Sunday, May 20, 2012

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Ekphrasis: A Marriage of Literary and Visual Arts
Szozda Gallery
CNY Pen Women

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

"Ekphrasis" combines literary and visual arts with special related events showcasing the esteemed works of Central New York Pen Women, local chapter of The National League of American Pen Women, Inc.

Chair for this year's Annual Pen Women's show is artist Yolanda Tooley who defines the name chosen as a "rhetorical device in which one medium of art relates to another medium." Included in the visual part of "Ekphrasis" are about 32 pieces rendered by 16 artists, and writings by eight poets whose works are framed for hanging, bringing the total wall pieces to around 40. Rachael Ikins coordinated the "Ekphrasis" readings.

Pen Women visual artists included in "Ekphrasis" are Jacqueline Adamo, Joan Applebaum, Sallie Bailey, Linda Bigness-Lanigan, Evelyn Dankovich, Jeanne Dupre, Joy Englehart, Roscha Folger, Marilyn Forth, Diana Godfrey, Wendy Harris, Mary Kester, Karen Kozicki, Mary Raineri, Joan Steir and Yolanda Tooley.

Pen Women letters/writers/poets are Sheila Byrnes, Janet Fagal, Mary Gardner, Rachael Ikins, Georgia Popoff, Nancy Keefe Rhodes, Bobbie Panek and Lorraine Arsenault.

Garden Art in Glass & Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Stained glass garden art by Liz and Rich Micho
Carved stoneware lanterns by Lauren Ritchie

Flower Power
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"Flower Power" presents an eclectic mix of styles and art media. This group exhibition celebrates the beauty of flowers and the vessels used to contain them. The show includes photography, wood, sculpture, fiber art, and ceramics. Participating artists include Justin Campbell, Suzanne Fluty, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Mary Giehl, Vicki Hartman, Dave LoParco, Colleen McCall, Kate Money, Melissa Montgomery, Brooks Oliver, Kala Stein, Dan Tracy, Jeanann Wieners, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

For the Child in All of Us
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

A new collection of crafts made for children.

Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Three well-known Central New York political cartoonists, Joe Glisson, Tim Atseff, and Frank Cammuso, are the featured cartoonists for an exhibition entitled "Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place." With insightful humor, these artists and their historic predecessors produced a wide variety of editorial cartoons that illustrated important issues of their time. Starting with cartoons from the Civil War era through the present day, "Take No Prisoners" is an opportunity to experience historic subjects as the current events they once were, and to see how election issues of the past compare with those of the present-day.

Timeless Imagery: Associated Artists of CNY's 85th Anniversary Exhibition
Onondaga Historical Association
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Associated Artists of Central New York will host an opening reception this afternoon 1:00-3:00 pm.

Since 1927, Associated Artists has sought to bring together the best artists and their art for the benefit of the central New York community. The exhibit at OHA will showcase 85 years of juried arts competition winning entries from regional artists. "Timeless Imagery" is an opportunity to observe in one gallery the history of Central New York's changing art scene.

Melding Time and Process: Works by Richard Harvey
Redhouse

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

Exploring the psychological and emotive potential of the human face, Harvey creates figurative art inspired by a diverse range of art historical influences including Byzantine iconography, African sculpture, and Expressionist painting. Elements of typography, signage and graffiti reflect his background in graphic design.

William Wegman: Flo Flow (2011)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Journeys: Music of Travel and Trade
Redhouse
Treehouse Musicians

Price: Free; $5 suggested donation
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The program features traditional and contemporary fare from around the world, including three new pieces by area composers. There will be musical postcards from Burundi (Africa), Puerto Rico, Colombia, and England, as well as from various points along the Silk Road and Erie Canal.

The program contains three new pieces commissioned by the Treehouse Musicians: Road Trip by Syracuse composer Paola Marquez, drawing on South American and African rhythms; Eastern Passage by Brooklyn-based violist/composer Leanne Darling, celebrating the legacy of the Silk Road; and Erie Canal Lament by Anita Gustafson and arranged by her husband, Eric.

Also on the program are Shamba by Burundian pop star Jean Pierre Nimbona (a.k.a. Kidum), arranged by Eric Gustafson; Benjamin Britten's Phantasy Quartet for Oboe and Strings, Op. 2; De Barrio Obrero a la Quince by Puerto Rican bongoist Andrew Lázaro;  an audience sing-along to Wade in the Water, a popular spiritual; and a set of live music, spoken word, and art improvisation, featuring the Treehouse Musicians and members of iSYMP.

The Treehouse Musicians core members are Alina Plourde, oboe; the husband-and-wife team of Anita and Eric Gustafson on violin and viola, respectively; cellist Zachary Sweet; and soprano Laura Enslin. They will be joined by local storyteller Vanessa Johnson and members of the newly formed Imagine Syracuse Young Musicians Project (iSYMP). 
 
For more information about the Treehouse Musicians, call Alina Plourde at 315-422-4582, or visit treehousemusicians.com.

Spring Ring Hanbell Concert

Price: Free
Dewitt Community Church
3600 Erie Blvd. East, Dewitt

The concert features more than 70 handbell ringers from Dewitt Community Church, Community Wesleyan Church (Kirkville), Christ Church (Manlius), Eastern Hills Bible Church (Cazenovia), and the First Presbyterian Church of Chittenango. Also performing are the Embassy Ringers of the Town of Manlius’ Recreation Department, the Belle Aire Trio, and DCC's Chancel Choir. More than two centuries' worth of sacred and secular music will be performed. 

