Monday, September 26, 2011

Windows Project: Oscar Garces: Transcendence
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Cuban-born, and Syracuse-based artist Oscar Garces' site-specific mural in the Window Projects space will offer a local echo to "Colorfornia: New Forms in West Coast Street Art". This is his first solo exhibition. Both exhibitions will be organized in conjunction with the Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations in Syracuse.

Natural Selections: Works by Bob Ripley
Baltimore Woods

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

The exhibit of wildlife paintings in transparent watercolors.

Shane LaVancher and Clémentine Allain Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Shane LaVancher and Clementine Allain, respectively from New York and Paris are artists who consistently attempt to stretch the concepts of fashion and its aesthetics. Their images playfully nudge the lines between pop art, contemporary poetic vision, and hard-line fashion. The duo works from their intuition with the fickle fashion industry in mind. The element of presence within their images reflects their attention to contemporary fashion, but also the essence of the age we live in.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium is Lots 2 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Furnished: Syracuse Architecture Faculty Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

An exhibition of furniture and objects designed by Ramona Albert, Sarosh Anklesaria and Lior Galili, Larry Bowne, Sekou Cooke, Jonathan Lott, Ryan Ludwig, Michael Pelken, Brett Snyder, Timothy Stenson, Robert Svetz, Vasilena Vassilev

Senegal - France - Syracuse: Works of James Secor
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Experience the interplay of James Secor's expressive paintings with his kora music. Art and music coming together with influences from all over the world! The kora is a traditional West African instrument, much like a harp, but in play can resemble flamenco or even delta blues guitar techniques.

Vivid colors illuminate the subjects of James Secor's paintings, varying in style from representative to abstract. A visual vocabulary has evolved and emerged through his constant search for inventive solutions. Seeking to create a sense of unity and a balance of forces, whether by color, line or in value.

James Secor made his studies of the kora in Senegal through a Griot, one of a traditional culture of storytellers who often accompany themselves on koras or other instruments. Secor took in 12 of these traditional songs. Having been a musician for many years before learning the kora, this journey was certain to expand his repertoire for musical expression. The music James wrote in France resembles traditional kora and is influenced both by his own style as well as by his 8-month immersion in the world of the little French village of Tournus.

Hanging Out To Dry: Works by Lisa Noviasky
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Michelle Danforth Landscape Paintings
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

[hyphen] Americans
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features stunning tintype portraits created by photographer Keliy Anderson-Staley. The exhibition title speaks to the multicultural character of American identities (Irish-American, African-American, etc.). Although a person's heritage might be inferred by looking at their features and clothing, viewers of Anderson-Staley's work are encouraged, according to the artist, "to suspend the kind of thinking that would traditionally assist in decoding these images in the context of American identity politics."

Anderson-Staley makes portraits with the 19th-century wet-plate collodion process. She uses wooden view cameras, 19th-century brass lenses and chemicals she hand-mixes according to the traditional formulas. In this series, she focuses on just one plane in the face--usually the eyes. The exposures are long, lasting anywhere from 10-60 seconds, so the images capture a full moment of thought. Because of these characteristics of the process, there is an introspective quality to each portrait, as if each person has been caught looking at himself or herself in a mirror.

The portraits in the exhibition are mostly individuals from the broader Syracuse community photographed during Anderson-Staley's residency in 2010. This collection of tintypes, numbering more than 100, is thus as much a portrait of a diverse community as it is a series of individual portraits.

Read a review!

Self Expressed: Works of Mary Fragapane
Redhouse

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

Fragapane is best known for her enigmatic female figures that seek to capture the intangibles of joy, passion, and the beauty of the human spirit. Working in an expressive style on un-gessoed canvas, she uses a layering process incorporating acrylic paints, chalk and oil pastels, pencil, and water.

Fragapane has exhibited extensively in Manhattan and throughout New York, Cleveland, California and internationally on the Island of Curacao. In addition to her solo shows, she has been commissioned for numerous Public Art projects.

15th Ward: Memories of a Syracuse Neighborhood Transformed
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The exhibition showcases work from "Remembering Syracuse's 15th Ward," a project about the Jewish and African American neighborhood occupying the area now dominated by the Interstate 81 overpass and SUNY Upstate Medical University.

For more information, contact Bradley Hudson at bjhudson@syr.edu.

Gunga Din (1939)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $3.50 non-members, $3 members
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Directed by George Stevens. Cast includes Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Joan Fontaine, Sam Jaffe, Montague Love.
The quintessential action-adventure movie, with rip-roaring acting, gorgeous cinematography by Joseph August, and a full-blooded score from Alfred Newman. The story concerns the adventures of three happy-go-lucky British soldiers stationed in India dealing with the thuggee uprising, and featuring a vivid, standout performance from Sam Jaffee as the noble and valiant title character. Exemplary escapist entertainment.

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Windows Project: Oscar Garces: Transcendence
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Cuban-born, and Syracuse-based artist Oscar Garces' site-specific mural in the Window Projects space will offer a local echo to "Colorfornia: New Forms in West Coast Street Art". This is his first solo exhibition. Both exhibitions will be organized in conjunction with the Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations in Syracuse.

Natural Selections: Works by Bob Ripley
Baltimore Woods

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

The exhibit of wildlife paintings in transparent watercolors.

Shane LaVancher and Clémentine Allain Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Shane LaVancher and Clementine Allain, respectively from New York and Paris are artists who consistently attempt to stretch the concepts of fashion and its aesthetics. Their images playfully nudge the lines between pop art, contemporary poetic vision, and hard-line fashion. The duo works from their intuition with the fickle fashion industry in mind. The element of presence within their images reflects their attention to contemporary fashion, but also the essence of the age we live in.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium is Lots 2 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

My Mother Is ...
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Recent work by Amy Bartell and Cynthia Clabough, with special guest KayCie Simmons. Also featuring works in collaboration with Emma Bourque, Nate Bourque, Maddie Carlone, Alyssa Lunka, Aaron Roe and Sara Roe. The exhibition explores our relationship to our mothers.

Furnished: Syracuse Architecture Faculty Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

An exhibition of furniture and objects designed by Ramona Albert, Sarosh Anklesaria and Lior Galili, Larry Bowne, Sekou Cooke, Jonathan Lott, Ryan Ludwig, Michael Pelken, Brett Snyder, Timothy Stenson, Robert Svetz, Vasilena Vassilev

Senegal - France - Syracuse: Works of James Secor
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Experience the interplay of James Secor's expressive paintings with his kora music. Art and music coming together with influences from all over the world! The kora is a traditional West African instrument, much like a harp, but in play can resemble flamenco or even delta blues guitar techniques.

Vivid colors illuminate the subjects of James Secor's paintings, varying in style from representative to abstract. A visual vocabulary has evolved and emerged through his constant search for inventive solutions. Seeking to create a sense of unity and a balance of forces, whether by color, line or in value.

James Secor made his studies of the kora in Senegal through a Griot, one of a traditional culture of storytellers who often accompany themselves on koras or other instruments. Secor took in 12 of these traditional songs. Having been a musician for many years before learning the kora, this journey was certain to expand his repertoire for musical expression. The music James wrote in France resembles traditional kora and is influenced both by his own style as well as by his 8-month immersion in the world of the little French village of Tournus.

Layers
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Lynette Blake: oil paintings on canvas
Carol Ackles: hand built and wheel thrown ceramics
Jan Navales: hand dyed, screen printed, stitched and beaded fabric wall hangings

African Diasporan Treasures: 40 Years of Community Folk Art Center
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition will showcase pieces from CFAC's permanent collection. Featuring over 30 works by artists including Joel Gaines, Ellen Oppler, Jack White, Denise Cole and Kamiiron Pritchard, "African Diasporan Treasures" provides a rare opportunity for visitors to experience the rich artistic history of CFAC. In many cases, the pieces have not been displayed for decades. The show will also feature African art that was once part of the Smithsonian Museum's collection.

Hanging Out To Dry: Works by Lisa Noviasky
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Michelle Danforth Landscape Paintings
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

[hyphen] Americans
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features stunning tintype portraits created by photographer Keliy Anderson-Staley. The exhibition title speaks to the multicultural character of American identities (Irish-American, African-American, etc.). Although a person's heritage might be inferred by looking at their features and clothing, viewers of Anderson-Staley's work are encouraged, according to the artist, "to suspend the kind of thinking that would traditionally assist in decoding these images in the context of American identity politics."

Anderson-Staley makes portraits with the 19th-century wet-plate collodion process. She uses wooden view cameras, 19th-century brass lenses and chemicals she hand-mixes according to the traditional formulas. In this series, she focuses on just one plane in the face--usually the eyes. The exposures are long, lasting anywhere from 10-60 seconds, so the images capture a full moment of thought. Because of these characteristics of the process, there is an introspective quality to each portrait, as if each person has been caught looking at himself or herself in a mirror.

The portraits in the exhibition are mostly individuals from the broader Syracuse community photographed during Anderson-Staley's residency in 2010. This collection of tintypes, numbering more than 100, is thus as much a portrait of a diverse community as it is a series of individual portraits.

Read a review!

Works of Elena Peteva and Donalee Peden Wesley
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Elena Peteva's show, "Passages", features drawings and mixed media work that stand as symbolic representations of our individual and societal states. In her intimate drawings, Peteva's figures or objects function as an allegorical vehicle to depict the coexistence of vulnerability and power, uncertainty and conviction, depravity and elevation in the individual or society.

Donalee Peden Wesley's show, "Linearis", explores the scope of human/animal relationship through large scale drawings that reflect the undercurrents of archetypal emotions, internal and external struggles, and their effects on us and the animals that share our environments. Due to the open-ended relationship nature of her imagery, Peden's work invites individual reflection based on the interpretation by each viewer.

Self Expressed: Works of Mary Fragapane
Redhouse

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

Fragapane is best known for her enigmatic female figures that seek to capture the intangibles of joy, passion, and the beauty of the human spirit. Working in an expressive style on un-gessoed canvas, she uses a layering process incorporating acrylic paints, chalk and oil pastels, pencil, and water.

Fragapane has exhibited extensively in Manhattan and throughout New York, Cleveland, California and internationally on the Island of Curacao. In addition to her solo shows, she has been commissioned for numerous Public Art projects.

15th Ward: Memories of a Syracuse Neighborhood Transformed
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The exhibition showcases work from "Remembering Syracuse's 15th Ward," a project about the Jewish and African American neighborhood occupying the area now dominated by the Interstate 81 overpass and SUNY Upstate Medical University.

For more information, contact Bradley Hudson at bjhudson@syr.edu.

Drawn to Paint: The Art of Jerome Witkin
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Drawn to Paint: The Art of Jerome Witkin" consists of 70 works including drawings, paintings, and sketchbooks. Dividing the show between two venues to allow for broader access, "Drawn to Paint" will be on view at the SUArt Galleries on the Syracuse University main campus and the XL Projects gallery in downtown Syracuse. This exhibition, with Dr. Edward A. Aiken as its curator, is the first time Jerome Witkin has allowed his drawings to be displayed beside their finished works. "Drawn to Paint" will be traveling to other museums around the country during a two-year tour that will conclude at the Palmer Museum of Art in University Park, PA.

"Drawn to Paint" is more than a selection of masterfully painted narratives. Through the juxtaposition of drawings and sketchbooks, the exhibition represents a rare look into the artist's process, from the inception of an idea to the completed artwork. The works of Jerome Witkin carry forward into our era the grand Western European tradition of history painting. His images offer dramatic narratives that reveal themselves over time. Many of his most interesting paintings are large multiple panels, each section presenting a different chapter of an unfolding story. Their scale pushes the viewer back to see the whole composition while his brushwork encourages close examination to better admire the painting's surface.

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

Read a review!

A Magnificent Obsession: Selections from the Hamilton Armstrong Collection of Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For decades, Hamilton Armstrong of Fayetteville, NY has been collecting prints created by some of most important and well-known American and European artists of the last 200 years. While only a fraction of the number of works he collected will be exhibited, this show will demonstrate two areas of great interest to Armstrong.

First is the area of architectural etching that began in 19th century Europe and continued into 20th century American printmaking. Consisting of more than 30 prints by Charles Meryon, John Taylor Arms, Samuel Chamberlain, and others, this part of the exhibition highlights an impressive selection of Meryon's rare etchings.

The second part of the show is a series of wood engravings done by Fritz Eichenberg for a reprint of Emily Bronte's classic novel, Wuthering Heights. These images are rare artist proof prints for the 1943 Random House edition of the novel and have been considered some of best illustrations of the 19th century classic because they capture the drama of author's text without adding superfluous material.

