Monday, August 25, 2008

Think Tech Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Art with a "techie" theme by Anna Soltyk, Ben Applebaum, Bob Gates, Derek Chalfant, Elizabeth Chalfant, Elizabeth Groat, Delores Herringshaw, Jennifer Jeffery, Jerry Russell, Maria Aridgides, Saba Khan, Sharon Bottle Souva, Smita Rane; plus posters from the Syracuse Poster Project.

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Invasion! The Culture of Fear in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This student-curated exhibition illustrates the concept of fear in the United States. The students, members of the Renee Crown University Honors Program taking the Spring 2008 course American Fear, felt that the theme of "invasion" underlies many of our historical anxieties relating to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation and a host of other issues. The idea that different people, aliens or even epidemics, like the AIDS virus during the 1980s, might infiltrate society and bring about sweeping change has been cause for extreme fear in the American experience. The exhibition raises questions of identity, and the class hopes that visitors will "understand their differences and be less discriminating in their actions."

Among the exhibited works that illuminate the roots of our culture of fear are a 1651 edition of Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan," Cotton Mather's 1693 account of the Salem Witch trials, the literature of the Red Scare, a variety of pulp science fiction magazines and Werner Pfeiffer's sculptural tribute to the victims of 9/11 "Out of the Sky."

Survivors' Art Exhibit
Westcott Community Center

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

Survivors' Art Exhibit includes 27 individual posters and one collaborative collage, all of which celebrate the power of artistic creativity as a tool for healing. Exhibit participants include women, teens and children who are victims of domestic or sexual violence. Using various mediums, each survivor has transformed very personal experiences into compelling images for public display. Each piece incorporates a colorful, digitally stylized rendering of the artist's original image, printed on 100% cotton art stock using archival inks, and strikingly framed. All posters are available for sale to benefit the mission and services of Vera House.

Rita Hammond Exhibition: Images of a Girl, Images of a Woman
Light Work Gallery

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

A nationally recognized artist and photographer, Rita Hammond (1924-1999) was a dynamic and greatly admired presence in the Central New York art community. With audacity, intelligence, and humor, Hammond's work reflected on major figures from the history of art and photography. "Images of a Girl, Images of a Woman" offers a body of photographs from Hammond's long-time collaboration with Lynn Moser. The series juxtaposes images of Moser as a young girl in 1967 with images of her as a woman 20 years later, revealing the dramatic and intimate effects of time, reflected in both the subject and the perspective of the photographer.

Ernesto Pujol Exhibition: Walk #1
Light Work Gallery

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

The black-and-white digital images in this exhibition follow a figure clad in a black robe, Pujol himself, walking through a Civil War cemetery in South Carolina. The photographs are arranged in sequential order in the gallery, depicting a dialogue between the figure, nature, and architecture. According to René Paul Barilleaux, "A lush Southern landscape, ornate Victorian cast ironwork, carved marble statuary, and other picturesque elements appear as a counterpoint to the dark, nearly motionless walker."

Pujol conceived this series as a combination between a performance (the walking) and installation. According to Pujol, he had avoided going to the cemetery for some time, but "When I first set foot in that city of the dead, I suddenly realized that it was the familiar environment I had dreamed about for years. I had experienced recurring dreams of marble arches and colonnades surrounded by gated gardens and water." After beginning to photograph the area in a documentary style, he quickly realized that he needed to walk through the space in a performative way, which resulted in the photographs depicted in this exhibition.

In addition to the digital images, this exhibition also features the black robe worn in the photographs, displayed on a mannequin in the center of the gallery, as well as twelve small, framed, hand-blown glass plates hanging on the wall with the images. Each plate has a word painted on it, meant to evoke a personal or emotional response from the viewers in the gallery. Ernesto Pujol

Pujol was born in Cuba and grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He received his BA in humanities and painting from the Universidad de Puerto Rico, and his MFA in interdisciplinary art practice from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been exhibited internationally, and he has received numerous awards and fellowships. In addition, Pujol's work is included in various permanent collections, including at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University; Casa de las Americas in Havana, Cuba; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; among many others. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 1999.

Color Remembered: Works of Linda Bigness
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Price: Free
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Solor exhibition of paintings by Linda Bigness, featuring color-charged abstracts on canvas, paper, and encaustics.

Works of Holly Knott and Liz and Rich Micho
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Holly Knott (contemporary art quilts) and Liz and Rich Micho (stained glass).

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Think Tech Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Art with a "techie" theme by Anna Soltyk, Ben Applebaum, Bob Gates, Derek Chalfant, Elizabeth Chalfant, Elizabeth Groat, Delores Herringshaw, Jennifer Jeffery, Jerry Russell, Maria Aridgides, Saba Khan, Sharon Bottle Souva, Smita Rane; plus posters from the Syracuse Poster Project.

Read a review!