Junior Pro Art Annual Concert
Civic Morning Musicals

Price: Freewill offering
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse
109 Waring Rd. (at the corner of Nottingham Rd.), Dewitt

CMM is proud to present the young musicians of Junior Pro Art. You will hear a broad array of instruments, performers, and composers, including an original student composition. Come to this brief, delightful concert, meet the performers at the concluding dessert reception, and support the efforts of the next generation of music lovers and artists.

Primus

Price: $42.50, $34.50, $29.50
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Tickets can be purchased through the Landmark box office Monday-Friday 10:00 am-5:00 pm or through Ticketmaster.com. Phone 315-475-7980 for more information.

Monday, May 21, 2012

Exploring the Digital Landscape: Works by Carl Hoffner

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

Carl Hoffner's artwork surrounds the viewer in a cacophony of color. His contemporary landscapes of the Central New York region vibrate with intense color. Says Hoffner, "In my work I explore the inherent abstractions and extraordinary color within Upstate New York’s wealth of natural beauty."

While Hoffner also works in traditional lithograph, the work being exhibited here is part of his digital portfolio. Hoffner uses the computer paired with a Wacom tablet, and Corel painter software to draw and paint directly on the computer. Hoffner explains, "I have found this to be a liberating artistic experience bringing back the play in my art as well as offering a chance to re-explore my passion for painting and color." The completed digital paintings are produced in limited editions using giclee inkjet printing technology.

Hoffner received his MFA from Syracuse University and a BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He taught in the art department of OCC in the 1980s. His work is in collections in the United States and abroad including galleries in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Europe, United Kingdom, and Australia. Hoffner currently resides in Fayetteville, NY.

The Ballerina Project
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Photography. Dance. Central New York.

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

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

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

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

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

For the Child in All of Us
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

A new collection of crafts made for children.

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Mission Modern: The Paintings of Darryl Hughto
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

This show seamlessly juxtaposes Darryl Hughto's contemporary land and seascape paintings with Dalton's Mission-era furnishings. Hughto's recent paintings are a continuation into the 21st century of a feeling for man in and of the land in the American painting tradition. The show reveals the ongoing nature of American art and culture from past to present.

Garden Art in Glass & Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Stained glass garden art by Liz and Rich Micho
Carved stoneware lanterns by Lauren Ritchie

Tight Little Island (aka Whisky Galore) (1949)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Directed by Alexander Mackendrick. Cast includes Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, Bruce Seton, Gordon Jackson, Wylie Watson, James Robertson Justice, Catherine Lacey.

Gentle and timeless Ealing comedy finds the inhabitants of a remote Scottish isle attempt to recover the contents of a sinking whisky-laden ship. Compton Mackenzie based his original novel on a true incident, and also makes a cameo appearance in the film as the Captain of the doomed vessel.

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Exploring the Digital Landscape: Works by Carl Hoffner

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

Carl Hoffner's artwork surrounds the viewer in a cacophony of color. His contemporary landscapes of the Central New York region vibrate with intense color. Says Hoffner, "In my work I explore the inherent abstractions and extraordinary color within Upstate New York’s wealth of natural beauty."

While Hoffner also works in traditional lithograph, the work being exhibited here is part of his digital portfolio. Hoffner uses the computer paired with a Wacom tablet, and Corel painter software to draw and paint directly on the computer. Hoffner explains, "I have found this to be a liberating artistic experience bringing back the play in my art as well as offering a chance to re-explore my passion for painting and color." The completed digital paintings are produced in limited editions using giclee inkjet printing technology.

Hoffner received his MFA from Syracuse University and a BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He taught in the art department of OCC in the 1980s. His work is in collections in the United States and abroad including galleries in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Europe, United Kingdom, and Australia. Hoffner currently resides in Fayetteville, NY.

The Ballerina Project
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Photography. Dance. Central New York.

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

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

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

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

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

Structure and Space
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Chris Baker: gouache landscape and cityscape paintings
David Webster: ceramics
Jen Palmer: metal and stone jewelry
Richard Henry: oil and watercolor rural landscape paintings

For the Child in All of Us
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

A new collection of crafts made for children.

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Mission Modern: The Paintings of Darryl Hughto
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

This show seamlessly juxtaposes Darryl Hughto's contemporary land and seascape paintings with Dalton's Mission-era furnishings. Hughto's recent paintings are a continuation into the 21st century of a feeling for man in and of the land in the American painting tradition. The show reveals the ongoing nature of American art and culture from past to present.

Garden Art in Glass & Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Stained glass garden art by Liz and Rich Micho
Carved stoneware lanterns by Lauren Ritchie

Living Collections
Echo

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

A series of paintings portraying children's collections in unusual environments by Pennsylvania artist, Elody Gyekis.

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Exploring the Digital Landscape: Works by Carl Hoffner

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

Carl Hoffner's artwork surrounds the viewer in a cacophony of color. His contemporary landscapes of the Central New York region vibrate with intense color. Says Hoffner, "In my work I explore the inherent abstractions and extraordinary color within Upstate New York’s wealth of natural beauty."

