Thursday, September 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.

Le Moyne Faculty Exhibition
LeMoyne College

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

Works by Barry Darling, Katya Krenina, David Moore, and Charlie Wollowitz.

Anagama Nakama: 7 Anagama Potters
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Price: Free
Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Works by Marvin Bjurlin, Julie Crosby, Fred Herbst, Cary Joseph, Marc Peter Keane, Chris Longwell, and Momoko Takeshita.

OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

OCC Faculty Art Show is a collection of artworks in various mediums from about 20 art instructors. The work covers a broad range of genres including elements of representational, nonrepresentational and abstract art forms.

Pliable Planes: Cloth & Beyond
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Genet Design Gallery
The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Pliable Planes: Cloth & Beyond" features the work of five SU faculty members -- Anne Cofer, Mary Giehl and Sarah Saulson (fiber arts/material studies) and Marion Dorfer and Eileen Gosson (surface pattern design).

Cofer, an installation artist, had her first museum solo exhibition "Concealed Objects" at the Everson Museum of Art in spring 2009 and a permanent site-specific project for SU's Hinds Hall installed in May. She has been published nationally in Ceramics Monthly and internationally in Ceramics Art and Perception. Her work has been pictured in the New York Times and was selected for “500 Ceramic Sculptures” (Lark, 2009).

Dorfer began her successful freelance business, MY Designs, after graduating from SU. From 1986-2004, she collaborated with her agent John Sacks of Jane-Albert Studios Inc. in New York City. Her speculative design work was exhibited and sold yearly at the studio as well as at the Surtex (New York City), Heimtextil (Germany) and Indigo (France) trade shows. Through Jane-Albert Studios and independent commissions, she has created designs for printed and woven textiles, wall covering, glass, ceramic products and paper products.

Giehl, who creates installations as well as two-dimensional work and sculpture, recently exhibited her work in group shows at Munson-Williams-Proctor Museum of Art in Utica; ArtRage and Point of Contact Gallery in Syracuse; the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn; and Main Street Gallery in Groton. Her numerous community art projects include serving as guest curator for Syracuse's Lipe Art Park, where she is working to enhance the park's 600-foot fence by creating an abstract image of the Erie Canal using felt made from recycled plastic bottles.

Gosson's professional career began as a designer and colorist for Scalamandré Silks in New York City; she later worked as an assistant to Anne Marie de Samarjay, owner of Samarjay Associates, a surface pattern design agency in Manhattan. That position led to 20-plus years of freelance design experience for multiple product categories within industry. Her clients include Waverly, a division of F. Schumacher & Co.; Brewster Wallcovering Co.; Kenneth James line; Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia; Lynn Hollyn Associates, the Smithsonian Institution; Warner Wallcovering; Western Textile Co.; and Brunschwig & Fils.

Saulson is a professional handweaver and workshop leader with an interest in ethnic textiles and processes. She served on the board of Weave a Real Peace, an organization that serves as a catalyst for improving the quality of life of weavers and textile artisans in communities-in-need, and she has taught dyeing and weaving in Ghana, where she also conducted a research project on craft cooperatives for SERRV International, a nonprofit, fair trade organization. She recently exhibited her work at Lowell National Historical Park in Massachusetts.

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

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

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

Pa Bouje Anko (Don't Move Again): Works by Laura Heyman
Light Work Gallery

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

André Eugene, Jean Hérard Céleur, Rònald Bazile, Pierre Isnel Destimare, Leah Gordon, and Myron Beasley organized the Ghetto Biennale in Haiti's capitol Port-au-Prince to ask the question, "What happens when first world art rubs up against third world art?"

For her project, Laura Heyman explored formal portraiture following the example of artists like Mike Disfarmer, James Van Der Zee and Seydou Keita, who used the commercial and utilitarian aspects of their practice to portray their subjects with a consideration and respect that was both clear-eyed and beautiful.

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.

Joan Lukas Rothenberg: A Retrospective
Redhouse

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

Joan Lukas Rothenberg's art involvement began early in her life. As the director of the "Art Squad" at Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, NY, Joan was awarded the New York Society of Illustrators prize for her poster depicting the plight of children in poverty. She studied art at New York City's Cooper Union before earning her Master of Fine Arts in painting and ceramics from the University of Michigan and further study in drawing and printmaking at Royal University College in Stockholm.

In Syracuse, Joan was recognized as both an artist and activist. She was a founding member of the first women's consciousness-raising group which evolved into the Women's Information Center in 1972. She also founded and operated Auragyns, a women's art gallery. Joan was in the process of completing her PhD in Women's Studies at Syracuse University, studying images of women in the media, at the time of her death in 1990.

In celebration of Joan's spirit, tenacity, and vision, Red House will feature a series of group exhibitions promoting local, professional and student women artists. The retrospective will inaugurate this Emerging Women Artist series. The retrospective and the series are both made possible by a grant from the Joan Rothenberg Family Foundation.

The exhibit will be on display by appointment. Phone 315-425-0405 for more information or to schedule a viewing.

Read a review!

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.

Good Design: Stories from Herman Miller
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students/military, $30 family pack (includes 2 adults and up to 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition explores the collaborative design process employed at Herman Miller, the world-renowned furniture company that has used design to solve problems for the home and workplace for almost 90 years. Good Design showcases archival holdings of concept models, drawings, supplementary photographs, and completed masterworks of design in furniture and decorative art produced by Herman Miller, Inc. Works by Gilbert Rohde, Ray and Charles Eames, George Nelson, Alexander Girard, Robert Probst, Bill Stumpf, Don Chadwick, Ayse Birdsel, and other well known designers are featured. The exhibition was organized and is circulated by the Muskegon Museum of Art in association with The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan.

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!

Monumental Printstallations
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Large-scale works created by artists at Lake Effect Editions, the press of the printmaking program at Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, are the subject of this exhibition. The show features the work of student, faculty, and visiting artists, including Nicholaus Arnold, Marco Camacho, Susan Edmunds, John Hancock, Dusty Herbig, Neil Hueber, Eric Johanni, Rich Kim, Kristen Leonard, and Sam Tobias.

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!

Holding Phenomenae and Object Transitions
Echo

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

Photographs and assemblages by Sarah Averill.

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."

Jon Swindler, printmaker
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Comstock Art Facility
1055 Comstock Ave., Syracuse

Printmaker Jon Swindler, assistant professor at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia in Athens, will serve as a visiting artist Sept. 22-24. His ,public lectur followed by a reception, will be held in room 022. Parking is available in the Manley North lot.

Chopin 200th Birthday Celebration
LeMoyne College
Featuring Paul Wyse, piano

Price: $15 general public, $10 seniors, students free
Panasci Family Chapel
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Throughout 2010, in honor of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Polish composer/pianist Frederic Chopin, artists will perform all-Chopin piano recitals at Le Moyne College.

