Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Nature As Our Muse: Works by Margaret Manring and Diana Whiting
Baltimore Woods

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

Working in the very different media of watercolor and photography, Margaret Manring and Diana Whiting take the viewer into the often fascinating and always compelling natural world. Manring describes the inspiration she derives from nature when approaching her watercolor painting: "I paint what moves me. Mostly I am looking at the way light moves over color and form and the many rhythms in patterns. I like ... trying to paint how the sunlit air smelled, how it cooled and slid down a hill or permeated a field or warmed in a chicken coop. I try to convey how I felt viewing the landscape, the (un)still life ..."

Whiting's passion for photography and for nature go hand in hand. Whiting explains: "Since I love nature, it is a natural fit that I bring (my) love of making photographs to the places that I spend a lot of time. I like looking for simplicity as well as finding a sense of rhythm in many of my photographs. With wildlife, I like to learn about my subjects as much as getting their photographs. My hope is to share my connection to the natural world and encourage conservation."

The work of these two award-winning artists has been exhibited and widely published. Manring's watercolors have been accepted on the national level in shows at Cooperstown, The Schweinfurth, and Old Forge. Whiting's work has been recognized by the National Audubon Society and the National Wildlife Federation.

For more information, visit www.baltimorewoods.org.

Leftovers for Dinner
Point of Contact Gallery

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

SU sculpture students Becky Reiser and Alexander Svoboda present their collaborative installation.

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.

Activated Space
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jacqueline Adamo: abstract oil paintings on linen and canvas
Miyo Hirano: raku,gas and wood fired ceramics
Melissa Montgomery: concrete sculpture
Bradley Hudson: mixed media on paper and canvas

Notes of Color
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The exhibit features paintings by Kathy Schneider and glass jewelry by Heather Hennigen.

Barry Darling Exhibition
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Paintings by Tully artist and educator Barry Darling will be featured throughout the month of August. His recent work involves acrylic color, acrylic medium on canvas and paper, and random use of ink transfers and acrylic pastes.

Darling, who was director of the Department of Art at Henninger High School for almost 30 years, has been an adjunct assistant professor of art at Le Moyne College since 1990.

[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!

Curiosities Below and Synchronicity: Works by Rachel Harms and Ann Skiöld
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Rachel Harms' exhibition, "Curiosities Below," features new oil paintings that are influenced through memory and sensory experience of place, color, and light. Many of the shapes and colors in this series have evolved from repetitive pattern in nature, found objects, the pervasiveness of water, things hidden and exposed. The surfaces of her paintings reveal subtle hints of what lies below.

Ann Skiöld's exhibition, "Synchronicity," features her new paintings and collages as "inscapes." The artist describes "inscape" as the result from experiencing many things at the same time. It is through processing these experiences, we are able to interpret them in a very personal way. Skiöld's abstract paintings and collages have a raw, yet lyrical style with a mysterious undertone.

Layers: Kimonos and Fans
Redhouse

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

Layers: Kimonos and Fans uses multiple, suspended 6x3-foot paper kimonos that are painted and collaged, and incorporate air movement and sound. Christina Laurel, a Syracuse native residing in Rochester, transforms temporary paper shades into larger-than-life metaphorical images, and further transforms some of the accordion-folds into 39x53-inch paper fans framed by yardsticks.

Still Life: Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

The current exhibition examines the influence of painting on photography within the still life genre. 19th- and 20th-century American paintings from the permanent collection will be on display with the work of contemporary photographers such as Sharon Core, Laura Letinsky, Paulette Tavormina, and D.W. Mellor, and Irving Penn. Daniel K. Tennant, a local still life painter and photographer will also be included.

Read a review!

Unique 2011
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Unique is an art and literary magazine that shares the artistic visions and voices of individuals with disabilities. Unique represents the power of art to express, educate, and inspire. Art comes in many forms and the creative work published in Unique includes poems, paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures, computer-based art, and mixed-media works.

The Power of Pattern: New Work by David MacDonald
Everson Museum of Art

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

David MacDonald's long awaited solo exhibition will open with an innovative body of work. The highlight of the exhibition will be a monumental work commissioned by the Everson in 2008 with funds donated by the Social Arts Club. Also on view will be several new figurative vessels, monumental in scale, and plates from the Divination Series. Recently retired from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts where he taught ceramics for more than 37 years, MacDonald is now able to concentrate on a new body of work.

Early in his career, ceramic artist David MacDonald turned to his African heritage for inspiration in his work. The many examples of surface pattern and decoration found in textiles, utilitarian objects, body ornament and architecture present among the diverse ethnic groups of sub-Sahara Africa continue to inform MacDonald's work on many levels. In his artist's statement, he proclaims "The principle concern of my art is the articulation of the magnificence and nobility of the human spirit; a celebration of my African heritage." For more than three decades, MacDonald has used clay to express these words through a significant body of work focusing on highly decorated utilitarian objects that have come to symbolize tremendous integrity and endurance.