While Hoffner also works in traditional lithograph, the work being exhibited here is part of his digital portfolio. Hoffner uses the computer paired with a Wacom tablet, and Corel painter software to draw and paint directly on the computer. Hoffner explains, "I have found this to be a liberating artistic experience bringing back the play in my art as well as offering a chance to re-explore my passion for painting and color." The completed digital paintings are produced in limited editions using giclee inkjet printing technology.

Hoffner received his MFA from Syracuse University and a BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He taught in the art department of OCC in the 1980s. His work is in collections in the United States and abroad including galleries in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Europe, United Kingdom, and Australia. Hoffner currently resides in Fayetteville, NY.

The Ballerina Project
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Photography. Dance. Central New York.

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

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

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

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

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

Larry Hoyt: Painting, Photgraphy, and Drawings
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Structure and Space
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Chris Baker: gouache landscape and cityscape paintings
David Webster: ceramics
Jen Palmer: metal and stone jewelry
Richard Henry: oil and watercolor rural landscape paintings

For the Child in All of Us
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

A new collection of crafts made for children.

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Mission Modern: The Paintings of Darryl Hughto
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

This show seamlessly juxtaposes Darryl Hughto's contemporary land and seascape paintings with Dalton's Mission-era furnishings. Hughto's recent paintings are a continuation into the 21st century of a feeling for man in and of the land in the American painting tradition. The show reveals the ongoing nature of American art and culture from past to present.

Timeless Imagery: Associated Artists of CNY's 85th Anniversary Exhibition
Onondaga Historical Association
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Since 1927, Associated Artists has sought to bring together the best artists and their art for the benefit of the central New York community. The exhibit at OHA will showcase 85 years of juried arts competition winning entries from regional artists. "Timeless Imagery" is an opportunity to observe in one gallery the history of Central New York's changing art scene.

Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Three well-known Central New York political cartoonists, Joe Glisson, Tim Atseff, and Frank Cammuso, are the featured cartoonists for an exhibition entitled "Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place." With insightful humor, these artists and their historic predecessors produced a wide variety of editorial cartoons that illustrated important issues of their time. Starting with cartoons from the Civil War era through the present day, "Take No Prisoners" is an opportunity to experience historic subjects as the current events they once were, and to see how election issues of the past compare with those of the present-day.

Melding Time and Process: Works by Richard Harvey
Redhouse

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

Exploring the psychological and emotive potential of the human face, Harvey creates figurative art inspired by a diverse range of art historical influences including Byzantine iconography, African sculpture, and Expressionist painting. Elements of typography, signage and graffiti reflect his background in graphic design.

Ekphrasis: A Marriage of Literary and Visual Arts
Szozda Gallery
CNY Pen Women

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

"Ekphrasis" combines literary and visual arts with special related events showcasing the esteemed works of Central New York Pen Women, local chapter of The National League of American Pen Women, Inc.

Chair for this year's Annual Pen Women's show is artist Yolanda Tooley who defines the name chosen as a "rhetorical device in which one medium of art relates to another medium." Included in the visual part of "Ekphrasis" are about 32 pieces rendered by 16 artists, and writings by eight poets whose works are framed for hanging, bringing the total wall pieces to around 40. Rachael Ikins coordinated the "Ekphrasis" readings.

Pen Women visual artists included in "Ekphrasis" are Jacqueline Adamo, Joan Applebaum, Sallie Bailey, Linda Bigness-Lanigan, Evelyn Dankovich, Jeanne Dupre, Joy Englehart, Roscha Folger, Marilyn Forth, Diana Godfrey, Wendy Harris, Mary Kester, Karen Kozicki, Mary Raineri, Joan Steir and Yolanda Tooley.

Pen Women letters/writers/poets are Sheila Byrnes, Janet Fagal, Mary Gardner, Rachael Ikins, Georgia Popoff, Nancy Keefe Rhodes, Bobbie Panek and Lorraine Arsenault.

Garden Art in Glass & Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Stained glass garden art by Liz and Rich Micho
Carved stoneware lanterns by Lauren Ritchie

Living Collections
Echo

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

A series of paintings portraying children's collections in unusual environments by Pennsylvania artist, Elody Gyekis.

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

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

Sara Mastrangelo, violin; Lindsay Groves, cello; Susan Crocker, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Mozart Piano Trio in E, K. 542
Arensky Piano Trio No.1 in D minor, Op. 32

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Exploring the Digital Landscape: Works by Carl Hoffner

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

Carl Hoffner's artwork surrounds the viewer in a cacophony of color. His contemporary landscapes of the Central New York region vibrate with intense color. Says Hoffner, "In my work I explore the inherent abstractions and extraordinary color within Upstate New York’s wealth of natural beauty."

While Hoffner also works in traditional lithograph, the work being exhibited here is part of his digital portfolio. Hoffner uses the computer paired with a Wacom tablet, and Corel painter software to draw and paint directly on the computer. Hoffner explains, "I have found this to be a liberating artistic experience bringing back the play in my art as well as offering a chance to re-explore my passion for painting and color." The completed digital paintings are produced in limited editions using giclee inkjet printing technology.

Hoffner received his MFA from Syracuse University and a BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He taught in the art department of OCC in the 1980s. His work is in collections in the United States and abroad including galleries in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Europe, United Kingdom, and Australia. Hoffner currently resides in Fayetteville, NY.