The series continues with Paul Wyse performing the Second Sonata, four Impromptus, and assorted short works.

hell strung and crooked
ArtRage Gallery
Featuring Mary McLaughlin Slechta, Robert Gibbons, and Joseph Fritsch, poets

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Poetry taken to the edge and back round again"

Poetry/performance by Mary McLaughlin Slechta, Robert Gibbons and Joseph Fritsch from the latest book produced by Uphook Press, a New York City-based publisher specializing in work by poets and spoken words artists who love both the ink and the mike. hell strung and crooked is their second anthology, taken from open submission, with the aim to promote a nationwide community of performing poets. Featuring 41 poets from San Francisco, Atlanta, Nashville, Boston, Seattle, New York, and elsewhere, hell strung and crooked also includes interviews with National Book Award winner Mark Doty and the Danish writer-performer Claus Ankersen.

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).

From Cuba to 'Cuse
Redhouse

Price: $20
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Jose Miguel Hernandez Hurtado presents From Cuba to 'Cuse, a his personal story of growing up in Cuba and the culture clash he encountered upon immigrating to the United States.

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Friday, September 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.

Le Moyne Faculty Exhibition
LeMoyne College

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

Works by Barry Darling, Katya Krenina, David Moore, and Charlie Wollowitz.

Anagama Nakama: 7 Anagama Potters
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Price: Free
Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Works by Marvin Bjurlin, Julie Crosby, Fred Herbst, Cary Joseph, Marc Peter Keane, Chris Longwell, and Momoko Takeshita.

OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

OCC Faculty Art Show is a collection of artworks in various mediums from about 20 art instructors. The work covers a broad range of genres including elements of representational, nonrepresentational and abstract art forms.

La Colección/The Collection: Exhibit 1
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

Exhibit 1: Works of Burt Barr, Papo Colo, Gregory Crewdson, Judy Pfaff, Rob Van Erve, Sandy Skoglund

Pliable Planes: Cloth & Beyond
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Genet Design Gallery
The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Pliable Planes: Cloth & Beyond" features the work of five SU faculty members -- Anne Cofer, Mary Giehl and Sarah Saulson (fiber arts/material studies) and Marion Dorfer and Eileen Gosson (surface pattern design).

Cofer, an installation artist, had her first museum solo exhibition "Concealed Objects" at the Everson Museum of Art in spring 2009 and a permanent site-specific project for SU's Hinds Hall installed in May. She has been published nationally in Ceramics Monthly and internationally in Ceramics Art and Perception. Her work has been pictured in the New York Times and was selected for “500 Ceramic Sculptures” (Lark, 2009).

Dorfer began her successful freelance business, MY Designs, after graduating from SU. From 1986-2004, she collaborated with her agent John Sacks of Jane-Albert Studios Inc. in New York City. Her speculative design work was exhibited and sold yearly at the studio as well as at the Surtex (New York City), Heimtextil (Germany) and Indigo (France) trade shows. Through Jane-Albert Studios and independent commissions, she has created designs for printed and woven textiles, wall covering, glass, ceramic products and paper products.

Giehl, who creates installations as well as two-dimensional work and sculpture, recently exhibited her work in group shows at Munson-Williams-Proctor Museum of Art in Utica; ArtRage and Point of Contact Gallery in Syracuse; the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn; and Main Street Gallery in Groton. Her numerous community art projects include serving as guest curator for Syracuse's Lipe Art Park, where she is working to enhance the park's 600-foot fence by creating an abstract image of the Erie Canal using felt made from recycled plastic bottles.

Gosson's professional career began as a designer and colorist for Scalamandré Silks in New York City; she later worked as an assistant to Anne Marie de Samarjay, owner of Samarjay Associates, a surface pattern design agency in Manhattan. That position led to 20-plus years of freelance design experience for multiple product categories within industry. Her clients include Waverly, a division of F. Schumacher & Co.; Brewster Wallcovering Co.; Kenneth James line; Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia; Lynn Hollyn Associates, the Smithsonian Institution; Warner Wallcovering; Western Textile Co.; and Brunschwig & Fils.

Saulson is a professional handweaver and workshop leader with an interest in ethnic textiles and processes. She served on the board of Weave a Real Peace, an organization that serves as a catalyst for improving the quality of life of weavers and textile artisans in communities-in-need, and she has taught dyeing and weaving in Ghana, where she also conducted a research project on craft cooperatives for SERRV International, a nonprofit, fair trade organization. She recently exhibited her work at Lowell National Historical Park in Massachusetts.

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

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

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

Pa Bouje Anko (Don't Move Again): Works by Laura Heyman
Light Work Gallery

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

André Eugene, Jean Hérard Céleur, Rònald Bazile, Pierre Isnel Destimare, Leah Gordon, and Myron Beasley organized the Ghetto Biennale in Haiti's capitol Port-au-Prince to ask the question, "What happens when first world art rubs up against third world art?"

For her project, Laura Heyman explored formal portraiture following the example of artists like Mike Disfarmer, James Van Der Zee and Seydou Keita, who used the commercial and utilitarian aspects of their practice to portray their subjects with a consideration and respect that was both clear-eyed and beautiful.

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.

Joan Lukas Rothenberg: A Retrospective
Redhouse

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

Joan Lukas Rothenberg's art involvement began early in her life. As the director of the "Art Squad" at Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, NY, Joan was awarded the New York Society of Illustrators prize for her poster depicting the plight of children in poverty. She studied art at New York City's Cooper Union before earning her Master of Fine Arts in painting and ceramics from the University of Michigan and further study in drawing and printmaking at Royal University College in Stockholm.

In Syracuse, Joan was recognized as both an artist and activist. She was a founding member of the first women's consciousness-raising group which evolved into the Women's Information Center in 1972. She also founded and operated Auragyns, a women's art gallery. Joan was in the process of completing her PhD in Women's Studies at Syracuse University, studying images of women in the media, at the time of her death in 1990.

In celebration of Joan's spirit, tenacity, and vision, Red House will feature a series of group exhibitions promoting local, professional and student women artists. The retrospective will inaugurate this Emerging Women Artist series. The retrospective and the series are both made possible by a grant from the Joan Rothenberg Family Foundation.

The exhibit will be on display by appointment. Phone 315-425-0405 for more information or to schedule a viewing.

Read a review!

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!

Good Design: Stories from Herman Miller
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students/military, $30 family pack (includes 2 adults and up to 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition explores the collaborative design process employed at Herman Miller, the world-renowned furniture company that has used design to solve problems for the home and workplace for almost 90 years. Good Design showcases archival holdings of concept models, drawings, supplementary photographs, and completed masterworks of design in furniture and decorative art produced by Herman Miller, Inc. Works by Gilbert Rohde, Ray and Charles Eames, George Nelson, Alexander Girard, Robert Probst, Bill Stumpf, Don Chadwick, Ayse Birdsel, and other well known designers are featured. The exhibition was organized and is circulated by the Muskegon Museum of Art in association with The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan.

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!

Holding Phenomenae and Object Transitions
Echo

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

Photographs and assemblages by Sarah Averill.