Invasion! The Culture of Fear in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This student-curated exhibition illustrates the concept of fear in the United States. The students, members of the Renee Crown University Honors Program taking the Spring 2008 course American Fear, felt that the theme of "invasion" underlies many of our historical anxieties relating to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation and a host of other issues. The idea that different people, aliens or even epidemics, like the AIDS virus during the 1980s, might infiltrate society and bring about sweeping change has been cause for extreme fear in the American experience. The exhibition raises questions of identity, and the class hopes that visitors will "understand their differences and be less discriminating in their actions."

Among the exhibited works that illuminate the roots of our culture of fear are a 1651 edition of Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan," Cotton Mather's 1693 account of the Salem Witch trials, the literature of the Red Scare, a variety of pulp science fiction magazines and Werner Pfeiffer's sculptural tribute to the victims of 9/11 "Out of the Sky."

Survivors' Art Exhibit
Westcott Community Center

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

Survivors' Art Exhibit includes 27 individual posters and one collaborative collage, all of which celebrate the power of artistic creativity as a tool for healing. Exhibit participants include women, teens and children who are victims of domestic or sexual violence. Using various mediums, each survivor has transformed very personal experiences into compelling images for public display. Each piece incorporates a colorful, digitally stylized rendering of the artist's original image, printed on 100% cotton art stock using archival inks, and strikingly framed. All posters are available for sale to benefit the mission and services of Vera House.

A Lot on Your Plate
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

An exhibit of ceramic plates designed by 14 area artists.

Rita Hammond Exhibition: Images of a Girl, Images of a Woman
Light Work Gallery

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

A nationally recognized artist and photographer, Rita Hammond (1924-1999) was a dynamic and greatly admired presence in the Central New York art community. With audacity, intelligence, and humor, Hammond's work reflected on major figures from the history of art and photography. "Images of a Girl, Images of a Woman" offers a body of photographs from Hammond's long-time collaboration with Lynn Moser. The series juxtaposes images of Moser as a young girl in 1967 with images of her as a woman 20 years later, revealing the dramatic and intimate effects of time, reflected in both the subject and the perspective of the photographer.

Ernesto Pujol Exhibition: Walk #1
Light Work Gallery

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

The black-and-white digital images in this exhibition follow a figure clad in a black robe, Pujol himself, walking through a Civil War cemetery in South Carolina. The photographs are arranged in sequential order in the gallery, depicting a dialogue between the figure, nature, and architecture. According to René Paul Barilleaux, "A lush Southern landscape, ornate Victorian cast ironwork, carved marble statuary, and other picturesque elements appear as a counterpoint to the dark, nearly motionless walker."

Pujol conceived this series as a combination between a performance (the walking) and installation. According to Pujol, he had avoided going to the cemetery for some time, but "When I first set foot in that city of the dead, I suddenly realized that it was the familiar environment I had dreamed about for years. I had experienced recurring dreams of marble arches and colonnades surrounded by gated gardens and water." After beginning to photograph the area in a documentary style, he quickly realized that he needed to walk through the space in a performative way, which resulted in the photographs depicted in this exhibition.

In addition to the digital images, this exhibition also features the black robe worn in the photographs, displayed on a mannequin in the center of the gallery, as well as twelve small, framed, hand-blown glass plates hanging on the wall with the images. Each plate has a word painted on it, meant to evoke a personal or emotional response from the viewers in the gallery. Ernesto Pujol

Pujol was born in Cuba and grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He received his BA in humanities and painting from the Universidad de Puerto Rico, and his MFA in interdisciplinary art practice from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been exhibited internationally, and he has received numerous awards and fellowships. In addition, Pujol's work is included in various permanent collections, including at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University; Casa de las Americas in Havana, Cuba; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; among many others. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 1999.

Color Remembered: Works of Linda Bigness
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Price: Free
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Solor exhibition of paintings by Linda Bigness, featuring color-charged abstracts on canvas, paper, and encaustics.

Works of Holly Knott and Liz and Rich Micho
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Holly Knott (contemporary art quilts) and Liz and Rich Micho (stained glass).

Michelangelo: The Man and the Myth
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition explores multiple facets of Michelangelo's life, art and reputation with more than 25 works by the master and artists contemporary to him, including 14 original works by Michelangelo chosen to illustrate the broad range of his interests and creative activities. Figural studies associated with the Sistine Chapel and other paintings appear alongside original architectural plans and sketches of ancient Roman monuments. Printed books complement autograph examples of the artist's poetry. Eight of the Michelangelo works in the exhibition -- five drawings, including "Study for a Gate" and "Christ in Limbo," and three manuscript pages -- have never been seen in this country.

Dreams of Promise and Peril
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The role that artists play as cultural barometers always seems to be heightened in times of change and uncertainty. Although they employ different approaches, from timely reportage to futuristic illusions, all of the artists in the exhibition explore the terrain where hopes and dreams collide. By making visible the complex emotions we all sometimes experience the artists in this exhibition ask us to deeply consider the promise and peril that exists both in the fantasies we create and the realities we deny.

All of the work in this exhibition was borrowed from the JGS, Inc. collection, a non-profit photography organization based in New York City. JGS and Syracuse University have entered into an agreement to collaborate on traveling exhibitions, research, publications, and other projects utilizing work from the JGS collection that includes over 8,000 photographs spanning the history of the medium. This exhibition is an example of that collaboration and at the conclusion of the exhibition SUArt Galleries will create traveling solo exhibitions by each of the four artists.