MacDonald is recognized nationally not only for his master craftsmanship in ceramics but for his dedication as a mentor and teacher to a countless number of aspiring artists and students. Locally, he is a founding member of the Community Folk Art Center, an organization affiliated with Syracuse University's Department of African American Studies that aims to provide a space to engage artists from underrrepresented ethnic groups in Central New York. In addition, MacDonald is involved in many community activities including serving on the Everson's Collection Committee.

Celestial Nights: Visions of an Ancient Land
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson recently received a gift of 47 black-and-white photographs by Neil Folberg entitled "Celestial Nights: Visions of an Ancient Land." "Celestial Nights" is a stunning portfolio of nocturnal landscapes and star-filled skies set in ancient ruins found in the Middle East. The artist skillfully captures a spectacular world of nocturnal landscapes in Israel and the Sinai where the horizon is not always definitive. The earth and heavens are mingled in this series of arresting images, which to Folberg represents a blurred division between present and eternity, substance and spirit, and knowledge and imagination. Folberg writes, "In landscape I see a revelation of how pure spirituality has descended into physical existence ... These are the scenes, on the human edge of the cosmos, that I am showing in these photographs."

Neil Folberg was born in San Francisco and grew up in the Midwest. He was a student of Ansel Adams in 1967 and enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley the following year. In 1976 He moved to Jerusalem, a place that has become the subject of much of his work. He has exhibited widely and published several photographic books including the internationally acclaimed In A Desert Land (1987), a series of color photographs of Middle Eastern landscapes and architecture. His second book, And I Shall Dwell Among Them (1995) featured synagogue architecture throughout the Jewish Diaspora. Celestial Nights, published in 2001, became a major traveling exhibition organized by Aperture.

Shadows of the Storm: The Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War
Onondaga Historical Association

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

This exhibition features paintings, prints, photographs and sketches made during the war by an array of individuals. There is an emphasis on images with local connections, either by the artist or photographer being from Central New York or through the subject involving activities of soldiers from this area.

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.

*SOLD OUT* Special Event: Solo Recital with Jon Nakamatsu, piano
Skaneateles Festival

First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Rameau Gavotte and Doubles
Liszt Dante Sonata
Beethoven Sonata in C-sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2, "Moonlight"
Chopin Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise in E-flat, Op. 22

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Leftovers for Dinner
Point of Contact Gallery

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

SU sculpture students Becky Reiser and Alexander Svoboda present their collaborative installation.

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.

Activated Space
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jacqueline Adamo: abstract oil paintings on linen and canvas
Miyo Hirano: raku,gas and wood fired ceramics
Melissa Montgomery: concrete sculpture
Bradley Hudson: mixed media on paper and canvas

Notes of Color
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The exhibit features paintings by Kathy Schneider and glass jewelry by Heather Hennigen.

Barry Darling Exhibition
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Paintings by Tully artist and educator Barry Darling will be featured throughout the month of August. His recent work involves acrylic color, acrylic medium on canvas and paper, and random use of ink transfers and acrylic pastes.

Darling, who was director of the Department of Art at Henninger High School for almost 30 years, has been an adjunct assistant professor of art at Le Moyne College since 1990.

[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!

Curiosities Below and Synchronicity: Works by Rachel Harms and Ann Skiöld
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Rachel Harms' exhibition, "Curiosities Below," features new oil paintings that are influenced through memory and sensory experience of place, color, and light. Many of the shapes and colors in this series have evolved from repetitive pattern in nature, found objects, the pervasiveness of water, things hidden and exposed. The surfaces of her paintings reveal subtle hints of what lies below.

Ann Skiöld's exhibition, "Synchronicity," features her new paintings and collages as "inscapes." The artist describes "inscape" as the result from experiencing many things at the same time. It is through processing these experiences, we are able to interpret them in a very personal way. Skiöld's abstract paintings and collages have a raw, yet lyrical style with a mysterious undertone.

Layers: Kimonos and Fans
Redhouse

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

Layers: Kimonos and Fans uses multiple, suspended 6x3-foot paper kimonos that are painted and collaged, and incorporate air movement and sound. Christina Laurel, a Syracuse native residing in Rochester, transforms temporary paper shades into larger-than-life metaphorical images, and further transforms some of the accordion-folds into 39x53-inch paper fans framed by yardsticks.

Unique 2011
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Unique is an art and literary magazine that shares the artistic visions and voices of individuals with disabilities. Unique represents the power of art to express, educate, and inspire. Art comes in many forms and the creative work published in Unique includes poems, paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures, computer-based art, and mixed-media works.

Still Life: Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

The current exhibition examines the influence of painting on photography within the still life genre. 19th- and 20th-century American paintings from the permanent collection will be on display with the work of contemporary photographers such as Sharon Core, Laura Letinsky, Paulette Tavormina, and D.W. Mellor, and Irving Penn. Daniel K. Tennant, a local still life painter and photographer will also be included.