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: 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.

The Great Syracuse Oktoberfest

Price: Free
Regional Market
2100 Park St., Syracuse

12:00–2:00 pm: Liverpool Community Band
3:00–7:00 pm: Enzian Bavarian Band and Dancers
8:00–11:00 pm: Kane and 3 Inch Fury

Unsolved Mysteries of the Salt City Ghost Walk
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: $12
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

OHA's fall Ghost Walk will feature the distinctive industrial architecture of the early 20th century and forgotten stories of our past. Tours leave every 15 minutes. For more information, phone 315-428-1864 ext. 360.

NYS Baroque Ensemble Convocation
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

NYS Baroque performs music of the Renaissance, Baroque and early Classical periods on period instruments with what the Syracuse Post-Standard hails as "[an] exquisite balance of sound and astounding synchronicity."

Death and Devotion: Masterworks of the Lutheran musical tradition
NYS Baroque
Featuring Laura Heimes, soprano; Kristen Dubenion-Smith, mezzo-soprano; Aaron Sheehan, tenor; Peter Becker, baritone

Price: $25 regular, $20 seniors, $10 college students, children free
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

Bach Cantata, BWV 106. Gottes Zeit ist die Allerbeste Zeit
Buxtehude Herr, wenn ich nur dich hab’, BuxWV 38
Buxtehude Sonata in F major for two violins and viola da gamba, BuxWV 269
Bach Cantata, BWV 152. Tritt auf die glaubensbahn
Telemann Funeral cantata, TWV 4:17. Du aber, Daniel, gehe hin
Pachelbel Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan

Acoustic Strawbs
Redhouse

Price: $25
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Legendary British folk-rock band stops here on their U.S. tour.

Pops Series: Day in the Life... The Three Phantoms Returns
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Ron Spigelman, conductor

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

Former stars of The Phantom of the Opera—Craig Schulman, Kevin Gray and Watertown native Ted Keegan who appeared in the Syracuse production—perform music from Broadway's greatest shows including Les Misérables, Chicago, South Pacific and, of course, The Phantom of the Opera. Don't miss this humorous journey illustrating a day in the life of a Broadway star, complete with anecdotes about "the biz."

Cyro Baptista's Banquet of the Spirits
Westcott Theater

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

Twelve Angry Men
CNY Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

Price: Dinner theater: $27 single; $50 couple. Show only: $18 (limited availability)
Fire and Ice Banquet Hall, The Locker Room
528 Hiawatha Blvd., Syracuse

Dinner at 6:30 pm, followed by show at 8:00 pm.

A 19-year-old man has just stood trial for the fatal stabbing of his father. "He doesn't stand a chance," mutters the guard as the 12 jurors are taken into the bleak jury room. It looks like an open-and-shut case—until one of the jurors begins opening the others' eyes to the facts. "This is a remarkable thing about democracy," says the foreign-born juror, "that we are notified by mail to come down to this place—and decide on the guilt or innocence of a man; of a man we have not known before. We have nothing to gain or lose by our verdict. We should not make it a personal thing." But personal it does become, with each juror revealing his or her own character as the various testimonies are re-examined, the murder is re-enacted, and a new murder threat is born before their eyes! Tempers get short, arguments grow heated, and the jurors become 12 angry men. The jurors' final verdict and how they reach it—in tense scenes that will electrify you and keep you on the edge of your seat—add up to a fine, mature piece of dramatic literature, an experience you'll never forget.

Cast includes Tim Bennett, Jon Wilson, John Brackett, Lanny Freshman, Michael Shanahan, Matt Nilsen, Daniel Rowlands, Joseph Pierce, Stephen Brownell, Steve Rowlands, Navroz Dabu, David Vickers, Christopher Best.

Read a review!

Parade
Appleseed Productions
Deborah Pearson and Meghan Pearson, director

Price: $20 regular; $17 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

In 1913, Leo Frank, a Brooklyn-born Jew living in Georgia, is put on trial for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan, a factory worker under his employ. Already guilty in the eyes of everyone around him, a sensationalist publisher and a janitor's false testimony seal Leo's fate. His only defenders are a governor with a conscience, and, eventually, his assimilated Southern wife who finds the strength and love to become his greatest champion. Based on a true story.

Book by Alfred Uhry, music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, music directed by Dan Williams, choreographed by Jennifer Pearson.

Read a Review!

Elegy in Blue
Rarely Done Productions
Donna Stuccio, director

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Officer Celeste Luna wades through the fog of her day-to-day operations, tending to her urban beat while doggedly guarding her heart. A fateful convergence of four other lost souls in her territory leads to the unearthing of long-secreted information which threatens to reap catastrophic fallout. Will forgiveness or retribution win out? A world premiere, the play is the sequel to "Blue Moon". Written by Donna Stuccio.

Read a Review!

Saturday, September 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.

Anagama Nakama: 7 Anagama Potters
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Price: Free
Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Works by Marvin Bjurlin, Julie Crosby, Fred Herbst, Cary Joseph, Marc Peter Keane, Chris Longwell, and Momoko Takeshita.

Le Moyne Faculty Exhibition
LeMoyne College

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

Works by Barry Darling, Katya Krenina, David Moore, and Charlie Wollowitz.

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

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

Holding Phenomenae and Object Transitions
Echo

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

Photographs and assemblages by Sarah Averill.

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

Good Design: Stories from Herman Miller
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students/military, $30 family pack (includes 2 adults and up to 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition explores the collaborative design process employed at Herman Miller, the world-renowned furniture company that has used design to solve problems for the home and workplace for almost 90 years. Good Design showcases archival holdings of concept models, drawings, supplementary photographs, and completed masterworks of design in furniture and decorative art produced by Herman Miller, Inc. Works by Gilbert Rohde, Ray and Charles Eames, George Nelson, Alexander Girard, Robert Probst, Bill Stumpf, Don Chadwick, Ayse Birdsel, and other well known designers are featured. The exhibition was organized and is circulated by the Muskegon Museum of Art in association with The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan.

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!

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.

Opening: 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.

There will be an opening reception 12:00-2:00 pm. Mejia will be in attendance, accompanied by trained animal ambassadors.

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.

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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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."

Festival Latino Americano

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

11:00-12:00: Parade and ceremony
12:00-1:30 pm: Youth talent show and Joven Guardia del Teatro Latino
1:30-2:30 pm: Mariachis
2:50-3:50 pm: Ricky Encarnacion and Heaven Report
4:10-5:30 pm: Grupo Son Boricua
5:30-6:15 pm: Queststar
6:30-7:40 pm: Los 6 del 6
8:15-9:30 pm: Domenic Marte

The Great Syracuse Oktoberfest

Price: Free
Regional Market
2100 Park St., Syracuse

12:00–2:00 pm: Liverpool Community Band
1:00 pm: Deutsche Gesangverein
4:00–7:00 pm: Jimmy Stur and His Orchestra with the Enzian Bavarian Dancers
8:00–11:00 pm: Under the Gun

Unsolved Mysteries of the Salt City Ghost Walk
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: $12
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

OHA's fall Ghost Walk will feature the distinctive industrial architecture of the early 20th century and forgotten stories of our past. Tours leave every 15 minutes. For more information, phone 315-428-1864 ext. 360.