Strings in the Stacks
Liverpool String Ensemble
Featuring Michael Montero

Price: Free (seating is limited -- first come, first seated)
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Think Tech Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Art with a "techie" theme by Anna Soltyk, Ben Applebaum, Bob Gates, Derek Chalfant, Elizabeth Chalfant, Elizabeth Groat, Delores Herringshaw, Jennifer Jeffery, Jerry Russell, Maria Aridgides, Saba Khan, Sharon Bottle Souva, Smita Rane; plus posters from the Syracuse Poster Project.

Read a review!

Invasion! The Culture of Fear in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This student-curated exhibition illustrates the concept of fear in the United States. The students, members of the Renee Crown University Honors Program taking the Spring 2008 course American Fear, felt that the theme of "invasion" underlies many of our historical anxieties relating to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation and a host of other issues. The idea that different people, aliens or even epidemics, like the AIDS virus during the 1980s, might infiltrate society and bring about sweeping change has been cause for extreme fear in the American experience. The exhibition raises questions of identity, and the class hopes that visitors will "understand their differences and be less discriminating in their actions."

Among the exhibited works that illuminate the roots of our culture of fear are a 1651 edition of Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan," Cotton Mather's 1693 account of the Salem Witch trials, the literature of the Red Scare, a variety of pulp science fiction magazines and Werner Pfeiffer's sculptural tribute to the victims of 9/11 "Out of the Sky."

Survivors' Art Exhibit
Westcott Community Center

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

Survivors' Art Exhibit includes 27 individual posters and one collaborative collage, all of which celebrate the power of artistic creativity as a tool for healing. Exhibit participants include women, teens and children who are victims of domestic or sexual violence. Using various mediums, each survivor has transformed very personal experiences into compelling images for public display. Each piece incorporates a colorful, digitally stylized rendering of the artist's original image, printed on 100% cotton art stock using archival inks, and strikingly framed. All posters are available for sale to benefit the mission and services of Vera House.

A Lot on Your Plate
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

An exhibit of ceramic plates designed by 14 area artists.

Rita Hammond Exhibition: Images of a Girl, Images of a Woman
Light Work Gallery

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

A nationally recognized artist and photographer, Rita Hammond (1924-1999) was a dynamic and greatly admired presence in the Central New York art community. With audacity, intelligence, and humor, Hammond's work reflected on major figures from the history of art and photography. "Images of a Girl, Images of a Woman" offers a body of photographs from Hammond's long-time collaboration with Lynn Moser. The series juxtaposes images of Moser as a young girl in 1967 with images of her as a woman 20 years later, revealing the dramatic and intimate effects of time, reflected in both the subject and the perspective of the photographer.

Ernesto Pujol Exhibition: Walk #1
Light Work Gallery

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

The black-and-white digital images in this exhibition follow a figure clad in a black robe, Pujol himself, walking through a Civil War cemetery in South Carolina. The photographs are arranged in sequential order in the gallery, depicting a dialogue between the figure, nature, and architecture. According to René Paul Barilleaux, "A lush Southern landscape, ornate Victorian cast ironwork, carved marble statuary, and other picturesque elements appear as a counterpoint to the dark, nearly motionless walker."

Pujol conceived this series as a combination between a performance (the walking) and installation. According to Pujol, he had avoided going to the cemetery for some time, but "When I first set foot in that city of the dead, I suddenly realized that it was the familiar environment I had dreamed about for years. I had experienced recurring dreams of marble arches and colonnades surrounded by gated gardens and water." After beginning to photograph the area in a documentary style, he quickly realized that he needed to walk through the space in a performative way, which resulted in the photographs depicted in this exhibition.

In addition to the digital images, this exhibition also features the black robe worn in the photographs, displayed on a mannequin in the center of the gallery, as well as twelve small, framed, hand-blown glass plates hanging on the wall with the images. Each plate has a word painted on it, meant to evoke a personal or emotional response from the viewers in the gallery. Ernesto Pujol

Pujol was born in Cuba and grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He received his BA in humanities and painting from the Universidad de Puerto Rico, and his MFA in interdisciplinary art practice from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been exhibited internationally, and he has received numerous awards and fellowships. In addition, Pujol's work is included in various permanent collections, including at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University; Casa de las Americas in Havana, Cuba; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; among many others. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 1999.

Color Remembered: Works of Linda Bigness
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Price: Free
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Solor exhibition of paintings by Linda Bigness, featuring color-charged abstracts on canvas, paper, and encaustics.

Exploring History with Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibit depicting the visual history of occupations and places of work in Onondaga County.

Works of Holly Knott and Liz and Rich Micho
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Holly Knott (contemporary art quilts) and Liz and Rich Micho (stained glass).