Read a review!

Celestial Nights: Visions of an Ancient Land
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson recently received a gift of 47 black-and-white photographs by Neil Folberg entitled "Celestial Nights: Visions of an Ancient Land." "Celestial Nights" is a stunning portfolio of nocturnal landscapes and star-filled skies set in ancient ruins found in the Middle East. The artist skillfully captures a spectacular world of nocturnal landscapes in Israel and the Sinai where the horizon is not always definitive. The earth and heavens are mingled in this series of arresting images, which to Folberg represents a blurred division between present and eternity, substance and spirit, and knowledge and imagination. Folberg writes, "In landscape I see a revelation of how pure spirituality has descended into physical existence ... These are the scenes, on the human edge of the cosmos, that I am showing in these photographs."

Neil Folberg was born in San Francisco and grew up in the Midwest. He was a student of Ansel Adams in 1967 and enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley the following year. In 1976 He moved to Jerusalem, a place that has become the subject of much of his work. He has exhibited widely and published several photographic books including the internationally acclaimed In A Desert Land (1987), a series of color photographs of Middle Eastern landscapes and architecture. His second book, And I Shall Dwell Among Them (1995) featured synagogue architecture throughout the Jewish Diaspora. Celestial Nights, published in 2001, became a major traveling exhibition organized by Aperture.

The Power of Pattern: New Work by David MacDonald
Everson Museum of Art

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

David MacDonald's long awaited solo exhibition will open with an innovative body of work. The highlight of the exhibition will be a monumental work commissioned by the Everson in 2008 with funds donated by the Social Arts Club. Also on view will be several new figurative vessels, monumental in scale, and plates from the Divination Series. Recently retired from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts where he taught ceramics for more than 37 years, MacDonald is now able to concentrate on a new body of work.

Early in his career, ceramic artist David MacDonald turned to his African heritage for inspiration in his work. The many examples of surface pattern and decoration found in textiles, utilitarian objects, body ornament and architecture present among the diverse ethnic groups of sub-Sahara Africa continue to inform MacDonald's work on many levels. In his artist's statement, he proclaims "The principle concern of my art is the articulation of the magnificence and nobility of the human spirit; a celebration of my African heritage." For more than three decades, MacDonald has used clay to express these words through a significant body of work focusing on highly decorated utilitarian objects that have come to symbolize tremendous integrity and endurance.

MacDonald is recognized nationally not only for his master craftsmanship in ceramics but for his dedication as a mentor and teacher to a countless number of aspiring artists and students. Locally, he is a founding member of the Community Folk Art Center, an organization affiliated with Syracuse University's Department of African American Studies that aims to provide a space to engage artists from underrrepresented ethnic groups in Central New York. In addition, MacDonald is involved in many community activities including serving on the Everson's Collection Committee.

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.

Gallery Talk with Neil Folberg: Terrestrial/Celestial
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Join photographer Neil Folberg for a gallery talk on his exhibition Celestial Nights: Visions of an Ancient Land. He will be traveling to Syracuse from Jerusalem to discuss his vision and technique. The talk will be followed by a dessert reception in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court.

Chamber Music Concert
Skaneateles Festival

First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Wolf Italian Serenade
Schubert Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (The Shepherd on the Rock)
Debussy Premiere Rhapsodie
Brahms Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in B minor, Op. 115

Steven Copes, violin; Sari Gruber, soprano; Jon Manasse, clarinet; Jon Nakamatsu, piano; Carol Rodland, viola; David Ying, cello; Janet Ying, violin

Friday, September 2, 2011

Leftovers for Dinner
Point of Contact Gallery

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

SU sculpture students Becky Reiser and Alexander Svoboda present their collaborative installation.

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.

Activated Space
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jacqueline Adamo: abstract oil paintings on linen and canvas
Miyo Hirano: raku,gas and wood fired ceramics
Melissa Montgomery: concrete sculpture
Bradley Hudson: mixed media on paper and canvas

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!

Curiosities Below and Synchronicity: Works by Rachel Harms and Ann Skiöld
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Rachel Harms' exhibition, "Curiosities Below," features new oil paintings that are influenced through memory and sensory experience of place, color, and light. Many of the shapes and colors in this series have evolved from repetitive pattern in nature, found objects, the pervasiveness of water, things hidden and exposed. The surfaces of her paintings reveal subtle hints of what lies below.

Ann Skiöld's exhibition, "Synchronicity," features her new paintings and collages as "inscapes." The artist describes "inscape" as the result from experiencing many things at the same time. It is through processing these experiences, we are able to interpret them in a very personal way. Skiöld's abstract paintings and collages have a raw, yet lyrical style with a mysterious undertone.