Highland Pipe Band Concert

Price: Freewill offering
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Corner of Hazel and Vine St., Liverpool

For more information, phone 315-457-3210.

Steeple Coffeehouse
Pond Creek Bogstompers

Price: $7
United Church of Fayetteville
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

Old-time string band with vocalist. Desserts and beverages served. For more information, phone 315-637-3186.

Pops Series: Day in the Life... The Three Phantoms Returns
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Ron Spigelman, conductor

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

Former stars of The Phantom of the Opera—Craig Schulman, Kevin Gray and Watertown native Ted Keegan who appeared in the Syracuse production—perform music from Broadway's greatest shows including Les Misérables, Chicago, South Pacific and, of course, The Phantom of the Opera. Don't miss this humorous journey illustrating a day in the life of a Broadway star, complete with anecdotes about "the biz."

Rogue Wave, with Midlake and Peter Wolf Crier
Westcott Theater

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

Stop, Drop, and Roll CD Release Party
Words and Music Songwriter Showcase
Featuring Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers and Joshua Dekaney

Price: $10
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Stop, Drop, and Roll CD release party, featuring Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers and Joshua Dekaney, with special guests Dana "Short Order" Cooke and Tim Burns (Two Hour Delay) performing their own songs as well as Rodgers' originals. Special guests will include Judy Stanton, violin, and Melody Calley, vocals, both of whom performed on the Stop, Drop, and Roll album.

This show opens the third season of the Words and Music Songwriter Showcase.

For reservations, email showcase@wordsandmusic.info.

Alice in Wonderland
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive comedic retelling of the classic tale.

No Child ...
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director
Featuring Reenah L. Golden

Price: $20 adults; $15 students
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

One actor portrays 16 characters in this entertaining account, by Nilaja Sun, of an idealistic young artist who attempts to teach a class of under-challenged 10th graders. Funny and buoyant, yet never shying away from the sobering truths of the urban lives and neighborhoods it depicts, No Child ... celebrates the positive difference one passionate person and a class of inspired kids can make in a troubled place. Whether you're a student, a teacher, or a parent, you will be moved by the power of this relevant, exuberant, and uplifting show.

Read a Review!

Twelve Angry Men
CNY Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

Price: Dinner theater: $27 single; $50 couple. Show only: $18 (limited availability)
Fire and Ice Banquet Hall, The Locker Room
528 Hiawatha Blvd., Syracuse

Dinner at 6:30 pm, followed by show at 8:00 pm.

A 19-year-old man has just stood trial for the fatal stabbing of his father. "He doesn't stand a chance," mutters the guard as the 12 jurors are taken into the bleak jury room. It looks like an open-and-shut case—until one of the jurors begins opening the others' eyes to the facts. "This is a remarkable thing about democracy," says the foreign-born juror, "that we are notified by mail to come down to this place—and decide on the guilt or innocence of a man; of a man we have not known before. We have nothing to gain or lose by our verdict. We should not make it a personal thing." But personal it does become, with each juror revealing his or her own character as the various testimonies are re-examined, the murder is re-enacted, and a new murder threat is born before their eyes! Tempers get short, arguments grow heated, and the jurors become 12 angry men. The jurors' final verdict and how they reach it—in tense scenes that will electrify you and keep you on the edge of your seat—add up to a fine, mature piece of dramatic literature, an experience you'll never forget.

Cast includes Tim Bennett, Jon Wilson, John Brackett, Lanny Freshman, Michael Shanahan, Matt Nilsen, Daniel Rowlands, Joseph Pierce, Stephen Brownell, Steve Rowlands, Navroz Dabu, David Vickers, Christopher Best.

Read a review!

Parade
Appleseed Productions
Deborah Pearson and Meghan Pearson, director

Price: $20 regular; $17 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

In 1913, Leo Frank, a Brooklyn-born Jew living in Georgia, is put on trial for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan, a factory worker under his employ. Already guilty in the eyes of everyone around him, a sensationalist publisher and a janitor's false testimony seal Leo's fate. His only defenders are a governor with a conscience, and, eventually, his assimilated Southern wife who finds the strength and love to become his greatest champion. Based on a true story.

Book by Alfred Uhry, music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, music directed by Dan Williams, choreographed by Jennifer Pearson.

Read a Review!

Elegy in Blue
Rarely Done Productions
Donna Stuccio, director

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Officer Celeste Luna wades through the fog of her day-to-day operations, tending to her urban beat while doggedly guarding her heart. A fateful convergence of four other lost souls in her territory leads to the unearthing of long-secreted information which threatens to reap catastrophic fallout. Will forgiveness or retribution win out? A world premiere, the play is the sequel to "Blue Moon". Written by Donna Stuccio.

Read a Review!

From Cuba to 'Cuse
Redhouse

Price: $20
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Jose Miguel Hernandez Hurtado presents From Cuba to 'Cuse, a his personal story of growing up in Cuba and the culture clash he encountered upon immigrating to the United States.

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No Child ...
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director
Featuring Reenah L. Golden

Price: $20 adults; $15 students
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

One actor portrays 16 characters in this entertaining account, by Nilaja Sun, of an idealistic young artist who attempts to teach a class of under-challenged 10th graders. Funny and buoyant, yet never shying away from the sobering truths of the urban lives and neighborhoods it depicts, No Child ... celebrates the positive difference one passionate person and a class of inspired kids can make in a troubled place. Whether you're a student, a teacher, or a parent, you will be moved by the power of this relevant, exuberant, and uplifting show.

Read a Review!

Sunday, September 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.

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

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

Pa Bouje Anko (Don't Move Again): Works by Laura Heyman
Light Work Gallery

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

André Eugene, Jean Hérard Céleur, Rònald Bazile, Pierre Isnel Destimare, Leah Gordon, and Myron Beasley organized the Ghetto Biennale in Haiti's capitol Port-au-Prince to ask the question, "What happens when first world art rubs up against third world art?"

For her project, Laura Heyman explored formal portraiture following the example of artists like Mike Disfarmer, James Van Der Zee and Seydou Keita, who used the commercial and utilitarian aspects of their practice to portray their subjects with a consideration and respect that was both clear-eyed and beautiful.

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!

Good Design: Stories from Herman Miller
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students/military, $30 family pack (includes 2 adults and up to 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition explores the collaborative design process employed at Herman Miller, the world-renowned furniture company that has used design to solve problems for the home and workplace for almost 90 years. Good Design showcases archival holdings of concept models, drawings, supplementary photographs, and completed masterworks of design in furniture and decorative art produced by Herman Miller, Inc. Works by Gilbert Rohde, Ray and Charles Eames, George Nelson, Alexander Girard, Robert Probst, Bill Stumpf, Don Chadwick, Ayse Birdsel, and other well known designers are featured. The exhibition was organized and is circulated by the Muskegon Museum of Art in association with The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan.