The Ballerina Project
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Photography. Dance. Central New York.

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

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

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

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

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

Larry Hoyt: Painting, Photgraphy, and Drawings
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Structure and Space
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Chris Baker: gouache landscape and cityscape paintings
David Webster: ceramics
Jen Palmer: metal and stone jewelry
Richard Henry: oil and watercolor rural landscape paintings

For the Child in All of Us
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

A new collection of crafts made for children.

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Mission Modern: The Paintings of Darryl Hughto
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

This show seamlessly juxtaposes Darryl Hughto's contemporary land and seascape paintings with Dalton's Mission-era furnishings. Hughto's recent paintings are a continuation into the 21st century of a feeling for man in and of the land in the American painting tradition. The show reveals the ongoing nature of American art and culture from past to present.

Timeless Imagery: Associated Artists of CNY's 85th Anniversary Exhibition
Onondaga Historical Association
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Since 1927, Associated Artists has sought to bring together the best artists and their art for the benefit of the central New York community. The exhibit at OHA will showcase 85 years of juried arts competition winning entries from regional artists. "Timeless Imagery" is an opportunity to observe in one gallery the history of Central New York's changing art scene.

Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Three well-known Central New York political cartoonists, Joe Glisson, Tim Atseff, and Frank Cammuso, are the featured cartoonists for an exhibition entitled "Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place." With insightful humor, these artists and their historic predecessors produced a wide variety of editorial cartoons that illustrated important issues of their time. Starting with cartoons from the Civil War era through the present day, "Take No Prisoners" is an opportunity to experience historic subjects as the current events they once were, and to see how election issues of the past compare with those of the present-day.

Melding Time and Process: Works by Richard Harvey
Redhouse

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

Exploring the psychological and emotive potential of the human face, Harvey creates figurative art inspired by a diverse range of art historical influences including Byzantine iconography, African sculpture, and Expressionist painting. Elements of typography, signage and graffiti reflect his background in graphic design.

Ekphrasis: A Marriage of Literary and Visual Arts
Szozda Gallery
CNY Pen Women

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

"Ekphrasis" combines literary and visual arts with special related events showcasing the esteemed works of Central New York Pen Women, local chapter of The National League of American Pen Women, Inc.

Chair for this year's Annual Pen Women's show is artist Yolanda Tooley who defines the name chosen as a "rhetorical device in which one medium of art relates to another medium." Included in the visual part of "Ekphrasis" are about 32 pieces rendered by 16 artists, and writings by eight poets whose works are framed for hanging, bringing the total wall pieces to around 40. Rachael Ikins coordinated the "Ekphrasis" readings.

Pen Women visual artists included in "Ekphrasis" are Jacqueline Adamo, Joan Applebaum, Sallie Bailey, Linda Bigness-Lanigan, Evelyn Dankovich, Jeanne Dupre, Joy Englehart, Roscha Folger, Marilyn Forth, Diana Godfrey, Wendy Harris, Mary Kester, Karen Kozicki, Mary Raineri, Joan Steir and Yolanda Tooley.

Pen Women letters/writers/poets are Sheila Byrnes, Janet Fagal, Mary Gardner, Rachael Ikins, Georgia Popoff, Nancy Keefe Rhodes, Bobbie Panek and Lorraine Arsenault.

Garden Art in Glass & Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Stained glass garden art by Liz and Rich Micho
Carved stoneware lanterns by Lauren Ritchie

Flower Power
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"Flower Power" presents an eclectic mix of styles and art media. This group exhibition celebrates the beauty of flowers and the vessels used to contain them. The show includes photography, wood, sculpture, fiber art, and ceramics. Participating artists include Justin Campbell, Suzanne Fluty, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Mary Giehl, Vicki Hartman, Dave LoParco, Colleen McCall, Kate Money, Melissa Montgomery, Brooks Oliver, Kala Stein, Dan Tracy, Jeanann Wieners, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

Celebrating 90 Years of Design at Syracuse University
XL Projects

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

An exhibition of work by current students in the environmental and interior design and industrial and interaction design programs in the Department of Design. The programs are celebrating their 90th anniversaries.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours or email Andrew Havenhand, ahavenhand@yahoo.com.

Living Collections
Echo

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

A series of paintings portraying children's collections in unusual environments by Pennsylvania artist, Elody Gyekis.

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

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

William Wegman: Flo Flow (2011)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

West Genesee Kaleidoscope

Price: $10
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The 37th annual Kaleidoscope concert will feature performances by all of the school's musical ensembles on the large stage, with small solos, duets, trios, and quartets performing in the wings, alcoves and boxes in between as the stage is prepared for the next group.

Tickets are on sale at the West Genesee High School Main Office, Fine Arts Office, at all May High School concerts, or The Oncenter Box Office.

A Tomb With a View
Acme Mystery Company

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

The mega-corporation Arrested Developments has come to the old Possum Estate, site of the tragic mining disaster oh, so many years ago, with the desire to turn it into a shopping mall. This has caused great concern among those living on (and below) the estate. In fact, the zombie descendants of the miners trapped in the disaster have hired a lawyer and are planning a class-action lawsuit. The local newspaper is going to have a field day with this one. Gather around, good townsfolk (and walking dead) you don't want to be ate, er, late.