Still Life: Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

The current exhibition examines the influence of painting on photography within the still life genre. 19th- and 20th-century American paintings from the permanent collection will be on display with the work of contemporary photographers such as Sharon Core, Laura Letinsky, Paulette Tavormina, and D.W. Mellor, and Irving Penn. Daniel K. Tennant, a local still life painter and photographer will also be included.

Read a review!

Unique 2011
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Unique is an art and literary magazine that shares the artistic visions and voices of individuals with disabilities. Unique represents the power of art to express, educate, and inspire. Art comes in many forms and the creative work published in Unique includes poems, paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures, computer-based art, and mixed-media works.

The Power of Pattern: New Work by David MacDonald
Everson Museum of Art

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

David MacDonald's long awaited solo exhibition will open with an innovative body of work. The highlight of the exhibition will be a monumental work commissioned by the Everson in 2008 with funds donated by the Social Arts Club. Also on view will be several new figurative vessels, monumental in scale, and plates from the Divination Series. Recently retired from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts where he taught ceramics for more than 37 years, MacDonald is now able to concentrate on a new body of work.

Early in his career, ceramic artist David MacDonald turned to his African heritage for inspiration in his work. The many examples of surface pattern and decoration found in textiles, utilitarian objects, body ornament and architecture present among the diverse ethnic groups of sub-Sahara Africa continue to inform MacDonald's work on many levels. In his artist's statement, he proclaims "The principle concern of my art is the articulation of the magnificence and nobility of the human spirit; a celebration of my African heritage." For more than three decades, MacDonald has used clay to express these words through a significant body of work focusing on highly decorated utilitarian objects that have come to symbolize tremendous integrity and endurance.

MacDonald is recognized nationally not only for his master craftsmanship in ceramics but for his dedication as a mentor and teacher to a countless number of aspiring artists and students. Locally, he is a founding member of the Community Folk Art Center, an organization affiliated with Syracuse University's Department of African American Studies that aims to provide a space to engage artists from underrrepresented ethnic groups in Central New York. In addition, MacDonald is involved in many community activities including serving on the Everson's Collection Committee.

Celestial Nights: Visions of an Ancient Land
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson recently received a gift of 47 black-and-white photographs by Neil Folberg entitled "Celestial Nights: Visions of an Ancient Land." "Celestial Nights" is a stunning portfolio of nocturnal landscapes and star-filled skies set in ancient ruins found in the Middle East. The artist skillfully captures a spectacular world of nocturnal landscapes in Israel and the Sinai where the horizon is not always definitive. The earth and heavens are mingled in this series of arresting images, which to Folberg represents a blurred division between present and eternity, substance and spirit, and knowledge and imagination. Folberg writes, "In landscape I see a revelation of how pure spirituality has descended into physical existence ... These are the scenes, on the human edge of the cosmos, that I am showing in these photographs."

Neil Folberg was born in San Francisco and grew up in the Midwest. He was a student of Ansel Adams in 1967 and enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley the following year. In 1976 He moved to Jerusalem, a place that has become the subject of much of his work. He has exhibited widely and published several photographic books including the internationally acclaimed In A Desert Land (1987), a series of color photographs of Middle Eastern landscapes and architecture. His second book, And I Shall Dwell Among Them (1995) featured synagogue architecture throughout the Jewish Diaspora. Celestial Nights, published in 2001, became a major traveling exhibition organized by Aperture.

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.

Chamber Music Concert
Skaneateles Festival

First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

André Previn Four Songs for Soprano, Cello, and Piano
Brahms Sonata in E-flat for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 120 No. 2
Dvorak Piano Trio in E minor, "Dumky"

Steven Copes, violin; David Ying, cello; Elinor Freer, piano; Sari Gruber, soprano; Jon Manasse, clarinet; Jon Nakamatsu, piano; David Ying, cello

Saturday, September 3, 2011

Activated Space
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jacqueline Adamo: abstract oil paintings on linen and canvas
Miyo Hirano: raku,gas and wood fired ceramics
Melissa Montgomery: concrete sculpture
Bradley Hudson: mixed media on paper and canvas

Celestial Nights: Visions of an Ancient Land
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson recently received a gift of 47 black-and-white photographs by Neil Folberg entitled "Celestial Nights: Visions of an Ancient Land." "Celestial Nights" is a stunning portfolio of nocturnal landscapes and star-filled skies set in ancient ruins found in the Middle East. The artist skillfully captures a spectacular world of nocturnal landscapes in Israel and the Sinai where the horizon is not always definitive. The earth and heavens are mingled in this series of arresting images, which to Folberg represents a blurred division between present and eternity, substance and spirit, and knowledge and imagination. Folberg writes, "In landscape I see a revelation of how pure spirituality has descended into physical existence ... These are the scenes, on the human edge of the cosmos, that I am showing in these photographs."