Le Moyne Faculty Exhibition
LeMoyne College

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

Works by Barry Darling, Katya Krenina, David Moore, and Charlie Wollowitz.

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

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

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.

Jewish Music and Cultural Festival

Price: Free
Jewish Community Center
5655 Thompson Rd., Dewitt

Main Stage
12:00 pm: Susan Geta, Nona's Songs
1:00 pm: Zetz
2:15 pm: Keyna Hora Klezmer Band
3:00 pm: Largest CNY Hora
3:00 pm: Siora
4:45 pm: West of Odessa
5:30 pm: Open Jam Session

Family Auditorium:
12:00-12:20 pm: Jayde Martin
12:30-1:30 pm: Jonathan Dinkin and Klezmercuse
1:45-2:45 pm: Kenesset Shalom Singers & Syracuse Chorale Chamber Singers with conductors Francine Berg and Warren Ottey
3:45-4:30 pm: Zetz

The Great Syracuse Oktoberfest

Price: Free
Regional Market
2100 Park St., Syracuse

12:00–2:00 pm: Liverpool Community Band
1:00: Syracuse Liederverein
2:30–6:00 pm: Enzian Bavarian Band and Dancers

Ann Wright, Truth Teller
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

M. Ann Wright is a former U.S. Army colonel and retired official of the U.S. State Department, known for her outspoken opposition to the Iraq War. She is most noted for having been one of three State Department officials to publicly resign in direct protest of the March 2003 invasion of Iraq. She was a passenger on the Challenger 1, which along with the Mavi Marmara, was part of the Gaza flotilla. Wright will be at ArtRage telling the truth and& signing copies of her new book.

Jatoba, with Sophistafunk, Tim Herron Corporation, The Love Volcanos, and more
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

A benefit For William Fizette II.

Live! at the Everson: Gregory Wood, cello; Ida Trebicka, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Beethoven Sonata Series Piano Recital
Onondaga Community College
Featuring Kevin Moore

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Kevin Moore is a pianist and Professor of Music at OCC. He has played more than 270 concerts in the central and western NY areas since arriving in Syracuse in 1975, including more than 70 full-length solo recitals and many chamber music, choral and vocal programs. This concert is the fourth installment of the Beethoven sonata series featuring "Moonlight."

Branford Marsalis
Syracuse University Pulse Performing Arts Series

Price: $20 general public; $5 SU and ESF students; $16 Family Weekend registrants, SU faculty and staff , Pulse partners
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Recognized as one of the world's most accomplished jazz musicians, Branford Marsalis will take the stage for a performance during Syracuse University Family Weekend.

A three-time Grammy winner from one of the world's most distinguished musical families, Marsalis is known for his innovative spirit and broad musical scope. Equally at home on the stages of the world's greatest clubs and concert halls, Marsalis has performed jazz with his quartet and adds his own unique musical approach to contemporary popular music with his band Buckshot LeFonque. His latest CD, "Metamorphosen," marks the 10th anniversary of the quartet, which features pianist Joey Calderazzo, bassist Eric Revis, and drummer Justin Faulkner. The CD includes original compositions by all four members in a variety of moods and features Marsalis on tenor, soprano, and alto saxophones.

Tickets go on sale on Sept. 7 at the Schine Box Office and online at students.syr.edu/boxoffice (with an additional $1.25 processing fee).

For more information, phone 315-443-5388 or email mmmathis@syr.edu.

Pluck, Pound, Peel
Society for New Music

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon Pluck, Pound, Peel
Robert Palmer Epigrams
Michael Gilbertson Fold by Fold
Chris Rogerson String Quartet

Twelve Angry Men
CNY Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

Price: Dinner theater: $27 single; $50 couple. Show only: $18 (limited availability)
Fire and Ice Banquet Hall, The Locker Room
528 Hiawatha Blvd., Syracuse

Brunch at 12:30 pm, followed by show at 2:00 pm.

A 19-year-old man has just stood trial for the fatal stabbing of his father. "He doesn't stand a chance," mutters the guard as the 12 jurors are taken into the bleak jury room. It looks like an open-and-shut case—until one of the jurors begins opening the others' eyes to the facts. "This is a remarkable thing about democracy," says the foreign-born juror, "that we are notified by mail to come down to this place—and decide on the guilt or innocence of a man; of a man we have not known before. We have nothing to gain or lose by our verdict. We should not make it a personal thing." But personal it does become, with each juror revealing his or her own character as the various testimonies are re-examined, the murder is re-enacted, and a new murder threat is born before their eyes! Tempers get short, arguments grow heated, and the jurors become 12 angry men. The jurors' final verdict and how they reach it—in tense scenes that will electrify you and keep you on the edge of your seat—add up to a fine, mature piece of dramatic literature, an experience you'll never forget.

Cast includes Tim Bennett, Jon Wilson, John Brackett, Lanny Freshman, Michael Shanahan, Matt Nilsen, Daniel Rowlands, Joseph Pierce, Stephen Brownell, Steve Rowlands, Navroz Dabu, David Vickers, Christopher Best.

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From Cuba to 'Cuse
Redhouse

Price: $20
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Jose Miguel Hernandez Hurtado presents From Cuba to 'Cuse, a his personal story of growing up in Cuba and the culture clash he encountered upon immigrating to the United States.

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No Child ...
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director
Featuring Reenah L. Golden

Price: $20 adults; $15 students
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

One actor portrays 16 characters in this entertaining account, by Nilaja Sun, of an idealistic young artist who attempts to teach a class of under-challenged 10th graders. Funny and buoyant, yet never shying away from the sobering truths of the urban lives and neighborhoods it depicts, No Child ... celebrates the positive difference one passionate person and a class of inspired kids can make in a troubled place. Whether you're a student, a teacher, or a parent, you will be moved by the power of this relevant, exuberant, and uplifting show.

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Monday, September 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.

Le Moyne Faculty Exhibition
LeMoyne College

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

Works by Barry Darling, Katya Krenina, David Moore, and Charlie Wollowitz.

OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

OCC Faculty Art Show is a collection of artworks in various mediums from about 20 art instructors. The work covers a broad range of genres including elements of representational, nonrepresentational and abstract art forms.

La Colección/The Collection: Exhibit 1
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

Exhibit 1: Works of Burt Barr, Papo Colo, Gregory Crewdson, Judy Pfaff, Rob Van Erve, Sandy Skoglund

Pliable Planes: Cloth & Beyond
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Genet Design Gallery
The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Pliable Planes: Cloth & Beyond" features the work of five SU faculty members -- Anne Cofer, Mary Giehl and Sarah Saulson (fiber arts/material studies) and Marion Dorfer and Eileen Gosson (surface pattern design).

