. One main focus of the studio is the research and cultivation of African-American aesthetics in spatial design. Ruff's publications include an article in Thresholds, "Spatial wRapping: A Speculation on Men's Hip-Hop Fashion," and a book review in the Journal of Architectural Education, "White Papers, Black Marks." He has lectured throughout the United States.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

2006 Light Work Grants
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition "2006 Light Work Grants" features the work of three Central New York photographers -- Laura Heyman, Thilde Jensen, and Rishi Singhal -- who were awarded grants through the 2006 Light Work Grant program. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. The grants also aim to foster an understanding and appreciation for photographic arts in Central New York.

Rik Pinkcombe: Perception and Deception
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The images in the exhibition, taken mostly in the Syracuse area, are digitally distorted and manipulated to represent the way that people's vision can become altered by outside pressures and influences such as consumerism, religion, government, education, and sports. One of the main themes behind Pinkcombe's work is identity -- he is particularly interested in how outside influences affect who people are. In some photographs he looks at racial identity through images of borders, bridges, and traffic stops, which link communities and also symbolize immigration and emigration. He also creates what he calls "theater images," where the photographs are manipulated and stripped of so much information that they begin to look like film sets or models.

Pinkcombe currently lives in London, England. He attended school at Blackpool College of Lancaster University. Recent exhibition venues include the Stephen Lawrence Gallery in Greenwich and the 921 Gallery in Hackney, Great Britain. Originally trained as a commercial photographer, Pinkcombe shifted to art photography after a prolonged battle with leukemia made him reevaluate his life. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in March 2005. Pinkcombe's residency was sponsored by Autograph: The Association of Black Photographers located in London.

52nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

Price: Free
401 S. Salina St.
(formerly Dey Brothers Department Store building), Syracuse

Artists participating include members of the Camillus Art Association, Marcellus-Skaneateles Art Guild, North Syracuse Art Guild, Onondaga Art Guild, and Syracuse Ceramic Guild, as well as those participating independently, from the Central New York area.

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

ART MART is sponsored by Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc., and is a unique sale of original crafts and fine arts by artists and craftspeople from Central New York. Art Mart is supported, in part, by grants from Senator John A. DeFrancisco and Onondaga County, administered by the Cultural Resources Council of Syracuse and Onondaga County.

For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Faux Naturel
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Cheerfully dark exhibition of young Canadian and American artists ponders deceit, nature, temptation and excess. Seven artists in Philadelphia, Montréal, Syracuse, and Toronto have created stunning visions of larger-than-life sculpture, tragicomedic video, striking collages, and intricate printmaking.

The exhibit contains recent works by Alex Da Corte (Philadelphia), Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby (Syracuse), Nick Lenker (Philadelphia), Annie MacDonell (Toronto), Allyson Mitchell (Toronto), and Andrea Vander Kooij (Montreal).

Challenges in Contemporary Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Over 40 visual artists in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts are participating in the annual exhibition highlighting new work by the college's faculty. This year, for the first time, the exhibition has been organized on the theme of challenges chosen, faced, discovered and resolved by this diverse group of image and object makers.

As usual the show brings together a broad diversity of media, technique and inspiration. Visitors will be surprised by the range of objects on display and their breadth and depth of intellectual and emotional content. Traditional themes like portraiture, landscape and still life can be seen next to more experimental genres such as interactive installations and time based arts.

Making this exhibition especially interesting are the visual comparisons between artists working in the same subject area. Several artists are intrigued by landscape but their inspiration springs from sources as different as gardening, the subtle yet real transitions that occur in a landscape and discovering visually interesting fragments of urban settings. Other artists found life experience to inspire them: one used her experiences as a pediatric nurse to shape her imagery while another attempted to portray the music of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis through abstract drawings. Yet another used his family as subjects in a series of photographs that documented the family's travails.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

Dialogues and Solos: Contemporary Photography, Collage and Installation by Liliana Porter and Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Since Liliana Porter last presented her prints and paintings at Syracuse University (Crossing Boundaries, 1990), this world-renowned Argentinean artist has continued to explore and grow into new dimensions in photography and installation art. Her figurines and toys, her characters, are social, down to earth human creations, made in society's image and likeness.

Born in Uruguay, Ana Tiscornia was a witness-participant of Latin America's recent painful history. Her world is made out of digitalized photography intermingled with maps, fragmented objects, rolled pieces of paper, leftovers -- what we recall are broken sequences, broken at some critical point in our imagery, in our memory.

About the nature of this exhibit, the artists comment: "In order to say where our work intercepts, first we should establish that both artworks are different. While one is more philosophical, related to recurrent questions (Liliana), the other is more political and relates to current events (Ana). While one is dramatic, the other confronts human tragedy with humor. We do not pretend to erase that diversity but to use it as material for the new constructions. What we want is for the fusion of both languages to give birth to a narrative that could be for all intents and purposes fictional and mysterious, where the visual ambiguity opens new ways of interpretation and uncovers unexpected conflicts."

