Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Windows Project: Waking from Dreams of India
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Upstate New York photographer Neil Chowdhury has created works consisting of three digital photomontages (fit to the dimensions of the windows in the Window Projects) and a multichannel video installation (displayed in the Window Projects space) with a soundtrack of Indian classical music, Hindi pop music, and ambient street sound that address contemporary India as well as clichés and the artist's origins.

Ed Smith: "The Labors"
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibition of drawing and sculpture by Guggenheim Fellow Ed Smith. His work has been exhibited here and abroad, including at the British Museum, Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Begium, and at Yale University.

Bea Nettles Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

These photographic composites deal with the poetic impact of certain landscapes and aspects of classical architecture and art history on the life of Bea Nettles, and how these influences continue to remain in memory, resurfacing at unexpected moments. The photographs are autobiographical. They represent her effort to clarify, to find meaning and significance in daily existence. Often epiphanies often occur while traveling. Bea is particularly interested in recording a sense of place and the selective, multi-layered nature of memory.

Read a review!

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

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

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

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

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

Honoring The Masters: Works of Ann Milner and Phil DeMocker
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

"Honoring the Masters," featuring Ann Milner's oriental brush painting and Phil DeMocker's origami, is a tribute to artists of the past setting the standards for today's active artists and gallery goers. Highlighted will be "masters" from noted dynasties. The "Mustard Seed Garden Manual, first published in the mid-1600s, will be the reference for some techniques in both learning and creating pieces of Oriental brush painting. Reproductions of work from ancient and more recent masters will show the background and heritage next to current representations of classical subjects and composition.

Origami pieces will represent Phil's favorite designer/folders and will be labeled to explain why he has chosen those artists.

As with most art, copying the work of an established artist is considered distasteful and cheap. While the art of the Orient to copy a master is considered one highest forms of art. Ann Milner is painting in the Sumie style from the Mustard Seed Manual, a comprehensive work of style, structure and form. Phil DeMocker is working from the works of both past and present masters of origami.

Expressions in Paint
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Nikolay Mikushkin: impressionistic traditional landscape and floral oil paintings on canvas
Bobbi Lamb: ceramics finished in a painterly fashion

84th Annual Juried Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

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

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

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

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

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

Canaltown Suds: Syracuse Breweries of the Canal Era
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

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

Rosamond Gifford Zoo
One Conservation Place, Syracuse

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

Objects & Atmospheres
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Nathan Sullivan: Paintings and lithographs
Joshua Primmer: Stoneware vessels
Brenda Edwards: Paintings and drawings

Sullivan's oil on panel "Form Series" are masterfully painted, Vermeer-like in their surface quality. His images of suspended or floating tiny organic objects such as seeds are rendered to large scale in chiaroscuro, resulting in their otherworldly presence.

Primmer is exhibiting his intimately scaled stoneware objects and vessels. While one may consider the relatively small scale of his work, it possesses a monumentality usually restricted to large scale work and architecture.

Edwards' depictions in her soft focus drawings and paintings range from sultry atmospheres to luminous mists. They are moments that catch the play of light in their respective environments.

Christian Dior 1947-1957
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Seven original designs by the late fashion icon Christian Dior are on view in the exhibition "Christian Dior 1947-1957." The exhibition documents and honors the memory of Dior, who began his design house in 1947 in post-World War II Paris and ruled the fashion world until his death in 1957. The outfits featured are taken from the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection and the Martha M. Caldwell Costume Collection, which are housed in the fashion design program at Syracuse University.

4x4: Community Curators and the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Four individuals associated with the Syracuse visual arts community were invited to develop an exhibition using works from SU's permanent collection. Nancy Keefe Rhodes, art critic for the City Eagle newspaper, curated an exhibition of American art made between the two world wars while Jack White, internationally recognized artist and former Syracuse resident, will investigate objects pertaining to hand-to-hand sport, such as boxing and wrestling. Roy Simmons Jr., former SU lacrosse coach and an artist in his own right will examine the work of Ivan Mestrovic, the Croatian artist and former professor from SU's School of Art. The director of the Community Folk Arts Center, Dr. Kheli Willetts, will explore visual interrelationships in the ethnographic and art collections through vice and virtue.

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

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

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

Since 1974, the Cultural Resources Council, in collaboration with the Everson, has presented On My Own Time. A celebration of artwork created by employees of local businesses on their own time, the exhibition is meant to promote creativity and artistic endeavors by those who are not full-time artists.

Designed to Scale--The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series
Everson Museum of Art

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

Designed to Scale, part three of the 2010 New York State Artists Series showcases significant designers from the Central New York region whose work is recognized in the national and international design arenas. Although modest in scale, the exhibition touches on a broad range of innovative design objects—furniture, lighting, commercial products and dining experiences, unique accessories, toys, and surface patterns.

Read a Review!

Bill Viola Video Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

The Original Art of the Funny Papers
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

"The Original Art of the Funny Papers," a collection of famous syndicated cartoons, spans the history of the American comic strip. It features 32 original strips from the SU Library's Special Collections Research Center, including Archie, Beetle Bailey, Prince Valiant, Mutt and Jeff, Blondie, Krazy Kat, Moon Mullins, and Hazel. It also includes more than 20 originals on special loan from SU alumni Brad Anderson (Marmaduke), Greg Walker (Beetle Bailey), and Robb Armstrong (Jump Start).

For more information about the exhibition, call 315-442-2542 during gallery hours, or e-mail jmthom01@syr.edu.

Works of Cui Fei
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Born in Jinan, China, Cui received her BFA degree in painting from the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China (now China National Academy of Fine Arts) in 1993, and her MFA degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2001. Nature is a recurring theme in Cui's work; an artist mainly known for her abstract Chinese calligraphy and related installations using twigs or thorns. For this exhibit, she will create works on paper using thorns and an installation consisting of salt, as a reference to Syracuse's history. Her work comments on the central role of nature, her Chinese origins, and current practices in the West. The vault will display a healing piece using sand referring to the tradition of sand paintings by Native Americans, Tibetan monks, Indians, Australian Aborigines, and Latin Americans. Though widely exhibited, this is Cui's first solo museum exhibition.

Read a review!

Americans Who Tell the Truth: Paintings by Robert Shetterly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

A collection of portraits intended to remind people of the dignity, courage and importance of some of America's truth tellers. Each portrait includes a moving quote by the subject, and a biography is displayed with each painting. One lesson to be learned from all of these Americans is that the greatness of our country frequently depends not on the letter of the law, but the insistence of a single person that we adhere to the spirit of the law.

Kristen Jorgensen, flute; Rebecca Horning, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Griffes Poem, Copland Duo, plus works by Reinecke and Hue.

Julie Orringer, fiction
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

The reading will be preceded by a question and answer session from 3:45-4:30. The public is welcome.

Preview: The 39 Steps
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

Gunshots, murder, and dastardly plots; seductive spies, thrilling chases and serious flirtation; they're all part of this rollicking comedy/mystery and Broadway hit. Based on the 1935 classic film by Alfred Hitchcock, The 39 Steps follows Richard Hannay as he sets out for a night of music hall entertainment only to be ensnared in a dangerous attempt to smuggle top-secret information out of the country. Four actors and ingenious and inventive staging prove that anything movies can do, theatre can do more hilariously. Adapted by Patrick Barlow.

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Thursday, October 21, 2010

Windows Project: Waking from Dreams of India
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Upstate New York photographer Neil Chowdhury has created works consisting of three digital photomontages (fit to the dimensions of the windows in the Window Projects) and a multichannel video installation (displayed in the Window Projects space) with a soundtrack of Indian classical music, Hindi pop music, and ambient street sound that address contemporary India as well as clichés and the artist's origins.

Ed Smith: "The Labors"
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibition of drawing and sculpture by Guggenheim Fellow Ed Smith. His work has been exhibited here and abroad, including at the British Museum, Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Begium, and at Yale University.

Silk: Photographs by Courtney Rile
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

There will be an opening reception with the artist tonight 5:00-7:30 pm as part of Th3.

Bea Nettles Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

These photographic composites deal with the poetic impact of certain landscapes and aspects of classical architecture and art history on the life of Bea Nettles, and how these influences continue to remain in memory, resurfacing at unexpected moments. The photographs are autobiographical. They represent her effort to clarify, to find meaning and significance in daily existence. Often epiphanies often occur while traveling. Bea is particularly interested in recording a sense of place and the selective, multi-layered nature of memory.