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Central New York Playhouse
Colin Keating, director

Price: $25 regular, $20 students/seniors, $10 children under 10
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

You're a Good Man Charlie Brown (revised) is an updated version of the beloved musical that tells the story of an average day in the life of the famous comic strip child hero, Charlie Brown. This version contains an updated score with more songs, some dialog changes and the replacement of Patty with Sally, Charlie Brown's little sister. The audience is introduced to the whole Peanuts gang as they dance their way through the day. This production is fun for the whole family. The show stars Devon Simmons, Justin Polly, Krystal Scott, Briana Duger, Alex Cupelo, and Ceara Windhausen. Choreographed by Stephfond Brunson......

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Preview: John & Jen
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: $12.50 regular, $7.50 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Just in time for Memorial Day weekend, pay tribute to our brave soldiers and their courageous families with this award-winning musical. Follow the story of Jen and her relationships with the two Johns of her life: her younger brother, who was killed in Vietnam, and his namesake, her son, who is trying to find his way in a confusing world. With a cast of only two people, John & Jen is a tour-de-force for two actors who travel from childhood through adolescence and beyond. Join us for a magical night exploring connections, commitments, and the healing of the human heart.

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Friday, May 25, 2012

Exploring the Digital Landscape: Works by Carl Hoffner

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

Carl Hoffner's artwork surrounds the viewer in a cacophony of color. His contemporary landscapes of the Central New York region vibrate with intense color. Says Hoffner, "In my work I explore the inherent abstractions and extraordinary color within Upstate New York’s wealth of natural beauty."

While Hoffner also works in traditional lithograph, the work being exhibited here is part of his digital portfolio. Hoffner uses the computer paired with a Wacom tablet, and Corel painter software to draw and paint directly on the computer. Hoffner explains, "I have found this to be a liberating artistic experience bringing back the play in my art as well as offering a chance to re-explore my passion for painting and color." The completed digital paintings are produced in limited editions using giclee inkjet printing technology.

Hoffner received his MFA from Syracuse University and a BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He taught in the art department of OCC in the 1980s. His work is in collections in the United States and abroad including galleries in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Europe, United Kingdom, and Australia. Hoffner currently resides in Fayetteville, NY.

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

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

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

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

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

Larry Hoyt: Painting, Photgraphy, and Drawings
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Structure and Space
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Chris Baker: gouache landscape and cityscape paintings
David Webster: ceramics
Jen Palmer: metal and stone jewelry
Richard Henry: oil and watercolor rural landscape paintings

For the Child in All of Us
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

A new collection of crafts made for children.

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Mission Modern: The Paintings of Darryl Hughto
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

This show seamlessly juxtaposes Darryl Hughto's contemporary land and seascape paintings with Dalton's Mission-era furnishings. Hughto's recent paintings are a continuation into the 21st century of a feeling for man in and of the land in the American painting tradition. The show reveals the ongoing nature of American art and culture from past to present.

Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Three well-known Central New York political cartoonists, Joe Glisson, Tim Atseff, and Frank Cammuso, are the featured cartoonists for an exhibition entitled "Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place." With insightful humor, these artists and their historic predecessors produced a wide variety of editorial cartoons that illustrated important issues of their time. Starting with cartoons from the Civil War era through the present day, "Take No Prisoners" is an opportunity to experience historic subjects as the current events they once were, and to see how election issues of the past compare with those of the present-day.

Timeless Imagery: Associated Artists of CNY's 85th Anniversary Exhibition
Onondaga Historical Association
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Since 1927, Associated Artists has sought to bring together the best artists and their art for the benefit of the central New York community. The exhibit at OHA will showcase 85 years of juried arts competition winning entries from regional artists. "Timeless Imagery" is an opportunity to observe in one gallery the history of Central New York's changing art scene.

Melding Time and Process: Works by Richard Harvey
Redhouse

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

Exploring the psychological and emotive potential of the human face, Harvey creates figurative art inspired by a diverse range of art historical influences including Byzantine iconography, African sculpture, and Expressionist painting. Elements of typography, signage and graffiti reflect his background in graphic design.

Ekphrasis: A Marriage of Literary and Visual Arts
Szozda Gallery
CNY Pen Women

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

"Ekphrasis" combines literary and visual arts with special related events showcasing the esteemed works of Central New York Pen Women, local chapter of The National League of American Pen Women, Inc.

Chair for this year's Annual Pen Women's show is artist Yolanda Tooley who defines the name chosen as a "rhetorical device in which one medium of art relates to another medium." Included in the visual part of "Ekphrasis" are about 32 pieces rendered by 16 artists, and writings by eight poets whose works are framed for hanging, bringing the total wall pieces to around 40. Rachael Ikins coordinated the "Ekphrasis" readings.

Pen Women visual artists included in "Ekphrasis" are Jacqueline Adamo, Joan Applebaum, Sallie Bailey, Linda Bigness-Lanigan, Evelyn Dankovich, Jeanne Dupre, Joy Englehart, Roscha Folger, Marilyn Forth, Diana Godfrey, Wendy Harris, Mary Kester, Karen Kozicki, Mary Raineri, Joan Steir and Yolanda Tooley.

Pen Women letters/writers/poets are Sheila Byrnes, Janet Fagal, Mary Gardner, Rachael Ikins, Georgia Popoff, Nancy Keefe Rhodes, Bobbie Panek and Lorraine Arsenault.

Garden Art in Glass & Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Stained glass garden art by Liz and Rich Micho
Carved stoneware lanterns by Lauren Ritchie

Flower Power
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"Flower Power" presents an eclectic mix of styles and art media. This group exhibition celebrates the beauty of flowers and the vessels used to contain them. The show includes photography, wood, sculpture, fiber art, and ceramics. Participating artists include Justin Campbell, Suzanne Fluty, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Mary Giehl, Vicki Hartman, Dave LoParco, Colleen McCall, Kate Money, Melissa Montgomery, Brooks Oliver, Kala Stein, Dan Tracy, Jeanann Wieners, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

Celebrating 90 Years of Design at Syracuse University
XL Projects

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

An exhibition of work by current students in the environmental and interior design and industrial and interaction design programs in the Department of Design. The programs are celebrating their 90th anniversaries.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours or email Andrew Havenhand, ahavenhand@yahoo.com.

Living Collections
Echo

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

A series of paintings portraying children's collections in unusual environments by Pennsylvania artist, Elody Gyekis.

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

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

William Wegman: Flo Flow (2011)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Jazz@Sitrus
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Tom & Alicia Bronzetti

Sitrus on the Hill
Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel, Syracuse

How I Became a Pirate
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $15 adults, $10 children
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The musical, by Janet Yates Vogt and Mark Friedman, is based on Melinda Long's popular children's book. Young Jeremy Jacob meets up with a band of pirates while at the beach digging in the sand. He spends some time aboard the vessel, living the pirate life on the open seas. Meanwhile, his crew mates learn about Jeremy’s life as a young boy in present day boy who plays soccer.

To reserve tickets, call 315-445-4523. For more information, call the Gifford Family Theatre at 315-445-4230 or email giffordthtr@lemoyne.edu.

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You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Central New York Playhouse
Colin Keating, director

Price: $25 regular, $20 students/seniors, $10 children under 10
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

You're a Good Man Charlie Brown (revised) is an updated version of the beloved musical that tells the story of an average day in the life of the famous comic strip child hero, Charlie Brown. This version contains an updated score with more songs, some dialog changes and the replacement of Patty with Sally, Charlie Brown's little sister. The audience is introduced to the whole Peanuts gang as they dance their way through the day. This production is fun for the whole family. The show stars Devon Simmons, Justin Polly, Krystal Scott, Briana Duger, Alex Cupelo, and Ceara Windhausen. Choreographed by Stephfond Brunson......

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Church Basement Ladies
Encore Presentations
Patti Laird, director

Price: $15 regular, $10 students/seniors
St. Luke's Episcopal Church
5402 W. Genesee St., Camillus

A new musical comedy inspired by the books of Janet Letnes Martin and Suzann Nelson. Written by Jim Stowell and Jessica Zuehike. Music and lyrics by Drew Jansen.

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John & Jen
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

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

Just in time for Memorial Day weekend, pay tribute to our brave soldiers and their courageous families with this award-winning musical. Follow the story of Jen and her relationships with the two Johns of her life: her younger brother, who was killed in Vietnam, and his namesake, her son, who is trying to find his way in a confusing world. With a cast of only two people, John & Jen is a tour-de-force for two actors who travel from childhood through adolescence and beyond. Join us for a magical night exploring connections, commitments, and the healing of the human heart.

Read a Review!

Saturday, May 26, 2012

Structure and Space
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Chris Baker: gouache landscape and cityscape paintings
David Webster: ceramics
Jen Palmer: metal and stone jewelry
Richard Henry: oil and watercolor rural landscape paintings

Garden Art in Glass & Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Stained glass garden art by Liz and Rich Micho
Carved stoneware lanterns by Lauren Ritchie

For the Child in All of Us
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

A new collection of crafts made for children.

Exploring the Digital Landscape: Works by Carl Hoffner

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

Carl Hoffner's artwork surrounds the viewer in a cacophony of color. His contemporary landscapes of the Central New York region vibrate with intense color. Says Hoffner, "In my work I explore the inherent abstractions and extraordinary color within Upstate New York’s wealth of natural beauty."

While Hoffner also works in traditional lithograph, the work being exhibited here is part of his digital portfolio. Hoffner uses the computer paired with a Wacom tablet, and Corel painter software to draw and paint directly on the computer. Hoffner explains, "I have found this to be a liberating artistic experience bringing back the play in my art as well as offering a chance to re-explore my passion for painting and color." The completed digital paintings are produced in limited editions using giclee inkjet printing technology.

Hoffner received his MFA from Syracuse University and a BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He taught in the art department of OCC in the 1980s. His work is in collections in the United States and abroad including galleries in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Europe, United Kingdom, and Australia. Hoffner currently resides in Fayetteville, NY.

Mission Modern: The Paintings of Darryl Hughto
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

This show seamlessly juxtaposes Darryl Hughto's contemporary land and seascape paintings with Dalton's Mission-era furnishings. Hughto's recent paintings are a continuation into the 21st century of a feeling for man in and of the land in the American painting tradition. The show reveals the ongoing nature of American art and culture from past to present.

Melding Time and Process: Works by Richard Harvey
Redhouse

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

Exploring the psychological and emotive potential of the human face, Harvey creates figurative art inspired by a diverse range of art historical influences including Byzantine iconography, African sculpture, and Expressionist painting. Elements of typography, signage and graffiti reflect his background in graphic design.