Neil Folberg was born in San Francisco and grew up in the Midwest. He was a student of Ansel Adams in 1967 and enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley the following year. In 1976 He moved to Jerusalem, a place that has become the subject of much of his work. He has exhibited widely and published several photographic books including the internationally acclaimed In A Desert Land (1987), a series of color photographs of Middle Eastern landscapes and architecture. His second book, And I Shall Dwell Among Them (1995) featured synagogue architecture throughout the Jewish Diaspora. Celestial Nights, published in 2001, became a major traveling exhibition organized by Aperture.

The Power of Pattern: New Work by David MacDonald
Everson Museum of Art

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

David MacDonald's long awaited solo exhibition will open with an innovative body of work. The highlight of the exhibition will be a monumental work commissioned by the Everson in 2008 with funds donated by the Social Arts Club. Also on view will be several new figurative vessels, monumental in scale, and plates from the Divination Series. Recently retired from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts where he taught ceramics for more than 37 years, MacDonald is now able to concentrate on a new body of work.

Early in his career, ceramic artist David MacDonald turned to his African heritage for inspiration in his work. The many examples of surface pattern and decoration found in textiles, utilitarian objects, body ornament and architecture present among the diverse ethnic groups of sub-Sahara Africa continue to inform MacDonald's work on many levels. In his artist's statement, he proclaims "The principle concern of my art is the articulation of the magnificence and nobility of the human spirit; a celebration of my African heritage." For more than three decades, MacDonald has used clay to express these words through a significant body of work focusing on highly decorated utilitarian objects that have come to symbolize tremendous integrity and endurance.

MacDonald is recognized nationally not only for his master craftsmanship in ceramics but for his dedication as a mentor and teacher to a countless number of aspiring artists and students. Locally, he is a founding member of the Community Folk Art Center, an organization affiliated with Syracuse University's Department of African American Studies that aims to provide a space to engage artists from underrrepresented ethnic groups in Central New York. In addition, MacDonald is involved in many community activities including serving on the Everson's Collection Committee.

Unique 2011
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Unique is an art and literary magazine that shares the artistic visions and voices of individuals with disabilities. Unique represents the power of art to express, educate, and inspire. Art comes in many forms and the creative work published in Unique includes poems, paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures, computer-based art, and mixed-media works.

Still Life: Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

The current exhibition examines the influence of painting on photography within the still life genre. 19th- and 20th-century American paintings from the permanent collection will be on display with the work of contemporary photographers such as Sharon Core, Laura Letinsky, Paulette Tavormina, and D.W. Mellor, and Irving Penn. Daniel K. Tennant, a local still life painter and photographer will also be included.

Read a review!

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

Curiosities Below and Synchronicity: Works by Rachel Harms and Ann Skiöld
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Rachel Harms' exhibition, "Curiosities Below," features new oil paintings that are influenced through memory and sensory experience of place, color, and light. Many of the shapes and colors in this series have evolved from repetitive pattern in nature, found objects, the pervasiveness of water, things hidden and exposed. The surfaces of her paintings reveal subtle hints of what lies below.

Ann Skiöld's exhibition, "Synchronicity," features her new paintings and collages as "inscapes." The artist describes "inscape" as the result from experiencing many things at the same time. It is through processing these experiences, we are able to interpret them in a very personal way. Skiöld's abstract paintings and collages have a raw, yet lyrical style with a mysterious undertone.

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.

Festival Grand Finale: Ying Quartet and Friends
Skaneateles Festival
Featuring Sari Gruber, soprano; Jon Manasse, clarinet

Brook Farm
2.5 miles south of the village on Route 41A, Skaneateles

Weber Clarinet Quintet in B-flat Major, Op. 34
Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 for Soprano and 8 Cellos
Mendelssohn Octet for Strings in E-flat Major, Op. 20

Flashlights and blankets or lawn chairs recommended for Brook Farm concerts.

Rain location: First Presbyterian Church, 97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

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.

Sunday, September 4, 2011

[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!

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

Still Life: Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

The current exhibition examines the influence of painting on photography within the still life genre. 19th- and 20th-century American paintings from the permanent collection will be on display with the work of contemporary photographers such as Sharon Core, Laura Letinsky, Paulette Tavormina, and D.W. Mellor, and Irving Penn. Daniel K. Tennant, a local still life painter and photographer will also be included.

Read a review!

Unique 2011
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Unique is an art and literary magazine that shares the artistic visions and voices of individuals with disabilities. Unique represents the power of art to express, educate, and inspire. Art comes in many forms and the creative work published in Unique includes poems, paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures, computer-based art, and mixed-media works.

The Power of Pattern: New Work by David MacDonald
Everson Museum of Art

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

David MacDonald's long awaited solo exhibition will open with an innovative body of work. The highlight of the exhibition will be a monumental work commissioned by the Everson in 2008 with funds donated by the Social Arts Club. Also on view will be several new figurative vessels, monumental in scale, and plates from the Divination Series. Recently retired from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts where he taught ceramics for more than 37 years, MacDonald is now able to concentrate on a new body of work.