Read a review!

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

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

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

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

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

Honoring The Masters: Works of Ann Milner and Phil DeMocker
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

There will be an oriental brush painting and origami workshop 5:00-8:00 pm in conjunction with Th3.

"Honoring the Masters," featuring Ann Milner's oriental brush painting and Phil DeMocker's origami, is a tribute to artists of the past setting the standards for today's active artists and gallery goers. Highlighted will be "masters" from noted dynasties. The "Mustard Seed Garden Manual, first published in the mid-1600s, will be the reference for some techniques in both learning and creating pieces of Oriental brush painting. Reproductions of work from ancient and more recent masters will show the background and heritage next to current representations of classical subjects and composition.

Origami pieces will represent Phil's favorite designer/folders and will be labeled to explain why he has chosen those artists.

As with most art, copying the work of an established artist is considered distasteful and cheap. While the art of the Orient to copy a master is considered one highest forms of art. Ann Milner is painting in the Sumie style from the Mustard Seed Manual, a comprehensive work of style, structure and form. Phil DeMocker is working from the works of both past and present masters of origami.

Expressions in Paint
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Nikolay Mikushkin: impressionistic traditional landscape and floral oil paintings on canvas
Bobbi Lamb: ceramics finished in a painterly fashion

84th Annual Juried Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

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

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

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

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

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

Canaltown Suds: Syracuse Breweries of the Canal Era
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

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

Rosamond Gifford Zoo
One Conservation Place, Syracuse

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

Objects & Atmospheres
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Nathan Sullivan: Paintings and lithographs
Joshua Primmer: Stoneware vessels
Brenda Edwards: Paintings and drawings

Sullivan's oil on panel "Form Series" are masterfully painted, Vermeer-like in their surface quality. His images of suspended or floating tiny organic objects such as seeds are rendered to large scale in chiaroscuro, resulting in their otherworldly presence.

Primmer is exhibiting his intimately scaled stoneware objects and vessels. While one may consider the relatively small scale of his work, it possesses a monumentality usually restricted to large scale work and architecture.

Edwards' depictions in her soft focus drawings and paintings range from sultry atmospheres to luminous mists. They are moments that catch the play of light in their respective environments.

Emerging Women of CNY #1
Redhouse

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

There will be an opening reception this evening 5:00-8:00 pm as part of Th3, with an Artists' Talk at 7:00 pm.

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

Read a review!

Christian Dior 1947-1957
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Seven original designs by the late fashion icon Christian Dior are on view in the exhibition "Christian Dior 1947-1957." The exhibition documents and honors the memory of Dior, who began his design house in 1947 in post-World War II Paris and ruled the fashion world until his death in 1957. The outfits featured are taken from the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection and the Martha M. Caldwell Costume Collection, which are housed in the fashion design program at Syracuse University.

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

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

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

4x4: Community Curators and the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Four individuals associated with the Syracuse visual arts community were invited to develop an exhibition using works from SU's permanent collection. Nancy Keefe Rhodes, art critic for the City Eagle newspaper, curated an exhibition of American art made between the two world wars while Jack White, internationally recognized artist and former Syracuse resident, will investigate objects pertaining to hand-to-hand sport, such as boxing and wrestling. Roy Simmons Jr., former SU lacrosse coach and an artist in his own right will examine the work of Ivan Mestrovic, the Croatian artist and former professor from SU's School of Art. The director of the Community Folk Arts Center, Dr. Kheli Willetts, will explore visual interrelationships in the ethnographic and art collections through vice and virtue.

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

Designed to Scale--The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series
Everson Museum of Art

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

Designed to Scale, part three of the 2010 New York State Artists Series showcases significant designers from the Central New York region whose work is recognized in the national and international design arenas. Although modest in scale, the exhibition touches on a broad range of innovative design objects—furniture, lighting, commercial products and dining experiences, unique accessories, toys, and surface patterns.

Read a Review!

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

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

Since 1974, the Cultural Resources Council, in collaboration with the Everson, has presented On My Own Time. A celebration of artwork created by employees of local businesses on their own time, the exhibition is meant to promote creativity and artistic endeavors by those who are not full-time artists.

Bill Viola Video Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

The Original Art of the Funny Papers
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

"The Original Art of the Funny Papers," a collection of famous syndicated cartoons, spans the history of the American comic strip. It features 32 original strips from the SU Library's Special Collections Research Center, including Archie, Beetle Bailey, Prince Valiant, Mutt and Jeff, Blondie, Krazy Kat, Moon Mullins, and Hazel. It also includes more than 20 originals on special loan from SU alumni Brad Anderson (Marmaduke), Greg Walker (Beetle Bailey), and Robb Armstrong (Jump Start).

For more information about the exhibition, call 315-442-2542 during gallery hours, or e-mail jmthom01@syr.edu.

Works of Cui Fei
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Born in Jinan, China, Cui received her BFA degree in painting from the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China (now China National Academy of Fine Arts) in 1993, and her MFA degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2001. Nature is a recurring theme in Cui's work; an artist mainly known for her abstract Chinese calligraphy and related installations using twigs or thorns. For this exhibit, she will create works on paper using thorns and an installation consisting of salt, as a reference to Syracuse's history. Her work comments on the central role of nature, her Chinese origins, and current practices in the West. The vault will display a healing piece using sand referring to the tradition of sand paintings by Native Americans, Tibetan monks, Indians, Australian Aborigines, and Latin Americans. Though widely exhibited, this is Cui's first solo museum exhibition.

Read a review!

Americans Who Tell the Truth: Paintings by Robert Shetterly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

A collection of portraits intended to remind people of the dignity, courage and importance of some of America's truth tellers. Each portrait includes a moving quote by the subject, and a biography is displayed with each painting. One lesson to be learned from all of these Americans is that the greatness of our country frequently depends not on the letter of the law, but the insistence of a single person that we adhere to the spirit of the law.

Meet the Artists: Susan Balenti and Erin McKenna
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Meet local jeweler Susan Balenti and graphic artist Erin McKenna.

Young Artists Exhibit
Museum of Young Art

Museum of Young Art
110 W. Fayette St., One Lincoln Center, Syracuse

Exhibit of work from students in the Baldwinsville School District.

Reopening Celebration
Orange Line Gallery

Price: Free
Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Come celebrate the gala re-opening of The Orange Line Gallery.

Opening: La Colección/The Collection: Exhibit 2
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

This second exhibit of the program presents contemporary photography by Maureen Connor, Rimma Gerlovina & Valeriy Gerlovin, Joseph Kugielsky, and intaglios by Nancy Graves.

Urban Logic; Selections from the Permanent Collection
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Gallery A: Urban Logic features mixed-media pieces by Oswego artist Bill DeMott, whose abstractions in this exhibit explore the emotional currents of the urban environment.
Gallery B: selections from the SUNY Oswego permanent collection

Opening: Unique: Objects Created by Artists with Disabilities
Szozda Gallery

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

There will be an opening reception tonight 5:00-8:00 pm.

Longtime Delavan Center manager Caroline Szozda celebrates the opening of her new gallery with this exhibit of work from the 10th anniversary of Unique, a magazine produced by ARISE showcasing work by artists with disabilities.

Bill Viola: Two Women, 2008
Urban Video Project

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Video projection installation on exterior wall.

"Two Women" is part of an extended body of Bill Viola's work titled the Transfigurations series. Inspired by his interest in the Buddhist idea of death as a passage to rebirth, Viola has filmed actors drenched in water and consumed by fire. In Viola's slow-motion world, the viewer senses not only the destructive and violent power of the elements but their transformative and cathartic power as well. For "Two Women," the artist created a physical apparatus in his studio that allows the two actors to effortlessly pass through a wall of water. Viola is known for using a minimum of digital effects. The real time for this performance is only moments but the finished video is nine minutes long, allowing viewers time to savor the beauty of the moving water, light, and figures.

The Transfigurations series is often described as visceral. In his writing Viola states, "I want someone to have the experience that is engaging for their mind, but I also want something that is engaging and involving for their body."

Bill Viola: The Quintet of the Astonished, 2000
Urban Video Project

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

Video projection installation on exterior wall.

"The Quintet of the Astonished" shows the unfolding expressions of five actors in such extreme slow motion that every minute detail of their changing facial expressions and movements can be detected. In this piece artist Bill Viola explores the cathartic power within grief, personal suffering, and bereavement.