Ekphrasis: A Marriage of Literary and Visual Arts
Szozda Gallery
CNY Pen Women

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

"Ekphrasis" combines literary and visual arts with special related events showcasing the esteemed works of Central New York Pen Women, local chapter of The National League of American Pen Women, Inc.

Chair for this year's Annual Pen Women's show is artist Yolanda Tooley who defines the name chosen as a "rhetorical device in which one medium of art relates to another medium." Included in the visual part of "Ekphrasis" are about 32 pieces rendered by 16 artists, and writings by eight poets whose works are framed for hanging, bringing the total wall pieces to around 40. Rachael Ikins coordinated the "Ekphrasis" readings.

Pen Women visual artists included in "Ekphrasis" are Jacqueline Adamo, Joan Applebaum, Sallie Bailey, Linda Bigness-Lanigan, Evelyn Dankovich, Jeanne Dupre, Joy Englehart, Roscha Folger, Marilyn Forth, Diana Godfrey, Wendy Harris, Mary Kester, Karen Kozicki, Mary Raineri, Joan Steir and Yolanda Tooley.

Pen Women letters/writers/poets are Sheila Byrnes, Janet Fagal, Mary Gardner, Rachael Ikins, Georgia Popoff, Nancy Keefe Rhodes, Bobbie Panek and Lorraine Arsenault.

Living Collections
Echo

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

A series of paintings portraying children's collections in unusual environments by Pennsylvania artist, Elody Gyekis.

Flower Power
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"Flower Power" presents an eclectic mix of styles and art media. This group exhibition celebrates the beauty of flowers and the vessels used to contain them. The show includes photography, wood, sculpture, fiber art, and ceramics. Participating artists include Justin Campbell, Suzanne Fluty, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Mary Giehl, Vicki Hartman, Dave LoParco, Colleen McCall, Kate Money, Melissa Montgomery, Brooks Oliver, Kala Stein, Dan Tracy, Jeanann Wieners, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

Timeless Imagery: Associated Artists of CNY's 85th Anniversary Exhibition
Onondaga Historical Association
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Since 1927, Associated Artists has sought to bring together the best artists and their art for the benefit of the central New York community. The exhibit at OHA will showcase 85 years of juried arts competition winning entries from regional artists. "Timeless Imagery" is an opportunity to observe in one gallery the history of Central New York's changing art scene.

Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Three well-known Central New York political cartoonists, Joe Glisson, Tim Atseff, and Frank Cammuso, are the featured cartoonists for an exhibition entitled "Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place." With insightful humor, these artists and their historic predecessors produced a wide variety of editorial cartoons that illustrated important issues of their time. Starting with cartoons from the Civil War era through the present day, "Take No Prisoners" is an opportunity to experience historic subjects as the current events they once were, and to see how election issues of the past compare with those of the present-day.

Celebrating 90 Years of Design at Syracuse University
XL Projects

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

An exhibition of work by current students in the environmental and interior design and industrial and interaction design programs in the Department of Design. The programs are celebrating their 90th anniversaries.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours or email Andrew Havenhand, ahavenhand@yahoo.com.

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

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

William Wegman: Flo Flow (2011)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

*POSTPONED* Tony Trischka
Westcott Community Center

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

Tonight's concert is postponed due to illness.

Tony Trischka is perhaps the most influential banjo player in the roots music world. For more than 35 years, his stylings have inspired a whole generation of bluegrass and acoustic musicians. He was not only considered among the very best pickers, he was also one of the instrument's top teachers, and created numerous instructional books, teaching video tapes and cassettes. With fearless musical curiosity as the guiding force, Tony Trischka's "Territory" roams widely through the banjo's creative terrain.

"Territory" (Smithsonian Folkways/Ryko) is considerably more than a showcase for the virtuoso banjo playing of Tony Trischka, though that may seem like its principal function. The album is a full-bore banjo tutorial—Mr. Trischka's track-by-track notes include 20 tunings and occasional tips—and a familial jaunt through folk and bluegrass terrain. Featured on the CD are two up-and-coming acoustic artists who have toured extensively with Tony: guitarist and singer Michael Daves, and fiddler Brittany Haas. Mr. Trischka provides a steady connecting line, weaving into his folk and bluegrass musical mix not only Celtic reels but also West African kora music and Hawaiian slide guitar.

How I Became a Pirate
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $15 adults, $10 children
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The musical, by Janet Yates Vogt and Mark Friedman, is based on Melinda Long's popular children's book. Young Jeremy Jacob meets up with a band of pirates while at the beach digging in the sand. He spends some time aboard the vessel, living the pirate life on the open seas. Meanwhile, his crew mates learn about Jeremy’s life as a young boy in present day boy who plays soccer.

To reserve tickets, call 315-445-4523. For more information, call the Gifford Family Theatre at 315-445-4230 or email giffordthtr@lemoyne.edu.

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How I Became a Pirate
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $15 adults, $10 children
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The musical, by Janet Yates Vogt and Mark Friedman, is based on Melinda Long's popular children's book. Young Jeremy Jacob meets up with a band of pirates while at the beach digging in the sand. He spends some time aboard the vessel, living the pirate life on the open seas. Meanwhile, his crew mates learn about Jeremy’s life as a young boy in present day boy who plays soccer.

