Sunday, March 25, 2012

Personal Images Art Exhibit
Syracuse Stage

Price: Free
Sutton Pavillion, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Personal Images, a collaborative exhibit by six Hispanic international painters, features original pieces by Angela M. Arrey-Wastavino, Juan A. Cruz, Oscar Garces, Marcela Hanford, Abisay Puentes, and Esperanza Tielbaard.

The art show offers the public an inner vision of an eclectic group of visual artists whose life experiences have influenced their creative style. This exhibit runs in conjunction with RED, Tony Award-winner play by John Logan about the abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko.

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

Alexander Gronsky is a self-described landscape photographer with an uncanny ability to capture scenes in nature as elegant allegories that include rolling hills, spectacular lighting, and far reaching horizons. His skilled use of perspective and composition, reminiscent of centuries-old traditions in European landscape painting, draw the viewer's eye deep into the landscape and generate a sense of awe for each place. The photographs in this exhibit were taken along the outlying areas of Moscow where the human need to find solace away from the city collides with urban sprawl, and the fragility of nature.

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition was curated by English Professor Cassandra Jackson and Gallery Director Sarah Cunningham, both from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The exhibition was on view in the TCNJ Art Gallery in 2011. The central ideas of the exhibit are rooted in Jackson's most recent book, Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body (Routledge, 2010). Her book deals with the ways in which the black male body has been visually exploited, and the ways in which contemporary artists have called into question the paradigmatic construction of the black body in American society. The exhibit displays 31 photographs by 19 contemporary artists of African descent, 17 from the United States, two from Britain. Their work comments on the various representations of black bodies in Western visual culture. These artists confront stereotypes about black male appearance, sexuality, violence, and family, and highlight the ways that visual culture has contributed to the marginalization and exclusion of the black community.

Illusionistic
Szozda Gallery

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

Painter Kyle Mort's realism and painter Robert Glisson's impressionism are both meant to prompt the viewer's stare. Both Mort and Glisson work with beautiful color, achieved differently in their signature techniques. Mort tends toward extreme realism, bordering on trompe l'oeil in which he is capable of creating a spatial illusion. Glisson's impressionistic pieces, like the styles of those artists who inspire him, create an emotional illusion. Mort leans more toward depicting still life. Glisson endeavors to capture landscapes.

Kala Stein: Form & Plenty
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Kala Stein's exhibition Form and Plenty showcases her innovative ceramics based on archetypal utilitarian forms, like vases, bottles, and cups. By manipulating clay primarily though the slip casting of molds, she creates sculptural silhouettes, which merge multiple forms and planes into a single vessel. Stein says of her work, "Filtering the forms through abstraction, simplification and a limited color palette allows me to make compositional arrangements that depart from the symbol of the object itself."

Stein received her Master of Fine Arts at New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University where she currently is a visiting instructor. She shows her work nationally and maintains her home and studio in Canadice, NY.

Academic Art...teachers that do
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Works of Jamessville-Dewitt art teachers Faith Carapella (charcoal, pen and ink, collage) and Steve Pilcher (soda-fired stoneware, both functional and decorative).

Reliquaries: New Work by Drew Goerlitz
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 suggested donation
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Well-known for his graceful yet imposing steel sculpture, Drew Goerlitz, Associate Professor of Sculpture at the State University of New York Plattsburg, presents a new body of work at the Everson Museum of Art. Reliquaries continues the reoccurring theme of containment, concealment and privacy best described by Goerlitz himself: "My interpretation of reliquary is not to hold a sacred object or relic, but to engage the viewer with the form and tension of the unknown interior. The adornment of these objects relates to architectural details and the idea of facade. Facade is what we are presented with upon first appearance, whether speaking of people or architecture, and it isn't until we look inside that we discover the true structure."

From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
Everson Museum of Art

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

"From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland" is the first exhibition to examine the American artist's work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Long celebrated as an iconic American artist due to his important early work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight, Henri's paintings have received less attention on their own. Most projects explored his career as it related to his role as a member of The Eight or in a broadly retrospective manner. Few projects focused on his landscapes, drawings, or foreign portraits.

Henri's Irish portraits constitute his largest focused body of work, and often depict the same sitters year after year. These paintings offer a unique and fascinating window onto the genre about which Henri felt most strongly--portraiture--and also chart his experiments with paint handling and color theories over time. He wrote that the time spent in Ireland was extremely valuable to him (it was the only other place besides New York where he purchased a residence), for only there was he able to focus on his painting without the distractions of life in New York. It is not surprising, then, that the periods Henri spent in Ireland were among his most prolific, and the paintings produced there among his most accomplished. Just before his death, Henri composed a list of his most important paintings; many of the works on this list were his Irish subjects. Forty-one paintings of Irish people and landscapes will be on view in the upcoming exhibition.

CNY Art Showcase: Juried Preview of Live Auction
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 suggested donation
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

CNY Arts Showcase: Juried Preview of the Live Auction, presented in conjunction with the Eastwood Rotary Club, highlights the great and diverse artistic talents within our community. The exhibition at the Everson will precede the Eastwood Rotary Club's Annual CNY Art Showcase Live Auction on April 20.

Being Impossible: Works by Deborah Zlotsky
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

An exhibition of drawings and paintings by Deborah Zlotsky. In this series, the artist manipulates powdered graphite on sheets of mylar, searching for signs of life in the smears and conjuring up blurred boundaries between documenting nature and inventing nature. Zlotsky is represented by Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in New York and presented a solo exhibition in October 2011. She has been the recipient of numerous residencies, including a residency fellowship at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY, this past summer. She earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University and a master's degree in painting and drawing from the University of Connecticut.

For more information, call 315-445-4153.

I Like America and America Likes Me
XL Projects

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

Artwork of international graduate students in SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) will be featured in this exhibition. The graduate students will exhibit work in a variety of media.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

The Reflections Series: Works by Nevin Mercede
Redhouse

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

These digital prints are composed from photographs taken while traveling in Russia. Conversations with artists, politicians and educators encountered there provide the majority of companion texts. Since 1995 Mercede has woven images with texts reflecting on social, political and educational issues or situations.

Reception: Interpreting Nature
Baltimore Woods Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

There will be an artist reception this afternoon 2:00-4:00 pm.

A collection of work by Sharon Bottle Souva, fabric handworks; Wesley Weiss, ceramics; and Jill Newton, watercolors, who work in three distinct media but are united by their shared reference to the natural world.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

William Wegman: Flo Flow (2011)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The video "Flo Flow" is William Wegman's latest in a long line of human-canid collaborations. It was while he was in Long Beach in the 1970s that Wegman got his dog, Man Ray, with whom he began a fruitful collaboration of many years. Man Ray, known in the art world and beyond for his endearing deadpan presence, became a central figure in Wegman's photographs and videotapes. Ever since, Weimaraner-actors have peopled Wegman's uncanny imaginative universe, a reflection on both the human-ness of "animals" and the strangeness of humans.

William Wegman lives in New York and Maine where he continues to make videos, to take photographs and to make drawings and paintings.

Vision of Sound: New Music with Dance
Society for New Music

Price: $15 regular, $12 seniors, $10 students
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Music by David Hanner, Diane Jones, Paola Marquez, Mark Olivieri, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, and Roberto Sierra

Choreographers: Melanie Aceto, Candy Aguilera, Michelle Pritchard, Sarah Zehnder, and Cheryl Wilkins Mitchell

Performed by Ann McIntyre, violin; David LeDoux, cello; Sar Shalom Strong, piano

Let There Be Light!
Syracuse Chorale
Warren Ottey, conductor

Price: $15 regular, $12 students/seniors/advance sales, $8 children
St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Morten Lauridsen Lux Aeterna, Gilbert M. Martin Let There Be Light, and works by Samuel Barber, Alexander Gretchaninoff, Randall Thompson, John Rutter, Felix Mendelssohn, Willy Richter, Keith Hampton, Andre Thomas, and others.

Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Cicero-North Syracuse High School
Holly Wilson, director

Price: $12 reserved seats; $10 adult; $8 student/seniors
Cicero-North Syracuse High School
6002 State Route 31, Cicero

Based on Disney's movie, "Beauty and the Beast," this show incorporates music from the movie, with additional songs written for the Broadway musical. This classic tale of love is a coming-of-age story, as Belle learns to see the Beast for who he truly is and the Beast discovers what it means to love someone other than himself. Music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, book by Linda Woolverton. Holly Wilson, director; Caryn Patterson, musical director; Lisa Stuart, choreographer.

To reserve tickets, email cpatters@nscsd.org.

Red
Syracuse Stage
Penny Metropulos, director

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

The 2010 Tony Award-winner for Best Play, Red, by John Logan, is an intense and exciting bio-drama of the famed Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko at the time that he was working on a commission for a series of murals for New York's Four Seasons restaurant. On paper, the play has two characters, Rothko and young assistant. On stage, the paintings themselves become characters adding a stunning visual presence and making palpable the intense physical process of the art. As Rothko and his young protégé prepare paint and canvas and assess and reassess each work, they engage in a combative struggle over the methods and purpose of art that is sharp, funny and mentally invigorating.

Read a Review!

Monday, March 26, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Being Impossible: Works by Deborah Zlotsky
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

An exhibition of drawings and paintings by Deborah Zlotsky. In this series, the artist manipulates powdered graphite on sheets of mylar, searching for signs of life in the smears and conjuring up blurred boundaries between documenting nature and inventing nature. Zlotsky is represented by Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in New York and presented a solo exhibition in October 2011. She has been the recipient of numerous residencies, including a residency fellowship at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY, this past summer. She earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University and a master's degree in painting and drawing from the University of Connecticut.

For more information, call 315-445-4153.

Interpreting Nature
Baltimore Woods Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

A collection of work by Sharon Bottle Souva, fabric handworks; Wesley Weiss, ceramics; and Jill Newton, watercolors, who work in three distinct media but are united by their shared reference to the natural world.

Gallery Exhibit: The Narrative Tradition in the 21st Century: The Art of Randy Elliott and Richard Williams
Onondaga Community College

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

About Richard Williams:
As a self-taught illustrator I was able to sidestep the many academic pitfalls that plague contemporary artists, such as the belief that drawing skills are not important. My work is steeped in the tradition of craftsmanship and the importance of the narrative. Art in my opinion serves a social function, which can encompass selling a product to the public or making critical commentary on society and culture, and anything in between. To accomplish this, the artist needs to communicate in a simple, clear and powerful way. To do this one needs to have a firm grasp of the basic skills of draftsmanship, color, painting technique and storytelling.

About Randy Elliott:
Randy Elliott began his professional art career in 1988, inking the Dungeons & Dragons, Dragonlance comic book for DC Comics. That job began a career that continues until the present. Over the course of the last twenty-odd years, Randy has inked and/or penciled comic books for DC, Archie, Marvel, Dark Horse, Valiant and a number of smaller publishers. He has also painted images for clients like, Wizards of the Coast, Alderac Entertainment Group, Battlefront Miniatures, Hasbro and others.

Patently Syracuse
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

A visual exploration of inventions, designs and innovations created in Central New York.

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

Teddy Cruz/The Architect's Work 9
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Time, Again Time: Works by Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

In "Time, again time," the artist reflects on ordered fragments of a disordered world. An activist and renowned Latin American artist, Ana Tiscornia brings a mixed-media installation that curator Pedro Cuperman describes as "the outcome of a tale, where we have a fragmented world, where the pieces are somehow geometrically organic, logical... a kind of architecture of catastrophe. It is about the artist's obsession with organizing her world after having lived through the tragedies of military dictatorships in her home land, and the present catastrophes, wars that we endure in our own time. Ana's work demands from the viewer a sort of reconstruction, reintegration of the work, and our world.

Academic Art...teachers that do
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Works of Jamessville-Dewitt art teachers Faith Carapella (charcoal, pen and ink, collage) and Steve Pilcher (soda-fired stoneware, both functional and decorative).

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

Alexander Gronsky is a self-described landscape photographer with an uncanny ability to capture scenes in nature as elegant allegories that include rolling hills, spectacular lighting, and far reaching horizons. His skilled use of perspective and composition, reminiscent of centuries-old traditions in European landscape painting, draw the viewer's eye deep into the landscape and generate a sense of awe for each place. The photographs in this exhibit were taken along the outlying areas of Moscow where the human need to find solace away from the city collides with urban sprawl, and the fragility of nature.

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition was curated by English Professor Cassandra Jackson and Gallery Director Sarah Cunningham, both from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The exhibition was on view in the TCNJ Art Gallery in 2011. The central ideas of the exhibit are rooted in Jackson's most recent book, Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body (Routledge, 2010). Her book deals with the ways in which the black male body has been visually exploited, and the ways in which contemporary artists have called into question the paradigmatic construction of the black body in American society. The exhibit displays 31 photographs by 19 contemporary artists of African descent, 17 from the United States, two from Britain. Their work comments on the various representations of black bodies in Western visual culture. These artists confront stereotypes about black male appearance, sexuality, violence, and family, and highlight the ways that visual culture has contributed to the marginalization and exclusion of the black community.

Creativity through Exhibition Design II
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Creativity through Exhibition Design II" features computer-aided drawings and 3-dimensional models of the gallery space in the State Tower Building adjacent to Hanover Square. Students gained experience in such areas as color selection, spatial arrangement, lighting techniques, typography and universal design principles to put their individual creativity into an upcoming exhibition they are working on titled "Hidden in Plain Site: Sculpture in Syracuse and the Work of the Public Artist in Residence."

Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on W. Fayette St. or the first-floor door on W. Washington St.

Educational Toys by Roy Wilson
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Designer Roy Wilson, a 1970 alumnus of Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, will exhibit his award-winning educational toy designs. The exhibit features Wilson's work from the Learning Curve Toy Co., including the 1992 Thomas Wooden Railway project and the 1994 Lamaze Infant Development System, which he researched, designed, engineered and manufactured. The exhibition will also include his most recent invention in toys, TRAK2BRIK Adapters. Introduced in February at the American International Toy Fair, TRAK2BRIK is a system of adapters that links wooden railway track to pegged construction bricks and has dozens of slide-on toy accessories.

Wilson's career evolved from an early fascination with mechanical, scientific and electrical products. While at SU studying industrial design, he wrote his graduating thesis on preschool educational developmental toys. He started his own design business, Creative International, in 1967 and decided to remain independent and/or work on long-term contracts. To date, he has won 47 national and international awards for design excellence.

Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on West Fayette Street or the first-floor door on West Washington Street. For more information, contact Bradley Hudson at bjhudson@syr.edu.

The Photographer as Child: Memories of Guatemala
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Born in Guatemala, award-winning photographer Efren Lopez is a student in the Military Photojournalism Program at Syracuse University. He is also an aerial photographer for the U.S. Air Force and the first reservist to be selected to attend Newhouse's Military Photojournalism Program. He now lives in Arizona.

The exhibit features images Lopez captured on a return trip to Guatemala in 2009. "My life began in a bamboo hut at the side of a road in a tiny town named Petaca, Guatemala, in 1966," Lopez writes. "It's a town so small that it is next to impossible to find on most maps of Guatemala, much less Central America."

Lopez has documented real-world situations and the military around the globe and has captured stunning images in Arizona and Guatemala. His work has been featured in various publications, including the book Arizona 24/7, and has been awarded many distinctions, including first place in the Professional Photography category at the 2008 Arizona State Fair, an honorable mention in the pictorial category in the 2009 Military Photographer of the Year competition, and first place in the 2011 Multimedia Team 19th Annual Department of Defense Worldwide Military Photography Workshop.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

Dramatic Reading: Vagina Monologues
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free for OCC students, $5 others
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Written by Eve Ensler. Facilitated by Professors Janell Haynes and Annie Tuttle. Sign language interpreter provided.

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Being Impossible: Works by Deborah Zlotsky
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

An exhibition of drawings and paintings by Deborah Zlotsky. In this series, the artist manipulates powdered graphite on sheets of mylar, searching for signs of life in the smears and conjuring up blurred boundaries between documenting nature and inventing nature. Zlotsky is represented by Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in New York and presented a solo exhibition in October 2011. She has been the recipient of numerous residencies, including a residency fellowship at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY, this past summer. She earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University and a master's degree in painting and drawing from the University of Connecticut.

For more information, call 315-445-4153.

Interpreting Nature
Baltimore Woods Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

A collection of work by Sharon Bottle Souva, fabric handworks; Wesley Weiss, ceramics; and Jill Newton, watercolors, who work in three distinct media but are united by their shared reference to the natural world.

Gallery Exhibit: The Narrative Tradition in the 21st Century: The Art of Randy Elliott and Richard Williams
Onondaga Community College

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

About Richard Williams:
As a self-taught illustrator I was able to sidestep the many academic pitfalls that plague contemporary artists, such as the belief that drawing skills are not important. My work is steeped in the tradition of craftsmanship and the importance of the narrative. Art in my opinion serves a social function, which can encompass selling a product to the public or making critical commentary on society and culture, and anything in between. To accomplish this, the artist needs to communicate in a simple, clear and powerful way. To do this one needs to have a firm grasp of the basic skills of draftsmanship, color, painting technique and storytelling.

About Randy Elliott:
Randy Elliott began his professional art career in 1988, inking the Dungeons & Dragons, Dragonlance comic book for DC Comics. That job began a career that continues until the present. Over the course of the last twenty-odd years, Randy has inked and/or penciled comic books for DC, Archie, Marvel, Dark Horse, Valiant and a number of smaller publishers. He has also painted images for clients like, Wizards of the Coast, Alderac Entertainment Group, Battlefront Miniatures, Hasbro and others.

"Images of Upstate New York" and "Juxtaposed Through Wonderland"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

"Images of Upstate New York" features work by Morgan Goodwin and Kate Walseman
"Juxtaposed Through Wonderland" features recent work by KayCie Danniel

Patently Syracuse
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

A visual exploration of inventions, designs and innovations created in Central New York.

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

Teddy Cruz/The Architect's Work 9
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Creatures Small and Great
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Dana Blythe Stenson (metalsmith jewelry), Candace Rhea (ceramic and mixed media), Alan Hart (acrylic on board), and Diane Menzies (oil paintings) interpret insects and small animals.

Reflection and Identity: Works by W. Michelle Harris and Michael Roman
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition features recent work by Rochester Institute of Technology associate professor and artist W. Michelle Harris and Atlanta-based artist and Syracuse University alum Michael Roman. These two young artists embrace questions of gender, identity, and societal expectations.

While the materials used by each artist sit at the opposite ends of the technological spectrum, both individuals seek to examine topics of an interrelated and highly personal nature.

Read a review!

Academic Art...teachers that do
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Works of Jamessville-Dewitt art teachers Faith Carapella (charcoal, pen and ink, collage) and Steve Pilcher (soda-fired stoneware, both functional and decorative).

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition was curated by English Professor Cassandra Jackson and Gallery Director Sarah Cunningham, both from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The exhibition was on view in the TCNJ Art Gallery in 2011. The central ideas of the exhibit are rooted in Jackson's most recent book, Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body (Routledge, 2010). Her book deals with the ways in which the black male body has been visually exploited, and the ways in which contemporary artists have called into question the paradigmatic construction of the black body in American society. The exhibit displays 31 photographs by 19 contemporary artists of African descent, 17 from the United States, two from Britain. Their work comments on the various representations of black bodies in Western visual culture. These artists confront stereotypes about black male appearance, sexuality, violence, and family, and highlight the ways that visual culture has contributed to the marginalization and exclusion of the black community.

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

There will be a gallery reception this evening 5:00-7:00 pm.

Alexander Gronsky is a self-described landscape photographer with an uncanny ability to capture scenes in nature as elegant allegories that include rolling hills, spectacular lighting, and far reaching horizons. His skilled use of perspective and composition, reminiscent of centuries-old traditions in European landscape painting, draw the viewer's eye deep into the landscape and generate a sense of awe for each place. The photographs in this exhibit were taken along the outlying areas of Moscow where the human need to find solace away from the city collides with urban sprawl, and the fragility of nature.

Creativity through Exhibition Design II
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Creativity through Exhibition Design II" features computer-aided drawings and 3-dimensional models of the gallery space in the State Tower Building adjacent to Hanover Square. Students gained experience in such areas as color selection, spatial arrangement, lighting techniques, typography and universal design principles to put their individual creativity into an upcoming exhibition they are working on titled "Hidden in Plain Site: Sculpture in Syracuse and the Work of the Public Artist in Residence."

Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on W. Fayette St. or the first-floor door on W. Washington St.

Educational Toys by Roy Wilson
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Designer Roy Wilson, a 1970 alumnus of Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, will exhibit his award-winning educational toy designs. The exhibit features Wilson's work from the Learning Curve Toy Co., including the 1992 Thomas Wooden Railway project and the 1994 Lamaze Infant Development System, which he researched, designed, engineered and manufactured. The exhibition will also include his most recent invention in toys, TRAK2BRIK Adapters. Introduced in February at the American International Toy Fair, TRAK2BRIK is a system of adapters that links wooden railway track to pegged construction bricks and has dozens of slide-on toy accessories.

Wilson's career evolved from an early fascination with mechanical, scientific and electrical products. While at SU studying industrial design, he wrote his graduating thesis on preschool educational developmental toys. He started his own design business, Creative International, in 1967 and decided to remain independent and/or work on long-term contracts. To date, he has won 47 national and international awards for design excellence.

Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on West Fayette Street or the first-floor door on West Washington Street. For more information, contact Bradley Hudson at bjhudson@syr.edu.

Time, Again Time: Works by Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

In "Time, again time," the artist reflects on ordered fragments of a disordered world. An activist and renowned Latin American artist, Ana Tiscornia brings a mixed-media installation that curator Pedro Cuperman describes as "the outcome of a tale, where we have a fragmented world, where the pieces are somehow geometrically organic, logical... a kind of architecture of catastrophe. It is about the artist's obsession with organizing her world after having lived through the tragedies of military dictatorships in her home land, and the present catastrophes, wars that we endure in our own time. Ana's work demands from the viewer a sort of reconstruction, reintegration of the work, and our world.

Reliquaries: New Work by Drew Goerlitz
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 suggested donation
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Well-known for his graceful yet imposing steel sculpture, Drew Goerlitz, Associate Professor of Sculpture at the State University of New York Plattsburg, presents a new body of work at the Everson Museum of Art. Reliquaries continues the reoccurring theme of containment, concealment and privacy best described by Goerlitz himself: "My interpretation of reliquary is not to hold a sacred object or relic, but to engage the viewer with the form and tension of the unknown interior. The adornment of these objects relates to architectural details and the idea of facade. Facade is what we are presented with upon first appearance, whether speaking of people or architecture, and it isn't until we look inside that we discover the true structure."

CNY Art Showcase: Juried Preview of Live Auction
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 suggested donation
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

CNY Arts Showcase: Juried Preview of the Live Auction, presented in conjunction with the Eastwood Rotary Club, highlights the great and diverse artistic talents within our community. The exhibition at the Everson will precede the Eastwood Rotary Club's Annual CNY Art Showcase Live Auction on April 20.

From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
Everson Museum of Art

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

"From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland" is the first exhibition to examine the American artist's work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Long celebrated as an iconic American artist due to his important early work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight, Henri's paintings have received less attention on their own. Most projects explored his career as it related to his role as a member of The Eight or in a broadly retrospective manner. Few projects focused on his landscapes, drawings, or foreign portraits.

Henri's Irish portraits constitute his largest focused body of work, and often depict the same sitters year after year. These paintings offer a unique and fascinating window onto the genre about which Henri felt most strongly--portraiture--and also chart his experiments with paint handling and color theories over time. He wrote that the time spent in Ireland was extremely valuable to him (it was the only other place besides New York where he purchased a residence), for only there was he able to focus on his painting without the distractions of life in New York. It is not surprising, then, that the periods Henri spent in Ireland were among his most prolific, and the paintings produced there among his most accomplished. Just before his death, Henri composed a list of his most important paintings; many of the works on this list were his Irish subjects. Forty-one paintings of Irish people and landscapes will be on view in the upcoming exhibition.

The Photographer as Child: Memories of Guatemala
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Born in Guatemala, award-winning photographer Efren Lopez is a student in the Military Photojournalism Program at Syracuse University. He is also an aerial photographer for the U.S. Air Force and the first reservist to be selected to attend Newhouse's Military Photojournalism Program. He now lives in Arizona.

The exhibit features images Lopez captured on a return trip to Guatemala in 2009. "My life began in a bamboo hut at the side of a road in a tiny town named Petaca, Guatemala, in 1966," Lopez writes. "It's a town so small that it is next to impossible to find on most maps of Guatemala, much less Central America."

Lopez has documented real-world situations and the military around the globe and has captured stunning images in Arizona and Guatemala. His work has been featured in various publications, including the book Arizona 24/7, and has been awarded many distinctions, including first place in the Professional Photography category at the 2008 Arizona State Fair, an honorable mention in the pictorial category in the 2009 Military Photographer of the Year competition, and first place in the 2011 Multimedia Team 19th Annual Department of Defense Worldwide Military Photography Workshop.

Noriko Ambe: Inner Water
The Warehouse Gallery

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

In her first US museum solo show, New York City-based Japanese artist Noriko Ambe will create a new site-specific installation in the main gallery reflecting the tragic 2011 events in Japan through the use of video projections and her signature large-scale paper cutouts that evoke waves.

Nature plays an important role in Ambe's work, and it points to larger issues, such as the natural forces determining our global landscape, and the relationship between nature and humans throughout time. A recipient of prestigious awards such as the AICA Award and Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Ambe's work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Arts and Design and the Japan Society in New York and the Kyoto University of Art and Design in Kyoto, Japan. Her work is also in the collection of the Whitney Museum of Art.

Read a review!

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

Towards Geo-Cinematology: Negotiating the Identity of East Asian Cinemas
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
SU Humanities Center Seminar Room (304)
Tolley Humanities Building, SU campus, Syracuse

International cultural critic Taek-Gwang Lee will attempt to define East Asian cinema by asking not what it is, but where it is.

Grahame Shane
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Auditorium
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Grahame Shane is Professor, The Cooper Union/The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture.

Visiting Artist Lecture: Aesthetic Apparatus
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Aesthetic Apparatus, the Minneapolis-based design studio founded by Dan Ibarra and Michael Byzewski, will give a talk sponsored by the printmaking program.

Ibarra and Byzewski first met in 1998 as designers at Planet Propaganda in Madison, WI. Combining their mutual interest in printmaking and music, they began to build a groundwork of limited edition, hand-printed concert posters that gained them enough national and international recognition to convince them to move to Minneapolis in 2002 and turn their hobby into a full-time graphic design studio.

Aesthetic Apparatus has created work for such clients as Blue Q, Stella Artois, HarperCollins, the American Cancer Society, and Criterion Collection, as well as such bands as Cake, Frank Black, Spoon, the Hold Steady, the New Pornographers, Dinosaur Jr., Grizzly Bear and more. Their work has been featured in Print, Step Into Design, Communication Arts, Creative Review, HOW, Rolling Stone, Swindle, Jane Magazine and ReadyMade Magazine, along with various design book publications and the Chronicle Books rock art bible "Art of Modern Rock."

Inside/Out...voices from the disability community
Arts Engage

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

SU's ArtsEngage and the Goldring Arts Journalism Program at Newhouse School of Public Communications welcome members of Ping Chong & Company for a panel discussion. "Inside/Out ... voices from the disability community" is part of Undesirable Elements, an ongoing series of community-specific oral history theater works by theater director Ping Chong. Present for the panel will be co-writers and directors Ping Chong and Sara Zatz and cast members Matthew S. Joffe and Blair Wing.

For more information, contact SUartspresenter@syr.edu or call 315-443-0296.

Sherman Alexie
Friends of the Central Library Author Series

Price: $25
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, WA, about 50 miles northwest of Spokane. Alexie underwent a brain operation at the age of 6 months and was not expected to survive. Beating the odds against him, he lived, but suffered seizures throughout his childhood. Alexie learned to read by age three, and devoured novels by age five. His first novel, Reservation Blues, won Booklist's Editors Choice Award for Fiction. His latest books include Flight, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, a 2007 National Book Award winner in Young People's Literature, and Face, his first full collection of poems in nine years. Alexie wrote and produced the film "Smoke Signals," based on his book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, which won the Audience Award and Filmmakers Trophy at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. He is currently working on a sequel to The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven entitled Fire with Fire, and a sequel to True Diary entitled The Magic and Tragic Year of My Broken Thumb.

Blue Heron Renaissance Vocal Ensemble
Malmgren Concert Series

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Works by Josquin des Prez, Obrecht, and Isaac.

Percussion Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage; patrons should mention that they are attending the concert.

The X Tour: Excision, with Lucky Date, Liquid Stranger, DJ Cutman
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

The Reflections Series: Works by Nevin Mercede
Redhouse

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

These digital prints are composed from photographs taken while traveling in Russia. Conversations with artists, politicians and educators encountered there provide the majority of companion texts. Since 1995 Mercede has woven images with texts reflecting on social, political and educational issues or situations.

Being Impossible: Works by Deborah Zlotsky
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

An exhibition of drawings and paintings by Deborah Zlotsky. In this series, the artist manipulates powdered graphite on sheets of mylar, searching for signs of life in the smears and conjuring up blurred boundaries between documenting nature and inventing nature. Zlotsky is represented by Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in New York and presented a solo exhibition in October 2011. She has been the recipient of numerous residencies, including a residency fellowship at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY, this past summer. She earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University and a master's degree in painting and drawing from the University of Connecticut.

For more information, call 315-445-4153.

Interpreting Nature
Baltimore Woods Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

A collection of work by Sharon Bottle Souva, fabric handworks; Wesley Weiss, ceramics; and Jill Newton, watercolors, who work in three distinct media but are united by their shared reference to the natural world.

Gallery Exhibit: The Narrative Tradition in the 21st Century: The Art of Randy Elliott and Richard Williams
Onondaga Community College

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

About Richard Williams:
As a self-taught illustrator I was able to sidestep the many academic pitfalls that plague contemporary artists, such as the belief that drawing skills are not important. My work is steeped in the tradition of craftsmanship and the importance of the narrative. Art in my opinion serves a social function, which can encompass selling a product to the public or making critical commentary on society and culture, and anything in between. To accomplish this, the artist needs to communicate in a simple, clear and powerful way. To do this one needs to have a firm grasp of the basic skills of draftsmanship, color, painting technique and storytelling.

About Randy Elliott:
Randy Elliott began his professional art career in 1988, inking the Dungeons & Dragons, Dragonlance comic book for DC Comics. That job began a career that continues until the present. Over the course of the last twenty-odd years, Randy has inked and/or penciled comic books for DC, Archie, Marvel, Dark Horse, Valiant and a number of smaller publishers. He has also painted images for clients like, Wizards of the Coast, Alderac Entertainment Group, Battlefront Miniatures, Hasbro and others.

"Images of Upstate New York" and "Juxtaposed Through Wonderland"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

"Images of Upstate New York" features work by Morgan Goodwin and Kate Walseman
"Juxtaposed Through Wonderland" features recent work by KayCie Danniel

Patently Syracuse
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

A visual exploration of inventions, designs and innovations created in Central New York.

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

Teddy Cruz/The Architect's Work 9
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Creatures Small and Great
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Dana Blythe Stenson (metalsmith jewelry), Candace Rhea (ceramic and mixed media), Alan Hart (acrylic on board), and Diane Menzies (oil paintings) interpret insects and small animals.

Time, Again Time: Works by Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

In "Time, again time," the artist reflects on ordered fragments of a disordered world. An activist and renowned Latin American artist, Ana Tiscornia brings a mixed-media installation that curator Pedro Cuperman describes as "the outcome of a tale, where we have a fragmented world, where the pieces are somehow geometrically organic, logical... a kind of architecture of catastrophe. It is about the artist's obsession with organizing her world after having lived through the tragedies of military dictatorships in her home land, and the present catastrophes, wars that we endure in our own time. Ana's work demands from the viewer a sort of reconstruction, reintegration of the work, and our world.

Reflection and Identity: Works by W. Michelle Harris and Michael Roman
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition features recent work by Rochester Institute of Technology associate professor and artist W. Michelle Harris and Atlanta-based artist and Syracuse University alum Michael Roman. These two young artists embrace questions of gender, identity, and societal expectations.

While the materials used by each artist sit at the opposite ends of the technological spectrum, both individuals seek to examine topics of an interrelated and highly personal nature.

Read a review!

Academic Art...teachers that do
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Works of Jamessville-Dewitt art teachers Faith Carapella (charcoal, pen and ink, collage) and Steve Pilcher (soda-fired stoneware, both functional and decorative).

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

Alexander Gronsky is a self-described landscape photographer with an uncanny ability to capture scenes in nature as elegant allegories that include rolling hills, spectacular lighting, and far reaching horizons. His skilled use of perspective and composition, reminiscent of centuries-old traditions in European landscape painting, draw the viewer's eye deep into the landscape and generate a sense of awe for each place. The photographs in this exhibit were taken along the outlying areas of Moscow where the human need to find solace away from the city collides with urban sprawl, and the fragility of nature.

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition was curated by English Professor Cassandra Jackson and Gallery Director Sarah Cunningham, both from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The exhibition was on view in the TCNJ Art Gallery in 2011. The central ideas of the exhibit are rooted in Jackson's most recent book, Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body (Routledge, 2010). Her book deals with the ways in which the black male body has been visually exploited, and the ways in which contemporary artists have called into question the paradigmatic construction of the black body in American society. The exhibit displays 31 photographs by 19 contemporary artists of African descent, 17 from the United States, two from Britain. Their work comments on the various representations of black bodies in Western visual culture. These artists confront stereotypes about black male appearance, sexuality, violence, and family, and highlight the ways that visual culture has contributed to the marginalization and exclusion of the black community.

Creativity through Exhibition Design II
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Creativity through Exhibition Design II" features computer-aided drawings and 3-dimensional models of the gallery space in the State Tower Building adjacent to Hanover Square. Students gained experience in such areas as color selection, spatial arrangement, lighting techniques, typography and universal design principles to put their individual creativity into an upcoming exhibition they are working on titled "Hidden in Plain Site: Sculpture in Syracuse and the Work of the Public Artist in Residence."

Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on W. Fayette St. or the first-floor door on W. Washington St.

Educational Toys by Roy Wilson
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Designer Roy Wilson, a 1970 alumnus of Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, will exhibit his award-winning educational toy designs. The exhibit features Wilson's work from the Learning Curve Toy Co., including the 1992 Thomas Wooden Railway project and the 1994 Lamaze Infant Development System, which he researched, designed, engineered and manufactured. The exhibition will also include his most recent invention in toys, TRAK2BRIK Adapters. Introduced in February at the American International Toy Fair, TRAK2BRIK is a system of adapters that links wooden railway track to pegged construction bricks and has dozens of slide-on toy accessories.

Wilson's career evolved from an early fascination with mechanical, scientific and electrical products. While at SU studying industrial design, he wrote his graduating thesis on preschool educational developmental toys. He started his own design business, Creative International, in 1967 and decided to remain independent and/or work on long-term contracts. To date, he has won 47 national and international awards for design excellence.

Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on West Fayette Street or the first-floor door on West Washington Street. For more information, contact Bradley Hudson at bjhudson@syr.edu.

Illusionistic
Szozda Gallery

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

Painter Kyle Mort's realism and painter Robert Glisson's impressionism are both meant to prompt the viewer's stare. Both Mort and Glisson work with beautiful color, achieved differently in their signature techniques. Mort tends toward extreme realism, bordering on trompe l'oeil in which he is capable of creating a spatial illusion. Glisson's impressionistic pieces, like the styles of those artists who inspire him, create an emotional illusion. Mort leans more toward depicting still life. Glisson endeavors to capture landscapes.

Reliquaries: New Work by Drew Goerlitz
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 suggested donation
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Well-known for his graceful yet imposing steel sculpture, Drew Goerlitz, Associate Professor of Sculpture at the State University of New York Plattsburg, presents a new body of work at the Everson Museum of Art. Reliquaries continues the reoccurring theme of containment, concealment and privacy best described by Goerlitz himself: "My interpretation of reliquary is not to hold a sacred object or relic, but to engage the viewer with the form and tension of the unknown interior. The adornment of these objects relates to architectural details and the idea of facade. Facade is what we are presented with upon first appearance, whether speaking of people or architecture, and it isn't until we look inside that we discover the true structure."

From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
Everson Museum of Art

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

"From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland" is the first exhibition to examine the American artist's work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Long celebrated as an iconic American artist due to his important early work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight, Henri's paintings have received less attention on their own. Most projects explored his career as it related to his role as a member of The Eight or in a broadly retrospective manner. Few projects focused on his landscapes, drawings, or foreign portraits.

Henri's Irish portraits constitute his largest focused body of work, and often depict the same sitters year after year. These paintings offer a unique and fascinating window onto the genre about which Henri felt most strongly--portraiture--and also chart his experiments with paint handling and color theories over time. He wrote that the time spent in Ireland was extremely valuable to him (it was the only other place besides New York where he purchased a residence), for only there was he able to focus on his painting without the distractions of life in New York. It is not surprising, then, that the periods Henri spent in Ireland were among his most prolific, and the paintings produced there among his most accomplished. Just before his death, Henri composed a list of his most important paintings; many of the works on this list were his Irish subjects. Forty-one paintings of Irish people and landscapes will be on view in the upcoming exhibition.

CNY Art Showcase: Juried Preview of Live Auction
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 suggested donation
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

CNY Arts Showcase: Juried Preview of the Live Auction, presented in conjunction with the Eastwood Rotary Club, highlights the great and diverse artistic talents within our community. The exhibition at the Everson will precede the Eastwood Rotary Club's Annual CNY Art Showcase Live Auction on April 20.

The Photographer as Child: Memories of Guatemala
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Born in Guatemala, award-winning photographer Efren Lopez is a student in the Military Photojournalism Program at Syracuse University. He is also an aerial photographer for the U.S. Air Force and the first reservist to be selected to attend Newhouse's Military Photojournalism Program. He now lives in Arizona.

The exhibit features images Lopez captured on a return trip to Guatemala in 2009. "My life began in a bamboo hut at the side of a road in a tiny town named Petaca, Guatemala, in 1966," Lopez writes. "It's a town so small that it is next to impossible to find on most maps of Guatemala, much less Central America."

Lopez has documented real-world situations and the military around the globe and has captured stunning images in Arizona and Guatemala. His work has been featured in various publications, including the book Arizona 24/7, and has been awarded many distinctions, including first place in the Professional Photography category at the 2008 Arizona State Fair, an honorable mention in the pictorial category in the 2009 Military Photographer of the Year competition, and first place in the 2011 Multimedia Team 19th Annual Department of Defense Worldwide Military Photography Workshop.

Noriko Ambe: Inner Water
The Warehouse Gallery

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

In her first US museum solo show, New York City-based Japanese artist Noriko Ambe will create a new site-specific installation in the main gallery reflecting the tragic 2011 events in Japan through the use of video projections and her signature large-scale paper cutouts that evoke waves.

Nature plays an important role in Ambe's work, and it points to larger issues, such as the natural forces determining our global landscape, and the relationship between nature and humans throughout time. A recipient of prestigious awards such as the AICA Award and Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Ambe's work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Arts and Design and the Japan Society in New York and the Kyoto University of Art and Design in Kyoto, Japan. Her work is also in the collection of the Whitney Museum of Art.

Read a review!

I Like America and America Likes Me
XL Projects

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

Artwork of international graduate students in SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) will be featured in this exhibition. The graduate students will exhibit work in a variety of media.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

Wednesday Film Series: Chelovek's Kino-Apparatom
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Auditorium
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Dziga Vertov, 1929, 68 minutes.

Syracuse Chorale Chamber Singers
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Warren Ottey, director. Program to be announced.

Parking available in the OnCenter Garage: maximum $2.50 with CMM stamped ticket.

Zach Deputy
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Poetry Reading & Book Signing
Onondaga Community College
Featuring Elizabeth Twiddy

Price: Free
Mawhinney Hall, Room M345
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf
Onondaga Community College
Michelle Footman, director

Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Onondaga Community College students present a powerful and enjoyable rendition of the 1975 experimental play by Ntozake Shange.

MythBusters: Behind the Myths
Featuring Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman

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

The all-new, live stage show "MythBusters Behind the Myths," starring Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, co-hosts of the Emmy-nominated Discovery series MythBusters, promises to be an unexpected evening of on-stage experiments, audience participation, rocking video and behind-the-scenes stories. For the first time ever, fans will join Jamie and Adam on stage and assist in their mind-twisting and not always orthodox approach to science.

"MythBusters Behind the Myths" brings you face-to-face with the curious world of Jamie and Adam as the duo matches wits on stage with each other and members of the audience.

Tickets available online through Ticketmaster or in person at the OnCenter Box Office.

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

The Reflections Series: Works by Nevin Mercede
Redhouse

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

These digital prints are composed from photographs taken while traveling in Russia. Conversations with artists, politicians and educators encountered there provide the majority of companion texts. Since 1995 Mercede has woven images with texts reflecting on social, political and educational issues or situations.

Being Impossible: Works by Deborah Zlotsky
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

An exhibition of drawings and paintings by Deborah Zlotsky. In this series, the artist manipulates powdered graphite on sheets of mylar, searching for signs of life in the smears and conjuring up blurred boundaries between documenting nature and inventing nature. Zlotsky is represented by Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in New York and presented a solo exhibition in October 2011. She has been the recipient of numerous residencies, including a residency fellowship at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY, this past summer. She earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University and a master's degree in painting and drawing from the University of Connecticut.

For more information, call 315-445-4153.

Interpreting Nature
Baltimore Woods Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

A collection of work by Sharon Bottle Souva, fabric handworks; Wesley Weiss, ceramics; and Jill Newton, watercolors, who work in three distinct media but are united by their shared reference to the natural world.

Gallery Exhibit: The Narrative Tradition in the 21st Century: The Art of Randy Elliott and Richard Williams
Onondaga Community College

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

About Richard Williams:
As a self-taught illustrator I was able to sidestep the many academic pitfalls that plague contemporary artists, such as the belief that drawing skills are not important. My work is steeped in the tradition of craftsmanship and the importance of the narrative. Art in my opinion serves a social function, which can encompass selling a product to the public or making critical commentary on society and culture, and anything in between. To accomplish this, the artist needs to communicate in a simple, clear and powerful way. To do this one needs to have a firm grasp of the basic skills of draftsmanship, color, painting technique and storytelling.

About Randy Elliott:
Randy Elliott began his professional art career in 1988, inking the Dungeons & Dragons, Dragonlance comic book for DC Comics. That job began a career that continues until the present. Over the course of the last twenty-odd years, Randy has inked and/or penciled comic books for DC, Archie, Marvel, Dark Horse, Valiant and a number of smaller publishers. He has also painted images for clients like, Wizards of the Coast, Alderac Entertainment Group, Battlefront Miniatures, Hasbro and others.

"Images of Upstate New York" and "Juxtaposed Through Wonderland"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

"Images of Upstate New York" features work by Morgan Goodwin and Kate Walseman
"Juxtaposed Through Wonderland" features recent work by KayCie Danniel

Patently Syracuse
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

A visual exploration of inventions, designs and innovations created in Central New York.

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

Teddy Cruz/The Architect's Work 9
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Creatures Small and Great
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Dana Blythe Stenson (metalsmith jewelry), Candace Rhea (ceramic and mixed media), Alan Hart (acrylic on board), and Diane Menzies (oil paintings) interpret insects and small animals.

Reflection and Identity: Works by W. Michelle Harris and Michael Roman
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition features recent work by Rochester Institute of Technology associate professor and artist W. Michelle Harris and Atlanta-based artist and Syracuse University alum Michael Roman. These two young artists embrace questions of gender, identity, and societal expectations.

While the materials used by each artist sit at the opposite ends of the technological spectrum, both individuals seek to examine topics of an interrelated and highly personal nature.

Read a review!

Academic Art...teachers that do
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Works of Jamessville-Dewitt art teachers Faith Carapella (charcoal, pen and ink, collage) and Steve Pilcher (soda-fired stoneware, both functional and decorative).

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition was curated by English Professor Cassandra Jackson and Gallery Director Sarah Cunningham, both from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The exhibition was on view in the TCNJ Art Gallery in 2011. The central ideas of the exhibit are rooted in Jackson's most recent book, Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body (Routledge, 2010). Her book deals with the ways in which the black male body has been visually exploited, and the ways in which contemporary artists have called into question the paradigmatic construction of the black body in American society. The exhibit displays 31 photographs by 19 contemporary artists of African descent, 17 from the United States, two from Britain. Their work comments on the various representations of black bodies in Western visual culture. These artists confront stereotypes about black male appearance, sexuality, violence, and family, and highlight the ways that visual culture has contributed to the marginalization and exclusion of the black community.

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

Alexander Gronsky is a self-described landscape photographer with an uncanny ability to capture scenes in nature as elegant allegories that include rolling hills, spectacular lighting, and far reaching horizons. His skilled use of perspective and composition, reminiscent of centuries-old traditions in European landscape painting, draw the viewer's eye deep into the landscape and generate a sense of awe for each place. The photographs in this exhibit were taken along the outlying areas of Moscow where the human need to find solace away from the city collides with urban sprawl, and the fragility of nature.

Creativity through Exhibition Design II
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Creativity through Exhibition Design II" features computer-aided drawings and 3-dimensional models of the gallery space in the State Tower Building adjacent to Hanover Square. Students gained experience in such areas as color selection, spatial arrangement, lighting techniques, typography and universal design principles to put their individual creativity into an upcoming exhibition they are working on titled "Hidden in Plain Site: Sculpture in Syracuse and the Work of the Public Artist in Residence."

Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on W. Fayette St. or the first-floor door on W. Washington St.

Educational Toys by Roy Wilson
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Designer Roy Wilson, a 1970 alumnus of Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, will exhibit his award-winning educational toy designs. The exhibit features Wilson's work from the Learning Curve Toy Co., including the 1992 Thomas Wooden Railway project and the 1994 Lamaze Infant Development System, which he researched, designed, engineered and manufactured. The exhibition will also include his most recent invention in toys, TRAK2BRIK Adapters. Introduced in February at the American International Toy Fair, TRAK2BRIK is a system of adapters that links wooden railway track to pegged construction bricks and has dozens of slide-on toy accessories.

Wilson's career evolved from an early fascination with mechanical, scientific and electrical products. While at SU studying industrial design, he wrote his graduating thesis on preschool educational developmental toys. He started his own design business, Creative International, in 1967 and decided to remain independent and/or work on long-term contracts. To date, he has won 47 national and international awards for design excellence.

Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on West Fayette Street or the first-floor door on West Washington Street. For more information, contact Bradley Hudson at bjhudson@syr.edu.

Illusionistic
Szozda Gallery

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

Painter Kyle Mort's realism and painter Robert Glisson's impressionism are both meant to prompt the viewer's stare. Both Mort and Glisson work with beautiful color, achieved differently in their signature techniques. Mort tends toward extreme realism, bordering on trompe l'oeil in which he is capable of creating a spatial illusion. Glisson's impressionistic pieces, like the styles of those artists who inspire him, create an emotional illusion. Mort leans more toward depicting still life. Glisson endeavors to capture landscapes.

Kala Stein: Form & Plenty
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Kala Stein's exhibition Form and Plenty showcases her innovative ceramics based on archetypal utilitarian forms, like vases, bottles, and cups. By manipulating clay primarily though the slip casting of molds, she creates sculptural silhouettes, which merge multiple forms and planes into a single vessel. Stein says of her work, "Filtering the forms through abstraction, simplification and a limited color palette allows me to make compositional arrangements that depart from the symbol of the object itself."

Stein received her Master of Fine Arts at New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University where she currently is a visiting instructor. She shows her work nationally and maintains her home and studio in Canadice, NY.

Time, Again Time: Works by Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

In "Time, again time," the artist reflects on ordered fragments of a disordered world. An activist and renowned Latin American artist, Ana Tiscornia brings a mixed-media installation that curator Pedro Cuperman describes as "the outcome of a tale, where we have a fragmented world, where the pieces are somehow geometrically organic, logical... a kind of architecture of catastrophe. It is about the artist's obsession with organizing her world after having lived through the tragedies of military dictatorships in her home land, and the present catastrophes, wars that we endure in our own time. Ana's work demands from the viewer a sort of reconstruction, reintegration of the work, and our world.

Reliquaries: New Work by Drew Goerlitz
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 suggested donation
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Well-known for his graceful yet imposing steel sculpture, Drew Goerlitz, Associate Professor of Sculpture at the State University of New York Plattsburg, presents a new body of work at the Everson Museum of Art. Reliquaries continues the reoccurring theme of containment, concealment and privacy best described by Goerlitz himself: "My interpretation of reliquary is not to hold a sacred object or relic, but to engage the viewer with the form and tension of the unknown interior. The adornment of these objects relates to architectural details and the idea of facade. Facade is what we are presented with upon first appearance, whether speaking of people or architecture, and it isn't until we look inside that we discover the true structure."

CNY Art Showcase: Juried Preview of Live Auction
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 suggested donation
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

CNY Arts Showcase: Juried Preview of the Live Auction, presented in conjunction with the Eastwood Rotary Club, highlights the great and diverse artistic talents within our community. The exhibition at the Everson will precede the Eastwood Rotary Club's Annual CNY Art Showcase Live Auction on April 20.

From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
Everson Museum of Art

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

"From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland" is the first exhibition to examine the American artist's work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Long celebrated as an iconic American artist due to his important early work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight, Henri's paintings have received less attention on their own. Most projects explored his career as it related to his role as a member of The Eight or in a broadly retrospective manner. Few projects focused on his landscapes, drawings, or foreign portraits.

Henri's Irish portraits constitute his largest focused body of work, and often depict the same sitters year after year. These paintings offer a unique and fascinating window onto the genre about which Henri felt most strongly--portraiture--and also chart his experiments with paint handling and color theories over time. He wrote that the time spent in Ireland was extremely valuable to him (it was the only other place besides New York where he purchased a residence), for only there was he able to focus on his painting without the distractions of life in New York. It is not surprising, then, that the periods Henri spent in Ireland were among his most prolific, and the paintings produced there among his most accomplished. Just before his death, Henri composed a list of his most important paintings; many of the works on this list were his Irish subjects. Forty-one paintings of Irish people and landscapes will be on view in the upcoming exhibition.

The Photographer as Child: Memories of Guatemala
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Born in Guatemala, award-winning photographer Efren Lopez is a student in the Military Photojournalism Program at Syracuse University. He is also an aerial photographer for the U.S. Air Force and the first reservist to be selected to attend Newhouse's Military Photojournalism Program. He now lives in Arizona.

The exhibit features images Lopez captured on a return trip to Guatemala in 2009. "My life began in a bamboo hut at the side of a road in a tiny town named Petaca, Guatemala, in 1966," Lopez writes. "It's a town so small that it is next to impossible to find on most maps of Guatemala, much less Central America."

Lopez has documented real-world situations and the military around the globe and has captured stunning images in Arizona and Guatemala. His work has been featured in various publications, including the book Arizona 24/7, and has been awarded many distinctions, including first place in the Professional Photography category at the 2008 Arizona State Fair, an honorable mention in the pictorial category in the 2009 Military Photographer of the Year competition, and first place in the 2011 Multimedia Team 19th Annual Department of Defense Worldwide Military Photography Workshop.

Noriko Ambe: Inner Water
The Warehouse Gallery

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

In her first US museum solo show, New York City-based Japanese artist Noriko Ambe will create a new site-specific installation in the main gallery reflecting the tragic 2011 events in Japan through the use of video projections and her signature large-scale paper cutouts that evoke waves.

Nature plays an important role in Ambe's work, and it points to larger issues, such as the natural forces determining our global landscape, and the relationship between nature and humans throughout time. A recipient of prestigious awards such as the AICA Award and Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Ambe's work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Arts and Design and the Japan Society in New York and the Kyoto University of Art and Design in Kyoto, Japan. Her work is also in the collection of the Whitney Museum of Art.

Read a review!

I Like America and America Likes Me
XL Projects

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

There will be a reception this evening 6:00-8:00 pm.

Artwork of international graduate students in SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) will be featured in this exhibition. The graduate students will exhibit work in a variety of media.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

William Wegman: Flo Flow (2011)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The video "Flo Flow" is William Wegman's latest in a long line of human-canid collaborations. It was while he was in Long Beach in the 1970s that Wegman got his dog, Man Ray, with whom he began a fruitful collaboration of many years. Man Ray, known in the art world and beyond for his endearing deadpan presence, became a central figure in Wegman's photographs and videotapes. Ever since, Weimaraner-actors have peopled Wegman's uncanny imaginative universe, a reflection on both the human-ness of "animals" and the strangeness of humans.

William Wegman lives in New York and Maine where he continues to make videos, to take photographs and to make drawings and paintings.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

Iron Jawed Angels
Onondaga Community College

Mawhinney Hall, Second Floor, Room 245
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Directed by Katja Von Garnier. Discussion led by Professor Michael O'Connor.

Images of Sexual Crime and Punishment in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences
Ray Smith Symposium
Featuring Diane Wolfthal, art historian

Price: Free
Heroy Auditorium, Heroy Geology Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Diane Wolfthal is on the faculty of Rice University, where she holds the David and Caroline Minter Endowed Chair in the Humanities, and serves as professor of art history. Wolfthal's presentation will focus on rape, homosexuality and adultery -- sexual practices that historically have been of interest to the church and state. "I will show how these acts, considered crimes in medieval and early modern Europe, were represented and punished. I will also compare past attitudes [about them] with today's cultural debates," she says.

Wolfthal will draw from two of her books: In and Out of the Marital Bed: Seeing Sex in Late Medieval and Early Modern Art (Yale University Press, 2010), which demonstrates how illicit forms of sexuality were linked to the "chaste sexuality" of marriage, and Images of Rape: The 'Heroic' Tradition and Its Alternatives (Cambridge University Press, 1999), considered the first in-depth exploration of rape, as portrayed in European art from the 1100s-1600s.

In addition to being an art historian, Wolfthal is an expert in feminist and Jewish studies; the history of sexuality; and the intersection of money, values and culture. Also, she is a prolific author and scholar, as evidenced by her role as founding co-editor of Early Modern Women (University of Miami), the only journal devoted to the interdisciplinary and global study of women and gender from the 1400s-1700s.

The Writer As Witness
University Lectures
Featuring Terry Tempest Williams, environmentalist and author

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Terry Tempest Williams has been called "a citizen writer," a writer who speaks, and speaks out eloquently, on behalf of an ethical stance toward life. A naturalist and fierce advocate for freedom of speech, she has consistently shown us how environmental issues are social issues that ultimately become matters of justice. Williams, like her writing, cannot be categorized.

Bill Horrace Trio with jazz vocalists

Price: No cover charge
Phoebe's Garden Cafe
900 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Students from Syracuse University's Department of Drama join the Bill Horrace Trio (Bill Horrace, bass; Dave Solazzo, piano; Tom Bronzetti, guitar) in jazz standards

Dirty South
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Avenue Q (School Edition)
Fowler High School

Price: $5 presale, $8 at the door
Fowler High School
227 Magnolia St., Syracuse

Avenue Q -- School Edition, winner of the 2004 Tony Award for Best Musical, is a coming-of-age tale that addresses and satirizes anxieties and issues associated with approaching and entering adulthood with a cast both human and puppet alike. The laugh-out-loud musical tells the timeless story of a recent college grad named Princeton who moves into a shabby New York apartment all the way out on Avenue Q. He soon discovers that although the residents seem nice, it's clear that this is not your ordinary neighborhood. Together, Princeton and his new-found friends struggle to find jobs, dates and their ever-elusive purpose in life. Music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, book by Jeff Whitty.

Mary McCrone, director; Matt Rossi, music director; Eric Williams, scenic director; Jamie Gartner, choreographer

Death Takes a Bow
Acme Mystery Company

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

All the world's a stage, but some stages are worth more than others. Welcome to the historic White Tulip, the seediest theater in London yet one which everyone seems to want. Tonight, a tycoon temptress and her tawdry toady take on a territorial thespian and his trollop of a treasurer in a tussle for title to this theatrical tenement. What valuable secrets lie behind the scenes and how far will someone go to unearth them? Let the buyer beware: at this showplace, greed steals every scene and dying on stage could be more than a figure of speech.

Twelfth Night
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: $25 regular, $15 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

In this unique and jazz-filled production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, audiences will be transported to a 4th of July garden party in the late 1950s Hamptons. Martinis in hand, the well-heeled guests in tuxes and gowns fall in and out of love as live music keeps the beat for this tuneful, topsy-turvy tale of mistaken identities and thwarted lovers. When the Rat Pack meets the Bard, it's very funny, very romantic, and very cool. Way cool.

The cast is primarily local and includes Katie Gibson, Darian Sundberg, Binaifer Dabu, Todd Quick, Jan Coombs, Donnie Williams, William Edward White, Karis Wiggins, Krystal Scott, Grace Allyn, Gabe Digenova, Marguerite Mitchell, Jordan Hornstein, Nathan Faudree, and Adam Perabo, with pianist Dan Williams.

Read a Review!

Friday, March 30, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

The Reflections Series: Works by Nevin Mercede
Redhouse

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

These digital prints are composed from photographs taken while traveling in Russia. Conversations with artists, politicians and educators encountered there provide the majority of companion texts. Since 1995 Mercede has woven images with texts reflecting on social, political and educational issues or situations.

Being Impossible: Works by Deborah Zlotsky
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

An exhibition of drawings and paintings by Deborah Zlotsky. In this series, the artist manipulates powdered graphite on sheets of mylar, searching for signs of life in the smears and conjuring up blurred boundaries between documenting nature and inventing nature. Zlotsky is represented by Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in New York and presented a solo exhibition in October 2011. She has been the recipient of numerous residencies, including a residency fellowship at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY, this past summer. She earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University and a master's degree in painting and drawing from the University of Connecticut.

For more information, call 315-445-4153.

Interpreting Nature
Baltimore Woods Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

A collection of work by Sharon Bottle Souva, fabric handworks; Wesley Weiss, ceramics; and Jill Newton, watercolors, who work in three distinct media but are united by their shared reference to the natural world.

Gallery Exhibit: The Narrative Tradition in the 21st Century: The Art of Randy Elliott and Richard Williams
Onondaga Community College

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

About Richard Williams:
As a self-taught illustrator I was able to sidestep the many academic pitfalls that plague contemporary artists, such as the belief that drawing skills are not important. My work is steeped in the tradition of craftsmanship and the importance of the narrative. Art in my opinion serves a social function, which can encompass selling a product to the public or making critical commentary on society and culture, and anything in between. To accomplish this, the artist needs to communicate in a simple, clear and powerful way. To do this one needs to have a firm grasp of the basic skills of draftsmanship, color, painting technique and storytelling.

About Randy Elliott:
Randy Elliott began his professional art career in 1988, inking the Dungeons & Dragons, Dragonlance comic book for DC Comics. That job began a career that continues until the present. Over the course of the last twenty-odd years, Randy has inked and/or penciled comic books for DC, Archie, Marvel, Dark Horse, Valiant and a number of smaller publishers. He has also painted images for clients like, Wizards of the Coast, Alderac Entertainment Group, Battlefront Miniatures, Hasbro and others.

"Images of Upstate New York" and "Juxtaposed Through Wonderland"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

"Images of Upstate New York" features work by Morgan Goodwin and Kate Walseman
"Juxtaposed Through Wonderland" features recent work by KayCie Danniel

Patently Syracuse
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

A visual exploration of inventions, designs and innovations created in Central New York.

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

Teddy Cruz/The Architect's Work 9
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Creatures Small and Great
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Dana Blythe Stenson (metalsmith jewelry), Candace Rhea (ceramic and mixed media), Alan Hart (acrylic on board), and Diane Menzies (oil paintings) interpret insects and small animals.

Time, Again Time: Works by Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

In "Time, again time," the artist reflects on ordered fragments of a disordered world. An activist and renowned Latin American artist, Ana Tiscornia brings a mixed-media installation that curator Pedro Cuperman describes as "the outcome of a tale, where we have a fragmented world, where the pieces are somehow geometrically organic, logical... a kind of architecture of catastrophe. It is about the artist's obsession with organizing her world after having lived through the tragedies of military dictatorships in her home land, and the present catastrophes, wars that we endure in our own time. Ana's work demands from the viewer a sort of reconstruction, reintegration of the work, and our world.

Reflection and Identity: Works by W. Michelle Harris and Michael Roman
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition features recent work by Rochester Institute of Technology associate professor and artist W. Michelle Harris and Atlanta-based artist and Syracuse University alum Michael Roman. These two young artists embrace questions of gender, identity, and societal expectations.

While the materials used by each artist sit at the opposite ends of the technological spectrum, both individuals seek to examine topics of an interrelated and highly personal nature.

Read a review!

Academic Art...teachers that do
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Works of Jamessville-Dewitt art teachers Faith Carapella (charcoal, pen and ink, collage) and Steve Pilcher (soda-fired stoneware, both functional and decorative).

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

Alexander Gronsky is a self-described landscape photographer with an uncanny ability to capture scenes in nature as elegant allegories that include rolling hills, spectacular lighting, and far reaching horizons. His skilled use of perspective and composition, reminiscent of centuries-old traditions in European landscape painting, draw the viewer's eye deep into the landscape and generate a sense of awe for each place. The photographs in this exhibit were taken along the outlying areas of Moscow where the human need to find solace away from the city collides with urban sprawl, and the fragility of nature.

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition was curated by English Professor Cassandra Jackson and Gallery Director Sarah Cunningham, both from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The exhibition was on view in the TCNJ Art Gallery in 2011. The central ideas of the exhibit are rooted in Jackson's most recent book, Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body (Routledge, 2010). Her book deals with the ways in which the black male body has been visually exploited, and the ways in which contemporary artists have called into question the paradigmatic construction of the black body in American society. The exhibit displays 31 photographs by 19 contemporary artists of African descent, 17 from the United States, two from Britain. Their work comments on the various representations of black bodies in Western visual culture. These artists confront stereotypes about black male appearance, sexuality, violence, and family, and highlight the ways that visual culture has contributed to the marginalization and exclusion of the black community.

Creativity through Exhibition Design II
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Creativity through Exhibition Design II" features computer-aided drawings and 3-dimensional models of the gallery space in the State Tower Building adjacent to Hanover Square. Students gained experience in such areas as color selection, spatial arrangement, lighting techniques, typography and universal design principles to put their individual creativity into an upcoming exhibition they are working on titled "Hidden in Plain Site: Sculpture in Syracuse and the Work of the Public Artist in Residence."

Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on W. Fayette St. or the first-floor door on W. Washington St.

Educational Toys by Roy Wilson
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Designer Roy Wilson, a 1970 alumnus of Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, will exhibit his award-winning educational toy designs. The exhibit features Wilson's work from the Learning Curve Toy Co., including the 1992 Thomas Wooden Railway project and the 1994 Lamaze Infant Development System, which he researched, designed, engineered and manufactured. The exhibition will also include his most recent invention in toys, TRAK2BRIK Adapters. Introduced in February at the American International Toy Fair, TRAK2BRIK is a system of adapters that links wooden railway track to pegged construction bricks and has dozens of slide-on toy accessories.

Wilson's career evolved from an early fascination with mechanical, scientific and electrical products. While at SU studying industrial design, he wrote his graduating thesis on preschool educational developmental toys. He started his own design business, Creative International, in 1967 and decided to remain independent and/or work on long-term contracts. To date, he has won 47 national and international awards for design excellence.

Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on West Fayette Street or the first-floor door on West Washington Street. For more information, contact Bradley Hudson at bjhudson@syr.edu.

Illusionistic
Szozda Gallery

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

Painter Kyle Mort's realism and painter Robert Glisson's impressionism are both meant to prompt the viewer's stare. Both Mort and Glisson work with beautiful color, achieved differently in their signature techniques. Mort tends toward extreme realism, bordering on trompe l'oeil in which he is capable of creating a spatial illusion. Glisson's impressionistic pieces, like the styles of those artists who inspire him, create an emotional illusion. Mort leans more toward depicting still life. Glisson endeavors to capture landscapes.

Kala Stein: Form & Plenty
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Kala Stein's exhibition Form and Plenty showcases her innovative ceramics based on archetypal utilitarian forms, like vases, bottles, and cups. By manipulating clay primarily though the slip casting of molds, she creates sculptural silhouettes, which merge multiple forms and planes into a single vessel. Stein says of her work, "Filtering the forms through abstraction, simplification and a limited color palette allows me to make compositional arrangements that depart from the symbol of the object itself."

Stein received her Master of Fine Arts at New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University where she currently is a visiting instructor. She shows her work nationally and maintains her home and studio in Canadice, NY.

Reliquaries: New Work by Drew Goerlitz
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 suggested donation
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Well-known for his graceful yet imposing steel sculpture, Drew Goerlitz, Associate Professor of Sculpture at the State University of New York Plattsburg, presents a new body of work at the Everson Museum of Art. Reliquaries continues the reoccurring theme of containment, concealment and privacy best described by Goerlitz himself: "My interpretation of reliquary is not to hold a sacred object or relic, but to engage the viewer with the form and tension of the unknown interior. The adornment of these objects relates to architectural details and the idea of facade. Facade is what we are presented with upon first appearance, whether speaking of people or architecture, and it isn't until we look inside that we discover the true structure."

From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
Everson Museum of Art

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

"From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland" is the first exhibition to examine the American artist's work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Long celebrated as an iconic American artist due to his important early work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight, Henri's paintings have received less attention on their own. Most projects explored his career as it related to his role as a member of The Eight or in a broadly retrospective manner. Few projects focused on his landscapes, drawings, or foreign portraits.

Henri's Irish portraits constitute his largest focused body of work, and often depict the same sitters year after year. These paintings offer a unique and fascinating window onto the genre about which Henri felt most strongly--portraiture--and also chart his experiments with paint handling and color theories over time. He wrote that the time spent in Ireland was extremely valuable to him (it was the only other place besides New York where he purchased a residence), for only there was he able to focus on his painting without the distractions of life in New York. It is not surprising, then, that the periods Henri spent in Ireland were among his most prolific, and the paintings produced there among his most accomplished. Just before his death, Henri composed a list of his most important paintings; many of the works on this list were his Irish subjects. Forty-one paintings of Irish people and landscapes will be on view in the upcoming exhibition.

CNY Art Showcase: Juried Preview of Live Auction
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 suggested donation
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

CNY Arts Showcase: Juried Preview of the Live Auction, presented in conjunction with the Eastwood Rotary Club, highlights the great and diverse artistic talents within our community. The exhibition at the Everson will precede the Eastwood Rotary Club's Annual CNY Art Showcase Live Auction on April 20.

The Photographer as Child: Memories of Guatemala
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Born in Guatemala, award-winning photographer Efren Lopez is a student in the Military Photojournalism Program at Syracuse University. He is also an aerial photographer for the U.S. Air Force and the first reservist to be selected to attend Newhouse's Military Photojournalism Program. He now lives in Arizona.

The exhibit features images Lopez captured on a return trip to Guatemala in 2009. "My life began in a bamboo hut at the side of a road in a tiny town named Petaca, Guatemala, in 1966," Lopez writes. "It's a town so small that it is next to impossible to find on most maps of Guatemala, much less Central America."

Lopez has documented real-world situations and the military around the globe and has captured stunning images in Arizona and Guatemala. His work has been featured in various publications, including the book Arizona 24/7, and has been awarded many distinctions, including first place in the Professional Photography category at the 2008 Arizona State Fair, an honorable mention in the pictorial category in the 2009 Military Photographer of the Year competition, and first place in the 2011 Multimedia Team 19th Annual Department of Defense Worldwide Military Photography Workshop.

Noriko Ambe: Inner Water
The Warehouse Gallery

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

In her first US museum solo show, New York City-based Japanese artist Noriko Ambe will create a new site-specific installation in the main gallery reflecting the tragic 2011 events in Japan through the use of video projections and her signature large-scale paper cutouts that evoke waves.

Nature plays an important role in Ambe's work, and it points to larger issues, such as the natural forces determining our global landscape, and the relationship between nature and humans throughout time. A recipient of prestigious awards such as the AICA Award and Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Ambe's work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Arts and Design and the Japan Society in New York and the Kyoto University of Art and Design in Kyoto, Japan. Her work is also in the collection of the Whitney Museum of Art.

Read a review!

I Like America and America Likes Me
XL Projects

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

Artwork of international graduate students in SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) will be featured in this exhibition. The graduate students will exhibit work in a variety of media.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Opening: The Black Series
Echo

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

There will be an opening reception this evening 6:00-9:00 pm.

Photography by Amanda Zackem. On display will be 17 silver-gelatin prints and a short film.

William Wegman: Flo Flow (2011)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The video "Flo Flow" is William Wegman's latest in a long line of human-canid collaborations. It was while he was in Long Beach in the 1970s that Wegman got his dog, Man Ray, with whom he began a fruitful collaboration of many years. Man Ray, known in the art world and beyond for his endearing deadpan presence, became a central figure in Wegman's photographs and videotapes. Ever since, Weimaraner-actors have peopled Wegman's uncanny imaginative universe, a reflection on both the human-ness of "animals" and the strangeness of humans.

William Wegman lives in New York and Maine where he continues to make videos, to take photographs and to make drawings and paintings.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

Death March of the Penguins
Syracuse Improv Collective

Price: $5
The Vault
451 S. Warren St., Syracuse

A night of improvisational comedy and hardcore ukulele music.

8:00 pm: The SIC workshop graduates
8:40 pm: Zamboni Revolution, Syracuse University's only improv comedy troupe
9:30 pm: Fugulele, an all-ukulele Fugazi cover band
10:00 pm: Oregon Fail (long form improv)

Verdi Requiem
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Syracuse University Oratorio Society
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Mihoko Kinoshita, soprano; Sarah Heltzel, mezzo-soprano; Jonathan Howell, tenor; Marc Webster, bass

Price: $20 adults, $10 students
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Tickets are available from the Syracuse Opera Box Office, 315-476-7372, www.syracuseopera.com.

Free parking at Booth Garage (Waverly & Comstock), University Avenue Garage (University Avenue between Harrison & Comstock), and in the Waverly and Marion Lots.

Unplugged. Uncovered. Unsung.
Words and Music Songwriter Showcase

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

Join Colleen Kattau, Dana "Short Order" Cooke, and Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers for an evening of music and songwriting.

Bright Young Thing 2
Twist Cabaret Theatre
Featuring Erika Clement, vocals; Josh Smith, piano

Price: $15
Twist Ultra Lounge
252 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

This is the second showcase of swing, jazz and cabaret, written by Josh Smith, musical director,
with Erika Clement. She will perform songs from Broadway shows and some popular songs of eras gone by.

Hot Day at the Zoo, with Woodworks
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Poets Lynn Domina and Yvonne Murphy
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Lynn Domina is the author of two collections of poetry, Corporal Works and Framed in Silence, and the editor of a collection of essays, Poets on the Psalms. Her work appears in the New England Review, Prairie Schooner, the Southern Review, the Valparaiso Poetry Review, and several other periodicals.She currently lives in the western Catskill region of New York.

Yvonne C. Murphy's first book of poetry, Aviaries, was published in March 2011, by Carolina Wren Press. An Associate Professor of The Arts at SUNY Empire State College in East Syracuse, NY, she has a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature and has worked as an editor, publications writer, journalist, library clerk, storyteller, researcher and artist-in residence in public schools, community organizations, hospitals and art museums.

Spoken Word Poetry Institute
Verbal Blend

Price: Free
Schine Student Center, room 304
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Verbal Blend, a spoken-word poetry program coordinated by SU's Office of Multicultural Affairs within the Division of Student Affairs, will premiere the Spoken Word Poetry Institute, examining the dynamic of written and performance poetry in the 21st century.

This event includes a panel discussion, themed "Lift Every Voice & Sing," along with mini-readings by acclaimed poets Joshua Bennett, Tara Betts and Lemon Andersen.

Lemon Andersen is an original cast member of the Tony Award-winning Russell Simmons' "Def Poetry Jam" on Broadway and has been seen on HBO's "Def Poetry Jam" eight times in six seasons. He has traveled the spoken-word and theater scene for the last decade, performing and selling out venues such as the Nuyorican Poets Café, Apollo Theater, Chicago Theater and Hollywood KODAK. He has recently acted in films by Spike Lee, including "Sucker Free City," "She Hate Me," and "Inside Man," where Andersen starred opposite Denzel Washington.

Betts is the author of "Arc and Hue" (Aquarius Press, 2009) and a Cave Canem Fellow, who has appeared on HBO's "Def Poetry Jam."

Bennett is an award-winning performance poet who has recited his poems at events such as the Sundance Film Festival, NAACP Image Awards and President Obama's Evening of Poetry and Music at the White House.

For more information, contact Cedric Bolton at 315-443-9676 or ctbolton@syr.edu.

Avenue Q (School Edition)
Fowler High School

Price: $5 presale, $8 at the door
Fowler High School
227 Magnolia St., Syracuse

Avenue Q -- School Edition, winner of the 2004 Tony Award for Best Musical, is a coming-of-age tale that addresses and satirizes anxieties and issues associated with approaching and entering adulthood with a cast both human and puppet alike. The laugh-out-loud musical tells the timeless story of a recent college grad named Princeton who moves into a shabby New York apartment all the way out on Avenue Q. He soon discovers that although the residents seem nice, it's clear that this is not your ordinary neighborhood. Together, Princeton and his new-found friends struggle to find jobs, dates and their ever-elusive purpose in life. Music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, book by Jeff Whitty.