Viola's work often exhibits a painterly quality and "The Quintet of the Astonished" clearly references his interests in medieval and classical depictions of emotion. In 1998, while a scholar in residence at the Getty Research Institute which that year explored the theme of The Passions, Viola revisited images of medieval and renaissance painting, frescoes, and architecture that had influenced him during his time in Florence, Italy in 1974. Having lost both of his parents by the time he was at the Getty, he found himself drawn to images of devotional art that continue to influence his art today.

Through a Dog's Eyes
Community Folk Art Center

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

This 2010 PBS documentary explores the human-canine relationship as it follows several individuals with special needs as they go through the process of receiving service dogs. These individuals include a 30-year-old veteran paralyzed after a car accident, a six-year-old with cerebral palsy, two six-year-old twins with spastic diplegia and an 11-year-old with a severe form of epilepsy. All of their lives are profoundly affected by the positive influence of their service dogs.

The film features Jennifer Arnold, founder of Canine Assistants, who explains how service dogs are trained. The psychology behind the training program is also explained by Ádám Miklósi, Ph.D., an expert on dog cognition.

This heartwarming film will demonstrate the huge impact that a dog can have in a human's life. The film is being presented in conjunction with CFAC's current exhibition, "Dogs in Transition: Pit Bulls & Mill Dogs" by Cyrus Mejia. The gallery will be open for public viewing.

Artist Lecture with Neil Chowdhury
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Oak & Bone; White Picket Fence; Black Throat Wind
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Price: $7
Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Oak & Bone: Syracuse's Masters of RIFFality: East Coast tour kick-off!
White Picket Fence: local indie/pop pros.
Black Throat Wind: indie rock, dual drummers. For fans of the SUB-POP ilk.

Hip Hop
KD Productions

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

My Dead Lady
Acme Mystery Company

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

Interactive comedy/mystery dinner theater.

Professor Barry Biggins has a problem. Azalia Dimwittle has completely failed every attempt to elevate her from Cockney flower girl to aristocratic lady. She simply hasn’t gotten it, never will get it, and now everyone has just about had it. To make matters worse, she’s invited you and the rest of her conniving family over to the Professor's house for her father's birthday party. By George, I think she's going to get it (if she doesn't get them first).

Evening at the Museum
Onondaga Historical Association

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

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

Preview: The 39 Steps
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

Gunshots, murder, and dastardly plots; seductive spies, thrilling chases and serious flirtation; they're all part of this rollicking comedy/mystery and Broadway hit. Based on the 1935 classic film by Alfred Hitchcock, The 39 Steps follows Richard Hannay as he sets out for a night of music hall entertainment only to be ensnared in a dangerous attempt to smuggle top-secret information out of the country. Four actors and ingenious and inventive staging prove that anything movies can do, theatre can do more hilariously. Adapted by Patrick Barlow.

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Asuncion
Redhouse
Autopista del Sur

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

Autopista del Sur presents this short play by Aregntinian playwright Ricardo Monti. The mystical delirium of Doña Blanca, who, once the concubine of Don Pedro de Mendoza and now ill with syphilis, agonizes in the still Paraguayan night, while at her side, Asunción, an Indian girl, gives birth to the land's first Mestizo, in the Year of Our Lord 1537.

The Rocky Horror Show
The Talent Company

Price: $25 regular, $23 seniors, $20 students
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

A spoof on monster and science fiction movies, The Rocky Horror Show is a rock musical populated by an unusual group of earthlings and space visitors. Its cast includes a nice young couple who wander into the castle of mad scientist Dr. Frank-N-Furter and his servants Riff-Raff and Magenta. They are aliens from the planet Transylvania, and have been beamed to earth, along with the castle and a bunch of kinky Transylvanians who have gathered to watch Dr. Frank-N-Furter create a monster, Rocky, from the half-brain of Eddie, a 50's type rocker. Added to these delicious characters are the heroic Dr. Scott (a rival scientist), Columbia (a groupie), and a Narrator (an expert criminologist). From its inception in 1975, the stage version The Rocky Horror Show and the movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show have inspired a huge degree of audience participation. The audience joins in on cue, tossing rice, toilet paper, toast, etc., and often join the performers in dancing "Let's Do The Time Warp Again."

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Friday, October 22, 2010

Windows Project: Waking from Dreams of India
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Upstate New York photographer Neil Chowdhury has created works consisting of three digital photomontages (fit to the dimensions of the windows in the Window Projects) and a multichannel video installation (displayed in the Window Projects space) with a soundtrack of Indian classical music, Hindi pop music, and ambient street sound that address contemporary India as well as clichés and the artist's origins.

Ed Smith: "The Labors"
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibition of drawing and sculpture by Guggenheim Fellow Ed Smith. His work has been exhibited here and abroad, including at the British Museum, Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Begium, and at Yale University.

Silk: Photographs by Courtney Rile
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Bea Nettles Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

These photographic composites deal with the poetic impact of certain landscapes and aspects of classical architecture and art history on the life of Bea Nettles, and how these influences continue to remain in memory, resurfacing at unexpected moments. The photographs are autobiographical. They represent her effort to clarify, to find meaning and significance in daily existence. Often epiphanies often occur while traveling. Bea is particularly interested in recording a sense of place and the selective, multi-layered nature of memory.

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La Colección/The Collection: Exhibit 2
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

This second exhibit of the program presents contemporary photography by Maureen Connor, Rimma Gerlovina & Valeriy Gerlovin, Joseph Kugielsky, and intaglios by Nancy Graves.

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

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

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

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

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

Honoring The Masters: Works of Ann Milner and Phil DeMocker
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

"Honoring the Masters," featuring Ann Milner's oriental brush painting and Phil DeMocker's origami, is a tribute to artists of the past setting the standards for today's active artists and gallery goers. Highlighted will be "masters" from noted dynasties. The "Mustard Seed Garden Manual, first published in the mid-1600s, will be the reference for some techniques in both learning and creating pieces of Oriental brush painting. Reproductions of work from ancient and more recent masters will show the background and heritage next to current representations of classical subjects and composition.

Origami pieces will represent Phil's favorite designer/folders and will be labeled to explain why he has chosen those artists.

As with most art, copying the work of an established artist is considered distasteful and cheap. While the art of the Orient to copy a master is considered one highest forms of art. Ann Milner is painting in the Sumie style from the Mustard Seed Manual, a comprehensive work of style, structure and form. Phil DeMocker is working from the works of both past and present masters of origami.

Expressions in Paint
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Nikolay Mikushkin: impressionistic traditional landscape and floral oil paintings on canvas
Bobbi Lamb: ceramics finished in a painterly fashion

84th Annual Juried Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

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

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

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

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

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

Canaltown Suds: Syracuse Breweries of the Canal Era
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

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

Rosamond Gifford Zoo
One Conservation Place, Syracuse

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

Objects & Atmospheres
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Nathan Sullivan: Paintings and lithographs
Joshua Primmer: Stoneware vessels
Brenda Edwards: Paintings and drawings

Sullivan's oil on panel "Form Series" are masterfully painted, Vermeer-like in their surface quality. His images of suspended or floating tiny organic objects such as seeds are rendered to large scale in chiaroscuro, resulting in their otherworldly presence.

Primmer is exhibiting his intimately scaled stoneware objects and vessels. While one may consider the relatively small scale of his work, it possesses a monumentality usually restricted to large scale work and architecture.

Edwards' depictions in her soft focus drawings and paintings range from sultry atmospheres to luminous mists. They are moments that catch the play of light in their respective environments.

Emerging Women of CNY #1
Redhouse

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

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

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Christian Dior 1947-1957
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Seven original designs by the late fashion icon Christian Dior are on view in the exhibition "Christian Dior 1947-1957." The exhibition documents and honors the memory of Dior, who began his design house in 1947 in post-World War II Paris and ruled the fashion world until his death in 1957. The outfits featured are taken from the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection and the Martha M. Caldwell Costume Collection, which are housed in the fashion design program at Syracuse University.

Unique: Objects Created by Artists with Disabilities
Szozda Gallery

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

Longtime Delavan Center manager Caroline Szozda celebrates the opening of her new gallery with this exhibit of work from the 10th anniversary of Unique, a magazine produced by ARISE showcasing work by artists with disabilities.