Early in his career, ceramic artist David MacDonald turned to his African heritage for inspiration in his work. The many examples of surface pattern and decoration found in textiles, utilitarian objects, body ornament and architecture present among the diverse ethnic groups of sub-Sahara Africa continue to inform MacDonald's work on many levels. In his artist's statement, he proclaims "The principle concern of my art is the articulation of the magnificence and nobility of the human spirit; a celebration of my African heritage." For more than three decades, MacDonald has used clay to express these words through a significant body of work focusing on highly decorated utilitarian objects that have come to symbolize tremendous integrity and endurance.

MacDonald is recognized nationally not only for his master craftsmanship in ceramics but for his dedication as a mentor and teacher to a countless number of aspiring artists and students. Locally, he is a founding member of the Community Folk Art Center, an organization affiliated with Syracuse University's Department of African American Studies that aims to provide a space to engage artists from underrrepresented ethnic groups in Central New York. In addition, MacDonald is involved in many community activities including serving on the Everson's Collection Committee.

Celestial Nights: Visions of an Ancient Land
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson recently received a gift of 47 black-and-white photographs by Neil Folberg entitled "Celestial Nights: Visions of an Ancient Land." "Celestial Nights" is a stunning portfolio of nocturnal landscapes and star-filled skies set in ancient ruins found in the Middle East. The artist skillfully captures a spectacular world of nocturnal landscapes in Israel and the Sinai where the horizon is not always definitive. The earth and heavens are mingled in this series of arresting images, which to Folberg represents a blurred division between present and eternity, substance and spirit, and knowledge and imagination. Folberg writes, "In landscape I see a revelation of how pure spirituality has descended into physical existence ... These are the scenes, on the human edge of the cosmos, that I am showing in these photographs."

Neil Folberg was born in San Francisco and grew up in the Midwest. He was a student of Ansel Adams in 1967 and enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley the following year. In 1976 He moved to Jerusalem, a place that has become the subject of much of his work. He has exhibited widely and published several photographic books including the internationally acclaimed In A Desert Land (1987), a series of color photographs of Middle Eastern landscapes and architecture. His second book, And I Shall Dwell Among Them (1995) featured synagogue architecture throughout the Jewish Diaspora. Celestial Nights, published in 2001, became a major traveling exhibition organized by Aperture.

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.

Monday, September 5, 2011

Leftovers for Dinner
Point of Contact Gallery

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

SU sculpture students Becky Reiser and Alexander Svoboda present their collaborative installation.

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!

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

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.

Leftovers for Dinner
Point of Contact Gallery

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

SU sculpture students Becky Reiser and Alexander Svoboda present their collaborative installation.

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.

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.

Activated Space
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jacqueline Adamo: abstract oil paintings on linen and canvas
Miyo Hirano: raku,gas and wood fired ceramics
Melissa Montgomery: concrete sculpture
Bradley Hudson: mixed media on paper and canvas

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!

Curiosities Below and Synchronicity: Works by Rachel Harms and Ann Skiöld
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Rachel Harms' exhibition, "Curiosities Below," features new oil paintings that are influenced through memory and sensory experience of place, color, and light. Many of the shapes and colors in this series have evolved from repetitive pattern in nature, found objects, the pervasiveness of water, things hidden and exposed. The surfaces of her paintings reveal subtle hints of what lies below.

Ann Skiöld's exhibition, "Synchronicity," features her new paintings and collages as "inscapes." The artist describes "inscape" as the result from experiencing many things at the same time. It is through processing these experiences, we are able to interpret them in a very personal way. Skiöld's abstract paintings and collages have a raw, yet lyrical style with a mysterious undertone.

Still Life: Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

The current exhibition examines the influence of painting on photography within the still life genre. 19th- and 20th-century American paintings from the permanent collection will be on display with the work of contemporary photographers such as Sharon Core, Laura Letinsky, Paulette Tavormina, and D.W. Mellor, and Irving Penn. Daniel K. Tennant, a local still life painter and photographer will also be included.

Read a review!

Celestial Nights: Visions of an Ancient Land
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson recently received a gift of 47 black-and-white photographs by Neil Folberg entitled "Celestial Nights: Visions of an Ancient Land." "Celestial Nights" is a stunning portfolio of nocturnal landscapes and star-filled skies set in ancient ruins found in the Middle East. The artist skillfully captures a spectacular world of nocturnal landscapes in Israel and the Sinai where the horizon is not always definitive. The earth and heavens are mingled in this series of arresting images, which to Folberg represents a blurred division between present and eternity, substance and spirit, and knowledge and imagination. Folberg writes, "In landscape I see a revelation of how pure spirituality has descended into physical existence ... These are the scenes, on the human edge of the cosmos, that I am showing in these photographs."