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

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Colorfornia: New Forms in West Coast Street Art: Apex, Chor Boogie, and Jet Martinez
The Warehouse Gallery

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

California-based street artists Apex, Chor Boogie, and Jet Martinez will create new temporary murals inside the Warehouse Gallery. The work is based on improvisation, collaboration, and the notion that how and what they paint is recognizably Californian in its focus on strong colors, patterns, forms, and nature.

Their language consists of colorful abstract forms pertaining to optical illusions and movement, faces, evoking real and imaginary urban settings, and tropical imaginary landscapes. All three of them have significantly contributed to public art in San Francisco, San Diego, and other major cities within (Minneapolis; Washington, DC) and outside of the United States (Beijing, Dubai, Oaxaca, Sydney, Tokyo, Zurich) through their use of spray (Apex, Chor) and traditional paint (Jet Martinez) to achieve elaborate compositions with high attention to detail.

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Inner Gravitas
Echo

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

Mixed media installation by Alexey Vs and Michael John.

Budrus
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This thought-provoking piece from documentary-maker Julia Bacha is about the village of Budrus, on the Palestinian West Bank. It found itself in a frightening territorial stranglehold when the Israeli government began to build its anti-terrorist "barrier" wall in 2003 to guard against suicide-bomber incursions. The villagers' livelihood depended utterly on the olive trees which were brutally uprooted by the army bulldozers to make way for the wall, whose route snaked around in such a way as to cut off communities from each other and make their living all but impossible. (2009, 70 minutes)
"This year's must-see documentary." --The New York Times

Making The Invisible Visible
University Lectures
Featuring Maria Hinojosa

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Maria Hinojosa has been documenting the story of Latinos in America for her entire career. She was the first Latina to be hired at National Public Radio in Washington, and later became the first Latina correspondent for the network. Because of her work with the network's Latino USA, Hinojosa is now recognized as one of the most influential Latino/a journalists in the country. In the new century, the drama of Latino immigration has become one of the most compelling yet divisive stories of our country. Latino USA is heralded by thousands of listeners who say that the program keeps them in touch with the pulse of a new America. Over the past year, Latino USA has opened its airwaves and website to increasing the dialogue about what this change means. In addition to her work with NPR, Hinojosa is senior correspondent for NOW on PBS, the host of the Emmy Award-winning talk show "Maria Hinojosa: One on One" produced by WGBH/La Plaza, and the author of two books, Raising Raul: Adventures Raising Myself and My Son and Crews: Gang Members Talk with Maria Hinojosa.

Spanish Nights
LeMoyne College
Featuring Gabriel Riesco Project

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

Join jazz-fusion band Gabriel Riesco Project and Spanish poets Francisco Diaz de Castro, Aurora Luque, and Jose Antonio Mesa Tore for a concert connecting Riesco's jazz-fusion sound with poetry.

The Lion King
Broadway in Syracuse

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

Take Africa's animal kingdom, add the story of a lion-cub prince who becomes fatherless, and give director and master puppeteer Julie Taymor free reign. Throw in scores by Elton John, Tim Rice and Hans Zimmer. Now you have an idea why The Lion King has remained an audience favorite since its opening in November 1997. The winner of six Tony awards, the musical is based on the 1994 Disney film with the same title.

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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Windows Project: Oscar Garces: Transcendence
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Cuban-born, and Syracuse-based artist Oscar Garces' site-specific mural in the Window Projects space will offer a local echo to "Colorfornia: New Forms in West Coast Street Art". This is his first solo exhibition. Both exhibitions will be organized in conjunction with the Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations in Syracuse.

Natural Selections: Works by Bob Ripley
Baltimore Woods

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

The exhibit of wildlife paintings in transparent watercolors.

Shane LaVancher and Clémentine Allain Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

There will be opening receptions today 11:00 am-12:00 pm and 5:00-7:00 pm.

Shane LaVancher and Clementine Allain, respectively from New York and Paris are artists who consistently attempt to stretch the concepts of fashion and its aesthetics. Their images playfully nudge the lines between pop art, contemporary poetic vision, and hard-line fashion. The duo works from their intuition with the fickle fashion industry in mind. The element of presence within their images reflects their attention to contemporary fashion, but also the essence of the age we live in.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium is Lots 2 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

My Mother Is ...
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Recent work by Amy Bartell and Cynthia Clabough, with special guest KayCie Simmons. Also featuring works in collaboration with Emma Bourque, Nate Bourque, Maddie Carlone, Alyssa Lunka, Aaron Roe and Sara Roe. The exhibition explores our relationship to our mothers.

Furnished: Syracuse Architecture Faculty Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

An exhibition of furniture and objects designed by Ramona Albert, Sarosh Anklesaria and Lior Galili, Larry Bowne, Sekou Cooke, Jonathan Lott, Ryan Ludwig, Michael Pelken, Brett Snyder, Timothy Stenson, Robert Svetz, Vasilena Vassilev

Senegal - France - Syracuse: Works of James Secor
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Experience the interplay of James Secor's expressive paintings with his kora music. Art and music coming together with influences from all over the world! The kora is a traditional West African instrument, much like a harp, but in play can resemble flamenco or even delta blues guitar techniques.

Vivid colors illuminate the subjects of James Secor's paintings, varying in style from representative to abstract. A visual vocabulary has evolved and emerged through his constant search for inventive solutions. Seeking to create a sense of unity and a balance of forces, whether by color, line or in value.

James Secor made his studies of the kora in Senegal through a Griot, one of a traditional culture of storytellers who often accompany themselves on koras or other instruments. Secor took in 12 of these traditional songs. Having been a musician for many years before learning the kora, this journey was certain to expand his repertoire for musical expression. The music James wrote in France resembles traditional kora and is influenced both by his own style as well as by his 8-month immersion in the world of the little French village of Tournus.

Layers
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Lynette Blake: oil paintings on canvas
Carol Ackles: hand built and wheel thrown ceramics
Jan Navales: hand dyed, screen printed, stitched and beaded fabric wall hangings

African Diasporan Treasures: 40 Years of Community Folk Art Center
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition will showcase pieces from CFAC's permanent collection. Featuring over 30 works by artists including Joel Gaines, Ellen Oppler, Jack White, Denise Cole and Kamiiron Pritchard, "African Diasporan Treasures" provides a rare opportunity for visitors to experience the rich artistic history of CFAC. In many cases, the pieces have not been displayed for decades. The show will also feature African art that was once part of the Smithsonian Museum's collection.

Hanging Out To Dry: Works by Lisa Noviasky
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Michelle Danforth Landscape Paintings
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

[hyphen] Americans
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features stunning tintype portraits created by photographer Keliy Anderson-Staley. The exhibition title speaks to the multicultural character of American identities (Irish-American, African-American, etc.). Although a person's heritage might be inferred by looking at their features and clothing, viewers of Anderson-Staley's work are encouraged, according to the artist, "to suspend the kind of thinking that would traditionally assist in decoding these images in the context of American identity politics."

Anderson-Staley makes portraits with the 19th-century wet-plate collodion process. She uses wooden view cameras, 19th-century brass lenses and chemicals she hand-mixes according to the traditional formulas. In this series, she focuses on just one plane in the face--usually the eyes. The exposures are long, lasting anywhere from 10-60 seconds, so the images capture a full moment of thought. Because of these characteristics of the process, there is an introspective quality to each portrait, as if each person has been caught looking at himself or herself in a mirror.

The portraits in the exhibition are mostly individuals from the broader Syracuse community photographed during Anderson-Staley's residency in 2010. This collection of tintypes, numbering more than 100, is thus as much a portrait of a diverse community as it is a series of individual portraits.

Read a review!

Works of Elena Peteva and Donalee Peden Wesley
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Elena Peteva's show, "Passages", features drawings and mixed media work that stand as symbolic representations of our individual and societal states. In her intimate drawings, Peteva's figures or objects function as an allegorical vehicle to depict the coexistence of vulnerability and power, uncertainty and conviction, depravity and elevation in the individual or society.

Donalee Peden Wesley's show, "Linearis", explores the scope of human/animal relationship through large scale drawings that reflect the undercurrents of archetypal emotions, internal and external struggles, and their effects on us and the animals that share our environments. Due to the open-ended relationship nature of her imagery, Peden's work invites individual reflection based on the interpretation by each viewer.

Self Expressed: Works of Mary Fragapane
Redhouse

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

Fragapane is best known for her enigmatic female figures that seek to capture the intangibles of joy, passion, and the beauty of the human spirit. Working in an expressive style on un-gessoed canvas, she uses a layering process incorporating acrylic paints, chalk and oil pastels, pencil, and water.

Fragapane has exhibited extensively in Manhattan and throughout New York, Cleveland, California and internationally on the Island of Curacao. In addition to her solo shows, she has been commissioned for numerous Public Art projects.

15th Ward: Memories of a Syracuse Neighborhood Transformed
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The exhibition showcases work from "Remembering Syracuse's 15th Ward," a project about the Jewish and African American neighborhood occupying the area now dominated by the Interstate 81 overpass and SUNY Upstate Medical University.

For more information, contact Bradley Hudson at bjhudson@syr.edu.

Perceived Environments
Szozda Gallery

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

The gallery's September exhibit is a group show featuring six artists' comprehension of captured moments in their personal and imagined environments.

James Skvarch, well known for his detailed etchings of real or inventive spaces, will display works selected from two of his series, "Interiors" and "Caprices."

Self-taught artist John (Jaws) McGrath details in pen and ink his 'minds-eye' remembrances of sights he encountered throughout his 30-year travels across the country as a biker.

The show's exhibited photography by artists Harry Freeman-Jones and R. L. Mercer will give viewers up-close takes of familiar environments as Freeman-Jones presents lush colors of flora and fauna in a back yard garden, and Mercer, in his photogenic eye, depicts things normally overlooked in everyday scenes.

Artists Wendy Harris and Robert Niedzwiecki paint landscapes in different ways, Harris using pastels to achieve pure color intensity, and Niedzwiecki using oils and watercolors to create a more realistic look at what is in front of him.

Drawn to Paint: The Art of Jerome Witkin
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Drawn to Paint: The Art of Jerome Witkin" consists of 70 works including drawings, paintings, and sketchbooks. Dividing the show between two venues to allow for broader access, "Drawn to Paint" will be on view at the SUArt Galleries on the Syracuse University main campus and the XL Projects gallery in downtown Syracuse. This exhibition, with Dr. Edward A. Aiken as its curator, is the first time Jerome Witkin has allowed his drawings to be displayed beside their finished works. "Drawn to Paint" will be traveling to other museums around the country during a two-year tour that will conclude at the Palmer Museum of Art in University Park, PA.

"Drawn to Paint" is more than a selection of masterfully painted narratives. Through the juxtaposition of drawings and sketchbooks, the exhibition represents a rare look into the artist's process, from the inception of an idea to the completed artwork. The works of Jerome Witkin carry forward into our era the grand Western European tradition of history painting. His images offer dramatic narratives that reveal themselves over time. Many of his most interesting paintings are large multiple panels, each section presenting a different chapter of an unfolding story. Their scale pushes the viewer back to see the whole composition while his brushwork encourages close examination to better admire the painting's surface.

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

Read a review!

A Magnificent Obsession: Selections from the Hamilton Armstrong Collection of Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For decades, Hamilton Armstrong of Fayetteville, NY has been collecting prints created by some of most important and well-known American and European artists of the last 200 years. While only a fraction of the number of works he collected will be exhibited, this show will demonstrate two areas of great interest to Armstrong.

First is the area of architectural etching that began in 19th century Europe and continued into 20th century American printmaking. Consisting of more than 30 prints by Charles Meryon, John Taylor Arms, Samuel Chamberlain, and others, this part of the exhibition highlights an impressive selection of Meryon's rare etchings.

The second part of the show is a series of wood engravings done by Fritz Eichenberg for a reprint of Emily Bronte's classic novel, Wuthering Heights. These images are rare artist proof prints for the 1943 Random House edition of the novel and have been considered some of best illustrations of the 19th century classic because they capture the drama of author's text without adding superfluous material.

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

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Colorfornia: New Forms in West Coast Street Art: Apex, Chor Boogie, and Jet Martinez
The Warehouse Gallery

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

California-based street artists Apex, Chor Boogie, and Jet Martinez will create new temporary murals inside the Warehouse Gallery. The work is based on improvisation, collaboration, and the notion that how and what they paint is recognizably Californian in its focus on strong colors, patterns, forms, and nature.