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

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

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

4x4: Community Curators and the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Four individuals associated with the Syracuse visual arts community were invited to develop an exhibition using works from SU's permanent collection. Nancy Keefe Rhodes, art critic for the City Eagle newspaper, curated an exhibition of American art made between the two world wars while Jack White, internationally recognized artist and former Syracuse resident, will investigate objects pertaining to hand-to-hand sport, such as boxing and wrestling. Roy Simmons Jr., former SU lacrosse coach and an artist in his own right will examine the work of Ivan Mestrovic, the Croatian artist and former professor from SU's School of Art. The director of the Community Folk Arts Center, Dr. Kheli Willetts, will explore visual interrelationships in the ethnographic and art collections through vice and virtue.

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

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

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

Since 1974, the Cultural Resources Council, in collaboration with the Everson, has presented On My Own Time. A celebration of artwork created by employees of local businesses on their own time, the exhibition is meant to promote creativity and artistic endeavors by those who are not full-time artists.

Designed to Scale--The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series
Everson Museum of Art

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

Designed to Scale, part three of the 2010 New York State Artists Series showcases significant designers from the Central New York region whose work is recognized in the national and international design arenas. Although modest in scale, the exhibition touches on a broad range of innovative design objects—furniture, lighting, commercial products and dining experiences, unique accessories, toys, and surface patterns.

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Bill Viola Video Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

The Original Art of the Funny Papers
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

"The Original Art of the Funny Papers," a collection of famous syndicated cartoons, spans the history of the American comic strip. It features 32 original strips from the SU Library's Special Collections Research Center, including Archie, Beetle Bailey, Prince Valiant, Mutt and Jeff, Blondie, Krazy Kat, Moon Mullins, and Hazel. It also includes more than 20 originals on special loan from SU alumni Brad Anderson (Marmaduke), Greg Walker (Beetle Bailey), and Robb Armstrong (Jump Start).

For more information about the exhibition, call 315-442-2542 during gallery hours, or e-mail jmthom01@syr.edu.

Works of Cui Fei
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Born in Jinan, China, Cui received her BFA degree in painting from the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China (now China National Academy of Fine Arts) in 1993, and her MFA degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2001. Nature is a recurring theme in Cui's work; an artist mainly known for her abstract Chinese calligraphy and related installations using twigs or thorns. For this exhibit, she will create works on paper using thorns and an installation consisting of salt, as a reference to Syracuse's history. Her work comments on the central role of nature, her Chinese origins, and current practices in the West. The vault will display a healing piece using sand referring to the tradition of sand paintings by Native Americans, Tibetan monks, Indians, Australian Aborigines, and Latin Americans. Though widely exhibited, this is Cui's first solo museum exhibition.

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Americans Who Tell the Truth: Paintings by Robert Shetterly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

A collection of portraits intended to remind people of the dignity, courage and importance of some of America's truth tellers. Each portrait includes a moving quote by the subject, and a biography is displayed with each painting. One lesson to be learned from all of these Americans is that the greatness of our country frequently depends not on the letter of the law, but the insistence of a single person that we adhere to the spirit of the law.

Bill Viola: The Quintet of the Astonished, 2000
Urban Video Project

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

Video projection installation on exterior wall.

"The Quintet of the Astonished" shows the unfolding expressions of five actors in such extreme slow motion that every minute detail of their changing facial expressions and movements can be detected. In this piece artist Bill Viola explores the cathartic power within grief, personal suffering, and bereavement.

Viola's work often exhibits a painterly quality and "The Quintet of the Astonished" clearly references his interests in medieval and classical depictions of emotion. In 1998, while a scholar in residence at the Getty Research Institute which that year explored the theme of The Passions, Viola revisited images of medieval and renaissance painting, frescoes, and architecture that had influenced him during his time in Florence, Italy in 1974. Having lost both of his parents by the time he was at the Getty, he found himself drawn to images of devotional art that continue to influence his art today.

Bill Viola: Two Women, 2008
Urban Video Project

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Video projection installation on exterior wall.

"Two Women" is part of an extended body of Bill Viola's work titled the Transfigurations series. Inspired by his interest in the Buddhist idea of death as a passage to rebirth, Viola has filmed actors drenched in water and consumed by fire. In Viola's slow-motion world, the viewer senses not only the destructive and violent power of the elements but their transformative and cathartic power as well. For "Two Women," the artist created a physical apparatus in his studio that allows the two actors to effortlessly pass through a wall of water. Viola is known for using a minimum of digital effects. The real time for this performance is only moments but the finished video is nine minutes long, allowing viewers time to savor the beauty of the moving water, light, and figures.

The Transfigurations series is often described as visceral. In his writing Viola states, "I want someone to have the experience that is engaging for their mind, but I also want something that is engaging and involving for their body."

Oregon Fail
Salt City Improv Theater

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

The improv comedy of Oregon Fail. This is a benefit performance to raise money for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Celebration of Cultural Diversity
Westcott Community Center

Price: $50
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Experience a global village full of live entertainment, a wide range of delicious multi-cultural food and the chance to shop for items from around the world from local vendors. This fundraising event also helps the center to continue to offer its award-winning youth, senior, adult & education and employment programs.

Jon Reis Gallery Talk and Reception
Light Work Gallery

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

Gallery talk and lecture to celebrate Jon Reis's exhibition "By The Way: Two Decades of America Observed 1973-1993."

Artist Talk
ArtRage Gallery
Featuring Robert Shetterly

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Robert Shetterly will speak about his motivation for beginning his portraits of Truth Tellers and the artistic and politically progressive process which has resulted in this remarkable series of paintings, Americans Who Tell the Truth.

Kevin Moore's Piano Repertory Class in Recital
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The Mikado
Syracuse Opera

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

Secret identities, arranged marriages, unrequited loves, false executions make for a comic opera. Naturally, Gilbert and Sullivan find merriment under these convoluted circumstances. Set in Japan. Sung in English.

Witness for the Prosecution
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
John LaCasse, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Witness for the Prosecution is a 1957 American courtroom drama movie based on a short story and later a play by Agatha Christie. The original movie deals with a man accused of murder and starred Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton and his wife Elsa Lanchester.

Wilfred Robarts, a master defense attorney, accepts the case of Leonard Vole who is accused of murdering Ms Emily French, a rich, older woman who became infatuated with the younger man. Circumstantial evidence points to Vole as the killer. His German wife, Romaine, is his only alibi and Robarts finds her cold and self-possessed.

At trial, Vole's alibi falls apart when Romaine changes her story on the stand. The prosecutor and Robarts parry and thrust their way through the convoluted trial. Plot twists abound as new evidence surfaces in the third act. And then the plot thickens...but the Guild will adhere to the final message the movie gave back in 1957: "The management of this theater suggests that for the greater entertainment of your friends who have not yet seen the picture, you will not divulge to anyone the secret of the ending to Witness for the Prosecution."

A local celebrity will be playing the cameo role of Jury Foreperson each night of the run.

Luther
Appleseed Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $18 regular; $15 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

What moves a man like Martin Luther—the man who initiated the Protestant Reformation? This exciting play reveals the man beneath the cowl and the mind behind the dramatic split in Christianity. Through all Luther's self-doubts, bodily ailments and brilliant intellectual achievements, he is helped by the kind and rational superiors of his order. Here, then, is Luther the man, monk, and mind in all its doubts, honesty and clarity of purpose. Luther, before the assembled dignitaries, lifts his book in his hand and says, "Here I stand!" By John Osborne.

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Asuncion
Redhouse
Autopista del Sur

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

Autopista del Sur presents this short play by Aregntinian playwright Ricardo Monti. The mystical delirium of Doña Blanca, who, once the concubine of Don Pedro de Mendoza and now ill with syphilis, agonizes in the still Paraguayan night, while at her side, Asunción, an Indian girl, gives birth to the land's first Mestizo, in the Year of Our Lord 1537.

The 39 Steps
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

Gunshots, murder, and dastardly plots; seductive spies, thrilling chases and serious flirtation; they're all part of this rollicking comedy/mystery and Broadway hit. Based on the 1935 classic film by Alfred Hitchcock, The 39 Steps follows Richard Hannay as he sets out for a night of music hall entertainment only to be ensnared in a dangerous attempt to smuggle top-secret information out of the country. Four actors and ingenious and inventive staging prove that anything movies can do, theatre can do more hilariously. Adapted by Patrick Barlow.