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase #57
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Visual Arts Showcase #57 features 19 local visual artists presenting work in varied media.
Featured Artists: Joan Applebaum, Dan Bacich, Marna Bell, Michael Berman, Judith Brown-Roenbeck, Robert Carroll, Joe Cerio, Anne Childress, Mary Lou Colgin, Shelly Coryell, Ben Donzella, Joy Englehart, Kathy Gibbons, Richard Karuzas, Steve Koh, Allen Kosoff, Joe LeFevre, Yolanda Tooley, Noelle Uebele

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

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

The Syracuse Technology Garden is pleased to present the first all digital art showcase in the Syracuse area. As part of a larger exhibition that includes painting and photography, nine digital artists have come together to show what this unique art form can offer.

For more information please call Lynn Hughes or Katie Rapp at 315-474-0910, x7902.

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC's extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922*) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Gallery Exhibit: OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Gordon Exhibit: Floating World
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Gordon Student Center Great Room
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exploring the vanished architecture and lifestyles of the Thousand Islands through the photography of Ian Coristine.

Green Towers
The Warehouse Gallery

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

An exhibit exploring the "green" design of the Bank of America tower, currently under construction at 1 Bryant Park in Manhatten.

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

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

Unlike most gallery shows, this sale allows buyers to purchase fine artwork that can be taken home immediately, and so it's "Off The Wall." A portion of each sales commission helps to support the Manlius Library general fund and the remainder subsidizes the various community activities and educational programs of Associated Artists. Enjoy the artwork of the many talented and well-known members of this group. This is a wonderful opportunity to find one-of-a-kind gifts, so bring your family and friends! Purchases can be made at the main desk.

African-American Constructs: Designs by Scott Ruff
Community Folk Art Center

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

Ruff is a professor of architecture at Syracuse University. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture from Cornell University. He is the recipient of an Alpha Chi Ro Medal for leadership and service. Prior to joining the SU faculty, Ruff taught at Hampton University, the University at Buffalo and Cornell University. Ruff previously worked with the architectural firm of Foit-Albert and Associates.

Ruff formed Ruff Works Studio in 2003. Ruff Works specializes in research and design. One main focus of the studio is the research and cultivation of African-American aesthetics in spatial design. Ruff's publications include an article in Thresholds, "Spatial wRapping: A Speculation on Men's Hip-Hop Fashion," and a book review in the Journal of Architectural Education, "White Papers, Black Marks." He has lectured throughout the United States.

Heart Gallery Exhibit
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition is a collaboration between the Professional Photographers' Society of Central New York and the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Syracuse Regional Office. This is the second Heart Gallery exhibition in Central New York since 2004. Forty photographers donated their time and talents to create unique portraits of 53 children in foster care that are in need of a family. The Heart Gallery exhibition hopes to find adoptive families for the children participating, as well as to raise awareness around the need for foster and adoptive families here in Central New York and across the state.

2006 Light Work Grants
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition "2006 Light Work Grants" features the work of three Central New York photographers -- Laura Heyman, Thilde Jensen, and Rishi Singhal -- who were awarded grants through the 2006 Light Work Grant program. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. The grants also aim to foster an understanding and appreciation for photographic arts in Central New York.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

Rik Pinkcombe: Perception and Deception
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The images in the exhibition, taken mostly in the Syracuse area, are digitally distorted and manipulated to represent the way that people's vision can become altered by outside pressures and influences such as consumerism, religion, government, education, and sports. One of the main themes behind Pinkcombe's work is identity -- he is particularly interested in how outside influences affect who people are. In some photographs he looks at racial identity through images of borders, bridges, and traffic stops, which link communities and also symbolize immigration and emigration. He also creates what he calls "theater images," where the photographs are manipulated and stripped of so much information that they begin to look like film sets or models.

Pinkcombe currently lives in London, England. He attended school at Blackpool College of Lancaster University. Recent exhibition venues include the Stephen Lawrence Gallery in Greenwich and the 921 Gallery in Hackney, Great Britain. Originally trained as a commercial photographer, Pinkcombe shifted to art photography after a prolonged battle with leukemia made him reevaluate his life. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in March 2005. Pinkcombe's residency was sponsored by Autograph: The Association of Black Photographers located in London.

52nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

Price: Free
401 S. Salina St.
(formerly Dey Brothers Department Store building), Syracuse

Artists participating include members of the Camillus Art Association, Marcellus-Skaneateles Art Guild, North Syracuse Art Guild, Onondaga Art Guild, and Syracuse Ceramic Guild, as well as those participating independently, from the Central New York area.

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

ART MART is sponsored by Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc., and is a unique sale of original crafts and fine arts by artists and craftspeople from Central New York. Art Mart is supported, in part, by grants from Senator John A. DeFrancisco and Onondaga County, administered by the Cultural Resources Council of Syracuse and Onondaga County.

For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Faux Naturel
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Cheerfully dark exhibition of young Canadian and American artists ponders deceit, nature, temptation and excess. Seven artists in Philadelphia, Montréal, Syracuse, and Toronto have created stunning visions of larger-than-life sculpture, tragicomedic video, striking collages, and intricate printmaking.

The exhibit contains recent works by Alex Da Corte (Philadelphia), Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby (Syracuse), Nick Lenker (Philadelphia), Annie MacDonell (Toronto), Allyson Mitchell (Toronto), and Andrea Vander Kooij (Montreal).

Challenges in Contemporary Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Over 40 visual artists in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts are participating in the annual exhibition highlighting new work by the college's faculty. This year, for the first time, the exhibition has been organized on the theme of challenges chosen, faced, discovered and resolved by this diverse group of image and object makers.

As usual the show brings together a broad diversity of media, technique and inspiration. Visitors will be surprised by the range of objects on display and their breadth and depth of intellectual and emotional content. Traditional themes like portraiture, landscape and still life can be seen next to more experimental genres such as interactive installations and time based arts.

Making this exhibition especially interesting are the visual comparisons between artists working in the same subject area. Several artists are intrigued by landscape but their inspiration springs from sources as different as gardening, the subtle yet real transitions that occur in a landscape and discovering visually interesting fragments of urban settings. Other artists found life experience to inspire them: one used her experiences as a pediatric nurse to shape her imagery while another attempted to portray the music of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis through abstract drawings. Yet another used his family as subjects in a series of photographs that documented the family's travails.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

Dialogues and Solos: Contemporary Photography, Collage and Installation by Liliana Porter and Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Since Liliana Porter last presented her prints and paintings at Syracuse University (Crossing Boundaries, 1990), this world-renowned Argentinean artist has continued to explore and grow into new dimensions in photography and installation art. Her figurines and toys, her characters, are social, down to earth human creations, made in society's image and likeness.

Born in Uruguay, Ana Tiscornia was a witness-participant of Latin America's recent painful history. Her world is made out of digitalized photography intermingled with maps, fragmented objects, rolled pieces of paper, leftovers -- what we recall are broken sequences, broken at some critical point in our imagery, in our memory.

About the nature of this exhibit, the artists comment: "In order to say where our work intercepts, first we should establish that both artworks are different. While one is more philosophical, related to recurrent questions (Liliana), the other is more political and relates to current events (Ana). While one is dramatic, the other confronts human tragedy with humor. We do not pretend to erase that diversity but to use it as material for the new constructions. What we want is for the fusion of both languages to give birth to a narrative that could be for all intents and purposes fictional and mysterious, where the visual ambiguity opens new ways of interpretation and uncovers unexpected conflicts."

Thursday, November 23, 2006

Challenges in Contemporary Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Over 40 visual artists in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts are participating in the annual exhibition highlighting new work by the college's faculty. This year, for the first time, the exhibition has been organized on the theme of challenges chosen, faced, discovered and resolved by this diverse group of image and object makers.

As usual the show brings together a broad diversity of media, technique and inspiration. Visitors will be surprised by the range of objects on display and their breadth and depth of intellectual and emotional content. Traditional themes like portraiture, landscape and still life can be seen next to more experimental genres such as interactive installations and time based arts.

Making this exhibition especially interesting are the visual comparisons between artists working in the same subject area. Several artists are intrigued by landscape but their inspiration springs from sources as different as gardening, the subtle yet real transitions that occur in a landscape and discovering visually interesting fragments of urban settings. Other artists found life experience to inspire them: one used her experiences as a pediatric nurse to shape her imagery while another attempted to portray the music of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis through abstract drawings. Yet another used his family as subjects in a series of photographs that documented the family's travails.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

Friday, November 24, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase #57
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Visual Arts Showcase #57 features 19 local visual artists presenting work in varied media.
Featured Artists: Joan Applebaum, Dan Bacich, Marna Bell, Michael Berman, Judith Brown-Roenbeck, Robert Carroll, Joe Cerio, Anne Childress, Mary Lou Colgin, Shelly Coryell, Ben Donzella, Joy Englehart, Kathy Gibbons, Richard Karuzas, Steve Koh, Allen Kosoff, Joe LeFevre, Yolanda Tooley, Noelle Uebele

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC's extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922*) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

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

The Syracuse Technology Garden is pleased to present the first all digital art showcase in the Syracuse area. As part of a larger exhibition that includes painting and photography, nine digital artists have come together to show what this unique art form can offer.

For more information please call Lynn Hughes or Katie Rapp at 315-474-0910, x7902.