Neil Folberg was born in San Francisco and grew up in the Midwest. He was a student of Ansel Adams in 1967 and enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley the following year. In 1976 He moved to Jerusalem, a place that has become the subject of much of his work. He has exhibited widely and published several photographic books including the internationally acclaimed In A Desert Land (1987), a series of color photographs of Middle Eastern landscapes and architecture. His second book, And I Shall Dwell Among Them (1995) featured synagogue architecture throughout the Jewish Diaspora. Celestial Nights, published in 2001, became a major traveling exhibition organized by Aperture.

The Power of Pattern: New Work by David MacDonald
Everson Museum of Art

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

David MacDonald's long awaited solo exhibition will open with an innovative body of work. The highlight of the exhibition will be a monumental work commissioned by the Everson in 2008 with funds donated by the Social Arts Club. Also on view will be several new figurative vessels, monumental in scale, and plates from the Divination Series. Recently retired from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts where he taught ceramics for more than 37 years, MacDonald is now able to concentrate on a new body of work.

Early in his career, ceramic artist David MacDonald turned to his African heritage for inspiration in his work. The many examples of surface pattern and decoration found in textiles, utilitarian objects, body ornament and architecture present among the diverse ethnic groups of sub-Sahara Africa continue to inform MacDonald's work on many levels. In his artist's statement, he proclaims "The principle concern of my art is the articulation of the magnificence and nobility of the human spirit; a celebration of my African heritage." For more than three decades, MacDonald has used clay to express these words through a significant body of work focusing on highly decorated utilitarian objects that have come to symbolize tremendous integrity and endurance.

MacDonald is recognized nationally not only for his master craftsmanship in ceramics but for his dedication as a mentor and teacher to a countless number of aspiring artists and students. Locally, he is a founding member of the Community Folk Art Center, an organization affiliated with Syracuse University's Department of African American Studies that aims to provide a space to engage artists from underrrepresented ethnic groups in Central New York. In addition, MacDonald is involved in many community activities including serving on the Everson's Collection Committee.

Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Jerome Witkin
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Jerome Witkin, one of America's leading figurative painters and a longtime professor of painting in the Department of Art, will present an artist's talk in conjunction with the exhibition "Drawn to Paint: The Art of Jerome Witkin," on view Sept. 8-Oct. 23 at SU Art Galleries and Sept. 7-Oct. 16 at XL Projects, 307-313 S. Clinton St. "Drawn to Paint" consists of 70 works by Witkin, including drawings, paintings and sketchbooks, and marks the first time he has allowed his drawings to be displayed beside their finished works.

Witkin's career as a professor at VPA spans four decades. He has known an enviable number of artists central to the development of 20th-century American painting, and he has studied the history of art with great care. Witkin brings all of this knowledge of drawing, painting and history to bear in the classroom studio, where he encourages and critiques his students. "Drawn to Paint" celebrates his career as an artist-teacher, a dual role in which he has excelled.

Parking is available in SU pay lots.

Organ Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Kola Owolabi, organist

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

Kola Owolabi, SU organist and assistant professor of music, will present a recital featuring works by Bach, Karg-Elert, Paulus, Widor, Franck and Dupré.

Owolabi teaches courses in organ, improvisation, continuo playing and music theory; plays for weekly chapel services and special events; and coordinates the Malmgren Concert Series at Hendricks Chapel. He is also the sub dean for the Syracuse chapter of the American Guild of Organists and is responsible for planning chapter events.

A native of Toronto, Owolabi has held positions as assistant organist at St. Michael's Cathedral in Toronto and at the Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul in Montreal. He is a published composer and has received commissions from the Royal Canadian College of Organists and the Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto. In 2002, he was awarded second prize and the audience prize at the American Guild of Organists National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance.

As a recitalist, he has performed across Canada, the United States, Mexico and Jamaica, appearing at such venues as St. Thomas Church on Fifth Avenue in New York City; Methuen Memorial Music Hall in Massachusetts; Cornell University in Ithaca; and the University of the West Indies in Jamaica.

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage; patrons should mention that they are attending the recital. For more information, contact Owolabi at 315-443-5043. For Setnor Auditorium concert status updates, contact the Setnor School at 315-443-2191.

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 7, 2011

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.

Leftovers for Dinner
Point of Contact Gallery

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

SU sculpture students Becky Reiser and Alexander Svoboda present their collaborative installation.

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.

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.

Activated Space
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jacqueline Adamo: abstract oil paintings on linen and canvas
Miyo Hirano: raku,gas and wood fired ceramics
Melissa Montgomery: concrete sculpture
Bradley Hudson: mixed media on paper and canvas

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

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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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Curiosities Below and Synchronicity: Works by Rachel Harms and Ann Skiöld
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Rachel Harms' exhibition, "Curiosities Below," features new oil paintings that are influenced through memory and sensory experience of place, color, and light. Many of the shapes and colors in this series have evolved from repetitive pattern in nature, found objects, the pervasiveness of water, things hidden and exposed. The surfaces of her paintings reveal subtle hints of what lies below.

