Sunday, December 26, 2010

Windows Project: Oil is Why
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Native American Tom Huff will present an installation on Leonard Peltier consisting of a mural and sculptural elements that relate to the main gallery's exhibition about Peltier by Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America. Public programming has been organized in conjunction with the Everson Museum of Art and ArtRage Gallery.

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular, $4 seniors, $2 children 12 and under
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The delicious aroma of ginger and candy waft through the air leading you to the second floor gallery. Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms it into a festive 1800s street scene, with over 40 gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows. These sweet creations are made locally by professional and amateur bakers. Visit us again or for the first time to enjoy the sights and scents of the Gingerbread Gallery!

Holiday Group Show
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit.

The exhibition will feature jewelry, ceramics, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include David Church (Pompey), Julie Crosby (Trumansburg), Jen Gandee (Fabius), Laurie Gerace (Fabius), Martha Grover (Helena, MT), Forrest Lesch Middelton (Fairfax, CA), David MacDonald (Syracuse), Shawn O'Connor (Gatlinburg, TN), Sarah Saulson (Syracuse), Lucie Wellner (Pompey), and Errol Willett (Fabius).

A Sip
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

A Sip, a celebration of the drinking vessel featuring works by 18 artists from across the country, features cups, mugs and glasses, along with teapots, decanters and flasks.

A Sip features the work of regional artists David MacDonald, a ceramics artist from Syracuse; Jason Howard, a glass artist from Skaneateles; Jen Gandee, a ceramics artist from Fabius; Jeremy Randall, a ceramics artist and co-owner of the gallery, from Tully; Sarah Panzarella, a ceramics artist and co-owner of the gallery, from Tully; and Snake Oil Glassworks of Skaneateles; as well as artists from Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, and Vermont.

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This year's version will feature toys from the 1970s. Do you remember playing Pong on Atari, getting your first Luke Skywalker figure, or just wishing to have your own Malibu Barbie? Then you won't want to miss this journey into the decade of Charlie's Angels, Richard Nixon and a gallon of gasoline at fifty cents.

Yui Kugimiya: Live Paintings
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based artist Yui Kugimiya presents "live paintings" for the final installment of the 2010 Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series. Kugimiya creates stop-motion animation using expressionistic paintings and actual objects typically found in the home as shown here in her most recent work, Breakfast. This video animation involves the use of paintings in conjunction with a variety of kitchen utensils and vegetables mixed with sound recorded directly from the live action. The artist states, "The animation parallels the psychological space, reveals the thoughts of making, and unfolds the inspiration of the daily-life-mundane."

The video animations are lighthearted and playful with a hint of dark drama. For each frame, a scene is painted on the canvas with fluid, gestural brush strokes loaded with rich color, captured on video and then the scene disappears before one's eyes as the next phase of the narrative unfolds. The exhibition includes new video work as well as a selection of paintings in the creative process so viewers can experience the richness of Kugimiya's paintings alongside her enlivening video works.

Read a review!

Bill Viola Video Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Jules Olitski: An Inside View
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

One of America's pre-eminent painters, Jules Olitski (1922-2007) is celebrated for his large-format, lyrical abstractions that shimmer with color. Less well-known are his smaller, more intimate prints in a variety of media, which both parallel and depart from the abstract imagery of his paintings.

"An Inside View" includes 40 prints in a variety of media—intaglio, silkscreen, lithograph, and monotype—spanning the artist's career of more than five decades.

Read a review!

Haudenosaunee: Elements
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The act of creating works of art is embedded in the Haudenosaunee way of life and has been for centuries. This exhibition presents works by contemporary Haudenosaunee artists from the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy—Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga and Tuscarora. The artists range from those with well established careers to new and notable talents. Among those exhibiting are Jay Carrier, Harold Farmer, Katsitsionni Fox and Ed Burnam, Ronni-Leigh Goeman, Stonehorse Goeman, Tom Huff, Frank Buffalo Hyde, Ada Jacques, G. Peter Jemison, Peter B. Jones, Linley Logan, Shelley Niro, Aweñheeyoh Powless, Jolene Rickard, Clint Shenandoah, Leah Shenandoah, Natasha Smoke Santiago, Smiley Summers, Tammy Tarbell-Boehing, and Tracy Thomas.

"Haudenosaunee: Elements" does not attempt to provide a survey of contemporary art—the talented artists working in our region are too numerous to be represented in this exhibition—but rather to introduce viewers to the broad range of media and art forms by which contemporary artists continue to create their own individual visual language while never straying far from their cultural heritage.

Read a review!

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

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

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' 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 Times 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.

Read a review!

Bells & Motley Celebrate Olde Christmas
Bells & Motley Consort

Price: Donations for the musicians
Holy Transfiguration Church
783 Franklin Park Dr., East Syracuse

Sondra and John Bromka present their annual musical celebration of holiday traditions on an abundance of historic instruments. Hear Medieval, Renaissance, and Traditional French, Celtic, and Merrie Olde English music for all 12 Days of Christmas in a resplendent setting. Reception follows.

For more information, phone 315-437-8350 (church) or 315-434-9540 (home).

Joe Driscoll
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

A Christmas Story
Syracuse Stage
Seth Gordon, director

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

A smoking furnace, a bully named Farkus, a pack of thieving-baying hounds, a dingblang-fuzzle-whizzin-mouthed old man, a prized leg lamp that's more leg than lamp—and a bunny suit: Is this the stuff of Christmas? It is for Ralphie, and all he really wants is a legendary official Red Ryder 200-Shot Carbine Action Range Model Air Rifle with a compass and this thing which tells time built right into the stock. Brighten the holidays with this hilarious and critically acclaimed stage adaptation of Jean Shepherd's wry and witty tale of a special Christmas past and journey back to a time when we all had less and it felt like more. Based on the motion picture by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark; adapted by Philip Grecian.

Read a Review!

A Christmas Story
Syracuse Stage
Seth Gordon, director

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

A smoking furnace, a bully named Farkus, a pack of thieving-baying hounds, a dingblang-fuzzle-whizzin-mouthed old man, a prized leg lamp that's more leg than lamp—and a bunny suit: Is this the stuff of Christmas? It is for Ralphie, and all he really wants is a legendary official Red Ryder 200-Shot Carbine Action Range Model Air Rifle with a compass and this thing which tells time built right into the stock. Brighten the holidays with this hilarious and critically acclaimed stage adaptation of Jean Shepherd's wry and witty tale of a special Christmas past and journey back to a time when we all had less and it felt like more. Based on the motion picture by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark; adapted by Philip Grecian.

Read a Review!

Monday, December 27, 2010

Windows Project: Oil is Why
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Native American Tom Huff will present an installation on Leonard Peltier consisting of a mural and sculptural elements that relate to the main gallery's exhibition about Peltier by Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America. Public programming has been organized in conjunction with the Everson Museum of Art and ArtRage Gallery.

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

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

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

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

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

Visual Trips, No Passport Required
Westcott Community Art Gallery
The Syracuse Photographers Association

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

"Visual Trips, No Passport Required" is a collection of works by members of The Syracuse Photographers Association, and "Partially Abandoned Factory," a solo show within the show, is by the group's organizer and founding member, Mindy Lee Tarry. Color and creativity abounds and many of the framed ink jet prints are for sale, to help raise money for the WCC.

The "Visual Trips, No Passport Required" collection showcases a rich variety of creative viewpoints ranging from stunning landscape prints to ornate and fascinating interior location shots. Viewing this collection will reinforce the fact that there is no shortage of imagination or scenes which inspire members to create wonderful photographic art. The "Partially Abandoned Factory" series narrows the focus with visually engaging interior and exterior studies of a captivating ramshackle former factory. Six of these images are currently featured in COLOR magazine November issue #10.

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

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

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular, $4 seniors, $2 children 12 and under
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The delicious aroma of ginger and candy waft through the air leading you to the second floor gallery. Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms it into a festive 1800s street scene, with over 40 gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows. These sweet creations are made locally by professional and amateur bakers. Visit us again or for the first time to enjoy the sights and scents of the Gingerbread Gallery!

A Sip
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

A Sip, a celebration of the drinking vessel featuring works by 18 artists from across the country, features cups, mugs and glasses, along with teapots, decanters and flasks.

A Sip features the work of regional artists David MacDonald, a ceramics artist from Syracuse; Jason Howard, a glass artist from Skaneateles; Jen Gandee, a ceramics artist from Fabius; Jeremy Randall, a ceramics artist and co-owner of the gallery, from Tully; Sarah Panzarella, a ceramics artist and co-owner of the gallery, from Tully; and Snake Oil Glassworks of Skaneateles; as well as artists from Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, and Vermont.

Darryl Furtkamp: Measure for Measure and Jim Ridlon: Intimate Reflections
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Darryl Furtkamp is a mixed media artist working in the post-modern tradition. His assemblages and paintings and works on paper incorporate painting, drawing, collage and mixed media arranged in hand-crafted frames or appropriated found objects in an altarpiece-like format. Images and material are layered and subtly glazed to disguise some areas while illuminating others.

Jim Ridlon's new assemblages are comprised of multiples that have been woven into single themes. The result is the individual assemblages act like chapters in a book, with each work making a statement that adds to a broader context. In his artist statement, Ridlon explains, "My intent has been to create short puzzling narratives and assemble them into discontinuous aesthetic theater."

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' 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 Times 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.

Read a review!

A Christmas Story
Syracuse Stage
Seth Gordon, director

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

A smoking furnace, a bully named Farkus, a pack of thieving-baying hounds, a dingblang-fuzzle-whizzin-mouthed old man, a prized leg lamp that's more leg than lamp—and a bunny suit: Is this the stuff of Christmas? It is for Ralphie, and all he really wants is a legendary official Red Ryder 200-Shot Carbine Action Range Model Air Rifle with a compass and this thing which tells time built right into the stock. Brighten the holidays with this hilarious and critically acclaimed stage adaptation of Jean Shepherd's wry and witty tale of a special Christmas past and journey back to a time when we all had less and it felt like more. Based on the motion picture by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark; adapted by Philip Grecian.

Read a Review!

A Christmas Story
Syracuse Stage
Seth Gordon, director

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

A smoking furnace, a bully named Farkus, a pack of thieving-baying hounds, a dingblang-fuzzle-whizzin-mouthed old man, a prized leg lamp that's more leg than lamp—and a bunny suit: Is this the stuff of Christmas? It is for Ralphie, and all he really wants is a legendary official Red Ryder 200-Shot Carbine Action Range Model Air Rifle with a compass and this thing which tells time built right into the stock. Brighten the holidays with this hilarious and critically acclaimed stage adaptation of Jean Shepherd's wry and witty tale of a special Christmas past and journey back to a time when we all had less and it felt like more. Based on the motion picture by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark; adapted by Philip Grecian.

Read a Review!

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Windows Project: Oil is Why
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Native American Tom Huff will present an installation on Leonard Peltier consisting of a mural and sculptural elements that relate to the main gallery's exhibition about Peltier by Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America. Public programming has been organized in conjunction with the Everson Museum of Art and ArtRage Gallery.

Recent Work by Michael Flanagan and Tyrone Johnson-Neuland
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

The exhibit showcases a series of mixed media works.

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

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

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

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

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

Visual Trips, No Passport Required
Westcott Community Art Gallery
The Syracuse Photographers Association

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

"Visual Trips, No Passport Required" is a collection of works by members of The Syracuse Photographers Association, and "Partially Abandoned Factory," a solo show within the show, is by the group's organizer and founding member, Mindy Lee Tarry. Color and creativity abounds and many of the framed ink jet prints are for sale, to help raise money for the WCC.