To reserve tickets, call 315-445-4523. For more information, call the Gifford Family Theatre at 315-445-4230 or email giffordthtr@lemoyne.edu.

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You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Central New York Playhouse
Colin Keating, director

Price: $25 regular, $20 students/seniors, $10 children under 10
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

You're a Good Man Charlie Brown (revised) is an updated version of the beloved musical that tells the story of an average day in the life of the famous comic strip child hero, Charlie Brown. This version contains an updated score with more songs, some dialog changes and the replacement of Patty with Sally, Charlie Brown's little sister. The audience is introduced to the whole Peanuts gang as they dance their way through the day. This production is fun for the whole family. The show stars Devon Simmons, Justin Polly, Krystal Scott, Briana Duger, Alex Cupelo, and Ceara Windhausen. Choreographed by Stephfond Brunson......

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Church Basement Ladies
Encore Presentations
Patti Laird, director

Price: $15 regular, $10 students/seniors
St. Luke's Episcopal Church
5402 W. Genesee St., Camillus

A new musical comedy inspired by the books of Janet Letnes Martin and Suzann Nelson. Written by Jim Stowell and Jessica Zuehike. Music and lyrics by Drew Jansen.

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John & Jen
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

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

Just in time for Memorial Day weekend, pay tribute to our brave soldiers and their courageous families with this award-winning musical. Follow the story of Jen and her relationships with the two Johns of her life: her younger brother, who was killed in Vietnam, and his namesake, her son, who is trying to find his way in a confusing world. With a cast of only two people, John & Jen is a tour-de-force for two actors who travel from childhood through adolescence and beyond. Join us for a magical night exploring connections, commitments, and the healing of the human heart.

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Sunday, May 27, 2012

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Ekphrasis: A Marriage of Literary and Visual Arts
Szozda Gallery
CNY Pen Women

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

"Ekphrasis" combines literary and visual arts with special related events showcasing the esteemed works of Central New York Pen Women, local chapter of The National League of American Pen Women, Inc.

Chair for this year's Annual Pen Women's show is artist Yolanda Tooley who defines the name chosen as a "rhetorical device in which one medium of art relates to another medium." Included in the visual part of "Ekphrasis" are about 32 pieces rendered by 16 artists, and writings by eight poets whose works are framed for hanging, bringing the total wall pieces to around 40. Rachael Ikins coordinated the "Ekphrasis" readings.

Pen Women visual artists included in "Ekphrasis" are Jacqueline Adamo, Joan Applebaum, Sallie Bailey, Linda Bigness-Lanigan, Evelyn Dankovich, Jeanne Dupre, Joy Englehart, Roscha Folger, Marilyn Forth, Diana Godfrey, Wendy Harris, Mary Kester, Karen Kozicki, Mary Raineri, Joan Steir and Yolanda Tooley.

Pen Women letters/writers/poets are Sheila Byrnes, Janet Fagal, Mary Gardner, Rachael Ikins, Georgia Popoff, Nancy Keefe Rhodes, Bobbie Panek and Lorraine Arsenault.

Garden Art in Glass & Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Stained glass garden art by Liz and Rich Micho
Carved stoneware lanterns by Lauren Ritchie

Flower Power
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"Flower Power" presents an eclectic mix of styles and art media. This group exhibition celebrates the beauty of flowers and the vessels used to contain them. The show includes photography, wood, sculpture, fiber art, and ceramics. Participating artists include Justin Campbell, Suzanne Fluty, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Mary Giehl, Vicki Hartman, Dave LoParco, Colleen McCall, Kate Money, Melissa Montgomery, Brooks Oliver, Kala Stein, Dan Tracy, Jeanann Wieners, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

For the Child in All of Us
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

A new collection of crafts made for children.

Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Three well-known Central New York political cartoonists, Joe Glisson, Tim Atseff, and Frank Cammuso, are the featured cartoonists for an exhibition entitled "Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place." With insightful humor, these artists and their historic predecessors produced a wide variety of editorial cartoons that illustrated important issues of their time. Starting with cartoons from the Civil War era through the present day, "Take No Prisoners" is an opportunity to experience historic subjects as the current events they once were, and to see how election issues of the past compare with those of the present-day.

Timeless Imagery: Associated Artists of CNY's 85th Anniversary Exhibition
Onondaga Historical Association
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Since 1927, Associated Artists has sought to bring together the best artists and their art for the benefit of the central New York community. The exhibit at OHA will showcase 85 years of juried arts competition winning entries from regional artists. "Timeless Imagery" is an opportunity to observe in one gallery the history of Central New York's changing art scene.

Celebrating 90 Years of Design at Syracuse University
XL Projects

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

An exhibition of work by current students in the environmental and interior design and industrial and interaction design programs in the Department of Design. The programs are celebrating their 90th anniversaries.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours or email Andrew Havenhand, ahavenhand@yahoo.com.

Melding Time and Process: Works by Richard Harvey
Redhouse

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

Exploring the psychological and emotive potential of the human face, Harvey creates figurative art inspired by a diverse range of art historical influences including Byzantine iconography, African sculpture, and Expressionist painting. Elements of typography, signage and graffiti reflect his background in graphic design.

William Wegman: Flo Flow (2011)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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