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The Rocky Horror Show
The Talent Company

Price: $25 regular, $23 seniors, $20 students
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

A spoof on monster and science fiction movies, The Rocky Horror Show is a rock musical populated by an unusual group of earthlings and space visitors. Its cast includes a nice young couple who wander into the castle of mad scientist Dr. Frank-N-Furter and his servants Riff-Raff and Magenta. They are aliens from the planet Transylvania, and have been beamed to earth, along with the castle and a bunch of kinky Transylvanians who have gathered to watch Dr. Frank-N-Furter create a monster, Rocky, from the half-brain of Eddie, a 50's type rocker. Added to these delicious characters are the heroic Dr. Scott (a rival scientist), Columbia (a groupie), and a Narrator (an expert criminologist). From its inception in 1975, the stage version The Rocky Horror Show and the movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show have inspired a huge degree of audience participation. The audience joins in on cue, tossing rice, toilet paper, toast, etc., and often join the performers in dancing "Let's Do The Time Warp Again."

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Saturday, October 23, 2010

Windows Project: Waking from Dreams of India
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Upstate New York photographer Neil Chowdhury has created works consisting of three digital photomontages (fit to the dimensions of the windows in the Window Projects) and a multichannel video installation (displayed in the Window Projects space) with a soundtrack of Indian classical music, Hindi pop music, and ambient street sound that address contemporary India as well as clichés and the artist's origins.

Ed Smith: "The Labors"
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibition of drawing and sculpture by Guggenheim Fellow Ed Smith. His work has been exhibited here and abroad, including at the British Museum, Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Begium, and at Yale University.

Invitational with Carl Hoffner
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Expressions in Paint
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Nikolay Mikushkin: impressionistic traditional landscape and floral oil paintings on canvas
Bobbi Lamb: ceramics finished in a painterly fashion

Canaltown Suds: Syracuse Breweries of the Canal Era
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Designed to Scale--The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series
Everson Museum of Art

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

Designed to Scale, part three of the 2010 New York State Artists Series showcases significant designers from the Central New York region whose work is recognized in the national and international design arenas. Although modest in scale, the exhibition touches on a broad range of innovative design objects—furniture, lighting, commercial products and dining experiences, unique accessories, toys, and surface patterns.

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On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

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

Since 1974, the Cultural Resources Council, in collaboration with the Everson, has presented On My Own Time. A celebration of artwork created by employees of local businesses on their own time, the exhibition is meant to promote creativity and artistic endeavors by those who are not full-time artists.

Bill Viola Video Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Rosamond Gifford Zoo
One Conservation Place, Syracuse

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

The Salt City Urban Art & Craft Market

Case Supply Building
601 W. Fayette St. , Syracuse

The Salt City Urban Art & Craft Market is a unique event for the Syracuse area. Crafters of the new generation are emerging to provide funky, alternative and contemporary handmade artworks and our mission is to create an annual marketplace where a diverse group of local artists and designers have the opportunity to showcase and sell their work.

Christian Dior 1947-1957
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Seven original designs by the late fashion icon Christian Dior are on view in the exhibition "Christian Dior 1947-1957." The exhibition documents and honors the memory of Dior, who began his design house in 1947 in post-World War II Paris and ruled the fashion world until his death in 1957. The outfits featured are taken from the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection and the Martha M. Caldwell Costume Collection, which are housed in the fashion design program at Syracuse University.

Unique: Objects Created by Artists with Disabilities
Szozda Gallery

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

Longtime Delavan Center manager Caroline Szozda celebrates the opening of her new gallery with this exhibit of work from the 10th anniversary of Unique, a magazine produced by ARISE showcasing work by artists with disabilities.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

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

4x4: Community Curators and the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Four individuals associated with the Syracuse visual arts community were invited to develop an exhibition using works from SU's permanent collection. Nancy Keefe Rhodes, art critic for the City Eagle newspaper, curated an exhibition of American art made between the two world wars while Jack White, internationally recognized artist and former Syracuse resident, will investigate objects pertaining to hand-to-hand sport, such as boxing and wrestling. Roy Simmons Jr., former SU lacrosse coach and an artist in his own right will examine the work of Ivan Mestrovic, the Croatian artist and former professor from SU's School of Art. The director of the Community Folk Arts Center, Dr. Kheli Willetts, will explore visual interrelationships in the ethnographic and art collections through vice and virtue.

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

Americans Who Tell the Truth: Paintings by Robert Shetterly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

A collection of portraits intended to remind people of the dignity, courage and importance of some of America's truth tellers. Each portrait includes a moving quote by the subject, and a biography is displayed with each painting. One lesson to be learned from all of these Americans is that the greatness of our country frequently depends not on the letter of the law, but the insistence of a single person that we adhere to the spirit of the law.

The Original Art of the Funny Papers
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

"The Original Art of the Funny Papers," a collection of famous syndicated cartoons, spans the history of the American comic strip. It features 32 original strips from the SU Library's Special Collections Research Center, including Archie, Beetle Bailey, Prince Valiant, Mutt and Jeff, Blondie, Krazy Kat, Moon Mullins, and Hazel. It also includes more than 20 originals on special loan from SU alumni Brad Anderson (Marmaduke), Greg Walker (Beetle Bailey), and Robb Armstrong (Jump Start).

For more information about the exhibition, call 315-442-2542 during gallery hours, or e-mail jmthom01@syr.edu.

Works of Cui Fei
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Born in Jinan, China, Cui received her BFA degree in painting from the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China (now China National Academy of Fine Arts) in 1993, and her MFA degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2001. Nature is a recurring theme in Cui's work; an artist mainly known for her abstract Chinese calligraphy and related installations using twigs or thorns. For this exhibit, she will create works on paper using thorns and an installation consisting of salt, as a reference to Syracuse's history. Her work comments on the central role of nature, her Chinese origins, and current practices in the West. The vault will display a healing piece using sand referring to the tradition of sand paintings by Native Americans, Tibetan monks, Indians, Australian Aborigines, and Latin Americans. Though widely exhibited, this is Cui's first solo museum exhibition.

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Art Show
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

John Pennisi: Contemporary Furniture
Crystal LaPoint: Photoimpressions
Marc Pittarelli: Impressionism
Virginia Vilchis: Abstract Expressionism
Mike Ackerman: Abstract Expressionism
Michael Weismore: Abstract Impressionism

Exhibit curated by Michael Weismore.

Bill Viola: Two Women, 2008
Urban Video Project

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Video projection installation on exterior wall.

"Two Women" is part of an extended body of Bill Viola's work titled the Transfigurations series. Inspired by his interest in the Buddhist idea of death as a passage to rebirth, Viola has filmed actors drenched in water and consumed by fire. In Viola's slow-motion world, the viewer senses not only the destructive and violent power of the elements but their transformative and cathartic power as well. For "Two Women," the artist created a physical apparatus in his studio that allows the two actors to effortlessly pass through a wall of water. Viola is known for using a minimum of digital effects. The real time for this performance is only moments but the finished video is nine minutes long, allowing viewers time to savor the beauty of the moving water, light, and figures.

The Transfigurations series is often described as visceral. In his writing Viola states, "I want someone to have the experience that is engaging for their mind, but I also want something that is engaging and involving for their body."

Bill Viola: The Quintet of the Astonished, 2000
Urban Video Project

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

Video projection installation on exterior wall.

"The Quintet of the Astonished" shows the unfolding expressions of five actors in such extreme slow motion that every minute detail of their changing facial expressions and movements can be detected. In this piece artist Bill Viola explores the cathartic power within grief, personal suffering, and bereavement.

Viola's work often exhibits a painterly quality and "The Quintet of the Astonished" clearly references his interests in medieval and classical depictions of emotion. In 1998, while a scholar in residence at the Getty Research Institute which that year explored the theme of The Passions, Viola revisited images of medieval and renaissance painting, frescoes, and architecture that had influenced him during his time in Florence, Italy in 1974. Having lost both of his parents by the time he was at the Getty, he found himself drawn to images of devotional art that continue to influence his art today.

Lily Tomlin in Concert
WCNY

Price: $39.50, $59.50, $69.50, $89.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Emmy-award-winning actress and comedienne Lily Tomlin perform a live stand-up comedy show to benefit WCNY.

Tickets are available at the Oncenter box office, www.ticketmaster.com, or by calling 315-435-2121.

SaturdaySCREENINGS: The Girl with the Pearl Earring
ArtRage Gallery

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

Who posed for Vermeer’s mysterious masterwork? This fictional spin on truth sheds light on the artist’s passion; his oil-based colors and light fill every painterly scene–and the finale will take your breath away! With Colin Firth and Scarlet Johanssen, directed by Peter Webber, based on novel by Tracy Chevalier.

A Fall Festival of Choirs
Syracuse Children's Chorus

Most Holy Rosary Church
111 Roberts Ave., Syracuse

The Syracuse Children's Chorus hosts its second annual A Fall Festival of Choirs, benefitting breast cancer research and education in Central New York. Schola Cantorum of Syracuse, Syracuse Chorale, St. David's Episcopal Church Choir, and the Westhill High School Concert Choir will share the stage with the Syracuse Children's Chorus for an uplifting afternoon of song. Audience members will experience musical selections from a variety of cultures and marvel at the sound of over 400 voices singing Gregg Smith's moving selection, Now I Walk in Beauty. Join us as we present a concert for a cause and celebrate the talent and diversity of the fine choirs in our community! A portion of the proceeds from each ticket sold for this concert will benefit the CNY Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

Woody Herman Tribute
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Frank Tiberi and the CNY Jazz Orchestra

Price: $19.50, $23.50, $26.50
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The big band series starts in celebration of a true legend of American music, the great Swing Era clarinetist and bandleader Woody Herman. The evening's distinguished guest artist is also legendary—octogenarian Frank Tiberi, the man who picked up the reins of the Orchestra when Woody became ill during the band's 50th anniversary tour in 1986. Before his passing, Herman chose Frank to lead the orchestra, and he has done so ever since. Humbly, Tiberi emphasizes that "the leader of this band will always be Woody Herman." Before joining the "Herman Herd" in 1969, Tiberi had already performed with Bob Chester, Benny Goodman, and Urbie Green. Frank became the lead saxophonist in Woody's "Four Brother" saxophone section and the solo tenor saxophonist on the classic, "Early Autumn." Just as Woody's 1940's Herds successfully incorporated Be-Bop into a Big Band, Tiberi is most responsible for later Herds to incorporate contemporary styles. Tiberi is presently on the woodwind faculty as an associate professor at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.

Mark Doyle and the Maniacs
Redhouse

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

Legendary rocker Mark Doyle returns as the Maniacs take over the Red House with their tribute to the 1960s British Blues Boom. The last time Doyle and his compatriots were here, we flirted with fire code violations so get tickets now.

Carmina Burana
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble
Robert Cowles, conductor
Featuring Janet Brown, soprano; Jonathan Howell, tenor; Christòpheren Nomura, baritone

Price: $16 regular, $14 seniors, $5 students
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"Experience first, then intellectualize." Composer and music educator Carl Orff may have said this in reference to his philosophy of music education, but the statement applies well to his best-known composition Carmina Burana, the emotional impact of which is deep and lasting. Beloved by audiences far and wide (and having long been cannibalized for use in TV commercials and movie trailers), this at times explosive work, a collection of medieval poems that alternate themes of love, humor, drink, and general bawdiness, is a fitting centerpiece for SVE's first concert of the 2010-11 season. The Hobart and William Smith Colleges Chorale joins SVE for this performance which will feature soprano Janet Brown, baritone Christòpheren Nomura, the piano duo Steven and Amy Heyman, and five area percussionists.

Leo Crandall with Andrew Greacen and Liz Strodel
Words and Music Songwriter Showcase

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

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

Alice in Wonderland
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive comedic retelling of the classic tale.

The 39 Steps
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

Gunshots, murder, and dastardly plots; seductive spies, thrilling chases and serious flirtation; they're all part of this rollicking comedy/mystery and Broadway hit. Based on the 1935 classic film by Alfred Hitchcock, The 39 Steps follows Richard Hannay as he sets out for a night of music hall entertainment only to be ensnared in a dangerous attempt to smuggle top-secret information out of the country. Four actors and ingenious and inventive staging prove that anything movies can do, theatre can do more hilariously. Adapted by Patrick Barlow.

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Witness for the Prosecution
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
John LaCasse, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Witness for the Prosecution is a 1957 American courtroom drama movie based on a short story and later a play by Agatha Christie. The original movie deals with a man accused of murder and starred Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton and his wife Elsa Lanchester.

Wilfred Robarts, a master defense attorney, accepts the case of Leonard Vole who is accused of murdering Ms Emily French, a rich, older woman who became infatuated with the younger man. Circumstantial evidence points to Vole as the killer. His German wife, Romaine, is his only alibi and Robarts finds her cold and self-possessed.

At trial, Vole's alibi falls apart when Romaine changes her story on the stand. The prosecutor and Robarts parry and thrust their way through the convoluted trial. Plot twists abound as new evidence surfaces in the third act. And then the plot thickens...but the Guild will adhere to the final message the movie gave back in 1957: "The management of this theater suggests that for the greater entertainment of your friends who have not yet seen the picture, you will not divulge to anyone the secret of the ending to Witness for the Prosecution."

A local celebrity will be playing the cameo role of Jury Foreperson each night of the run.

Luther
Appleseed Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $18 regular; $15 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

What moves a man like Martin Luther—the man who initiated the Protestant Reformation? This exciting play reveals the man beneath the cowl and the mind behind the dramatic split in Christianity. Through all Luther's self-doubts, bodily ailments and brilliant intellectual achievements, he is helped by the kind and rational superiors of his order. Here, then, is Luther the man, monk, and mind in all its doubts, honesty and clarity of purpose. Luther, before the assembled dignitaries, lifts his book in his hand and says, "Here I stand!" By John Osborne.

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Notice to Vacate
Encore Presentations

Price: $37.50 includes meal, show, tax, and tip
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

Have you ever had to move from an apartment or home, move on from a bad relationship or a job, even move on after a death in the family? Then this is the cabaret for you! Stephfond Brunson and Donnie Williams star in this show on the theme of moving on.

For tickets, phone 315-469-6969.

The 39 Steps
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

Gunshots, murder, and dastardly plots; seductive spies, thrilling chases and serious flirtation; they're all part of this rollicking comedy/mystery and Broadway hit. Based on the 1935 classic film by Alfred Hitchcock, The 39 Steps follows Richard Hannay as he sets out for a night of music hall entertainment only to be ensnared in a dangerous attempt to smuggle top-secret information out of the country. Four actors and ingenious and inventive staging prove that anything movies can do, theatre can do more hilariously. Adapted by Patrick Barlow.

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The Rocky Horror Show
The Talent Company

Price: $25 regular, $23 seniors, $20 students
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

A spoof on monster and science fiction movies, The Rocky Horror Show is a rock musical populated by an unusual group of earthlings and space visitors. Its cast includes a nice young couple who wander into the castle of mad scientist Dr. Frank-N-Furter and his servants Riff-Raff and Magenta. They are aliens from the planet Transylvania, and have been beamed to earth, along with the castle and a bunch of kinky Transylvanians who have gathered to watch Dr. Frank-N-Furter create a monster, Rocky, from the half-brain of Eddie, a 50's type rocker. Added to these delicious characters are the heroic Dr. Scott (a rival scientist), Columbia (a groupie), and a Narrator (an expert criminologist). From its inception in 1975, the stage version The Rocky Horror Show and the movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show have inspired a huge degree of audience participation. The audience joins in on cue, tossing rice, toilet paper, toast, etc., and often join the performers in dancing "Let's Do The Time Warp Again."

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The Rocky Horror Show
The Talent Company

Price: $25 regular, $23 seniors, $20 students
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

A spoof on monster and science fiction movies, The Rocky Horror Show is a rock musical populated by an unusual group of earthlings and space visitors. Its cast includes a nice young couple who wander into the castle of mad scientist Dr. Frank-N-Furter and his servants Riff-Raff and Magenta. They are aliens from the planet Transylvania, and have been beamed to earth, along with the castle and a bunch of kinky Transylvanians who have gathered to watch Dr. Frank-N-Furter create a monster, Rocky, from the half-brain of Eddie, a 50's type rocker. Added to these delicious characters are the heroic Dr. Scott (a rival scientist), Columbia (a groupie), and a Narrator (an expert criminologist). From its inception in 1975, the stage version The Rocky Horror Show and the movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show have inspired a huge degree of audience participation. The audience joins in on cue, tossing rice, toilet paper, toast, etc., and often join the performers in dancing "Let's Do The Time Warp Again."