Michelangelo: The Man and the Myth
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition explores multiple facets of Michelangelo's life, art and reputation with more than 25 works by the master and artists contemporary to him, including 14 original works by Michelangelo chosen to illustrate the broad range of his interests and creative activities. Figural studies associated with the Sistine Chapel and other paintings appear alongside original architectural plans and sketches of ancient Roman monuments. Printed books complement autograph examples of the artist's poetry. Eight of the Michelangelo works in the exhibition -- five drawings, including "Study for a Gate" and "Christ in Limbo," and three manuscript pages -- have never been seen in this country.

Dreams of Promise and Peril
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The role that artists play as cultural barometers always seems to be heightened in times of change and uncertainty. Although they employ different approaches, from timely reportage to futuristic illusions, all of the artists in the exhibition explore the terrain where hopes and dreams collide. By making visible the complex emotions we all sometimes experience the artists in this exhibition ask us to deeply consider the promise and peril that exists both in the fantasies we create and the realities we deny.

All of the work in this exhibition was borrowed from the JGS, Inc. collection, a non-profit photography organization based in New York City. JGS and Syracuse University have entered into an agreement to collaborate on traveling exhibitions, research, publications, and other projects utilizing work from the JGS collection that includes over 8,000 photographs spanning the history of the medium. This exhibition is an example of that collaboration and at the conclusion of the exhibition SUArt Galleries will create traveling solo exhibitions by each of the four artists.

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Gallery Exhibition: Phillia Yi
Onondaga Community College

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

Phillia Changhi Yi is an artist who uses the environment and nature to form her work. A professor of art at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Yi has developed a unique method for making large color woodblock prints.

Read a review!

Think Tech Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Art with a "techie" theme by Anna Soltyk, Ben Applebaum, Bob Gates, Derek Chalfant, Elizabeth Chalfant, Elizabeth Groat, Delores Herringshaw, Jennifer Jeffery, Jerry Russell, Maria Aridgides, Saba Khan, Sharon Bottle Souva, Smita Rane; plus posters from the Syracuse Poster Project.

Read a review!

Invasion! The Culture of Fear in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This student-curated exhibition illustrates the concept of fear in the United States. The students, members of the Renee Crown University Honors Program taking the Spring 2008 course American Fear, felt that the theme of "invasion" underlies many of our historical anxieties relating to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation and a host of other issues. The idea that different people, aliens or even epidemics, like the AIDS virus during the 1980s, might infiltrate society and bring about sweeping change has been cause for extreme fear in the American experience. The exhibition raises questions of identity, and the class hopes that visitors will "understand their differences and be less discriminating in their actions."

Among the exhibited works that illuminate the roots of our culture of fear are a 1651 edition of Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan," Cotton Mather's 1693 account of the Salem Witch trials, the literature of the Red Scare, a variety of pulp science fiction magazines and Werner Pfeiffer's sculptural tribute to the victims of 9/11 "Out of the Sky."

Survivors' Art Exhibit
Westcott Community Center

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

Survivors' Art Exhibit includes 27 individual posters and one collaborative collage, all of which celebrate the power of artistic creativity as a tool for healing. Exhibit participants include women, teens and children who are victims of domestic or sexual violence. Using various mediums, each survivor has transformed very personal experiences into compelling images for public display. Each piece incorporates a colorful, digitally stylized rendering of the artist's original image, printed on 100% cotton art stock using archival inks, and strikingly framed. All posters are available for sale to benefit the mission and services of Vera House.

A Lot on Your Plate
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

An exhibit of ceramic plates designed by 14 area artists.

Rita Hammond Exhibition: Images of a Girl, Images of a Woman
Light Work Gallery

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

A nationally recognized artist and photographer, Rita Hammond (1924-1999) was a dynamic and greatly admired presence in the Central New York art community. With audacity, intelligence, and humor, Hammond's work reflected on major figures from the history of art and photography. "Images of a Girl, Images of a Woman" offers a body of photographs from Hammond's long-time collaboration with Lynn Moser. The series juxtaposes images of Moser as a young girl in 1967 with images of her as a woman 20 years later, revealing the dramatic and intimate effects of time, reflected in both the subject and the perspective of the photographer.

Ernesto Pujol Exhibition: Walk #1
Light Work Gallery

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

The black-and-white digital images in this exhibition follow a figure clad in a black robe, Pujol himself, walking through a Civil War cemetery in South Carolina. The photographs are arranged in sequential order in the gallery, depicting a dialogue between the figure, nature, and architecture. According to René Paul Barilleaux, "A lush Southern landscape, ornate Victorian cast ironwork, carved marble statuary, and other picturesque elements appear as a counterpoint to the dark, nearly motionless walker."

Pujol conceived this series as a combination between a performance (the walking) and installation. According to Pujol, he had avoided going to the cemetery for some time, but "When I first set foot in that city of the dead, I suddenly realized that it was the familiar environment I had dreamed about for years. I had experienced recurring dreams of marble arches and colonnades surrounded by gated gardens and water." After beginning to photograph the area in a documentary style, he quickly realized that he needed to walk through the space in a performative way, which resulted in the photographs depicted in this exhibition.

In addition to the digital images, this exhibition also features the black robe worn in the photographs, displayed on a mannequin in the center of the gallery, as well as twelve small, framed, hand-blown glass plates hanging on the wall with the images. Each plate has a word painted on it, meant to evoke a personal or emotional response from the viewers in the gallery. Ernesto Pujol

Pujol was born in Cuba and grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He received his BA in humanities and painting from the Universidad de Puerto Rico, and his MFA in interdisciplinary art practice from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been exhibited internationally, and he has received numerous awards and fellowships. In addition, Pujol's work is included in various permanent collections, including at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University; Casa de las Americas in Havana, Cuba; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; among many others. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 1999.

Color Remembered: Works of Linda Bigness
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Price: Free
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Solor exhibition of paintings by Linda Bigness, featuring color-charged abstracts on canvas, paper, and encaustics.

Exploring History with Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibit depicting the visual history of occupations and places of work in Onondaga County.

Works of Holly Knott and Liz and Rich Micho
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Holly Knott (contemporary art quilts) and Liz and Rich Micho (stained glass).

Michelangelo: The Man and the Myth
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition explores multiple facets of Michelangelo's life, art and reputation with more than 25 works by the master and artists contemporary to him, including 14 original works by Michelangelo chosen to illustrate the broad range of his interests and creative activities. Figural studies associated with the Sistine Chapel and other paintings appear alongside original architectural plans and sketches of ancient Roman monuments. Printed books complement autograph examples of the artist's poetry. Eight of the Michelangelo works in the exhibition -- five drawings, including "Study for a Gate" and "Christ in Limbo," and three manuscript pages -- have never been seen in this country.

Dreams of Promise and Peril
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The role that artists play as cultural barometers always seems to be heightened in times of change and uncertainty. Although they employ different approaches, from timely reportage to futuristic illusions, all of the artists in the exhibition explore the terrain where hopes and dreams collide. By making visible the complex emotions we all sometimes experience the artists in this exhibition ask us to deeply consider the promise and peril that exists both in the fantasies we create and the realities we deny.

All of the work in this exhibition was borrowed from the JGS, Inc. collection, a non-profit photography organization based in New York City. JGS and Syracuse University have entered into an agreement to collaborate on traveling exhibitions, research, publications, and other projects utilizing work from the JGS collection that includes over 8,000 photographs spanning the history of the medium. This exhibition is an example of that collaboration and at the conclusion of the exhibition SUArt Galleries will create traveling solo exhibitions by each of the four artists.

Nancy Kelly
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Starting at age four in her hometown of Rochester, NY, Nancy Kelly studied piano, clarinet, drama and dance with private instructors, and voice at the Eastman School of Music. During her 30-plus year career, she has honed her trademark swing/bop, take no prisoners style in front of audiences across the U.S. and abroad -- from Singapore to Switzerland, France and Turkey to her three tours of Japan.

Nancy appears regularly in New York City including performances at The Blue Note, Birdland, The Rainbow Room and Dizzy's Jazz Club at Lincoln Center. She works frequently in Los Angeles and Miami, as well as countless jazz clubs, festivals, and symphony orchestra engagements across the country.

Listener's Choice, Part 1
Skaneateles Festival

Price: $22, $18 regular; $19, $15 students/seniors; children under 13 free
First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Mozart Sonata in G Major, K. 301
Arensky Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, op. 32
Schubert Quintet for Strings in C Major, D. 956

Performers include Julie Albers, cello; Brian Chen, viola; Mark Fewer, violin; Elinor Freer, piano; Adam Neiman, piano; Harumi Rhodes, violin; David Ying, cello

Friday, August 29, 2008

Gallery Exhibition: Phillia Yi
Onondaga Community College

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

Phillia Changhi Yi is an artist who uses the environment and nature to form her work. A professor of art at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Yi has developed a unique method for making large color woodblock prints.

Read a review!

Think Tech Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Art with a "techie" theme by Anna Soltyk, Ben Applebaum, Bob Gates, Derek Chalfant, Elizabeth Chalfant, Elizabeth Groat, Delores Herringshaw, Jennifer Jeffery, Jerry Russell, Maria Aridgides, Saba Khan, Sharon Bottle Souva, Smita Rane; plus posters from the Syracuse Poster Project.

Read a review!

Invasion! The Culture of Fear in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This student-curated exhibition illustrates the concept of fear in the United States. The students, members of the Renee Crown University Honors Program taking the Spring 2008 course American Fear, felt that the theme of "invasion" underlies many of our historical anxieties relating to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation and a host of other issues. The idea that different people, aliens or even epidemics, like the AIDS virus during the 1980s, might infiltrate society and bring about sweeping change has been cause for extreme fear in the American experience. The exhibition raises questions of identity, and the class hopes that visitors will "understand their differences and be less discriminating in their actions."

Among the exhibited works that illuminate the roots of our culture of fear are a 1651 edition of Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan," Cotton Mather's 1693 account of the Salem Witch trials, the literature of the Red Scare, a variety of pulp science fiction magazines and Werner Pfeiffer's sculptural tribute to the victims of 9/11 "Out of the Sky."

Survivors' Art Exhibit
Westcott Community Center

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

Survivors' Art Exhibit includes 27 individual posters and one collaborative collage, all of which celebrate the power of artistic creativity as a tool for healing. Exhibit participants include women, teens and children who are victims of domestic or sexual violence. Using various mediums, each survivor has transformed very personal experiences into compelling images for public display. Each piece incorporates a colorful, digitally stylized rendering of the artist's original image, printed on 100% cotton art stock using archival inks, and strikingly framed. All posters are available for sale to benefit the mission and services of Vera House.

A Lot on Your Plate
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

An exhibit of ceramic plates designed by 14 area artists.

Rita Hammond Exhibition: Images of a Girl, Images of a Woman
Light Work Gallery

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

A nationally recognized artist and photographer, Rita Hammond (1924-1999) was a dynamic and greatly admired presence in the Central New York art community. With audacity, intelligence, and humor, Hammond's work reflected on major figures from the history of art and photography. "Images of a Girl, Images of a Woman" offers a body of photographs from Hammond's long-time collaboration with Lynn Moser. The series juxtaposes images of Moser as a young girl in 1967 with images of her as a woman 20 years later, revealing the dramatic and intimate effects of time, reflected in both the subject and the perspective of the photographer.

Ernesto Pujol Exhibition: Walk #1
Light Work Gallery

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

The black-and-white digital images in this exhibition follow a figure clad in a black robe, Pujol himself, walking through a Civil War cemetery in South Carolina. The photographs are arranged in sequential order in the gallery, depicting a dialogue between the figure, nature, and architecture. According to René Paul Barilleaux, "A lush Southern landscape, ornate Victorian cast ironwork, carved marble statuary, and other picturesque elements appear as a counterpoint to the dark, nearly motionless walker."

Pujol conceived this series as a combination between a performance (the walking) and installation. According to Pujol, he had avoided going to the cemetery for some time, but "When I first set foot in that city of the dead, I suddenly realized that it was the familiar environment I had dreamed about for years. I had experienced recurring dreams of marble arches and colonnades surrounded by gated gardens and water." After beginning to photograph the area in a documentary style, he quickly realized that he needed to walk through the space in a performative way, which resulted in the photographs depicted in this exhibition.

In addition to the digital images, this exhibition also features the black robe worn in the photographs, displayed on a mannequin in the center of the gallery, as well as twelve small, framed, hand-blown glass plates hanging on the wall with the images. Each plate has a word painted on it, meant to evoke a personal or emotional response from the viewers in the gallery. Ernesto Pujol

Pujol was born in Cuba and grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He received his BA in humanities and painting from the Universidad de Puerto Rico, and his MFA in interdisciplinary art practice from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been exhibited internationally, and he has received numerous awards and fellowships. In addition, Pujol's work is included in various permanent collections, including at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University; Casa de las Americas in Havana, Cuba; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; among many others. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 1999.

Color Remembered: Works of Linda Bigness
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Price: Free
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Solor exhibition of paintings by Linda Bigness, featuring color-charged abstracts on canvas, paper, and encaustics.

Exploring History with Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibit depicting the visual history of occupations and places of work in Onondaga County.

Works of Holly Knott and Liz and Rich Micho
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Holly Knott (contemporary art quilts) and Liz and Rich Micho (stained glass).

Michelangelo: The Man and the Myth
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition explores multiple facets of Michelangelo's life, art and reputation with more than 25 works by the master and artists contemporary to him, including 14 original works by Michelangelo chosen to illustrate the broad range of his interests and creative activities. Figural studies associated with the Sistine Chapel and other paintings appear alongside original architectural plans and sketches of ancient Roman monuments. Printed books complement autograph examples of the artist's poetry. Eight of the Michelangelo works in the exhibition -- five drawings, including "Study for a Gate" and "Christ in Limbo," and three manuscript pages -- have never been seen in this country.

Dreams of Promise and Peril
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The role that artists play as cultural barometers always seems to be heightened in times of change and uncertainty. Although they employ different approaches, from timely reportage to futuristic illusions, all of the artists in the exhibition explore the terrain where hopes and dreams collide. By making visible the complex emotions we all sometimes experience the artists in this exhibition ask us to deeply consider the promise and peril that exists both in the fantasies we create and the realities we deny.

All of the work in this exhibition was borrowed from the JGS, Inc. collection, a non-profit photography organization based in New York City. JGS and Syracuse University have entered into an agreement to collaborate on traveling exhibitions, research, publications, and other projects utilizing work from the JGS collection that includes over 8,000 photographs spanning the history of the medium. This exhibition is an example of that collaboration and at the conclusion of the exhibition SUArt Galleries will create traveling solo exhibitions by each of the four artists.

Listener's Choice, Part 2
Skaneateles Festival

Price: $22, $18 regular; $19, $15 students/seniors; children under 13 free
First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Joan Tower Petroushskates (1980)
Rachmaninoff Cello Sonata in G minor, op. 19
Beethoven Piano Trio in E-flat Major, op. 70 No. 2

Performers include Julie Albers, cello; Joanna Bassett, flute; Brian Chen, viola; Mark Fewer, violin; Elinor Freer, piano; Maureen Hurd, clarinet; Adam Neiman, piano; Harumi Rhodes, violin; David Ying, cello

Saturday, August 30, 2008

A Lot on Your Plate
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

An exhibit of ceramic plates designed by 14 area artists.

Color Remembered: Works of Linda Bigness
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Price: Free
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Solor exhibition of paintings by Linda Bigness, featuring color-charged abstracts on canvas, paper, and encaustics.

Works of Holly Knott and Liz and Rich Micho
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Holly Knott (contemporary art quilts) and Liz and Rich Micho (stained glass).

Michelangelo: The Man and the Myth
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition explores multiple facets of Michelangelo's life, art and reputation with more than 25 works by the master and artists contemporary to him, including 14 original works by Michelangelo chosen to illustrate the broad range of his interests and creative activities. Figural studies associated with the Sistine Chapel and other paintings appear alongside original architectural plans and sketches of ancient Roman monuments. Printed books complement autograph examples of the artist's poetry. Eight of the Michelangelo works in the exhibition -- five drawings, including "Study for a Gate" and "Christ in Limbo," and three manuscript pages -- have never been seen in this country.

Exploring History with Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibit depicting the visual history of occupations and places of work in Onondaga County.

Dreams of Promise and Peril
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The role that artists play as cultural barometers always seems to be heightened in times of change and uncertainty. Although they employ different approaches, from timely reportage to futuristic illusions, all of the artists in the exhibition explore the terrain where hopes and dreams collide. By making visible the complex emotions we all sometimes experience the artists in this exhibition ask us to deeply consider the promise and peril that exists both in the fantasies we create and the realities we deny.

All of the work in this exhibition was borrowed from the JGS, Inc. collection, a non-profit photography organization based in New York City. JGS and Syracuse University have entered into an agreement to collaborate on traveling exhibitions, research, publications, and other projects utilizing work from the JGS collection that includes over 8,000 photographs spanning the history of the medium. This exhibition is an example of that collaboration and at the conclusion of the exhibition SUArt Galleries will create traveling solo exhibitions by each of the four artists.

Festival Finale
Skaneateles Festival
Peter Bay, conductor
Featuring Joanna Bassett, flute; Brian Chen, viola; Mark Fewer, violin; Harumi Rhodes, violin

Price: $26, $20 adults; children under 13 free
Brook Farm
2.5 miles south of the village on Route 41A, Skaneateles

Stravinsky Concerto in E-flat, "Dumbarton Oaks"
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050
Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat Major, K. 364

Rain location: Skaneateles High School, 49 E. Elizabeth St., Skaneateles.

Sunday, August 31, 2008

Ernesto Pujol Exhibition: Walk #1
Light Work Gallery

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

The black-and-white digital images in this exhibition follow a figure clad in a black robe, Pujol himself, walking through a Civil War cemetery in South Carolina. The photographs are arranged in sequential order in the gallery, depicting a dialogue between the figure, nature, and architecture. According to René Paul Barilleaux, "A lush Southern landscape, ornate Victorian cast ironwork, carved marble statuary, and other picturesque elements appear as a counterpoint to the dark, nearly motionless walker."

Pujol conceived this series as a combination between a performance (the walking) and installation. According to Pujol, he had avoided going to the cemetery for some time, but "When I first set foot in that city of the dead, I suddenly realized that it was the familiar environment I had dreamed about for years. I had experienced recurring dreams of marble arches and colonnades surrounded by gated gardens and water." After beginning to photograph the area in a documentary style, he quickly realized that he needed to walk through the space in a performative way, which resulted in the photographs depicted in this exhibition.

In addition to the digital images, this exhibition also features the black robe worn in the photographs, displayed on a mannequin in the center of the gallery, as well as twelve small, framed, hand-blown glass plates hanging on the wall with the images. Each plate has a word painted on it, meant to evoke a personal or emotional response from the viewers in the gallery. Ernesto Pujol

Pujol was born in Cuba and grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He received his BA in humanities and painting from the Universidad de Puerto Rico, and his MFA in interdisciplinary art practice from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been exhibited internationally, and he has received numerous awards and fellowships. In addition, Pujol's work is included in various permanent collections, including at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University; Casa de las Americas in Havana, Cuba; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; among many others. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 1999.

Rita Hammond Exhibition: Images of a Girl, Images of a Woman
Light Work Gallery

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

A nationally recognized artist and photographer, Rita Hammond (1924-1999) was a dynamic and greatly admired presence in the Central New York art community. With audacity, intelligence, and humor, Hammond's work reflected on major figures from the history of art and photography. "Images of a Girl, Images of a Woman" offers a body of photographs from Hammond's long-time collaboration with Lynn Moser. The series juxtaposes images of Moser as a young girl in 1967 with images of her as a woman 20 years later, revealing the dramatic and intimate effects of time, reflected in both the subject and the perspective of the photographer.

Michelangelo: The Man and the Myth
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition explores multiple facets of Michelangelo's life, art and reputation with more than 25 works by the master and artists contemporary to him, including 14 original works by Michelangelo chosen to illustrate the broad range of his interests and creative activities. Figural studies associated with the Sistine Chapel and other paintings appear alongside original architectural plans and sketches of ancient Roman monuments. Printed books complement autograph examples of the artist's poetry. Eight of the Michelangelo works in the exhibition -- five drawings, including "Study for a Gate" and "Christ in Limbo," and three manuscript pages -- have never been seen in this country.

Exploring History with Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibit depicting the visual history of occupations and places of work in Onondaga County.

Works of Holly Knott and Liz and Rich Micho
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Holly Knott (contemporary art quilts) and Liz and Rich Micho (stained glass).

Monday, September 1, 2008

Gallery Exhibition: Phillia Yi
Onondaga Community College

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

Phillia Changhi Yi is an artist who uses the environment and nature to form her work. A professor of art at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Yi has developed a unique method for making large color woodblock prints.

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Think Tech Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Art with a "techie" theme by Anna Soltyk, Ben Applebaum, Bob Gates, Derek Chalfant, Elizabeth Chalfant, Elizabeth Groat, Delores Herringshaw, Jennifer Jeffery, Jerry Russell, Maria Aridgides, Saba Khan, Sharon Bottle Souva, Smita Rane; plus posters from the Syracuse Poster Project.

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Invasion! The Culture of Fear in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This student-curated exhibition illustrates the concept of fear in the United States. The students, members of the Renee Crown University Honors Program taking the Spring 2008 course American Fear, felt that the theme of "invasion" underlies many of our historical anxieties relating to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation and a host of other issues. The idea that different people, aliens or even epidemics, like the AIDS virus during the 1980s, might infiltrate society and bring about sweeping change has been cause for extreme fear in the American experience. The exhibition raises questions of identity, and the class hopes that visitors will "understand their differences and be less discriminating in their actions."

Among the exhibited works that illuminate the roots of our culture of fear are a 1651 edition of Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan," Cotton Mather's 1693 account of the Salem Witch trials, the literature of the Red Scare, a variety of pulp science fiction magazines and Werner Pfeiffer's sculptural tribute to the victims of 9/11 "Out of the Sky."

Survivors' Art Exhibit
Westcott Community Center

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

Survivors' Art Exhibit includes 27 individual posters and one collaborative collage, all of which celebrate the power of artistic creativity as a tool for healing. Exhibit participants include women, teens and children who are victims of domestic or sexual violence. Using various mediums, each survivor has transformed very personal experiences into compelling images for public display. Each piece incorporates a colorful, digitally stylized rendering of the artist's original image, printed on 100% cotton art stock using archival inks, and strikingly framed. All posters are available for sale to benefit the mission and services of Vera House.

Rita Hammond Exhibition: Images of a Girl, Images of a Woman
Light Work Gallery

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

A nationally recognized artist and photographer, Rita Hammond (1924-1999) was a dynamic and greatly admired presence in the Central New York art community. With audacity, intelligence, and humor, Hammond's work reflected on major figures from the history of art and photography. "Images of a Girl, Images of a Woman" offers a body of photographs from Hammond's long-time collaboration with Lynn Moser. The series juxtaposes images of Moser as a young girl in 1967 with images of her as a woman 20 years later, revealing the dramatic and intimate effects of time, reflected in both the subject and the perspective of the photographer.

Ernesto Pujol Exhibition: Walk #1
Light Work Gallery

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

The black-and-white digital images in this exhibition follow a figure clad in a black robe, Pujol himself, walking through a Civil War cemetery in South Carolina. The photographs are arranged in sequential order in the gallery, depicting a dialogue between the figure, nature, and architecture. According to René Paul Barilleaux, "A lush Southern landscape, ornate Victorian cast ironwork, carved marble statuary, and other picturesque elements appear as a counterpoint to the dark, nearly motionless walker."

Pujol conceived this series as a combination between a performance (the walking) and installation. According to Pujol, he had avoided going to the cemetery for some time, but "When I first set foot in that city of the dead, I suddenly realized that it was the familiar environment I had dreamed about for years. I had experienced recurring dreams of marble arches and colonnades surrounded by gated gardens and water." After beginning to photograph the area in a documentary style, he quickly realized that he needed to walk through the space in a performative way, which resulted in the photographs depicted in this exhibition.

In addition to the digital images, this exhibition also features the black robe worn in the photographs, displayed on a mannequin in the center of the gallery, as well as twelve small, framed, hand-blown glass plates hanging on the wall with the images. Each plate has a word painted on it, meant to evoke a personal or emotional response from the viewers in the gallery. Ernesto Pujol

Pujol was born in Cuba and grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He received his BA in humanities and painting from the Universidad de Puerto Rico, and his MFA in interdisciplinary art practice from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been exhibited internationally, and he has received numerous awards and fellowships. In addition, Pujol's work is included in various permanent collections, including at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University; Casa de las Americas in Havana, Cuba; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; among many others. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 1999.

Color Remembered: Works of Linda Bigness
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Price: Free
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Solor exhibition of paintings by Linda Bigness, featuring color-charged abstracts on canvas, paper, and encaustics.