Mary McCrone, director; Matt Rossi, music director; Eric Williams, scenic director; Jamie Gartner, choreographer

Lombardi: More Than Just the Game
CNY Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

Price: Dinner theater: $35 single; $65 couple. Show only: $25 (limited availability)
Fire and Ice Banquet Hall, The Locker Room
528 Hiawatha Blvd., Syracuse

Dinner at 6:45 pm, followed by show at 8:00 pm.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

A new play by Eric Simonsen. Sport produces great human drama and there is no greater sports icon to bring to theatrical life than Hall of Fame football coach Vince Lombardi, unquestionably one of the most inspirational and quotable personalities of all time. Though football's Super Bowl trophy is named for him, few know the real story of Lombardi the man and his inspirations, his passions and ability to drive people to achieve what they never thought possible.

Starring Stephfond Brunson, Anne Fitzgerald, Jordan Glaski, Matt Nilsen, Dan Rowlands, and Roy Van Norstrand as Lombardi.

Read a Review!

The King and I
Christian Brothers Academy

Price: $8
Nottingham High School
3100 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Two very different cultures meet when an English widow becomes a tutor for the children of the King of Siam. Set in Bangkok in 1862, both the widow and the king grow to appreciate how vast differences can lead to an understanding of the shared hopes and dreams in all of the family of man. Music by Richard Rodgers; book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein III.

Eugene Moretti, director; Robert Caraher, music director; Christina Ciereck, choreographer.

Tickets will be available at CBA starting March 23 from any cast member, or at the door.

Twelfth Night
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: $25 regular, $15 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

In this unique and jazz-filled production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, audiences will be transported to a 4th of July garden party in the late 1950s Hamptons. Martinis in hand, the well-heeled guests in tuxes and gowns fall in and out of love as live music keeps the beat for this tuneful, topsy-turvy tale of mistaken identities and thwarted lovers. When the Rat Pack meets the Bard, it's very funny, very romantic, and very cool. Way cool.

The cast is primarily local and includes Katie Gibson, Darian Sundberg, Binaifer Dabu, Todd Quick, Jan Coombs, Donnie Williams, William Edward White, Karis Wiggins, Krystal Scott, Grace Allyn, Gabe Digenova, Marguerite Mitchell, Jordan Hornstein, Nathan Faudree, and Adam Perabo, with pianist Dan Williams.

Read a Review!

Quilters
Syracuse University Drama Department
Patdro Harris, director

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

The memories, hopes, dreams and prayers of the indomitable women of the American frontier enliven this hauntingly beautiful musical. Based on oral histories from the pioneers of the prairie states, Quilters celebrates with unassuming honesty and simplicity the fears, joys, loves and tribulations of these remarkable women as they move from girlhood through family life and confront hardships as settlers in a sometimes harsh land. With a folk-inspired score and a hearty dose of humor, Quilters offers a tender and moving theatrical experience. Book by Molly Newman and Barbara Damashek, music and lyrics by Barbara Damashek.

Read a Review!

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

The Reflections Series: Works by Nevin Mercede
Redhouse

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

These digital prints are composed from photographs taken while traveling in Russia. Conversations with artists, politicians and educators encountered there provide the majority of companion texts. Since 1995 Mercede has woven images with texts reflecting on social, political and educational issues or situations.

Artisan & Craft Show
Jordan-Elbridge High School Literary & Arts Magazine

Price: Free
Elbridge Elementary School
130 E. Main St., Elbridge

Over 40 local artisan and craft booths will be present, along with concessions, and the Easter bunny for photos. Parking is free.

For more information, contact Caron Dunbar at 72cuda@twcny.rr.com or phone 315-558-3408.

Creatures Small and Great
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Dana Blythe Stenson (metalsmith jewelry), Candace Rhea (ceramic and mixed media), Alan Hart (acrylic on board), and Diane Menzies (oil paintings) interpret insects and small animals.

Academic Art...teachers that do
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Works of Jamessville-Dewitt art teachers Faith Carapella (charcoal, pen and ink, collage) and Steve Pilcher (soda-fired stoneware, both functional and decorative).

CNY Art Showcase: Juried Preview of Live Auction
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 suggested donation
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

CNY Arts Showcase: Juried Preview of the Live Auction, presented in conjunction with the Eastwood Rotary Club, highlights the great and diverse artistic talents within our community. The exhibition at the Everson will precede the Eastwood Rotary Club's Annual CNY Art Showcase Live Auction on April 20.

From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
Everson Museum of Art

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

"From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland" is the first exhibition to examine the American artist's work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Long celebrated as an iconic American artist due to his important early work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight, Henri's paintings have received less attention on their own. Most projects explored his career as it related to his role as a member of The Eight or in a broadly retrospective manner. Few projects focused on his landscapes, drawings, or foreign portraits.

Henri's Irish portraits constitute his largest focused body of work, and often depict the same sitters year after year. These paintings offer a unique and fascinating window onto the genre about which Henri felt most strongly--portraiture--and also chart his experiments with paint handling and color theories over time. He wrote that the time spent in Ireland was extremely valuable to him (it was the only other place besides New York where he purchased a residence), for only there was he able to focus on his painting without the distractions of life in New York. It is not surprising, then, that the periods Henri spent in Ireland were among his most prolific, and the paintings produced there among his most accomplished. Just before his death, Henri composed a list of his most important paintings; many of the works on this list were his Irish subjects. Forty-one paintings of Irish people and landscapes will be on view in the upcoming exhibition.

Reliquaries: New Work by Drew Goerlitz
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 suggested donation
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Well-known for his graceful yet imposing steel sculpture, Drew Goerlitz, Associate Professor of Sculpture at the State University of New York Plattsburg, presents a new body of work at the Everson Museum of Art. Reliquaries continues the reoccurring theme of containment, concealment and privacy best described by Goerlitz himself: "My interpretation of reliquary is not to hold a sacred object or relic, but to engage the viewer with the form and tension of the unknown interior. The adornment of these objects relates to architectural details and the idea of facade. Facade is what we are presented with upon first appearance, whether speaking of people or architecture, and it isn't until we look inside that we discover the true structure."

Interpreting Nature
Baltimore Woods Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

A collection of work by Sharon Bottle Souva, fabric handworks; Wesley Weiss, ceramics; and Jill Newton, watercolors, who work in three distinct media but are united by their shared reference to the natural world.

Illusionistic
Szozda Gallery

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

Painter Kyle Mort's realism and painter Robert Glisson's impressionism are both meant to prompt the viewer's stare. Both Mort and Glisson work with beautiful color, achieved differently in their signature techniques. Mort tends toward extreme realism, bordering on trompe l'oeil in which he is capable of creating a spatial illusion. Glisson's impressionistic pieces, like the styles of those artists who inspire him, create an emotional illusion. Mort leans more toward depicting still life. Glisson endeavors to capture landscapes.

Reflection and Identity: Works by W. Michelle Harris and Michael Roman
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition features recent work by Rochester Institute of Technology associate professor and artist W. Michelle Harris and Atlanta-based artist and Syracuse University alum Michael Roman. These two young artists embrace questions of gender, identity, and societal expectations.

While the materials used by each artist sit at the opposite ends of the technological spectrum, both individuals seek to examine topics of an interrelated and highly personal nature.

Read a review!

The Black Series
Echo

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

Photography by Amanda Zackem. On display will be 17 silver-gelatin prints and a short film.

Kala Stein: Form & Plenty
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Kala Stein's exhibition Form and Plenty showcases her innovative ceramics based on archetypal utilitarian forms, like vases, bottles, and cups. By manipulating clay primarily though the slip casting of molds, she creates sculptural silhouettes, which merge multiple forms and planes into a single vessel. Stein says of her work, "Filtering the forms through abstraction, simplification and a limited color palette allows me to make compositional arrangements that depart from the symbol of the object itself."

Stein received her Master of Fine Arts at New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University where she currently is a visiting instructor. She shows her work nationally and maintains her home and studio in Canadice, NY.

Noriko Ambe: Inner Water
The Warehouse Gallery

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

In her first US museum solo show, New York City-based Japanese artist Noriko Ambe will create a new site-specific installation in the main gallery reflecting the tragic 2011 events in Japan through the use of video projections and her signature large-scale paper cutouts that evoke waves.

Nature plays an important role in Ambe's work, and it points to larger issues, such as the natural forces determining our global landscape, and the relationship between nature and humans throughout time. A recipient of prestigious awards such as the AICA Award and Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Ambe's work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Arts and Design and the Japan Society in New York and the Kyoto University of Art and Design in Kyoto, Japan. Her work is also in the collection of the Whitney Museum of Art.

Read a review!

I Like America and America Likes Me
XL Projects

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

Artwork of international graduate students in SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) will be featured in this exhibition. The graduate students will exhibit work in a variety of media.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Spring Fine Arts Show
CNY Art Guild

Price: Free
Aspen House, Radisson
8550 N. Entry Rd., Baldwinsville

The show is juried for awards. Refreshments available. There will be a raffle of member's work to support Edgewood Gallery's exhibition of high school students' art.

Opening: RESOURCED/response: The Art of the Justseeds Artists Cooperative and SU Fiber Arts
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Meet the artists at 6:00 pm, followed by an opening reception 7:00-9:00 pm.

This exhibition is a look into the environmental devastation that plagues the earth and its beings. It is also a look into the environmental justice movement that works to correct and heal the destruction. RESOURCED is a portfolio of hand-produced prints organized and created by the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative in 2010, focusing on resource extraction and climate issues, which will be used to help ask important questions about our environment. At the beginning of the spring semester 2012, students from the introduction to fibers course at Syracuse University viewed images from RESOURCED.

Students selected the poster that held most significance to them, either for the visual content of the work or the environmental issue it addressed. Then each student created a hand-dyed textile in response to the original work, using a variety of dye techniques, relief printing techniques and methods of stitching. These were both applied traditionally and adapted to suit the students' intentions and individual visual language.

William Wegman: Flo Flow (2011)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The video "Flo Flow" is William Wegman's latest in a long line of human-canid collaborations. It was while he was in Long Beach in the 1970s that Wegman got his dog, Man Ray, with whom he began a fruitful collaboration of many years. Man Ray, known in the art world and beyond for his endearing deadpan presence, became a central figure in Wegman's photographs and videotapes. Ever since, Weimaraner-actors have peopled Wegman's uncanny imaginative universe, a reflection on both the human-ness of "animals" and the strangeness of humans.

William Wegman lives in New York and Maine where he continues to make videos, to take photographs and to make drawings and paintings.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

Curator Lecture
Everson Museum of Art
Featuring Valerie Ann Leeds

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

Join us for a talk with Valerie Ann Leeds, guest curator of "From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland." Valerie will present an illustrated talk providing insight into the artist's life, explore what inspired Henri's deep love of Ireland and what motivated him to paint the rugged Irish landscape and children of the small town of Dooagh.