Their language consists of colorful abstract forms pertaining to optical illusions and movement, faces, evoking real and imaginary urban settings, and tropical imaginary landscapes. All three of them have significantly contributed to public art in San Francisco, San Diego, and other major cities within (Minneapolis; Washington, DC) and outside of the United States (Beijing, Dubai, Oaxaca, Sydney, Tokyo, Zurich) through their use of spray (Apex, Chor) and traditional paint (Jet Martinez) to achieve elaborate compositions with high attention to detail.

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Drawn to Paint: The Art of Jerome Witkin
XL Projects

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

"Drawn to Paint" consists of 70 works including drawings, paintings and sketchbooks by Jerome Witkin, one of America's leading figurative painters and a longtime professor of painting in VPA's Department of Art.

"Drawn to Paint" marks the first time Witkin has allowed his drawings to be displayed beside their finished works. Curator of the exhibition is Edward A. Aiken, associate professor and program coordinator of VPA's graduate program in museum studies in the Department of Design. "Drawn to Paint" will be traveling to other museums around the country during a two-year tour that will conclude at the Palmer Museum of Art in University Park, PA.

The works of Witkin carry forward into our era the grand Western European tradition of history painting. His images offer dramatic narratives that reveal themselves over time. Many of his most interesting paintings are large multiple panels, each section presenting a different chapter of an unfolding story. Their scale pushes the viewer back to see the whole composition, while his brushwork encourages close examination to better admire the painting's surface.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours or e-mail Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. Complete information and related programming is available at suart.syr.edu or on Facebook.

Inner Gravitas
Echo

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

Mixed media installation by Alexey Vs and Michael John.

The Machine/La Maquina: The Art of Favianna Rodriguez
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The work of Favianna Rodriguez embodies an art and cultural practice that gives voices to disenfranchised people all over the world, transforming it into a tool for agitation, inspiration, and action. The exhibition, The Machine/La Maquina will feature some of Favianna's newest works. Favianna's composites reflect literal and imaginative migration, global community, and interdependence. Whether her subjects are immigrant youth in the USA, land workers fighting for their survival, or her own abstract self portraits, Rodriguez brings new audiences into the art world by refocusing the cultural lens.

Our Sporting Life: The Heroes, The Highlights, The History
Onondaga Historical Association

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

This local sports history exhibit will highlight a variety of sports equipment, photographs, ephemera, and most importantly, the people involved in making sports history come alive. From baseball, to basketball, to football, hockey, bowling, and more, the exhibit will recount the "thrill of victory and the agony of defeat" for our local sports history makers. Visitors will learn more about Syracuse’s professional basketball team, women athletes, ice boating on Onondaga Lake, past Syracuse hockey teams, as well as African American athletes such as Moses Fleetwood Walker. Guests will also get a chance to see some vintage trophies, uniforms, equipment, and images of our local competitors in action.

Corresponding Perspectives: Poetry, Prose and Photography
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

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

Syracuse Symposium continues its exploration of the theme of "Identity" with a multimedia presentation by the husband-and-wife team of Christoph Keller and Jan Heller Levi.

"Christoph Keller and Jan Levi are accomplished artists, individually and collectively," says Gregg Lambert, director of both the SU Humanities Center and the Central New York Humanities Corridor. "Their work is largely autobiographical and is suffused with wit, imagination and what some people call a disarming directness. Audiences will marvel at the synergy between photography and writing--a balance so fine that one doesn't overtake the other."

American Song
Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Phil Eisenman, basso cantante; Ida Trebicka, piano

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

Works by Copland, Hall Johnson, and arias by Douglas Moore.

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

Toubab Krewe with Zongo Junction
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Dana Spiotta, fiction
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

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

The Turn of the Screw
Syracuse Stage
Michael Barakiva, director

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

A psychological thriller and ghost story, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from the story by Henry James.

Do you believe in ghosts? If you saw a ghost, would you trust your senses or run to the nearest psychiatric-Promptcare? Henry James caused quite a scandal when he published his psychological thriller The Turn of the Screw, a riveting story of a young governess and two small children set on a remote English estate. In this wildly entertaining stage adaptation, two actors bring all of James' eccentric characters and spine-tingling moments to life. What is lurking at the top of the stairs?

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The Lion King
Broadway in Syracuse

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

Take Africa's animal kingdom, add the story of a lion-cub prince who becomes fatherless, and give director and master puppeteer Julie Taymor free reign. Throw in scores by Elton John, Tim Rice and Hans Zimmer. Now you have an idea why The Lion King has remained an audience favorite since its opening in November 1997. The winner of six Tony awards, the musical is based on the 1994 Disney film with the same title.

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The Turn of the Screw
Syracuse Stage
Michael Barakiva, director

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

A psychological thriller and ghost story, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from the story by Henry James.

Do you believe in ghosts? If you saw a ghost, would you trust your senses or run to the nearest psychiatric-Promptcare? Henry James caused quite a scandal when he published his psychological thriller The Turn of the Screw, a riveting story of a young governess and two small children set on a remote English estate. In this wildly entertaining stage adaptation, two actors bring all of James' eccentric characters and spine-tingling moments to life. What is lurking at the top of the stairs?

Read a Review!

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Windows Project: Oscar Garces: Transcendence
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Cuban-born, and Syracuse-based artist Oscar Garces' site-specific mural in the Window Projects space will offer a local echo to "Colorfornia: New Forms in West Coast Street Art". This is his first solo exhibition. Both exhibitions will be organized in conjunction with the Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations in Syracuse.

Natural Selections: Works by Bob Ripley
Baltimore Woods

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

The exhibit of wildlife paintings in transparent watercolors.

Shane LaVancher and Clémentine Allain Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Shane LaVancher and Clementine Allain, respectively from New York and Paris are artists who consistently attempt to stretch the concepts of fashion and its aesthetics. Their images playfully nudge the lines between pop art, contemporary poetic vision, and hard-line fashion. The duo works from their intuition with the fickle fashion industry in mind. The element of presence within their images reflects their attention to contemporary fashion, but also the essence of the age we live in.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium is Lots 2 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

My Mother Is ...
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Recent work by Amy Bartell and Cynthia Clabough, with special guest KayCie Simmons. Also featuring works in collaboration with Emma Bourque, Nate Bourque, Maddie Carlone, Alyssa Lunka, Aaron Roe and Sara Roe. The exhibition explores our relationship to our mothers.

Furnished: Syracuse Architecture Faculty Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

An exhibition of furniture and objects designed by Ramona Albert, Sarosh Anklesaria and Lior Galili, Larry Bowne, Sekou Cooke, Jonathan Lott, Ryan Ludwig, Michael Pelken, Brett Snyder, Timothy Stenson, Robert Svetz, Vasilena Vassilev

Senegal - France - Syracuse: Works of James Secor
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Experience the interplay of James Secor's expressive paintings with his kora music. Art and music coming together with influences from all over the world! The kora is a traditional West African instrument, much like a harp, but in play can resemble flamenco or even delta blues guitar techniques.

Vivid colors illuminate the subjects of James Secor's paintings, varying in style from representative to abstract. A visual vocabulary has evolved and emerged through his constant search for inventive solutions. Seeking to create a sense of unity and a balance of forces, whether by color, line or in value.

James Secor made his studies of the kora in Senegal through a Griot, one of a traditional culture of storytellers who often accompany themselves on koras or other instruments. Secor took in 12 of these traditional songs. Having been a musician for many years before learning the kora, this journey was certain to expand his repertoire for musical expression. The music James wrote in France resembles traditional kora and is influenced both by his own style as well as by his 8-month immersion in the world of the little French village of Tournus.

Layers
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Lynette Blake: oil paintings on canvas
Carol Ackles: hand built and wheel thrown ceramics
Jan Navales: hand dyed, screen printed, stitched and beaded fabric wall hangings

African Diasporan Treasures: 40 Years of Community Folk Art Center
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition will showcase pieces from CFAC's permanent collection. Featuring over 30 works by artists including Joel Gaines, Ellen Oppler, Jack White, Denise Cole and Kamiiron Pritchard, "African Diasporan Treasures" provides a rare opportunity for visitors to experience the rich artistic history of CFAC. In many cases, the pieces have not been displayed for decades. The show will also feature African art that was once part of the Smithsonian Museum's collection.

Hanging Out To Dry: Works by Lisa Noviasky
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Michelle Danforth Landscape Paintings
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

[hyphen] Americans
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features stunning tintype portraits created by photographer Keliy Anderson-Staley. The exhibition title speaks to the multicultural character of American identities (Irish-American, African-American, etc.). Although a person's heritage might be inferred by looking at their features and clothing, viewers of Anderson-Staley's work are encouraged, according to the artist, "to suspend the kind of thinking that would traditionally assist in decoding these images in the context of American identity politics."

Anderson-Staley makes portraits with the 19th-century wet-plate collodion process. She uses wooden view cameras, 19th-century brass lenses and chemicals she hand-mixes according to the traditional formulas. In this series, she focuses on just one plane in the face--usually the eyes. The exposures are long, lasting anywhere from 10-60 seconds, so the images capture a full moment of thought. Because of these characteristics of the process, there is an introspective quality to each portrait, as if each person has been caught looking at himself or herself in a mirror.

The portraits in the exhibition are mostly individuals from the broader Syracuse community photographed during Anderson-Staley's residency in 2010. This collection of tintypes, numbering more than 100, is thus as much a portrait of a diverse community as it is a series of individual portraits.

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Works of Elena Peteva and Donalee Peden Wesley
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Elena Peteva's show, "Passages", features drawings and mixed media work that stand as symbolic representations of our individual and societal states. In her intimate drawings, Peteva's figures or objects function as an allegorical vehicle to depict the coexistence of vulnerability and power, uncertainty and conviction, depravity and elevation in the individual or society.

Donalee Peden Wesley's show, "Linearis", explores the scope of human/animal relationship through large scale drawings that reflect the undercurrents of archetypal emotions, internal and external struggles, and their effects on us and the animals that share our environments. Due to the open-ended relationship nature of her imagery, Peden's work invites individual reflection based on the interpretation by each viewer.

Opening: Edifice
Point of Contact Gallery

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

There will be an opening reception with the artists this evening at 6:00 pm.

Mexican-born, New York City-based artists Gabriela Alva C. and Natalia Porter present their collaborative project, Edifice. Curated by Pedro Cuperman, the show features Alva and Porter in response to the work of Boston artist Andrew Witkin's writings.

Having partnered in previous projects as curator/artist and as co-curators, Porter and Alva now team up as artists for the first time. For this exhibit, they employ a series of texts and diagrams by Boston-based Andrew Witkin to serve as a bridge, from written word to spatial arrangement, and from artist to writer to curator, warping the term collaboration to be more and more dynamic. Witkin's writings, which can be read as lists, are accumulations of thoughts that suggest a sense of order, but still remain abstract. They are organized in an undefined way and yet are quite concrete. They repeat, are rhythmic and include a sense of time and space. Both Porter and Alva respond to the juxtaposition of order and abstraction, as well as to the visual composition of Witkin's publications. Working collectively and individually, these artists push the means, methods and roles of an exhibition and its participants, seeking and constantly finding new points of contact.

Self Expressed: Works of Mary Fragapane
Redhouse

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

Fragapane is best known for her enigmatic female figures that seek to capture the intangibles of joy, passion, and the beauty of the human spirit. Working in an expressive style on un-gessoed canvas, she uses a layering process incorporating acrylic paints, chalk and oil pastels, pencil, and water.

Fragapane has exhibited extensively in Manhattan and throughout New York, Cleveland, California and internationally on the Island of Curacao. In addition to her solo shows, she has been commissioned for numerous Public Art projects.

360 Competition Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The industrial and interaction design (IID) program will present the IID 360 Competition Exhibition, a showcase of the competition's current entries and past winners.

The 360 Competition is a joint initiative between the IID program and industry collaborators. Each spring a design brief is proposed by a lead collaborator who serves as an adviser throughout the project. Junior IID students who elect to take part must address the challenge through comprehensive research, analysis and visionary problem solving. They work on the project over the summer and present their solutions on campus the following fall semester--in their fourth year of the five-year IID program--to a jury of professionals, which selects a winner.

This year's design challenge is "Accessibility within the Home." Scott Ryan, president of Brownlie Design in Skaneateles, NY, and Greg Smiley, industrial design manager at the Raymond Corp. in Greene, NY, served as lead collaborators. The winner of the competition will receive the Philip H. Stevens Award.