Ann Skiöld's exhibition, "Synchronicity," features her new paintings and collages as "inscapes." The artist describes "inscape" as the result from experiencing many things at the same time. It is through processing these experiences, we are able to interpret them in a very personal way. Skiöld's abstract paintings and collages have a raw, yet lyrical style with a mysterious undertone.

Opening: 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.

Still Life: Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

The current exhibition examines the influence of painting on photography within the still life genre. 19th- and 20th-century American paintings from the permanent collection will be on display with the work of contemporary photographers such as Sharon Core, Laura Letinsky, Paulette Tavormina, and D.W. Mellor, and Irving Penn. Daniel K. Tennant, a local still life painter and photographer will also be included.

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The Power of Pattern: New Work by David MacDonald
Everson Museum of Art

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

David MacDonald's long awaited solo exhibition will open with an innovative body of work. The highlight of the exhibition will be a monumental work commissioned by the Everson in 2008 with funds donated by the Social Arts Club. Also on view will be several new figurative vessels, monumental in scale, and plates from the Divination Series. Recently retired from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts where he taught ceramics for more than 37 years, MacDonald is now able to concentrate on a new body of work.

Early in his career, ceramic artist David MacDonald turned to his African heritage for inspiration in his work. The many examples of surface pattern and decoration found in textiles, utilitarian objects, body ornament and architecture present among the diverse ethnic groups of sub-Sahara Africa continue to inform MacDonald's work on many levels. In his artist's statement, he proclaims "The principle concern of my art is the articulation of the magnificence and nobility of the human spirit; a celebration of my African heritage." For more than three decades, MacDonald has used clay to express these words through a significant body of work focusing on highly decorated utilitarian objects that have come to symbolize tremendous integrity and endurance.

MacDonald is recognized nationally not only for his master craftsmanship in ceramics but for his dedication as a mentor and teacher to a countless number of aspiring artists and students. Locally, he is a founding member of the Community Folk Art Center, an organization affiliated with Syracuse University's Department of African American Studies that aims to provide a space to engage artists from underrrepresented ethnic groups in Central New York. In addition, MacDonald is involved in many community activities including serving on the Everson's Collection Committee.

Celestial Nights: Visions of an Ancient Land
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson recently received a gift of 47 black-and-white photographs by Neil Folberg entitled "Celestial Nights: Visions of an Ancient Land." "Celestial Nights" is a stunning portfolio of nocturnal landscapes and star-filled skies set in ancient ruins found in the Middle East. The artist skillfully captures a spectacular world of nocturnal landscapes in Israel and the Sinai where the horizon is not always definitive. The earth and heavens are mingled in this series of arresting images, which to Folberg represents a blurred division between present and eternity, substance and spirit, and knowledge and imagination. Folberg writes, "In landscape I see a revelation of how pure spirituality has descended into physical existence ... These are the scenes, on the human edge of the cosmos, that I am showing in these photographs."

Neil Folberg was born in San Francisco and grew up in the Midwest. He was a student of Ansel Adams in 1967 and enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley the following year. In 1976 He moved to Jerusalem, a place that has become the subject of much of his work. He has exhibited widely and published several photographic books including the internationally acclaimed In A Desert Land (1987), a series of color photographs of Middle Eastern landscapes and architecture. His second book, And I Shall Dwell Among Them (1995) featured synagogue architecture throughout the Jewish Diaspora. Celestial Nights, published in 2001, became a major traveling exhibition organized by Aperture.

Opening: 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.

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.

Organ Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Kola Owolabi, organist

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

Kola Owolabi, SU organist and assistant professor of music, will present a recital featuring works by Bach, Karg-Elert, Paulus, Widor, Franck and Dupré.

Owolabi teaches courses in organ, improvisation, continuo playing and music theory; plays for weekly chapel services and special events; and coordinates the Malmgren Concert Series at Hendricks Chapel. He is also the sub dean for the Syracuse chapter of the American Guild of Organists and is responsible for planning chapter events.

A native of Toronto, Owolabi has held positions as assistant organist at St. Michael's Cathedral in Toronto and at the Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul in Montreal. He is a published composer and has received commissions from the Royal Canadian College of Organists and the Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto. In 2002, he was awarded second prize and the audience prize at the American Guild of Organists National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance.

As a recitalist, he has performed across Canada, the United States, Mexico and Jamaica, appearing at such venues as St. Thomas Church on Fifth Avenue in New York City; Methuen Memorial Music Hall in Massachusetts; Cornell University in Ithaca; and the University of the West Indies in Jamaica.

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage; patrons should mention that they are attending the recital. For more information, contact Owolabi at 315-443-5043. For Setnor Auditorium concert status updates, contact the Setnor School at 315-443-2191.

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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