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Sunday, October 24, 2010

Windows Project: Waking from Dreams of India
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Upstate New York photographer Neil Chowdhury has created works consisting of three digital photomontages (fit to the dimensions of the windows in the Window Projects) and a multichannel video installation (displayed in the Window Projects space) with a soundtrack of Indian classical music, Hindi pop music, and ambient street sound that address contemporary India as well as clichés and the artist's origins.

Canaltown Suds: Syracuse Breweries of the Canal Era
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

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

Rosamond Gifford Zoo
One Conservation Place, Syracuse

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

Christian Dior 1947-1957
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Seven original designs by the late fashion icon Christian Dior are on view in the exhibition "Christian Dior 1947-1957." The exhibition documents and honors the memory of Dior, who began his design house in 1947 in post-World War II Paris and ruled the fashion world until his death in 1957. The outfits featured are taken from the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection and the Martha M. Caldwell Costume Collection, which are housed in the fashion design program at Syracuse University.

Unique: Objects Created by Artists with Disabilities
Szozda Gallery

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

Longtime Delavan Center manager Caroline Szozda celebrates the opening of her new gallery with this exhibit of work from the 10th anniversary of Unique, a magazine produced by ARISE showcasing work by artists with disabilities.

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

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

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

4x4: Community Curators and the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Four individuals associated with the Syracuse visual arts community were invited to develop an exhibition using works from SU's permanent collection. Nancy Keefe Rhodes, art critic for the City Eagle newspaper, curated an exhibition of American art made between the two world wars while Jack White, internationally recognized artist and former Syracuse resident, will investigate objects pertaining to hand-to-hand sport, such as boxing and wrestling. Roy Simmons Jr., former SU lacrosse coach and an artist in his own right will examine the work of Ivan Mestrovic, the Croatian artist and former professor from SU's School of Art. The director of the Community Folk Arts Center, Dr. Kheli Willetts, will explore visual interrelationships in the ethnographic and art collections through vice and virtue.

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

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

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

Since 1974, the Cultural Resources Council, in collaboration with the Everson, has presented On My Own Time. A celebration of artwork created by employees of local businesses on their own time, the exhibition is meant to promote creativity and artistic endeavors by those who are not full-time artists.

Designed to Scale--The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series
Everson Museum of Art

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

Designed to Scale, part three of the 2010 New York State Artists Series showcases significant designers from the Central New York region whose work is recognized in the national and international design arenas. Although modest in scale, the exhibition touches on a broad range of innovative design objects—furniture, lighting, commercial products and dining experiences, unique accessories, toys, and surface patterns.

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Bill Viola Video Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Ed Smith: "The Labors"
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibition of drawing and sculpture by Guggenheim Fellow Ed Smith. His work has been exhibited here and abroad, including at the British Museum, Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Begium, and at Yale University.

The Original Art of the Funny Papers
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

"The Original Art of the Funny Papers," a collection of famous syndicated cartoons, spans the history of the American comic strip. It features 32 original strips from the SU Library's Special Collections Research Center, including Archie, Beetle Bailey, Prince Valiant, Mutt and Jeff, Blondie, Krazy Kat, Moon Mullins, and Hazel. It also includes more than 20 originals on special loan from SU alumni Brad Anderson (Marmaduke), Greg Walker (Beetle Bailey), and Robb Armstrong (Jump Start).

For more information about the exhibition, call 315-442-2542 during gallery hours, or e-mail jmthom01@syr.edu.

Invitational with Carl Hoffner
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Bill Viola: The Quintet of the Astonished, 2000
Urban Video Project

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

Video projection installation on exterior wall.

"The Quintet of the Astonished" shows the unfolding expressions of five actors in such extreme slow motion that every minute detail of their changing facial expressions and movements can be detected. In this piece artist Bill Viola explores the cathartic power within grief, personal suffering, and bereavement.

Viola's work often exhibits a painterly quality and "The Quintet of the Astonished" clearly references his interests in medieval and classical depictions of emotion. In 1998, while a scholar in residence at the Getty Research Institute which that year explored the theme of The Passions, Viola revisited images of medieval and renaissance painting, frescoes, and architecture that had influenced him during his time in Florence, Italy in 1974. Having lost both of his parents by the time he was at the Getty, he found himself drawn to images of devotional art that continue to influence his art today.

Bill Viola: Two Women, 2008
Urban Video Project

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Video projection installation on exterior wall.

"Two Women" is part of an extended body of Bill Viola's work titled the Transfigurations series. Inspired by his interest in the Buddhist idea of death as a passage to rebirth, Viola has filmed actors drenched in water and consumed by fire. In Viola's slow-motion world, the viewer senses not only the destructive and violent power of the elements but their transformative and cathartic power as well. For "Two Women," the artist created a physical apparatus in his studio that allows the two actors to effortlessly pass through a wall of water. Viola is known for using a minimum of digital effects. The real time for this performance is only moments but the finished video is nine minutes long, allowing viewers time to savor the beauty of the moving water, light, and figures.

The Transfigurations series is often described as visceral. In his writing Viola states, "I want someone to have the experience that is engaging for their mind, but I also want something that is engaging and involving for their body."

Joe Driscoll
Westcott Theater

Price: $15
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Benefit concert for Peace Action of Central New York.

The Mikado
Syracuse Opera

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

Secret identities, arranged marriages, unrequited loves, false executions make for a comic opera. Naturally, Gilbert and Sullivan find merriment under these convoluted circumstances. Set in Japan. Sung in English.

We're a Close Family, plus two "Half Baked Plays"
Armory Square Playwrights

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

The afternoon will open with a script-in-hand reading of Craig Thornton's We're a Close Family. The play is a pastiche of five scenes moving in time from 1991-2010 revealing the inner workings of family. Surreal in their theatrical dysfunction, betrayal pulls them apart, but secrets and loss bond them even tighter.

After talkback and intermission, two works-in-progress will be read. These are part of a new series for titled "Half Baked Plays" which will be scenes from works that are still being formed and written by the playwrights. The discussion afterward will help shape the works and give the writers a sense of what they might do to make these half-baked works well-done. Explored this month will be Scenes from Amy Doherty's How We Talk and scenes from Len Fonte's Melagrana.

Luther
Appleseed Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $18 regular; $15 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

What moves a man like Martin Luther—the man who initiated the Protestant Reformation? This exciting play reveals the man beneath the cowl and the mind behind the dramatic split in Christianity. Through all Luther's self-doubts, bodily ailments and brilliant intellectual achievements, he is helped by the kind and rational superiors of his order. Here, then, is Luther the man, monk, and mind in all its doubts, honesty and clarity of purpose. Luther, before the assembled dignitaries, lifts his book in his hand and says, "Here I stand!" By John Osborne.

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The 39 Steps
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

Gunshots, murder, and dastardly plots; seductive spies, thrilling chases and serious flirtation; they're all part of this rollicking comedy/mystery and Broadway hit. Based on the 1935 classic film by Alfred Hitchcock, The 39 Steps follows Richard Hannay as he sets out for a night of music hall entertainment only to be ensnared in a dangerous attempt to smuggle top-secret information out of the country. Four actors and ingenious and inventive staging prove that anything movies can do, theatre can do more hilariously. Adapted by Patrick Barlow.

Read a Review!

The 39 Steps
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

Gunshots, murder, and dastardly plots; seductive spies, thrilling chases and serious flirtation; they're all part of this rollicking comedy/mystery and Broadway hit. Based on the 1935 classic film by Alfred Hitchcock, The 39 Steps follows Richard Hannay as he sets out for a night of music hall entertainment only to be ensnared in a dangerous attempt to smuggle top-secret information out of the country. Four actors and ingenious and inventive staging prove that anything movies can do, theatre can do more hilariously. Adapted by Patrick Barlow.

Read a Review!

Monday, October 25, 2010

Windows Project: Waking from Dreams of India
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Upstate New York photographer Neil Chowdhury has created works consisting of three digital photomontages (fit to the dimensions of the windows in the Window Projects) and a multichannel video installation (displayed in the Window Projects space) with a soundtrack of Indian classical music, Hindi pop music, and ambient street sound that address contemporary India as well as clichés and the artist's origins.

Ed Smith: "The Labors"
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibition of drawing and sculpture by Guggenheim Fellow Ed Smith. His work has been exhibited here and abroad, including at the British Museum, Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Begium, and at Yale University.

Silk: Photographs by Courtney Rile
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Bea Nettles Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

These photographic composites deal with the poetic impact of certain landscapes and aspects of classical architecture and art history on the life of Bea Nettles, and how these influences continue to remain in memory, resurfacing at unexpected moments. The photographs are autobiographical. They represent her effort to clarify, to find meaning and significance in daily existence. Often epiphanies often occur while traveling. Bea is particularly interested in recording a sense of place and the selective, multi-layered nature of memory.

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La Colección/The Collection: Exhibit 2
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

This second exhibit of the program presents contemporary photography by Maureen Connor, Rimma Gerlovina & Valeriy Gerlovin, Joseph Kugielsky, and intaglios by Nancy Graves.

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

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

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

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

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

Honoring The Masters: Works of Ann Milner and Phil DeMocker
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

"Honoring the Masters," featuring Ann Milner's oriental brush painting and Phil DeMocker's origami, is a tribute to artists of the past setting the standards for today's active artists and gallery goers. Highlighted will be "masters" from noted dynasties. The "Mustard Seed Garden Manual, first published in the mid-1600s, will be the reference for some techniques in both learning and creating pieces of Oriental brush painting. Reproductions of work from ancient and more recent masters will show the background and heritage next to current representations of classical subjects and composition.

Origami pieces will represent Phil's favorite designer/folders and will be labeled to explain why he has chosen those artists.

As with most art, copying the work of an established artist is considered distasteful and cheap. While the art of the Orient to copy a master is considered one highest forms of art. Ann Milner is painting in the Sumie style from the Mustard Seed Manual, a comprehensive work of style, structure and form. Phil DeMocker is working from the works of both past and present masters of origami.

Invitational with Carl Hoffner
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Canaltown Suds: Syracuse Breweries of the Canal Era
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

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

Rosamond Gifford Zoo
One Conservation Place, Syracuse

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

Emerging Women of CNY #1
Redhouse

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

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

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Christian Dior 1947-1957
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Seven original designs by the late fashion icon Christian Dior are on view in the exhibition "Christian Dior 1947-1957." The exhibition documents and honors the memory of Dior, who began his design house in 1947 in post-World War II Paris and ruled the fashion world until his death in 1957. The outfits featured are taken from the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection and the Martha M. Caldwell Costume Collection, which are housed in the fashion design program at Syracuse University.

Halloween Double Feature: The Undying Monster (1942) and The Raven (1935)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

The Undying Monster
Tense, rarely-seen thriller that takes place in the Welsh countryside, an area that seems endemic for lycanthropy. (Remember Larry Talbot's family seat?). Directed by John Brahm. Cast includes James Ellison, John Howard, Heather Angel, Bramwell Fletcher.

The Raven
Bela Lugosi has a field day as a megalomaniacal Poe-obsessed surgeon who coerces Boris Karloff to do his bidding. A classic in the true Grand Guignol tradition. Directed by Louis Friedlander. Cast includes Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Irene Ware, Lester Matthews, Samuel S. Hinds.

The Wooden Sky, with Doug Campbell
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Price: $6
Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Wooden Sky is returning to Syracuse! After an amazing show over the summer, they are on their way back, for an evening of the folk stylings of TWS, with an opening set by Doug Campbell, a Syracuse singer/songwriter.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Windows Project: Waking from Dreams of India
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Upstate New York photographer Neil Chowdhury has created works consisting of three digital photomontages (fit to the dimensions of the windows in the Window Projects) and a multichannel video installation (displayed in the Window Projects space) with a soundtrack of Indian classical music, Hindi pop music, and ambient street sound that address contemporary India as well as clichés and the artist's origins.

Ed Smith: "The Labors"
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibition of drawing and sculpture by Guggenheim Fellow Ed Smith. His work has been exhibited here and abroad, including at the British Museum, Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Begium, and at Yale University.

Silk: Photographs by Courtney Rile
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Bea Nettles Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

These photographic composites deal with the poetic impact of certain landscapes and aspects of classical architecture and art history on the life of Bea Nettles, and how these influences continue to remain in memory, resurfacing at unexpected moments. The photographs are autobiographical. They represent her effort to clarify, to find meaning and significance in daily existence. Often epiphanies often occur while traveling. Bea is particularly interested in recording a sense of place and the selective, multi-layered nature of memory.

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

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

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

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

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

Honoring The Masters: Works of Ann Milner and Phil DeMocker
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

"Honoring the Masters," featuring Ann Milner's oriental brush painting and Phil DeMocker's origami, is a tribute to artists of the past setting the standards for today's active artists and gallery goers. Highlighted will be "masters" from noted dynasties. The "Mustard Seed Garden Manual, first published in the mid-1600s, will be the reference for some techniques in both learning and creating pieces of Oriental brush painting. Reproductions of work from ancient and more recent masters will show the background and heritage next to current representations of classical subjects and composition.

Origami pieces will represent Phil's favorite designer/folders and will be labeled to explain why he has chosen those artists.

As with most art, copying the work of an established artist is considered distasteful and cheap. While the art of the Orient to copy a master is considered one highest forms of art. Ann Milner is painting in the Sumie style from the Mustard Seed Manual, a comprehensive work of style, structure and form. Phil DeMocker is working from the works of both past and present masters of origami.

Expressions in Paint
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Nikolay Mikushkin: impressionistic traditional landscape and floral oil paintings on canvas
Bobbi Lamb: ceramics finished in a painterly fashion

Invitational with Carl Hoffner
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

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

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

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

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

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

Canaltown Suds: Syracuse Breweries of the Canal Era
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

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

Rosamond Gifford Zoo
One Conservation Place, Syracuse

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

Emerging Women of CNY #1
Redhouse

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

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

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Christian Dior 1947-1957
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Seven original designs by the late fashion icon Christian Dior are on view in the exhibition "Christian Dior 1947-1957." The exhibition documents and honors the memory of Dior, who began his design house in 1947 in post-World War II Paris and ruled the fashion world until his death in 1957. The outfits featured are taken from the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection and the Martha M. Caldwell Costume Collection, which are housed in the fashion design program at Syracuse University.

Bill Viola Video Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

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

Since 1974, the Cultural Resources Council, in collaboration with the Everson, has presented On My Own Time. A celebration of artwork created by employees of local businesses on their own time, the exhibition is meant to promote creativity and artistic endeavors by those who are not full-time artists.

Works of Cui Fei
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Born in Jinan, China, Cui received her BFA degree in painting from the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China (now China National Academy of Fine Arts) in 1993, and her MFA degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2001. Nature is a recurring theme in Cui's work; an artist mainly known for her abstract Chinese calligraphy and related installations using twigs or thorns. For this exhibit, she will create works on paper using thorns and an installation consisting of salt, as a reference to Syracuse's history. Her work comments on the central role of nature, her Chinese origins, and current practices in the West. The vault will display a healing piece using sand referring to the tradition of sand paintings by Native Americans, Tibetan monks, Indians, Australian Aborigines, and Latin Americans. Though widely exhibited, this is Cui's first solo museum exhibition.

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Organ Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Stephen Buzard, First Prize Winner, Arthur Poister Organ Competition

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

Music by Bach, Schumann, Franck, Howells, Hampton, and Dupre.

OK GO, with Those Darlins, Eytan, and The Embassy
Westcott Theater

Price: $15
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

The 39 Steps
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

Gunshots, murder, and dastardly plots; seductive spies, thrilling chases and serious flirtation; they're all part of this rollicking comedy/mystery and Broadway hit. Based on the 1935 classic film by Alfred Hitchcock, The 39 Steps follows Richard Hannay as he sets out for a night of music hall entertainment only to be ensnared in a dangerous attempt to smuggle top-secret information out of the country. Four actors and ingenious and inventive staging prove that anything movies can do, theatre can do more hilariously. Adapted by Patrick Barlow.

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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Windows Project: Waking from Dreams of India
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Upstate New York photographer Neil Chowdhury has created works consisting of three digital photomontages (fit to the dimensions of the windows in the Window Projects) and a multichannel video installation (displayed in the Window Projects space) with a soundtrack of Indian classical music, Hindi pop music, and ambient street sound that address contemporary India as well as clichés and the artist's origins.

Ed Smith: "The Labors"
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibition of drawing and sculpture by Guggenheim Fellow Ed Smith. His work has been exhibited here and abroad, including at the British Museum, Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Begium, and at Yale University.