For more information about the competition, contact Don Carr, associate professor of industrial and interaction design, at dwcarr@syr.edu.

15th Ward: Memories of a Syracuse Neighborhood Transformed
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The exhibition showcases work from "Remembering Syracuse's 15th Ward," a project about the Jewish and African American neighborhood occupying the area now dominated by the Interstate 81 overpass and SUNY Upstate Medical University.

For more information, contact Bradley Hudson at bjhudson@syr.edu.

Perceived Environments
Szozda Gallery

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

The gallery's September exhibit is a group show featuring six artists' comprehension of captured moments in their personal and imagined environments.

James Skvarch, well known for his detailed etchings of real or inventive spaces, will display works selected from two of his series, "Interiors" and "Caprices."

Self-taught artist John (Jaws) McGrath details in pen and ink his 'minds-eye' remembrances of sights he encountered throughout his 30-year travels across the country as a biker.

The show's exhibited photography by artists Harry Freeman-Jones and R. L. Mercer will give viewers up-close takes of familiar environments as Freeman-Jones presents lush colors of flora and fauna in a back yard garden, and Mercer, in his photogenic eye, depicts things normally overlooked in everyday scenes.

Artists Wendy Harris and Robert Niedzwiecki paint landscapes in different ways, Harris using pastels to achieve pure color intensity, and Niedzwiecki using oils and watercolors to create a more realistic look at what is in front of him.

Photography on the Edge: Between Realism and Abstraction
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The show features photographs by Central New York artists that address the relationship between realistic representation and abstract concepts. Participating artists include Willson Cummer, Bob Gates, Elisabeth Groat, Peter Mahan, Yolanda Tooley, Jeanann Wieners, Diana Whiting, and Jamie Young.

The co-curators, Jen Gandee and Syracuse-area photographer, Bob Gates, in selecting work for this show, were looking for images that are true to the perennial conflict in the history of photography between representational and non-representational images. The same conflicting impulses that have shaped other forms of art--realism, impressionism, expressionism, abstraction, surrealism--have had their adherents among photographers. The works in this exhibit show how some photographers in Central New York respond to or participate in that complex history.

Drawn to Paint: The Art of Jerome Witkin
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Drawn to Paint: The Art of Jerome Witkin" consists of 70 works including drawings, paintings, and sketchbooks. Dividing the show between two venues to allow for broader access, "Drawn to Paint" will be on view at the SUArt Galleries on the Syracuse University main campus and the XL Projects gallery in downtown Syracuse. This exhibition, with Dr. Edward A. Aiken as its curator, is the first time Jerome Witkin has allowed his drawings to be displayed beside their finished works. "Drawn to Paint" will be traveling to other museums around the country during a two-year tour that will conclude at the Palmer Museum of Art in University Park, PA.

"Drawn to Paint" is more than a selection of masterfully painted narratives. Through the juxtaposition of drawings and sketchbooks, the exhibition represents a rare look into the artist's process, from the inception of an idea to the completed artwork. The works of Jerome Witkin carry forward into our era the grand Western European tradition of history painting. His images offer dramatic narratives that reveal themselves over time. Many of his most interesting paintings are large multiple panels, each section presenting a different chapter of an unfolding story. Their scale pushes the viewer back to see the whole composition while his brushwork encourages close examination to better admire the painting's surface.

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

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A Magnificent Obsession: Selections from the Hamilton Armstrong Collection of Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For decades, Hamilton Armstrong of Fayetteville, NY has been collecting prints created by some of most important and well-known American and European artists of the last 200 years. While only a fraction of the number of works he collected will be exhibited, this show will demonstrate two areas of great interest to Armstrong.

First is the area of architectural etching that began in 19th century Europe and continued into 20th century American printmaking. Consisting of more than 30 prints by Charles Meryon, John Taylor Arms, Samuel Chamberlain, and others, this part of the exhibition highlights an impressive selection of Meryon's rare etchings.

The second part of the show is a series of wood engravings done by Fritz Eichenberg for a reprint of Emily Bronte's classic novel, Wuthering Heights. These images are rare artist proof prints for the 1943 Random House edition of the novel and have been considered some of best illustrations of the 19th century classic because they capture the drama of author's text without adding superfluous material.

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

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Colorfornia: New Forms in West Coast Street Art: Apex, Chor Boogie, and Jet Martinez
The Warehouse Gallery

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

California-based street artists Apex, Chor Boogie, and Jet Martinez will create new temporary murals inside the Warehouse Gallery. The work is based on improvisation, collaboration, and the notion that how and what they paint is recognizably Californian in its focus on strong colors, patterns, forms, and nature.

Their language consists of colorful abstract forms pertaining to optical illusions and movement, faces, evoking real and imaginary urban settings, and tropical imaginary landscapes. All three of them have significantly contributed to public art in San Francisco, San Diego, and other major cities within (Minneapolis; Washington, DC) and outside of the United States (Beijing, Dubai, Oaxaca, Sydney, Tokyo, Zurich) through their use of spray (Apex, Chor) and traditional paint (Jet Martinez) to achieve elaborate compositions with high attention to detail.

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Drawn to Paint: The Art of Jerome Witkin
XL Projects

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

"Drawn to Paint" consists of 70 works including drawings, paintings and sketchbooks by Jerome Witkin, one of America's leading figurative painters and a longtime professor of painting in VPA's Department of Art.

"Drawn to Paint" marks the first time Witkin has allowed his drawings to be displayed beside their finished works. Curator of the exhibition is Edward A. Aiken, associate professor and program coordinator of VPA's graduate program in museum studies in the Department of Design. "Drawn to Paint" will be traveling to other museums around the country during a two-year tour that will conclude at the Palmer Museum of Art in University Park, PA.

The works of Witkin carry forward into our era the grand Western European tradition of history painting. His images offer dramatic narratives that reveal themselves over time. Many of his most interesting paintings are large multiple panels, each section presenting a different chapter of an unfolding story. Their scale pushes the viewer back to see the whole composition, while his brushwork encourages close examination to better admire the painting's surface.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours or e-mail Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. Complete information and related programming is available at suart.syr.edu or on Facebook.

Inner Gravitas
Echo

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

Mixed media installation by Alexey Vs and Michael John.

The Machine/La Maquina: The Art of Favianna Rodriguez
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The work of Favianna Rodriguez embodies an art and cultural practice that gives voices to disenfranchised people all over the world, transforming it into a tool for agitation, inspiration, and action. The exhibition, The Machine/La Maquina will feature some of Favianna's newest works. Favianna's composites reflect literal and imaginative migration, global community, and interdependence. Whether her subjects are immigrant youth in the USA, land workers fighting for their survival, or her own abstract self portraits, Rodriguez brings new audiences into the art world by refocusing the cultural lens.

Dying Oak, Wild Raspberry Bush: Works by Pae White
Urban Video Project

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

Two videos, Dying Oak/Elephant (3-min loop) and Ballerina (Wild Raspberry Bush)(1-min loop), both 2009, by internationally recognized artist and designer, Pae White.

These two video pieces employ high-tech 3D scanning and motion animation techniques and apply them to objects from the natural world, playfully interrogating the integrity of the human/nature divide. The result is a mesmerizing exploration of natural form in which perspective and scale are in constant flux, the data points coalescing for a moment to create an image that is almost hyper-real in its detail, and in the next dispersing into glowing abstractions that might be galaxies or cities at night.

Our Sporting Life: The Heroes, The Highlights, The History
Onondaga Historical Association

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

This local sports history exhibit will highlight a variety of sports equipment, photographs, ephemera, and most importantly, the people involved in making sports history come alive. From baseball, to basketball, to football, hockey, bowling, and more, the exhibit will recount the "thrill of victory and the agony of defeat" for our local sports history makers. Visitors will learn more about Syracuse’s professional basketball team, women athletes, ice boating on Onondaga Lake, past Syracuse hockey teams, as well as African American athletes such as Moses Fleetwood Walker. Guests will also get a chance to see some vintage trophies, uniforms, equipment, and images of our local competitors in action.

Conspirator
Westcott Theater
Featuring Marc Brownstein and Aron Magner from The Disco Biscuits, and Chris Michetti from Raq

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

The Lion King
Broadway in Syracuse

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

Take Africa's animal kingdom, add the story of a lion-cub prince who becomes fatherless, and give director and master puppeteer Julie Taymor free reign. Throw in scores by Elton John, Tim Rice and Hans Zimmer. Now you have an idea why The Lion King has remained an audience favorite since its opening in November 1997. The winner of six Tony awards, the musical is based on the 1994 Disney film with the same title.

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Fiddler on the Loose
Acme Mystery Company

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

The milkman, Skeevya, and his family have been forced to leave their beloved little village of Havavodka and have immigrated to America. The quaint Russian countryside has been replaced by the bright lights of New York City and the old world traditions have been replaced by the new world permissions. In fact, Skeevya now has a new job ... with the Russian Mafia. At last he is a rich man! But how long can it last? Remember: You're gonna get a little on you when you're playing in the borscht.

For reservations, phone 315-475-1807 or email syracuse@meatballs.com.

A Few Good Men
CNY Playhouse
Katie Lemos Brown, director

Price: Dinner theater: $29 single; $55 couple. Show only: $20 (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.

God. County. Corp. Murder. This Broadway hit by Aaron Sorkin about the trial of two Marines for complicity in the death of a fellow Marine at Guantanamo Bay sizzles on stage. The Navy lawyer, a callow young man more interested in softball games than the case, expects a plea bargain and a coverup of what really happened. Prodded by a female member of his defense team, the lawyer eventually makes a valiant effort to defend his clients and, in so doing, puts the military mentality and the Marine code of honor on trial.

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The Lion King
Broadway in Syracuse

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

Take Africa's animal kingdom, add the story of a lion-cub prince who becomes fatherless, and give director and master puppeteer Julie Taymor free reign. Throw in scores by Elton John, Tim Rice and Hans Zimmer. Now you have an idea why The Lion King has remained an audience favorite since its opening in November 1997. The winner of six Tony awards, the musical is based on the 1994 Disney film with the same title.

Read a Review!

The Turn of the Screw
Syracuse Stage
Michael Barakiva, director

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

A psychological thriller and ghost story, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from the story by Henry James.

Do you believe in ghosts? If you saw a ghost, would you trust your senses or run to the nearest psychiatric-Promptcare? Henry James caused quite a scandal when he published his psychological thriller The Turn of the Screw, a riveting story of a young governess and two small children set on a remote English estate. In this wildly entertaining stage adaptation, two actors bring all of James' eccentric characters and spine-tingling moments to life. What is lurking at the top of the stairs?

Read a Review!

Friday, September 30, 2011

Windows Project: Oscar Garces: Transcendence
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Cuban-born, and Syracuse-based artist Oscar Garces' site-specific mural in the Window Projects space will offer a local echo to "Colorfornia: New Forms in West Coast Street Art". This is his first solo exhibition. Both exhibitions will be organized in conjunction with the Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations in Syracuse.

Natural Selections: Works by Bob Ripley
Baltimore Woods

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

The exhibit of wildlife paintings in transparent watercolors.

Shane LaVancher and Clémentine Allain Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Shane LaVancher and Clementine Allain, respectively from New York and Paris are artists who consistently attempt to stretch the concepts of fashion and its aesthetics. Their images playfully nudge the lines between pop art, contemporary poetic vision, and hard-line fashion. The duo works from their intuition with the fickle fashion industry in mind. The element of presence within their images reflects their attention to contemporary fashion, but also the essence of the age we live in.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium is Lots 2 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

My Mother Is ...
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Recent work by Amy Bartell and Cynthia Clabough, with special guest KayCie Simmons. Also featuring works in collaboration with Emma Bourque, Nate Bourque, Maddie Carlone, Alyssa Lunka, Aaron Roe and Sara Roe. The exhibition explores our relationship to our mothers.

Furnished: Syracuse Architecture Faculty Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

An exhibition of furniture and objects designed by Ramona Albert, Sarosh Anklesaria and Lior Galili, Larry Bowne, Sekou Cooke, Jonathan Lott, Ryan Ludwig, Michael Pelken, Brett Snyder, Timothy Stenson, Robert Svetz, Vasilena Vassilev

Senegal - France - Syracuse: Works of James Secor
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Experience the interplay of James Secor's expressive paintings with his kora music. Art and music coming together with influences from all over the world! The kora is a traditional West African instrument, much like a harp, but in play can resemble flamenco or even delta blues guitar techniques.