The "Visual Trips, No Passport Required" collection showcases a rich variety of creative viewpoints ranging from stunning landscape prints to ornate and fascinating interior location shots. Viewing this collection will reinforce the fact that there is no shortage of imagination or scenes which inspire members to create wonderful photographic art. The "Partially Abandoned Factory" series narrows the focus with visually engaging interior and exterior studies of a captivating ramshackle former factory. Six of these images are currently featured in COLOR magazine November issue #10.

Resin*ating Metal: Arlene Abend Retrospective
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

The sculpture of Arlene Abend, representing over 30 years of creating in resin, bronze, and steel

Read a Review!

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

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

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular, $4 seniors, $2 children 12 and under
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The delicious aroma of ginger and candy waft through the air leading you to the second floor gallery. Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms it into a festive 1800s street scene, with over 40 gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows. These sweet creations are made locally by professional and amateur bakers. Visit us again or for the first time to enjoy the sights and scents of the Gingerbread Gallery!

A Sip
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

A Sip, a celebration of the drinking vessel featuring works by 18 artists from across the country, features cups, mugs and glasses, along with teapots, decanters and flasks.

A Sip features the work of regional artists David MacDonald, a ceramics artist from Syracuse; Jason Howard, a glass artist from Skaneateles; Jen Gandee, a ceramics artist from Fabius; Jeremy Randall, a ceramics artist and co-owner of the gallery, from Tully; Sarah Panzarella, a ceramics artist and co-owner of the gallery, from Tully; and Snake Oil Glassworks of Skaneateles; as well as artists from Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, and Vermont.

Darryl Furtkamp: Measure for Measure and Jim Ridlon: Intimate Reflections
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Darryl Furtkamp is a mixed media artist working in the post-modern tradition. His assemblages and paintings and works on paper incorporate painting, drawing, collage and mixed media arranged in hand-crafted frames or appropriated found objects in an altarpiece-like format. Images and material are layered and subtly glazed to disguise some areas while illuminating others.

Jim Ridlon's new assemblages are comprised of multiples that have been woven into single themes. The result is the individual assemblages act like chapters in a book, with each work making a statement that adds to a broader context. In his artist statement, Ridlon explains, "My intent has been to create short puzzling narratives and assemble them into discontinuous aesthetic theater."

Yui Kugimiya: Live Paintings
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based artist Yui Kugimiya presents "live paintings" for the final installment of the 2010 Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series. Kugimiya creates stop-motion animation using expressionistic paintings and actual objects typically found in the home as shown here in her most recent work, Breakfast. This video animation involves the use of paintings in conjunction with a variety of kitchen utensils and vegetables mixed with sound recorded directly from the live action. The artist states, "The animation parallels the psychological space, reveals the thoughts of making, and unfolds the inspiration of the daily-life-mundane."

The video animations are lighthearted and playful with a hint of dark drama. For each frame, a scene is painted on the canvas with fluid, gestural brush strokes loaded with rich color, captured on video and then the scene disappears before one's eyes as the next phase of the narrative unfolds. The exhibition includes new video work as well as a selection of paintings in the creative process so viewers can experience the richness of Kugimiya's paintings alongside her enlivening video works.

Read a review!

Haudenosaunee: Elements
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The act of creating works of art is embedded in the Haudenosaunee way of life and has been for centuries. This exhibition presents works by contemporary Haudenosaunee artists from the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy—Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga and Tuscarora. The artists range from those with well established careers to new and notable talents. Among those exhibiting are Jay Carrier, Harold Farmer, Katsitsionni Fox and Ed Burnam, Ronni-Leigh Goeman, Stonehorse Goeman, Tom Huff, Frank Buffalo Hyde, Ada Jacques, G. Peter Jemison, Peter B. Jones, Linley Logan, Shelley Niro, Aweñheeyoh Powless, Jolene Rickard, Clint Shenandoah, Leah Shenandoah, Natasha Smoke Santiago, Smiley Summers, Tammy Tarbell-Boehing, and Tracy Thomas.

"Haudenosaunee: Elements" does not attempt to provide a survey of contemporary art—the talented artists working in our region are too numerous to be represented in this exhibition—but rather to introduce viewers to the broad range of media and art forms by which contemporary artists continue to create their own individual visual language while never straying far from their cultural heritage.

Read a review!

Jules Olitski: An Inside View
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

One of America's pre-eminent painters, Jules Olitski (1922-2007) is celebrated for his large-format, lyrical abstractions that shimmer with color. Less well-known are his smaller, more intimate prints in a variety of media, which both parallel and depart from the abstract imagery of his paintings.

"An Inside View" includes 40 prints in a variety of media—intaglio, silkscreen, lithograph, and monotype—spanning the artist's career of more than five decades.

Read a review!

Bill Viola Video Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' 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 Times 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.

Read a review!

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Windows Project: Oil is Why
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Native American Tom Huff will present an installation on Leonard Peltier consisting of a mural and sculptural elements that relate to the main gallery's exhibition about Peltier by Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America. Public programming has been organized in conjunction with the Everson Museum of Art and ArtRage Gallery.

Recent Work by Michael Flanagan and Tyrone Johnson-Neuland
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

The exhibit showcases a series of mixed media works.

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

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

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

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

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

Visual Trips, No Passport Required
Westcott Community Art Gallery
The Syracuse Photographers Association

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

"Visual Trips, No Passport Required" is a collection of works by members of The Syracuse Photographers Association, and "Partially Abandoned Factory," a solo show within the show, is by the group's organizer and founding member, Mindy Lee Tarry. Color and creativity abounds and many of the framed ink jet prints are for sale, to help raise money for the WCC.

The "Visual Trips, No Passport Required" collection showcases a rich variety of creative viewpoints ranging from stunning landscape prints to ornate and fascinating interior location shots. Viewing this collection will reinforce the fact that there is no shortage of imagination or scenes which inspire members to create wonderful photographic art. The "Partially Abandoned Factory" series narrows the focus with visually engaging interior and exterior studies of a captivating ramshackle former factory. Six of these images are currently featured in COLOR magazine November issue #10.

Resin*ating Metal: Arlene Abend Retrospective
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

The sculpture of Arlene Abend, representing over 30 years of creating in resin, bronze, and steel

Read a Review!

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

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

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular, $4 seniors, $2 children 12 and under
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The delicious aroma of ginger and candy waft through the air leading you to the second floor gallery. Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms it into a festive 1800s street scene, with over 40 gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows. These sweet creations are made locally by professional and amateur bakers. Visit us again or for the first time to enjoy the sights and scents of the Gingerbread Gallery!

A Sip
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

A Sip, a celebration of the drinking vessel featuring works by 18 artists from across the country, features cups, mugs and glasses, along with teapots, decanters and flasks.

A Sip features the work of regional artists David MacDonald, a ceramics artist from Syracuse; Jason Howard, a glass artist from Skaneateles; Jen Gandee, a ceramics artist from Fabius; Jeremy Randall, a ceramics artist and co-owner of the gallery, from Tully; Sarah Panzarella, a ceramics artist and co-owner of the gallery, from Tully; and Snake Oil Glassworks of Skaneateles; as well as artists from Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, and Vermont.

Darryl Furtkamp: Measure for Measure and Jim Ridlon: Intimate Reflections
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Darryl Furtkamp is a mixed media artist working in the post-modern tradition. His assemblages and paintings and works on paper incorporate painting, drawing, collage and mixed media arranged in hand-crafted frames or appropriated found objects in an altarpiece-like format. Images and material are layered and subtly glazed to disguise some areas while illuminating others.

Jim Ridlon's new assemblages are comprised of multiples that have been woven into single themes. The result is the individual assemblages act like chapters in a book, with each work making a statement that adds to a broader context. In his artist statement, Ridlon explains, "My intent has been to create short puzzling narratives and assemble them into discontinuous aesthetic theater."

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This year's version will feature toys from the 1970s. Do you remember playing Pong on Atari, getting your first Luke Skywalker figure, or just wishing to have your own Malibu Barbie? Then you won't want to miss this journey into the decade of Charlie's Angels, Richard Nixon and a gallon of gasoline at fifty cents.

Jules Olitski: An Inside View
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

One of America's pre-eminent painters, Jules Olitski (1922-2007) is celebrated for his large-format, lyrical abstractions that shimmer with color. Less well-known are his smaller, more intimate prints in a variety of media, which both parallel and depart from the abstract imagery of his paintings.

"An Inside View" includes 40 prints in a variety of media—intaglio, silkscreen, lithograph, and monotype—spanning the artist's career of more than five decades.

Read a review!

Bill Viola Video Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Haudenosaunee: Elements
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The act of creating works of art is embedded in the Haudenosaunee way of life and has been for centuries. This exhibition presents works by contemporary Haudenosaunee artists from the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy—Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga and Tuscarora. The artists range from those with well established careers to new and notable talents. Among those exhibiting are Jay Carrier, Harold Farmer, Katsitsionni Fox and Ed Burnam, Ronni-Leigh Goeman, Stonehorse Goeman, Tom Huff, Frank Buffalo Hyde, Ada Jacques, G. Peter Jemison, Peter B. Jones, Linley Logan, Shelley Niro, Aweñheeyoh Powless, Jolene Rickard, Clint Shenandoah, Leah Shenandoah, Natasha Smoke Santiago, Smiley Summers, Tammy Tarbell-Boehing, and Tracy Thomas.

"Haudenosaunee: Elements" does not attempt to provide a survey of contemporary art—the talented artists working in our region are too numerous to be represented in this exhibition—but rather to introduce viewers to the broad range of media and art forms by which contemporary artists continue to create their own individual visual language while never straying far from their cultural heritage.

Read a review!

Yui Kugimiya: Live Paintings
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based artist Yui Kugimiya presents "live paintings" for the final installment of the 2010 Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series. Kugimiya creates stop-motion animation using expressionistic paintings and actual objects typically found in the home as shown here in her most recent work, Breakfast. This video animation involves the use of paintings in conjunction with a variety of kitchen utensils and vegetables mixed with sound recorded directly from the live action. The artist states, "The animation parallels the psychological space, reveals the thoughts of making, and unfolds the inspiration of the daily-life-mundane."

The video animations are lighthearted and playful with a hint of dark drama. For each frame, a scene is painted on the canvas with fluid, gestural brush strokes loaded with rich color, captured on video and then the scene disappears before one's eyes as the next phase of the narrative unfolds. The exhibition includes new video work as well as a selection of paintings in the creative process so viewers can experience the richness of Kugimiya's paintings alongside her enlivening video works.

Read a review!

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' 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 Times 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.

Read a review!

Recital of Mostly Contemporary Music
Pam Igelsrud, soprano; Jeffrey Letterly, piano

May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Edward Iverson Psalms for Solo Voice
Jeffrey Letterly A Night in July
Jeffrey Letterly Boatsongs, for solo piano
Pam Igelsrud Five Songs, for singing violinist
Vaughan Williams With Rue My Heart is Laden
Jeffrey Letterly Tanka Songbook
Mahler Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen

A Christmas Story
Syracuse Stage
Seth Gordon, director

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

A smoking furnace, a bully named Farkus, a pack of thieving-baying hounds, a dingblang-fuzzle-whizzin-mouthed old man, a prized leg lamp that's more leg than lamp—and a bunny suit: Is this the stuff of Christmas? It is for Ralphie, and all he really wants is a legendary official Red Ryder 200-Shot Carbine Action Range Model Air Rifle with a compass and this thing which tells time built right into the stock. Brighten the holidays with this hilarious and critically acclaimed stage adaptation of Jean Shepherd's wry and witty tale of a special Christmas past and journey back to a time when we all had less and it felt like more. Based on the motion picture by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark; adapted by Philip Grecian.

Read a Review!

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Windows Project: Oil is Why
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Native American Tom Huff will present an installation on Leonard Peltier consisting of a mural and sculptural elements that relate to the main gallery's exhibition about Peltier by Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America. Public programming has been organized in conjunction with the Everson Museum of Art and ArtRage Gallery.

Recent Work by Michael Flanagan and Tyrone Johnson-Neuland
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

The exhibit showcases a series of mixed media works.

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

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

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

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

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

Visual Trips, No Passport Required
Westcott Community Art Gallery
The Syracuse Photographers Association

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

"Visual Trips, No Passport Required" is a collection of works by members of The Syracuse Photographers Association, and "Partially Abandoned Factory," a solo show within the show, is by the group's organizer and founding member, Mindy Lee Tarry. Color and creativity abounds and many of the framed ink jet prints are for sale, to help raise money for the WCC.

The "Visual Trips, No Passport Required" collection showcases a rich variety of creative viewpoints ranging from stunning landscape prints to ornate and fascinating interior location shots. Viewing this collection will reinforce the fact that there is no shortage of imagination or scenes which inspire members to create wonderful photographic art. The "Partially Abandoned Factory" series narrows the focus with visually engaging interior and exterior studies of a captivating ramshackle former factory. Six of these images are currently featured in COLOR magazine November issue #10.

Resin*ating Metal: Arlene Abend Retrospective
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

The sculpture of Arlene Abend, representing over 30 years of creating in resin, bronze, and steel

Read a Review!

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

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

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular, $4 seniors, $2 children 12 and under
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The delicious aroma of ginger and candy waft through the air leading you to the second floor gallery. Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms it into a festive 1800s street scene, with over 40 gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows. These sweet creations are made locally by professional and amateur bakers. Visit us again or for the first time to enjoy the sights and scents of the Gingerbread Gallery!

A Sip
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

A Sip, a celebration of the drinking vessel featuring works by 18 artists from across the country, features cups, mugs and glasses, along with teapots, decanters and flasks.

A Sip features the work of regional artists David MacDonald, a ceramics artist from Syracuse; Jason Howard, a glass artist from Skaneateles; Jen Gandee, a ceramics artist from Fabius; Jeremy Randall, a ceramics artist and co-owner of the gallery, from Tully; Sarah Panzarella, a ceramics artist and co-owner of the gallery, from Tully; and Snake Oil Glassworks of Skaneateles; as well as artists from Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, and Vermont.

Darryl Furtkamp: Measure for Measure and Jim Ridlon: Intimate Reflections
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Darryl Furtkamp is a mixed media artist working in the post-modern tradition. His assemblages and paintings and works on paper incorporate painting, drawing, collage and mixed media arranged in hand-crafted frames or appropriated found objects in an altarpiece-like format. Images and material are layered and subtly glazed to disguise some areas while illuminating others.

Jim Ridlon's new assemblages are comprised of multiples that have been woven into single themes. The result is the individual assemblages act like chapters in a book, with each work making a statement that adds to a broader context. In his artist statement, Ridlon explains, "My intent has been to create short puzzling narratives and assemble them into discontinuous aesthetic theater."

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This year's version will feature toys from the 1970s. Do you remember playing Pong on Atari, getting your first Luke Skywalker figure, or just wishing to have your own Malibu Barbie? Then you won't want to miss this journey into the decade of Charlie's Angels, Richard Nixon and a gallon of gasoline at fifty cents.

Holiday Group Show
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit.

The exhibition will feature jewelry, ceramics, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include David Church (Pompey), Julie Crosby (Trumansburg), Jen Gandee (Fabius), Laurie Gerace (Fabius), Martha Grover (Helena, MT), Forrest Lesch Middelton (Fairfax, CA), David MacDonald (Syracuse), Shawn O'Connor (Gatlinburg, TN), Sarah Saulson (Syracuse), Lucie Wellner (Pompey), and Errol Willett (Fabius).

Jules Olitski: An Inside View
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

One of America's pre-eminent painters, Jules Olitski (1922-2007) is celebrated for his large-format, lyrical abstractions that shimmer with color. Less well-known are his smaller, more intimate prints in a variety of media, which both parallel and depart from the abstract imagery of his paintings.

"An Inside View" includes 40 prints in a variety of media—intaglio, silkscreen, lithograph, and monotype—spanning the artist's career of more than five decades.

Read a review!

Haudenosaunee: Elements
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The act of creating works of art is embedded in the Haudenosaunee way of life and has been for centuries. This exhibition presents works by contemporary Haudenosaunee artists from the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy—Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga and Tuscarora. The artists range from those with well established careers to new and notable talents. Among those exhibiting are Jay Carrier, Harold Farmer, Katsitsionni Fox and Ed Burnam, Ronni-Leigh Goeman, Stonehorse Goeman, Tom Huff, Frank Buffalo Hyde, Ada Jacques, G. Peter Jemison, Peter B. Jones, Linley Logan, Shelley Niro, Aweñheeyoh Powless, Jolene Rickard, Clint Shenandoah, Leah Shenandoah, Natasha Smoke Santiago, Smiley Summers, Tammy Tarbell-Boehing, and Tracy Thomas.

"Haudenosaunee: Elements" does not attempt to provide a survey of contemporary art—the talented artists working in our region are too numerous to be represented in this exhibition—but rather to introduce viewers to the broad range of media and art forms by which contemporary artists continue to create their own individual visual language while never straying far from their cultural heritage.

Read a review!

Yui Kugimiya: Live Paintings
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based artist Yui Kugimiya presents "live paintings" for the final installment of the 2010 Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series. Kugimiya creates stop-motion animation using expressionistic paintings and actual objects typically found in the home as shown here in her most recent work, Breakfast. This video animation involves the use of paintings in conjunction with a variety of kitchen utensils and vegetables mixed with sound recorded directly from the live action. The artist states, "The animation parallels the psychological space, reveals the thoughts of making, and unfolds the inspiration of the daily-life-mundane."

The video animations are lighthearted and playful with a hint of dark drama. For each frame, a scene is painted on the canvas with fluid, gestural brush strokes loaded with rich color, captured on video and then the scene disappears before one's eyes as the next phase of the narrative unfolds. The exhibition includes new video work as well as a selection of paintings in the creative process so viewers can experience the richness of Kugimiya's paintings alongside her enlivening video works.

Read a review!

Bill Viola Video Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Betty Munro Retrospective Exhibition
Stone Quarry Hill Art Park

Price: Free
The Spring: Center for Spiritual & Cultural Unity
200 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

A major retrospective art exhibition featuring the watercolor paintings of local artist Betty Munro, now 91 years old and living in Madison, WI, who became well-known for setting up her easel across the street from the construction site of the Civic Center as it was being built, and documenting in watercolor the construction of the building.

In addition, Munro painted local area landmarks such as Clinton Square, lower Fayetteville, City Hall, area churches, and many other buildings and landscapes that are easily recognizable through her whimsical, semi-expressionistic watercolor paintings. Throughout her life, well into her early 80s, Munro painted tirelessly, offering the Syracuse area a legacy of beauty.

All of her available watercolor paintings -- a total of over 200 paintings, both framed and unframed -- will be on view. All are for sale. The 27 Civic Center paintings will be shown as a unit in The Spring's Conference Room, and will only be sold as a unit. Over 40 framed watercolors of a variety of local scenes will be exhibited in the Gathering Room at The Spring. The remaining art will be displayed in plastic sleeves in racks and may be purchased individually.

The exhibition is made possible through the generosity and collaboration of Munro's former neighbor Joan Gardner, David Rudd of Dalton Antiques, The Spring, and Stone Quarry Hill Art Park. Proceeds of art sales will go to Munro, to The Spring, and to Stone Quarry Hill Art Park. For more information, contact Patsy Scala, Program Director at The Spring, at 315-382-0444, or email her at patsy7154@aol.com.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' 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 Times 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.

Read a review!

7 Walkers, featuring Bill Kreutzmann of The Grateful Dead
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

A Christmas Story
Syracuse Stage
Seth Gordon, director

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

A smoking furnace, a bully named Farkus, a pack of thieving-baying hounds, a dingblang-fuzzle-whizzin-mouthed old man, a prized leg lamp that's more leg than lamp—and a bunny suit: Is this the stuff of Christmas? It is for Ralphie, and all he really wants is a legendary official Red Ryder 200-Shot Carbine Action Range Model Air Rifle with a compass and this thing which tells time built right into the stock. Brighten the holidays with this hilarious and critically acclaimed stage adaptation of Jean Shepherd's wry and witty tale of a special Christmas past and journey back to a time when we all had less and it felt like more. Based on the motion picture by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark; adapted by Philip Grecian.

Read a Review!

Hijacked Holiday
Acme Mystery Company

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

Millie the copy girl has packed her favorite portfolio of copies and headed for the North Pole with hopes of marrying the big guy. Things go South fast, however, when she finds she's stepped into a crime scene. Someone has stolen all the Christmas toys right before they were to be packed into Santa's sleigh and now everyone is a suspect. It's going to be one heck of a Christmas Eve figuring out who's been naughty or nice.

A Christmas Story
Syracuse Stage
Seth Gordon, director

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

A smoking furnace, a bully named Farkus, a pack of thieving-baying hounds, a dingblang-fuzzle-whizzin-mouthed old man, a prized leg lamp that's more leg than lamp—and a bunny suit: Is this the stuff of Christmas? It is for Ralphie, and all he really wants is a legendary official Red Ryder 200-Shot Carbine Action Range Model Air Rifle with a compass and this thing which tells time built right into the stock. Brighten the holidays with this hilarious and critically acclaimed stage adaptation of Jean Shepherd's wry and witty tale of a special Christmas past and journey back to a time when we all had less and it felt like more. Based on the motion picture by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark; adapted by Philip Grecian.

Read a Review!

Friday, December 31, 2010

Windows Project: Oil is Why
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Native American Tom Huff will present an installation on Leonard Peltier consisting of a mural and sculptural elements that relate to the main gallery's exhibition about Peltier by Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America. Public programming has been organized in conjunction with the Everson Museum of Art and ArtRage Gallery.

Resin*ating Metal: Arlene Abend Retrospective
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

The sculpture of Arlene Abend, representing over 30 years of creating in resin, bronze, and steel

Read a Review!

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

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

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular, $4 seniors, $2 children 12 and under
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The delicious aroma of ginger and candy waft through the air leading you to the second floor gallery. Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms it into a festive 1800s street scene, with over 40 gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows. These sweet creations are made locally by professional and amateur bakers. Visit us again or for the first time to enjoy the sights and scents of the Gingerbread Gallery!

A Sip
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

A Sip, a celebration of the drinking vessel featuring works by 18 artists from across the country, features cups, mugs and glasses, along with teapots, decanters and flasks.

A Sip features the work of regional artists David MacDonald, a ceramics artist from Syracuse; Jason Howard, a glass artist from Skaneateles; Jen Gandee, a ceramics artist from Fabius; Jeremy Randall, a ceramics artist and co-owner of the gallery, from Tully; Sarah Panzarella, a ceramics artist and co-owner of the gallery, from Tully; and Snake Oil Glassworks of Skaneateles; as well as artists from Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, and Vermont.

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This year's version will feature toys from the 1970s. Do you remember playing Pong on Atari, getting your first Luke Skywalker figure, or just wishing to have your own Malibu Barbie? Then you won't want to miss this journey into the decade of Charlie's Angels, Richard Nixon and a gallon of gasoline at fifty cents.

Holiday Group Show
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit.

The exhibition will feature jewelry, ceramics, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include David Church (Pompey), Julie Crosby (Trumansburg), Jen Gandee (Fabius), Laurie Gerace (Fabius), Martha Grover (Helena, MT), Forrest Lesch Middelton (Fairfax, CA), David MacDonald (Syracuse), Shawn O'Connor (Gatlinburg, TN), Sarah Saulson (Syracuse), Lucie Wellner (Pompey), and Errol Willett (Fabius).

Yui Kugimiya: Live Paintings
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based artist Yui Kugimiya presents "live paintings" for the final installment of the 2010 Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series. Kugimiya creates stop-motion animation using expressionistic paintings and actual objects typically found in the home as shown here in her most recent work, Breakfast. This video animation involves the use of paintings in conjunction with a variety of kitchen utensils and vegetables mixed with sound recorded directly from the live action. The artist states, "The animation parallels the psychological space, reveals the thoughts of making, and unfolds the inspiration of the daily-life-mundane."

The video animations are lighthearted and playful with a hint of dark drama. For each frame, a scene is painted on the canvas with fluid, gestural brush strokes loaded with rich color, captured on video and then the scene disappears before one's eyes as the next phase of the narrative unfolds. The exhibition includes new video work as well as a selection of paintings in the creative process so viewers can experience the richness of Kugimiya's paintings alongside her enlivening video works.

Read a review!

Bill Viola Video Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Jules Olitski: An Inside View
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

One of America's pre-eminent painters, Jules Olitski (1922-2007) is celebrated for his large-format, lyrical abstractions that shimmer with color. Less well-known are his smaller, more intimate prints in a variety of media, which both parallel and depart from the abstract imagery of his paintings.

"An Inside View" includes 40 prints in a variety of media—intaglio, silkscreen, lithograph, and monotype—spanning the artist's career of more than five decades.

Read a review!

Haudenosaunee: Elements
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The act of creating works of art is embedded in the Haudenosaunee way of life and has been for centuries. This exhibition presents works by contemporary Haudenosaunee artists from the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy—Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga and Tuscarora. The artists range from those with well established careers to new and notable talents. Among those exhibiting are Jay Carrier, Harold Farmer, Katsitsionni Fox and Ed Burnam, Ronni-Leigh Goeman, Stonehorse Goeman, Tom Huff, Frank Buffalo Hyde, Ada Jacques, G. Peter Jemison, Peter B. Jones, Linley Logan, Shelley Niro, Aweñheeyoh Powless, Jolene Rickard, Clint Shenandoah, Leah Shenandoah, Natasha Smoke Santiago, Smiley Summers, Tammy Tarbell-Boehing, and Tracy Thomas.

"Haudenosaunee: Elements" does not attempt to provide a survey of contemporary art—the talented artists working in our region are too numerous to be represented in this exhibition—but rather to introduce viewers to the broad range of media and art forms by which contemporary artists continue to create their own individual visual language while never straying far from their cultural heritage.

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Betty Munro Retrospective Exhibition
Stone Quarry Hill Art Park

Price: Free
The Spring: Center for Spiritual & Cultural Unity
200 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

A major retrospective art exhibition featuring the watercolor paintings of local artist Betty Munro, now 91 years old and living in Madison, WI, who became well-known for setting up her easel across the street from the construction site of the Civic Center as it was being built, and documenting in watercolor the construction of the building.

In addition, Munro painted local area landmarks such as Clinton Square, lower Fayetteville, City Hall, area churches, and many other buildings and landscapes that are easily recognizable through her whimsical, semi-expressionistic watercolor paintings. Throughout her life, well into her early 80s, Munro painted tirelessly, offering the Syracuse area a legacy of beauty.

All of her available watercolor paintings -- a total of over 200 paintings, both framed and unframed -- will be on view. All are for sale. The 27 Civic Center paintings will be shown as a unit in The Spring's Conference Room, and will only be sold as a unit. Over 40 framed watercolors of a variety of local scenes will be exhibited in the Gathering Room at The Spring. The remaining art will be displayed in plastic sleeves in racks and may be purchased individually.

The exhibition is made possible through the generosity and collaboration of Munro's former neighbor Joan Gardner, David Rudd of Dalton Antiques, The Spring, and Stone Quarry Hill Art Park. Proceeds of art sales will go to Munro, to The Spring, and to Stone Quarry Hill Art Park. For more information, contact Patsy Scala, Program Director at The Spring, at 315-382-0444, or email her at patsy7154@aol.com.

First Night at Lights on the Lake

Onondaga Lake Park
106 Lake Dr., Liverpool

5:00-7:00 pm: Stroll and family activities with kids' songs on stage
7:15 pm: Early balloon drop for kids
7:00-9:00 pm: Music
9:00 pm: Todd Hobin Band
10:30 pm: Sean Kingston
Midnight: Ball drop with Gerry McNamara, fireworks

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' 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 Times 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.

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Hijacked Holiday
Acme Mystery Company

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

Millie the copy girl has packed her favorite portfolio of copies and headed for the North Pole with hopes of marrying the big guy. Things go South fast, however, when she finds she's stepped into a crime scene. Someone has stolen all the Christmas toys right before they were to be packed into Santa's sleigh and now everyone is a suspect. It's going to be one heck of a Christmas Eve figuring out who's been naughty or nice.

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Windows Project: Oil is Why
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Native American Tom Huff will present an installation on Leonard Peltier consisting of a mural and sculptural elements that relate to the main gallery's exhibition about Peltier by Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America. Public programming has been organized in conjunction with the Everson Museum of Art and ArtRage Gallery.

Jeff Gibson: Asylum and Smoke
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In "Asylum" (06:02 min. loop), Gibson takes a page from each of his two most recent artist's books: Dupe: A Partial Compendium of Everyday Delusions (a dictionary of quasi-clinical, art-world pathologies; sardonic but earnest) and Sarsaparilla to Sorcery (a picture book exploring perceptual ambiguities between allusive abstract photographic images and taxonomic illustrations swiped from old Encyclopedia Britannica). Through a chain of slow, poetic dissolves, the video blends psychologistic text with dreamy, morphic imagery into a weirdly visceral stream of consciousness. Similarly, "Smoke" (02:49 min. loop) combines quack psychological text with abstract photography and pages appropriated from encyclopedia, this time the World Book series. However, whereas "Asylum" is slow and panoramic in range, "Smoke" is faster, shorter, and distinctly gothic in character -- more pointed, and, though humorous, blackly so.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' 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 Times 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.

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Sunday, January 2, 2011

Windows Project: Oil is Why
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Native American Tom Huff will present an installation on Leonard Peltier consisting of a mural and sculptural elements that relate to the main gallery's exhibition about Peltier by Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America. Public programming has been organized in conjunction with the Everson Museum of Art and ArtRage Gallery.

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular, $4 seniors, $2 children 12 and under
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The delicious aroma of ginger and candy waft through the air leading you to the second floor gallery. Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms it into a festive 1800s street scene, with over 40 gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows. These sweet creations are made locally by professional and amateur bakers. Visit us again or for the first time to enjoy the sights and scents of the Gingerbread Gallery!

Holiday Group Show
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit.

The exhibition will feature jewelry, ceramics, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include David Church (Pompey), Julie Crosby (Trumansburg), Jen Gandee (Fabius), Laurie Gerace (Fabius), Martha Grover (Helena, MT), Forrest Lesch Middelton (Fairfax, CA), David MacDonald (Syracuse), Shawn O'Connor (Gatlinburg, TN), Sarah Saulson (Syracuse), Lucie Wellner (Pompey), and Errol Willett (Fabius).

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This year's version will feature toys from the 1970s. Do you remember playing Pong on Atari, getting your first Luke Skywalker figure, or just wishing to have your own Malibu Barbie? Then you won't want to miss this journey into the decade of Charlie's Angels, Richard Nixon and a gallon of gasoline at fifty cents.

Yui Kugimiya: Live Paintings
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based artist Yui Kugimiya presents "live paintings" for the final installment of the 2010 Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series. Kugimiya creates stop-motion animation using expressionistic paintings and actual objects typically found in the home as shown here in her most recent work, Breakfast. This video animation involves the use of paintings in conjunction with a variety of kitchen utensils and vegetables mixed with sound recorded directly from the live action. The artist states, "The animation parallels the psychological space, reveals the thoughts of making, and unfolds the inspiration of the daily-life-mundane."

The video animations are lighthearted and playful with a hint of dark drama. For each frame, a scene is painted on the canvas with fluid, gestural brush strokes loaded with rich color, captured on video and then the scene disappears before one's eyes as the next phase of the narrative unfolds. The exhibition includes new video work as well as a selection of paintings in the creative process so viewers can experience the richness of Kugimiya's paintings alongside her enlivening video works.

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Haudenosaunee: Elements
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The act of creating works of art is embedded in the Haudenosaunee way of life and has been for centuries. This exhibition presents works by contemporary Haudenosaunee artists from the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy—Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga and Tuscarora. The artists range from those with well established careers to new and notable talents. Among those exhibiting are Jay Carrier, Harold Farmer, Katsitsionni Fox and Ed Burnam, Ronni-Leigh Goeman, Stonehorse Goeman, Tom Huff, Frank Buffalo Hyde, Ada Jacques, G. Peter Jemison, Peter B. Jones, Linley Logan, Shelley Niro, Aweñheeyoh Powless, Jolene Rickard, Clint Shenandoah, Leah Shenandoah, Natasha Smoke Santiago, Smiley Summers, Tammy Tarbell-Boehing, and Tracy Thomas.

"Haudenosaunee: Elements" does not attempt to provide a survey of contemporary art—the talented artists working in our region are too numerous to be represented in this exhibition—but rather to introduce viewers to the broad range of media and art forms by which contemporary artists continue to create their own individual visual language while never straying far from their cultural heritage.

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Jules Olitski: An Inside View
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

One of America's pre-eminent painters, Jules Olitski (1922-2007) is celebrated for his large-format, lyrical abstractions that shimmer with color. Less well-known are his smaller, more intimate prints in a variety of media, which both parallel and depart from the abstract imagery of his paintings.

"An Inside View" includes 40 prints in a variety of media—intaglio, silkscreen, lithograph, and monotype—spanning the artist's career of more than five decades.

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Bill Viola Video Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Jeff Gibson: Asylum and Smoke
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In "Asylum" (06:02 min. loop), Gibson takes a page from each of his two most recent artist's books: Dupe: A Partial Compendium of Everyday Delusions (a dictionary of quasi-clinical, art-world pathologies; sardonic but earnest) and Sarsaparilla to Sorcery (a picture book exploring perceptual ambiguities between allusive abstract photographic images and taxonomic illustrations swiped from old Encyclopedia Britannica). Through a chain of slow, poetic dissolves, the video blends psychologistic text with dreamy, morphic imagery into a weirdly visceral stream of consciousness. Similarly, "Smoke" (02:49 min. loop) combines quack psychological text with abstract photography and pages appropriated from encyclopedia, this time the World Book series. However, whereas "Asylum" is slow and panoramic in range, "Smoke" is faster, shorter, and distinctly gothic in character -- more pointed, and, though humorous, blackly so.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' 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 Times 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.

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Jazz Vespers
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free (donations accepted)
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

Jazz Vespers is a combination of inspirational and meditative readings, homily, and jazz played by members of the CNY Jazz Orchestra and various guest vocalists. The jazz selections are drawn from secular and sacred sources, representing a wide range of composers as varied as Duke Ellington, Chick Corea, Cole Porter, and Stephen Foster, and well-known hymns in jazz settings for all to enjoy, singing as they wish. The service is open to those of all faiths.