Gordon Exhibit: Floating World
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Gordon Student Center Great Room
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exploring the vanished architecture and lifestyles of the Thousand Islands through the photography of Ian Coristine.

Gallery Exhibit: OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Green Towers
The Warehouse Gallery

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

An exhibit exploring the "green" design of the Bank of America tower, currently under construction at 1 Bryant Park in Manhatten.

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

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

Unlike most gallery shows, this sale allows buyers to purchase fine artwork that can be taken home immediately, and so it's "Off The Wall." A portion of each sales commission helps to support the Manlius Library general fund and the remainder subsidizes the various community activities and educational programs of Associated Artists. Enjoy the artwork of the many talented and well-known members of this group. This is a wonderful opportunity to find one-of-a-kind gifts, so bring your family and friends! Purchases can be made at the main desk.

Heart Gallery Exhibit
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition is a collaboration between the Professional Photographers' Society of Central New York and the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Syracuse Regional Office. This is the second Heart Gallery exhibition in Central New York since 2004. Forty photographers donated their time and talents to create unique portraits of 53 children in foster care that are in need of a family. The Heart Gallery exhibition hopes to find adoptive families for the children participating, as well as to raise awareness around the need for foster and adoptive families here in Central New York and across the state.

African-American Constructs: Designs by Scott Ruff
Community Folk Art Center

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

Ruff is a professor of architecture at Syracuse University. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture from Cornell University. He is the recipient of an Alpha Chi Ro Medal for leadership and service. Prior to joining the SU faculty, Ruff taught at Hampton University, the University at Buffalo and Cornell University. Ruff previously worked with the architectural firm of Foit-Albert and Associates.

Ruff formed Ruff Works Studio in 2003. Ruff Works specializes in research and design. One main focus of the studio is the research and cultivation of African-American aesthetics in spatial design. Ruff's publications include an article in Thresholds, "Spatial wRapping: A Speculation on Men's Hip-Hop Fashion," and a book review in the Journal of Architectural Education, "White Papers, Black Marks." He has lectured throughout the United States.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

2006 Light Work Grants
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition "2006 Light Work Grants" features the work of three Central New York photographers -- Laura Heyman, Thilde Jensen, and Rishi Singhal -- who were awarded grants through the 2006 Light Work Grant program. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. The grants also aim to foster an understanding and appreciation for photographic arts in Central New York.

Rik Pinkcombe: Perception and Deception
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The images in the exhibition, taken mostly in the Syracuse area, are digitally distorted and manipulated to represent the way that people's vision can become altered by outside pressures and influences such as consumerism, religion, government, education, and sports. One of the main themes behind Pinkcombe's work is identity -- he is particularly interested in how outside influences affect who people are. In some photographs he looks at racial identity through images of borders, bridges, and traffic stops, which link communities and also symbolize immigration and emigration. He also creates what he calls "theater images," where the photographs are manipulated and stripped of so much information that they begin to look like film sets or models.

Pinkcombe currently lives in London, England. He attended school at Blackpool College of Lancaster University. Recent exhibition venues include the Stephen Lawrence Gallery in Greenwich and the 921 Gallery in Hackney, Great Britain. Originally trained as a commercial photographer, Pinkcombe shifted to art photography after a prolonged battle with leukemia made him reevaluate his life. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in March 2005. Pinkcombe's residency was sponsored by Autograph: The Association of Black Photographers located in London.

52nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

Price: Free
401 S. Salina St.
(formerly Dey Brothers Department Store building), Syracuse

Artists participating include members of the Camillus Art Association, Marcellus-Skaneateles Art Guild, North Syracuse Art Guild, Onondaga Art Guild, and Syracuse Ceramic Guild, as well as those participating independently, from the Central New York area.

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

ART MART is sponsored by Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc., and is a unique sale of original crafts and fine arts by artists and craftspeople from Central New York. Art Mart is supported, in part, by grants from Senator John A. DeFrancisco and Onondaga County, administered by the Cultural Resources Council of Syracuse and Onondaga County.

For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Faux Naturel
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Cheerfully dark exhibition of young Canadian and American artists ponders deceit, nature, temptation and excess. Seven artists in Philadelphia, Montréal, Syracuse, and Toronto have created stunning visions of larger-than-life sculpture, tragicomedic video, striking collages, and intricate printmaking.

The exhibit contains recent works by Alex Da Corte (Philadelphia), Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby (Syracuse), Nick Lenker (Philadelphia), Annie MacDonell (Toronto), Allyson Mitchell (Toronto), and Andrea Vander Kooij (Montreal).

Challenges in Contemporary Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Over 40 visual artists in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts are participating in the annual exhibition highlighting new work by the college's faculty. This year, for the first time, the exhibition has been organized on the theme of challenges chosen, faced, discovered and resolved by this diverse group of image and object makers.

As usual the show brings together a broad diversity of media, technique and inspiration. Visitors will be surprised by the range of objects on display and their breadth and depth of intellectual and emotional content. Traditional themes like portraiture, landscape and still life can be seen next to more experimental genres such as interactive installations and time based arts.

Making this exhibition especially interesting are the visual comparisons between artists working in the same subject area. Several artists are intrigued by landscape but their inspiration springs from sources as different as gardening, the subtle yet real transitions that occur in a landscape and discovering visually interesting fragments of urban settings. Other artists found life experience to inspire them: one used her experiences as a pediatric nurse to shape her imagery while another attempted to portray the music of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis through abstract drawings. Yet another used his family as subjects in a series of photographs that documented the family's travails.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Artistic Journeys
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibit features watercolors by Linda Abbey, oil paintings by Diane Menzies, mixed media drawings by Fred and Laura J. Wellner, and "Dance Themes: Pas de Deux," art by Judith Hand and Christine Patsos.

Linda Abbey uses the transparency and freshness of the watercolor medium itself to depict flowers and scenes from Venice, Italy. For this exhibit Linda will also be showing works in oil from a series of 40 small birch panels depicting Onondaga Park in Syracuse.

Diane Menzies has a strong passion for the natural world as is depicted in many of her oil paintings. The "North Lake Series" emerges from the Adirondack Mountains. They portray a reverence for this ancient place of deep waters and quietude of woods.

Fred Wellner creates surreal landscapes and abstractions using pencil, charcoal and watercolor. Fred states, "There is this paradoxical dance of order and chaos, suggesting that life cannot be entirely either and therefore must embrace both. When I apply pencil or brush, this resonates in my thoughts, much more so when I'm unfettered by precision, when working on surreal or abstract images."

Laura J. Wellner creates landscapes and abstractions inspired by nature using pencil, watercolor and pastel. Her drawings reflect the intricate wonders of a flower, the pearly surface of a shell, the ruffles of lichen on bark, rocks in water, clouds in sky, and then there are visualizations of music -- Beethoven mostly.

Judith Hand and Christine Patsos are exhibiting art about dance in their collaborative show titled "Dance Themes: Pas de Deux." Judith Hand's watercolors depict the basic positions in ballet. Her images are almost monochromatic paintings with different backgrounds accompanying manikins arranged in each ballet position. Christine Patsos uses pencil and watercolor wash or acrylic stain on Bristol board to portray ballet dancers.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

Dialogues and Solos: Contemporary Photography, Collage and Installation by Liliana Porter and Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Since Liliana Porter last presented her prints and paintings at Syracuse University (Crossing Boundaries, 1990), this world-renowned Argentinean artist has continued to explore and grow into new dimensions in photography and installation art. Her figurines and toys, her characters, are social, down to earth human creations, made in society's image and likeness.

Born in Uruguay, Ana Tiscornia was a witness-participant of Latin America's recent painful history. Her world is made out of digitalized photography intermingled with maps, fragmented objects, rolled pieces of paper, leftovers -- what we recall are broken sequences, broken at some critical point in our imagery, in our memory.

About the nature of this exhibit, the artists comment: "In order to say where our work intercepts, first we should establish that both artworks are different. While one is more philosophical, related to recurrent questions (Liliana), the other is more political and relates to current events (Ana). While one is dramatic, the other confronts human tragedy with humor. We do not pretend to erase that diversity but to use it as material for the new constructions. What we want is for the fusion of both languages to give birth to a narrative that could be for all intents and purposes fictional and mysterious, where the visual ambiguity opens new ways of interpretation and uncovers unexpected conflicts."

Christmas Around the World

Price: $1
Ste. Marie Among the Iroquois
106 Lake Dr., Liverpool

During the holiday season, Sainte Marie is transformed into a festive holiday center! Stroll through the Visitor Center and enjoy a nostalgic tour of decorated trees, international versions of Santa, various holiday symbols, light refreshments and wonderful musical entertainment. A working display of trains will return this year and new for 2006 - an Oz tree will celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the birth of Syracusan L. Frank Baum. As weather permits, venture out to the candle/fire lit mission compound where costumed interpreters perform daily chores associated with the 1656 mission residents. A gift shop featuring unique holiday items will be open.

I Wanna be a Famous Artist (in Musical Theater)
Theatre '90

Price: $15
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Inspired by "Americal Idol" and "So You Think You Can Dance," the show will feature 60 participants aged 8 - 18 all vying for the top prize of $1,000 in each of three age categories.

Redhouse Live: Ryan Fitzsimmons & Greg Klyma
Redhouse

Price: $10
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Saturday, November 25, 2006

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

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

Unlike most gallery shows, this sale allows buyers to purchase fine artwork that can be taken home immediately, and so it's "Off The Wall." A portion of each sales commission helps to support the Manlius Library general fund and the remainder subsidizes the various community activities and educational programs of Associated Artists. Enjoy the artwork of the many talented and well-known members of this group. This is a wonderful opportunity to find one-of-a-kind gifts, so bring your family and friends! Purchases can be made at the main desk.

Artistic Journeys
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibit features watercolors by Linda Abbey, oil paintings by Diane Menzies, mixed media drawings by Fred and Laura J. Wellner, and "Dance Themes: Pas de Deux," art by Judith Hand and Christine Patsos.

Linda Abbey uses the transparency and freshness of the watercolor medium itself to depict flowers and scenes from Venice, Italy. For this exhibit Linda will also be showing works in oil from a series of 40 small birch panels depicting Onondaga Park in Syracuse.

Diane Menzies has a strong passion for the natural world as is depicted in many of her oil paintings. The "North Lake Series" emerges from the Adirondack Mountains. They portray a reverence for this ancient place of deep waters and quietude of woods.

Fred Wellner creates surreal landscapes and abstractions using pencil, charcoal and watercolor. Fred states, "There is this paradoxical dance of order and chaos, suggesting that life cannot be entirely either and therefore must embrace both. When I apply pencil or brush, this resonates in my thoughts, much more so when I'm unfettered by precision, when working on surreal or abstract images."

Laura J. Wellner creates landscapes and abstractions inspired by nature using pencil, watercolor and pastel. Her drawings reflect the intricate wonders of a flower, the pearly surface of a shell, the ruffles of lichen on bark, rocks in water, clouds in sky, and then there are visualizations of music -- Beethoven mostly.

Judith Hand and Christine Patsos are exhibiting art about dance in their collaborative show titled "Dance Themes: Pas de Deux." Judith Hand's watercolors depict the basic positions in ballet. Her images are almost monochromatic paintings with different backgrounds accompanying manikins arranged in each ballet position. Christine Patsos uses pencil and watercolor wash or acrylic stain on Bristol board to portray ballet dancers.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

52nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

Price: Free
401 S. Salina St.
(formerly Dey Brothers Department Store building), Syracuse

Artists participating include members of the Camillus Art Association, Marcellus-Skaneateles Art Guild, North Syracuse Art Guild, Onondaga Art Guild, and Syracuse Ceramic Guild, as well as those participating independently, from the Central New York area.

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

ART MART is sponsored by Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc., and is a unique sale of original crafts and fine arts by artists and craftspeople from Central New York. Art Mart is supported, in part, by grants from Senator John A. DeFrancisco and Onondaga County, administered by the Cultural Resources Council of Syracuse and Onondaga County.

For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Faux Naturel
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Cheerfully dark exhibition of young Canadian and American artists ponders deceit, nature, temptation and excess. Seven artists in Philadelphia, Montréal, Syracuse, and Toronto have created stunning visions of larger-than-life sculpture, tragicomedic video, striking collages, and intricate printmaking.

The exhibit contains recent works by Alex Da Corte (Philadelphia), Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby (Syracuse), Nick Lenker (Philadelphia), Annie MacDonell (Toronto), Allyson Mitchell (Toronto), and Andrea Vander Kooij (Montreal).

African-American Constructs: Designs by Scott Ruff
Community Folk Art Center

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

Ruff is a professor of architecture at Syracuse University. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture from Cornell University. He is the recipient of an Alpha Chi Ro Medal for leadership and service. Prior to joining the SU faculty, Ruff taught at Hampton University, the University at Buffalo and Cornell University. Ruff previously worked with the architectural firm of Foit-Albert and Associates.

Ruff formed Ruff Works Studio in 2003. Ruff Works specializes in research and design. One main focus of the studio is the research and cultivation of African-American aesthetics in spatial design. Ruff's publications include an article in Thresholds, "Spatial wRapping: A Speculation on Men's Hip-Hop Fashion," and a book review in the Journal of Architectural Education, "White Papers, Black Marks." He has lectured throughout the United States.

Heart Gallery Exhibit
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition is a collaboration between the Professional Photographers' Society of Central New York and the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Syracuse Regional Office. This is the second Heart Gallery exhibition in Central New York since 2004. Forty photographers donated their time and talents to create unique portraits of 53 children in foster care that are in need of a family. The Heart Gallery exhibition hopes to find adoptive families for the children participating, as well as to raise awareness around the need for foster and adoptive families here in Central New York and across the state.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

Challenges in Contemporary Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Over 40 visual artists in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts are participating in the annual exhibition highlighting new work by the college's faculty. This year, for the first time, the exhibition has been organized on the theme of challenges chosen, faced, discovered and resolved by this diverse group of image and object makers.

As usual the show brings together a broad diversity of media, technique and inspiration. Visitors will be surprised by the range of objects on display and their breadth and depth of intellectual and emotional content. Traditional themes like portraiture, landscape and still life can be seen next to more experimental genres such as interactive installations and time based arts.

Making this exhibition especially interesting are the visual comparisons between artists working in the same subject area. Several artists are intrigued by landscape but their inspiration springs from sources as different as gardening, the subtle yet real transitions that occur in a landscape and discovering visually interesting fragments of urban settings. Other artists found life experience to inspire them: one used her experiences as a pediatric nurse to shape her imagery while another attempted to portray the music of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis through abstract drawings. Yet another used his family as subjects in a series of photographs that documented the family's travails.

Christmas Around the World

Price: $1
Ste. Marie Among the Iroquois
106 Lake Dr., Liverpool

During the holiday season, Sainte Marie is transformed into a festive holiday center! Stroll through the Visitor Center and enjoy a nostalgic tour of decorated trees, international versions of Santa, various holiday symbols, light refreshments and wonderful musical entertainment. A working display of trains will return this year and new for 2006 - an Oz tree will celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the birth of Syracusan L. Frank Baum. As weather permits, venture out to the candle/fire lit mission compound where costumed interpreters perform daily chores associated with the 1656 mission residents. A gift shop featuring unique holiday items will be open.

Aladdin
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

I Wanna be a Famous Artist (in Musical Theater)
Theatre '90

Price: $15
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Inspired by "Americal Idol" and "So You Think You Can Dance," the show will feature 60 participants aged 8 - 18 all vying for the top prize of $1,000 in each of three age categories.

Sunday, November 26, 2006

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Challenges in Contemporary Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Over 40 visual artists in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts are participating in the annual exhibition highlighting new work by the college's faculty. This year, for the first time, the exhibition has been organized on the theme of challenges chosen, faced, discovered and resolved by this diverse group of image and object makers.

As usual the show brings together a broad diversity of media, technique and inspiration. Visitors will be surprised by the range of objects on display and their breadth and depth of intellectual and emotional content. Traditional themes like portraiture, landscape and still life can be seen next to more experimental genres such as interactive installations and time based arts.

Making this exhibition especially interesting are the visual comparisons between artists working in the same subject area. Several artists are intrigued by landscape but their inspiration springs from sources as different as gardening, the subtle yet real transitions that occur in a landscape and discovering visually interesting fragments of urban settings. Other artists found life experience to inspire them: one used her experiences as a pediatric nurse to shape her imagery while another attempted to portray the music of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis through abstract drawings. Yet another used his family as subjects in a series of photographs that documented the family's travails.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

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

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

Unlike most gallery shows, this sale allows buyers to purchase fine artwork that can be taken home immediately, and so it's "Off The Wall." A portion of each sales commission helps to support the Manlius Library general fund and the remainder subsidizes the various community activities and educational programs of Associated Artists. Enjoy the artwork of the many talented and well-known members of this group. This is a wonderful opportunity to find one-of-a-kind gifts, so bring your family and friends! Purchases can be made at the main desk.

Stained Glass Series: Vivaldi and Mozart
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Allan Kolsky, clarinet

Most Holy Rosary Church
111 Roberts Ave., Syracuse

Vivaldi Concerto Grosso in A major
Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A major
Schubert Symphony No. 4

State Fair Cafe
Armory Square Playwrights

Price: $5 regular, $4 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

In David Feldman's bittersweet drama, not only is the State Fair Cafe in danger of going out of business, but the cook falls for a waitress who finds it impossible to to remain faithful to one man for more than a week, and an abandoned orphan mysteriously disappears.

"We did a reading of an earlier version of this play about a year and a half ago," Feldman said. "It's gone through several revisions since then, including two workshops at New York's Ensemble Studio Theatre," one of them with Klonsky and Schwartz author Romulus Linney. "It's an entirely different play now."

Feldman currently teaches in the Syracuse University Drama Department and is the founder and artistic director of Armory Square Playhouse.

The script-in-hand reading will be followed by a discussion with the author, directed by ASP Production Coordinator Len Fonte.

I Wanna be a Famous Artist (in Musical Theater)
Theatre '90

Price: $15
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Inspired by "Americal Idol" and "So You Think You Can Dance," the show will feature 60 participants aged 8 - 18 all vying for the top prize of $1,000 in each of three age categories.

Monday, November 27, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase #57
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Visual Arts Showcase #57 features 19 local visual artists presenting work in varied media.
Featured Artists: Joan Applebaum, Dan Bacich, Marna Bell, Michael Berman, Judith Brown-Roenbeck, Robert Carroll, Joe Cerio, Anne Childress, Mary Lou Colgin, Shelly Coryell, Ben Donzella, Joy Englehart, Kathy Gibbons, Richard Karuzas, Steve Koh, Allen Kosoff, Joe LeFevre, Yolanda Tooley, Noelle Uebele

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

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

The Syracuse Technology Garden is pleased to present the first all digital art showcase in the Syracuse area. As part of a larger exhibition that includes painting and photography, nine digital artists have come together to show what this unique art form can offer.

For more information please call Lynn Hughes or Katie Rapp at 315-474-0910, x7902.

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC's extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922*) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Gallery Exhibit: OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Gordon Exhibit: Floating World
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Gordon Student Center Great Room
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exploring the vanished architecture and lifestyles of the Thousand Islands through the photography of Ian Coristine.

Green Towers
The Warehouse Gallery

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

An exhibit exploring the "green" design of the Bank of America tower, currently under construction at 1 Bryant Park in Manhatten.

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

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

Unlike most gallery shows, this sale allows buyers to purchase fine artwork that can be taken home immediately, and so it's "Off The Wall." A portion of each sales commission helps to support the Manlius Library general fund and the remainder subsidizes the various community activities and educational programs of Associated Artists. Enjoy the artwork of the many talented and well-known members of this group. This is a wonderful opportunity to find one-of-a-kind gifts, so bring your family and friends! Purchases can be made at the main desk.

Heart Gallery Exhibit
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition is a collaboration between the Professional Photographers' Society of Central New York and the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Syracuse Regional Office. This is the second Heart Gallery exhibition in Central New York since 2004. Forty photographers donated their time and talents to create unique portraits of 53 children in foster care that are in need of a family. The Heart Gallery exhibition hopes to find adoptive families for the children participating, as well as to raise awareness around the need for foster and adoptive families here in Central New York and across the state.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

2006 Light Work Grants
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition "2006 Light Work Grants" features the work of three Central New York photographers -- Laura Heyman, Thilde Jensen, and Rishi Singhal -- who were awarded grants through the 2006 Light Work Grant program. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. The grants also aim to foster an understanding and appreciation for photographic arts in Central New York.

Rik Pinkcombe: Perception and Deception
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The images in the exhibition, taken mostly in the Syracuse area, are digitally distorted and manipulated to represent the way that people's vision can become altered by outside pressures and influences such as consumerism, religion, government, education, and sports. One of the main themes behind Pinkcombe's work is identity -- he is particularly interested in how outside influences affect who people are. In some photographs he looks at racial identity through images of borders, bridges, and traffic stops, which link communities and also symbolize immigration and emigration. He also creates what he calls "theater images," where the photographs are manipulated and stripped of so much information that they begin to look like film sets or models.

Pinkcombe currently lives in London, England. He attended school at Blackpool College of Lancaster University. Recent exhibition venues include the Stephen Lawrence Gallery in Greenwich and the 921 Gallery in Hackney, Great Britain. Originally trained as a commercial photographer, Pinkcombe shifted to art photography after a prolonged battle with leukemia made him reevaluate his life. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in March 2005. Pinkcombe's residency was sponsored by Autograph: The Association of Black Photographers located in London.

52nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

Price: Free
401 S. Salina St.
(formerly Dey Brothers Department Store building), Syracuse

Artists participating include members of the Camillus Art Association, Marcellus-Skaneateles Art Guild, North Syracuse Art Guild, Onondaga Art Guild, and Syracuse Ceramic Guild, as well as those participating independently, from the Central New York area.

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

ART MART is sponsored by Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc., and is a unique sale of original crafts and fine arts by artists and craftspeople from Central New York. Art Mart is supported, in part, by grants from Senator John A. DeFrancisco and Onondaga County, administered by the Cultural Resources Council of Syracuse and Onondaga County.

For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Dialogues and Solos: Contemporary Photography, Collage and Installation by Liliana Porter and Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Since Liliana Porter last presented her prints and paintings at Syracuse University (Crossing Boundaries, 1990), this world-renowned Argentinean artist has continued to explore and grow into new dimensions in photography and installation art. Her figurines and toys, her characters, are social, down to earth human creations, made in society's image and likeness.

Born in Uruguay, Ana Tiscornia was a witness-participant of Latin America's recent painful history. Her world is made out of digitalized photography intermingled with maps, fragmented objects, rolled pieces of paper, leftovers -- what we recall are broken sequences, broken at some critical point in our imagery, in our memory.

About the nature of this exhibit, the artists comment: "In order to say where our work intercepts, first we should establish that both artworks are different. While one is more philosophical, related to recurrent questions (Liliana), the other is more political and relates to current events (Ana). While one is dramatic, the other confronts human tragedy with humor. We do not pretend to erase that diversity but to use it as material for the new constructions. What we want is for the fusion of both languages to give birth to a narrative that could be for all intents and purposes fictional and mysterious, where the visual ambiguity opens new ways of interpretation and uncovers unexpected conflicts."

Thank You Mr. Moto
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Weber's Restaurant
820 Danforth St., Syracuse

1938 film with Peter Lorre as the famous detective of the title.