Vivid colors illuminate the subjects of James Secor's paintings, varying in style from representative to abstract. A visual vocabulary has evolved and emerged through his constant search for inventive solutions. Seeking to create a sense of unity and a balance of forces, whether by color, line or in value.

James Secor made his studies of the kora in Senegal through a Griot, one of a traditional culture of storytellers who often accompany themselves on koras or other instruments. Secor took in 12 of these traditional songs. Having been a musician for many years before learning the kora, this journey was certain to expand his repertoire for musical expression. The music James wrote in France resembles traditional kora and is influenced both by his own style as well as by his 8-month immersion in the world of the little French village of Tournus.

Layers
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Lynette Blake: oil paintings on canvas
Carol Ackles: hand built and wheel thrown ceramics
Jan Navales: hand dyed, screen printed, stitched and beaded fabric wall hangings

African Diasporan Treasures: 40 Years of Community Folk Art Center
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition will showcase pieces from CFAC's permanent collection. Featuring over 30 works by artists including Joel Gaines, Ellen Oppler, Jack White, Denise Cole and Kamiiron Pritchard, "African Diasporan Treasures" provides a rare opportunity for visitors to experience the rich artistic history of CFAC. In many cases, the pieces have not been displayed for decades. The show will also feature African art that was once part of the Smithsonian Museum's collection.

Hanging Out To Dry: Works by Lisa Noviasky
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Michelle Danforth Landscape Paintings
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

[hyphen] Americans
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features stunning tintype portraits created by photographer Keliy Anderson-Staley. The exhibition title speaks to the multicultural character of American identities (Irish-American, African-American, etc.). Although a person's heritage might be inferred by looking at their features and clothing, viewers of Anderson-Staley's work are encouraged, according to the artist, "to suspend the kind of thinking that would traditionally assist in decoding these images in the context of American identity politics."

Anderson-Staley makes portraits with the 19th-century wet-plate collodion process. She uses wooden view cameras, 19th-century brass lenses and chemicals she hand-mixes according to the traditional formulas. In this series, she focuses on just one plane in the face--usually the eyes. The exposures are long, lasting anywhere from 10-60 seconds, so the images capture a full moment of thought. Because of these characteristics of the process, there is an introspective quality to each portrait, as if each person has been caught looking at himself or herself in a mirror.

The portraits in the exhibition are mostly individuals from the broader Syracuse community photographed during Anderson-Staley's residency in 2010. This collection of tintypes, numbering more than 100, is thus as much a portrait of a diverse community as it is a series of individual portraits.

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Works of Elena Peteva and Donalee Peden Wesley
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Elena Peteva's show, "Passages", features drawings and mixed media work that stand as symbolic representations of our individual and societal states. In her intimate drawings, Peteva's figures or objects function as an allegorical vehicle to depict the coexistence of vulnerability and power, uncertainty and conviction, depravity and elevation in the individual or society.

Donalee Peden Wesley's show, "Linearis", explores the scope of human/animal relationship through large scale drawings that reflect the undercurrents of archetypal emotions, internal and external struggles, and their effects on us and the animals that share our environments. Due to the open-ended relationship nature of her imagery, Peden's work invites individual reflection based on the interpretation by each viewer.

Edifice
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Mexican-born, New York City-based artists Gabriela Alva C. and Natalia Porter present their collaborative project, Edifice. Curated by Pedro Cuperman, the show features Alva and Porter in response to the work of Boston artist Andrew Witkin's writings.

Having partnered in previous projects as curator/artist and as co-curators, Porter and Alva now team up as artists for the first time. For this exhibit, they employ a series of texts and diagrams by Boston-based Andrew Witkin to serve as a bridge, from written word to spatial arrangement, and from artist to writer to curator, warping the term collaboration to be more and more dynamic. Witkin's writings, which can be read as lists, are accumulations of thoughts that suggest a sense of order, but still remain abstract. They are organized in an undefined way and yet are quite concrete. They repeat, are rhythmic and include a sense of time and space. Both Porter and Alva respond to the juxtaposition of order and abstraction, as well as to the visual composition of Witkin's publications. Working collectively and individually, these artists push the means, methods and roles of an exhibition and its participants, seeking and constantly finding new points of contact.

Self Expressed: Works of Mary Fragapane
Redhouse

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

Fragapane is best known for her enigmatic female figures that seek to capture the intangibles of joy, passion, and the beauty of the human spirit. Working in an expressive style on un-gessoed canvas, she uses a layering process incorporating acrylic paints, chalk and oil pastels, pencil, and water.

Fragapane has exhibited extensively in Manhattan and throughout New York, Cleveland, California and internationally on the Island of Curacao. In addition to her solo shows, she has been commissioned for numerous Public Art projects.

360 Competition Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The industrial and interaction design (IID) program will present the IID 360 Competition Exhibition, a showcase of the competition's current entries and past winners.

The 360 Competition is a joint initiative between the IID program and industry collaborators. Each spring a design brief is proposed by a lead collaborator who serves as an adviser throughout the project. Junior IID students who elect to take part must address the challenge through comprehensive research, analysis and visionary problem solving. They work on the project over the summer and present their solutions on campus the following fall semester--in their fourth year of the five-year IID program--to a jury of professionals, which selects a winner.

This year's design challenge is "Accessibility within the Home." Scott Ryan, president of Brownlie Design in Skaneateles, NY, and Greg Smiley, industrial design manager at the Raymond Corp. in Greene, NY, served as lead collaborators. The winner of the competition will receive the Philip H. Stevens Award.

For more information about the competition, contact Don Carr, associate professor of industrial and interaction design, at dwcarr@syr.edu.

15th Ward: Memories of a Syracuse Neighborhood Transformed
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The exhibition showcases work from "Remembering Syracuse's 15th Ward," a project about the Jewish and African American neighborhood occupying the area now dominated by the Interstate 81 overpass and SUNY Upstate Medical University.

For more information, contact Bradley Hudson at bjhudson@syr.edu.

Perceived Environments
Szozda Gallery

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

The gallery's September exhibit is a group show featuring six artists' comprehension of captured moments in their personal and imagined environments.

James Skvarch, well known for his detailed etchings of real or inventive spaces, will display works selected from two of his series, "Interiors" and "Caprices."

Self-taught artist John (Jaws) McGrath details in pen and ink his 'minds-eye' remembrances of sights he encountered throughout his 30-year travels across the country as a biker.

The show's exhibited photography by artists Harry Freeman-Jones and R. L. Mercer will give viewers up-close takes of familiar environments as Freeman-Jones presents lush colors of flora and fauna in a back yard garden, and Mercer, in his photogenic eye, depicts things normally overlooked in everyday scenes.

Artists Wendy Harris and Robert Niedzwiecki paint landscapes in different ways, Harris using pastels to achieve pure color intensity, and Niedzwiecki using oils and watercolors to create a more realistic look at what is in front of him.

Photography on the Edge: Between Realism and Abstraction
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The show features photographs by Central New York artists that address the relationship between realistic representation and abstract concepts. Participating artists include Willson Cummer, Bob Gates, Elisabeth Groat, Peter Mahan, Yolanda Tooley, Jeanann Wieners, Diana Whiting, and Jamie Young.

The co-curators, Jen Gandee and Syracuse-area photographer, Bob Gates, in selecting work for this show, were looking for images that are true to the perennial conflict in the history of photography between representational and non-representational images. The same conflicting impulses that have shaped other forms of art--realism, impressionism, expressionism, abstraction, surrealism--have had their adherents among photographers. The works in this exhibit show how some photographers in Central New York respond to or participate in that complex history.

Drawn to Paint: The Art of Jerome Witkin
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Drawn to Paint: The Art of Jerome Witkin" consists of 70 works including drawings, paintings, and sketchbooks. Dividing the show between two venues to allow for broader access, "Drawn to Paint" will be on view at the SUArt Galleries on the Syracuse University main campus and the XL Projects gallery in downtown Syracuse. This exhibition, with Dr. Edward A. Aiken as its curator, is the first time Jerome Witkin has allowed his drawings to be displayed beside their finished works. "Drawn to Paint" will be traveling to other museums around the country during a two-year tour that will conclude at the Palmer Museum of Art in University Park, PA.

"Drawn to Paint" is more than a selection of masterfully painted narratives. Through the juxtaposition of drawings and sketchbooks, the exhibition represents a rare look into the artist's process, from the inception of an idea to the completed artwork. The works of Jerome Witkin carry forward into our era the grand Western European tradition of history painting. His images offer dramatic narratives that reveal themselves over time. Many of his most interesting paintings are large multiple panels, each section presenting a different chapter of an unfolding story. Their scale pushes the viewer back to see the whole composition while his brushwork encourages close examination to better admire the painting's surface.

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

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A Magnificent Obsession: Selections from the Hamilton Armstrong Collection of Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For decades, Hamilton Armstrong of Fayetteville, NY has been collecting prints created by some of most important and well-known American and European artists of the last 200 years. While only a fraction of the number of works he collected will be exhibited, this show will demonstrate two areas of great interest to Armstrong.

First is the area of architectural etching that began in 19th century Europe and continued into 20th century American printmaking. Consisting of more than 30 prints by Charles Meryon, John Taylor Arms, Samuel Chamberlain, and others, this part of the exhibition highlights an impressive selection of Meryon's rare etchings.

The second part of the show is a series of wood engravings done by Fritz Eichenberg for a reprint of Emily Bronte's classic novel, Wuthering Heights. These images are rare artist proof prints for the 1943 Random House edition of the novel and have been considered some of best illustrations of the 19th century classic because they capture the drama of author's text without adding superfluous material.

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

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Colorfornia: New Forms in West Coast Street Art: Apex, Chor Boogie, and Jet Martinez
The Warehouse Gallery

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

California-based street artists Apex, Chor Boogie, and Jet Martinez will create new temporary murals inside the Warehouse Gallery. The work is based on improvisation, collaboration, and the notion that how and what they paint is recognizably Californian in its focus on strong colors, patterns, forms, and nature.

Their language consists of colorful abstract forms pertaining to optical illusions and movement, faces, evoking real and imaginary urban settings, and tropical imaginary landscapes. All three of them have significantly contributed to public art in San Francisco, San Diego, and other major cities within (Minneapolis; Washington, DC) and outside of the United States (Beijing, Dubai, Oaxaca, Sydney, Tokyo, Zurich) through their use of spray (Apex, Chor) and traditional paint (Jet Martinez) to achieve elaborate compositions with high attention to detail.

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Drawn to Paint: The Art of Jerome Witkin
XL Projects

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

"Drawn to Paint" consists of 70 works including drawings, paintings and sketchbooks by Jerome Witkin, one of America's leading figurative painters and a longtime professor of painting in VPA's Department of Art.

"Drawn to Paint" marks the first time Witkin has allowed his drawings to be displayed beside their finished works. Curator of the exhibition is Edward A. Aiken, associate professor and program coordinator of VPA's graduate program in museum studies in the Department of Design. "Drawn to Paint" will be traveling to other museums around the country during a two-year tour that will conclude at the Palmer Museum of Art in University Park, PA.

The works of Witkin carry forward into our era the grand Western European tradition of history painting. His images offer dramatic narratives that reveal themselves over time. Many of his most interesting paintings are large multiple panels, each section presenting a different chapter of an unfolding story. Their scale pushes the viewer back to see the whole composition, while his brushwork encourages close examination to better admire the painting's surface.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours or e-mail Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. Complete information and related programming is available at suart.syr.edu or on Facebook.

Inner Gravitas
Echo

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

Mixed media installation by Alexey Vs and Michael John.

The Machine/La Maquina: The Art of Favianna Rodriguez
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The work of Favianna Rodriguez embodies an art and cultural practice that gives voices to disenfranchised people all over the world, transforming it into a tool for agitation, inspiration, and action. The exhibition, The Machine/La Maquina will feature some of Favianna's newest works. Favianna's composites reflect literal and imaginative migration, global community, and interdependence. Whether her subjects are immigrant youth in the USA, land workers fighting for their survival, or her own abstract self portraits, Rodriguez brings new audiences into the art world by refocusing the cultural lens.

Opening Reception
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Members free, non-members $10
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Begin the fall season at the opening reception for two exhibitions, From Here to There: Alec Soth's America and Margie Hughto: A Fired Landscape. Enjoy light hors d'oeuvres catered by Phoebe's, a cash bar and entertainment by Caribbean Trio of Steel before previewing the exhibitions.