Cofer, an installation artist, had her first museum solo exhibition "Concealed Objects" at the Everson Museum of Art in spring 2009 and a permanent site-specific project for SU's Hinds Hall installed in May. She has been published nationally in Ceramics Monthly and internationally in Ceramics Art and Perception. Her work has been pictured in the New York Times and was selected for “500 Ceramic Sculptures” (Lark, 2009).

Dorfer began her successful freelance business, MY Designs, after graduating from SU. From 1986-2004, she collaborated with her agent John Sacks of Jane-Albert Studios Inc. in New York City. Her speculative design work was exhibited and sold yearly at the studio as well as at the Surtex (New York City), Heimtextil (Germany) and Indigo (France) trade shows. Through Jane-Albert Studios and independent commissions, she has created designs for printed and woven textiles, wall covering, glass, ceramic products and paper products.

Giehl, who creates installations as well as two-dimensional work and sculpture, recently exhibited her work in group shows at Munson-Williams-Proctor Museum of Art in Utica; ArtRage and Point of Contact Gallery in Syracuse; the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn; and Main Street Gallery in Groton. Her numerous community art projects include serving as guest curator for Syracuse's Lipe Art Park, where she is working to enhance the park's 600-foot fence by creating an abstract image of the Erie Canal using felt made from recycled plastic bottles.

Gosson's professional career began as a designer and colorist for Scalamandré Silks in New York City; she later worked as an assistant to Anne Marie de Samarjay, owner of Samarjay Associates, a surface pattern design agency in Manhattan. That position led to 20-plus years of freelance design experience for multiple product categories within industry. Her clients include Waverly, a division of F. Schumacher & Co.; Brewster Wallcovering Co.; Kenneth James line; Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia; Lynn Hollyn Associates, the Smithsonian Institution; Warner Wallcovering; Western Textile Co.; and Brunschwig & Fils.

Saulson is a professional handweaver and workshop leader with an interest in ethnic textiles and processes. She served on the board of Weave a Real Peace, an organization that serves as a catalyst for improving the quality of life of weavers and textile artisans in communities-in-need, and she has taught dyeing and weaving in Ghana, where she also conducted a research project on craft cooperatives for SERRV International, a nonprofit, fair trade organization. She recently exhibited her work at Lowell National Historical Park in Massachusetts.

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.

84th Annual Juried Member Show
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

Pa Bouje Anko (Don't Move Again): Works by Laura Heyman
Light Work Gallery

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

André Eugene, Jean Hérard Céleur, Rònald Bazile, Pierre Isnel Destimare, Leah Gordon, and Myron Beasley organized the Ghetto Biennale in Haiti's capitol Port-au-Prince to ask the question, "What happens when first world art rubs up against third world art?"

For her project, Laura Heyman explored formal portraiture following the example of artists like Mike Disfarmer, James Van Der Zee and Seydou Keita, who used the commercial and utilitarian aspects of their practice to portray their subjects with a consideration and respect that was both clear-eyed and beautiful.

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.

Joan Lukas Rothenberg: A Retrospective
Redhouse

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

Joan Lukas Rothenberg's art involvement began early in her life. As the director of the "Art Squad" at Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, NY, Joan was awarded the New York Society of Illustrators prize for her poster depicting the plight of children in poverty. She studied art at New York City's Cooper Union before earning her Master of Fine Arts in painting and ceramics from the University of Michigan and further study in drawing and printmaking at Royal University College in Stockholm.

In Syracuse, Joan was recognized as both an artist and activist. She was a founding member of the first women's consciousness-raising group which evolved into the Women's Information Center in 1972. She also founded and operated Auragyns, a women's art gallery. Joan was in the process of completing her PhD in Women's Studies at Syracuse University, studying images of women in the media, at the time of her death in 1990.

In celebration of Joan's spirit, tenacity, and vision, Red House will feature a series of group exhibitions promoting local, professional and student women artists. The retrospective will inaugurate this Emerging Women Artist series. The retrospective and the series are both made possible by a grant from the Joan Rothenberg Family Foundation.

The exhibit will be on display by appointment. Phone 315-425-0405 for more information or to schedule a viewing.

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Sitting Pretty (1933)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Director: Harry Joe Brown. Cast includes Jack Oakie, Jack Haley, Ginger Rogers, Thelma Todd, Art Jarrett, Jerry Tucker, The Pickens Sisters. A songwriting team (Oakie and Haley) travel to Hollywood to make it big composing movie musicals. This rare musical-comedy introduced the hit song "Did You Ever See A Dream Walking?" plus other popular tunes. (No relation to the 1950 Clifton Webb comedy of the same name.)

Tuesday, September 28, 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.

Le Moyne Faculty Exhibition
LeMoyne College

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

Works by Barry Darling, Katya Krenina, David Moore, and Charlie Wollowitz.

Anagama Nakama: 7 Anagama Potters
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Price: Free
Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Works by Marvin Bjurlin, Julie Crosby, Fred Herbst, Cary Joseph, Marc Peter Keane, Chris Longwell, and Momoko Takeshita.

OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

OCC Faculty Art Show is a collection of artworks in various mediums from about 20 art instructors. The work covers a broad range of genres including elements of representational, nonrepresentational and abstract art forms.

Pliable Planes: Cloth & Beyond
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Genet Design Gallery
The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Pliable Planes: Cloth & Beyond" features the work of five SU faculty members -- Anne Cofer, Mary Giehl and Sarah Saulson (fiber arts/material studies) and Marion Dorfer and Eileen Gosson (surface pattern design).

Cofer, an installation artist, had her first museum solo exhibition "Concealed Objects" at the Everson Museum of Art in spring 2009 and a permanent site-specific project for SU's Hinds Hall installed in May. She has been published nationally in Ceramics Monthly and internationally in Ceramics Art and Perception. Her work has been pictured in the New York Times and was selected for “500 Ceramic Sculptures” (Lark, 2009).

Dorfer began her successful freelance business, MY Designs, after graduating from SU. From 1986-2004, she collaborated with her agent John Sacks of Jane-Albert Studios Inc. in New York City. Her speculative design work was exhibited and sold yearly at the studio as well as at the Surtex (New York City), Heimtextil (Germany) and Indigo (France) trade shows. Through Jane-Albert Studios and independent commissions, she has created designs for printed and woven textiles, wall covering, glass, ceramic products and paper products.

Giehl, who creates installations as well as two-dimensional work and sculpture, recently exhibited her work in group shows at Munson-Williams-Proctor Museum of Art in Utica; ArtRage and Point of Contact Gallery in Syracuse; the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn; and Main Street Gallery in Groton. Her numerous community art projects include serving as guest curator for Syracuse's Lipe Art Park, where she is working to enhance the park's 600-foot fence by creating an abstract image of the Erie Canal using felt made from recycled plastic bottles.