Dying Oak, Wild Raspberry Bush: Works by Pae White
Urban Video Project

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

Two videos, Dying Oak/Elephant (3-min loop) and Ballerina (Wild Raspberry Bush)(1-min loop), both 2009, by internationally recognized artist and designer, Pae White.

These two video pieces employ high-tech 3D scanning and motion animation techniques and apply them to objects from the natural world, playfully interrogating the integrity of the human/nature divide. The result is a mesmerizing exploration of natural form in which perspective and scale are in constant flux, the data points coalescing for a moment to create an image that is almost hyper-real in its detail, and in the next dispersing into glowing abstractions that might be galaxies or cities at night.

The Bank Show
Syracuse Improv Collective

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

The Syracuse Improv Collective kicks off with a night of experimental music, potato rap and comedy improv.

7:00 pm: Doors open
7:30 pm: The Worst
8:30 pm: Oregon Fail
9:30 pm: ToTs and Mix Master Mash
10:30 pm: The Armando, featuring members of the CNY Improv Community.

Redhouse Live Comedy Improv
Redhouse

Price: $10 regular, $5 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

This high-energy live comedy show features actors performing scenes and games based on audience suggestion and participation. Second City veterans Tim Mahar and Laura Austin lead the troupe.

Austin says, "This season we are scheduling the shows so that we can include visiting professional actors who are in town rehearsing for our main stage theater shows. Featuring these guest artists will really invigorate the shows and certainly add an element of surprise and excitement to the whole experience as only live improv can do!"

As part of its new Educational Program, Redhouse is running an Improvisation Workshop for teens and adults in September. These students will have a chance to perform with the Redhouse Live Troupe in this show.

The Yes Men Fix the World
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno have an unusual hobby: posing as top executives of corporations they hate. Armed with nothing but thrift-store suits, the Yes Men lie their way into business conferences and parody their corporate targets in ever more extreme ways -- basically doing everything that they can to wake up their audiences to the danger of letting greed run our world.

Our Sporting Life: The Heroes, The Highlights, The History
Onondaga Historical Association

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

This local sports history exhibit will highlight a variety of sports equipment, photographs, ephemera, and most importantly, the people involved in making sports history come alive. From baseball, to basketball, to football, hockey, bowling, and more, the exhibit will recount the "thrill of victory and the agony of defeat" for our local sports history makers. Visitors will learn more about Syracuse’s professional basketball team, women athletes, ice boating on Onondaga Lake, past Syracuse hockey teams, as well as African American athletes such as Moses Fleetwood Walker. Guests will also get a chance to see some vintage trophies, uniforms, equipment, and images of our local competitors in action.

Ensemble Chaconne (Boston)
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Legends of Jazz Series: Ron Carter Trio
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free, but tickets required
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Free tickets available at Sound Garden in Armory Square beginning Sat., 9/17 at 10:00am, while they last, limit two per customer.

Detroit jazz legend Ron Carter has appeared on more than 2,500 albums, making him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history. His first gigs as a jazz musician were with jazz legends Jaki Byard and Chico Hamilton, and his first records were with Eric Dolphy and Don Ellis. But Carter really came to fame via the second great Miles Davis Quintet in the early 1960s. He eventually recorded a dozen albums with Miles and another half dozen each with Horace Silver, McCoy Tyner and Herbie Hancock, making him the most sought after first call bassist in the modern jazz era.

After leaving Davis, Carter was for several years a mainstay of Creed Taylor's legendary CTI Records, making albums under his own name and also appearing on many of the label's records with a diverse range of other musicians. Today, Carter tours regularly with his own trio comprised of the great Mulgrew Miller on piano and the legendary Russell Malone on guitar, each an extraordinary virtuoso on his respective instrument and a leader in his own right.

Larry and his Flask with Lionize, Arison Cain & The Halfway Home Orchestra, Feast of the Superb Owl
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

A Few Good Men
CNY Playhouse
Katie Lemos Brown, director

Price: Dinner theater: $29 single; $55 couple. Show only: $20 (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.

God. County. Corp. Murder. This Broadway hit by Aaron Sorkin about the trial of two Marines for complicity in the death of a fellow Marine at Guantanamo Bay sizzles on stage. The Navy lawyer, a callow young man more interested in softball games than the case, expects a plea bargain and a coverup of what really happened. Prodded by a female member of his defense team, the lawyer eventually makes a valiant effort to defend his clients and, in so doing, puts the military mentality and the Marine code of honor on trial.

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The Lion King
Broadway in Syracuse

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

Take Africa's animal kingdom, add the story of a lion-cub prince who becomes fatherless, and give director and master puppeteer Julie Taymor free reign. Throw in scores by Elton John, Tim Rice and Hans Zimmer. Now you have an idea why The Lion King has remained an audience favorite since its opening in November 1997. The winner of six Tony awards, the musical is based on the 1994 Disney film with the same title.

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Disenchanted: Bitches of the Kingdom
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

Happ'ly ever after can be a royal pain in the ass! A riotous new musical-comedy revue featuring the original storybook princesses comically kvetching about the exploitation they've suffered in the Disney movies and theme parks. Snow White and her angry band of warbling royal friends musically storm the castle in this hilariously clever take on the princesses!

Disenchanted! is the winner of the 2010 New Jersey Playwrights Contest.

Musical Director Michael Stephan. Music, lyrics, book by Dennis T. Giacino; additional lyrics by Fiely A. Matias.

This show is intended for mature audiences only.

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The Turn of the Screw
Syracuse Stage
Michael Barakiva, director

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

A psychological thriller and ghost story, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from the story by Henry James.

Do you believe in ghosts? If you saw a ghost, would you trust your senses or run to the nearest psychiatric-Promptcare? Henry James caused quite a scandal when he published his psychological thriller The Turn of the Screw, a riveting story of a young governess and two small children set on a remote English estate. In this wildly entertaining stage adaptation, two actors bring all of James' eccentric characters and spine-tingling moments to life. What is lurking at the top of the stairs?

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The Cradle Will Rock
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rodney Hudson, director

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

Here's how Marc Blitzstein described his 1937 musical: "a labor opera composed in a style that falls somewhere between realism, romance, vaudeville, comic strip, Gilbert & Sullivan, Brecht, and agitprop." In other words, it has great laughs, terrific songs and plenty of bite. Unabashedly unionist in outlook, The Cradle Will Rock was the first American musical told from the point of view of the working class. Set in Steeltown, U.S.A., the play pits the union organizing efforts of Larry Foreman against the manipulations and machinations of town boss Mr. Mister. With a cast of characters that could be found on any number of TV "news" programs, Cradle's relevance to modern day America is both amazing and disturbing.

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Broadway Rocks
Twist Cabaret Theatre

Price: $20
Twist Ultra Lounge
252 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

Created by Josh Smith and Shawn Forster, featuring selections from recent Broadway hits, performed by local favorites. For reservations, phone 315-479-7469.

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Windows Project: Oscar Garces: Transcendence
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Cuban-born, and Syracuse-based artist Oscar Garces' site-specific mural in the Window Projects space will offer a local echo to "Colorfornia: New Forms in West Coast Street Art". This is his first solo exhibition. Both exhibitions will be organized in conjunction with the Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations in Syracuse.

Inner Gravitas
Echo

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

Mixed media installation by Alexey Vs and Michael John.

Layers
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Lynette Blake: oil paintings on canvas
Carol Ackles: hand built and wheel thrown ceramics
Jan Navales: hand dyed, screen printed, stitched and beaded fabric wall hangings

From Here to There: Alec Soth's America
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, members and children under 5 free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From Here to There: Alec Soth's America" provides a focused look at an extraordinary photographer whose compelling images of the American road and its unexpected turns form powerful narrative vignettes. The exhibition will be the artist's first major survey assembled in the United States, exploring over 15 years of his career, and including an extensive new body of work.

Since his inclusion in the 2004 Whitney and São Paulo biennials, Soth's reputation as one of the most interesting voices in contemporary photography has continued to grow. Though he has followed the itinerant path laid forth by photographers such as Robert Frank, William Eggleston, and Stephen Shore, Soth's is a distinct perspective, one in which the wandering, searching, and the process of telling is as resonant as the record of these remarkable encounters. When considered together, Soth's pictures probe the individualities of people, objects, and places he encounters; offer insight to broader sociologies, and in the process form a collective portrait of an unexpected America.

Featuring approximately 100 photographs made between 1994 and the present, "From Here to There" will include rarely-seen early black-and-white images as well as examples from Soth's best-known series "Sleeping by the Mississippi" and "Niagara." Interspersed throughout the exhibition will be a broad range of portraits made over the past 15 years. The exhibition will also include a new body of work the artist has been developing since 2006, exploring places of escape in America and individuals who seek to flee civilization for a life off the grid. To add insight into Soth's process, the exhibition additionally features a Library space, which includes a reading area for publications, a selection of maquettes for book and 'zine projects, short video works, and ephemera gathered on the road.

Margie Hughto: A Fired Landscape
Everson Museum of Art

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

Internationally renowned ceramic artist Margie Hughto presents her first site-specific museum installation entitled A Fired Landscape, a "clay painting" spanning 50 feet of gallery wall space. Inspired by the artist's spectacular backyard gardens and natural landscape just steps from her studio, The Fired Landscape installation consists of Setting Sun, a brilliantly colored ceramic wall relief displayed continuously on five angled walls. The visitor encounter is reminiscent of what one experiences when surrounded by the natural environment. Overall, Setting Sun is a ceramic abstraction, but Hughto establishes a connection to the landscape that inspired it by adding impressions of natural objects such as native ferns, marine life and fossils, into the wet clay and then coating the surfaces with brilliant color. The rich palette of burnt oranges and fiery reds evoke the sun’s glowing light and radiating warmth. Tiny pieces of glass embedded in the clay prior to firing add sparkle to the glossy green and blue glazes used to suggest the artist's lily pond.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Works of Elena Peteva and Donalee Peden Wesley
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Elena Peteva's show, "Passages", features drawings and mixed media work that stand as symbolic representations of our individual and societal states. In her intimate drawings, Peteva's figures or objects function as an allegorical vehicle to depict the coexistence of vulnerability and power, uncertainty and conviction, depravity and elevation in the individual or society.

Donalee Peden Wesley's show, "Linearis", explores the scope of human/animal relationship through large scale drawings that reflect the undercurrents of archetypal emotions, internal and external struggles, and their effects on us and the animals that share our environments. Due to the open-ended relationship nature of her imagery, Peden's work invites individual reflection based on the interpretation by each viewer.

Natural Selections: Works by Bob Ripley
Baltimore Woods

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

The exhibit of wildlife paintings in transparent watercolors.

360 Competition Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The industrial and interaction design (IID) program will present the IID 360 Competition Exhibition, a showcase of the competition's current entries and past winners.

The 360 Competition is a joint initiative between the IID program and industry collaborators. Each spring a design brief is proposed by a lead collaborator who serves as an adviser throughout the project. Junior IID students who elect to take part must address the challenge through comprehensive research, analysis and visionary problem solving. They work on the project over the summer and present their solutions on campus the following fall semester--in their fourth year of the five-year IID program--to a jury of professionals, which selects a winner.

This year's design challenge is "Accessibility within the Home." Scott Ryan, president of Brownlie Design in Skaneateles, NY, and Greg Smiley, industrial design manager at the Raymond Corp. in Greene, NY, served as lead collaborators. The winner of the competition will receive the Philip H. Stevens Award.

For more information about the competition, contact Don Carr, associate professor of industrial and interaction design, at dwcarr@syr.edu.

15th Ward: Memories of a Syracuse Neighborhood Transformed
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The exhibition showcases work from "Remembering Syracuse's 15th Ward," a project about the Jewish and African American neighborhood occupying the area now dominated by the Interstate 81 overpass and SUNY Upstate Medical University.

For more information, contact Bradley Hudson at bjhudson@syr.edu.

Perceived Environments
Szozda Gallery

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

The gallery's September exhibit is a group show featuring six artists' comprehension of captured moments in their personal and imagined environments.

James Skvarch, well known for his detailed etchings of real or inventive spaces, will display works selected from two of his series, "Interiors" and "Caprices."

Self-taught artist John (Jaws) McGrath details in pen and ink his 'minds-eye' remembrances of sights he encountered throughout his 30-year travels across the country as a biker.

The show's exhibited photography by artists Harry Freeman-Jones and R. L. Mercer will give viewers up-close takes of familiar environments as Freeman-Jones presents lush colors of flora and fauna in a back yard garden, and Mercer, in his photogenic eye, depicts things normally overlooked in everyday scenes.

Artists Wendy Harris and Robert Niedzwiecki paint landscapes in different ways, Harris using pastels to achieve pure color intensity, and Niedzwiecki using oils and watercolors to create a more realistic look at what is in front of him.

African Diasporan Treasures: 40 Years of Community Folk Art Center
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition will showcase pieces from CFAC's permanent collection. Featuring over 30 works by artists including Joel Gaines, Ellen Oppler, Jack White, Denise Cole and Kamiiron Pritchard, "African Diasporan Treasures" provides a rare opportunity for visitors to experience the rich artistic history of CFAC. In many cases, the pieces have not been displayed for decades. The show will also feature African art that was once part of the Smithsonian Museum's collection.

Photography on the Edge: Between Realism and Abstraction
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The show features photographs by Central New York artists that address the relationship between realistic representation and abstract concepts. Participating artists include Willson Cummer, Bob Gates, Elisabeth Groat, Peter Mahan, Yolanda Tooley, Jeanann Wieners, Diana Whiting, and Jamie Young.

The co-curators, Jen Gandee and Syracuse-area photographer, Bob Gates, in selecting work for this show, were looking for images that are true to the perennial conflict in the history of photography between representational and non-representational images. The same conflicting impulses that have shaped other forms of art--realism, impressionism, expressionism, abstraction, surrealism--have had their adherents among photographers. The works in this exhibit show how some photographers in Central New York respond to or participate in that complex history.

Drawn to Paint: The Art of Jerome Witkin
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Drawn to Paint: The Art of Jerome Witkin" consists of 70 works including drawings, paintings, and sketchbooks. Dividing the show between two venues to allow for broader access, "Drawn to Paint" will be on view at the SUArt Galleries on the Syracuse University main campus and the XL Projects gallery in downtown Syracuse. This exhibition, with Dr. Edward A. Aiken as its curator, is the first time Jerome Witkin has allowed his drawings to be displayed beside their finished works. "Drawn to Paint" will be traveling to other museums around the country during a two-year tour that will conclude at the Palmer Museum of Art in University Park, PA.

"Drawn to Paint" is more than a selection of masterfully painted narratives. Through the juxtaposition of drawings and sketchbooks, the exhibition represents a rare look into the artist's process, from the inception of an idea to the completed artwork. The works of Jerome Witkin carry forward into our era the grand Western European tradition of history painting. His images offer dramatic narratives that reveal themselves over time. Many of his most interesting paintings are large multiple panels, each section presenting a different chapter of an unfolding story. Their scale pushes the viewer back to see the whole composition while his brushwork encourages close examination to better admire the painting's surface.

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

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A Magnificent Obsession: Selections from the Hamilton Armstrong Collection of Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For decades, Hamilton Armstrong of Fayetteville, NY has been collecting prints created by some of most important and well-known American and European artists of the last 200 years. While only a fraction of the number of works he collected will be exhibited, this show will demonstrate two areas of great interest to Armstrong.

First is the area of architectural etching that began in 19th century Europe and continued into 20th century American printmaking. Consisting of more than 30 prints by Charles Meryon, John Taylor Arms, Samuel Chamberlain, and others, this part of the exhibition highlights an impressive selection of Meryon's rare etchings.

The second part of the show is a series of wood engravings done by Fritz Eichenberg for a reprint of Emily Bronte's classic novel, Wuthering Heights. These images are rare artist proof prints for the 1943 Random House edition of the novel and have been considered some of best illustrations of the 19th century classic because they capture the drama of author's text without adding superfluous material.

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

The Machine/La Maquina: The Art of Favianna Rodriguez
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The work of Favianna Rodriguez embodies an art and cultural practice that gives voices to disenfranchised people all over the world, transforming it into a tool for agitation, inspiration, and action. The exhibition, The Machine/La Maquina will feature some of Favianna's newest works. Favianna's composites reflect literal and imaginative migration, global community, and interdependence. Whether her subjects are immigrant youth in the USA, land workers fighting for their survival, or her own abstract self portraits, Rodriguez brings new audiences into the art world by refocusing the cultural lens.

Colorfornia: New Forms in West Coast Street Art: Apex, Chor Boogie, and Jet Martinez
The Warehouse Gallery

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

California-based street artists Apex, Chor Boogie, and Jet Martinez will create new temporary murals inside the Warehouse Gallery. The work is based on improvisation, collaboration, and the notion that how and what they paint is recognizably Californian in its focus on strong colors, patterns, forms, and nature.

Their language consists of colorful abstract forms pertaining to optical illusions and movement, faces, evoking real and imaginary urban settings, and tropical imaginary landscapes. All three of them have significantly contributed to public art in San Francisco, San Diego, and other major cities within (Minneapolis; Washington, DC) and outside of the United States (Beijing, Dubai, Oaxaca, Sydney, Tokyo, Zurich) through their use of spray (Apex, Chor) and traditional paint (Jet Martinez) to achieve elaborate compositions with high attention to detail.

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Drawn to Paint: The Art of Jerome Witkin
XL Projects

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

"Drawn to Paint" consists of 70 works including drawings, paintings and sketchbooks by Jerome Witkin, one of America's leading figurative painters and a longtime professor of painting in VPA's Department of Art.

"Drawn to Paint" marks the first time Witkin has allowed his drawings to be displayed beside their finished works. Curator of the exhibition is Edward A. Aiken, associate professor and program coordinator of VPA's graduate program in museum studies in the Department of Design. "Drawn to Paint" will be traveling to other museums around the country during a two-year tour that will conclude at the Palmer Museum of Art in University Park, PA.

The works of Witkin carry forward into our era the grand Western European tradition of history painting. His images offer dramatic narratives that reveal themselves over time. Many of his most interesting paintings are large multiple panels, each section presenting a different chapter of an unfolding story. Their scale pushes the viewer back to see the whole composition, while his brushwork encourages close examination to better admire the painting's surface.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours or e-mail Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. Complete information and related programming is available at suart.syr.edu or on Facebook.

Dying Oak, Wild Raspberry Bush: Works by Pae White
Urban Video Project

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

Two videos, Dying Oak/Elephant (3-min loop) and Ballerina (Wild Raspberry Bush)(1-min loop), both 2009, by internationally recognized artist and designer, Pae White.

These two video pieces employ high-tech 3D scanning and motion animation techniques and apply them to objects from the natural world, playfully interrogating the integrity of the human/nature divide. The result is a mesmerizing exploration of natural form in which perspective and scale are in constant flux, the data points coalescing for a moment to create an image that is almost hyper-real in its detail, and in the next dispersing into glowing abstractions that might be galaxies or cities at night.

Hitch Fest: The Lady Vanishes
ArtRage Gallery

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

In tribute to the Master of Suspense, ArtRage is screening Alfred Hitchcock films every Saturday night in October.

The Lady Vanishes (1938), starring Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave
Mysterious doings on a train in Central Europe -- and the most successful of Hitchcock’s British films.
NY Times: Best Film of Year; NY Film Critics Award: Best Director

Our Sporting Life: The Heroes, The Highlights, The History
Onondaga Historical Association

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

This local sports history exhibit will highlight a variety of sports equipment, photographs, ephemera, and most importantly, the people involved in making sports history come alive. From baseball, to basketball, to football, hockey, bowling, and more, the exhibit will recount the "thrill of victory and the agony of defeat" for our local sports history makers. Visitors will learn more about Syracuse’s professional basketball team, women athletes, ice boating on Onondaga Lake, past Syracuse hockey teams, as well as African American athletes such as Moses Fleetwood Walker. Guests will also get a chance to see some vintage trophies, uniforms, equipment, and images of our local competitors in action.

Kinloch Nelson
Kellish Hill Farm

Price: $15
Kellish Hill Farm
3192 Pompey Center Rd., Pompey

Super guitar master Kinloch Nelson is coming out for a performance. If you have not experienced a Kinloch Nelson performance, you have no idea what you are missing! Kinloch has been a staple of the regional music scene for years and years, displaying amazing work on the guitar.

Take 6
LeMoyne College

Price: $25
Holy Cross Church
4112 E. Genesee St., Dewitt

Ten-time Grammy winners Take 6 will perform songs from their many albums, featuring their unique sound, which draws inspiration from the worlds of gospel, jazz and R&B.

Redhouse Regulars Series: Karen Savoca with Pete Heitzman
Redhouse

Price: $15 regular, $10 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Electrifying, unique and always uplifting, these improvisational performers possess "the fearlessness of a high wire act working without a net." Savoca's seventh release, Promise, was recorded in their 19th century church/studio nestled deep in the hills of Upstate NY and is being lauded as her strongest collection of songs to date.

Rubblebucket
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Nappy's Puppets: Jack and the Beanstalk
Open Hand Theater

Price: $8 adults, $6 children
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

The Princess and the Pea
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the children's classic story.

The Lion King
Broadway in Syracuse

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

Take Africa's animal kingdom, add the story of a lion-cub prince who becomes fatherless, and give director and master puppeteer Julie Taymor free reign. Throw in scores by Elton John, Tim Rice and Hans Zimmer. Now you have an idea why The Lion King has remained an audience favorite since its opening in November 1997. The winner of six Tony awards, the musical is based on the 1994 Disney film with the same title.

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The Cradle Will Rock
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rodney Hudson, director

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

Here's how Marc Blitzstein described his 1937 musical: "a labor opera composed in a style that falls somewhere between realism, romance, vaudeville, comic strip, Gilbert & Sullivan, Brecht, and agitprop." In other words, it has great laughs, terrific songs and plenty of bite. Unabashedly unionist in outlook, The Cradle Will Rock was the first American musical told from the point of view of the working class. Set in Steeltown, U.S.A., the play pits the union organizing efforts of Larry Foreman against the manipulations and machinations of town boss Mr. Mister. With a cast of characters that could be found on any number of TV "news" programs, Cradle's relevance to modern day America is both amazing and disturbing.

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The Turn of the Screw
Syracuse Stage
Michael Barakiva, director

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

A psychological thriller and ghost story, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from the story by Henry James.

Do you believe in ghosts? If you saw a ghost, would you trust your senses or run to the nearest psychiatric-Promptcare? Henry James caused quite a scandal when he published his psychological thriller The Turn of the Screw, a riveting story of a young governess and two small children set on a remote English estate. In this wildly entertaining stage adaptation, two actors bring all of James' eccentric characters and spine-tingling moments to life. What is lurking at the top of the stairs?

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A Few Good Men
CNY Playhouse
Katie Lemos Brown, director

Price: Dinner theater: $29 single; $55 couple. Show only: $20 (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.

God. County. Corp. Murder. This Broadway hit by Aaron Sorkin about the trial of two Marines for complicity in the death of a fellow Marine at Guantanamo Bay sizzles on stage. The Navy lawyer, a callow young man more interested in softball games than the case, expects a plea bargain and a coverup of what really happened. Prodded by a female member of his defense team, the lawyer eventually makes a valiant effort to defend his clients and, in so doing, puts the military mentality and the Marine code of honor on trial.

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The Lion King
Broadway in Syracuse

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

Take Africa's animal kingdom, add the story of a lion-cub prince who becomes fatherless, and give director and master puppeteer Julie Taymor free reign. Throw in scores by Elton John, Tim Rice and Hans Zimmer. Now you have an idea why The Lion King has remained an audience favorite since its opening in November 1997. The winner of six Tony awards, the musical is based on the 1994 Disney film with the same title.

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Disenchanted: Bitches of the Kingdom
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

Happ'ly ever after can be a royal pain in the ass! A riotous new musical-comedy revue featuring the original storybook princesses comically kvetching about the exploitation they've suffered in the Disney movies and theme parks. Snow White and her angry band of warbling royal friends musically storm the castle in this hilariously clever take on the princesses!

Disenchanted! is the winner of the 2010 New Jersey Playwrights Contest.

Musical Director Michael Stephan. Music, lyrics, book by Dennis T. Giacino; additional lyrics by Fiely A. Matias.

This show is intended for mature audiences only.

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The Turn of the Screw
Syracuse Stage
Michael Barakiva, director

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

A psychological thriller and ghost story, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from the story by Henry James.

Do you believe in ghosts? If you saw a ghost, would you trust your senses or run to the nearest psychiatric-Promptcare? Henry James caused quite a scandal when he published his psychological thriller The Turn of the Screw, a riveting story of a young governess and two small children set on a remote English estate. In this wildly entertaining stage adaptation, two actors bring all of James' eccentric characters and spine-tingling moments to life. What is lurking at the top of the stairs?