Gosson's professional career began as a designer and colorist for Scalamandré Silks in New York City; she later worked as an assistant to Anne Marie de Samarjay, owner of Samarjay Associates, a surface pattern design agency in Manhattan. That position led to 20-plus years of freelance design experience for multiple product categories within industry. Her clients include Waverly, a division of F. Schumacher & Co.; Brewster Wallcovering Co.; Kenneth James line; Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia; Lynn Hollyn Associates, the Smithsonian Institution; Warner Wallcovering; Western Textile Co.; and Brunschwig & Fils.

Saulson is a professional handweaver and workshop leader with an interest in ethnic textiles and processes. She served on the board of Weave a Real Peace, an organization that serves as a catalyst for improving the quality of life of weavers and textile artisans in communities-in-need, and she has taught dyeing and weaving in Ghana, where she also conducted a research project on craft cooperatives for SERRV International, a nonprofit, fair trade organization. She recently exhibited her work at Lowell National Historical Park in Massachusetts.

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

Pa Bouje Anko (Don't Move Again): Works by Laura Heyman
Light Work Gallery

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

André Eugene, Jean Hérard Céleur, Rònald Bazile, Pierre Isnel Destimare, Leah Gordon, and Myron Beasley organized the Ghetto Biennale in Haiti's capitol Port-au-Prince to ask the question, "What happens when first world art rubs up against third world art?"

For her project, Laura Heyman explored formal portraiture following the example of artists like Mike Disfarmer, James Van Der Zee and Seydou Keita, who used the commercial and utilitarian aspects of their practice to portray their subjects with a consideration and respect that was both clear-eyed and beautiful.

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.

Joan Lukas Rothenberg: A Retrospective
Redhouse

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

Joan Lukas Rothenberg's art involvement began early in her life. As the director of the "Art Squad" at Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, NY, Joan was awarded the New York Society of Illustrators prize for her poster depicting the plight of children in poverty. She studied art at New York City's Cooper Union before earning her Master of Fine Arts in painting and ceramics from the University of Michigan and further study in drawing and printmaking at Royal University College in Stockholm.

In Syracuse, Joan was recognized as both an artist and activist. She was a founding member of the first women's consciousness-raising group which evolved into the Women's Information Center in 1972. She also founded and operated Auragyns, a women's art gallery. Joan was in the process of completing her PhD in Women's Studies at Syracuse University, studying images of women in the media, at the time of her death in 1990.

In celebration of Joan's spirit, tenacity, and vision, Red House will feature a series of group exhibitions promoting local, professional and student women artists. The retrospective will inaugurate this Emerging Women Artist series. The retrospective and the series are both made possible by a grant from the Joan Rothenberg Family Foundation.

The exhibit will be on display by appointment. Phone 315-425-0405 for more information or to schedule a viewing.

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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.

Good Design: Stories from Herman Miller
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students/military, $30 family pack (includes 2 adults and up to 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition explores the collaborative design process employed at Herman Miller, the world-renowned furniture company that has used design to solve problems for the home and workplace for almost 90 years. Good Design showcases archival holdings of concept models, drawings, supplementary photographs, and completed masterworks of design in furniture and decorative art produced by Herman Miller, Inc. Works by Gilbert Rohde, Ray and Charles Eames, George Nelson, Alexander Girard, Robert Probst, Bill Stumpf, Don Chadwick, Ayse Birdsel, and other well known designers are featured. The exhibition was organized and is circulated by the Muskegon Museum of Art in association with The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan.

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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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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An Evening with Dark Star Orchestra
Westcott Theater

Price: $29
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Wednesday, September 29, 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.

Le Moyne Faculty Exhibition
LeMoyne College

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

Works by Barry Darling, Katya Krenina, David Moore, and Charlie Wollowitz.

Anagama Nakama: 7 Anagama Potters
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Price: Free
Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Works by Marvin Bjurlin, Julie Crosby, Fred Herbst, Cary Joseph, Marc Peter Keane, Chris Longwell, and Momoko Takeshita.

La Colección/The Collection: Exhibit 1
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

Exhibit 1: Works of Burt Barr, Papo Colo, Gregory Crewdson, Judy Pfaff, Rob Van Erve, Sandy Skoglund

Pliable Planes: Cloth & Beyond
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Genet Design Gallery
The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Pliable Planes: Cloth & Beyond" features the work of five SU faculty members -- Anne Cofer, Mary Giehl and Sarah Saulson (fiber arts/material studies) and Marion Dorfer and Eileen Gosson (surface pattern design).

Cofer, an installation artist, had her first museum solo exhibition "Concealed Objects" at the Everson Museum of Art in spring 2009 and a permanent site-specific project for SU's Hinds Hall installed in May. She has been published nationally in Ceramics Monthly and internationally in Ceramics Art and Perception. Her work has been pictured in the New York Times and was selected for “500 Ceramic Sculptures” (Lark, 2009).

Dorfer began her successful freelance business, MY Designs, after graduating from SU. From 1986-2004, she collaborated with her agent John Sacks of Jane-Albert Studios Inc. in New York City. Her speculative design work was exhibited and sold yearly at the studio as well as at the Surtex (New York City), Heimtextil (Germany) and Indigo (France) trade shows. Through Jane-Albert Studios and independent commissions, she has created designs for printed and woven textiles, wall covering, glass, ceramic products and paper products.

Giehl, who creates installations as well as two-dimensional work and sculpture, recently exhibited her work in group shows at Munson-Williams-Proctor Museum of Art in Utica; ArtRage and Point of Contact Gallery in Syracuse; the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn; and Main Street Gallery in Groton. Her numerous community art projects include serving as guest curator for Syracuse's Lipe Art Park, where she is working to enhance the park's 600-foot fence by creating an abstract image of the Erie Canal using felt made from recycled plastic bottles.

Gosson's professional career began as a designer and colorist for Scalamandré Silks in New York City; she later worked as an assistant to Anne Marie de Samarjay, owner of Samarjay Associates, a surface pattern design agency in Manhattan. That position led to 20-plus years of freelance design experience for multiple product categories within industry. Her clients include Waverly, a division of F. Schumacher & Co.; Brewster Wallcovering Co.; Kenneth James line; Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia; Lynn Hollyn Associates, the Smithsonian Institution; Warner Wallcovering; Western Textile Co.; and Brunschwig & Fils.

Saulson is a professional handweaver and workshop leader with an interest in ethnic textiles and processes. She served on the board of Weave a Real Peace, an organization that serves as a catalyst for improving the quality of life of weavers and textile artisans in communities-in-need, and she has taught dyeing and weaving in Ghana, where she also conducted a research project on craft cooperatives for SERRV International, a nonprofit, fair trade organization. She recently exhibited her work at Lowell National Historical Park in Massachusetts.

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

Pa Bouje Anko (Don't Move Again): Works by Laura Heyman
Light Work Gallery

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

André Eugene, Jean Hérard Céleur, Rònald Bazile, Pierre Isnel Destimare, Leah Gordon, and Myron Beasley organized the Ghetto Biennale in Haiti's capitol Port-au-Prince to ask the question, "What happens when first world art rubs up against third world art?"

For her project, Laura Heyman explored formal portraiture following the example of artists like Mike Disfarmer, James Van Der Zee and Seydou Keita, who used the commercial and utilitarian aspects of their practice to portray their subjects with a consideration and respect that was both clear-eyed and beautiful.

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.

Joan Lukas Rothenberg: A Retrospective
Redhouse

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

Joan Lukas Rothenberg's art involvement began early in her life. As the director of the "Art Squad" at Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, NY, Joan was awarded the New York Society of Illustrators prize for her poster depicting the plight of children in poverty. She studied art at New York City's Cooper Union before earning her Master of Fine Arts in painting and ceramics from the University of Michigan and further study in drawing and printmaking at Royal University College in Stockholm.

In Syracuse, Joan was recognized as both an artist and activist. She was a founding member of the first women's consciousness-raising group which evolved into the Women's Information Center in 1972. She also founded and operated Auragyns, a women's art gallery. Joan was in the process of completing her PhD in Women's Studies at Syracuse University, studying images of women in the media, at the time of her death in 1990.

In celebration of Joan's spirit, tenacity, and vision, Red House will feature a series of group exhibitions promoting local, professional and student women artists. The retrospective will inaugurate this Emerging Women Artist series. The retrospective and the series are both made possible by a grant from the Joan Rothenberg Family Foundation.

The exhibit will be on display by appointment. Phone 315-425-0405 for more information or to schedule a viewing.

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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.

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Good Design: Stories from Herman Miller
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students/military, $30 family pack (includes 2 adults and up to 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition explores the collaborative design process employed at Herman Miller, the world-renowned furniture company that has used design to solve problems for the home and workplace for almost 90 years. Good Design showcases archival holdings of concept models, drawings, supplementary photographs, and completed masterworks of design in furniture and decorative art produced by Herman Miller, Inc. Works by Gilbert Rohde, Ray and Charles Eames, George Nelson, Alexander Girard, Robert Probst, Bill Stumpf, Don Chadwick, Ayse Birdsel, and other well known designers are featured. The exhibition was organized and is circulated by the Muskegon Museum of Art in association with The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan.

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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Holding Phenomenae and Object Transitions
Echo

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

Photographs and assemblages by Sarah Averill.

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.

Nicholas Hrynyk, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Rising young Eastman virtuoso plays Schumann Symphonic Etudes and Prokofieff Sonata No. 6.

Hailing from Auburn, NY, the 19-year-old Nicholas Hrynyk is well known to audiences there, having appeared with orchestra and as solo recitalist many times. He has performed on numerous occasions throughout Central New York, and is a first place winner of the Patricia DeAngelis Festival. He also garnered a first place prize in composition at the Cape Vincent Competition. Hrynyk performed in France this summer and has returned to the Eastman School, where he is a student of Natalya Antonova.

Shane Seely, poetry
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.

Thursday, September 30, 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.

Le Moyne Faculty Exhibition
LeMoyne College

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

Works by Barry Darling, Katya Krenina, David Moore, and Charlie Wollowitz.

Anagama Nakama: 7 Anagama Potters
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Price: Free
Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Works by Marvin Bjurlin, Julie Crosby, Fred Herbst, Cary Joseph, Marc Peter Keane, Chris Longwell, and Momoko Takeshita.

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

Pa Bouje Anko (Don't Move Again): Works by Laura Heyman
Light Work Gallery

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

André Eugene, Jean Hérard Céleur, Rònald Bazile, Pierre Isnel Destimare, Leah Gordon, and Myron Beasley organized the Ghetto Biennale in Haiti's capitol Port-au-Prince to ask the question, "What happens when first world art rubs up against third world art?"

For her project, Laura Heyman explored formal portraiture following the example of artists like Mike Disfarmer, James Van Der Zee and Seydou Keita, who used the commercial and utilitarian aspects of their practice to portray their subjects with a consideration and respect that was both clear-eyed and beautiful.

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.

Joan Lukas Rothenberg: A Retrospective
Redhouse

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

Joan Lukas Rothenberg's art involvement began early in her life. As the director of the "Art Squad" at Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, NY, Joan was awarded the New York Society of Illustrators prize for her poster depicting the plight of children in poverty. She studied art at New York City's Cooper Union before earning her Master of Fine Arts in painting and ceramics from the University of Michigan and further study in drawing and printmaking at Royal University College in Stockholm.

In Syracuse, Joan was recognized as both an artist and activist. She was a founding member of the first women's consciousness-raising group which evolved into the Women's Information Center in 1972. She also founded and operated Auragyns, a women's art gallery. Joan was in the process of completing her PhD in Women's Studies at Syracuse University, studying images of women in the media, at the time of her death in 1990.

In celebration of Joan's spirit, tenacity, and vision, Red House will feature a series of group exhibitions promoting local, professional and student women artists. The retrospective will inaugurate this Emerging Women Artist series. The retrospective and the series are both made possible by a grant from the Joan Rothenberg Family Foundation.

The exhibit will be on display by appointment. Phone 315-425-0405 for more information or to schedule a viewing.

Read a review!

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.

Good Design: Stories from Herman Miller
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students/military, $30 family pack (includes 2 adults and up to 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition explores the collaborative design process employed at Herman Miller, the world-renowned furniture company that has used design to solve problems for the home and workplace for almost 90 years. Good Design showcases archival holdings of concept models, drawings, supplementary photographs, and completed masterworks of design in furniture and decorative art produced by Herman Miller, Inc. Works by Gilbert Rohde, Ray and Charles Eames, George Nelson, Alexander Girard, Robert Probst, Bill Stumpf, Don Chadwick, Ayse Birdsel, and other well known designers are featured. The exhibition was organized and is circulated by the Muskegon Museum of Art in association with The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan.

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!

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!

Holding Phenomenae and Object Transitions
Echo

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

Photographs and assemblages by Sarah Averill.

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."

The Response
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences
Illuminating Oppression: 8th Annual Human Rights Film Festival

Price: Free
Hergenhan Auditorium, Newhouse 3
Syracuse University, Syracuse

A gripping courtroom drama based on actual transcripts from the Guantanamo Bay military tribunals. A panel discussion will be held after the screening. (Adam Rodgers, 30 min., U.S.A. 2008)

For more information on Illuminating Oppression, visit www.syracusesymposium.org/film-festival.

Songwriters Live
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Gordon Student Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Donna Colton and Ron Van Norstrand perform with series hosts Dan Cleveland and Mark Zane. For more information, phone 315-498-7254.

Matt Pond PA, with Sports and CO
Westcott Theater

Price: $13
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott 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).

Man from Earth
Appleseed Productions
William Edward White, director

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

Professor John Oldman just resigned from his job, gave away all his possessions, and said goodbye to his friends... and celebrated his 14,000th birthday. Adapted by Richard Schenkman from the screenplay by Jerome Bixby.