Read a Review!

The Cradle Will Rock
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rodney Hudson, director

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

Here's how Marc Blitzstein described his 1937 musical: "a labor opera composed in a style that falls somewhere between realism, romance, vaudeville, comic strip, Gilbert & Sullivan, Brecht, and agitprop." In other words, it has great laughs, terrific songs and plenty of bite. Unabashedly unionist in outlook, The Cradle Will Rock was the first American musical told from the point of view of the working class. Set in Steeltown, U.S.A., the play pits the union organizing efforts of Larry Foreman against the manipulations and machinations of town boss Mr. Mister. With a cast of characters that could be found on any number of TV "news" programs, Cradle's relevance to modern day America is both amazing and disturbing.

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Broadway Rocks
Twist Cabaret Theatre

Price: $20
Twist Ultra Lounge
252 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

Created by Josh Smith and Shawn Forster, featuring selections from recent Broadway hits, performed by local favorites. For reservations, phone 315-479-7469.

Sunday, October 2, 2011

Windows Project: Oscar Garces: Transcendence
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Cuban-born, and Syracuse-based artist Oscar Garces' site-specific mural in the Window Projects space will offer a local echo to "Colorfornia: New Forms in West Coast Street Art". This is his first solo exhibition. Both exhibitions will be organized in conjunction with the Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations in Syracuse.

[hyphen] Americans
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features stunning tintype portraits created by photographer Keliy Anderson-Staley. The exhibition title speaks to the multicultural character of American identities (Irish-American, African-American, etc.). Although a person's heritage might be inferred by looking at their features and clothing, viewers of Anderson-Staley's work are encouraged, according to the artist, "to suspend the kind of thinking that would traditionally assist in decoding these images in the context of American identity politics."

Anderson-Staley makes portraits with the 19th-century wet-plate collodion process. She uses wooden view cameras, 19th-century brass lenses and chemicals she hand-mixes according to the traditional formulas. In this series, she focuses on just one plane in the face--usually the eyes. The exposures are long, lasting anywhere from 10-60 seconds, so the images capture a full moment of thought. Because of these characteristics of the process, there is an introspective quality to each portrait, as if each person has been caught looking at himself or herself in a mirror.

The portraits in the exhibition are mostly individuals from the broader Syracuse community photographed during Anderson-Staley's residency in 2010. This collection of tintypes, numbering more than 100, is thus as much a portrait of a diverse community as it is a series of individual portraits.

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15th Ward: Memories of a Syracuse Neighborhood Transformed
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The exhibition showcases work from "Remembering Syracuse's 15th Ward," a project about the Jewish and African American neighborhood occupying the area now dominated by the Interstate 81 overpass and SUNY Upstate Medical University.

For more information, contact Bradley Hudson at bjhudson@syr.edu.

360 Competition Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The industrial and interaction design (IID) program will present the IID 360 Competition Exhibition, a showcase of the competition's current entries and past winners.

The 360 Competition is a joint initiative between the IID program and industry collaborators. Each spring a design brief is proposed by a lead collaborator who serves as an adviser throughout the project. Junior IID students who elect to take part must address the challenge through comprehensive research, analysis and visionary problem solving. They work on the project over the summer and present their solutions on campus the following fall semester--in their fourth year of the five-year IID program--to a jury of professionals, which selects a winner.

This year's design challenge is "Accessibility within the Home." Scott Ryan, president of Brownlie Design in Skaneateles, NY, and Greg Smiley, industrial design manager at the Raymond Corp. in Greene, NY, served as lead collaborators. The winner of the competition will receive the Philip H. Stevens Award.

For more information about the competition, contact Don Carr, associate professor of industrial and interaction design, at dwcarr@syr.edu.

Perceived Environments
Szozda Gallery

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

Open Figure Drawing will be holding a free figure drawing session this afternoon 1:00-3:00 pm. Please note, this is "family friendly" and the model will be draped so that it is appropriate for folks of all ages.

The gallery's September exhibit is a group show featuring six artists' comprehension of captured moments in their personal and imagined environments.

James Skvarch, well known for his detailed etchings of real or inventive spaces, will display works selected from two of his series, "Interiors" and "Caprices."

Self-taught artist John (Jaws) McGrath details in pen and ink his 'minds-eye' remembrances of sights he encountered throughout his 30-year travels across the country as a biker.

The show's exhibited photography by artists Harry Freeman-Jones and R. L. Mercer will give viewers up-close takes of familiar environments as Freeman-Jones presents lush colors of flora and fauna in a back yard garden, and Mercer, in his photogenic eye, depicts things normally overlooked in everyday scenes.

Artists Wendy Harris and Robert Niedzwiecki paint landscapes in different ways, Harris using pastels to achieve pure color intensity, and Niedzwiecki using oils and watercolors to create a more realistic look at what is in front of him.

Photography on the Edge: Between Realism and Abstraction
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The show features photographs by Central New York artists that address the relationship between realistic representation and abstract concepts. Participating artists include Willson Cummer, Bob Gates, Elisabeth Groat, Peter Mahan, Yolanda Tooley, Jeanann Wieners, Diana Whiting, and Jamie Young.

The co-curators, Jen Gandee and Syracuse-area photographer, Bob Gates, in selecting work for this show, were looking for images that are true to the perennial conflict in the history of photography between representational and non-representational images. The same conflicting impulses that have shaped other forms of art--realism, impressionism, expressionism, abstraction, surrealism--have had their adherents among photographers. The works in this exhibit show how some photographers in Central New York respond to or participate in that complex history.

A Magnificent Obsession: Selections from the Hamilton Armstrong Collection of Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For decades, Hamilton Armstrong of Fayetteville, NY has been collecting prints created by some of most important and well-known American and European artists of the last 200 years. While only a fraction of the number of works he collected will be exhibited, this show will demonstrate two areas of great interest to Armstrong.

First is the area of architectural etching that began in 19th century Europe and continued into 20th century American printmaking. Consisting of more than 30 prints by Charles Meryon, John Taylor Arms, Samuel Chamberlain, and others, this part of the exhibition highlights an impressive selection of Meryon's rare etchings.

The second part of the show is a series of wood engravings done by Fritz Eichenberg for a reprint of Emily Bronte's classic novel, Wuthering Heights. These images are rare artist proof prints for the 1943 Random House edition of the novel and have been considered some of best illustrations of the 19th century classic because they capture the drama of author's text without adding superfluous material.

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

Drawn to Paint: The Art of Jerome Witkin
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Drawn to Paint: The Art of Jerome Witkin" consists of 70 works including drawings, paintings, and sketchbooks. Dividing the show between two venues to allow for broader access, "Drawn to Paint" will be on view at the SUArt Galleries on the Syracuse University main campus and the XL Projects gallery in downtown Syracuse. This exhibition, with Dr. Edward A. Aiken as its curator, is the first time Jerome Witkin has allowed his drawings to be displayed beside their finished works. "Drawn to Paint" will be traveling to other museums around the country during a two-year tour that will conclude at the Palmer Museum of Art in University Park, PA.

"Drawn to Paint" is more than a selection of masterfully painted narratives. Through the juxtaposition of drawings and sketchbooks, the exhibition represents a rare look into the artist's process, from the inception of an idea to the completed artwork. The works of Jerome Witkin carry forward into our era the grand Western European tradition of history painting. His images offer dramatic narratives that reveal themselves over time. Many of his most interesting paintings are large multiple panels, each section presenting a different chapter of an unfolding story. Their scale pushes the viewer back to see the whole composition while his brushwork encourages close examination to better admire the painting's surface.

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

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On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

From Here to There: Alec Soth's America
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, members and children under 5 free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From Here to There: Alec Soth's America" provides a focused look at an extraordinary photographer whose compelling images of the American road and its unexpected turns form powerful narrative vignettes. The exhibition will be the artist's first major survey assembled in the United States, exploring over 15 years of his career, and including an extensive new body of work.

Since his inclusion in the 2004 Whitney and São Paulo biennials, Soth's reputation as one of the most interesting voices in contemporary photography has continued to grow. Though he has followed the itinerant path laid forth by photographers such as Robert Frank, William Eggleston, and Stephen Shore, Soth's is a distinct perspective, one in which the wandering, searching, and the process of telling is as resonant as the record of these remarkable encounters. When considered together, Soth's pictures probe the individualities of people, objects, and places he encounters; offer insight to broader sociologies, and in the process form a collective portrait of an unexpected America.

Featuring approximately 100 photographs made between 1994 and the present, "From Here to There" will include rarely-seen early black-and-white images as well as examples from Soth's best-known series "Sleeping by the Mississippi" and "Niagara." Interspersed throughout the exhibition will be a broad range of portraits made over the past 15 years. The exhibition will also include a new body of work the artist has been developing since 2006, exploring places of escape in America and individuals who seek to flee civilization for a life off the grid. To add insight into Soth's process, the exhibition additionally features a Library space, which includes a reading area for publications, a selection of maquettes for book and 'zine projects, short video works, and ephemera gathered on the road.

Margie Hughto: A Fired Landscape
Everson Museum of Art

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

Internationally renowned ceramic artist Margie Hughto presents her first site-specific museum installation entitled A Fired Landscape, a "clay painting" spanning 50 feet of gallery wall space. Inspired by the artist's spectacular backyard gardens and natural landscape just steps from her studio, The Fired Landscape installation consists of Setting Sun, a brilliantly colored ceramic wall relief displayed continuously on five angled walls. The visitor encounter is reminiscent of what one experiences when surrounded by the natural environment. Overall, Setting Sun is a ceramic abstraction, but Hughto establishes a connection to the landscape that inspired it by adding impressions of natural objects such as native ferns, marine life and fossils, into the wet clay and then coating the surfaces with brilliant color. The rich palette of burnt oranges and fiery reds evoke the sun’s glowing light and radiating warmth. Tiny pieces of glass embedded in the clay prior to firing add sparkle to the glossy green and blue glazes used to suggest the artist's lily pond.

Drawn to Paint: The Art of Jerome Witkin
XL Projects

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

"Drawn to Paint" consists of 70 works including drawings, paintings and sketchbooks by Jerome Witkin, one of America's leading figurative painters and a longtime professor of painting in VPA's Department of Art.

"Drawn to Paint" marks the first time Witkin has allowed his drawings to be displayed beside their finished works. Curator of the exhibition is Edward A. Aiken, associate professor and program coordinator of VPA's graduate program in museum studies in the Department of Design. "Drawn to Paint" will be traveling to other museums around the country during a two-year tour that will conclude at the Palmer Museum of Art in University Park, PA.

The works of Witkin carry forward into our era the grand Western European tradition of history painting. His images offer dramatic narratives that reveal themselves over time. Many of his most interesting paintings are large multiple panels, each section presenting a different chapter of an unfolding story. Their scale pushes the viewer back to see the whole composition, while his brushwork encourages close examination to better admire the painting's surface.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours or e-mail Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. Complete information and related programming is available at suart.syr.edu or on Facebook.

Dying Oak, Wild Raspberry Bush: Works by Pae White
Urban Video Project

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

Two videos, Dying Oak/Elephant (3-min loop) and Ballerina (Wild Raspberry Bush)(1-min loop), both 2009, by internationally recognized artist and designer, Pae White.

These two video pieces employ high-tech 3D scanning and motion animation techniques and apply them to objects from the natural world, playfully interrogating the integrity of the human/nature divide. The result is a mesmerizing exploration of natural form in which perspective and scale are in constant flux, the data points coalescing for a moment to create an image that is almost hyper-real in its detail, and in the next dispersing into glowing abstractions that might be galaxies or cities at night.

Our Sporting Life: The Heroes, The Highlights, The History
Onondaga Historical Association

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

This local sports history exhibit will highlight a variety of sports equipment, photographs, ephemera, and most importantly, the people involved in making sports history come alive. From baseball, to basketball, to football, hockey, bowling, and more, the exhibit will recount the "thrill of victory and the agony of defeat" for our local sports history makers. Visitors will learn more about Syracuse’s professional basketball team, women athletes, ice boating on Onondaga Lake, past Syracuse hockey teams, as well as African American athletes such as Moses Fleetwood Walker. Guests will also get a chance to see some vintage trophies, uniforms, equipment, and images of our local competitors in action.

20 Fantastic Ideas for Syracuse
University Neighbors Lecture Series
Featuring David Ashley

Price: $10 regular, $5 with student ID
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse